NCERT Solutions for Class 9th English (B. Integrated Grammar) Gap Filling

Textbook	NCERT/CBSE
Class	Class 9th
Subject	English
Chapter	English Grammar
Chapter Name	Gap Filling
Category	Class 9th English Grammar With Answers
Medium	English
Source	Last Doubt

NCERT Solutions for Class 9th English (B. Integrated Grammar) Gap Filling

?English Grammar?

✍Gap Filling✍

?English Grammar With Answers?

I. Study the given notes and complete the paragraph that follows by filling up the gaps with the most appropriate option from those given:

1. Notes-

Rainy day
Busy traffic
Car collision with a speeding bus
5 badly injured, 1 died on the spot
Injured taken to the hospital
Local help

It was a rainy day. Traffic (a)………… busy on the road. A (b)…………. hit a car badly in the market. Five commuters were badly injured while one person (c)……………………..on the spot. The injured persons were taken to the nearest hospital. The local people were of great help.
(a) (i) will be                  (ii) was                     (iii) is                           (iv) has been
(b) (i) speeding bus     (ii) speeded bus     (iii) sped up bus        (iv) speed bus
(c) (i) was died             (ii) had died             (iii) died                      (iv) is died
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1. (a) (ii) was                                    (b) (i) speeding bus (c) (iii) died

2. Instructions for opening a bank A/C

Select the Bank of your choice
Contact the Customer Care Officer in the Bank
Contact the proper Authority as instructed by the Customer Care
Submit the required documents
Contact the bank as instructed for collecting your Passbook and ATM card

For opening a bank A/C you (a)……………….. to select a bank of your choice. You (b)……………… to visit the bank and contact the Customer Care Officer there. Thereafter you should meet the concerned Authority. You (c)………………… to submit the required documents. Don’t forget to visit the bank for collecting the passbook and ATM card.
(a) (i) require   (ii) are required        (iii) will require          (iv) have to require
(b) (i) will         (ii) should                  (iii) need                      (iv) are
(c) (i) must      (ii) shall                     (iii) are required          (iv) should
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2. (a) (ii) are required                      (b) (iii) need                       (c) (iii) are required

3. Polishing your shoes

Clean shoes
Polish coated
Let them soak
Brush to shine

Shoes (a)…………….. of dust with a brush. A layer of polish (b)……………….. over the shoes. One should wait a little till the polish (c)………………….. Then shoes are brushed to shine.
(a) (i) is cleaned      (ii) will be cleaned         (iii) are cleaned        (iv) has to be cleaned
(b) (i) has coated      (ii) need be coated        (iii) is coated             (iv) will be coated
(c) (i) was died          (ii) had died             (iii) died                      (iv) is died
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3. (a) (iii) are cleaned   (b) (iii) is coated                      (c) (ii) soaks the leather

4. Notes:

Annual Function of the school
The Mayor as the Chief Guest
Inauguration by the Principal
Prize Distribution by the Chief Guest

Last week the Annual Function of our school (a)……………….. The Mayor of the town (b)……………………….. to grace the occasion as the chief guest. The function (c)……………………. by the Principal while the Mayor, the chief guest distributed the prize to the winners.
(a) (i) is celebrated       (ii) had been celebrated       (iii) was celebrated                  (iv) shall be celebrated
(b) (i) was invited         (ii) has been invited               (iii) is invited                             (iv) shall be invited
(c) (i) is inaugurated    (ii) was inaugurated              (iii) will be inaugurated            (iv) has been inaugurated

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4. (a) (iii) was celebrated (b) (i) was invited (c) (ii) was inaugurated

5. Process of Operating an ATM

Find an ATM of any bank
Take your ATM card and put it in the slot
Enter your secret PIN
Select your option
Wait a little till your transaction is complete
Get the currency
Collect your Card and Transaction Slip
Leave the ATM cabin

For doing transaction through ATM you (a)……………………. to find an ATM of any bank. First you (b)……………………. to put your card in the card slot followed by (c)…………………….. the secret PIN. You are to wait till your transaction is complete. Then take the currency, collect your card and leave the ATM cabin.
(a) (i) shall                     (ii) are required                    (iii) should                      (iv) needed
(b) (i) have to (ii) need                                 (iii) must                         (iv) do
(c) (i) enter                    (ii) entering                           (iii) entered                     (iv) have enter
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5. (a) (ii) are required                       (b) (ii) need                     (c) (ii) entering

II. Choose the best word from the options given in bracket to complete the following passages:

Most UFO sightings occur (a)……………. (at, in, on, during) the night, either late in the evening or in the early hours of the morning, (b)……………….. (As, While,When, Often) they take place on a dark moonless night when the person (c)…………….. (are, is, were, was) alone on a country road. This eerie atmosphere is perfect (d) ………………………… (of, for, off, on) playing tricks on a person’s imagination. Police and newspaper officers are often swamped (e)………………… (in, for, with, among) calls when something strange is seen in the skies, (f)………………….. (How, Then, Once, Before) an explanation is given, most people are happy to accept it.
Climate change (a)……………… (is, was, will, has) one (b)………………… (at, on, with, of) the most (c)……………….. (hot, hoted, hotly, hoting) contested environmental debates of our time. (d)………………………. (Will, Can, Have, Has) the West Antarctic ice sheet melt entirely? Will the Gulf Stream ocean current (e)…………………. (was, be, is , are) disrupted? May be. May be not. (f)………………….. (Neither, Either, Or, As) way, Antarctica is a crucial element in this debate.
Sadao had taken this (a)………………. (in, into, at, of) his mind as he did (b)……………………….. (nothing, everything, all, everywhere) his father said, his father who (c)………………. (always, seldom, never, ever) joked (d)………………… (and, or, else, nor) played (e)………………………. (with, of, at, in) him but (f)…………………. (whose, whom, who, what) spent infinite pains upon him who was his only son.
So (a)…………………. (a, an, the, one) wizard said, “Oh, very well. (b)………………(Go, went, gone, going) to the end of the lane and turn (c)………………….. (on, in, around, from) three times and look down the magic well and there you will (d)……………. (found, finding, find) three pennies. Hurry (e)……………………… (up, at, on, of).” So Roger Skunk went to the end of the lane and (f)………………….. (turn, turned, turning, has turned) around three times and there in the magic well were three pennies!
Human civilisations have been around (a)……………………. (at, on, for, in) a paltry 12,000 years, barely a (b)………………(many, few, some, each) seconds (c) …………………….(at, in, on, of) the geological clock. In that short amount (d) ……………(of, on, with, at) time, we’ve managed (e)………………………. (at, to, of, for) create quite a ruckus, etching our dominance (f)…………………………. (at, in, off, over) nature with our villages, towns, cities and megacities. The rapid increase of human population has left us battling with other species for limited resources.
Sadao Hoki’s house (a)……………… (was, is, will, can) built on a spot of the Japanese coast (b)…………………(here, where, everywhere, anywhere) (c)……………………. (like, as, same, similar) a little boy he had (d)…………..(never, ever, often, seldom) played. The low, square stone house was set (e)………………(on, upon, in, at) rocks well (f).……………………(above, below, beneath, over) a narrow beach that was outlined with bent pines. His father had taken him often to the islands of those seas.
He smelled (a)…………………. (so, as, like, as) bad that (b)…………………………. (all, every, none, each) of the other little woodland creatures would play (c)…………………………….. (on, of, from, with) him. She looked at him (d)…………………..(solemn, solemned, solemnly). She had not (e)……………………. (forsee, forsaw, forseen, foreseeing) this. Whenever he would go out to play, Roger (f)…………………………………………………….. (remember, remembered, remembering, will remember) the humiliations of his own childhood. All of the other tiny animals would cry, “Uh-oh, here comes Roger Stinky Skunk”.
It won’t make my face (a)…………………… (change, changed, changes, changing). Do you know, one day, a woman (b)…………………. (go, going, went, gone) by me (c)………………………….. (at, in, of, on) the street. I (d)………………….. (am, was, where, is) at a bus-stop and she was (e)………………….(along, with, in, without) another woman. She (f)…………….. (look, looks, looked, looking) at me, and she said, “Look at that, that’s a terrible thing.

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