NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Beehive Chapter 4 A Truly Beautiful Mind

Writing newspaper reports
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Here are some notes which you could use to write a report.

21 August 2005—original handwritten manuscript of Albert Einstein unearthed— by student Rowdy Boeynik in the Univer¬sity of Netherlands—Boeynik researching papers—papers belonging to an old friend of Einstein—fingerprints of Einstein on these papers—16 page document dated 1924—Einstein’s work on this last the¬ory—behaviour of atoms at low temper¬ature—now known as the Bose-Einstein condensation—the manuscript to be kept at Leyden University where Einstein got the Nobel Prize.

Question 1.
Write a report which has four paragraphs,
one each on :

• what was unearthed.
• who unearthed it and when.
• what the document contained.
• where it will be kept.

Your report could begin like this:
Answers:
Student Unearths Einstein Manuscript 21 August 2005. An original handwritten Albert Einstein manuscript has been unearthed at the University of Netherlands.

A student named Rowdy Boeynik was researching the papers belonging to his old companion Einstein.

The document contained papers of Einstein's work on the last theory—Behav¬iour of Atoms at Low Temperature. Now¬adays it is known as the Bose-Einstein Condensation.

The manuscript will be kept at Leyden University where Einstein got the Nobel Prize.

Dictation
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Question 1.
Your teacher will dictate these paragraphs to you. Write down the paragraphs with correct punctuation marks.

In 1931 Charlie Chaplin invited Albert Einstein, who was visiting Hollywood, to a private screening of his new film, City Lights. As the two men drove into town together, passersby waved and cheered. Chaplin turned to his guest and explained: “The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.”

One of Einstein’s colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. “You don’t remember your own number?” the man asked, startled. “No,” Einstein answered. “Why should I memorise something I can so easily get from a book?” (In fact, Einstein claimed never to memorise anything which could be looked up in less than two minutes.)
Answer:
In 1931, Charlie Chaplin invited Albert Einstein, who was visiting Hollywood, to a private screening of his new film, “City Lights”. As the two men drove into town together, passers-by waved and cheered. Chaplin turned to his guest and explained: “The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.”

One of Einstein’s colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. “You don’t remember your own number?” the man asked, startled. “No”, Einstein answered. “Why should I memorise something I can so easily get from a book?” (In fact, Einstein claimed never to memorise anything which could be looked up in less than two minutes.)

Extract Based Questions(3 marks each)

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

Question 1:
A headmaster once told his father that what Einstein chose as a profession would not matter, because “he will never make a success at anything”. Einstein began learning to play the violin at the age of six because his mother wanted him to. He later became a gifted amateur violinist, maintaining this skill throughout his life.

1. What was the headmaster’s opinion about Einstein?
2. Why did Einstein learn to play the violin?
3. Find a word from the passage that means “having the great natural ability”.(Board Term 1,2012, ELI-013)

Answer:

1. The headmaster’s opinion about Einstein was that he would never be successful in his life.
2. Einstein learnt to play the violin to fulfil the desire of his mother.
3. Gifted.

Question 2:
Einstein was deeply shaken by the extent of the destruction. This time he wrote a public missive to the United Nations. In it, he proposed the formation of a world government. Unlike the letter to Roosevelt, this one made no impact.

1. What did Einstein write and to whom?
2. Why did he write a letter to Roosevelt earlier?
3. Find the word from the extract that means – “a long and official letter”.(Board Term 1,2012, ELI-027)

Answer:

1. Einstein wrote a public missive to the United Nations proposing the formation of a world government.
2. He wrote a letter to Roosevelt earlier in which he warned him by saying, “a single bomb of
   this type might very well destroy the whole part with some of the surrounding territory”, i.e., a letter warning him for a bomb blast.
3. Missive.

Question 3:
“The pair finally got married in January 1903, and had two sons. But a few years later, the marriage faltered”.

1. Name the “pair” referred to in the above lines.
2. What happened to their marriage?
3. Which word from the extract means “became weak” ? (Board Term 1,2012, ELI-029)

Answer:

1. The pair referred to in the above lines is of Albert Einstein and Mileva.
2. Their marriage was not successful.
3. Faltered.

Question 4:
He also felt a special interest in a fellow student, Mileva Marie, whom he found to be a “clever creature”. This young Serb had come to Switzerland because the University in Zurich was one of the few in Europe where women could get degrees. Einstein saw in her an ally against the “philistines”- those people in his family and at the university with whom he was constantly at odds.

1. Who is the “clever creature” and “young Serb” in the passage?
2. Why did the young Serb come to Switzerland?
3. What was the attitude of Einstein towards the young serb ? (Board Term 1,2012, ELI-025)

Or

1. Who felt a special interest in Mileva Marie and why?
2. Why did Mileva Marie come to Switzerland?
3. Which word in the passage means “softness” ? (Board Term 1,2012, ELI-036)

Answer:

1. Mileva Marie, a fellow student with Einstein is referred to as a “clever creature” and “young Serb”.
2. The young Serb had come to Switzerland because the university in Zurich was one of the few in Europe where women could get degrees.
3. Einstein was attracted to her and he wanted to join her.

Or

1. Albert Einstein felt a special interest in Mileva Marie as he thought her to be a clever creature.
2. Mileva Marie came to Switzerland as the University of Zurich was one of the few places in Europe where women could get degrees.
3. Tenderness.

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