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Gajol HNM High School (HS) - Class IX
Reading Skill (Seen) - Prose
You come out of the birdhouse, then walk to the reptile house. Here, in a pleasant temperature of eighty degrees the reptiles doze. Snakes regard you calmly with lidless eyes. Frogs make gulping sounds, lizards lie draped over rocks and tree trunks.
At ten o'clock the zoo gates open and the first rush of visitors arrive. As they come flooding into the grounds, everyone has to be alert. This is not to ensure that the animals do not hurt the people, but to make sure that the people do not hurt the animals. If an animal is asleep, they want to throw stones at it or prod it with sticks to make it move. We have found visitors trying to give the chimpanzees lighted cigarettes and razor blades. The uncivilized behaviour of some human beings in a zoo has to be seen to be believed.
A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:
- (i) For the reptiles, the temperature of eighty degree is —
Answer: (b) pleasant - (ii) Lizards lie draped over the rocks and —
Answer: (c) tree trunks
B. Answer the following questions:
(i) Why do the staff remain alert when the visitors come flooding into the grounds?
Ans: The staff remains alert not to protect humans from animals, but to ensure that the visitors do not harm, disturb, or harass the animals in the zoo.
(ii) How do the visitors try to move a sleeping animal?
Ans: Some visitors try to move a sleeping animal by throwing stones at it or prodding it with sticks.
Reading Skill (Seen) - Poetry
I love to see the shaking twig The sparrow on the cottage rig, Whose chirp would make believe That spring was just now flirting by In summer's lap with flowers to lie. Dance till the shut of eve
A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:
- (i) The twig is shaking —
Answer: (b) with the wind - (ii) The season mentioned here is —
Answer: (a) autumn
B. Answer the following questions:
(i) Who is the poet of the above poem?
Ans: The poet of the above poem is John Clare.
(ii) What would the chirp of the sparrow make the poet believe?
Ans: The chirp of the sparrow would make the poet believe that spring was just now flirting by
in summer's lap with flowers to lie./The chirp of the sparrow would make the poet believe that Spring is passing by and resting in the lap of Summer.
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Gajol HNM High School (HS) | Class 9 English
Part 2: Unseen, Grammar & Vocabulary
3. Reading Skill (Unseen)
A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:
| (i) The number of districts affected by cyclone Fani is | (d) 14 |
| (ii) The total loss to public properties caused by Fani is | (b) 6643.63 crore |
| (iii) BP Sethi is a/the- | (c) Special Relief Commissioner |
| (iv) Fani hit the coastal districts at the velocity of- | (d) about 200 kmph |
B. Write 'T' for True and 'F' for False with Supporting Statements:
(i) Fani was not such a devastating cyclone. [ F ]
Supporting statement: "Cyclone Fani devastated as many as 20,367 villages in 14 coastal districts of Odisha."
(ii) A special package has already been released for the affected people. [ F ]
Supporting statement: "...around Rs. 2692.63 crore is required for relief measures for the affected people." (Note: The passage says it is required, not yet released.)
C. Answer the following question:
What did Mr Sethi say about the loss caused by Fani?
Ans: Mr. Sethi stated that the cyclone caused a total loss of Rs 6643.63 crore to public properties and estimated that Rs 2692.63 crore was required for relief measures.
Grammar and Vocabulary
4. Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and prepositions:
Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's garden.
5. Change the voice:
- (i) They invited me.
Ans: I was invited by them. - (ii) Honey tastes sweet.
Ans: Honey is sweet when it is tasted.
6. Change the mode of narration:
- (i) My mother said to me, "I gave you a pen yesterday."
Ans: My mother told me that she had given me a pen the previous day. - (ii) Sonam said, "Alas! India has lost the match."
Ans: Sonam exclaimed in sorrow that India had lost the match.
7. Vocabulary (Find words from the Unseen passage):
| (i) action taken for a purpose: | measures |
| (ii) needed: | required |
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