Class IX Ray and Martin Question Bank 2025 Page No. 105

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📘 Howrah Zilla School

📝 Second Summative Evaluation – English

📚 Class: IX

🧾 Full Marks: 40

⏰ Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

 

Section – A: Reading Skill (Seen)

1. Read the following passage carefully before answering the questions:

The children were eager to see the sun. They had been on Venus all their lives. They had been only two years old when the sun last came out. They had long since forgotten the colour and the heat of how it really was. They played in the echoing tunnels of the underground city and sang of summer and the sun.

The rain stopped.

It was as if a hurricane had lost its sound. There were no motions or tremor but peace. The world grounded to a standstill. The silence was so immense one would feel as if the ears had been stuffed. The children put their hands to their ears. The door slid back. The smell of the silent, waiting world came to them.

The sun came out.

 

A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:

(1×4 = 4)

(i) The children had been on Venus –

(a) for a brief spell

(b) for seven years

(c) all their lives ✅

(d) for one year

(ii) As soon as the rain stopped, there was –

(a) neither motion nor tremor ✅

(b) all noise

(c) all uproar

(d) all flood

(iii) When the sun last came out, the children were only –

(a) three

(b) two ✅

(c) five

(d) six years old

(iv) The children put their hands to their ears, not being able to tolerate –

(a) the huge silence ✅

(b) the great noise

(c) neither noise nor silence

(d) the tremor

 

B. State True or False and give Supporting Sentence:

(1+1)×2 = 4)

(i) The children were unwilling to see the sun.

→ False

Supporting Sentence: “The children were eager to see the sun.”

(ii) An immense silence followed as the rain stopped.

→ True

Supporting Sentence: “The silence was so immense one would feel as if the ears had been stuffed.”

 

C. Answer the following question:

Why did the children forget the colour and the heat of the sun?

→ The children forgot the colour and the heat of the sun because they were only two years old when it last appeared and had lived underground on Venus ever since.

 

2. Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions below:

Mild the mist upon the hill,

Telling not of storms to-morrow;

No; the day has wept its fill,

Spent its store of silent sorrow.

I am a child once more;

Oh, I'm gone back to the days of youth,

And 'neath my father's sheltering roof,

And near the old hall door.

 

A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:

(1×2 = 2)

(i) The mist is –

(a) below

(b) down

(c) upon ✅

(d) beside the hill

(ii) The day has wept –

(a) profusely

(b) mildly

(c) softly ✅

(d) tepidly

 

B. Answer the following question:

Where does the poet find herself when she is 'a child once more'?

→ The poet finds herself under her father's sheltering roof and near the old hall door when she is 'a child once more'.

 

Section – B: Reading Skill (Unseen)

3. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

In a mood of optimism, they named him 'Attila'. What they wanted of a dog was strength, formidableness and fight, and hence he was named after the 'Scourge of Europe.'

The puppy was only a couple of months old; he had square jaws, red eyes, a pug nose and a massive head, and there was every reason to hope that he would do credit to his name. The immediate reason for buying him was a series of house-breakings and thefts in the neighbourhood, and our householders decided to put more trust in a dog than in the police. They searched far and wide and met a dog fancier. He held up a month-old black and white puppy and said, "Come and fetch him a month hence, In six months he will be something to be feared and respected." He spread out before them a pedigree sheet which was stunning. The puppy had running in his veins the choicest and the most ferocious blood. They were satisfied, paid an advance, returned a month later, put down seventy-five rupees and took the puppy home.

– Adapted from R. K. Narayan’s “Malgudi Days”

 

A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:

(1×3 = 3)

(i) They wanted to buy the dog to –

(a) bark at others

(b) resist theft ✅

(c) invite the robbers

(d) guard the street

(ii) The puppy’s family history was –

(a) frightening

(b) stunning ✅

(c) devastating

(d) fascinating

(iii) “…he would do credit to his name…” Here, 'he' refers to –

(a) dog-fancier

(b) dog-buyer

(c) puppy ✅

(d) dog-owner

 

B. State True or False:

(1×3 = 3)

(i) The puppy was named 'Attila'. → T

(ii) The dog-seller presented the dog's lineage in a poor light. → F

(iii) The householders decided to put more trust in a dog than in the police. → T

 

Section – C: Grammar and Vocabulary

4. Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and prepositions: (1×4 = 4)

It was wonderful to watch the finals of the Wimbledon. Andy Murray became the first British player in 77 years to win this tournament in men’s singles. I could not spot many Indians in the stand in spite of the Indian tennis players participating in the competition. The atmosphere reminded me of the Eden Gardens in the 1970s.

 

5. Do as directed: (1×2 = 2)

(i) I love the fitful gust that shakes the casement all day.

→ I love the fitful gust shaking the casement all day.

(ii) No other country in the world is as fast as Bhutan in its march towards modernity.

→ Bhutan is the fastest country in the world in its march towards modernity.

 

6. Vocabulary – Give one word for the following: (2×2 = 4)

(i) Very large – Massive

(ii) Looked for – Searched

 

Section – D: Writing Skill

7. Letter Writing (10 Marks)

Suppose you have come across an advertisement in a leading newspaper about a special training programme of two months on how to improve your handwriting. As you are interested, you want to know more about it. Now, write a letter (within 120 words) to the advertiser, Post Box No. 5498, The Telegraph, cataloguing your queries and expressing your desire for pursuing the course.

 

8. Paragraph Writing (10 Marks)

Write a paragraph (within 120 words) on the preparation of vegetable curry:

Hints: Buy vegetables such as potatoes, onions, brinjal, cucumber – slice them up – washing – taking oil in a pan – lighting the oven – frying the vegetables – adding spices, salt and water – boil to cook properly – serve hot with rice.

 

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