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ENGLISH

(Communicative)

Class – IX

MAX.MARKS: 80 TIME: 3 HOURS

This paper consists of four sections.

Section A – Reading 15 marks

Section B – Writing 25 marks

Section C – Grammar 15 marks

Section D – Literature 25 marks

Instructions:

1. Attempt all questions.

2. Do not write anything in the question paper.

3. All the answers must be correctly numbered as in the question paper and written in the answer sheet provided to you.

4. Attempt all questions in each section before going on to the next section.

5. Read each question carefully and follow the instructions.

6. Strictly adhere to the word limit given with each question. Marks will be deducted for exceeding the word limit.

SECTION A – READING

Read the following poem :

The Coromandel Fishers

Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,

The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.

Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,

To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!

No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull’s call,

The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.

What though we toss at the fail of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives%

He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.

Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,

And sweet are the sands at the full o’ the moon with the sound of the voices we love;

But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam’s glee;

Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.

—Sarojini Naidu

1. On the basis of your understanding of the poem above, complete the following sentences. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers.

(a) The poet refers to fishermen through different words. Two of them are (2)

(i) ………………… (ii) ……………….

(b) The leaping wealth of the tide is (i) …………….. which the fishermen catch with their (ii) ……………… (1)

(d) Pick out and write the word(s) from the poem that refers to: (3)

(i) The coming of the morning ………..

(ii) The wind is not wild ……………….

(iii) The sea waves are the fishermen’s friends …………….

2. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

1. Summer vacation offers families dilemmas and opportunities. For too many kids it becomes a period of intellectual passivity and stalled personal growth. For others—and their parents—.it’s a time of overload and frantic scheduling.

2. “Summer is a great time for parents to build relationship with their children,”

says a renowned child psychologist. And it’s an opportunity both for the kids to learn and for the family to grow together. To make this a reality, educators and psychologists point to several simple strategies that parents can start planning before summer gets under way.

3. “Summer’s a perfect time for kids to take skills they’ve learnt in a class-room and use them in new ways,” notes a well known educator. Comparing prices in a grocery shop can sharpen children’s mental maths skills. Taking measurements to build a new tree house or design a simple plaything teaches geometry. Car trips provide opportunities to study maps and learn geography. Some libraries offer free summer reading programmes for children.

4. Sometimes kids will need a small push in the right direction. Victoria encouraged her seven- year-old son, Philip, to take part in their local library’s summer reading club. For every book report a child wrote, he received a raffle ticket. At the end of the summer, sports prizes were raffled off. Philip, who’d painstakingly produced seven book reports, won an autographed picture of a hockey star and had his name and one of his reports printed in the local newspaper. (If that’s not possible, encourage children to write letters to editors on current affairs, or about school-related issues.) “Philip moaned and groaned about writing the reports, but in the end, he was happy he put the effort in,” notes his mother. “And his ability to express himself really improved.”

5. It’s the daily doses of stimulation—intellectual, creative, esteem-building——that parents can give their children that have the greatest impact, ”says an eminent researcher. In an informal study conducted in 1998 other researches surveyed successful college students about how they spent their free time from ages five to 12, then compared their activities with those of troubled youngsters. They found that the successful ones were more likely to play spontaneous games, more involved in household chores and more likely to engage in playful activities with their parents. Troubled youngsters spent far less time on chores or family games and more time on their own, planted in front of the TV or a video game.

6. Often, when parents are drawing up their summer plans, their focus is on entertaining and enriching their children. But experts agree that a summer built completely around a child’s self- fulfilment won’t help a youngster mature into a high thinking, caring member of his family or community. Truly successful kids, say educators, are those who’ve learnt to budget time to help others—whether it’s helping an invalid neighbour or preparing their own family’s meals a couple of nights a week. Where parents fail, say experts, is in the way such responsibilities are presented. Too often, they’re trotted out as punishments instead of challenges. To make matters worse, parents often nag the child about the task, rather than simply setting a completion deadline and allowing the youngster to decide when and how he will meet it.

7. For most parents of school-age kids, the largest block of time they’ll have with their children is in the summer. With a little advance preparation, parents can use the summer to help develop their youngsters into smarter, more creative, more caring human beings.

2.1 On the basis of your reading of the passage above complete the following sentences. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers.

(a) Parents can give the kids a special summer vacation by (1)

(i)................. (ii) ………….

(b) Mention the new ways in which children can use the skills learnt in class (1)

(i) …………. (ii) ………….

(c) The advantages Philip had on writing the book reports were (1)

(i) ………… (ii) ………….

(d) Truly successful kids are those who …………. (1)

(e) Why should a summer vacation not be built completely around a child’s fulfilment? (1)

(f) Parents who prepare for the summer vacation in advance can ensure that their children ………….. . (1)

A2.2 Find words / phrases from the passage which mean the same as the following from the paragraphs indicated. (3) (a) done quickly, not organized (para 1)

(b) plans (para 2)

(c) concentrate (para 3)

SECTION B - WRITING

3. You are Akash. During your holidays you went to Lucknow to visit your cousin. You took part in a hiking expedition, to Nainital, with your cousin and his friends. Write a post-card to your friend Gaurav, B-21, Pandav Nagar, Delhi, about your expedition, in not more than 50 words. Copy the format of the post-card from the question paper in your answer sheet. (5) 

|  | __________________ |

| | __________________ |

| | __________________ |

| | Pin ________________ |

4. Shivani sees the following advertisement in the newspaper. Her cousin is very keen to do his M.B.A to be a career professional. So Shivani sends a note giving him all details of the crash course. Write the note in not more than 40 words. (5)

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5. You saw a poster which shows some of the harmful effects of viewing TV. Using the ideas from the poster, together with your own ideas, write a short speech on ‘Effects of TV viewing on studies’, to be given at the morning assembly in your school. (7)

6. Nitin of 8, Napier Town, Jabalpur is not happy with the sanitary conditions of his locality. He decides to write a letter to the Local Sanitary Inspector of the town to look into the sorry state of affairs. Using the following notes, write the letter in about 150-200 words. (8)

SECTION C - GRAMMAR

7. In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it in your answer sheet against the correct blank number. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined. (4)

|The neem tree is native to India and is found all over / country. It is a |e.g. over the country |

|highly medicinal plant leaves, flowers, bark |(a) |

|and oil been widely used as home remedies |(b) |

|right ancient times. The |(c) |

|neem twig makes excellent tooth-brush. |(d) |

|It is also full of Chlorophyll and its twigs very |(e) |

|effective in cleaning the mouth. Neem strong |(f) |

|antibiotic properties. A paste neem leaves |(g) |

|is used the treatment chicken pox. |(h) |

8. Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with one word only. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. (4)

One hot day in December, I (a) ........ been standing perfectly still for a few minutes (b) ...... the dry weeds, (c) ........ a slight rustling sound (d) .... ..from near my feet, and glancing down, I saw the head (e) ........neck of a large serpent (f) .....slowly past me. In a moment or two, the flat head was lost (g) .......sight among the weeds, (h) ......the long body continued moving slowly by.

9. Look at the words and phrases below. Rearrange them to form meaningful sentences. (3)

a. Sports / building/ physical strength / necessary / are / for

b. They/ sportsmanship/ cooperation/ include/ and

c. Sports / bring/ definitely/ closer to /man / man

10. Complete the following newspaper headlines suitably (2)

a. 11 kids killed in Fire

A fire gutted a student hostel in Borneo early this moring, ______________________________AP reports.

b. Three Americans awarded Nobel Prize in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today ________________________________ in Physics for their work in low-temperature physics.

11. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Underline each error and write your answer against the correct blank number on your answer sheet. (2)

|After we have traveled for about twenty five |we had traveled |

|miles, there was then no sign of the town which |(a) |

|was mark on the map. We were beginning to |(b) |

|get worried. Then, without warning, a car |(c) |

|stopped. A quick examination show that |(d) |

|we had run out of petrol. | |

Section D

(LITERATURE)

12. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow in one or two lines: (1+1+2=4)

Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel

Seeking the bubble reputation,

Even in the cannon’s mouth

a. Which stage of a man’s life is being described here?

b. Give two characteristics of this stage of life

c. What is bubble reputation? how is it linked with cannon’s mouth?

13. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow in one or two lines: (1+1+1+1=4)

No nightingale did ever chant

More welcome notes to weary bands

Of travelers in some shady haunt

Among Arabian sands.

a. Whose song is being compared to the song of the nightingale?

b. Where and what for do the nightingale sing?

c. What does the phrase ‘shady haunt’ imply?

d. Identify the rhyme scheme of the stanza.

14. Why does Lord Ullin’s daughter defy her father and elope with her lover? Does she succeed in her mission? How/How not? (4)

15. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow in one or two lines: (1+1+2=4)

‘She sent little Jean to Monseigneur to ask for help, and –’

a. Who sent little Jean to Bishop?

b. What did she want from him?

c. How did the Bishop arrange to fulfil her needs?

16. What was Ramanujam’s main cause of worry? How did Thanappa help him? (3)

17. The pendulum is a rod with a weight at the end that moves from side to side to control the mechanism of a clock. John.L.Perkins, the protagonist in the story ‘The Pendulum’ has been compared to a pendulum. Do you find the description apt? Give reasons in support of your answer. (6)

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NOTES

No sweepers, heaps of garbage, drainages blocked, people careless, no use of dustbins, water logging, breeding of mosquitoes, suggested supply of big polythene litter bags, regular visits of authorities, meetings of the residents

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