Term Exam English 2023

Class IX MM:80
Section A: Reading Comprehension (10 x 1=10 Marks)

Q1.a) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

Metal detectors make magnetic waves. These waves go through the ground. The waves change when
they hit metal. Then the device beeps. This lets the person with the device know that metal is close.
The first metal detectors were meant to help miners. They were big. They cost a lot of money. They
used a lot of power. And worst of all, they didn't work well. People kept trying to make them better.
Metal detectors got smaller. Now they are light and cheap. They also work better. That is why people
bring them to the beach. They can be or rings in the water. They can look for phones in the sand. Metal
detectors help them find these things. They usually just find junk though. Metal detectors also protect
people. They help keep guns out of some places. They are at airports. They are at courthouses. Some
schools use them. They help guards look for weapons. Guards use special wands to find metal on a
person. These devices save lives in other ways too. During wars, people plant bombs in the ground.
When the war ends, they don't clean up their messes. This is unsafe for the people who live in those
places. Soldiers use metal detectors to find bombs. They remove them and help the people. These
devices also make clothes safer. It sounds funny, but it's true. Most clothes are made in big factories.
There are lots of needles in these places. Needles break from time to time. They get stuck in the
clothes. They would poke people trying them on. They don't though. That's because our clothes are
scanned for metal. Isn't that nice? They make the world a safer place.
1. Why were metal detectors first used?

a. to help the miners b. to scan the clothes

c. to protect the people d. to look for phones in the sand
2. How do metal detectors help the soldiers?

a. to detect the metals b. to detect the bombs

c. to clean the mess of the war d. both b and c
3. How do metal detectors make clothing safer?
a. to make sure factory machines are working the right way.
b. to make sure workers don't bring weapons into factories.
c. to make sure that broken needles don't get into clothing.
d. to help people recover lost clothing at the beach.
4. According to the text, metal detectors have been used in all of the following except_________.

a. schools b. courthouses c. churches d. airports

5. Find a word from the passage, which means the same as, ‘to look carefully in order to detect’.

a. ignore b. scan c. look away d. neglect

b) Analyse the following bar graph and answer the questions that follow:
6. How many students are born in the months of February and September?

a.7 b. 25 c. 22 d. 11
7. In which of the two months 32 students are born in total?

a. May and October b. May and September

c. September and October d. December and September
8. The number of students born in first half of the year is ______.

a. 60 b. 66 c. 50 d. 75

9. After August in which month is the highest number of students born?

a. May b. June c. October d. December

10. In which Quarter of the year is the least number of students born?

a. First quarter b. Third quarter

c. Second quarter d. Fourth quarter
SECTION-B : (Objective Type Questions) (8x1=8 marks)
Q2. Answer the following questions:

1). Abraham Lincoln wrote the letter to _________. (Grooming of a Boy)

a. his son b. his daughter c. his son’s teacher d. his friend

2). Time is more powerful than money. (True/False) (Budgeting your Time) 3).
How old was Sher Singh? (Journey by Night)

a. ten years b. eleven years c. twelve years d. nine years

4). According to the poem, no countries are _________. (No Men are Foreign)

a. developed b. bad c. foreign d. developing

5). How much did the farmer pay to the boy as wages? (The Magic Violin) 6).
What excuse did Sushil make for not going to school? (Wishes come True)
a.Tummy ache b. High fever c. Severe cold d. Severe headache
7). During the flood, the villagers went to the palace for shelter. (True/False) (In the Flood) 8).Chenna
lived with his wife and ______ children. (In the Flood)

a. Two b. four c. six d. three

SECTION-C (English Textbooks) (24 Marks)

English Main Course Book (Prose)

3. (a) Answer any three of the following questions in 15-20 words each: 3X2=6 Marks

1). What should one never sell? (Grooming of a Boy)

2). Where did Bose go for higher studies? (Plants also Breathe and Feel)
3). What happens to those who are left behind in time? (Budgeting your Time)
4). Who was Sher Singh Bahadur? (Journey by Night) 5).
How did Sher Singh carry his brother? (Journey by Night) b).
Answer the following question (any One) in 30-50 words. 1X3=3 Marks

Write a short note on the Uses of Crescograph. (Plants also Breathe and Feel)

Or
Explain the circumstances in which Kunwar was taken to the hospital. (Journey by Night)
English Main Course Book: Poetry

4(a) Answer any two of the following questions after reading the stanza. 2x1.5=3 Marks

Come out of thy meditation and

leave aside thy flowers and incense ! what
harm is there if thy clothes become tattered
and stained? Meet him and stand by him in toil and in the
sweat of thy brow.
i. Write the name of the poet and the poem.
ii. What does the poet say about our meditations? iii. What does he
want us to leave aside and why?
b). Write the central idea of the poem ‘No Men are Foreign’. 1x3= 3 Marks

OR
Why does the poet say that we should leave chanting, singing and telling of beads?
(Open Thy Eyes and See Thy God)

English Literature Book: Supplementary Reader

5).Answer any three of the following questions in 15-20 words each: 3X3=9 Marks

1). Who did the boy give his three coins and why? (The Magic Violin)
2. What happened to Subalchandra after his wish was granted? (Wishes Come True)
3). Was Sulabhchandra happy with the change? Why? (Wishes come True)
4).Why did Chenna Paraya not want to leave his hut? (In the Flood)
5). What happened to the dog in the end? (In the Flood)
 SECTION-D (Vocabulary) (4 Marks)

6. (a) Fill in the blanks with a suitable word. 1 Mark

She gave _______to a male child. (birth/berth)

(b) Use the word ‘round’ in the forms of Noun and Adjective to make sentence in your own
words. 2 Marks

(c) Give the antonyms of the following words: 2x1/2 =1 Mark

huge, deep

SECTION-E (Grammar and Composition) (29 Marks)

7. (a) Translate the following sentences from English to Punjabi/Hindi. (any three) 3X1=3
Marks

I. Steer him away from envy.

II. It was an event that surprised the scientific world.
III. Time and tide wait for none.
IV. It is of no use crying over spilt milk. V. The sky blazed with stars.
b). Translate the following sentences from Punjabi to English. (any three) 3x1= 3 Marks

I. ।
ਮੈਂ ਪੰ ਜਾਬੀ ਬੋਲ ਸਕਦੀ ਹਾਂ
II. ਸੂਰਜ ਪੂਰਬ ਵ ਿੱੱਚੋਂ ਿਵਕਲਦਾ ਹੈ।

III. ਕੀ ਮਾਲੀ ਸ ੱਰ ਤੋਂ ਪੌਵਦਆਂ ਿੱੱੰੱੂ ਪਾਣੀ ਿੱਹੀਂ ਦ ਵਰਹਾ ਹੈ?

IV. ਅਿਵਆਪਕ ਪਾਠ ਿੱਹੀਂ ਪੜ੍ੱਾਹ ਿਚਕ ੱਾ ਸੀ।

V.ਅਸੀਂ ਜਲੰਿੱਰ ਵ ਿੱੱਚ 1998 ਤੋਂ ਰਵਹ ਰਹ ਸੀ।

8. Grammar (Do as Directed)

1. Fill in the blanks with suitable determiners. 2 Marks

a). There were hardly ____ mistakes in her essay. (some/any)

b). Gold is _____ precious metal. (a/the)

2. Fill in the blanks with appropriate Modals. 2 Marks

a) She _____ speak English when she was hardly four. (can/could)
b) You _____ take exercise daily. (may/should)

3. Fill in the blanks with suitable Prepositions. 2 Marks

a) I feel no appetite ______ food. (of/for)

b) He fell ____ the river. (in/into)

4. Fill in the blanks with suitable connectors. 2 Marks

a) Though she is poor, ____ she is honest. (but/yet)

 b) Walk carefully ______ you should slip. (lest/and)

5. Combine the following Simple Sentence into Compound Sentence. 1 Mark

She is rich. She leads an unhappy life.

6. Identify the subordinate clause and name it. 1 Mark

He who works hard will succeed.

9 (a). Suppose you are Surjit Singh. Write an e-mail to your friend, Vipin Goyal inviting him to

watch a play. 3 Marks

or

Read the passage carefully and write the main points in the space provided:

According to the Union Transport Ministry, although buses constitute only 1.2% of India's vehicles, in
2002 they were responsible for more than 11% of road accidents and 13% deaths. Around 85,000
people die every year from road accidents in India and the social cost of all this is a staggering Rs.
55,000 crores. In India, as in Asia, the driver is the main culprit-78% of accidents are attributed to the
driver's fault. And although there are programmes for teaching road safety, only a very few drivers
attend it. Indeed, Dr. Sanjay K. Singh of IIT, Kanpur and a transport subject expert argues that bus
safety in India will not improve unless drivers are better off economically and not overworked. In
addition, he says, road infrastrstructure must improve with special lanes for cyclists and handcarts,
and proper footpaths for pedestrians.
1. Report on Road Accidents from Transport Ministry :

a) No. of road accidents each year ___________ .

b) % accidents by bus drivers _____________ .
c) % deaths caused by these accidents ___________ .
d) Money spent on problems related to accidents _________ .
2. Solution:

a) training drivers: ___________ problems: _______

b) condition of drivers: __________
c) better roads - how?
b) Write a paragraph on any one of the following topics in about 100 words. 4 Marks

My Neighbour or Our School Headmaster

(c) Letter Writing 6 Marks

Suppose you are Sohan. You live at 234, Mohan Pura, Ludhiana. Write a letter to your friend, asking
him to spend a part of his summer vacation with you.

Or

Write a letter to M/S Rawali & Sons for complaining against delivery of an inferior electric iron.

10) Marks for good handwriting 5 marks