9th English Unit 1 Online Test – Old Book

Explanation: – One day, the little lion cub saw a butterfly and started to chase it. It ran so deep into forest on chasing the butterfly and lost its way. 

Explanation: – The lion cub lost its way in the forest and fell asleep out of tiredness. After waking up he found flock of sheep surrounding him

Explanation: – The young cub did not know how to roar since it grew among the flock of sheep. So when the old lion roared at him, the young lion did not respond and remained silent.

Explanation: – The old lion understood that the young lion grew among the sheep so he did not know his true nature and how to roar. So, the old lion wanted the young lion to realise the lion instinct nature.

Explanation:- The word summon mean – to call people together 

Explanation: – Conditioned meaning – tamed, trained, a thing that is made as a habit

Explanation: – The old lion wanted to show the real image of young lion. So, it took him to a nearby pool

Explanation:- Unique means –Special or different from others. So opposite is being common and not different from others

Explanation: – The young cub saw his own reflection of image when he looked into the pool

Explanation:- Conviction= one’s strong value system or what a person think or believe strongly in.

Explanation: – Herd= Group; Heard= Listen to sound

Explanation: – The young lion was surprised/ astonished to see its real image on the reflection of pool water

Explanation: – One can become a good sailor when one learns to sail the ship in rough and tidy sea winds. Which means experience and struggle make a man expert and successful.

Explanation: – Brake= Device use to stop an object; Break= split into pieces, interval, divide

Explanation: – The energy of the big tree is hidden inside the seed. Likewise everyone’s potential and success is hidden inside our mind and soul.

Explanation: – After realising that he is a lion, he learnt to roar like a real lion and he felt the instinct that he is king of jungle.

Explanation: – The bucket with hole compared itself with bucket without hole and felt bad that it was unable to help owner in fetching bucket full of water

Explanation: – Impediment- Hurdle, problems

Explanation:- Hellen Keller who was blind and deaf was an American author, political activist, disability rights advocate who contributed for cause of disabled person.

Explanation:- The girl was so confident that the prayer would bring rain. So because of her positive thoughts she bought umbrella along. 

Explanation:- Disheartened= weakened or getting down

Explanation: – Panicked= getting fear, anxiety. SO opposite is being relaxed

Explanation:- After understanding that he is a lion, the young one roared and walked majestically like a king of jungle.

Explanation:- The nuclear test was carried out during Ex Prime minister –Vajpayee and Dr.Abdul Kalam was the scientific advisor for the project. 5 Nuclear explosions took place on May11-1998

Explanation:- India carried out two nuclear tests. Pokhran-I on 1974 and Pokhran-II on 1998

Explanation:- Articles should be used based on vowel and consonant sounds and not based on the letters. So the Word European takes “A European” as EU is not a vowel sound and word Honest takes’ “O” sound which is a vowel sound so “An Honest man”

Explanation:- Word “Mathematics”-is singular so it takes singular verb “Is”

Explanation:- John Edward Masefield is a famous English poet. His best works are children’s novel- The Midnight folk; The box of delights and the poems- The Everlasting mercy; Sea fever.

Explanation:- John Edward Masefield is a famous English poet. His best works are children’s novel- The Midnight folk; The box of delights and the poems- The Everlasting mercy; Sea fever

Explanation:- In the poem, the poet want the readers to be cheerful and enjoy the life to the fullest as we are all guests in the beautiful earth only for a short time

Explanation:- The poet says that we should laugh and be proud that we belong to the pageant of man-ie. Human race rather than as any other creature on earth

Explanation:- Poet says, God created heaven and earth for joy and to laugh and make merry.

Explanation:- Metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another or b making comparison.

Explanation:- Poet says to laugh and be happy because time is very short. Life on earth is very short.

Explanation:- Earth is referred to as beautiful inn- beautiful place where we all stay as a guest for shorter time.

Explanation:- A simile is usually by a word of comparison such as like, so, as.

Explanation:- The game is referred to the life- game between birth and death

Explanation:- One can make the world a better place to lead life by laughing, singing song and making merry and being happy

Explanation:- Our life is very short and thin like a thread-says he poet.

Explanation:- Poet says, one should treat fellow human beings as brothers as they are similar in nature.

Explanation:- The story is about a accidental meeting between two blind men who had known each other before 14 years and who had lost their eye sight in a tragic chemical explosion in a shop where they both worked.

Explanation:- Mr.Parson met the beggar when he was coming out of his hotel

Explanation:- The beggar was trying to sell cigarette lighter to Mr.Parson by telling his story of how he became blind and tried to create sympathy

Explanation:- Pitying the beggar Mr.Parson helped by buying the the cigarette lighter for two and half dollars

Explanation:- 14years before both Mr.Parson and Markwardt were working in a C-shop where a tragic chemical explosion had happened and both of them lost their eyesight in that accident.

Explanation:- Mr.Parson and Markwardt were working in a Chemical shop and lost their eye sight in a chemical accident explosion. Parson became an insurance salesman and Markwardt became beggar

Explanation:- The blind beggar was dirty, shaggy , thick-necked and he wore a black pouch slung over his shoulder. He was carrying a traditional walking stick for his support since he was blind.

Explanation:- Mr.Parson was working in a chemical shop and later after the chemical explosion accident he became an insurance salesman by his hardwork.

Explanation:- The word immaculate- means- Clean and neat. The adjective handsome is a hint that the man should be neatly dressed.

Explanation:- The beggar looked more like a professional beggar who always told his tragic story to get money from people arousing people’s pity for him.

Explanation:- Mr.Parsn, despite his loss of eyesight, worked hard and became a successful insurance salesman who could earn good money and give two and half dollars to the beggar. But Markwardt because of less confidence and laziness became a beggar. So a man who has will power and does hard work can succeed in life even if he is handicapped

Explanation:- Mr.Parson felt immense sympathy for the blind because he knew that pain and misery of being blind as he himself is blind due to a chemical explosion accident

Explanation:- Mr.Parson attracts the readers as we find him to blind as well. But despite his blindness, he became a good insurance salesman, earned good money and had good heart to help a beggar who was also blind.

Explanation:- Only at the end of reading the story, we come to know that M.Parson is also blind by his words.

Explanation:- The blind man started to shout by telling a false story on how he lost his eyesight when he came to know that it was Mr.Parson who was with the beggar on the day of chemical explosion accident. The beggar actually twisted and said a false story.