CBSE Sample Papers for Class 9 English Set 1
SECTION-A
READING
Question 1:
Read the passage given below and answer the questions/complete the statements that follow:
Chocolate diamonds are actually brown diamonds and compared to the well- known white diamond they aren’t much worth. Diamonds are produced in mines. The best known diamond mines are in Australia, South Africa and Russia. The largest diamond mine was discovered in 1976 in the desert of Australia near a little creek named Lake Argyle. Diamonds are created under very extreme conditions of pressure and high temperature. It is a general misunderstanding that there exist only white colourless diamonds. Actually, diamonds exist in many different colours.
Of all the diamond mines in the world, almost 80% of all diamonds produced are brownish in colour. Because they were found in such large quantities compared to the other coloured diamonds, they were considered as low-valued diamonds, only good for the industrial sector. But, a famous man called Le Vian came with a marketing campaign to increase the popularity of the chocolate diamond. Instead of calling it a brown diamond, he gave it popular names like caramel, chocolate, cinnamon and cognac. Since his marketing campaign, chocolate diamonds are becoming very popular.
The value of a diamond is based on its shape, brightness and colour. Because white diamonds are rare, their value is based on the fact that there are not many white diamonds around. But if you look at the shape and brightness, then the brightest diamond in this world known to men is a brown diamond. Before the development of the Argyle Diamond Mine in Australia in 1986, most brown diamonds were considered, worthless for jewellery; they were not even assessed on the diamond colour scale, and were predominantly used for industrial purposes.
However, marketing strategies changed in the 1980s and brown diamonds have become popular gems. The change was mostly due to the supply: the Argyle mine, with its 35 million carats (7,000 kg) of diamonds per year, makes about one third of global production of natural diamonds; 80% of Argyle diamonds are brown. The percentage of brown diamonds is lower in other mines, but it is almost always a significant part of the total production. Consequently, scientific research on causes of brown colour in diamond and ways to alter it has intensified.
(a) The wrong notion about diamonds is that _______.
(b) Brown diamonds were considered low in value because _______ .
(c) Brown diamonds became popular owing to _______ .
(d) The value of a diamond is based on its _______ .
(e) Why are the white diamonds rare?
(f) Name the popular names given to brown diamonds by Le Vian.
(g) Based on shape and brightness, which is the brightest diamond known to the mankind?
(h) Find the word from the passage that means ’a planned set of actions aimed at achieving a particular result’. (Para 2)
Answer:
(a) that there exists only white colourless diamonds
(b) they were found in such large quantity compared to the other coloured diamonds
(c) the marketing campaigns of Le Vian
(d) shape, brightness and colour
(e) There are not many white diamonds around
(f) Caramel, chocolate, cinnamon and cognac
(g) brown diamond
(h) campaign
Question 2:
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
Su means number and Doku means single. The game of Sudoku has many similarities with the game of life. Sudoku is a puzzle game designed for a single player, much like a crossword puzzle. The puzzle itself is nothing more than a grid of little boxes called “cells”. They are stacked nine high and nine wide, making 81 cells total.
The roots of the Sudoku puzzle are in the Switzerland. Leonhard Euler created “carre latin” in the 18th century which is similar to a Sudoku puzzle. The first real Sudoku was published in 1979 and was invented by Howard Gams, an American architect. The real world wide popularity started in Japan in 1986 after it was published and given the name Sudoku by Nikoli.
In life, too, you start with a given set of notions and then work from there on. In Sudoku, you need to follow a set of rules to build up the grid, filling each row, column and box with numbers ranging from one to nine, so much like in life where you have to go on your way without hurting anyone else. Respect every number (person), and things would be fine.
While playing, you never think of the end (the result); you just keep working on the numbers and the final result (fruits of action) comes on its own. Extremely difficult puzzles may take hours. Similarly, to achieve desired results in life may take years. The game of Sudoku and the game of life are best played in calm but in a focused state.
Everything has to go together in a Sudoku grid: the rows, columns and squares. Exactly as in life. Your duties towards your family, teachers, society and country all go on simultaneously. In Sudoku, the arrangement of the given numbers is symmetrical. This is instructive in life, on how to maintain steadfast faith, poise and equanimity despite situations when everything turns topsy- turvy.
There is a subtle difference between the two as well. Make a mistake and you can erase it and begin all over again in Sudoku. Not so in life. You can learn a lesson through it, and avoid making the same mistake in future.
(a) What is Sudoku?
(b) How has the writer compared the numbers in Sudoku to life?
(c) What is the similarity between Sudoku and Life?
(d) How do we achieve the desired result?
(e) What is meant by ’instructive ’? (Para 4)
(f) What is meant by ’equanimity’? (Para 4)
(g) Find the word opposite in meaning to ’obvious ’. (Para 5)
(h) Find the word opposite in meaning to ’ruffled ’. (Para 3)
Answer:
(a) Sudoku is a puzzle game designed for a single player, much like a crossword puzzle. The puzzle is a grid of little boxes called “cells.”
(b) The writer compares the numbers in Sudoku to life by citing similarities between the game’s rules and real life situations.
(c) Similarities between Sudoku and Life: Your duties towards your family, teachers, society and country all go on simultaneously just as the arrangement of the given numbers. This is instructive in life, on how to maintain steadfast faith, poise and equanimity despite odd situations.
(d) You never think of the end (the result); you just keep working on the numbers and the final result (fruits of action) accrues on its own.
(e) informative/educational
(f) composure/self-control
(g) subtle
(h) calm
SECTION-B
WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Question 3:
You feel that speaking in English is the need of the hour. As your parents are unable to do so, you feel a keen desire to teach them. Write in about 100-120 words a page in your diary expressing how you will execute your plan.
Answer:
Dec 15,2022
Monday 10:30 pm
Dear Diary,
These days, speaking in English has become the need of the hour. Nobody can deny this fact. Even my parents also agree with it. But they are unable to do so. Though it is not their fault or any weakness for which they should feel shy in the modern world, yet I have a keen desire to teach them to speak in English. This language is a link language with the outer world as it is an international language-a handy means of communication with the people around the world. I shall help them in this so that they will feel more confident. First, I’ll give them lesson in writing, then shall proceed to introductory dialogue speaking and will gradually move to small speeches on the topics of their interest. I am sure my genius parents will be, at the earliest, able to talk and express in English independently.
Good Night
Dipu
Question 4:
Develop a story in about 200-250 words with the following beginning. Also give a suitable title.
An old couple was living in Shobit’s adjacent flat. One day, he saw some commotion in their house. He went there and found.
Answer:
‘CUT’
An old couple was living in Shobit’s adjacent flat. One day he saw some commotion in He went there and found that there were some masked people who were threatening the old couple and the old couple was trying to escape from their grip. These were the robbers who wanted to rob the old couple as there was no one to help them.
Meanwhile; there was a sound of Hooter and people saw three cars coming towards their House. Now, the robbers tried to free themselves but they were in the control of the couple. People were surprised how the old couple could be able to handle the young robbers. By now police had also reached the spot and arrested all the robbers. People were paying their respect to the police but all of a sudden, there was a sound of ’Cut’. The people were surprised as all the people including the old couple, robbers and police were laughing. Shobit was quite amazed to know that all this was the shooting for a TV serial. Now all the people came to know that the old man was the Director of TV Films. He had spent a major part of his life in film direction. Shobit took a sigh of relief and decided to approach the old man to introduce him on the silver screen.
Question 5:
Read the passage given below and fill in the blanks by choosing the most appropriate word from the given options:
When India got Independence from the British, most things associated with
(a)…………… British were done away with, but some of (b)……………. pretty letter¬boxes managed to survive. These letter-boxes have (c)………. nostalgic aura about them. Some are over 150 years old. Now they all bear the logo of the Indian Postal Services.
(a) (i) and (ii) an (iii) a (iv) the
(b) (i) an (ii) the (iii) but (iv) an
(c) (i) a (ii) an (iii) the (iv) nor
Answer:
(a) (i) the
(b) (ii) the
(c) (iv) a
Question 6:
In the following passage 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.
Answer:
Before Missing After
(a) Festivals and gifting
(b) fun to be
(c) others is equally
(d) when the gifts
Question 7:
Rearrange the following words or phrases into meaningful sentences:
e.g.: bravery/greatness/on one’s/depends.
Greatness depends on one’s bravery.
(a) is a / whoever / great soul / is / man / brave / of
(b) end of / is to / the / life / true / never / know / ends / that / life.
(c) the fear itself / life / the / we / to fear / only / have / thing / is
Answer:
(a) Whoever is brave is a man of great soul.
(b) The true end of life is to know that life never ends.
(c) The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
SECTION-C
LITERATURE TEXTBOOK AND EXTENDED READING TEXT
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Question 8:
It was a very old book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a little boy, his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper. They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to-on a screen.
(i) Why were the pages of the book yellow?
(ii) Did Margie see the book for the first time?
(iii) What did Margie’s grand father tell him?
(iv) Trace a word from the passage that means ’with many folds or lines’.
OR
Two roads diverged in yellow wood.
And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller, long I stood And looked down once as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
(i) At which point had the poet reached?
(ii) Why was the traveller feeling sorry?
(iii) Where did the one road lead to?
(iv) Give the opposite to ’met at a point’ from the passage? Answer:
(i) The pages of the book were yellow because the book was quite old.
(ii) Yes, Margie saw the book for the first time.
(iii) Margie’s grand father told him that when he was a little boy, his grand father told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper.
(iv) Crinkly.
OR
(i) The poet is standing at a point where two roads diverged in the yellow wood.
(ii) The poet is feeling sorry because he could not travel on both the roads.
(iii) The one led to the dense forest full of plants and animals.
(iv) ’Diverged’.
Question 9:
Answer the following questions is about 30-40 words each:
(a) How does the poet’s beloved become an inseparable part of nature?
(b) What is the belief of the people at Pashupatinath temple?
(c) Why does Sue rush down to meet Mr. Behrman?
(d) Why couldn’t Lushkoff go to Kaluga?
Answer:
(a) Value Points:
Her death made her an integral part of nature rolled round in earth’s c ourse with rocks, stones and trees.
Detailed Answer:
The poet mention that there is no motion in the body of his beloved as death has overcome her. All her senses are dead now. As the earth completes its routine of day and night with the rocks, stones and trees, so does the beloved of the poet now. She has become a part of nature now.
(b) Value Points:
When a small shrine emerges fully on Bagwati river, the goddess inside will escape, and the evil period of the Kalyug will end on the earth.
Detailed Answer:
It is the belief of the people at Pashupatinath temple that when a small shrine emerges fully on the river Bagwati, the goddess inside will escape and the evil period of the Kalyug will end on the earth.
(c) Value Points:
- to pour out her worries
- how Johnsy was convinced that she would die when the last leaf falls
Detailed Answer:
Sue rushes down to meet Mr. Behrman, an old painter to pour out her worries regarding Johnsy. She told him about Johnsy’s strange fancy how she was convinced that she would die when the last leaf falls. ’
(d) Value Points:
- had no money
- felt ashamed of asking
- forced to do so, due to adverse circumstances.
Detailed Answer:
Lushkoff could not go to Kaluga because he had no money for the journey. He was ashamed of asking but due to adverse circumstances, he was forced to do so.
Question 10:
Answer any one of the following questions in about 100-120 words.
In spite of all comforts and luxuries in today’s world, our grandparents still cherish their own time when life was quite tough. Give your own views regarding this in 100¬120 words.
OR
What do the two roads symbolize in the passage 1 ? What is the significance of choosing a road?
Answer:
Our grand parents lived during the years of 1950s to 1970s. At that time life was very simple yet tough. They had time to explore the surroundings and the world. They had parks to play with less of pollution around them. Mechanical gadgets were there, but were used only for necessary activities. There were rivers where they could go for picnics and treks, without the fear of being getting any allergy. The school was more of a fun place where they met their friends. They studied but were not competing against each other. For them togetherness was important rather than competition. In today’s world we are competing against our friends. We have all the facilities of life but we do not have time for our family and friends. We like to play but on computers and play station rather than with our sibilings and friends.
OR
The two roads that the poet-traveller faces in his walk or journey are symbolic of the choices that we have to encounter in our life. The journey or a simple walk itself is a metaphor for the great journey of life. Whether one should adopt the way of spiritualism or materialism. In the poem the poet, after prolonged thought, decides to take the road less travelled, road which is the road of spiritualism accepting its challenges and uncertainties. The decision is final and irreversible and it has its own consequences, may be positive or negative. In real life also we confront such critical situations where we face life-altering options. The decision we make is crucial. We should contemplate over the choices before and then decide our priorities. Once, We make the decision and proceed accordingly, we can never reverse it. The life takes its own course, and it does not give a second chance to alter our decision and change our course of life. Hence, decide wisely.
Question 11:
Answer any one of the following questions in about 150-200 words:
What is the great service performed by Gulliver to the Emperor of Lilliput and what is his reward?
OR
Write a character-sketch of the Queen of Brobdingnag.
OR
What was Harris’ opinion about George?
OR
What reminds the author of Uncle Podger? How does Uncle Podger work when he undertook to do a job like hanging a picture?
Answer:
Value Points:
- Service which is rendered by Gulliver—attacking the military army of Blefuscu.
- Gulliver seizes the fleet of ship and ties together with cables and pulls to the royal parts of Lilliput.
- Emperor of Lilliput—happy in the victory—tells Gulliver to make Blefuscudians his slaves.
- Gulliver tells that they (Blefuscudians) have to be equal to them (Lilliputians) and requests the two empires to sign the peace treaty.
- Gulliver’s reward is the acceptance of Gulliver’s ideas by the Emperor though the Emperor is not completely satisfied.
Detailed Answer:
The emperor of Lilliput became a good friend of Gulliver and he told him about the Blefuscan attack on Lilliput. His secretary sought Gullivers help to which Gulliver agreed. He devised a plan | and ordered fifty metal hooks. Then he fastened them to a piece of strong rope. Carrying the rope and the hooks he swam to Blefuscu. The Blefuscans got frightened of him and jumped out of their ships to swim to the beach. Gulliver used one hook for each ship and tied all the ropes together. The Blefuscans army shot arrows at him to scare him away but of no use. Of course, the arrows hurt him and caused him pain also but, they did not deter his spirit and he kept on doing his work. He captured the enemy fleet and started walking through the waves, pulling all the enemy’s warships behind him. The enemies made terrible cries but Gulliver kept on pulling the warships and reached Lilliput safely.
OR
Value Points:
- pleasant and powerful
- buys Gulliver for 1,000 pieces of gold
- appointed nurse to take Gulliver’s care
- punishes the Dwarf insulting Gulliver
- loves going to places
- good home maker
Detailed Answer:
The queen of Brobdingnag is very generous to Gulliver. Gulliver was also delighted in her company. The queen feels pleasure with the beauty and smartness of Gulliver.
This was the reason why she buys him for 1000 pieces of gold from the farmer.
Gulliver speaks very high about her and appreciates her kindness as he has experienced uncountable hardships .and difficulties at the farmer’s house who used to show him in public for money when he is presented before the queen, he shows his usual fawning love for royalty by kissing the tip of her little finger. Gulliver has no limit of words to praise her and calls her full of ’infinite’ wit and humour. Though it seems to be a flattery on Gulliver’s part. The queen in considerate and asks him to live at court. She does not consider him to be simply a pet. She is a powerful person but of a pleasant personality.
OR
Harris felt George never came and helped his friends. He never took a day’s holiday and joined his friends. He did not do any work in the bank and pretended to do something sitting behind a bit of glass. Harris felt George was a very lazy person, who never wanted to work but would always boss around. Harris always got angry at George whenever he objected to his work. He always spoke ill about George in his absence. He said that whenever he didn’t get his way, he got upset. Harris felt even 24 hours of sleep be it summer or winter, was not enough for George because whenever he got a chance to sleep he would just snore off. George was very clever in taking advantage of others.
OR
Harris’ method of doing work reminds the author of Uncle Podger. There was a picture standing in the dining-room, waiting to be put up. He reassured everyone that he would do it. Then he sent the
girl out for six pence worth of nails, and then one of the boys after her to tell her what size to get. He sends other members of the family to bring a hammer, ladder, chair, lamp, ruler, pencil, etc. He again sent the girl for a bit of picture-cord. He finally lifted the picture and dropped it. In an attempt to save the picture he cut himself. Then he sat on his coat and made the family members find the coat to get his handkerchief. When he was at work the others would stand round in a semi-circle, ready to help. While trying to hang it he lost the nail and the hammer also. Then he lost sight of the mark that he had made on the wall for the nail. Trying to put the nail he smashed his thumb, and dropped the hammer, with a yell, on somebody’s toes. Finally, he made a new hole and about midnight the picture was up but still a little crooked.
CBSE Sample Papers for Class 9 English Set 2
SECTION-A
READING
Question 1:
Read the passage given below and answer the questions/complete the statements that follow:
1. The self-governing National Red Cross Societies, including the Red Crescent (in Muslim countries) and the Red Lion and Sun (in Iran), operate on the national level through their volunteer members, although they also participate in international work. Each must be recognized by the International Committee. Today numbering 114, these societies have Junior Red Cross Societies as well. Virtually all have disaster relief programs/ and many carry on welfare programs, with community health and safety instruction, and so on. Since World War II, many of the European and Asian societies have also established refugee services.
2. The League of Red Cross Societies, a coordinating world federation of these societies, was established in 1919 as the result of proposals made by Henry P. Davison (1867-1922) of the American Red Cross. The League maintains contacts between the societies; acts as a clearing house for information; assists the societies in setting up new programs and in improving or expanding old ones; coordinates international disaster operations. It functions under an executive committee and a board of governors on which every national society has representation.
3. The International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC], a private, independent group of Swiss citizens chosen by co-optation (limited to twenty-five in number), acts during war or conflict whenever intervention by a neutral body is necessary, such action constituting its special field of activity. As guardian of the Geneva Conventions and of Red Cross principles, it promotes their acceptance by governments, suggests their revision, works for further development of international humanitarian law, and recognizes new Red Cross Societies; it sends its Swiss delegates into prisoner-of-war camps, supervises repatriation, operates the Central Tracina Agency, supplies material relief, and the like.
4. The International Red Cross Conference, which met for the first time in 1867, is the highest legislative body. It is composed of representatives of the National Societies, the League, the International Committee, and the governments that have signed the Geneva Conventions. Meeting every four to six years, it reviews
(a) By what name is the Red Cross Society known in Iran?
(b) What socially useful activities are performed by the Red Cross Societies?
(c) What are the functions of the League of Red Cross Society? (Mention any two)
(d) When does the International Committee of the Red Cross act?
(e) Name the organization which gives recognition to new Red Cross Societies?
(f) In what ways does the ICRC contribute to welfare programmes? (any two)
(g) Which is the highest legislative body of the Red Cross Societies?
(h) What does the word “intervention” mean?
Answer:
(a) The Red Lion and Sun
(b) disaster relief programmes: community health
(c) maintain contact between societies; set up new programmes; coordinate international disaster operations etc. (any two)
(d) during war whenever intervention by neutral body is required
(e) ICRC
(f) sends delegates into prisoners- of- war camps; supervises repatriation; supply material relief etc (any two)
(g) The International Red Cross Conference.
(h) involvement/mediation.
Question 2:
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
Modem food has become our enemy. We have become so slavish to taste and presentation that we eat food for its entertainment value, not for its nutritional benefit. Even as health awareness is increasing, the variety of junk and nutrition less food is also increasing. Each restaurant boasts of a new cuisine, which is a mixture of refined flour, oil and sugar. Pasta, noodles, white rice, white bread and maida based products like pizzas, burgers, naan and rumali roti are the main options in Italian, Chinese, Indian or Mexican cuisines. The vegetarian dishes are either overcooked or have a lot of com starch and fat. The non-vegetarian dishes are either white-sauce based or made in rich gravies.
People are trying to lose weight by eating less in the day, so that they can accommodate such foods in the night. They skip breakfast and lunch so that they can satisfy their taste buds in the night with a family dinner. Perfect health, however, cannot be achieved by a process of eating less and not eating . The idea is to nourish the body. You might achieve some weight loss but you will also lose out on your health.
Therefore, whilst embarking upon any weight loss programme, remember that health is much more than just weight loss, at the same time achieving ideal body weight in a healthy way does provide a basis for achieving perfect health.
Our weight is a balancing act, but the equation is simple: If you eat more calories than you bum, you gain weight. And if you eat fewer calories than you bum, you lose weight.
All too often, we make weight loss much more difficult than it needs to be with extreme diets that leave us cranky and starving, unhealthy lifestyle choices that undermine our dieting efforts, and emotional eating habits that stop us before we get started. But there’s a better way! You can lose weight without feeling miserable. By making smart choices every day, you can develop new eating habits and preferences that will leave you feeling satisfied—and winning the battle of the bulge.
(a) How has modem food become our enemy?
(b) How do people try to lose weight?
(c) What should you remember while trying to lose weight?
(d) What equation is drawn to highlight our weight as a balancing act?
(e) What is meant by ’nourish’? (Para 2)
(f) What is meant by ’undermine’? (Para 5)
(g) Find the word opposite in meaning to ’happy’. (Para 5)
(h) Find the word opposite in meaning to ’neither’. (Para 1)
Answer:
(a) Modern food has become our enemy. We have become so besotted by taste and presentation that we eat food for its entertainment value, not for its nutritional benefit.
(b) People are trying to lose weight by eating less in the day, so that they can accommodate such foods in the night. They skip breakfast and lunch so that they can satisfy their taste buds in the night.
(c) One should remember that health is so much more than just weight loss; at the same time achieving ideal body weight in a healthy way does provide a basis for achieving perfect health.
(d) The equation – If you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight. And if you eat fewer calories than you burn, you lose weight.
(e) feed/foster/nurture
(f) weaken/demoralize
(g) miserable
(h) either
SECTION-B
WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Question 3:
With lifestyle diseases so rampant today, it is time to turn our attention to clean and safe eating practices. As Usha/Ulhas of Express Today, write an article on ’Safe eating an ideal lifestyle’.
Answer:
Safe Eating an ideal life style.
By Amalu
Eating is important and essential, however excess or lack of eating is dangerous. In fact, eating is not natural instinct but skill that needs to be taught and change according to age and body mass of the individuals. Healthy eating is a way of life and its importance cannot be isolated from every day reality. At the same time, this is the repsonsibility of the schools also to instruct and provide healthy food to the students. Interventions targeted at healthy eating need to occur early in childhood and adolescence in order to prevent or reverse the adverse effects of overweight or poor eating habits. It is now up to the schools to take the matter in hand. Schools are the ones who influence most as they are nearest to the child. They have to contribute directly to the study of healthy eating. And I am sure that if students learn the habit of safe eating, they will lead an ideal lifestyle.
Question 4:
Write a story using the following hints in about 200-250 words. Give it a suitable title.
Sakshi driving-busy road-late for college-attends a call-becomes absent-minded and careless for a moment-CRASH-a pedestrian seriously injured.
Answer:
’MISTAKES’
Sakshi is a college student. She is very brilliant and hard working. She is the favourite of her teachers and friends. But some times such people also commit mistakes. Now, it was the time for Sakshi to go to her college. This is a very busy road and Sakshi was late for college. She never does any work late but when she was just about to depart, a close friend of her came and thus, she became late. She was first about to depart to avoid being late but meanwhile, she got an urgent phone call. Seeing the urgency, she attended the call. It was a phone call from her very old friend. She became so busy in her conversation that she became absent minded and careless for a moment. Her one hand was on steering and in the other hand, she was holding the phone. All of a sudden she got a heavy jerk. There was a crash and her car had crushed a pedestrian. The pedestrian was seriously injured. She was terffied. She called her parents but before their arrival, police had reached there. The parents had to pay a lot of money to the pedestrian for his treatment. So it is necessary to remain careful every moment.
Question 5:
Complete the passage given below by choosing the most appropriate options from the ones that follow. Write your answer in the answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. Do not copy the entire passage.
A few days later, Munshi Prem Chand resigned from (a) …………… job of inspector of schools (b) …………… having worked in (c) …………… department for 10 years.
(a) (i) its (ii)the (iii) a (iv) his
(b) (i) before (ii) without (iii) after (iv) for
(c) (i) his (ii) is (iii) their (iv) the
Answer:
(a) (iv) his
(b) (iii) after
(c) (iv) the
Question 6:
In the following passage 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.
Answer:
Before Missing After
(a) Art of tabla
(b) across the globe
(c) of has instrument
(d) playing with both
Question 7:
Read the dialogue given below and complete the paragraph:
Interviewer: What are your qualifications?
Candidate : I have done Hotel Management from the National Institute of Hotel Management.
Interviewer: Do you have any work experience?
Candidate: I have worked at a hotel reception for a year.
The interviewer asked the candidate (a)…………… The candidate replied that (b)…………… The National Institute of Hotel Management. To the interviewer’s enquiry as to whether he had any experiences, the candidate said that (c)…………… at a hotel reception for one year.
Answer:
(a) (i) what his qualifications were.
(b) (ii) he had done Hotel Management from.
(c) (iii) he had worked.
SECTION-C
LITERATURE TEXTBOOK AND EXTENDED READING TEXT
Question 8:
Read one of the following extracts and answer the questions that follow:
Rush hour crowds jostle for position on the underground train platform. A slight girl, looking younger than her seventeen years, was nervous yet excited as she felt the vibrations of the approaching train. It was her first day at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London and daunting enough for any teenager fresh from a Scottish farm.
(i) Who is the ’girl’ in the above lines?
(ii) Where was she going?
(iii) How old was she?
(iv) Find the word from the extract that means “frightening”.
OR
Wind, come softly
Don’t break the shutters of the windows.
Don’t scatter the papers
Don’t throw down the books on the shelf
There, look what you did – you threw them all down.
You tore the pages of the books.
You brought rain again.
You’re very clever at poking fun at weaklings.
(i) Write about any two destructive activities of the wind.
(ii) How can we make friends with the wind?
(iii) Who brings rain?
(iv) Find the word from the extract which is an antonym of “foolish”.
Answer:
(i) Evelyn Glennie.
(ii) She was going to the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London.
(iii) She was seventeen years old.
(iv) Daunting.
OR
(i) Two destructive activities of the winds are –
(a) Breaks the shutters of windows.
(b) Scatters the papers.
(c) Throws down the books.(d) Tears the pages of books. (Any two)
(ii) We can make friends with the winds by building strong homes and strong body and heart.
(iii) Wind
(iv) Clever.
Question 9:
Answer the following questions is about 30-40 words each.
(a) Where does the snake hide itself?
(b) Was Maria a patriot? Substantiate your answer with examples.
(c) A month later, I was at my house watching them rebuild it. But this time it was different.’ How was it different?
(d) Explain why Sergie is extremely delighted to see Lushkoff at the theatre.
Answer:
(a) Value points
Disappears into the green slim reeds in water
Detailed Answer:
It was a harmless snake which was lying along the sand. The snake tried to save its lip and vanished in the ripples among the green slim reeds in water.
(b) Value points
Yes, used to say she was a Russian.
Detailed Answer:
Maria Sharapova was a patriot. She says that though America has played a major role in her life yet she is proud to be a Russian. She says that she still holds the Russian citizenship and her blood is totally Russian. She is ready to play the Olympics for Russsia if they would invite her to play.
(c) Value points:
- author wasn’t alone
- Two new friends
- now he focused on feelings of positivity, security.
- wanted to be friendly with people around
Detailed Answer:
A month later, the author was at his house. The house was being rebuilt but he wasn’t alone. His two friends from school were with him. The fire was responsible for all the wonderful people around him. His life was getting back to normal. Now he focused on feelings of positivity and security.
(d) Value Points:
- encourage him to walk on a right path—rebuked him did not forget his words.
Detailed Answer:
Lushkoff, the beggar was offered some work. Sergei asked him to go to his friends. They gave him some copying work as he could write. Sergei was happy he had put the man on the right track.
Two years went by. One evening standing at a ticket window of a theatre Sergei saw the man again. Lushkoff told him that he was a notary and was paid thirty- five roubles a month. He thanked Sergei for what he had done for him. He said that if he had not helped him he would still have been telling lies. This was the reason why Sergei was extremely delighted to see him at the theatre.
Question 10:
Answer any one of the following questions in about 100-120 words.
How did Evelyn Glennie fight with her physical disability? Write your answer is 100¬120 words.
OR
What is the theme of the poem ’The Road Not Taken’?
Answer:
Evelyn Glennie was a very brave girl. She learnt to open her body and mind to the sounds and vibrations. She used to feel as if music was flowing through her body skin, her cheekbones and even in her hair. She attained the state of trance in which her mind used to think only about music. Music had become her passion. So she joined an orchestra and later the Royal Academy of Music. She did not want to be deprived of the joy of music that made her happy. Shy later even gave solo performances on stage in many countries and became famous.
OR
The poem ’The Road Not Taken’ offers a profound perception into the process of decision making. The traveller at the crossroads of the diverging roads is symbolic of an individual at a decisive moment in his life’s journey. His decision or choice of future action, which road he should adopt spiritualism or materialism, is of utmost significance since the decision decides his destiny.The poet, Robert Frost, through this poem asserts the importance of the right decision at the right time. In life we have to make our choices; sometimes we have to make these choices without the full understanding of the state of affairs. Even then, we should arrive at decision only after carefully considering all the available options. We may regret our choice or we may be excited about our choice, but the choice at the crucial moment will determine and change the path of our life. Hence, the poem stresses the need for deep and critical analysis of the situation before we arrive at a life transforming decision.
Question 11:
Answer any one of the following questions in about 150-200 words :
How did Gulliver communicate ’Nth the Lilliputians when he was hungry and how was he fed ?
OR
Gulliver said, “To Glumbdalclitch, I owe my preservation in that country ………… Define his character in the light of the above statement.
OR
What happened when cheese was being taken from Liverpool to London.
OR
Write the character sketch of Jerome.
Answer:
Value Points:
- Put his finger to his mouth
- Several ladders were applied to his side.
- baskets of meat and bread were rolled towards his mouth
Detailed Answer:
Gulliver was too big in proportion to the people of lilliput. First, they found him sleeping on the ground, they tied him to the ground. But when they noticed that he was quiet, they stopped misbehaving. They made a stage. A prominent person among them mounted on this stage and made a long speech to Gulliver but Gulliver could not understand their language. Gulliver could observe many periods of promises, pity and kindness. Now Gulliver began to feel hungry but he didn’t know their language so he put his finger to his mouth to make a sign of being hungry. They understood him very well. Several ladders were applied to his sides. A hundred of those people mounted on the ladders with baskets full of meat and bread, they rolled them towards his mouth. Thus, they provided him with food and drink.
OR
Value Points:
- nine year old daughter of the farmer
- fond of Gulliver-Gulliver’s nurse
- accompanied him even to king’s palace
- taught him her language
- ensured Gulliver’s safety
- had a premonition of evil happening (Gulliver picked up by the Eagle)
Detailed Answer:
Glumadalclitch was the nine year old daughter of Gulliver’s master at Brobdingnag. She was very fond of Gulliver. In fact, she became Gulliver’s nurse. She looked after him, stitched clothes for him and made a small bed. She even taught him their language. She stayed close to him, protected him from everybody. She also stayed with him in the palace. She looked after his needs, changed sheets, cleaned his room. She even saved him from being drowned in a milk bowl by the dwarf. In fact she was always there to save Gulliver. She taught the language of Brobdingnag to Gulliver to remove the communication gap. She ensured Gulliver for his safety. She had a feeling that something wrong was going to happen and she saved him. She became such a big support to Gulliver that he could not imagine his life without her. That’s why Gulliver appreciates and thanks her by saying, “Glumadalditch, I owe my preservation in that country.”
OR
When Jerome was in Liverpool, he was asked by his friend to carry cheese to London for him as he (friend) would be reaching in a day or two. Jerome proudly carried it and marched uj he platform and climbed up in the train. The smell of the cheese was too obnoxious. People sitting beside him could not tolerate the smell and had to leave their seats. The whole carriage seemed to be only for him. As the carriage was empty, many passengers from other stations got inside with their baggage but, when they had a sniff of the smell in the air, they would run away to other carriages. Even Tom’s wife reacted sharply. So, Tom tried several ways to get rid of it.
OR
Jerome a young man with brown hair, is the narrator of this story. He was fussy about his health and was always complaining of illness. He loved river and dogs. He thought of himself to be a very intelligent person. He had an aversion to work and thought that hard jobs are meant for youngsters. While reading a patient liver pool circular, he suspected that he had a serious liver problem. He concluded that he suffered from all ailments under the sun except house maids knee. He believed that he is a hospital in himself and students could study him and get their diplomas. The doctor’s prescription is a conclusive proof of Jerome being a hypochondriac. But he considered himself to be good at packing but failed to do so. He was a funny and lazy person who looked for adventure but did not have an adventurous spirit.