KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA DRDO BENGALURU

PT III 2020-21 CLASS IX ENGLISH

MM: 40 Marks Time: 90 minutes
General Instructions
1. This paper is divided into two sections: A and B. All questions are compulsory.
2. Separate instructions are given with each section and question, wherever necessary. Read these
instructions very carefully and follow them.
3. Do not exceed the prescribed word limit while answering the questions.
SECTION A
Q1. Read the following passage carefully:

There are two problems which cause great worry to our educationists, the problem of religious and moral instruction in
a land of many faiths and the problem arising out of a large variety of languages. Taking up the education of children,
we see that they should be trained to love one another, to be kind and helpful to all, to be tender to the lower animals
and to observe and think right. The task of teaching them how to read and write and to count and calculate is important,
but it should not make us lose sight of the primary aim of moulding personality in the right way. For this, it is necessary
to call into aid, culture, tradition and religion. But in our country we have, in the same school, to look after boys and
girls born in different faiths and belonging to families that live diverse ways of life and follow different forms of worship
associated with different denominations of religion. It will not do to tread the easy path of evading the difficulty by
attending solely to physical culture and intellectual education. We have to evolve a suitable technique and method for
serving the spiritual needs of school children professing different faiths. We would thereby promote an atmosphere of
mutual respect, a fuller understanding and helpful co-operation among the different communities in our society. Again
we must remain one people and we have therefore to give basic training in our schools to speak and understand more
languages than one and to appreciate and respect the different religions prevailing in India. It is not right for us in India
to be dissuaded from this by considerations as to overtaking the young mind. What is necessary must be done. And it is
not in fact too great a burden.

On the basis of your understanding of the passage, choose the correct options to answer ANY EIGHT of the
following questions: (8x1)
1. The main objective of education in India is ______________
a. imparting knowledge
b. moulding the proper personality
c. developing language skills
d. teaching physical culture
2. India is a ______________ country.
a. multi-layered
b. multi-coloured
c. multinational
d. multilinguistic
3. It is a challenge for the educationists to cater to the spiritual needs of Indian students because__________.
a. they are not exposed to many languages
b. they don’t tolerate each other
c. they practice different faiths
d. they live diverse ways of life
4. ____________Should not be considered a burden for the school children in India.
a. Learning more languages
b. Understanding mathematical calculations
c. Adopting new techniques and methods
d. following age-old culture and tradition
5. Pick the word from the passage which means’ escape or avoid’.
a. evolve
b. prevail
c. tread

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6. Which is not true about the main purpose of education

a. to practice different faith
b. to love one another
c. to be kind and helpful to all
d. to be tender to the lower animals
7. For attaining the goal of education, we need to promote ……………… among different communities.
a. rapport
b. harmony
c. enhanced perception
d. all the above
8. Which one is not similar to the meaning of ‘dissuaded’
a. prevented
b. diverted
c. hindered
d. None of the above.

Q2. Read the extract given below and choose the correct option to answer the questions: 3X1

(A) The snake trying

to escape the pursuing stick,
with sudden curvings of thin
long body. How beautiful
and graceful are his shapes!

1. Who is the poet of the poem ‘The Snake Trying’?

(a) Edward Lear
(b) W.W.E. Ross
(c) Gieve Patel
(d) William Wordsworth
2. Where is the snake lying until observed?
(a) in a tree
(b) on the water
(c) on the sand
(d) in the mud
3. Name the poetic device used in ‘the pursuing stick’
(a) Enjambment
(b) Simile
(c) Transferred epithet
(d) Personification
4. What is the nature of the green snake which is trying to escape?
(a) harmless
(b) furious
(c) harmful
(d) annoyed

OR

(B) Remember they have eyes like ours that wake

Or sleep, and strength that can be won
By love. In every land is common life
That all can recognise and understand.

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 1. What things are common in all the people?
a. all are born and brought up in the same way
b. all sleep to take rest
c. all breathe, work hard, eat to live and die in the same way
d. all the above
2. What should be discouraged according to the poem?
a. the practice of love and brotherhood
b. equality
c. ill practice of hatred and discrimination
d. None of the above
3. Poetic device used in the above stanza is
a. Personification
b. Enjambment
c. Anaphora
d. Simile
4. Which of the following is against the common life?
a. Hatred
b. Violence
c. Communal harmony
d. Inhumaneness

Q3. Choose the correct options to fill ANY THREE of the given four blanks to complete the note about
Buddhists in the following passage: (3x1)
Buddhists (i) ____________survived in India only as a comparatively small sect, (ii) ____________
Buddhism in (iii) ____________East today has (iv) ____________ hundred and fifty million adherents.
(i) (a) has (b) have (c) had (d) been
(ii) (a) and (b) or (c) but (d) then
(iii) (a) a (b) an (c) the (d) at
(iv) (a) over (b)the (c) an (d) a

Q4. Choose the correct option to report the conversation between friends: (3x1)

Image 1: conversation between Rahul & Sam Image 2: conversation between Sam & Sean

i. Planning to have lunch together, Rahul asked Sam…………………………………..To which

Sam replied that he would be in Math class.
a. where will he be at 11.30
b. that where he would be at 11.30
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 c. where he would be at 11.30
d. where would he be at 11.30
ii. Sam, next asked Sean……………………………………………
a. what are you doing tonight
b. what he was doing that night.
c. what was he doing that night
d. what he was doing tonight
iii. Sean replied that…………………………………………………….
a. he is going to do his homework and play his guitar.
b. I am going to do my homework and play his guitar.
c. he was going to do his homework and play his guitar.
d. he will do his homework and play his guitar.

SECTION B

Q5. Taking help of the information given below, write an article in about 100-120 words on ‘Vocational
Training: An alternative for Unemployed Indian Youth’. 5 marks

Millions of frustrated and half-educated youngsters- misfit for any walk of life- unemployed youth flood
into cities- add only disorder & crimes- vocational training in carpentry, masonry, plumbing, etc.- would
open self-employment- skilled youth in demand offshore too.

OR

You are one of the Delhi Govt. School teachers included in front line workers for Covid-19 vaccine roll out
which is all set to kick off Jan 16. Write a page of diary about expressing your hopes, fears and apprehensions.
Word limit 100-120. 5 marks

Q6. Complete the story using the ANYONE of the prompts given below. Give a suitable TITLE to the
story. Word Limit 120 words. 5 Marks
A. “You should sleep.”
–“I am not human. Therefore, I do not require sleep. But sometimes I wish I could sleep never to
wake up.”
OR
B. “Sorry, I have to go and plant a tree.”
-“Did you know that humans make great fertilizers?”
-“Why and how do you know that?”

Q7. Answer ANY TWO questions in 40-50 words each, from (A) and (B) respectively. (3x4=12)
(A)
i. What made both, Santosh and Sharapova determined and mentally tough?
ii. Inspite of Bruno’s loving and playful nature, he was sent to zoo. Why?
iii. Explain ‘anchoring earth’ and ‘earth cave’ in the poem ‘On Killing a Tree’.
(B)
i. Comment on the aptness of the title ‘The Last Leaf’.
ii. How are the two characters, Johnsy and Sue different in nature yet devoted to each other?
iii. Explain “My cat was back and so was I.” Why does the author say that he is also back?

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