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KAPOL VIDYANIDHI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL(ICSE) TEMPLE OF KNOWLEDGE STD:IX 06.3.2021 THIRD TERMINAL EXAMINATION ENGLISH LANGUAGE DUR:2hrs MARKS:80 INSTRUCTIONS: Answers to this paper must be written on the paper provided separately. You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes reading time. The time given at the head of this paper is the time allowed for writing the answers. Question 1. (Do not spend more than 30 minutes on this question.) Write a composition (300 - 350 words) on any one of the following: a) b) You went on a monsoon trek with your friends to a hilly area. Suddenly there was heavy downpour, floods and landslides. You were confined there for three days. Describe what you experienced. Write an original story beginning with the following words: .I promised my parents that I would tum over a new leaf. c) The traditional written format of examination does not test the abilities of students effectively. Express your views either for or against this statement. d) You have done something you never thought would be possible for you to do. Narrate what you did and how you felt. How has this experience left an impact on you and your life? e) Study the picture given below. Write a story or a description or an account of what the picture suggests to you. Your composition may be about the subject of the picture or you may take suggestions from it; however, there must be a clear connection between the picture and your composition. (20) (Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this question.) Question 2 Select one of the following: a) Technology is supposed to solve our problems, but sometimes it just complicates them. Write a letter to your friend, giving a brief account about a time when technology made your life more difficult and how you tackled it. b) Write a letter to the Municipal commissioner of your area complaining about the congestion caused by street vendors and suggesting suitable solutions to the problem so as to satisfy the vendors and to avoid congestion. (10) Question 3 a) You are the Head Boy / Head Girl of your school. You and some other students of the school are organizing an inter school drawing competition to sensitize children about Public Health Response to COVID-19 Appropriate Behaviour. Write a notice informing the students about the competition. b) Write an e-mail to the Principal of a neighbouring school requesting him her to allow the student of his / her school to participate in the event mentioned in Question 3(a). Question 4 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: Ivan, a middle-class man, lived with his family on a meagre income and was satisfied with his lot. One day while he was reading the newspaper, his wife asked him to see whether the list of lucky numbers in the lottery was there. "Yes, it is," said Ivan; but what is your lottery number? (10) (20) Series 9,499, number 26." Ivan had no faith in lottery luck, but now, as he had nothing else to do, he passed his finger downwards along the column of numbers. And immediately his eye was caught by the figure 9,4991 "Masha, your number is there! he said to his wife. His wife looked at his astonished face and realised that he was not joking. The husband and wife began laughing and staring at one another in silence. The possibility of winning bewildered them. Ivan began dreaming a little. And if we have won," he said it will be a new life, it will be a transformation! The ticket is yours but if it were mine I should first of all, of course, spend twenty- five thousand on property in the shape of an estate; ten thousand on immediate expenses, new furnishings travelling paying debts, and so on. The other forty thousand I would put in the bank and get interest on it." "Yes, it would be fine to buy an estate," said his wife, also dreaming, and from her face it was evident that she was enchanted by her thoughts. "I should certainly go abroad too," said his wife. He walked about the room and went on thinking. It occurred to him: what if his wife really did go abroad? Ivan imagined his wife in the train-she would be sighing over something, complaining that the train made her head ache, that she had spent so much money... at the station she would continually be having him run for boiling water, bread and butter... she wouldn't have dinner because of it being too dear. "The lottery ticket is hers, not mine" exclaimed Ivan. "I should be dependent upon her. I can fancy how, like a regular woman, she will lock the money up as soon as she gets it. She would look after her relations and grudge me every farthing." And his wife's face, too, struck him as repulsive and hateful. Anger surged up in his heart against her. She had her own daydreams. She knew he would be the first to try to grab her winnings. (a) Her husband understood her look; and in order to verify the winning number he read the newspaper again and said "The winning number is 'series 9,499, number 46! Not 26!"Hatred and hope both disappeared at once. Give the meanings of the following words as used in the passage. One word answers or short phrases will be accepted. i) astonished ii) enchanted iii) surged (b) Answer the following questions briefly in your own words. (3) i) What was Ivan's attitude towards lottery? Why did he decide to check the lottery number in the newspaper? (2) ii) What was Ivan's scheme of spending the money from the lottery? iii) How did his wife plan to spend the money? (2) (2) iv) What troubles did Ivan imagine if he would accompany his wife on a train? v) Why did hate and anger surge in Ivan's heart for his wife? (1) (c) In not more than 50 words, explain Ivan's feelings at the thought of winning the lottery. (8) In the following passage, fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not copy the passage but write in correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space. (4) Question 5 (a) One winter's night some (0) masked (mask) burglars forced their way into the bank, and found Edward Mills there alone. They (1) (command) him to reveal the "combination." so that they could get into the safe. He refused. They threatened his life. He said his employers (2) .. (trust) him, and he could not be traitor to the trust. He could die, if he must, but while he lived he would be faithful: he would not yield up the "combination." The burglars killed him. The detectives hunted down the criminals, the chief one proved to be George Benton. A wide sympathy was (3) (feel) for the widow and orphans of the dead man, and all the newspapers in the land (4 .) (beg) that all the banks in the land would testify their appreciation of the fidelity and heroism of the (5) . (murder) cashier by coming forward with a generous (2) (b) contribution of money in aid of his family, now bereft of support. The result was mass of solid cash amounting to upward of five hundred dollars--an average of nearly threeeighths of a cent for each bank in the Union. The cashier's own bank testified its gratitude by ...(6)... (endeavour) to show but humiliatingly failed in it that the peerless servant's accounts were not square, and that he himself (7) . (knock) his brains out with a bludgeon (8) .. (escape) detection and punishment. I) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words: ii) He is not very talented but his confidence will carry him .. iiii The defeated candidate looked cast . after the declaration of the results. iv) v) vi viii) (4) This weekend, I just knocked in the market without any particular purpose. The burglar made . with some cash and jewellery. Never turn . from the path of virtue. Some shops were shut...... for security reasons. The shadows danced ..the swaying trees in the forest. Hard work told ..the secretary's health. (c) i) ii) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so: He made a promise. He kept it also. (4) I had left home. He came later. iii) iv) He is ignorant. He feigns ignorance. (d) The train was crowded. That was unusual. i) ii) iii) Re-write the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. Make other changes that may be necessary, but do not change the meaning of each sentence. Keep quiet or you will be punished. (Begin: If ) I never thought that they would win the match .(Begin: Little....) He is too honest to keep another man's property with him. (Remove "too') (8) iv) It is a good habit to maintain a diary. (End: good habit) v) This coat is so loose that cannot properly fit you. (Use too') vi) As soon as the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, the Franks were trapped. (Begin: No sooner.........) vii) There are problems with the children. There are problems with their parents.(use: not only but also) viii) Ashish exclaimed with surprise and asked me what I had done to myself. (Change narration)
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