9th English Short Questions Updated
9th English Short Questions Updated
9th English Short Questions Updated
(SWL-G1-2015)
Answer: Arabia is a land of beauty. It is a land of sand deserts. These deserts have no
paths.
2. Why was the Holy Quran sent in Arabic?
(SWL-G1-2015)
Answer: The Holy Quran was sent in Arabic as it is a literary and expressive language.
3. For which ability were the Arabs famous?
Answer: The Arabs were famous for their good memory and eloquence.
4. What was the condition of mankind before the Holy Prophet (
)?
Answer: Human race was standing on the verge of chaos before the Holy Prophet (
5. Why did the Holy Prophet (
Answer: The Holy Prophet
Almighty.
).
used to stay in the cave of Hira for meditation and the worship of Allah
(SWL-G2-2015)
Answer: The first revelation was: Read in the name of thy Lord Who created; created man from a clot
(of congealed blood): Read and thy Lord is most Bountiful, Who taught (the use of) the pen, taught man
that which he knew not.
7. Why did the pagan Arabs threaten the Holy Prophets (
Answer: They threatened the Holy Prophets
preaching the message of Allah Almighty.
8.
) uncle?
)? (SWL-G1-2014)
Answer: She said, His morals and character are an embodiment of the Holy Quran.
Additional Short Questions:
1. Where is Makkah situated?
(SWL-G2-2015)
Answer: Makkah is situated in Arabia. It is about fifty miles away from Red Sea.
2. What type of competition was held at Ukaz?
Answer: A poetical competition was held at Ukaz.
3. What was the mission of the Holy Prophet (
Answer: Holy Prophet (
)?
4. Why did the pagan Arabs send a delegation to the Holy Prophet (
)?
(SWL-G2-2015)
(SWL-G2-2013)
Answer: The most important function of media is that it gives news and information.
2. What are the two major means of communication? (SWL-G1-2015)
Answer: Print media and electronic media are the two major means of communication.
3. How does media provide entertainment?
(SWL-G2-2013)
(SWL-G2-2015)
Answer: It entertains us with films, dramas, stage shows, music shows and comedies.
4. What happens when media is allowed to play its role unchecked?
Answer: Sometimes, to create thrill, it exaggerates a situation. Thus it misleads the people. Therefore, it
must not be left unchecked.
5. Give three reasons in support of your favourite TV programme?
Answer: The TV programme I like the most is National Geographic. It introduces different species of
animals, birds and even insects to me. It makes me realize how great Allah is Who has created all these
creatures.
Notes English for 9th Class
What happened when Abu Jehl asked about Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique (
)?
) worried? (SWL-G2-2013)
was worried about his wealth because he thought that
and
5. Which incident in the story showed Hazrat Asmas ( ) love and respect for the Holy
Prophet (
)?
Answer: She (
) got punished by Abu Jehl but did not give him any clue about the Holy
Prophet (
). This shows her love and respect for the Holy Prophet (
).
6. Which incident in the story tells about the generosity of Hazrat Asma (
)?
Answer: She (
) inherited a garden. She sold it and gave away all the money to the poor and
the needy. This incident shows her generosity.
7. What message do you get from the life of Hazrat Asma (
Answer: Her life gives us the message of generosity, bravery and sacrifice.
8. Her life would always be a beacon of light for all of us How?
Answer: Hazrat Asmas (
) life would always a beacon of light for all of us as it teaches us the
lesson of bravery, generosity and sacrifice.
Notes English for 9th Class
(SWL-G1-2015)
) is a true Muslim lady. She is brave and wise lady. She is caring,
)?
Answer: She (
) got punished by Abu Jehl but did not give him any clue about the Holy
Prophet (
). This shows her love and respect for the Holy Prophet (
).
3. What message do you get from the life of Hazrat Asma (
)?
Answer: Her life gives us the message of generosity, bravery and sacrifice.
4. What was the first revelation?
Answer: The first revelation was: Read in the name of thy Lord who created; created man from a
clot (of congealed blood): Read and thy Lord is most Bountiful, Who taught
(the use of) the pen, taught man that which he knew not.
5. What is the most important function that media performs?
Answer: The most important function of media is that it gives news and
information.
6. What happens when media is allowed to play its role unchecked?
Answer: Sometimes, to create thrill, it exaggerates a situation. Thus it misleads the people. Therefore, it
must not be left unchecked.
7. For which ability were the Arabs famous?
Answer: The Arabs were famous for their good memory and eloquence.
8. What are the qualities of a patriot?
Answer: A patriot loves his country. He protects the interests of his country. He sacrifices everything for
its independence.
Answer: The central idea of the poem is love for nature which is full of
wonderful sights.
2. What do the daffodils represent in the poem?
Answer: The daffodils represent the attractive and exciting beauty of nature and the impact of it on
the human beings.
3. What wealth do memories of the scene give to the poet?
Answer: The memories of the scene give the poet the wealth of both the images and feeling
concerned to special moments in poets life.
4. List the words that heighten the sound effect in the poem?
Answer: cloud, crowd, trees, breeze, shine, line, way, bay, glance, dance, thought, brought, lie, eye,
mood, solitude, fills, daffodils.
5. How has the poet heightened the impact of the poem by using the figurative language?
Answer: The use of figurative language makes a concept clear and beautiful. This adds colour to the
text. The poet has heightened the impact of the poem by using similes, metaphors and personification.
For example, he personifies daffodils when he says that the daffodils were dancing in the breeze.
Additional Short Questions:
1. How do you compare the daffodils with the stars?
Answer: The stars shine the Milky Way. They shine in an endless line. Likewise the daffodils looked
beautiful. They were growing in an endless line along the lake. Thus the poet compares the two.
2. How does the poet feel in the company of daffodils?
Answer: The poet feels very happy in the company of the daffodils.
SWL-G2-2015
Answer: The ideology of the Quaid was based on the fundamental principle that they were an
independent nation and could not be merged with any other nation.
4. What can be the possible solution to our present problems?
Answer: We should forget our differences. We must work as a united nation. In this way, we can
solve our problems.
5. How can we become a strong nation? Board Paper 2014 Second Group
Answer: We can become a strong nation by following the path shown to us by our great Quaid.
Notes English for 9th Class
Why did the Quaid have to take long tours during the early days of independence?
Answer: The Quaid made long tours of the country to raise the spirit of his people.
2.
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Why did the Quaid want the oneness of the whole nation?
Answer: Oneness of the whole nation is necessary for progress. Therefore, the
Quaid wanted his whole nation to be united.
3.
Answer: No, we are not working according to the expectations of the great leader. In fact, we have
left the path which he showed us.
4.
Answer: The result of neglecting the advice of the Quaid is that we are disunited today.
How does the interior of the mosque look? Board Paper 2014 Second Group
Answer: The lower interior of the mosque is lined with more than 20,000 ceramic tiles in more than
50 tulip 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.
5.
Why do you think Madrassah and hospice was the part of the mosque?
Answer: It was a custom that every mosque must include a madrassah, a hospice and the tomb of its
founder. So they were considered the parts of the mosque.
6.
Answer: The Hagia Sophia was built as a church by Justinian the Great between 532 and 531. On
May 1453, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, MehmatII, conquered Constantinople and changed the
church into a mosque and modified its structure somewhat.
Additional Short Questions:
1. Who started the construction of the Blue Mosque? (SWL-G1-2014)
Answer: Sultan Ahmad 1 started the construction of the Blue Mosque in 1609.
2.
Answer: The construction of the mosque was completed in 1616 in the reign of Mustafa 1.
3.
Whom does the speaker refer to in the first stanza of the poem?
Why does the speaker stop on the darkest evening of the year?
Why does the horse impatiently await the next move of his master?
Answer: The horse wonders why his rider has stopped near 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.
5.
The speaker in the poem is captivated by the beauty of nature. Why doesnt he stop for long to enjoy
natures beauty?
Answer: The speaker does not stop for long to enjoy natures beauty because he is to fulfill his
promises.
Additional Short Questions:
1.
What do you meant by alliteration and imagery? Give some examples from the poem?
Answer: Alliteration refers to the repetition of the same consonant sound in words which are used closely
together in the poem. For example is ouse ee me topping.
Imagery is the construction of details used to create mental images in the mind of the reader through the visual
sense as well as the sense of smell, visual, touch, taste or sound.
Examples of Imagery:
5. What does love of our country demand from us? Board Paper 2013
First Group
Answer: The love of our country demands from us to rectify our mistakes and work according to the
wishes of our Quaid.
6. How does the interior of the mosque look?
Answer: The lower interior of the mosque is lined with more than 20,000 ceramic tiles in more than
50 tulip 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.
7. Why was a separate royal room attached to the mosque?
Answer: A separate royal room was attached to the mosque for the king to sit there and say prayers.
8. Why does the horse impatiently await the next move of his master?
Answer: The horse wonders why his rider has stopped near 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.
Answer: It was because she considered it wrong to leave such a hopeless case as Hira was
unattended.
3. Why did the nurse ask herself the question: Was it worthwhile to oppose and fight the
decision of senior and more qualified surgeons?
Answer: She was only a nurse. She had no right to oppose the doctors. Therefore, she asked
herself whether it was wise to oppose her seniors.
4. Describe some qualities of the nurse in the story?
Answer: The nurse is kind, caring, dutiful and committed to her profession.
5. Why did the nurse say: Where there is a will there is a way?
Answer: The nurse said this when she saw her patient recovered from her illness. Hira had been a
hopeless case but the nurses untiring efforts made her recover from her illness.
Additional Short Questions:
1. What is an ICU in a hospital?
Answer: An Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a special unit within a hospital where critically ill patients
are treated.
Notes English for 9th Class
3. What do you infer about her professional skills from the expression,
Try once for her?
Answer: The expression Try once for her shows great professional skill of the nurse. It also shows
her confidence in her skills.
4. Identify kinds of noun used in the text?
Answer: Common Nouns: bus
AbstractNouns: care
SWL-G2-2015
Answer: Noise leaves a dangerous impact on human health. It causes aggression, hypertension,
stress, hearing loss, restlessness, depression and sleeplessness.
6. What kind of precautions may reduce noise coming from electronic devices?
Answer: Following are some precautions that may reduce noise coming from electronic devices:
i. We should switch off our mobiles or put them on silent modes when we enter offices, hospitals
and other public places.
ii. We should avoid using electricity generators in residential areas.
iii. We should listen to music on low volume.
Additional Short Questions:
1. What is normal functioning and how is it disrupted?
Answer: Proper activity of something is its proper functioning. When the proper activity of
something is blocked, its functioning is disrupted.
2. Analyze paragraphs for topic sentences, supporting sentences and concluding sentences?
Answer: The first sentence of a paragraph is the topic sentence. The last sentence of a paragraph is
the concluding sentence. The sentences between these two sentences are supporting sentencse.
3. How does technology increase noise pollution? What are technology-based irritants?
Answer: Technology increases noise pollution by its inventions. Its irritants include TV, Radio,
mobile phones, electricity generators and many other noise producing things in this sort.
4. What harmful effects noise pollution is causing on human health? (SWL-G1-2014)
Answer: Noise pollution leaves bad effects on human health. It causes aggression, hypertension,
stress, hearing loss, restlessness, depression and insomnia.
Notes English for 9th Class
Answer: People who are blind are more imaginative than those who can see. Helen Keller is such an
example. She notices things by mere touch and imagines their beauty.
6. To me the pageant of seasons is an unending drama, Comment.
Answer: Helen Killer says that the sights of various seasons are like the acts of an endless drama. She
enjoys every act of this drama by mere touch.
Additional Short Questions:
1. Why is the arising of the sun so special for the author?
Answer: Rising sun changes darkness into light. It reveals beauty everywhere. Thus it has a special
charm for Helen Keller.
2. What does the revelation of beauty mean to writer?
Answer: It means full show of beauty. It means a lot to the writer. It delights her beyond measure.
3. Why has she no time to waste in longings? (SWL-G2-2013)
Answer: Helen Keller has only one day more to see. Thus she does not want to waste even a fraction
of second in longings only.
4. Explain the difference between facilities and opportunities?
Answer: Available gift is a facility. Availability of favouable time to get such a gift is an opportunity.
Review III-Unit 9-12
1. Describe some qualities of the nurse in the story?
Answer: The nurse is kind, caring, dutiful and committed to her profession.
2. What are the causes of drug addiction?
Answer: Genetic factors, psychological issues, social circumstances, home conditions and bad
fellows cause drug addiction.
Notes English for 9th Class
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We should switch off our mobiles or put them on silent modes when we enter offices, hospitals
and other public places.
We should avoid using electricity generators in residential areas.
We should listen to music on low volume.
Summaries
Daffodils
(SWL-G2-2014) (SWL-G1-2013)
SWL-G2-2015
This beautiful poem has been written by William Wordsworth. He is also known as the poet of nature.
Most of his poems describe nature and its beauty. In this poem he describes an experience of his life.
Once he saw a crowd of daffodils flowers beside the bank of a lake. The flowers were moving and
dancing in the breeze. He was delighted to see this beautiful and charming sight. This sight left a lasting
impression on his memory. As a result, whenever, he is alone and in a sad mood the same sight comes
into his imagination and fills his heart with pleasure. This experience has become a permanent source of
pleasure for the poet. At the end we can say this poem a master piece of the poet. He has presented a
beautiful picture of nature in this poem.
(SWL-G1-2014) (SWL-G2-2013)
SWL-G1-2015
This beautiful poem has been written by Robert Frost. This poem is a story of horse rider. A horse rider
stops by woods in a snowy evening. He also knows the owner of forest who lives in a nearby village. The
horse rider likes the beauty of woods so he stopped there for some time to enjoy the beautiful scene of
the wood. His horse thinks it very strange to stop there without a farmhouse. He shook his harness bells
to attract the attention of his master. However, the horse rider was in a hurry. He had promised someone
to return before the sleeping time. He did not stop there for long. He had to go miles away before
returning home. We can see this poem a master piece of the poet.