9th English Unit 3 Online Test – Old Book

Explanation:- “Girl Star” is a project initiative of “United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund”. It is a series of short films of girls from most disadvantaged community across five northern states, who through attaining education managed to break the narrow mindset of people and also became self sufficient in earning money and became successful.

Explanation:- “Girl Star” is a project initiative of “United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund”. It is a series of short films of girls from most disadvantaged community across five northern states.

Explanation:- Bed of roses mean= pleasant and happy. So it not a bed of roses means the opposite meaning.

Explanation:- Anita use to graze goats all day but had the desire to go to school. One day out of curiosity=Inquisitiveness, she entered the classroom and she decided not to graze the goats anymore but to study in school and get educated.

Explanation:- Subject+have/has+ verb-ing +complementary(since,for,eversince) is used in present perfect continuous. 

Explanation:- Anita wanted to study and do not want to do household or other chores. She gathered courage and spoke to her parents about her will to study. In villages, it is considered sin to speak against parents but yet she begged, pleaded and convinced her parents to grant her permission to study.

Explanation:- The main aim of Anita was not to get high marks. She just wanted to go to school like others and get educated.

Explanation:- Anita started bee keeping and making honey and selling them to earn money and the winged visitors here is referred to honeybees.

Explanation:- One day Anita saw a litchi tree full of honeybee and suddenly an idea flashed in her mind to rear honeybees and take honey out of it and sell them and earn money. This was a turning point in her life.

Explanation:- Anita earned money by means of taking evening classes to children in her village and earned some money and later she did beekeeping and honey selling to earn money.

Explanation:- When Anita wanted to go to school, she begged and pleaded her parents and one of her school teachers helped her by talking to her parents to get permission to join school.

Explanation:- Both the statements are true but R does not explain A. Because Arctic region is cold because it lies near the pole and sun rays does not fall in that region. 

Explanation:- Chinna pillai- most receognized women from Tamilnadu for her community banking movement, leaser of Madurai based “Kalanjiyam”.

Explanation:- Subject+has/have+verb in the past participle form is present perfect tense.

Explanation:- Edgar Albert Guest is a British-American poet who is popularly called as “People’s Poet”. His poems had an inspirational and optimistic view of life. He penned some 11,000 poems which were published in some 300 newspapers and collected in 20 books. So he was honoured with “Poet Laureate” title.

Explanation:- Repetition of vowel sound in the same line is called assonance. Here the vowel sound ’O’ is repeated in dOn’t, thOugh, slOw.

Explanation:- Edgar Albert Guest is a British-American poet who is popularly called as “People’s Poet”. His poems had an inspirational and optimistic view of life. He penned some 11,000 poems which were published in some 300 newspapers and collected in 20 books. So he was honoured with “Poet Laureate” title.

Explanation:- The poem “Don’t Quit” is a hope giving and motivating poem in which the poet tells the readers not to quit in life whatever harder the situation in life.

Explanation:- Alliteration is the figure of speech used as rhyming word sounds are used in lines like smile-sigh; twist-turn

Explanation:- The poet motivates the readers the readers not to give up on life however tough life gets on. That is the central theme of the poem.

Explanation:- The poet says that lie is full of ups and downs ,good things and bad things happen like a cycle. So one must accept both and should not get depressed during bad times.

Explanation:- The road here refers to the journey in life. Even when life seems to be a difficult hill to climb, one should not give up

Explanation:- In life one will encounter financial problem. Sometime we earn less and spend more. Even during those times one should never give up hope and strive to live.

Explanation:- According to poet life is full of good things and bad things and whatever the situation comes one should never quit on life. One should strive and keep trying in life.

Explanation:- Subject+willhave+verb+past participle will frame a future perfect tense

Explanation:- Sunita Williams is an Indian orgin American astronautand Naval officer in USA who formerly holds record for most spacewalksby a woman and most space walk time for a woman.

Explanation:- Indian Government awarded Sunita Williams, the third hight civilian award in India- Padma Bhusan- appreciating her achievements also because she is of Indian origin.

Explanation:- Sunita went on space expedition through NASA- National Aeronautics and Space Administration- America’s space agency.

Explanation:- Her brother was working in Navy, so he said to Sunita that she would love the
physically active field and persuaded her to join Naval Academy.

Explanation:- She would have chosen to be a veterinarian because her father is a veterinary doctor and also she loves pet animals.

Explanation:- Sunita says that her parents were very supportive to her in achieving all her dreams