Class 9th English ardhvarshik paper 2024 - अगर आप भी कक्षा 9वीं अंग्रेजी अर्धवार्षिक पेपर 2024 की तैयारी कर रहे हैं तो इस पोस्ट में दिया गया Class 9th angreji ardhvarshik paper 2024 के सभी question answer की तैयारी अवश्य करें।
Roll No……………..
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Class 9th Half Yearly Exam 2024–25
[406]
ENGLISH
अंग्रेजी
[Total No. of Questions: 23] [Total No. of Printed Pages: 07] [Time: 03 Hours] [Maximum Marks: 75]
SECTION - A
1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below .
Gautama Buddha (563 BC 483 BC) began life as prince named Siddhartha Gautama, in Northern India. At twelve, he was sent away for schooling in the Hindu sacred scriptures and four years later he returned home to marry a princess. They had a son and lived for ten years as befitted royalty.
At about the age of twenty-five, the prince, heretofore shielded from the sufferings of the world, while out hunting chanced upon a sick man, then an aged man, then a funeral procession, and finally a monk begging for alms. These sights so moved him that he at once went out into the world to seek enlightenment concerning the sorrows he had witnessed,
Questions:
(a) What was Gautama Buddha's early name?
(i) Sidhha
(ii) Sadhu
(iii) Siddhartha
(iv) Sidhant.
(b) What did Gautama Buddha witness while hunting?
(i) Beauty of nature
(ii) The pleasure of hunting
(iii) Joy of life
(iv) Sufferings of people.
(c) Gautama Buddha studied
(i) Greek scriptures
(ii) Sanskrit scriptures
(iii) Hindu scriptures
(iv) Latin scriptures.
(d) Gautama Buddha saw a…………..begging for alms.
(e) Identify the word from the extract which means 'spiritual knowledge
2. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below :
Mr. Lamb is reminded of his hive of bees that he has to tend to. He says that some people feel bees buzz, but he believes that the bees sing. Thus, Mr. Lamb wants to drive home the point that it is the attitude that shapes a man.
Derek says that he does'nt like being near people, especially when he knows that they are afraid of him. At this point, Mr. Lamb narrates the story of a timid man, who refused to come out of his house because he feared that he will be a victim of some fatal accident.
Questions:
(a) Mr. Lamb feels that shapes a man.
(i) personality
(ii) attitude
(iii) mood
(iv) way of eating.
(b) Mr. Lamb narrates the story of a:
(i) Timid man
(ii) Blind man
(iii) Selfish woman
(iv) Naughty boy.
(c) Derek feels that people are of him.
(i) irritated
(ii) jealous
(iii) afraid
(iv) touched.
(d) Mr. Lamb believes that the bees
(e) Write the word from the passage which is opposite in meaning to 'agreed
SECTION - B
3. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below: 4 Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them, our purpose is to make them fit for life. As soon as we realise this fact, we will understand that it is very important to choose a system of education which will really prepare children for life. It is not enough to choose the first system of education one finds, or to continue with one's old system of education without examining to see whether it is suitable or not.
Questions:
(A) Give a suitable title.
(B) Read the passage carefully and make notes.
4. Write a letter to the District Health Officer drawing his attention to the insanitary conditions prevailing in your locality.
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Or
Write a letter to your father requesting him to send you 1000 through NEFT.
5. Write an essay on any one of the following topics -
(i) My Hobby,
(ii) The Festival of Lights,
(iii) My Favourite Game,
(iv) Science-Uses in our daily Life
Or
Q. 6. Picture guided composition, on the basis of the picture given below, write a short paragraph about the importance of trees.
SECTION - C
7. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct word from the brackets (any five):
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(i) My friend................. his duty well. (do/does)
(ii) We............... speak the truth. (can, may, should)
(iii) Frogs are jumping ………… the river. (on, in, into)
(iv) Reeta is ................. tallest girl of our class. (a, an, the)
(v) My grandmother has been suffering from fever…….morning. (for, since)
(vi) Physics………….. not a difficult subject. (is, are)
(vii) Children ............... football in the evening. (play/plays)
8. Do as directed (any five):
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(i) We like sweets. (Change into Interrogative)
(ii) He sings a song. (Change into Past Indefinite Tense)
(iii) He said to me, "Dont open the box.". (Change the narration)
(iv) Children read books. (Change into passive voice)
(v) As soon as he went out, his friend came in. (Rewrite the sentence using No sooner than)
(vi) The old man is very weak. He cannot walk. (Rewrite the sentence using so........... that)
(vii) take/morning/I/tea/in/the. (Rearrange the words to make a meaningful sentence)
SECTION -D
9. Choose the correct option:
(i) According to Tommy, the real book was
(A) Boring
(B) A waste
(C) Wrong
(D) Fiction.
(ii) Who spotted Evelyn's potential?
(A) Her father
(B) Her friends
(C) Her mother
(D) Ron Forbes.
(iii) The destructive power of the wind is a symbol of?
(A) Adversities
(B) Problems
(C) Challenges
(D) All of these.
(iv) The flutes of the pole are compared to :
(A) A beehive
(B) A bunch of oranges
(C) Quills of porcupine
(D) All of these.
Q . 10. Read the following extract and answer the questions given below :
3 (A) To the little girl, he was a figure to be feared and avoided. Every morning before going to work he came into her room and gave her a casual kiss,to which she responded with 'Good Bye Father'. And oh, there was a glad sense of relief when she heard the noise of the carriage growing fainter and fainter down the long road!
Questions:-
(i) The little girl feared and avoided
(a) her mother
(b) her father
(c) her grandmother.
(ii) Her father visited her
(a) in evening
(b) in morning
(c) in afternoon.
(iii) Find out a word from the passage which means "answered".
(B) Read the extract carefully and answer the following questions given below :
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No motion has she now, no force- She neither hears nor sees, Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks and stones and trees.
Questions:
(a) What does 'She' refer to in this stanza ?
(i) Poet's teacher
(ii) Poet's mother
(iii) Poet's grandmother
(iv) A lovely child.
(b) She cannot hear or see as she is
(i) deaf
(ii) blind
(iii) dead
(iv) dumb
(c) In the above stanza 'Diurnal' means:
(i) Monthly
(ii) Daily
(iii) Fortnightly
(iv) Weekly
Q. 11. Answer the following questions in 30 words (Any six).
(1) What is a telebook?
(ii) When was Evelyn's deafness noticed? When was it confirmed ?
(iii) Who were the people in Kezia's family?
(iv) Who were Abul Kalam's school friends? What did they later become ?
(v) How did Bruno and the author's wife react when they met at Mysore 200?
(vi) What does Vikram Seth compare to the quills of a porcupine ?
(vii) Why was Santosh Yadav sent to the local school?
Q. 12. Answer the following questions in 30 words (Any two).
(i) What did the duck promise the Kangaroo ?
(ii) How does a tree become strong?
(iii) How is the snake's body?
Q. 13. Answer the following questions in 30 words. (Any two)
(i) Name all the people who are tried in king's court.
(ii) For whom does the prince send the sapphires ?
Q. 14. Answer the following questions in 70 words. (Any two) (iii) What illness did Johnsy have? Who looked after her ?
(i) How does Evelyn hear music ?
(ii) What characteristics did Abdul Kalam inherit from his parents?
(iii) Why did the policeman stop the party of Westerners in the temple ?
Q. 15. Answer the following questions in about 70 words:
What is the meaning of "bleeding bark"? What makes it bleed?
Or
Why does the poet want the snake to be spared?
Q. 16. What are the precious things mentioned in the story 'The Happy Prince'? Why are they precious? 3
Or
What is Behrman's Masterpiece? What makes Sue say so?
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