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Important Instructions for theSchool Principal

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1) This question paper is strictly meant for use in school based SA-II, March-2012only. This question paper is not to be used for any other purpose exceptmentioned above under any circumstances.

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SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT II, 2012ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Class - IX

Maximum Marks : 90 Time : 3 hours

Instructions :

The question paper is divided into four sections.

Section A : Reading 20 marks

Section B : Writing 20 marks

Section C : Grammar 15 marks

Section D : Literature 35 marks

All questions are compulsory.

Marks are indicated against each question.

SECTION - A(Reading 20 Marks)

1. Read the passage given below and complete the sentences that follow bywriting the options that you consider the most appropriate in your answersheet :

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The biggest travesty of this generation is that families do not dine together,says Jean K Hopper, a noted American etiquette and protocol consultant,adding, Dinning together not merely fosters good table manners but goodsocial skills as well. Theres an awareness of the other that comes from sitting

together.Sitting together and having a family meal, generally the evening meal, curbsour natural savagery and animal greed. It cultivates the feeling of sharing andconsideration for others. Indeed, table manners are one of the subtlest linesseparating civility from barbarity.

Dinner rituals have little to do with the income or the social class of a family.Its not important whether you sit at a dining table or squat on the kitchenfloor. Even the food you have hardly matters. What really counts is the gracewith which food is served and accepted. Its through the practice of familysitting at meals and observing the attendant convention that youngsters learn

the art of human companionship, the culture of giving and receiving.The ideal family meal calls for undistracted dinning, not sitting in front of theT.V. Research reveals those families who watch T.V. during dinner time tendto develop poor eating habits, putting kids at risk from obesity ormalnutrition.

(a) The biggest travesty of the generation is that ____________.(i) families have no dining table.(ii) families do not dine together.(iii) families dine together.(iv) families have no enough food to dine.

(b) Dinning together fosters ____________.(i) good table manners (ii) good social skills(iii) an awareness of others (iv) All of the above

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(c) The more important thing in dinner rituals is ____________?(i) what food is served(ii) how much costly is the food(iii) the grace with which food is served and accepted(iv) All of the above

(d) The ideal families do not sit in front of T.V. because _________.(i) there is risk of developing malnutrition and poor eating habits.(ii) it develop poor eating habits(iii) they forget eating(iv) they eat a lot

(e) The word from passage which is antonym of harmless is ________.(i) ritual (ii) harmful(iii) obesity (iv) travesty

2. Read the passage given below and complete the sentences that follow bychoosing the correct alternatives from those given : 5

Smoking is the major cause of mortality with cancer of the lung and is one ofthe factors causing death due to cancers of throat, mouth, food pipe, kidney,stomach and coronary heart diseases.

Nicotine is the major substance present in the smoke that causes physicaldependence. The additives do produce damage to the body for example,ammonia can result in a two fold increase in the ability of nicotine to enterinto the smoke.

Levulinic acid, added to cigarettes to mask the harsh taste of the nicotine, canincrease the binding of nicotine to brain receptors, which increases the kickof nicotine.

Smoke from the burning end of a cigarette contains over 4000 chemicals and40 carcinogens. It has long been known that tobacco smoke is cancer causing.

The lungs of smokers collect an annual deposit of 1 to 1 pounds of the softand sticky black material. Invisible gas phase of cigarette smoke containsnitrogen, oxygen and toxic gases like carbon monoxide, formaldehyde,acrolein, hydrogen cyanide and nitrogen oxides. These gases are poisonousand in many cases interfere with the bodys ability to transport oxygen.

(a) ____________in a cigarette makes people addicted to it ?

(i) Ammonia (ii) Nicotine(iii) Laevulin (iv) Lung cancer(b) ____________ in cigarettes helps the user to cover up the unpleasant

taste of nicotine.(i) Smoke (ii) Ammonia(iii) Levulinic acid (iv) None of the above.

(c) The word ____________ in the first para means a death.(i) lung (ii) coronary(iii) stomach (iv) mortality

(d) The kick of nicotine means its____________ .(i) harsh taste (ii) smoke

(iii) effect (iv) unpleasant smell.(e) The word in the passage that means take something from one place to

another is ____________ .

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(i) transport (ii) interfere(iii) receptor (iv) bind

3. Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow : 1x5=5LET US BE HUMAN

Two hungry dogs lingered behind me,

I thought they wanted a meal.My friend shooed them away,They went; but slowly, in dismay.I told my friend that it was wrong,As they trotted and strayed along.As the dogs went away,They stopped to talk and prayThey seemed to be lost deep in thought.What nature and destiny for them had brought.I wondered what they were thinking of us,The masters of the world, the conquerors of the earth.

Cant we love and live with nature ?Cant we help these speechless creatures ?As I stood there awed and dazed,I read their faces,Transfixed and amazed.It dawned upon me that they were beautifully made.I imagined that they were talking.About us and our doings.They thought that we were aliens on earth,Who had been killing and conquering since birth.They could do nothing against a man.

I watched the dogs enter a street,I knew that they were searching for meat.Why do we rob these innocent dogs ?Of basic food for which they long ?That day to me was a thickening fog,Should we humans continue to hog ?

(a) What was the wrong done to the dogs ?(b) Why did the two dogs follow the poet ?(c) Who cant love and live with nature ?(d) What message does the poet convey through the poem ?

(e) Which word in the passage means the same as fate / lot ?

4. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : 5

The great advantage of early rising is the good start it gives us in our dayswork. The early riser has done a large amount of work before other men getout of bed. In the early morning, the mind is fresh and there are few soundsand other distractions. So the work done at this time is generally well done.The early riser also finds time to take some exercise in this fresh morning air,and this exercise supplies him with enough energy that will last until theevening. By beginning early, he knows that he has plenty of time to dothoroughly all the work he is expected to do and he is not tempted to hurry

over any part of it. All his work is finished in good time and he goes to bedearly. He gets several hours of sleep before midnight when sleep is the most

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refreshing. After a sound nights rest, he rises early next morning in goodhealth and spirit for the labour of a new day.

(a) How does early rising give us a good start ?(b) Why is the work done in the morning generally better ?(c) What is the advantage of exercise ?

(d) Why does the early riser not have to hurry up ?(e) Which word in the passage means completely ?

SECTION - B(Writing 20 Marks)

5. You are Ankit / Ankita living at A405, Old Rohtak Road, Delhi. Yourfriend Sandeep / Sandhya has recovered after long illness. Write a lettercongratulating your friend on his / her recovery. (100 words)

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ORYou are Rohit / Reena living at 59, Rana Pratap Bagh, Delhi. Write a letter to

the editor of a local daily requesting him to bring to the notice of theauthorities the problem of frequent breakdown of electricity in yourlocality. (100 words)

6. Drug addiction is becoming very common among our youth. Perhaps someof the young find this life too burdensome. To escape from this they take todrugs. Write an article in about 120 words on the topic, The Evil of DrugAddiction. Use the following verbal input.

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(Drug addiction very common among youth_____ causes_____ parents toostrict_____ neglect them_____ no employment after 50 -20 years of education_____ frustrated _____ start taking drugs _____ keep our youth away _____

employment based educational system _____to be evolved.)OR

The population of India is increasing at a very fast rate. At present it isabout 110 Crore. In 1951, it was about 51 Crore. Due to this populationexplosion, India is facing many problems. Write a speech in about 120words telling the problems caused by Population Explosion and alsosuggesting some methods to check it,. Use the following verbal input.(Population in India _____ increasing _____ causes_____ problems _____poverty _____ no progress _____ unemployment _____ crime _____unavailability of resources _____ checked _____ family planning _____ birthcontrol etc.)

7. The teacher asked the students to write a story. Anil could not complete thestory. Help him to complete his story on the basis of the beginning givenbelow. (80 words)

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One day a wood cutter was felling a tree at the bank of a river. By chance hisaxe fell into the river. He began to weep. The god of water appeared and said__________

ORRohan and Nitesh are meeting after a long time. They discuss what theyhave been doing since they parted. Write a dialogue between them.

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SECTION - C(Grammar 15 Marks)

8. Choose the most appropriate options from the list to complete the followingpassage. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blanknumbers. Do not copy the whole passage.

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Without the mothers (a) __________ touch no family (b) __________ growproperly. The father (c) __________ be the formal head (d) __________ thefamily, But bit is the mother (e) __________ brings up the family and(f) __________ the young.

(a) (i) love (ii) loved (iii) loving (iv) to love(b) (i) Can (ii) Could (iii) may (iv) should(c) (i) should (ii) may (iii) must (iv) Could(d) (i) in (ii) to (iii) of (iv) into(e) (i) who (ii) which (iii) that (iv) what(f) (i) train (ii) trains (iii) trained (iv) training

9. Complete the news item given below by choosing the appropriate optionsfrom the list given. Write the answers in your answer sheet against thecorrect blank numbers. Do not copy the whole passage.

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People killed in earthquake in GujaratThousands of people (a) __________ in the earthquake in Gujarat last month.Many villages (b) __________ completely. Now new houses (c) __________ forthe homeless.

(a) (i) were killed (ii) was killed(iii) is killed (iv) had been killed

(b) (i) are destroyed (ii) were destroyed(iii) had been destroyed (iv) destroyed

(c) (i) is built (ii) are built(iii) are being built (iv) have built

10. Read the dialogue given below and then complete the report that follows.Write your answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers.Do not copy the dialogue and the report.

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Ravi : Please give me some assignment on G. K.Anil : Why do you want assignments ?Ravi : I have to prepare for examination.Ravi requested Anil (a) ______________________________________ . Anilasked him (b) ______________________________________ . Ravi told Anil that(c) ______________________________________ .

11. The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in eachline. Write the incorrect word and the correction against the correct blanknumber in your answer sheet as given in the example.Ensure that the word forms your answer is underlined.

Incorrect correctOne day, Nawab sent words words __________ wordto his minister that I wanted (a) __________________a entire earth measured from (b) __________________

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side to side and of end to end. (c) __________________He would also great appreciate (d) __________________it, if the minister count the (e) __________________stars in a sky as well. (f) __________________

12. Look at the words and phrases given below. Rearrange them to form

meaningful sentences. The first one has been done as an example. Write thecorrect sentences in your answer sheet.

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day / the / happy / wish / you / returns / many / of / II wish you many happy returns of the day.(a) feared by / snakes / are / in our / worshipped and / many people /

country(b) a day / an / doctor / away / apple / the / keeps(c) injurious / smoking / is / health / to

SECTION - D(TEXT BOOKS 35 MARKS)

13. (a) Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow : 4He came and sat down on things, just when they were wanted to bepacked, and he labored under the fixed belief that, whenever Harris orGeorge reached out their hand for anything, it was his cold damp nosethat they wanted. He put his legs into jam, and he worried theteaspoons, and he pretended that the lemons were rats, and he got intothe hamper and killed three of them before Harris could land him withthe fryingpan.(i) Who came and sat down on the things ?(ii) What did Harris or George touch when they reached their

hand for packing ?

(iii) Where did he put his legs ?(iv) What did he do the lemons ?(b) Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow : 4

Because I was so young, I used to go to bed at 8 p.m. The other tennispupils would come in at 11 p.m. and wake me up and order me to tidyup the room and clean it. Instead of letting that depress me, I becamemore quietly determined and mentally tough. I learnt how to take careof myself, I never thought of quitting because I knew what I wanted.When you come from nothing and you have nothing then in makesyou very hungry and determined. I would have put up with muchmore humiliation and insults than that to steadfastly pursue my

dream.(i) Why did Maria go to bed so early ?(ii) What would the other pupils ask her to do ?(iii) Did she ever think of quitting the game ?(iv) What did she become after suffering this humiliation ?

14. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow bychoosing the most appropriate options from those given. [Any two extracts]

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(A) Said the Duck, As I sat on the rocks,I have thought over that completely,And I bought four pairs of worsted socks

Which fit my web feet neatly.And to keep out the cold lve bought a cloak,And every day a cigar Ill smoke,

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All to follow my own dear trueLove of a Kangaroo!(i) The Duck bought four pairs of worsted socks__________

(a) for the kangaroo.(b) to wear in her wet feet.(c) to open a shop of socks.

(d) to sit on the rocks after wearing them.(ii) The Duck bought__________to keep out the cold.(a) socks (b) a clock(c) a cloak (d) a cigar

(iii) The word, worsted means__________(a) made of firmly twisted yarn(b) worst(c) cotton(d) woolen

(B) It takes much time to kill a tree,

Not a simple jab of knifeWill do it. It has grownSlowly consuming the earth,Rising out of it, feedingUpon its crust, absorbingYears of sunlight, air water,And out of its leprous hideSprouting leaves.

(i) __________help a tree grow stronger(a) Water (b) Sunlight

(c) Air (d) all of the above(ii) __________is harmful to kill a tree.

(a) Water(b) A simple job of the knife(c) Slowing consuming the Earth(d) Not a simple job of knife

(iii) The phrase leprous hide means __________(a) roots of the plant (b) rough bark of the tree(c) sprouting leaves (d) a job of knife

(C) He glides through the water away

from the stroke. O let him goover the waterInto the reeds to hideWithout hurt. Small and greenHe is harmless even to children.

(i) He in the first line stands for the__________(a) snake (b) poet(c) man (d) children

(ii) The snake is__________(a) harmless

(b) green(c) small(d) all of the above

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(iii) The snake is going into the water__________(a) to swim over it.(b) to drink water(c) to hide into the reeds(d) to dive

15. Answer any three of the following questions in 40 50 words each. 2x3=6(a) Why does the Intruder choose Gerrard as the man whose identity hewants to take on ?

(b) What incidents during the Everest expedition show Santoshs concernfor her team-mates ?

(c) What was Jeromes real intention when he offered to pack ?(d) Write a brief character sketch of Santosh Yadav.

16. Answer the following question in about 80 words. 5Why was Baba sent to Mysore Zoo and how was he taken back ?

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Compare and contrast the atmosphere in and around the Baudhnath Shrinewith that of the Pashupatinath temple.

17. Answer the following question in about 80 words. 4How did Prashant help children and women of his village ?

ORWhat was the doctors diagnosis about Johnsys ailment ? What were thechances of her recovery ?

18. Answer any two the following questions in 40 50 words each. 3x2=6(a) How does Bill Bryson end up in a crash position in the aircraft ?

(b) How did his old teachers encourage the author to adjust in his newschool ?(c) How did Olga save Lushkoff ?

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