DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL

Secunderabad
NACHARAM | MAHENDRA HILLS | NADERGUL

Grade- IX PT-3 WORKSHEET Subject- English

SECTION A- READING
I. Read the passage given below carefully:
1. Book clubs are a great way to meet new friends or keep in touch with old ones, while keeping up on your
reading and participating in lively and intellectually stimulating discussions. If you’re interested in starting a
book club, you should consider the following options and recommendations.
2. The first thing you’ll need are members. Before recruiting, think carefully about how many people you
want to participate and also what the club’s focus will be. For example, some book clubs focus exclusively on
fiction, others read non-fiction. Some are even more specific, focusing only on a particular genre such as
mysteries, science fiction, or romance. All of these possibilities can make for a great club, but it is important
to decide on a focus at the outset so the guidelines will be clear to the group and prospective members. After
setting the basic parameters, recruitment can begin.
3. Notify friends and family, advertise in the local newspaper, and hang flyers on bulletin boards in local
stores, colleges, libraries, and bookstores. When enough people express interest, schedule a kick-off meeting
during which decisions will be made about specific guidelines that will ensure the club runs smoothly. This
meeting will need to establish where the group will meet, how often the group will meet, how books will be
chosen and by whom; who will lead the group. By the end of this meeting, these guidelines should be set and
a book selection and date for the first official meeting should be finalized.
4. Planning and running a book club is not without challenges, but when a book club is run effectively, the
experience can be extremely rewarding for everyone involved.
Based on your understanding of the passage, answer any FIVE of the following:
1. What are the functions of Book clubs?
2. According to the passage, when starting a book club, what is the first thing a person should do?
3. What all decisions should be made during the book club’s kick-off meeting?
4. The synonym for the word outset in paragraph 2 is ________________.
a. Source b. Effect
c. Beginning d. Gathering
5. A book club with a specific focus alone makes for a great book club. True/False.
6. Which of the following inferences can be drawn from the passage?
a. Smaller groups are better for a variety of reasons.
b. The social aspect of book clubs is more important than the intellectual.
c. Starting your own book club is better than joining an existing one.
d. When starting and running a book club, a casual approach is risky.
II.Read the passage given below carefully:
1. In today’s idea-driven economy, the cost of time is what really matters. With the constant pressure to
innovate, it makes little sense to waste countless collective hours commuting. So, the most efficient and
productive regions are those in which people are thinking and working—not sitting in traffic.
2. Commuting by car is among the least efficient of all our activities—not to mention among the least
enjoyable, according to detailed research by the Nobel Prize–winning economist Daniel Kahneman and his
colleagues. Though one might think that the economic crisis beginning in 2007 would have reduced traffic as
high unemployment means fewer workers traveling to and from work, the opposite has been true.
3. Average commutes have lengthened, and congestion has gotten worse, if anything. The average commute
rose in 2008 to 25.5 minutes, “erasing years of decreases to stand at the level of 2000, as people had to leave
home earlier in the morning to pick up friends for their ride to work or to catch a bus or subway train,”
according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which collects the figures. And those are average figures. Commutes are
far longer in the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco and the East Coast cities of New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.
4. The coming decades will likely see more intense clustering of jobs, innovation, and productivity in a
smaller number of bigger cities and city-regions. Some regions could end up bloated beyond the capacity of
their infrastructure, while others struggle by inadequate human or other resources.
 Based on your understanding of the passage, answer any FIVE of the following:
1. Which are the most productive regions according to the passage?
2. According to the passage, why was it believed that the economic crisis beginning in 2007 would reduce
traffic?
3. As per the U.S. Census Bureau, average commutes have lengthened, why?
4. Choose the word from Para 4 which means the opposite of bloated.
a. swell b. belly
c. balloon d. shrink
5. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
a. Travelling by car is the least efficient activity.
b. The average commute hiked in 2008 to 25.5 minutes.
c. Average commutes have lengthened, and congestion has gotten better.
d. In the coming years some regions might encounter inadequate resources.
6. Which one of these claims about traffic congestion is supported by the graph?
a. New York City commuters spend less time annually delayed by traffic congestion than the average
for very large cities.
b. Los Angeles commuters are delayed more hours annually by traffic congestion than are commuters
in Washington, D.C.
c. Commuters in Washington, D.C., face greater delays annually due to traffic congestion than do
commuters in New York City.
d. Commuters in Detroit spend more time delayed annually by traffic congestion than do commuters in
Houston, Atlanta, and Chicago.
SECTION B-
WRITING & GRAMMAR
III. (a) Write a story in about 120 words with the following lines and with a suitable title:
Beginning line: My Best friend Kim is from Japan.
Ending line: This world belongs to all of us, and all people should be able to live in respect
and harmony.
(b) Write a story in about 120 words with the following lines and with a suitable title:
Beginning line: One evening I was walking back from school when….
Ending line: I learnt my lesson that day. It is dangerous to be surrounded by fools.
(c) Describe a memorable holiday trip you took with your parents in about 120 words.
(d) Write a descriptive paragraph about your mentor/guide in about 120 words.

IV. (a) Read the following conversation and complete the passage that follows:
i) Vinay: Where are you going?
Amit: To the airport.
Vinay: May I drop you there in my car?
Amit: Thanks a lot! It will be a great help to me.
Vinay asked Amit where (1)_____________________ Amit replied (2)_______________ airport.
Vinay further asked him (3)__________________ there in his car. Amit thanked him, adding
(4)___________________
(b) Fill in the blanks with suitable determiners:
1. _______ (A few/Few) words of kindness would calm him down.
2. ___________ (Each/Every) person in the world has a parent.
3. My sister is_______ (the/an) architect.
 4. How _______ (much/many) eggs are available in the house?
5. I have neither seen _________(a/an) elephant nor _______(a/an) camel.
6. Have you been listening to__________(a/the) news lately.
7. __________(any/a) good breakfast will give you all ______(little/the)energy you need.
8. Prerna was born in ______(a/the) cultured family.
(c) Fill in the blanks:
1. The Minister, with his colleagues_______(is/are) going abroad.
2. Grandpa claims that Measles_________(cause/causes) spots to erupt all over a person’s body.
3. None ________(was/were) given a chance to speak.
4. Everybody who _________(play/plays) cricket enjoys the game.
5. The Headmaster and English teacher ___(is/are) Mr. Ravi.
6. His hair___________(is/are) grey in colour.
7. The girl_____(has/have) talked to me.
8. She _________(drink/drinks) a lot of water.
(d) Choose the correct option:
1. George has travelled a lot. He ______ speak many languages.
a) can b) could c) have to d) needs to
2. I can hear you quite well. You _____ not shout.
a) can b) could c) have to d) need
3. You_______ have a passport to visit most foreign countries.
a) can b) mustn’t c) needn’t d) need to
4. You ________ look after your old parents.
a) could b) should c) may d) need
5. She _______ walk when she was just 8 months old.
a) can b) could c) may d)might
6. She _________ call her parents at least once a week.
a) shall b)should c) would d)might
7. ___________ I meet the principal?
a) can b) will c)would d) could
8 During peak hours, it _________ take more than 2 hours to reach Thane from Mumbai.
a)will b) shall c) should d)would

SECTION C- LITERATURE:
V. Read the extracts given below and attempt ANY ONE, by answering the questions that follow:
[a] So, she decided to fight the system in her own quiet way when the right moment arrived. And the right
moment came when she turned sixteen. At sixteen, most of the girls in her village used to get married. Santosh
was also under pressure from her parents to do the same. A marriage as early as that was the last thing on
her mind. She threatened her parents that she would never marry if she did not get a proper education.
1. In this extract, who is she, and which system did she choose to challenge?.
2. She decided to rebel against the system, but how and why?
3. What was the “right moment”?
4. What did she do at this moment?

[b] Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign,

Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours; the land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
1. What makes men strange and countries foreign?
2. Explain: ‘Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes’.
3. Who is referred to as ‘our brothers’ in this stanza?
4. Explain: “In which we all shall lie.”

[c] 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
Upon its crust, absorbing
Years of sunlight, air, water,
And out of its leprous hide
Sprouting leaves.
1. Can a few blows from an axe kill a tree?
2. How does a tree gain its strength?
3. Where do the leaves come from?
4. Identify the poetic device in the first line of the poem.

[d] “I’m Russian. It’s true that the U.S. is a big part of my life. But I have Russian citizenship. My blood is
totally Russian. I will play the Olympics for Russia if they want me.”
1. Who says these words? Why?
2. What does she say about the U.S.?
3. Why does the speaker say, ‘My blood is totally Russian’?
4. Given a chance, what will Maria like to do for Russia?

[e] He held on to me while other firefighters ran into the house. He knew that I wasn’t acting very logically
and that if he were to let go, I’d run. He was right.
1. Who held on to whom and why?
2. Why did the other firefighters run into the house?
3.’He was right’. Why?
4. Which trait of the speaker do these lines highlight?

[f] At Pashupatinath (outside which a sign proclaims ‘Entrance for the Hindus only’) there is an atmosphere
of ‘febrile confusion’. Priests, hawkers, devotees, tourists, cows, monkeys, pigeons and dogs roam through the
grounds. We offer a few flowers. There are so many worshippers that some people trying to get the priest’s
attention are elbowed aside by others pushing their way to the front.
1. What is the sign outside the Pashupatinath temple?
2. What do the worshippers do?
3. Why does the policeman not allow a group of Westerners to enter the temple?

VI. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words each: -

1. A holy man should not curse the lady. Justify this statement in the context of the poem ‘A Legend of
the Northland’.
2. Which values of life does the poet support in The Lake Isle of Innisfree?
3. Clarify the reason for the King’s postponement of the execution of the disciple.
4. Explain how the doctor’s behavior changed after the snake was coiled around his arm.
5. What relationship does the tree have with the earth?
6. How did the swallow happen to meet the Happy Prince?
7. What happened to the author’s mother? How did fireman tackle her?
8. What was bothering Johnsy as she lay sick in her bed?
9. Detail how the poet will enjoy his night and day at Innisfree.
10. Why did the Happy Prince ask the swallow to stay with him?

VII. Answer the following questions in about 80-100 words each: -

1. Good deeds always make one happy. Elucidate with reference to the lesson ‘The Happy Prince’.
2. Abdul Kalam’s science teacher and the ‘new teacher’ had different outlooks. Discuss.
3. Yeats presents an idealized picture of the Lake Isle of Innisfree. Justify.
4. How did Zan’s life change after the tragic fire? Reflect on the basis of the lesson a house is not a home.
5. Describe Maria Sharapova’s achievements. What helped her overcome her problems?
6. Explain how Santosh describes her feelings at the summit of the Everest.
7. What do you think Behrman symbolizes?
8. The story The Happy Prince describes the exploitation of the poor by the rich and the affluent. Do you
agree? Discuss.
9. Santosh carved her own destiny. Write an account of her struggles and achievements.
10. What is the central idea of the poem On killing a Tree?