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AP /NCERT Board-Based Reading Comprehension  Grade 9 Beehive  Poem 2 Wind Reading Comprehension 1 Wind, come softly. Don’t break the shutters of the windows. Don’t scatter the papers. Don’t throw down the books on the shelf. There, look what you did — you threw them all down. You tore the pages of the books. You brought rain again. 1. What is the main request in the poem's first two lines?     a) To bring a gentle breeze     b) To open the shutters of the windows     c) To scatter the papers     d) To throw down the books on the shelf 2. How did the wind affect the pages of the books?     a) It folded them.     b) It marked them with rain.     c) It tore them.     c) It threw them out of the window. 3. What other weather phenomenon occurred because of the wind?     a) Sunshine      b)Thunderstorm     c) Hailstorm ...

  AP/ NCERT Board-Based Reading Comprehension Passages Grade 9 Beehive  Chapter 2 The Sound of Music -2 The Shehnai of Bismillah Khan Reading Comprehension 1 EMPEROR Aurangzeb banned the playing of a musical instrument called pungi in the royal residence for it had a shrill unpleasant sound. Pungi became the generic name for reeded noisemakers. Few had thought that it would one day be revived. A barber of a family of professional musicians, who had access to the royal palace, decided to improve the tonal quality of the pungi. He chose a pipe with a natural hollow stem that was longer and broader than the pungi, and made seven holes on the body of the pipe. When he played on it, closing and opening some of these holes, soft and melodious sounds were produced. He played the instrument before royalty and everyone was impressed. The instrument so different from the pungi had to be given a new name. As the story goes, since it was first played in the Shah’s chambers and was played ...