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Class - IX

General Instructions:

1. The Question Paper contains three sections.
2. Section A-READING has 18 questions. Attempt a total of 14 questions, as per specific instructions for each question.
3. Section B-WRITING & GRAMMAR has 12 questions. Attempt a total of 10 questions, as per specific instructions for each question.
4. Section C-LITERATURE has 30 questions. Attempt 26 questions, as per specific instructions for each question.
5. All questions carry equal marks.
6. There is NO negative marking.

Question No. 1 to 10 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
Maggie is a golden doodle. However, she turned out to be more golden than a doodle. She has lots of energy, is very loving, a people pleaser, soft and she loves every minute of life. But when she was small, we called her "The Demon". She lived to jump on me, bite me, and steal anything. My goal had been to get a dog that would keep me walking every day. But more than that, I am in a period of my life where I was looking for a way to give back. Seeing Maggie's loving personality and high energy, I realized that Maggie needed a job and I needed to volunteer, and if we worked together, we could both have that. But the little "demon" needed to be tamed! After going through beginner and intermediate obedience at Canine Academy, I knew that Maggie would benefit from the Off-Leash program and that would help her get ready to become a therapy dog so that she could be busy and I could give back. She is home from the Academy now, and what a great dog she is! She loved her training and did very well at Canine Academy. Walks that used to be difficult because, at 75 lbs, her pulling on the leash was hard on me, are now a pleasure. We walk twice every day and she has many friends in the neighborhood, that have watched her grow from an unruly puppy to a beautiful companion, thanks to the Canine Academy. We train every day and she loves to attend the weekly training sessions that the Off-Leash graduates take part in. Lisa and her trainers gave Maggie the tools she needed to be an absolutely wonderful dog. Now we work together to fine-tune those tools and everyone that knew her before is quite impressed by how well-behaved she is now. My life is so much better with Maggie in it, but part of that is thanks to the wonderful people at the Canine Academy and the great work they do with dogs. If I ever add to my dog family, we will surely be calling them again!

Q.1: What is meant by the word, impressed? (Para 2)
(a) affected
(b) afraid
(c) delighted
(d) charmed

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.2: Who is Maggie?
(a) A dog
(b) A girl
(c) A fish
(d) A demon

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.3: What qualities of Maggie are mentioned by the author in the opening paragraph?
(a) She bites everyone
(b) She is always low on energy
(c) She is a villain
(d) She is soft and loving

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.4: What was Maggie called when she was small?
(a) A Doodle
(b) Golden Doodle
(c) Golden Dog
(d) The Demon

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.5: Which academy does she go to?
(a) Dog Family
(b) Off-Leash Academy
(c) Academy of Dogs
(d) Canine Academy

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.6: What training programmes did Maggie undergo?
i. Beginner Obedience Programme
ii. Intermediate Obedience Programme
iii. Advanced Obedience Programme
iv. Off-Leash Training Programme
(a) Only (i) and (ii)
(b) Only (i), (ii), and (iii)
(c) Only (i), (ii), and (iv)
(d) Only (i)

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.7: What change occurred in Maggie after training?
(a) She became well behaved
(b) She became high on energy
(c) She became a people pleaser
(d) She had a soft fur now

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.8: The narrator wanted Maggie to become a ________ dog.
(a) therapy
(b) soft
(c) calm
(d) good

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.9: Narrator's life is better with ________ in it.
(a) Dogs
(b) Lisa
(c) Canine Academy
(d) Maggie

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.10: What is meant by the word, tamed? (Para 1)
(a) trained
(b) disciplined
(c) calmed
(d) taught

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Question No. 11 to 18 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
Fear of failure is an attitude problem. All of us postpone things. We procrastinate. We rationalize. We make excuses. We foolishly believe that to be creative and to have a positive attitude and to simply do things, we have to have all kinds of preconditions.
You can find several excuses for waiting to be more creative. But scratch the surface of these smooth and logical rationalizations, and if you’re honest, you’ll see the face of a little demon, the fear of failure, hiding there.
Zig Ziglar reminds us that this is nothing but an attitude problem: “The future can be depressing or magnificent - it is not correlated to the present or the past, past failures or successes. It is only our attitude towards these failures or successes which determines our future.” You can change yourself by changing your attitude without fear of error.
Problems cause stress and stress reduce our effectiveness. So it is very logical that once we solve our problems, we should be able to increase our efficiency and effectiveness. Incidentally, we can’t eliminate problems unless we opt for the final exit—the very thought of this itself is stressful! What causes our problems? Well, roughly speaking one-third of our problems are there because we are alive and kicking; another one-third of our problems are created by ourselves, and the remaining onethird of our problems exist because of greed and ego.
There is always a silver lining in any gloomy situation, provided you starve the problems and feed the opportunities. For every problem, there could be several solutions, and solutions point towards opportunities.
Apply the MISER concept to solve problems. MISER where M stands for Merge, I for Improve, S for Simplify, E for Eliminate and R for Reduce. MISER is an excellent conceptual sieve that helps in reducing many problems to a very few ones.

Q.11: Most people procrastinate because:
(a) they wait for a better opportunity
(b) they are not creative
(c) they adopt a wrong attitude
(d) they are too lazy to do anything

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.12: Our future is determined by:
(a) attitude towards past failures or success
(b) past failure
(c) efforts in future
(d) success in the present

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.13: Our effectiveness gets reduced as:
(a) problems dishearten us
(b) depressing time is painful
(c) problems multiply
(d) stress is caused by problems

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.14: We can’t eliminate problems because:
(a) we are alive and kicking
(b) we are afraid of final exit
(c) we are inactive
(d) we postpone actions

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.15: The best way to tackle a problem is:
(a) to begin at once
(b) to think of an easy solution
(c) to seek the help of a friend
(d) to defer it for sometime

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.16: The word procrastinate in para 1 means:
(a) obtain with difficulty
(b) start a court case
(c) natural tendency to do something bad
(d) delay or postpone action

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.17: In MISER M stands for:
(a) Merge
(b) Miser
(c) Many
(d) Magnificient

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.18: How should we be able to increase our efficiency and effectiveness?
(a) by postponing our problem
(b) by removing our greed
(c) by solving our problem
(d) by reducing attitude

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Question No. 19 to 24 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
You love your father very much, like any other father he may be an ideal or a strict father. You are writing a descriptive paragraph on him in your own words.

Q.19: Which of the following is the most effective way to begin your description?
(a) I derive my identity from a person who is not only my father but my idol
(b) My father, Mr. Saurav Joshi, is a polite man with a stern face that hints at
(c) Like any other father, my father, Mr. Saurav Joshi, is a strict man as a father but
(d) My father’s name is Mr. Saurav Joshi. He is a very polite and caring person

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.20: What is the reason behind writing in a descriptive way?
(a) To inform the reader about technical features.
(b) To appeal to the reader's liking for numbers.
(c) To provide the reader with scientific details.
(d) To allow the reader to grasp the writer's idea through the reader's sense of sight, smell, taste, sound, and touch.

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.21: Once you fell ill. Which is the most descriptive way to describe the role your father played during that time?
i. Once I fell seriously ill. My father did not go to his office until I recovered completely.
ii. Once I had a malarial fever, he spent sleepless nights and he stood like a rock behind me.
iii. Once I had malaria, my father was there with me all through. He was very disturbed and could not sleep because of me.
iv. Once I had a fever due to malaria. My father got me proper medication on time, and I recovered within four days.
(a) Option (iv)
(b) Option (i)
(c) Option (ii)
(d) Option (iii)

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.22: Which of the following sentences is most descriptive in the context of your father?
(a) He pays full attention to me and helps my mother.
(b) No wealth on earth can get me the love and care he showers on me.
(c) He is a true friend and counsellor to me.
(d) He is very polite and caring person.

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.23: Good descriptive writing uses
(a) all of these
(b) precise language
(c) strong action verbs
(d) specific adjectives and nouns

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.24: Good descriptive language is
(a) frugal with words
(b) extremely well-organised
(c) vague
(d) succinct

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.25: The swimmer _____ to be in difficulty, but he _____ to reach the shore in the end.
(a) seemed / managed
(b) seemed / has managed
(c) has seemed / managed
(d) seems / manages

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.26: What ________ about the plan to shorten the school holidays?
(a) do you think
(b) will you think
(c) are you think
(d) you think

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.27: The books borrowed from the library ________ on my desk.
(a) has
(b) have
(c) is
(d) are

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.28: ________ your future be bright!
(a) Might
(b) Could
(c) Can
(d) May

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.29: Unfortunately, I haven't got ________ time for watching TV.
(a) many
(b) few
(c) little
(d) much

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.30: Choose the correct reported speech of a given sentence:
"Go to the blackboard," said the teacher.
(a) The teacher ordered me to went to the blackboard.
(b) The teacher said to me to go to the blackboard.
(c) The teacher orders me to go to the blackboard.
(d) The teacher ordered me to go to the blackboard.

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Question No. 31 to 35 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:

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 Goodbye, 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! In the evening when he came home, she stood near the staircase and heard his loud voice in the hall. Bring my tea into the drawing-room... Hasn't the paper come yet? Mother, go and see if my paper's out there - and bring me my slippers. Kezia, Mother would call to her, if you're a good girl you can come down and take off father's boots. Slowly the girl would slip down the stairs, more slowly still across the hall, and push open the drawing-room door. By that time, he had his spectacles on and looked at her over them in a way that was terrifying to the little girl. Well, Kezia, hurry up and pull off these boots and take them outside. Have you been a good girl today? I d-d-don't know, Father.

Q.31: Who is he in the first line?
(a) god
(b) her father
(c) none of these
(d) her grandfather

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.32: Find a word from the passage which means answered.
(a) feared
(b) carriage
(c) avoided
(d) responded

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.33: What is this story about?
(a) fears of children
(b) childhood fears
(c) children
(d) a little girl and her feelings for her father

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.34: Why was Kezia afraid of her father?
i. He used to speak rudely to her and always found faults in her.
ii. He used to speak rudely to her and always found faults in her.
iii. Once he beat her for tearing his papers.
iv. All of these
(a) Option (ii)
(b) Option (i)
(c) Option (iv)
(d) Option (iii)

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.35: What did Kezia's father do before going to his office?
(a) went to the temple
(b) took a walk
(c) He used to kiss Kezia before going to office
(d) touched his mother's feet

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Question No. 36 to 40 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:

One day when I was in the fifth standard at the Rameshwaram Elementary School, a new teacher came to our class. I used to wear a cap which marked me as a Muslim, and I always sat in the front row next to Ramanadha Shastri, who wore the sacred thread. The new teacher could not stomach a Hindu priest's son sitting with a Muslim boy. In accordance with our social ranking as the new teacher saw it, I was asked to go and sit on the back bench. I felt very sad, and so did Ramanadha Shastri. He looked utterly downcast as I shifted to my seat in the last row. The image of him weeping when I shifted to thelast row left a lasting impression on me.

Q.36: Why did Kalam feel sad when he was in 5^th standard in an elementary school?
(a) Teacher scolded him
(b) None of these
(c) He didn't do his homework
(d) His teacher didn't let him sit with his Hindu friend in the first now because he was a Muslim

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.37: Why did the teacher separate Kalam from his friend?
(a) They were talking in the class
(b) Because of his own notion of social ranking, religious discrimination
(c) They were disturbing the class
(d) They were not doing their work

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.38: In which class was the writer studying at that time?
(a) sixth standard
(b) third standard
(c) fourth standard
(d) fifth standard

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.39: What was the writer wearing?
(a) Kurta
(b) Shoes
(c) None of these
(d) A Muslim Cap

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.40: What did the teacher ask writer to do?
(a) to sit on first bench of the class
(b) none of these
(c) to sit middle in the class
(d) to sit on the last bench of the class

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Question No. 41 to 45 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:

Wind come softly.
Don't break the shutters of the windows.
Don't scatter the papers.
Don't throw down the books on the shelf.

Q.41: Who broke the doors of the window?
(a) wind
(b) children
(c) a boy
(d) a naughty boy

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.42: The speaker is asking the wind to come
(a) softly
(b) hastily
(c) vigorously
(d) scornfully

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.43: In the poem, the speaker asks the wind not to ________ the papers.
(a) dry out
(b) take away
(c) scatter
(d) destroy

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.44: Trace a word from the extract which means thrown in different directions.
(a) shutters
(b) None of these
(c) scatter
(d) shelf

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.45: The speaker is asking the wind not to throw down the
(a) cereals
(b) ornaments
(c) books
(d) clothes

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Question No. 46 to 50 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:

"Dear Prince," said the swallow, "I cannot do that," and he began to weep. "Swallo Swallow, little Swallow," said the Prince, "do as I command you."

Q.46: The swallow began to:
(a) fear
(b) smile
(c) weep
(d) laugh

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.47: The swallow could not bear the thought of the Happy Prince losing his:
(a) leg
(b) ear
(c) hand
(d) eye

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.48: Who had a tender heart?
(a) Prince
(b) Swallow
(c) None of these
(d) Queen

Correct Answer is Option (b)

Q.49: What command was given to the swallow?
(a) To pluck ruby
(b) To pluck flower
(c) To pluck sapphire
(d) To pluck diamond

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.50: Why did the Prince command instead of request?
(a) Because the swallow was weeping
(b) All of these
(c) Because the swallow had a tender heart
(d) Because the swallow refused to do as said by the Prince

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.51: What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
(a) Geography
(b) Science
(c) Mathematics
(d) All of these

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.52: Why did Einstein leave the school?
(a) For good
(b) He had clashed with the teachers
(c) All of these
(d) He didn’t like discipline and order in the school

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Q.53: Which theory did Albert Einstein publish in the year 1915 as mentioned A Truly Beautiful Mind?
(a) Special Theory of Relativity
(b) Newton's Theory of Gravitational Force
(c) General Theory of Relativity
(d) Newton's Three Laws

Correct Answer is Option (c)

Albert Einstein rose to world fame in the year 1915 after having published his paper on the General Theory of Relativity.

Q.54: Who said the following lines, "God may have taken her hearing but he has given her back something extraordinary. What we hear, she feels far more deeply than any of us. That is why she expresses music so beautifully."
(a) James Blades
(b) Ron Forbes
(c) Isabel Glennie
(d) Ann Richlin

Correct Answer is Option (a)

The master percussionist James Blades comments on her ability to feel the music through her body after she was presented with the Royal Philharmonic Society's prestigious Soloist of the Year Award in 1991.

Q.55: How does the mother look at the children? (Rain on the Roof)
(a) With pity
(b) With hatred
(c) With sadness
(d) With fondness

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.56: Which bird did the St.’s curse change the woman into? (A Legend of the Northland)
(a) A parrot
(b) A sparrow
(c) A woodpecker
(d) A crow

Correct Answer is Option (a)

Q.57: How did Toto check the warmth of the water?
(a) None of these
(b) With the writer’s help
(c) By touching it outside
(d) By putting his hand in it

Correct Answer is Option (d)

Q.58: What explanation did the guru give to the king for his wish to die first on the new stake in the story, In the Kingdom of Fools?
(a) He wanted to die before his disciple
(b) The stake was new and should be used first on a wise man
(c) He would be reborn as the minister of the kingdom if he dies first
(d) The first person who dies on the new stake would be reborn as the king of the kingdom

Correct Answer is Option (d)

The Guru arrived on time to save his disciple and created a drama. He told the king   that it was not an ordinary stake and whoever went to the stake first would become   the king in next life. The second to die would become his minister.

Q.59: Where was the child spotted by the stranger in the story The Lost Child?
(a) At a shrine
(b) At the sweetmeat counter
(c) Near the mustard-field
(d) At the toy shop

Correct Answer is Option (a) 

The little child after being separated from his parents at the fair searched for them   frantically and ran towards a shrine. A man noticed the wailing child and saved him from being trampled under foot. His shrieks invited the kind man's attention.

Q.60: The child was laughing behind as he was being attracted by ________. (The Lost Child)
(a) new dress
(b) foods
(c) toys
(d) games

Correct Answer is Option (c)