English (Compulsory) For Class IX - Unit 8 - People And Places - MCQs and Fill In The Blanks

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Gazi's Diary

MCQs and Fill In The Blanks
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Read the text and tick (✓) OR circle the correct answer:
1. The writer 'Ghazi' is living in:
(a) Hyderabad
(b) Karachi ✓
(c) Lahore
(d) Sukkur

2. The writer, Ghazi, is desperately missing his:
(a) wife
(b) childhood
(c) daughter
(d) village ✓

3. Village houses were made of:
(a) mud ✓
(b) leaves
(c) blocks
(d) cement

4. The villagers are very simple and:
(a) talkative
(b) fat
(c) carefree ✓
(d) tall

5. Village people did not need vehicles, they just walked and this exercise kept them:
(a) wealthy
(b) smart
(e) tired
(d) healthy ✓

6. In the village, the meeting place for men was:
(a) Otaq ✓
(b) village well
(c) fields
(d) school

7. In the village, the meeting place for women was:
(a) Otaq
(b) village well ✓
(c) fields
(d) school

8. Rivers have served as:
(a) traffic routes
(b) trade routes ✓
(c) travel routes
(d) transit routes

9. Most towns in ancient times were built near:
(a) seas
(b) canals
(c) rivers ✓
(d) lakes

10. There is a shortage of water in the rivers during the:
(a) summer season
(b) autumn season
(c) spring season
(d) winter season ✓

11. A barrage which blocks the flow of water is a kind of:
(a) wall ✓
(b) dam
(c) slope
(d) barrier

12. A barrage has gates through which water passes in a:
(a) plentiful quantity
(b) large quantity
(c) limited quantity ✓
(d) small quantity

13. The purpose of a dam is to control the flow of water in floods and:
(a) deposit
(b) collect
(c) store it ✓
(d) accumulate

14. The Guddu Barrage is built on the river:
(a) Jhelum
(b) Chenab
(c) Indus ✓
(d) Satlej

15. In length, the Guddu Barrage is:
(a) 1155 m
(b) 1255 m
(c) 1355 m ✓
(d) 1455 m

16. Through the Guddu Barrage, can pass a flood of:
(a) 1.2 cusecs ✓
(b) 2.2 cusecs
(c) 3.2 cusecs
(d) 4.2 cusecs

17. The Guddu Barrage has a system of:
(a) 3 main canals ✓
(b) 4 main canals
(c) 5 main canals
(d) 6 main canals

18. The barrage is meant to irrigate an area of:
(a) 1.7 million acres
(b) 2.7 million acres ✓
(c) 3.7 million acres
(d) 4.7 million acres

19. Most of the area irrigated by the Guddu Barrage lies in Sukkur and:
(a) Khairpur districts
(b) Mirpur districts
(c) Tharparkar districts
(d) Jacobabad districts ✓

20. The Guddu Barrage also irrigates some areas of:
(a) Kalat ✓
(b) Zhob
(c) Ziarat
(d) Punjab

21. The Guddu Barrage was put into operation on 4^th February:
(a) 1960
(b) 1961
(c) 1962 ✓
(d) 1963

22. Begari Sindh Feeder and Desert Pat Feeder are on the:
(a) right bank ✓
(b) left bank
(c) north bank
(d) south bank

23. Ghotki Feeder is on the:
(a) right bank
(b) left bank ✓
(c) north bank
(d) south bank

24. The engineers, technicians and labourers worked day and night to complete the Guddu Barrage were:
(a) 3,000
(b) 4,000
(c) 5,000 ✓
(d) 6,000

25. The villagers in Pakistan are very simple and ____.
(a) Honest
(b) Satisfied
(c) carefree ✓
(d) Hardworking

26. The houses in villages of Pakistan are:
(a) Lime - plastered
(b) Cemented
(c) Mud - plastered ✓
(d) Wooden

27. In villages, the meeting place of men in the evening or in their leisure hours is the:
(a) Field area
(b) Otaq ✓
(c) Baithak
(d) Well

28. Ghaghara and Tamboora are:
(a) Farming tools
(b) Musical instruments ✓
(c) Simple machines
(d) Industrial tools

29. ____ had always served as trade route:
(a) Trees
(b) Rivers ✓
(c) Highways
(d) Mountains

30. In ancient times, man was dependent on ____ for growing crops:
(a) Fertilizers
(b) Rains ✓
(c) Sunlight
(d) Tools

31. The system of canals had ___.
(a) Several problems
(b) No problem
(c) One defect ✓
(d) Two defects

32. The problems of the canal irrigation have been solved by constructing:
(a) Tanks
(b) Wells
(c) Barrages ✓
(d) Dams

33. A wall which helps in blocking the flow of water is called:
(a) Barrage ✓
(b) dam
(c) tank
(d) reservoir

34. The width of the River Indus where Guddu Barrage has been built is:
(a) 14 kilometers ✓
(b) 15 kilometers
(c) 13 kilometers
(d) 16 kilometers

35. The Guddu Barrage can hold the pressure of flood of about ____ million cusecs:
(a) 1.1
(b) 1.2 ✓
(c) 1.3
(d) 1.4

36. The road over the Guddu barrage was put into operation on:
(a) 4th February, 1962
(b) 14 February, 1952
(c) 4th February, 1950
(d) 4 February, 1972 ✓

37. The barrages have ____ the rivers:
(a) Controlled
(b) Tamed ✓
(c) Divided
(d) Dried

38. Most of the area irrigated by Guddu Barrage is in Sukkur and Jacobabad districts of Sindh and the rest is in the Kalat division of:
(a) Punjab
(b) Balochistan ✓
(c) Sindh
(d) KPK