Up board Class 9th English half yearly exam paper solution 2023-24
Class 9th English up board half yearly exam paper solution 2023-24
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Half Yearly Examination 2023-24
Class-9th
Subject-English
PN
Time: 3 hrs 15 min MM: 70
Note: All questions are compulsory.
(Section A) 20
Q.No1-3 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow choosing the correct option:-
Meanwhile my friend had not ceared to worry about me. His love for me led him to think that if I persisted in my objections to meat eating I should never feel at home in english society. He therefore made one last effort to reform me. He one day invited me to the go to the theatre, Before the play we were to diners in the mides of Which my friend and I sat sharing a table between us. the first course was Soup, I wondered What it might be made of but dared not ask the friend about it. I therefore Summoned the waiter My friend saw the movement and sternly asked across the table what the matter was with considerable hesitation I told him that ! wanted to enquire if the Soup was a vegetable Soup.
(Taken from the autobiography of M.K.Gandhi)
1. Who is the narrator in the above Passage?
a) Gandhi Ji
b) Gandhiji's friend
c) Someone who know Gandhiji
d) The waiter
2. Gandhiji:-
a) was interested in vegetarianism only
b) had objection to meat eating
c) Only (a)
d) Both (a) and (b)
3.The word 'Sternly' here means-
a) Strictly
b) angrily
c) unwillingly
d) lovingly
Q.4-8-Choose the correct option to answer the following-
4. By the next month, we shall........the Project-
a) has completed
b) compliting
c) completed
d) have completed
5. They usually spend their holiday's in....... mount is-
a) a
b) an
c) the
d) no article
6. Aremedy for all disease is
a) Medicine
b) Medical
c) Medica
d) Panacea
7 . Do not/time/waste/precious/your.
a) Do your Precious time not waster.
b) Do not your Precious time waste.
C) Do no waste your Precious time.
d) your Precious time waste do not
8. Spot the correct spelling-
a) comittee
b) commitee
c) committee
d) committy
Q.9-10- Read the following given below and answer the questions that follow-
As for music she explains, "It pours in through every part of my body it tingles in the skin, my. Cheekbones and even in my hair,"When she plays the xylophone. She can sense the sound passing up the stick into her fingertips. By leaping against the drums. She can feel the resonances flowing into her body on a wooden Platform. She removes her shoes so that the vidrations may pass through her bare feet and up her legs.
9. Write the name of the lesson.
a) The little girl
b) The sound of music
c) My childhood
d) The fun They Had.
10. Who is this lesson revolving around?
a) Evelyn Glennie
b) Evelyn Keyes
c) Evelyn Nesbit
d) Evelyn wavgh
Q.11-13- Based on your understanding of the Prose lessons choose the correct option to answer the following questions.
11. Margie was disappointed because she has been hoping that.
a ) the inspector would take the teacher away altogether.
b) the inspector would not be able to put it together.
c) the inspector would demage the teacher.
d) She would have a new teacher.
12. How did Kezia's grandmother help her to have a beller relation with her father?
a) By asking her to Prepare food for him.
b) By sending her to talk to him in his room.
c) By asking her complete her homework.
d) All of the above.
13. After taking a close look at his face in the mirror the doctor decided to.
a) Shave daily, grow a moustache and keep his smile.
b) Maintain his bachelor status and live in Peace.
c) Keep his hair straight and neat and oiled.
d) Marry a rich doctor and run in joint Medical.
Q.14-15- Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow-
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. sorry I could not travel both.
And And be one traveller long I stood.
And looked down one as for I could.
To where is bent in the undergrowth.
14. The wood is called 'yellow 'because.
a) The trunks of the trees are yellow.
b) 'Yellow' wood' is a sort of wood.
c) Lemon like yellow fruits are laden on branches
d) The leaves are footed and hence yellow.
15. The poet feels' Sorry' as.
a) he is all alone.
b) he could not ravel both the routes.
c) he is unable to choose the right Path.
d) he cannot travel both the routes at the same time.
16. What did Mahendra tell Iswaran after nearing ghorts story?
a) he was lying
b) it was horrible
c) ghorts do not exist in reality
d) all of these
17. What was it the attracted the child on the footpath?
a) The butterflies
b) The dragon flies
d) The little insects and worms
c) The doues
18. Why did Grand father go to Saharanpur?
b) To visit the zoo
a) To attend a wedding c) To collect a pension
d) To visit his friends house.
19. Who was Iswaran?
a) The clerk who kept Mahendra's accounts.
b) The washerman who washed Mahendra's cloths.
c) The sweeper who attacked to Mahendra's office.
d) The cook who was attached to Mahendra's.
20. The guru and his disciple found that.
a) everyone was asleep in the day.
b) every one was working in the day. c) everyone was asleep at night.
d) everyone was moving about in the not sun.
(Section-B) 70
21. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below. When we are young. (we learn that tiger and sharks are dangerous animals/We might be scared of them because they are big and powerful, As we get older now ever we learn that sometimes the most dangerous animals are also the small animals. in fact the animal that kills the most People every year is that you have probably Killed yours of many times the mosquito Male mosquitoes eat plant nectar, on the other hand female mosquitoes feed on animal blood They need this blood to bill and produce eggs when a female mosquito biles a human beinglit transmits a small amount os saliva into the blood. This saliva may or may not contain a deadly disease. The result of the bite can be, as miner as an itchy bump or as serious as death.
(Because a mosquito and bite many people in the course of its life, it can carry diseases from one person to an another very easily, two of the most deadly diseases carried by mosquito are malaria and yellow fever most then seven hundred million people becomes sick from these diseases every year it learnt to million of these people will die from this disease Mosquito pets can be placed over beds to protect people against being billion but there nets do not kill any mosquito mosquitoes have many natural enemies like birds dragon flies and certain kind of fish.)Bringing more of these animals into places. where mosquito live might cut down the amount of mosquitoes in that area. Mosquitoes can also be killed with
Poisons or sprays.
i) Why are female mosquitoes deadlier than male mosquitoes?
ii) How are mosquitoes a theat for human beings?
iii) What can we do to get rid of mosquitoes bites?
iv) Which word in the passage means to transfer or pass on?
22. Answer any one of the following.
i) Write an application to the Librarian of your college informing him that you have lost the books issued to you last week.
ii) Write a letter to your friend inviting him to attend the marriage party of your elder brother.
23. Answer any one of the following in about 80-100 words.
i) Write a descriptive paragraph on your mother on the basis of
the given clues. Forties - teaches English- High School- English Grammar- Considerate woman surgery- Profound affection- encouragement-inspires.
ii) You are required to write an article for your school magazine on "Importance of music in life, write it in your answer sheet with the help of there notes.
Note: Fine are- vocal- Instrumenta!- All age groups- Natural gift- Food for soul musicians- western -oriental- classical- pop- light-concert- competitions suggestions- school to provide facilities.
24. a) Rewrite the following by changing into indirect speech. He said to his daughter, "Please give me a glass of cold water.
b) Change the following into r'assive Voice.
Raju will port the letter
c) Punctuate the following.
d) During our journey to delhi we slept read and played cards.
Translate the following into English.
एक जंगल में एक एक शेर रहता था! वह प्रतिदिन जानवरों को मारकर खा जाता था। इससे अन्य सभी पशु भयभीत हो गये। उन्होनें एक सभा की। यह निर्णय लिया गया कि शेर के पास एक जानवर स्वेच्छा से प्रतिदिन जाएगा। शेर उसे ही खाएगा।
25. Answer the following in 30-40 words each.
i) How does Tommy describe the old kind of school?
Or Where was the Shehnai played traditionally? How did Bismillah Khan change this?
ii) What was Keria's father's routine
(a)before going to his office?
b) after coming back. from his office?
c) On sundays? Or Why did the snake leave the doctor's arm?
26. Answer any one of the following in about 60 words.
i) How did Karia's negative attitude towards her father change?
ii) Do you think Bismillah Khan had very pure and deep feelings for india?
27. Write four lines from any poem prescribed in your syllabus (Do not copy the lines given in the question paper)
28. Write central Idea of any one of the following.
Rain on the Roof, Wind,
The Road Not taken
29. Answer any one of the following in about 30-40 words.
i) Who was Iswaran? What all he did for his master?
ii) Why did the Parents sit on the well?
30. Answer and one of the following in about 60 words.
i) In what way is Iswaran an asset to Mahendra?
ii) Why did the King and the minister decide to die?
