CBSE Class 9 English Communicative Question Paper Set 14

CBSE English Communicative last year question papers for Class 9 CBSE exams for CBSE Students. Based on CBSE and CCE guidelines. The students should practice these Question Papers to gain perfection which will help him to get more marks in CBSE examination. The CBSE releases question papers every year. Some papers are released prior to the CBSE examinations so that students can do practice.Please refer to more CBSE Class IX question papers in other links.

Summative Assessment – I, 2011 - English Communicative - Class - IX - Maximum Marks: 90 Time : 3 hours

Instructions:

The question paper is divided into four sections.

Section A: Reading 20 marks

Section B: Writing 25 marks

Section C: Grammar 20 marks

Section D: Literature 25 marks

Section A

(Reading – 20 Marks)

Q1. Read the following passage carefully: (10 marks)

DO IT RIGHT

You hope to do several things everyday. At the end of each day, most of them are not done. You try using a „to-do list‟ but discover in a short while that it is not helping you much. Tasks keep adding to it. In a few weeks, it starts looking like a list of things you will never do and you feel stressed about it. Making a to-do list is not enough. It is useful only when you understand the key aspects of it and work on it further. 

To begin with, recognise that a to-do list is only a pool of tasks. It is just a raw collection that gives you no idea of how you will get to it. To make it useful you have to define the „when‟. Entering details about when you will do the different tasks, gives the to-do list a meaning. When you begin creating a schedule, your focus shifts to how long you have to work on each task to complete it. This way you are forced to be realistic about your goals. 

You cannot do all the tasks on the list on the same day. So, you should learn to prioritise. Rank the tasks using numbers or group them using letters of the alphabet, according to the order of importance. Now start working according to the schedule where your schedule went wrong by paying close attention to how you are spending the day.

Some of the possible reasons are :- you waste time, made mistake in assessing hou much time a task would take or deal with „urgent‟ tasks frequently. If the reason is wasting time, learn to concentrate on your work. If you made a mistake in time assessment, prepare a more realistic schedule. Another way to prioritise tasks is based on the creative energy they require. Separate the tasks into creative and boring ones. This approach helps you to stay productive even during cheerless parts of the day. Making schedule for items in your to-do list does not promise that all of them are accomplished. But you can at least be strategic about what is left behind and feel happy that you achieved what you accommodated in the finite space. This way you can begin the next day on a confident note rather than feeling helpless and frustrated about failing.

I. Answer the questions given below, on the basis of your reading of the passage:

(a) What makes a „to-do list‟ useful?

(b) Why is the „to-do list‟ described as a raw collection?

(c) How do you become realistic about your goals?

(d) What is „prioritising‟?

(e) What are the possible reasons for failure of accomplishing the things mentioned in the list?

(f) How can „separating the tasks into creative and boring ones‟be helpful?

II. Fill in with one appropriate word in each blank:-

If you just ______ (a) _______on to the to-do list without understanding the key concepts the tasks become_____(b) _____For ______(c) _______your goals you should learn to ______(d) ______the tasks according to the order of their importance.

III. Find the opposites of the words given below, in the passage :-

(a) relieved (para 1) (b) distract (para 5)

Q2. Read the following passage carefully: (5 marks)

The Case of the Disappearing Sparrows

The common house sparrow, once seen everywhere in large numbers in Mumbai has become scarce in many areas, and this is causing concern not only to bird lovers but also to scientists. Formerly, miners used to carry canaries down into the mines with them. If the canaries showed signs of distress it indicated that there were poisonous gases in the air, and the miners would immediately leave the mine. 

Today, if the sparrows of Mumbai are in distress it could be a warning to human residents. The declining bird population could mean that air pollution levels in the metropolis are rising dangerously; or, since sparrows are grain eaters, it could indicate that the grains that the people are consuming contain higher dosages of pesticides than before.

In some countries like Britain, the quality of the environment is graded according to the number of bird species found in the locality.

(a) A bird named canaries was used by miners __________ .

(i) to tell the pollution level

(ii) to make holes in the stones

(iii) to entertain them in the mines

(iv) to detect poisonous gases

(b) If the sparrows of Mumbai are in distress __________ .

(i) the residents must take it as a warning

(ii) human residents must leave the mines

(iii) the Mumbaikars must leave Mumbai

(iv) the residents must warn the authorities

(c) The declining bird population could mean that the air pollution levels :

(i) in the mines are rising dangerously

(ii) in the metropolis are decreasing dangerously

(iii) in the metropolis are rising dangerously

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