CBSE Class 9 English Communicative Question Paper Set S

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)

MY WATCH

My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. I had come to believe it was unfailing in its judgements about the time of day; but at last, one night, I let it run down. I grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of disaster. But soon I cheered up, set the watch by guess, and commanded my anxieties to depart. Next day I stepped into the chief jeweller‟s to set it by the exact time, and the head of the establishment took it out of my hand  and proceeded to set it for me. Then he said,” she is four minutes slow; regulator wants pushing up.” I tried to stop him, tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time. But no; all this human cabbage could see was that the watch was four minutes slow, and the regulator must be pushed up a little; and so, while I danced round him in anguish and begged him to let the watch alone, he calmly and cruelly did the shameful deed. My watch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day. Within the week it sickened into a raging fever. At the end of two months it had left all the timepieces in the town far in the rear, and was a fraction over thirteen days ahead of the calendar. It was away into November enjoying the snow, while the October leaves were still changing colour. It hurried up house rent, bills payable, and such things, in so ruinous a way that I could not bear it.

I took it to the watchmaker to be regulated. He asked me if I had ever had it repaired. I said no, it had never needed any repairing. He looked a look of vicious happiness and eagerly  opened the watch. Then he put a smell glass in his eye and peered into the machinery. He said it wanted cleaning and oiling, besides regulating and told me to come in a week. After being cleaned and oiled and...........

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