Reach for the Top Question Answers: NCERT Class 9 English - Beehive

1. The holy man was surprised to know this because he had thought that Santosh’s mother wanted a son but the grandmother told him that they were not too much curious to have a son.

2. Santosh, from the very starting lived life as exactly she wanted. She was not restricted with the traditional way of life and was not ready to accept anything unreasonable. Where other girls wore traditional Indian dresses but she always preferred shorts.

3. Due to the prevailing custom in the family, Santosh was sent to the local village's school even though her parents could afford to send their children to the best schools.

4. When she turned sixteen and was under pressure to get married, she gave warning to her parents that she would never marry without getting proper education. Therefore, she left home and got herself enrolled in a school of Delhi.

5. When santosh’s parents refused to pay money for her education she politely inform them of her plansto earn money by her own by doing part time so that she could pay her school fees.Then finally her parents agreed to pay for her school fees in Delhi which shows that Santosh as a mentally strong girl and was very foccused to work hard towards getting herself properly educated before getting married like any other girl in the village.

1. Santosh saw the people from her room kasturba hostel was going up the aravalli hills and got vanished soon. On investigating, she found a few mountaineers, and asked if she could join them together. They showed the consent and agreed and even motivated her to climb up on hills. She later gave a company to them on their climbing adventure. This was, how she started climbing mountain.

2. During the everest mission, Santosh showed great concern towards the fellow climbers. Though she was not able to save the life of one of them, she somehow managed to save the life of another climber through artificial respiration technique.

3. Santosh was a passionate environmentalist. Her concern towards the environment was very evident from the fact that she made an effort to collect and bring down 500 k.g of garbage from the Himalayas.

4. Santosh asserted that her feeling at the summit of the everest was not descriable. unfurling the Indian flag on the top of the world was a spiritual moment for her and she felt proud as an Indian.

5. When santosh yadav first scaled Mt everest, she had became the youngest women in the world to achieve that feat, when she scaled everest for the second time, then became the only women in the history to have scaled it two times.

1. From her room in kasturba hostels, santosh used to watch the villagers going up on the hills and suddenly got disappeared after a while.

2. When the finished college santosh had to write a apology letter to her father because she had got herself enrolled at uttarkashi‘s Nehru institute of mountaineering without her father's permission.

3. During the everest expedition her seniors in the team admired her climbing skills, physical fitness and mental strength with climbing with her.

1. Took to be true without proof : Assumed
2. Based on reason; sensible; reasonable : Rational
3. The usual way of doing things : Custom

4. A strong desire arising from within : Urge
5. The power to endure, without falling ill :Resistance
 

1. Where other girls wore traditional Indian dresses , Santosh preferred to wear shorts.

2. She left home for her eduction and got herself enrolled in a school of Delhi.
3. She decided to fight with the system when the right moment arrived.
4. Little Maria had not yet celebrated her tenth birthday when she was packed off to train in the united states.

1. Grandfather told me about the old days when all books were printed on paper.
2. After finishing the book perhaps you just thrown it away.
3. He gave the little girl an apple and took the computer apart.
4. Having nothing makes you very determined.
5. I never thought of quitting as I knew what I wanted.