NCERT Solutions for Chapter 9 The Bond of Love Class 9 English Beehive
Chapter Name | The Bond of Love NCERT Solutions |
Class | CBSE Class 9 |
Textbook Name | Beehive |
Related Readings |
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Thinking about the Text
I. Given in the box are some headings. Find the relevant paragraphs in the text to match the headings.
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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
The relevant headings are shown below:
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An Orphaned Cub |
Paragraph 3 |
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Bruno’s Food-chart |
Paragraph 6 |
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An Accidental Case of Poisoning |
Paragraph 8 |
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Playful Baba |
Paragraph 12 |
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Pain of Separation |
Paragraph 14 |
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Joy of Reunion |
Paragraph 16 |
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A Request to the Zoo |
Paragraph 18 |
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An Island in the Courtyard |
Paragraph 21 |
II. Answer the following questions:
Question 1: "I got him for her by accident."
(i) Who says this?
(ii) Who do 'him' and 'her' refer to?
(iii) What is the incident referred to here?
Answer
(i) The Narrator says the above line.
(ii) 'Him' refers to the baby(Bruno) of the sloth bear that was killed and 'her' refers to the narrator's wife.
(iii) The incident referred to the successful attempt of catching the baby bear in the sugarcane field by the narrator along with his companions.
Question 2: "He stood on his head in delight."
(i) Who does 'he' refer to?
(ii) Why was he delighted?
Answer
(i) 'He' refers to Bruno, the sloth bear.
(ii) Bruno was delighted to see the narrator's wife because he was separated from the narrator’s wife for three months and he missed her so much. After meeting her he recognized her and howled with happiness.
Question 3: "We all missed him greatly: but in a sense we were relieved."
(i) Who does 'we all' stand for?
(ii) Who did they miss?
(iii) Why did they nevertheless feel relieved?
Answer
(i) 'We all' refers to the narrator, his wife and his son.
(ii) They missed Bruno (Baba), the sloth bear.
(iii) They felt relieved because Bruno was getting too big to be kept at home. That was the reason they had sent him to a zoo.
III. Answer the following questions in 30 to 40 words each.
Question 1: On two occasions Bruno ate/drank something that should not be eaten/drunk. What happened to him on these occasions?
Answer
On the first occasion, the narrator had put poison (barium carbonate) to kill rats and mice that had gotten into his library. Bruno entered the library and he was unaware of the poison and ate some of the poison. He became completely paralysed due to this. The poison and vomiting rapidly weakened him, causing him to unable to stand on his feet. His condition remained quite unstable during this period.
On the second occasion, Bruno drank one gallon of old engine oil that the narrator kept as a weapon against termites. Fortunately, the engine oil did not harm Bruno.
Question 2: Was Bruno a loving and playful pet? Why, then, did he have to be sent away?
Answer
Yes, Bruno was a very loving and playful pet. He was very attached to all the children living in the narrator's bungalow and narrator's Alsatian dog but he had more attachment with narrator's wife.
He had to be sent away to the zoo in Mysore because he had grown too big and was difficult to be kept at home.
Question 3: How was the problem of what to do with Bruno finally solved?
Answer
When the narrator and his wife went to meet Bruno, he stood up in delight. When it came time to leave the zoo, the narrator's wife cried bitterly and felt depressed, so she requested that the curator return their Baba(Bruno). This request was granted by the Superintendent in Bangalore, and a special island was built in the compound area for Baba keeping all his toys and needs in mind.
Thinking about language
I. Question 1: Find these words in the lesson. They all have ie or ei in them.
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f__ ld ingred__ nts h__ ght misch__ vous fr__ nds __ghty-seven rel__ ved p__ ce |
Answer
Field
Ingredients
Height
Mischievous
Friends
Eighty-seven
Relieved
Piece
Question 2: Now here are some more words. Complete them with ei or ie. Consult a dictionary if necessary.
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bel__ ve rec__ ve w__ rd l__ sure s__ ze w__ ght r__ gn f__ gn gr__ f p__ rce |
(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
II. Here are some words with silent letters. Learn their spelling. Your teacher will dictate these words to you. Write them down and underline the silent letters.
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knock |
wrestle |
walk |
wrong |
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knee |
half |
honest |
daughter |
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hours |
return |
hornet |
calm |
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could |
sign |
island |
button |
Answer
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knock |
wrestle |
walk |
wrong |
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knee |
half |
honest |
daughter |
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hours |
return |
hornet |
calm |
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could |
sign |
island |
button |
III. How to look at an Index:
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."
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:
Page no. 813
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French Algerian War, 696 French and Indian war, 370, 401 French Revolution, 393, 404, 405, 408, 427, 489 Freud(froid), Sigmund(1856 – 1939), 479, illus, 477 Frobisher(Frobisher), Martin(1535? – 1594), 321, 338 |
Page no. 826
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Third Coalition, 415 Third Communist International, See Comintern Third Estate(France), 404, 405 Third Reform Bill, 454 Third Reich(riH), 641, 643, 652, 653 |
On which pages in this book will you find information about the French Revolution and the Third Estate?
Answer
French Revolution: Pages – 393, 404 – 405, 408, 427, 489
Third Estate(France): Pages – 404, 405
2. To know what 'Food Security' and 'Minimum Support Price' mean in the context of the economic growth of a country you can go to the subject index given below from Poverty and Famines - An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation by Amartya Sen. Under which heading in the index are you likely to find these topics?
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Famine relief, 43, 57, 87 – 8, 96 – 8, 116 – 17, 131 – 2 Fisherman, 51, 67 – 9, 71, 72 – 3, 78, 119 Finland, 213 Floods, 52 – 3, 58, 131 – 2, 147 – 8 Food availability decline(FAD thesis), 6 – 7, 7 – 8, 41 – 2, 43 – 4, 53, 57 – 63, 80 – 1, 82 – 3, 88 – 93, 111, 117 – 20, 125, 137, 141, 153, 154 – 6, 157 – 8, 162 Food countermovement, 94, 138, 160 – 2 Food habits, 12 – 3,25 – 6, 45, 50, 164 |
Answer
We can find the concepts of 'food security' and 'minimum support price' under the Food availability decline(FAD).
3. Given below is a portion of an index page from the book, French's Index of Differential Diagnosis, edited by F. Dudley Hart M.D., F.R.C.P.
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--pulmonary fibrosis.. ---osteo-arthropathy.. --pyrexia.. --rigors.. --vomiting.. Bronchitis, acute, causing cough.. --haemoptysis.. -associated with costochondral swellings.. --emphysema.. --mediastinal emphysema.. --capillary, causing head retraction.. -casts in sputum -causing epistaxis -in children, pertussis distinguished from.. -chronic, associated with yellow nail syndrome.. --bacterial infection complicating.. --causing cough.. ---dyspnoea.. ---haemoptysis.. ---nutmeg liver.. --cigarette smoking causing.. --heart failure due to.. Bronchitis, chronic, contd. --simulating indigestion.. --sputum of, during smog.. ---production in.. -complicating incomplete sternal fusion.. -coughing in, causing surgical emphysema... |
346 271 636, 643 669, 671 804 178 322 133 131 605 325, 328 728 240 178 519 729 179, 182, 223 222, 223, 229 322 463 223 82
583 728 727, 729 130 235 |
Study the entries and find out whether the following topics are discussed in the book.
(i) bronchitis due to cigarette smoking
(ii) heart failure due to bronchitis
(iii) bronchitis in children
Answer
The given three topics - bronchitis due to cigarette smoking, heart failure due to bronchitis and bronchitis in children can be easily found in the given book as per the entries mentioned in the same words.
IV. 1 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 (eg. 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
The vet and I made a dash back to the car. Bruno was still floundering about on his stumps, clearly weakening rapidly. He experienced some vomiting and heavy breathing, with heaving flanks and gaping mouth. Everybody was asked to hold him as the Hypodermic medicine went inside. Bruno squealed as 10 c.c. of the antidote entered his system without a drop being wasted. Ten minutes later his condition remained unchanged due to which another 10 c.c. of the antidote was injected. After ten minutes, his breathing became less stertorous as he moved his arms and legs a little, although he could not stand yet. Thirty minutes later, Bruno got up and had a great feed. He looked at us disdainfully as much as to say, 'What's barium carbonate to a big black bear like me?' Bruno was still eating.
2. Adverbs
Find the adverbs in the passage below. (You've read about adverbs in Unit 1.)
We thought that everything was over when suddenly a black sloth bear came out panting in the hot sun. Now I will not shoot a sloth-bear wantonly but, unfortunately for the poor beast, one of my companions did not feel that way about it, and promptly shot the bear on the spot.
(i) Complete the following sentences, using a suitable adverb ending in -ly.
(a) Rana does her homework _______.
(b) It rains ______ in Mumbai in June.
(c) He does his work ________.
(d) The dog serves his master _______.
(ii) Choose the most suitable adverbs or adverbial phrases and complete the following sentences.
(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
We thought that everything was over when suddenly a black sloth bear came out panting in the hot sun. Now I will not shoot a sloth-bear wantonly but, unfortunately for the poor beast, one of my companions did not feel that way about it, and promptly shot the bear on the spot.
(b) It rains heavily in Mumbai in June.
(c) He does his work obediently.
(d) The dog serves his master faithfully.
(ii) (a) We should never get down from a moving train.
(b) I was badly in need of support after my poor performance.
(c) Rita met with an accident. The doctor examined her immediately.
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 corn from her home. She had gathered the corn 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 corn?"
Answer
It was a cold winter's day and an ant was bringing out some grains of corn from her home in order to dry them which she had gathered in summer. A grasshopper, who was very hungry, saw her and said, "When did you get the corn? I am dying of hunger." "I collected it in summer," said the ant. "What were you doing in summer? Why did you not store some corn?" asked the ant. 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.