Unit3-4
STD: IXth
Marks: 100
English [Language-1]
Date :
Time: 3 Hrs
Section I
Reading Skills, Grammar and Vocabulary (Prose)
I A) Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: (10 marks)
A.1 Factual question: -(2 marks)
Q) Fill in the Blanks: -
Q) Fill in the Blanks: -
(i) Raza was born in a small village in……………………...
(ii) His paintings are………………………..
(iii) For him the effective medium of ……………………….. is his work-his paintings.
(iv)He began to paint from the age of ………………………..
A.2) Comprehension questions:-(2 marks)
(i) Name three Padma awards Raza was honoured with?
(ii) Where did Raza study art?
A.3 Vocabulary Questions:- (2 marks)
Q) Give the adjective form of:
(i) Mystery (ii) annually
Q) Find a compound word from the passage:
A.4 Grammar: (2 marks)
(i) Raza was born in a small village in Madhya Pradesh. (Rewrite using ‘which’)
(ii) His paintings are very expensive. (Change into Present perfect tense)
A.5 Personal Questions:(2 marks)
(i) Raza won many awards. Do you think winning prizes and awards is important in one’s life? Explain?
I B) Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: (10 marks)
(i) We both sat down and looked at one another. I found ………………………………. to speak.
(ii) He had gathered from my mysterious manner that I was a ………………………………….
(iii)He concluded now that I was a son of ………………………………….or a young ………………………………….
(iv) I propose to deposit …………………………………. Now, and fifty dollars a month regularly.
A2. Comprehension question: (2 marks)
(i) What did the manager presume?
(ii) What was the error the author made in the cheque?
A.3 Vocabulary Questions (2 marks)
Q. Use prefixes to give the opposite for:-
(i) announced (ii) locked
A.4) Grammar: (2 marks)
(i) “We are safe from interruption here, he said”. (Change into indirect speech)
(ii)I knew what he was thinking and it made me worse. (Identify the tense)
A.5 Personal Response Question: (2 marks)
(i) Give as many examples as you can to show that Leacock was feeling completely lost in the bank all the time he was there?
II A) Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: (10 marks)
A1. State True or False (2 marks)
(i) The clerk was not willing to pay the entire money deposited, to the narrator.
(ii) After fifty-six dollars, the writer wished to deposit more money into the bank.
A2. Comprehension Question (2 marks)
(i) Why was the clerk surprised?
(ii) How did Stephen, want to have his money paid back?
A3. Vocabulary Questions: (2 marks)
(i) Write one compound word from the passage.
(ii) Give the homophone of : ‘cent’
A4. Grammar (2 marks)
(i) He gave me a fifty-dollar bill. (Change the voice)
(ii) Since then I bank no more. (Identify the word class of the underlined word)
A5. Personal response question (2 marks)
Q. Is the author’s last decision wise?
II B) Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: (10 marks)
A.1 Factual question: (2 marks)
Q) State the following statements are true or false. If false correct it: -
(i)Bertha was spotted by the wolf due to her spotless white pinafore.
(ii) The wolf dragged Bertha out and devoured her to the last morsel.
A.2) Comprehension questions: - (2 marks)
(i) Why was the wolf unable to trace Bertha?
(ii) What gave Bertha away and how did she meet her end?
A.3) Vocabulary Questions:- (2 marks)
Q) Give the verb form of:
(i) difference (ii) practice
Q) Add prefixes to make antonyms :
(i) Exceptional (ii) demanding
A.4 Grammar: (2 marks)
(i) The wolf came after her with huge leaps and bounds. (Rewrite using ‘not only ….but also)
(ii) If I had not been so extraordinarily good I should have been safe in the town at this moment. (Remove ‘if’)
A.5 Personal Questions: (2 marks)
(i)Why did Bertha wish she had never come to the park?
Section II
POTERY
III A) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below: (5 marks)
A.1 Factual question: (1 mark)
Q) Choose the correct alternative:-
(i) This way and that she ……………………………
(ii) Crouched in his kneel……………………………
A.2) Interpretative questions:- (2 marks)
Q) What does the silver shoon mean?
A.3) Poetic Device:- (2 marks)
Q1) Pick out an example of Personification from the above extract.
Q2) Give one word from the passage
(i) Roof made of grass or leaves.
A.1) Interpretative questions:- (3 marks)
Q) Why does the poet feel sorry?
Q) Describe the two road the poet find?
A.2) Poetic Device:- (2 marks)
Q1) What is the rhyming scheme of the poem?
Q2) Give rhyming pairs?
III C) - Read the following extract and answers the questions given below: (5 marks)
A.1) Interpretative questions:- (3 marks)
Q) What is it that god doesn’t give?
Q) What makes sense when it’s understood?
A.2) Poetic Device:- (2 marks)
Q1) What is the rhyming scheme of the poem?
Q2) Write words from the passage with the same meaning
(i)comprehend (ii) senseless
Section IV
Writing Skill
Q) Write an informal letter to your parent expressing a few thoughts from any of the three above poem. (5 mark)
Q) Write a story beginning with “ the night when the moon shone …. (10 mark)
Q) Expansion of idea: (i) Failures are the stepping stones to success. (10 mark)
(ii) We are a part of environment, not apart from Environment
Q) Write a counter view for the topic :’ Science and technological developments are leading the world towards destruction’. You may consider the following points for the view section of the topic and then write counter view (10mark)
· Arms Race
· Nuclear power used for destructive purposes
· War, poverty, economic imperialism
· Health care and increased population.
Q) Write an essay of 200 – 250 words on your dream to be ….. (10 mark)
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