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Model Paper 4 ENGLISH [Communicative] - Model Paper 4

CBSE - STD 9 - ENGLISH [Communicative] (CBSE - English Medium). 21 questions in this chapter.

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Q 1Excerpts and answer the questions briefly : [4M]4 Marks
Read the following extract and answer the questions briefly: Suddenly over the babble of voices, Chuck heard the screech of brakes outside. Instinctively, he looked for Duke.
a. When did Chuck hear the babble of voices?
b. What does the screech of brakes indicate?
c. Explain : Instinctively, he looked for Duke.
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Q 2Excerpts and answer the questions briefly : [4M]4 Marks
Read the extract given below and answer the questions follow:
I am not in the least surprised. It is a most delightful little place. Its appearance is modest, but it has a charm of its own. I can tell by just looking at you that it would suit you admirably, as you suit it, if you permit me to say so.
a. Who is speaking these lines and to whom?
b. Of what is the speaker not surprised?
c. Why does the speaker speak in a flattering tone?
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Q 3Excerpts and answer the questions briefly : [4M]4 Marks
Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:
No nightingale did ever chant
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of Travellers in some shady haunt.
Among Arabian Sands
A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard
In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird.
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.
a. Where do the nightingales usually sing welcome notes?
b. What is the effect of the song of the cuckoo-bird?
c. When does the cuckoo-bird sing?
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Q 9Textual questions: [6M]6 Marks
Highlighting her oldness, vision and determination to get an education. Give a character sketch of the narrator’s grandmother Krishtakka as drawn in How I Taught My Grandmother to Read.
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Q 11Read the following passage.[UN SEEN][10M]10 Marks
1. Most of the myths and stories are heroic in conception and teach adherence to truth and the pledged word, whatever the consequences, faithfulness unto death and even beyond, courage, good works and sacrifice for the common good. Sometimes the story is pure myth, or else it is a mixture of fact and myth, an exaggerated account of some incident that tradition preserved. Facts and fiction are so interwoven together as to be inseparable, and this amalgam becomes an imagined history, which may not tell us exactly what happened but does tell us something that is equally important - what people believed had taken place, what they thought their heroic ancestors were capable of, and what ideals inspired them. So, whether fact or fiction, it became a living element in their lives, ever pulling them up from the drudgery and ugliness of their everyday existence to higher realms, ever pointing towards the path of endeavour and right living, even though the ideal might be far off and difficult to reach.
2. Goethe is reported to have condemned those who said that the old Roman stories of heroism, of Lucretia and others, were spurious and false. Anything, he said, that was essentially false and spurious could only be absurd and unfruitful and never beautiful and inspiring, and that 'if the Romans were great enough to invent things like that, we at least should be great enough to believe them'.
3. Thus, this imagined history, mixture of fact and fiction, or sometimes only fiction, becomes symbolically true and tells us of the minds and hearts and purposes of the people of the particular epoch. It is true also in the sense that it becomes the basis for thought and action, for future history.
(i) What teaches us to follow truth and respect the pledged word?
(ii) What opinion did Goethe have about the old Roman stories of heroism of Lucretia
and others?
(iii) What is the conception of most of the myths? "
(iv) What becomes an imagined history?
(v) ... it becomes the basis for thought and action ... What does it refer to here?
(vi) We do not believe in the old Roman stories because they were:
a)false $\quad$ b)spurious
c)all of these $\quad$ d)uninspiring
(vii) A truth lover does not think about:
a)sacrifice $\quad$ b)consequences
c)courage $\quad$ d)hardships
(viii) A story or myth often teaches us to:
a)lead a happy life $\quad$ b)neither walk on the path of endeavour nor lead a happy life
c)both walk on the path of endeavour and lead a happy life
d)walk on the path of endeavour
(ix) Facts and fictions are inseparable in our ________.
(x) It is symbolically true that the imagined history may be a mixture of fact and
fiction.
a)True $\quad$ $\quad$ b)False
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Q 12Read the following passage.[UN SEEN][10M]10 Marks
Lines Written in Early Spring
I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.
Through primrose tufts, in that green bower
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
The birds around me hopped and played,
Their thoughts I cannot measure:-
But the least motion which they made
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.
The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.
If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature's holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?
- William Wordsworth
(i) The poet is sitting ________.
a)in a small wood $\quad$ b)in his office
c)in his house $\quad$ d)in the garden
(ii) The poet finds the ________ hopping and playing.
(iii) In the line, What man has made of man the mood of the poet is ________.
a)thoughtful $\quad$b)excited
c)surprised $\quad$d)happy
(iv) According to the poet, Nature's message to all living beings is _________.
(v) The word lament here means that the poet is ________.
(vi) The meaning of the word sate is ________.
a)Mourn $\quad$b)Little clumps
c)clumsy $\quad$d)An old-fashioned way of saying "sat"
(vii) The rhyming scheme of the poem is ________.
a)abba $\quad$ b)aabb
c)aabc $\quad$d)abab
(viii) Which of the following poetic device is used in the line What man has made of than?
(ix) What does the poet mean by the lines In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts - Bring sad thoughts to the mind?
a)His happy thoughts actually remind him of some sad things.
b)The poet is enjoying the spring bliss.
c)None of these.
d)The spring turned made him mourn.
(x) Name the literary device used in the lines, And
'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
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Q 13Notice writing: [4M]4 Marks
You are Ankit/Anita. You have planned a 2-week course to be arranged to help the children of your group Housing Society at Patna acquire the communication skills. Prepare a notice for the society's notice board, stating the objectives of the course, giving necessary details of the course and requesting the children of the Society to join the course.
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Q 14Dialogue writing: [5M]5 Marks
Complete the dialogue given below. Write your answers against the correct blank
numbers.
Son: Father, I had a very bad experience with Mr. Mathur today.
Father: (a) _________, my son
Son: Well, (b) ________ his car right in front of our entrance and (c) ________.
Father: remove it. (d) ________ and shouted at me.
Son: (e) ________.
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Q 15letter writing: [7M]7 Marks
You will soon have to make a decision about the subjects that you wish to study in classes $XI$ and $XII.$ Write a letter to your grandfather telling him about the subjects that you plan to take up. Be sure to explain the reason for your choice and how you think these subjects would help you in the future.
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Q 16letter writing: [7M]7 Marks
Look at the following visual which brings out how the heat wave can be dealt with if we follow some simple precautions in our lifestyle. Using these inputs and ideas of your own, write a letter in about 150-200 words to your friend on how you are taking care of yourself despite the month-long temperatures being about 43° C.
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Q 17Paragraph writing: [8M]8 Marks
Use the notes given below to write a paragraph. 

The Visit to a Historical Place (Agra)

  • Built in the memory of Shahjahan's beloved wife.
  • A great centre of art and architecture.
  •  Fort of Agra.
  • Akbar's majestic palace.
  • 40 km to the South West of Agra-Fatehpur Sikri.
  • Tajmahal on the banks of river Yamuna.
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Q 19Do as directed.10 Marks
(i) Fill in the blanks (a)-(d) with the appropriate option from those in the brackets. Sadao had taken this (a) ________ (in, into, at) his mind as he did (b) ________ (nothing, everything, all) his father said, his father who never joked (c) ________ (and, or, else) played with him.

(ii) The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in the space provided against the correct blank number:

  ErrorCorrection
Her duties for the day were over.e.g.forof
She had scrub the floor of the kitchen,(a)  
washed the vessels and put them on a(b)  
shining row on an wooden shelf, returned(c)  
the short scrubbing broom to it's corner and closed the kitchen window.(d)  


(iii) Do as directed.
i. Rearrange the following jumbled words/phrases in the given dialogue to create a meaningful sentence. Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano in Tanzania./ Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is a dormant volcano. It is the highest mountain in Africa. has been/many/it/the subject of/studies/scientific
ii. Read the conversation given below. Based on your reading, fill in the blanks appropriately.
Mrs. Grover: Where are the memos I had left yesterday?
Kundan: I am sorry! I have thrown them away by mistake.
Mrs. Grover: What a silly thing to do! Have you taken any photocopies of them at least?
Kundan: Yes, I have put them in a file.
Mrs. Grover asked Kundan where the memos she had left on the previous day were. Kundan answered that he was sorry (a) ____________. Mrs. Grover told him that was a silly thing to do. She also asked if he had taken any photocopies of them at least. Kundan replied that he had and (b) ____________.

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