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

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Thinking About the Text

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Ans:
(i) Einstein’s playmates thought that he was bored.
(ii) Einstein’s headmaster thought that he was stupid and would never succeed at anything in life.
(iii) Einstein’s mother thought that he was a freak.

(i) Einstein left the school in Munich for good because he hated the school’s regimentation and often had arguments with his school teachers.
(ii) Einstein wanted to study in Switzerland rather than in Munich because it was a more liberal city.
(iii) Einstein found in Mileva an ally because she, like him, disapproved of the “philistines” or the people who did not like art, literature or music.
(iv) The above things tell us that Einstein was a very liberal person who liked freedom. He was a person who had his own view about life. 

• Einstein published his special theory of relativity.
• He is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Einstein writes a letter to U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and warns against Germany’s building of an atomic bomb. 
• Einstein attends a high school in Munich.
• Einstein’s family moved to Milan.
• Einstein was born in the German city of Ulm.
• Einstein joins a university in Zurich, where he meets Mileva.
• Einstein dies.
• He provides a new interpretation of gravity.
• Tired of the school’s regimentation, Einstein withdraws from school.
• He works in a patent office as a technical expert.
• When Hitler comes to power, Einstein left Germany for the United States.

Thinking About Language

2. Einstein was constantly in disagreement with people at the university. (on bad terms, in disagreement, unhappy)

3. The newspapers declared his work as “a scientific revolution.” (declared, praised, showed)
4. Einstein got ever more involved in politics, campaigning for an end to the arms build-up. (campaigning, fighting, supporting)
5. At the age of 15, Einstein felt so stifled that he left the school permanently. (permanently, for his benefit, for a short time)
6. Five years later, the discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin had American physicists in a state of commotion. (in a state of commotion, full of criticism, in a desperate state)
7. Science wasn’t the only thing that interested to the dashing young man with the walrus moustache. (interested, challenged, worried)

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II. Complete the sentences below by filling in the blanks with suitable participial clauses. The information that has to be used in the phrases is provided as a sentence in brackets.

1. __________, the firefighters finally put out the fire. (They worked round the clock)

2. She watched the sunset above the mountain, __________ (She noticed the colours blending softly into one another)

3. The excited horse pawed the ground rapidly, __________ (While it neighed continually)

4. __________, I found myself in Bangalore, instead of Benaras. (I had taken the wrong train)

5. __________, I was desperate to get to the bathroom. (I had not bathed for two days)

6. The stone steps, __________ needed to be replaced. (They were worn down)

7. The actor received hundreds of letters from his fans, __________ (They asked him to send them his photograph)

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Writing Newspaper Reports

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 University of the 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 theory — behaviour of atoms at low temperature — now known as the Bose-Einstein condensation — the manuscript to be kept at Leyden University where Einstein got the Nobel Prize.
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:

Student Unearths Einstein Manuscript

21 AUGUST 2005. An original handwritten Albert Einstein manuscript has been unearthed at a university in the Netherlands…

Ans:

Student Unearths Einstein Manuscript

21 AUGUST 2005. An original handwritten Albert Einstein manuscript has been unearthed at a university in the Netherlands.

It was unearthed by a student Rowdy Boeynik while researching papers when he came across some papers belonging to an old friend of Einstein.

The 16-page document dated 1924 contained fingerprints of Albert Einstein. It has Einstein’s work on this last theory i.e. the behaviour of atoms at low temperature which is now known as the Bose-Einstein condensation.

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