ANNUAL EXAMINATION
Class: IX Marks:
100
Subject: English Time: 3 hrs
PART - I
Choose
the appropriate synonyms for the underlined words. 14x1=14
1. Sir, would spot me
in the melee and virtually drag me out.
a) confusion b) singularity c) capability d) crowd
2. She was tired of pruning
rose bushes.
a) climbing b) jumping c) trimming d) turning
3. Hark,
What’s that?
a) violent b) listen c) blunt d) burst
Choose
the appropriate antonyms for the underlined words.
4. The schedule was rigorous.
a) careless b) harsh c) right d) correct
5. In her outstretched
hand a rusty old medal…..
a) fold b) tight c) close d) unfold
6. Jim, I am scared.
a) happy b) courageous c) afraid d) pensive
7. Choose a suitable
prefix to the word ‘___happy’.
a) sub b) re c) un d) en
8. Choose a suitable
suffix to the word ‘weak__’.
a) ist b) able c) ness d) ity
9.
Choose the correct plural from of loaf.
a) lovaes b) loavas c) loaves d) loafes
10.
Fill in the blank with suitable homophone given in bracket.
The
house is nearby the ____. (see, sea)
11. Choose the
correct compound word that can be placed after the word “boarding”.
a) pause b) pass c) parts d) fast
12.
Fill in the blank with suitable preposition.
We
have been living in Chennai _____ eight years.
a) at b) for c) since d) from
13. Complete the
following sentence with the most suitable phrasal verb.
Many
students _______ of the schools due to poverty.
a) drop in b) drop away c) drop out d) drop on
14. Fill in the
blank with suitable linker.
____
he is ninety years old, he is in the pink of health.
a) When b) Since c) Even though d) yet
PART – II
Section - 1 (prose)
Answer
any three of the following questions in a sentence or two. 3x2= 6
15. What was coach
Achrekar’s first impression on Sachin?
16. What did the
visitor hide in the jackfruit tree?
17. Which character
fascinated young Indira?
18. How does Red
Cross help the children?
Section – II (Poetry)
Answer
any three of the following questions.
Read
the following lines and answer the questions given below. 3x2=6
19. “He will not
see me stopping here
To
watch his woods fill up with snow”
a)
Whom does ‘he’ refer to?
b)
Identify the season in these lines.
20. “The outer ice
is melting
Causing
vapour from the force”
a)
What is melting?
b)
Which causes vapour?
21. “And I watered
it in fears
Night
and morning with my tears”
a)
What does ‘It’ refer to?
b)
How is ‘it’ watered?
22. “And out of
its leprous hide
Sprouting
leaves”.
a)
What does the phrase ‘leprous hide’ mean?
b)
What comes out of the leprous hide?
Section – III (Grammar)
Answer
any three of the following questions. 3x2=6
23. Rewrite the
following sentence to the other voice.
You
are making a cake now.
24. Rewrite using
indirect speech.
The
teacher said, “The sun rises in the east”.
25. Rewrite the
following in comparative degree.
Very
few girls in the class are as tall as Ramya.
26. Rearrange the
words in the correct order to make a meaningful sentence.
a.is
/ the house/ we/ lived/ have/ this.
b.
tennis ball / I/my/ friends/colony/cricket/ played/ with
27. Punctuate the
following sentence.
the old man said alas Ive lost my health
Section
– IV (Compulsory)
1x2=2
28.
Guide the stranger to the nearby temple.
Part III
Section – I 10x5=50
Answer
any two of the following in utmost 10 lines. 2x5=10
29. ‘Achrekar was a
sincere coach’. Substantiate.
30. What did Ruskin
Bond observe about the house?
31. How did Amy
manage the situation at home?
32. Narrate the
clever strategy followed by Clem Jones to deceive Pongo?
Section – II
Answer
any two of the following in utmost 10 lines. 2x5=10
33. Summarize the
poem, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ by Frost.
34. Narrate how the
poet describes the comet?
35. Read the
following stanza and answer the questions given below.
I
was angry with my friend;
I
told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I
was angry with my foe:
I
told it not, my wrath did grow.
a) Pick out the
rhyming words.
b) What is the
rhyming scheme of the above stanza?
c) Identify the
figures of speech in the title of the poem?
d) Mention the figure
of speech used in the above lines.
36.
Paraphrase the following stanza.
“It
takes much time to kill a tree,
Not
a simple jab of the knife
Will
do it. It has grown
Slowly
consuming the earth,
Rising
out of it, feeding”
Section III
Answer
any one of the following. 1
x 5 = 5
37.
Rearrange the following sentences in coherent order.
1. They broke up the
mortar and burnt it.
2. There dwelt a
covetous and stingy old man and woman in the neighbouring house.
3. They collected all
the ashes that remained and put them in a basket.
4. There lived an
honest man with his wife, who had a favourite dog through which he got a
treasure.
5. The wicked old
couple seized the dog, and they killed him.
38. Read the
following passage and answer the question that follow.
It was a miracle. She
had been buried under the debris for a hundred and sixteen hours. She had
survived the earthquake, the cold nights and the wild animals. A ragged cheer
went up and the soldier wrapped her in a warm blanket and carried her to the
tent where a make shift hospital had been set up. Bhuli lived. The next day I
went to thank the Army officer. But he was gone. I did not even know his name.
Questions:
a) Who had been
buried under the debris?
b) How long was she
under the debris?
c) Was she saved by
the Army officer?
d) Where did he go to
thank?
e) What caused her to
face suffering?
Section – IV (Writing)
Answer
any four of the following 4x5=20
39. Prepare an attractive advertisement using the hints given
below.
Baby – electronics – technology – leading – trend – super sale – on all
electronics – discount – 70% - 85, Suman Nagar, Mumbai-6.
40. You are the school
pupil leader. Write a letter to the Inspector of Police requesting him to give
awareness to your school children about drugs.
41. You are Madhan.
Prepare a notice about the ECO Club meeting in your school.
42. Look at the
following picture and express your views on it in above five sentences.
43.
Make notes or write a summary of the following passage.
Trees not only supply
us with many of the conveniences of our daily life, they do much more than
that. They support the life of living things. They help to replace the oxygen
in the air constantly being used up and turned into carbon dioxide when animals
breathe and things burn. The green leaves of trees absorb the carbon-dioxide
from the air and with the help of sunlight break it up into carbon and oxygen.
The carbon is used to make starch and oxygen is released
into the atmosphere.
That is how trees help to replace the oxygen in the atmosphere. The green cells
of leaves are wonderful little laboratories, where all the starch in the world
is produced. Since starch forms an important part of the food of men and
animals, their life depends on the work done by the green cells of plants.
Thus, trees are great friends of man.
44.
Identify and correct the errors in the following sentences.
a) He is the good
batsman in our team.
b) I deeply regret
for my mistakes.
c) The culprit killed
his partner by knife.
d) We rarely go to
the park, don’t we?
e) He works hardly.
Section – V (memoriter) Compulsory
45. Quote from
memory 1 x 5 = 5
From: Whose woods ………..
To: ………………queer
Part – IV (Supplementary)
46. Write a
paragraph of about 150 words by developing the following hints. 1x8=8
a) Tommy and Margie
–found – schools of past – a real book – yellow and crinkly – at present, words
on a television screen –millions of books – but old book – attic of his house –
tells of old schools – Margie hated – problems with geography –The mechanical
teacher –screen – slot to insert her homework –in her house – Mechanical
teacher stood – thinking about the old school.
Or
b) Molthi – the
village – destroyed by the earthquake – four days for the army to arrive –
Soldiers reached – 4 days – made a makeshift camp –took the corpse –Brij –
could not find his sister –searched – three soldiers with spades and crowbars –
brought petromax lights – darkness – cleared the debris – spotted the baby –
alive after 116 hours –officer
left –repay his debt
– free tea – symbol of love and humanity
Part - V (General Comprehension)
47.
Read the following paragraph and answer the questions given below. 4x2=8
Some insects are
harmful to human beings. The poison of the black widow spider causes unbearable
pain. It stiffens the muscles of the abdomen and causes death to some of the
victims. Some kinds of mosquitoes carry germs that cause diseases such as
malaria, yellow fever and sleeping sickness. The mosquitoes pick up the germs
and pass them on to the people they bite. Flies play a part in spreading such
diseases as cholera, dysentery and typhoid fever. All insects which carry germs
and spread diseases live and breed only in dirty places. So, we can prevent
such diseases if we keep our houses free of dirt.
Questions:
a) How harmful is the
bite of the black widow spider?
b) What are the
diseases caused by mosquitoes?
c) How do mosquitoes
play a part in spreading diseases?
d) Why are flies
harmful to us?
Or
Read
the following poem and answer the questions given below.
A
bird, came down the Walk –
He
did not know I saw
He
bit an Angle Worm in halves
And
ate the fellow, raw,
And
then, he drank a Dew
From
a convenient Grass –
And
then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To
let a Beetle pass – He glanced with rapid eyes,
That
looked like frightened Beads, I thought,
He
stirred his Velvet Head.
Questions:
a. What did the poet
see?
b. Did the bird drink
water? How?
c. How did the bird
eat the worm?
d. What are the eyes
compared to?
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