NCERT Solutions for Class 9: Ch 1 The Fun they Had Beehive English
By Issac Asimov
Page No: 10
Thinking About Text
I. Answer these questions in a few words or a couple of sentences
each.
1. How old are Margie and Tommy?
2. What did Margie write in her diary?
3. Had Margie ever seen a book before?
4. What things about the book did she find strange?
5. What do you think a telebook is?
6. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?
7. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
Answer
1. Margie is eleven and Tommy is thirteen-year-old.
2. Margie wrote, “Today Tommy found a real book!”.
3. No, Margie had never seen a book before.
4. Margie found it strange that the words printed on a book stood still
instead of moving the way they did on a screen. She also found it odd
that the words on a page always remained the same as the first time
, they were read. Besides, the idea that someone would write a book
about schools was itself strange for Margie.
5. A book that can be displayed on a screen is called telebook.
6. Margie’s school was in her home itself, right next to her bedroom.
No, she did not have any classmates.
7. Margie and Tommy learned geography, history and arithmetic.
II. Answer the following with reference to the story.
1. “I wouldn’t throw it away.”
(i) Who says these words?
(ii) What does ‘it’ refer to?
(iii) What is it being compared with by the speaker?
Answer
(i) Tommy said these words.
(ii) 'It' refers to the television screen, on which you could read over a
million books
(iii) Tommy is comparing the television screen to the real books in
earlier times in which words were printed on paper. He thought that
after reading such books, one would have to throw them away.
However, he would never have to throw away his telebooks.
2. “Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a
man.”
(i) Who does ‘they’ refer to?
By Issac Asimov
Page No: 10
Thinking About Text
I. Answer these questions in a few words or a couple of sentences
each.
1. How old are Margie and Tommy?
2. What did Margie write in her diary?
3. Had Margie ever seen a book before?
4. What things about the book did she find strange?
5. What do you think a telebook is?
6. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?
7. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
Answer
1. Margie is eleven and Tommy is thirteen-year-old.
2. Margie wrote, “Today Tommy found a real book!”.
3. No, Margie had never seen a book before.
4. Margie found it strange that the words printed on a book stood still
instead of moving the way they did on a screen. She also found it odd
that the words on a page always remained the same as the first time
, they were read. Besides, the idea that someone would write a book
about schools was itself strange for Margie.
5. A book that can be displayed on a screen is called telebook.
6. Margie’s school was in her home itself, right next to her bedroom.
No, she did not have any classmates.
7. Margie and Tommy learned geography, history and arithmetic.
II. Answer the following with reference to the story.
1. “I wouldn’t throw it away.”
(i) Who says these words?
(ii) What does ‘it’ refer to?
(iii) What is it being compared with by the speaker?
Answer
(i) Tommy said these words.
(ii) 'It' refers to the television screen, on which you could read over a
million books
(iii) Tommy is comparing the television screen to the real books in
earlier times in which words were printed on paper. He thought that
after reading such books, one would have to throw them away.
However, he would never have to throw away his telebooks.
2. “Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a
man.”
(i) Who does ‘they’ refer to?
