NCERT Solutions Class 9th English (Beehive) Chapter – 9 The Bond of Love Question & Answer

An Orphaned Cub; Bruno’s Food-chart; An Accidental Case of Poisoning; Playful Baba; Pain of Separation; Joy of Reunion; A Request to the Zoo; An Island in the Courtyard.
Answer:

Question 1. “I got him for her by accident.”

1. Who says this?
2. Who do ‘him’ and ‘her’ refer to?
3. What is the incident referred to here?
Answer:
1. The author says this.
2. ‘Him’ refers to the baby bear and ‘her’ refers to the author’s wife.
3. The incident refers to the catching of the baby bear.

1. Who does ‘he’ refer to?
2. Why was he delighted?
Answer:
1. ‘He’ refers to the baby bear.
2. ‘He’ was delighted to see the author’s wife after a long time.

1. Who does ‘we all’ stand for?
2. Who did they miss?
3. Why did they nevertheless feel relieved?
Answer:
1. The author, his wife and son.
2. They missed the baby bear.
3. They felt relieved because it was getting difficult to keep the baby bear at home.

Question 1. On two occasions Bruno ate/drank something that should not be eaten/ drunk. What happened to him on these occasions?
Answer: Bruno ate Barium Carbonate which was put to kill the rats and mice. Paralysis set in to the extent that he could not stand on his feet. Once he drank one gallon of old engine oil. But it had no ill effects whatever.

Answer: Field; ingredients; height; mischievous; friends; eighty-seven; relieved; piece.

(There is a popular rule of spelling: ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’. Check if this rule is true by looking at the words above.)
Answer: believe; receive; weird; leisure; seize; weight; reign; feign; grief; pierce This rule is applicable only in the case of ‘believe’ ‘grief’ and ‘pierce’ words. The other words have ei instead of ie.

Answer: For self-attempt at class level.
The silent letters are underline as under:

An index is a list of names or topics that are to be found in a book. It is a list arranged in alphabetical order at the end of a book. The following paragraph shows that the doctor is consulting the index of a medical book to find out which injection is appropriate for Bruno.

“Out came his medical books, and a feverish reference to index began: What poison did you say, sir ?” “Barium carbonate”, “Ah yes—B—Ba— Barium Salts—Ah ! Barium carbonate! Symptoms—paralysis—treatment— injections of… Just a minute, sir. I’ll bring my syringe and the medicine.”

Question 1. You have read about the French Revolution and you want to know more about the Third Estate in the context of the French Revolution. You can refer to the index of the book Living World History by T. Walter Wallbank and Arnold Schrier:

Study the entries and find out whether the following topics are discussed in the book.

1. bronchitis due to cigarette smoking
2. heart failure due to bronchitis
3. bronchitis in children
Answer:
1. Yes, page 223 under Bronchitis, acute, causing.
2. Heart failure due to … page 82.
3. Yes, page 178.

Note. The portions as answers to the above are shown in bold letters.

Notice the incomplete sentences in the following paragraphs. Here the writer is using incomplete sentences in the narration to make the incident more dramatic or immediate. Can you rewrite the paragraph in complete sentences?
(You can begin : The vet and I made a dash back to the car. Bruno was still floundering…)

(i) A dash back to the car. Bruno still floundering about on his stumps, but clearly weakening rapidly, some vomiting, heavy breathing, with heaving flanks and gaping mouth.

Hold him, everybody! In goes the hypodermic—Bruno squeals—10 c.c. of the antidote enters his system without a drop being wasted. Ten minutes later : condition unchanged! Another 10 c.c. injected! Ten minutes later : breathing less stertorous—Bruno can move his arms and legs a little although he cannot stand yet. Thirty minutes later : Bruno gets up and has a great feed ! He looks at us disdainfully, as much as to say, ‘What’s barium carbonate to a big black bear like me?’ Bruno is still eating.

(ii) In the paragraphs above from the story the verbs are in the present tense (e.g. hold, goes, etc.). This gives the reader an impression of immediacy. The present tense is often used when we give a commentary on a game (cricket, football, etc.), or tell a story as if it is happening now. It is, therefore, called the narrative present.

You will read more about the present tense in unit 10.
Answer:
(i) The vet and I made a dash back to the car. Bruno was still floundering about his stumps. He was also weakening rapidly. He was vomiting and breathing heavily. His flank was heaving and he had gaping mouth. The vet told everyone to hold him. He injected 10 c.c. of the antidote into his body. Not even a single drop was wasted. His condition did not change even after ten minutes. Another 10 c.c. of the antidote was injected. After ten minutes his breathing got less stertorous. Bruno could move his arms and legs a little. However, he could not stand. After thirty minutes, he got up and had a great feed. He looked at the vet and others disdainfully. He seemed to be saying, “What barium, carbonate to a big black bear like him?” He was still eating.

(ii) Read yourself and find out.

(a) Rana does her homework …………..
(b) It rains ………….. in Mumbai in June.
(c) He does his work …………..
(d) The dog serves his master …………..
Answer:
(i) (a) carefully
(b) heavily
(c) diligently
(d) faithfully.

(a) We should get down from a moving train, (never, sometimes, often)
(b) I was in need of support after my poor performance, (badly, occasionally, sometimes)
(c) Rita met with an accident. The doctor examined her (suddenly, seriously, immediately)
Answer:
(a) never
(b) badly
(c) immediately.

Question 3. Take down the following scrambled version of a story, that your teacher will dictate to you, with appropriate punctuation marks. Then, read the scrambled story carefully and try to rewrite it rearranging the incidents.
A grasshopper, who was very hungry, saw her and said, “When did you get the corn?
I am dying of hunger.” She wanted to dry them. It was a cold winter’s day, and an ant was bringing out some grains of com from her home, She had gathered the com in summer.“I was singing all day,” answered the grasshopper.
“If you sang all summer,” said the ant, “you can dance all winter.”
“What were you doing?” asked the ant again.
The grasshopper replied, “I was too busy.”
“I collected it in summer,” said the ant. “What were you doing in summer?
Why did you not store some com?”
Answer:
• It was a cold winter’s day and an ant was bringing out some grains of com from her home. She had gathered the com in summer. She wanted to dry them. A grasshopper, who was very hungry, saw her and said, “I am dying of hunger. When did you get the com?” “I collected it in summer,” said the ant. “What were you doing in summer? Why did you not store some com?” The grasshopper replied, “I was too busy.”

• “What were you doing?” asked the ant again. “I was singing all day,” answered the grasshopper. “If you sang all summer,” said the ant, “you can dance all winter.”