The Guddu Barrage

Question and Answers

Q.1 How have rivers served men?
Ans. Rivers have served men in the following ways:
They have served as trade route before the road and railways were constructed people carried on trade by boats and ships.
Since rivers have water in abundance man through digging cannals to obtain water from river for irrigation.

Q.2 What is a barrage? What purpose does it serve?
Ans. A barrage is a kind of a well which blocks the flow of water. It has gates, through which the water is allowed to pass in a limited quantity.
Its aim is to control the flow of water in the flood seasons and store it in such a manner that the canal get water through out the year. In this way, farmers can be given water for their fields. Life and property canals can be protected from flood by stopping the flow of water.

Q.3 Why were most of the town in ancient times build near rivers?
Ans. Most of the towns were built near river because river played very important role in the life of man. They have served as trade routes from the earliest time, trade was earned by boats and ships along rivers.

Q.4 What are the benefits of Guddu Barrage?
Ans. The Guddu Barrage is built on the river Indus. We get benefit from the Guddu Barrage in the following ways:
1. It control the flow of water in the flood season and in this way life and property can be protected from floods.
2. It stores water in such a way that the canal can get water through out the year and the farmers can give water to their fields according to their needs.
3. The seven meter wide road over the barrage has reduced the road distance between Lahore and Quetta and between Rahimyar Khan and Kashmore.

Q.5 Name the main canals built on the Guddu Barrage?
Ans. Guddu Barrage has a system of three main canals. Two on the right bank and one on the left.
1. Begar Sindh Feeder.
2. The Desert Part Feeder on the right bank of Guddu Barrage.
3. The Ghotki Feeder of the left Bank

Q.6 What areas of Sindh are irrigated by Guddu Barrage?
Ans. Guddu Barrage irrigated 2.7 million acres. Most of the acres ies in Sukkur and Jacababad District Sindh.

Q.7 What are the two problems posed by rivers?
Ans. River posed problems such as:
1. How to get the water from the river through out the year.
2. How to escape the fairy of floods.

The Secret of Success

Question and Answers

Q.1 What is the moral of the lesson “The Secret of Success”?
Ans. The moral of the lesson “The Secret of Success” is the most important time for doing any thing is the present. The most important work is what we are doing. The most important person is the one whom we with at the moment.

Q.2 What were the question that the King wished to be answered? What did he do to find the answers to these questions?
Ans. The King wanted the answers to the following questions:
What is the most important time to start some work?
What is the most important work to do?
Who is the most important person?
To find out the answers to these questions he did the following:
He ask his minister to announce that whoever answer these questions would get a reward of 5000 gold coins.
He called the wise and learned men of his country to his court, to discuss these questions.
The King dressed as a poor man, went to the jungle to seek the advice of wise saint who live their.

Q.3 Why were the wise and learnt men not able to satisfy the King?
Ans. The wise and the learn’t men were unable to satisfy the King because they could not see eye to eye with each other and each answer was disapproved by the king.

Q.4 Where did the saint live and why did the King wish to see him?
Ans. The saint lived in the Jungle. The King was not satisfied with the answer given to him by his advisers, so he decided to seek the advice of this famous saint.

Q.5 Why could the King not approach the saint directly? What did he do to over come this difficulty?
Ans. The King could not approach the saint directly because the saint did not like the rich people and to over come this difficult he dressed himself in rags and set out to see the saint.

Q.6 Why did the bearded man become a faithful servant of the King?
Ans. When the bearded man was seriously wounded by the King’s men, the king looked after him. He bandaged his wound and stop the bleeding for this act of kindness the bearded man forgot his desire for revenge and became the King’s servant.

Abou Ben Adhem

Central Idea

This poem Abou Ben Adhem is written by an English poet James Henry Leigh Hunt. The central idea of this poem is that God love those who loves their fellow men. Love of fellow men is the best type of worship. Abou Ben Adhem’s name was top of the list of those, who love their fellowmen.

Question and Answers

Q.1 Where was Abou Ben Adhem? And what was he doing?
Ans. Abou Ben Adhem was sleeping in his bedroom.

Q.2 What did he see in his room? What was the angel doing?
Ans. Abou Ben Adhem room was not lit but in the bright light of the moon and within his room he saw an angel writing in the book of gold.

Q.3 What did Abou asked the angel?
Ans. Abou asked the angel what was he writing in the book of Gold.

Q.4 What did he ask the angel the second time?
Ans. Abou Ben Adhem asked the angel time if his name was listed in the list of those who love God.

A Letter About the Village Life in Pakistan

Question and Answers

Q.1 What are the two important person in the village?
Ans. The two important person in the village are:
The Primary school teacher who also acts as the post master of the village and the Imam of the mosque who gives moral and religious guidance to the villagers and he also gives treatment of minor ailments.

Q.2 What are the attraction of village life?
Ans. Village life has its own charms, life here is quite and one is free from the noise and bustle of the city.
The air is fresh and pure and one is surrounded by all kind of natural beauty.

Q.3 Briefly describe the following:
Ans.

 A Village Otaq
The meeting place for men in a village is called “Otaq”. The villagers meet their in the evening or in their leisure hour, talk about the weather, the crops and village affairs and they enjoy the fok song sung to the tune of the Ghaghar and the Tambooro.
A Village Well
The Village Well is a meeting place for women. Here they gather to collect water, wash cloths and wash utensils. The women folk talk about their domestic affairs. This place also helps to create social understanding.
Imam of the Mosque
The imam of the mosque has great influence on the villagers. They look up to him for religious guidance and treatment for minor ailments. He also run a Maktab where he teaches a Holy Quran to the children. He teaches them to become pious, good and responsible citizen.
The Life of Villagers
The villagers are very simple and straight forward people. They lead a happy, contented life. They generally awake at down. Men go to say their prayers in the mosque, while women stay at home. The villagers work in the field from dawn to dusk, reaping the crop under the scorching heat of the sun.

Responsibilities of a Good Citizen

Question and Answers

Q.1 Where did men live in early days?
Ans. In the earlier days men lived in caves like animals. Their lives were difficult and each of them lived by himself and for himself.

Q.2 Why did they begin to live together?
Ans. They began to live together in order to had a safer and better life.

Q.3 What happened when society grew larger?
Ans. In the early societies their were only farmers, weavers, cobblers, masons and soldiers. As society grew larger and as men became more civilized many professions and occupation develop. Hence, today we have doctors, teachers, engineers, artist, writers, policemen and a host of other owrkers who all do something for their fellow-men.

Q.4 What should a trader do?
Ans. A trader should not sell substandard goods and should work honestly and fairly.

Q.5 What should a milkmen do?
Ans. A milkmen should not mix water in the milk.

Q.6 If someone is dishonest, what does he teach others?
Ans. If someone is dishonest, he teaches others to be dishonest too.

Q.7 How does a bad citizen deserved to be treated?
Ans.A bad citizen should be punished, he should be treated in the same way in which he treats others.

Q.8 What is our duty to our country?
Ans. Our duty to our country is to under stand the problem faced by our country. We must cooperate with our Government in solving these problems. It is our duty to be loyal and patriotic to Pakistan and follow its laws, to pay the taxes honestly and promptly.

Q.9 How important are our neighbour to us according to the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H)?
Ans. According to Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) our neighbours are as important as our brothers.

Q.10 What must we do to be good Muslim?
Ans. We must be good, honest and dutiful citizen in order to be a good Muslim.

Q.11 What are the problems that Pakistan are facing? What has our government done to solve these problems?
Ans. problems facing Pakistan are poverty and illiteracy.
The government of Pakistan have started many programs to solve these problem. These are program for rural development, illiteracy and adult education, health, sanitation and social welfare and population planning. Education centre, family and social welfare and population planning centres have been setup throughout the country.

The Miller and the Dee

Question and Answers

Q.1 Who are the speakers in this poem?
Ans. the Miller and the King Hal are the two speakers in this poem.

Q.2 Who is a miller?
Ans. A miller is a man who grinds corn at the mill.

Q.3 What was he singing about?
Ans. The theme of his song was that he lived a happy, simple and carefree life. He was not anxious of other and was sure that no body envied him.

Q.4 Why did the king say that he was wrong?
Ans. The miller thought that no body envied him but he was wrong because King Hal envied his simple, happy and carefree life and wanted to change place with him.

Q.5 Who is the happier of the two, the miller or the King and why?
Ans. The miller is the happier man, because he has no worries whereas the king has all the worries and problems of the world.

Q.6 What did the King say to the miller in the last stanza of the poem?
Ans. King Hall told the miller to continue living his happy and care free life and not to belief that no body envied him. The millers cap and his cap and his mill ever as previous as the king’s crown and kingdom and it was such a simple, hard working man as the miler who formed the back bone of the country.

Q.7 Where did the miller of the Dee live? How did he spend his day?
Ans. the Miller of the Dee lived beside the river December. He spent his day working at his mill grinding corn.

Q.8 Why did King envy the miller?
Ans. The miller was poor, but happy as a lark. He worked at a mill, he had no worries or troubles and was a care free man. King Hal envied him because though he was a Monark, he was said as, he was responsible for all the problems and difficulties of his people. He could never being care free and happy as the miller.

Q.9 What is the secret of miller’s happiness?
Ans. The miller was a very happy man. The secret of his happiness was that, he was contented with work at the mill.
He loved every one his wife, his children and his friends. Above all, he never borrowed any money which he couldn’t pay back. He was thankful for what he earned at his work.

Nursing

Question and Answers

Q.1 What did the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) do for sick?
Ans. The Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) visited the sick regularly. He even inquired after his ailing enemies.

Q.2 Where did he establish a hospital and who was made incharge of the Hospital?
Ans. He established a hospital in Madina and made a very competent nurse Hazrat Rufaida its incharge.

Q.3 Who was Florence Nightingale?
Ans. Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing and one of the greatest women in history.
She was born in the town of Florence in Italy in 1820. She belonged to a wealthy and cultured English family. Her aim in life was to serve suffering humanity.

Q.4 What was her aim in life?
Ans. Her aim in life was to serve suffering humanity and therefore inspite of being wealthy and being opposed by her family, she took up nursing.

Q.5 What did she do with the money offered to her by the British Government?
Ans. With the money offered to her by the British Government, Florence Nightingale founded an institution for training nurses in London.

Q.6 Why was Florence Nightingale offered a sum of 45,000 by the British Government?
Ans. In 1854, a war broke out between England and Russia. The British Government asked Florence Nightingale to go to ugliness to manage military hospital there.
She played a great role in the Ginean War. The British Government in appreciation of a service done in the Ginean War, awarded her 45,000.

Q.7 What does the word “NURSING” mean?
Ans. Nursing means taking care and looking after sick, the injured, the young, the old or the helpless with love and sympathy.

Q.8 Who was Hazrat Ghifaria? Why did the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) present her with a necklace?
Ans. Hazrat Ghifaria was a very good nurse. She accompanied the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) in the Battle of Khyber. She was very active on the battle field. Shed looked after the wounded and sick soldier. When the battle was won, the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) presented her with a necklace for the wonderful work she did.