SHORT ANSWERS - POEMS

SHORT ANSWERS - POEMS

Answer the following questions. 

(i) How do you compare the daffodils with the stars?

Ans. Both daffodils and stars are the objects on nature. Daffodils that the poet sees are as numerous as the stars in the sky. Daffodils flutter while the stars twinkle. The comparison of daffodils with the stars in the poem enhances the beauty of daffodils. 

(ii) How does the poet feel in the company of daffodils?

Ans. Wordsworth has a firm belief that the company of nature gives pleasure to human heart. Thus he feels very happy and relieved in the company of golden daffodils which are the beautiful objects of nature. 

(iii) What do the daffodils represent in the poem?

Ans. Daffodils are one of the earliest flowers to bloom in the spring and are often associated with springtime and rebirth. In this poem they also stand nature and balmy effect on human mind and soul. These also represent creativity, inspiration and memory. 

(iv) Why does the speaker stop on 'the darkest evening of the year'?
Ans. The speaker is extremely sensitive to the beauty of nature. He is similar to William Wordsworth's speakers in this respect. He is attracted to the light wind, soft snow, the trees and the silence. He enjoys the scene very much. Therefore, he stops there. 

(v) Why does the horse impatiently await the next move of his master?
Ans. The horse wonders why his rider has stopped near a deep dark woodland at night. He fears that they might suffer something wrong. Therefore, he is waiting impatiently for the next move of his master.

Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar

Short Answers Three Days to See | English for Class 9 (PB) | Eureka Study Aids

Short Answers - Three Days to See

(i) How was Helen Keller?

Ans. Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer.  She became deaf and blind at the age of 19 months. She was the first deaf-blind lady who earned the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 

(ii) What makes you feel that the author is sad and depressed?

Ans. The author is blind and deaf. Her deepest wish for sight and sound makes her sad and depressed. She wants to see the beauties and hear the sounds of the world. Moreover, her thought that the people with eyes see little also makes her sad and depressed. 

(iii) How do you get an impression that Helen Keller was a great admirer of Nature?

Ans. Helen Keller feels the delicate symmetry of leaves and flowers with her hands. She feels cool water flowing through her open fingers. She feels the happy quiver of a bird. All this shows that Helen Keller is a great admirer of nature. 

(iv) People who are deprived of sight not devoid of imagination. Discuss.

Ans. People who are blind are more imaginative than those who can see. There is plenty of imagery that goes on all the time in blind people. Helen Keller is such an example. She notices things by mere touch and imagines their beauty. 

(v) Why has Helen Keller no time to waste in longings?

Ans. There is so much to see in the world and Helen Keller is left only with one day more to see. Thus she has a very brief time and does not want to waste even a fraction of second in regret for longings only. 

Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar

SHORT ANSWERS - NOISE IN THE ENVIRONMENT

SHORT ANSWERS - NOISE IN THE ENVIRONMENT

Answer the following questions.

(i) How do you define noise pollution?

Ans. Disturbing or excessive noise that disrupts normal functioning of life is referred to as noise pollution. The source of most outdoor noise worldwide is mainly caused by machines and transportation systems, motor vehicles, aircraft, and trains. 

(ii) How is transport a source of noise pollution?

Ans. Sound of horns of vehicles on roads, fast running of trains on their tracks and aeroplanes flying over houses produce disturbing and excessive noise that disrupts normal functioning of life. So transport is a source of noise pollution.

(iii) How is construction work a cause of noise pollution?

Ans. Transport of heavy vehicles and the sounds of grilling and boring at construction sites produce disturbing noise that disrupts normal functioning of the life of surrounding residents. So construction work is a very common cause of noise pollution. 

(iv) How is use of technology causing noise pollution?

Ans. Turbines, music players, TV, electricity generators, cell phones and other such equipment of technology produce increasing levels of unwanted noise of varying types and intensities throughout the day and night that disturb sleep, concentration, and other functions. 

(v) Why is noise dangerous for human health?

Ans. Noise health effects are the health consequences of regular exposure, to consistent elevated sound levels. Noise leaves hazardous impact on human health. It causes restlessness, hypertension, stress, hearing loss, aggression, depression and sleeplessness.

Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar

SHORT ANSWERS - DRUG ADDICTION

SHORT ANSWERS - DRUG ADDICTION

 Answer the following questions. 

(i) What are the effects of drug addiction?

Ans. The effects of drug addiction are very harmful and fatal. Drug addiction causes health, social and financial problems. Long term use of drugs causes permanent mental and physical sickness. The more dangerous a substance is used the more risky it becomes. 

(ii) Which environmental factors are responsible for drug addiction?

Ans. Environmental factors are those factors that are found in the surroundings. Bad company, drug pushers and domestic problems are the major environmental factors which are responsible for drug addiction.

(iii) Why do you understand by the term "counselling"?

Ans. The term 'counselling' means 'taking advice'. It is, in fact, the process of assisting and guiding clients, especially by a trained person on a professional basis, to resolve especially personal, social, or psychological problems and difficulties.

(iv) What are the causes of drug addiction?

Ans. The main causes of drug addiction are environmental, psychological and genetic factors. Environment  factors include bad peer influence and troubled domestic background. Physical abuse or neglect leads to psychological stress. Genetic factors mean that drug addiction tends to run in families. 

(v) What is the role of counselling in preventing drug addiction?

Ans.  Counselling is very important for the treatment of the drug addicts. It is an ongoing recovery program. Therefore, it should be continued even after the patient is cured. It prevents the patient's relapse to the disease again.

Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar

SHORT ANSWERS - ALL IS NOT LOST

SHORT ANSWERS - ALL IS NOT LOST

(i) What is an ICU in a hospital?

Ans. An Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a special unit within a hospital where those patients are treated who are critically ill. The specially trained staff of the hospital takes care of such patients round the clock.

(ii) Why did the nurse ask Hira's sister to come and talk to her?

Ans. Hira had met with a road accident. She had received severe head and spinal injuries. The nurse tried to do several exercises on her lifeless arms but in vain. She made her younger sister to come and talk to her, thinking that her voice might activate her sister's nearly dead neurons and brain. 

(iii) Why did the nurse disagree with the doctor's point of view?

Ans. The nurse disagreed with the doctors' point of view that Hira was a hopeless case because she thought that it was not logical. She was hopeful of Hira's recovery if a chance was given to her by the senior doctors. 

(iv) Describe some qualities of the nurse in the story?

Ans. The nurse in the story is kind, dutiful and committed to her profession. She has positive thinking, strong will power and a sense of deeper understanding to life. She has a sense of hope for what to others may seem hopeless. 

(v) Why did the nurse say: "Where there is a will there is a way"?

Ans. The nurse reached her seemingly impossible goal; her patient Hira that was a hopeless case in others' point of view has recovered. Thus she uttered the phrase. "Where there is a will there is a way". The phrase means that the unyielding people are bound to succeed.

Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar

SHORT ANSWERS - SULTAN AHMAD MOSQUE

SHORT ANSWERS - SULTAN AHMAD MOSQUE

Answer the following questions.

(i) Why Sultan Ahmad Mosque is also known as Blue Mosque?
Ans. Sultan Ahmad Mosque is also known as Blue Mosque because;
(i) Magnificent hand-painted blue tiles adorn the mosque's interior walls.
(ii) At night the mosque is bathed in blue as lights frame the mosque's five main domes, six minarets and eight secondary domes. 

(ii) Who was appointed as the architect of the mosque?
Ans. The royal architect, Sedefkar Mehmat Aga was appointed as the architect of the mosque. He was the Ottoman architect of the Sultan Ahmad Mosque in Istanbul. He synthesized the ideas of his master Sinan, aiming for the overwhelming size, majesty and splendour.

(iii) Who constructed Mosque Sophia?
Ans. The Hagia Sophia was built as a church by Justinian the Great between 532 and 537. On 29 May 1453, the Sultan of Ottoman Empire, Mehmet II, conquered Constantinople and changed the church into a mosque and modified its structure somewhat. 

(iv) Why was a heavy iron chain hung at the entrance of the court?
Ans. A heavy iron chain was hung at the upper part of a door from where the king was to enter the mosque. The king had to bow down his head to avoid the hit of the chain. It was a symbol by which the king showed his humbleness to Allah Almighty.

(v) How does the interior of the mosque look?
Ans. The lower interior of the mosque is lined with more than 20,000 ceramic tiles in more than 50 designs. The gallery is decorated with the designs of flowers, fruits and cypresses. The upper level of the interior is painted blue. The floors are covered with carpets. The whole interior looks beautiful.

Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar

SHORT ANSWERS - THE QUAID'S VISION AND PAKISTAN

SHORT ANSWERS - THE QUAID'S VISION AND PAKISTAN

Answer the following questions. 

(i) How much confidence did Quaid-e-Azam has in his nation?

Ans. Quaid-e-Azam had great confidence in his nation. He knew that his people were made of sterling material and unbeatable. He had a strong belief that the people of his nation would get united to make progress and gain their lost dignity. 

(ii) What was the Quaid's concept of our nation?

Ans. Quaid's concept of our nation was that the Muslims were a nation with their own distinctive culture and civilization, language and literature, names and nomenclature, sense of values and proportion, art and architecture, legal laws and moral codes, custom and calendar, history and tradition, aptitude and ambitions. 

(iii) What was the ideology of Pakistan in view of Quaid-e-Azam?

Ans. The ideology of Pakistan in view of Quaid-e-Azam was based on the fundamental principle that the Muslims were an independent nation and their national and political identity could not be merged with any other nation. 

(iv) What can be the possible solution to our present problems?

Ans. We can solve our present problems by becoming united and ambitious to get progress, and compete with other nations, leaving our personal, local, lingual, ethnic, sectarian, or provincial identities and prejudices. 

(v) How can we become a strong nation?

Ans. We can become a strong nation if we follow our Quaid's excellent saying "Faith, Unity, Discipline" and impart his advice to the youth, "It now depends upon you to work, work and work and we shall definitely get success".

Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar