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PRE-ANNUAL EXAM (2017-18)Class-IXENGLISH (SET-A)Time: 3 hours M.M.: 80General Instructions:The question paper is divided into three sections:SECTION A: Reading (20marks)SECTION B: ???Writing & Grammar (30marks)SECTION?C: ??????Literature (30marks)All questions are compulsoryAttempt the questions section wiseWriting ?should be neat and legibleThe paper consists of 11 questions SECTION-A: READING (20 Marks)1.Read the passage given below : (8)Call it a blessing or curse of Mother Nature, we have to breathe in over 10,000 liters of air in a day (more than four million liters in a year) to remain alive. By making it essential for life, God has whished that we try to keep the air we breathe clean. Everyone can see the food that is not clean and perhaps refrain from eating it, but one cannot stop breathing even if one can feel the air to be polluted. Several harmful and noxious substances can contaminate the air we breathe. Generally, much is said and written about outdoor air pollution, most of which is due to vehicular and industrial exhausts. Given the fact that most of us spend over 90% of our time indoors, it is most important to recognize, that the air we breathe in at home or in the offices can be polluted. It can be a cause of ill-health. Air pollutants that are generally present in very low concentrations can assume significance in closed ill-ventilated places. The indoor air pollution can lead to allergic reactions and cause irritation to the skin, the eyes and the nose. But as is logical to assume, the damaging effect of the pollutants is borne by the lungs. It can lead to the development of breathing problems, especially in those who have allergic tendencies , or it can worsen the existing respiratory illnesses like asthma and bronchitis. There can be several sources of indoor air pollution. Tobacco smoke is one of the most important air pollutants in closed places. Pollution caused by "passive smoking" or Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) pollution can lead to all the 8 Page 2 of 6 harmful effects of tobacco smoking earlier seen in the smokers and now in their non - smoking companions. ETS as a health hazard has been unequivocally proven and is also getting social recognition now. One can occasionally see signs displaying the all-important message : "Your smoking is injurious to my health" in offices and homes. The children of smoking parents are among the worst affected persons. Q1.Answer the following questions : (1x8) (a) What is essential for our life? (b) Why should we pay attention to the quality of air we breathe indoors? (c) Name an important source of indoor air pollution. (d) What do you understand by ETS? (e) Explain the message ‘your smoking is injurious to my Health’.(f) Who are the worst affected persons? (g) What are the ailments caused by indoor air pollution? (h) Find an antonym of ‘purify’ in Para 2. 2.Read the passage given below:(12)Imagine parking your car at a beautiful upland vantage point on a sparkling spring day. You open the boot and wear your flying suit and boots, then lift out your incredibly light flying machine in its carrying rucksack and trek off a few yards to where your friends are preparing to fly. After a few minutes spent inspecting your equipment, you don helmet and harness, look around, allow the wind to raise the canopy – and launch off into space. This is paragliding for novices and experienced pilots alike. Developed from parachuting canopies, modern paragliders can be soared effortlessly on windward slopes, and flown across the country. It’s the same freedom that hang-glider pilots enjoy, but a paraglider is more portable and a little easier to learn to fly. They are more hampered by strong winds than hang-gliders but are easier to land in small fields. Paragliding is a great community. You'll often find championship winning pilots comparing notes with novices. Both know that their sport is perhaps the simplest and most intuitive way of flying yet devised. If you want to enjoy the challenges that only being truly at one with the elements can provide, book a training course today! Many paraglider pilots strive to perfect their skills in cross-country flying. A summer sky filled with fluffy cumulus clouds provides abundant lifting currents which pilots use to gain altitude. Setting off on such a day, either towards a pre-selected goal or just drifting where the wind will take you is one of the most breathtaking experiences available. Most pilots will talk of the sense of freedom they feel when drifting from cloud to cloud, in almost total silence, watching the landscape unfold beneath them as they navigate across the sky. It normally takes around ten days of flyable weather to train a would-be pilot to Club Pilot Level, the minimum standard required to fly unsupervised with a recreational club. Your instructor will explain how the canopy is laid out, inflated and controlled by its brake lines. You'll then take it in turns with other members of your group to have your first short training hops down a gentle slope. Q2.1Answer the following questions : (4 x 2) (a) How is paragliding alike for novices as well as experienced pilots?(b) What advantage does paragliding have over hang-gliding? (c) Explain what the writer wants to convey through the statement ‘paragliding is a great community’.(d) What is the minimum standard required to fly unsupervised with a recreational club and how does one attain the acceptable level? 2.2Complete the given lines:(2)(a) Summer sky is beneficial to the paragliders _____________.(b) Booking a paragliding course will provide ____________.2.3Find the synonym for the given words (2) (i) beginners (para 3)(ii) astonishing (Para 6) SECTION B (WRITING & GRAMMAR)Q.3During the recess time , you find children littering the play ground and not making use of the dust bins kept there . Even the classrooms have wrappers strewn all over. Despite the instructions issued from time to time , little heed is being paid. Taking ideas from MCB unit ‘Environment’, write an article in about 100- 120 words on cleanliness for your school magazine. (8 marks) Q.4 Complete the story in about 200-250 words which begins with My friends and I decided to go for a picnic to a beautiful spot near forest……………(12 marks)Q.5 The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each marked line. Write the error and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank number. The first one has been done as an example. (4marks)IncorrectCorrectVitamin tablets has been around forever, but antioxidants are thea. …………………….………………the last miracle cure. Do they really work?b. …………………….………………If the hype is true, then that the antioxidants do isc. …………………….………………work for neutralise the free radicals in our bodiesd. …………………….………………and latter excrete them. Free radicals are atoms or moleculese. …………………….………………that have at least one unpaired electron and is thereforef. …………………….………………unstable and highly reactive. In animal tissue they are believing to accelerate theg. …………………….………………progression of cardiovascular and age-related diseases as dementia and cancer.h. …………………….………………Q6.Read the conversation given below and complete the paragraph using indirect form of speech: (3 marks)Amit: What do want to do this morning?Prakash: I feel like taking a walk. It‘s so nice outside. Amit: Great, let‘s walk around the lake in the park. Amit asked Prakash (a) _________. Prakash answered that he (b) ______ . It was so nice outside. Amit agreed to this and suggested (c) ____________. Q7. Complete the paragraph by filling appropriate words (3 marks)Cataract is an (a)_______(opaque, opaque, opaqueness, opacity) in the lens of the eye. Today, modern (b)_________ (medicine, medicinal, medical, medicated) advances have made cataract surgery very successful. The cause of the cataract (c)________ (forming, formed, forms, formation) are not fully known. Q8. Read the given extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:(4)Why should I ? I don’t want to see the kitchen to know that the garden is a myth and that the salon is impossible.(a) Who is being addressed here and by whom?(b) Why does the speaker not want to see the salon?(c) Pick out the phrase that indicates that there is no garden in the villa.(d) What does the speaker mean by ‘the garden is a myth and that the salon is impossible?ORAt first the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.(a) Name the stage being described here. (b) This stage is compared to another stage in the poem name it.(c) What is meant by ‘mewling and puking’.(d) What is an important characteristic of an infant?Q9 Answer any four of the following questions in about 30- 40 words:(2x 4 =8 marks)“Iwas a man once but I am a beast now.” What circumstances turned the man into a ‘beast’ in The Bishop Candlesticks?How does the rain quench the thirst of the earth and cure the ailment of the clouds?Do you think that Private Quelch learnt a lesson when he was chosen for cookhouse duties? Give reasons. Describe how the poet happen to see the solitary reaper and listen to her song ?Compare and contrast the brook’s journey with a man’s life.Q.10 Answer the question in 100-200 words: (8 marks)In today’s world where all values seem to be lost, where all is violence, treachery and terror, how do you feel when you read of the unconditional love and devotion of Duke in the lesson A Dog Named Duke?ORWe should always be respectful to our parents whatever profession they are in. Will you appreciate Harold for not feeling guilty of being the son of a boxer?Q.11 Answer any one of the following in about 200-250 words: (10 marks)What happened to Harris in the maze at Hampton Court Palace?? ORGive the character sketch of Harris.PRE-ANNUAL EXAM (2017-18)Class-IXENGLISH (SET-B)Time: 3 hours M.M.: 80General Instructions:The question paper is divided into three sections:SECTION A: Reading (20marks)SECTION B: ???Writing & Grammar (30marks)SECTION?C: ??????Literature (30marks)All questions are compulsoryAttempt the questions section wiseWriting ?should be neat and legibleThe paper consists of 11 questions SECTION-A: READING (20 Marks)1. Read the following passage carefully: (8 Marks)We have been brought up to fear insects. We regard them as unnecessary creatures that do more harm than good. Man continuously wages war on them, for they contaminate his food, carry diseases or devour his crops. They sting or bite without provocation, they fly uninvited into our rooms on summer nights, or beat against our lighted windows. We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. Reading about them increases our understanding without?dispelling?our fears. Knowing that the industrious ants live in a highly organized society does not prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch.No matter how much we like honey, or how much we have read of the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess, we have a horror of being stung. Most of our fears are unreasonable, but they are difficult to erase. At the same time, however, insects are strangely fascinating. We enjoy reading about them, especially when we find that like the Praying Mantis, they lead perfectly horrible lives. We enjoy staring at them, entrance as they go about their business, unaware -we hope – of our presence. Who has not stood in awe at the sight of a spider?pouncing?on a fly, or a column of ants triumphantly carrying home an enormous dead beetle?Last summer, I spent many days in the garden watching thousands of ants crawling up the trunk of my prized peach tree. The tree has grown against a warm wall on a sheltered side of the house. I am specially proud of it, not only because it has survived several severe winters, but because it occasionally produces luscious peaches. During the summer I noticed that the leaves of the tree had begun to wither. Clusters of tiny insects called Aphids were to be found on the underside of the leaves. They were visited by a large column of ants which obtained a sort of honey from them. I immediately embarked on an experiment which, even though it failed to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated for twenty four hours. I bound the base of the tree with sticky tape, making it impossible for the ants to reach the Aphids. The tape was so sticky that they did not dare to cross it. For a long time, I watched them scurrying around the base of the tree in bewilderment. I even went out at midnight with a torch and noted with satisfaction and surprise that the ants were still swarming around the sticky tape without being able to do anything about it. I got up early next morning to find the ants were climbing up the wall of the house and then on to the leaves of the tree. I realized sadly that I had been completely defeated by their?ingenuity. The ants had been quick to find an answer to my thoroughly unscientific methods.Q1???Answer the following questions briefly ??????a. ?What is our attitude towards insects? b. Why does man try to exterminate insects?? c. Why does the writer say that knowing about insects does not make man change his attitude towards insects??????d. What was the reason that the leaves of the tree were beginning to wither in summer? e. What did the writer do to prevent the ants from reaching the Aphids? Was it successful? f. Describe the behaviour that we show towards insects.??????????? g. From your reading of the passage what can you infer about writer’s attitude towards insects. h. Find the word from the passage which means the quality of being clever, original, and inventive.????????????????????????????????Q2. Read the following passage carefully: (12 Marks) 1.Dussehra and Diwali leave us in a mess-physically speaking. After all the lavish indulgences, our body literally sends signals that it is time we slow down. And there is a way out-remove the toxins.2. Most people believe that going on a detox trip is like suffering a crash diet and a method to lose weight, which is wrong notion. Nutrition head of Gold‘s Gym AshwiniSukumar explains that detoxification has its roots in traditional Chinese medicines that have also been used in ancient India, Asia and Egypt. It is the body‘s natural, ongoing process of neutralizing or eliminating toxins from the body. ―A detox diet post Diwali blast is for those who want to bring their bodies back to its original condition following festival fun. You may decide to use a detox plan as a regular thing when you begin to feel the benefits and can use the principles again, depending on the extent of detox you are looking to achieve, she explains. 3. She also explains that it is necessary and important to go on a detox diet after binging on your favourite food. ―Many chemicals we ingest daily, through food, water and air, are deposited as fat cells in our bodies. A diet that lacks certain nutrients may also impair our natural ability to detoxify chemicals, which further leads to their build-up in the body. So, it is necessary to go on a detox diet to cleanse all that. states Ashwini. The benefits include improved digestion, and increased concentration and clarity. 4. Many people also go on such diets to lose weight, is it a good thing? We ask. ―If you fast for several days, you will shed weight, no question. But typically, most of the weight loss is water loss and some of it may be muscle tissue. Fasting or detoxing for longer periods can also slow down your metabolism, making it harder to keep the weight off or lose weight later. 5. While, director of wellness chi-health, SheelaKrishnaswamy says, ―modern medicine has no Scientific-belief in detox diets because the liver, kidneys, colon and skin remove waste products from our body on a daily basis, irrespective of what we may eat. But alternate therapists endorse detox diets very strongly, especially after a season of dietary excesses.6. She also points out that working on such diets is a new concept. ―Earlier women used to prepare sweets and snacks at home. They always knew what ingredients they would use and the preparation would also involve tedious work. Even if they binge the physical work that was involved during the preparation of these festivals would help them to cut down on the fat. But now everything is available on the shelf and of late, people prefer buying sweets at stores, where the calorie content is high, she states. 7. So what does a typical detox process entail? ―Cut back on sugary stuff. Have lot of vegetables, fruit juices, coconut water and exercise if you have gained weight. But, remember to detox only for day or two. ―Don‘t go on a continuous crash, it will harm your body, she warns. Q.2.1-Now answer the questions that follow, based on your reading of the above extract: 2x4=8 a. What is the wrong notion harboured by most people about detox diets? b. Why is it necessary to go on a detox diet? c. What comprises of a detox diet? d. Why does modern science not believe in detox diet?2.2Complete the given lines:(2)(a) Belief of detox diet is ____________.(b) A typical detox process entails ___________j.2.3Find the synonym for the given words (2)a. Intake {para3} b. Slow, too long or dull {para6} SECTION – B (GRAMMAR & WRITING)Q3. You are Ruchi. Once you got a chance to visit a remote village of Rajasthan. You noticed the girl children did not go to school. Write an article for your school magazine on ‘Need to educate the girl child’(8 Marks)Q4. Write as story in about 200-250words beginning with…….(12 Marks)I would come across a beggar every day at the bus stop who seemed quite unlike a beggar………………………. Q5. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Underline the error and write the incorrect word and the correction. The first one has been done as an example. (4 marks)Incorrect word Correct wordThe use for bottled supplements with your diet is a practice (a)_______________________that need to be discouraged. It is also essential to keep abrest(b)______________________off new developments in research. (c)________________________Ironically those health-conscious individual(d)________________________who already eats large quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables, (e)_____________________who diet does not include junk food and who get plenty of regular (f)_________ ___________exercise and have least need for dietary supplements tend to be the ones (g)________ _______whom are most likely to use them. (h)______________________Q6. Read the conversation between Rama and Sita. Then report the paragraph that follows. (3 marks)Rama: I am going to jungle.Sita: Why? Rama: I have been banished for fourteen years by father. Sita: Oh! It is very sad. On being banished by his father, King Dasharath, Rama told Sita (a)_____________. She asked him (b)____________. Rama told that (c) __________________. Sita exclaimed saying it was very sad. Q7. Complete the paragraph by filling appropriate words (3 marks)In fruit farms fruits are picked before they are fully ripe for otherwise they (a)_______ (must, shall, may, should) become overripe or decay (b)________ (while, after, when, before) reaching customers. Fruit picked too young (c)_______ (will, are, being, were) never ripen. SECTION C (LITERATURE)Q8.Read the given extract and answer the following questions: (4 marks)I am dotted silver threads dropped from heaven By the gods. Nature then takes me, to adorn Her fields and valleys.?(a) Name the poem and the poet of the above extract.(b) Who is ‘I’?(c) Why is ‘I’ being compared to silver threads?(d) What does 'to adorn' mean?ORDelighted to hear it, Madame. (She goes and he looks at the cheque).It’s a very good thing in business when everyone is delighted!(a) Which word in the extract stands for ‘happy’?(b) Why is the speaker happy?(c) By this act of the speaker what does he appear to be ?(d) What made Gaston delighted?Q9. Answer any four of the following questions in 30- 40 words: (2 x 4 marks)(a) What is the message conveyed by the Brook?(b) What was John A. Pescud’s opinion about best sellers ?(c) Why is Mere Gringoire in distress ? How does the Bishop help her?(d) When does Marcy realize that Duke could work miracles regarding Charles’ recovery?(e) Justify the title of the poem ‘Oh! I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth’.Q10 Answer the following question in about 100 -120 words: (8 marks)Harold was a prodigy he was a model of goodness and intelligence. He was devoted to his books and was admired by all. He loved truth and honesty. He wanted perfection in everything. How did these values make him a role model for all ? What do you learn from his character? Why are the above values necessary?OR‘I am independent’ based on this statement of grandmother write a paragraph on the topic ‘Education can make one independent” in about 100-120 words.Q.11 Answer any one of the following in about 200-250 words: (10 marks) Give an account of Harris’ encounter with swans? ORWrite a brief character sketch of Uncle Podger? ................
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