VELAMMAL BODHI CAMPUS

TERM – II
ENGLISH
GRADE: 9 MARK : 40
DURATION : 1.30 Hrs
Section A Objective
I. Read the following passage and answer the given questions: (8x1=8)
Time is running out and the parents are worried. With just 10 days left for the schools to
reopen after vacation. Since the children have enjoyed through their vacations it is their
parents who are surfing the internet, painting the charts, writing essays and preparing
science models .Some busy parents who are well off but cannot spare time are compelled to
send their wards to the “holiday homework special” classes.
Sumedha, who holds classes for completing the children’s homework, says that she charges
anything between Rs.1000 and 5000per child depending on the class and volume of
homework. Many schools give away prizes for the best homework or add the marks in
internal assessment. This makes it almost imperative for parents to get the best quality.
Majority of the parents’ complain that the level of the homework is so high that their
children are clueless about how to do it. Also many of them fret that the quantum of holiday
homework is so much that children fail to complete it within the stipulated holidays.
In spite of all the troubles all parents agree that holiday homework is essential for the
children. Some of them opined that homework helps establish and strengthen bonds
between them and their children as it brings them close to each other. Some others think
that holiday homework keeps the children in touch with their studies when they are not
going to school.
1. The two objections raised by parents regarding holiday homework are____________
(a) children playing through the holidays and amount of homework
(b) high level of homework and amount of homework
(c) too much time and high level of homework
(d) lack of ideas among children and level of homework
2. Holiday homework special ‘classes are conducted for________________
(a) busy parents
(b) children of busy parents
(c) for all well off children
(d) teachers
3. That _________________makes it necessary that quality homework is done.
(a) Schools assign difficult homework
(b) parents are doing the homework
(c) schools add marks of the homework to internal assessment
(d) parents are paying a heavy price for the homework.

4. Besides keeping the children in touch with their studies homework

____________between parents and children.
(a) sets up bonds
(b) builds bonds
(c) weakens bonds
(d) sets up and builds bonds

5. The word/phrase ______________in the passage means the same as “expressed opinion”.
(a) running out
(b) spare
(c) imperative
(d) opined

6. The word/phrase ______________in the passage means the same as “annoyed or vexed”.
(a) surf
(b) quantum
(c) fret
(d) stipulate

7. “Holiday homework special” classes are thriving because

(a) parents want their children to be engaged during vacations
(b) parents have lots of money
(c) parents want to help the unemployed
(d) parents want their ward to be awarded prizes for best assignments and score internals

8. The word/phrase ______________in the passage means the same as “vital or crucial”.
(a) imperative
(b) stipulated
(c) spare
(d) opined

II. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow. (6x1=6)

1. When plastic waste is burnt, a complex weave of toxic chemicals is released. Breaking
down Poly VinylChloride (PVC) used for packaging, toys and coating electrical wires it
produces dioxin, organ chlorine which belongs to the family of Persistent Organic
Pollutants (POPs). A recent Dioxin Assessment Report brought out by the United States
Environment Protection Agency (USEPA) says the risk of getting cancer from dioxin is
ten times higher than reported by the agency in 1994.

2. The Delhi government is giving the green signal to a gasification project which will
convert garbage into energy without removing plastic waste. This way, no air pollution
will be caused and the ash produced can be used as manure. The project built with
Australian assistance, will cost 200crore. It will generate 25 megawatts of power and
gobble 1,000 tons of garbage every day.

3. Technologies like gasification are a form of incineration. Incineration merely transfers

hazardous waste from a solid form to air, water and ash. Toxins produced during
incineration include acidic gases, heavy metals as well as dioxins and furans.

4. Municipal solid waste contains a mix of plastics. Breaking down this waste emits
hydrochloric acid which attacks the respiratory system, skin and eyes, resulting in
coughing, vomiting and nausea. Polyethylene generates volatile compounds like
formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, both suspected carcinogenic. Breathing styrene from
polystyrene can cause leukemia. Polyurethane is associated with asthma. Dioxin released
by PVC is a powerful hormone disrupter and causes birth defects and reproductive
problems.

5. Even the best run incinerators in the world have to deal with stringent norms. In
Germany, air pollution devices accounted for two-thirds the cost of incineration. Despite
such efforts, the European Dioxin Inventory noted that the input of dioxin into the
atmosphere was the highest from incineration.

6. In the chart, we see the share of global plastic waste that is discarded, recycled or
incinerated from 1980through to 2015. Prior to 1980, recycling and incineration of plastic
was negligible; 100 percent was therefore discarded. From 1980 for incineration and
1990 for recycling, rates increased on average by about 0.7 percent per year. In 2015, an
estimated 55 percent of global plastic waste was discarded, 25 percent was incinerated
and 20 percent recycled.

7. Indian garbage has a low calorific content of about 800 kg and it has high moisture and
requires additional fuel to burn. Toxics link calculates that the electricity generated from
such technology will cost between 5 and 7 per unit, which is six times higher than
conventional energy. India has chosen a dioxin preventive route and burning of
chlorinated plastics is prohibited under Municipal Solid Waste and Biomedical Rules.
Nearly 80 percent of Indian garbage is recyclable or compostable.
On the basis of your understanding of the passage answer the following questions

9. Dioxin causes

(a) Cancer

(b) Heart attack

(c) Hypertension

(d) Sickness

10. Which statements are NOT TRUE according to the passage?

i. India has adopted a preventive measure under which burning of chlorinated plastics is
prohibited.

ii. USEPA says that the risk of getting cancer from dioxin is hundred times higher than
reported by the

agency in 1994.

iii. Incineration merely transfers hazardous waste from a solid form to air, water and ash.

iv. Hydrochloric acid attacks the digestive system, nose and eyes which results in
diabetes and nausea.

(a) i and iii

(b) ii and iv

(c) iii and iv

(d) i and ii

11. Garbage can be converted into energy by_____________

(a) Gasification

(b) Gratification

(c) A chemical process

(d) Incineration
12. During gasification, ash produced can be used as ________________

(a) Fuel (b) pesticide (c) manure (d) none of these

13 Converting waste to energy project will produce how much energy?

(a) 20 megawatts

(b) 200 megawatts

(c) 250 megawatts

(d) 25 megawatts

14. Which word in the passage means same as ‘waste material’? (Para 2)

(a) Gasification (b) Garbage (c) Pollution (d) Manure

III. Answer the following questions by selecting the most appropriate option for
each. (5x1=5)

15. Bharat went to fetch _____ books.

(a) a b) there (c) more (d) some

16. Will those of you who have objects to this proposal _____ put up your hands,
please ?
(a) discussed (b) being discussed (c) having discussed (d) discussing

17. The quality of the mangoes _____ not good.

(a) was (b) were (c) are (d) none of these

18. Which option displays the correct change of the following to reported speech?

I said to Rekha, “Is your mother at home ?”

(a) I told Rekha that her mother was at home.

(b) I told Rekha whether her mother was at home.

(c) I asked Rekha if her mother was at home.

(d) I asked to Rekha whether her mother was at home.

19. Which option displays the correct change of the following to reported speech?

Rajesh said, “I bought a car yesterday.”

(a) Rajesh said that I have bought a car the previous day.

(b) Rajesh told that he had bought a car yesterday.

(c) Rajesh said that he bought a car the previous day.

(d) Rajesh said that he had bought a car the previous day.

IV. Read the following story and fill the blanks with the most appropriate option
given below: (5x1=5)

The teacher was _______20_______. All her students were not in the classroom so she
checked ____21______________. It was eight o'clock, but the school
________22_________ Monday morning. Had the headmaster called an assembly? She
headed to _______23________, as she didn't want to be late.

When she got there, the caretaker was cleaning the floor. ______24_______________,
Miss Lester?" he said. "Of course not, I am just checking my mailbox," she replied.
Suddenly, she realised that she had forgotten that it was a Bank Holiday.
20. i) missed her purse

ii) startled by the noise

iii) glad to enter the class

iv) surprised as she opened the door

21. i) the other classroom

ii) her watch to see if it was the correct time

iii) the schedule

iv) with her colleague

22. i) was unusually quiet for a

ii) was ready for a

iii) started on a

23. i) the playground

ii) the Principal’s office

iii) the auditorium

iv) main gate

24. i) “What are you doing here

ii) “Where are you going

iii) “What’s the problem

iv. "Are you working on your holiday

V. Choose the best option for the following literature questions: (6x1=6)

25. What is related to the death of roots?

(a) pulling out
(b) scorching
(c) choking
(d) all of the above

26. What does the poet ask the people to keep in mind in the last stanza of the poem ‘No
Men are Foreign’?
(a) to hate more
(b) to be powerful
(c) not to pay attention to the words of hate by selfish people
(d) all

27. What was the snake trying to save itself from?

(a) from mongoose

(b) from other animals
(c) from a man with a stick
(d) all
28. When Montmorency could get his highest aim accomplished, his
(a) Mood would get happiest
(b) His conceit becomes unbearable
(c) His anger becomes out of tolerance
(d) He becomes tired and sleepy

29. Why was Lushkoff telling lies to the people?

(a) to seek sympathy
(b to befool them
(c) to seek attention
(d) ) to get alms

30. What did Gerrard do to the intruder?

(a) he killed him
(b) he knocked him down
(c) he locked him up in a cupboard
(d) all of the above

Section B Descriptive

VI. Answer any 3 of the following questions in 30-40 words: (3x2=6)

i) How did Santosh convince her parents to not get her married?
ii) Why and how did Prashant engage the boys in the shelter?
iii) The Superintendent was a ‘kind man’. Explain.
iv. What tragedy befell the narrator in the story A House is not a Home?

VII. Answer any one of the following: (1x4=4)

a. The Last Leaf presents a story of supreme sacrifice.

OR
b. Acts of true kindness changes worst to the best. Elucidate with reference to The
Beggar.