CBSE Class 9 English Communicative Sample Paper Set 63

 Section A

Reading 20 marks

Q1.Read the following passage carefully:

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)

Please refer to attached file for CBSE Class 9 English Communicative Sample Paper Set G