SSC (Hindi Medium) ९ वीं कक्षा - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions

1. What is your favourite school subject?
2. Which subject do you find the most difficult?
3. What do you do to try to understand it better?
4. Can I help you to …….?
5. Can you help me to …………….?

The author refers to two contrasting emotions - what are they?

What does the author compare herself to?

What did young Helen’s teacher do when they first met?

What is the difference between finger play, spelling a word mechanically and writing a meaningful word?

What is the difference between wordless sensation and thought?

What were the barriers? How could they be swept away?

Why did young Helen feel repentance and sorrow?

Find out more about Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan from the net.

The most important day in Helen Keller’s life was when her teacher came to her.

When young Helen stretched out her hand, her mother took it.

Young Helen learnt to spell many words without understanding them.

One day, young Helen understood that everything has a name.

Young Helen did not try to put the pieces of the doll together.

Young Helen felt sorry that she had broken the doll.

Listen carefully and classify the following into ‘one’ and ‘many’.

day, contrasts, teacher, lives, months, years, afternoon, porch, signs, face, fingers, leaves, blossoms, anger, bitterness, weeks, struggle, ship, darkness

This narrative is written in the first person - using ‘I’. Rewrite the following sentence using ‘Helen Keller/Young Helen’ appropriately in place of ‘I’ and making other necessary changes in the sentence.

I did not know what the future held of marvel or surprise for me.

This narrative is written in the first person - using ‘I’. Rewrite the following sentence using ‘Helen Keller/Young Helen’ appropriately in place of ‘I’ and making other necessary changes in the sentence.

The morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and gave me a doll.

This narrative is written in the first person - using ‘I’. Rewrite the following sentence using ‘Helen Keller/Young Helen’ appropriately in place of ‘I’ and making other necessary changes in the sentence.

On entering the door I remembered the doll I had broken.

This narrative is written in the first person - using ‘I’. Rewrite the following sentence using ‘Helen Keller/Young Helen’ appropriately in place of ‘I’ and making other necessary changes in the sentence.

Then my eyes filled with tears; for I realised what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow.