Delhi Public School, Prayagraj

FINAL TERM PRACTICE PAPER 2019-20

SUBJECT: ENGLISH
CLASS: 9

Name: …………………………………………………… Class/Sec………………………

Duration: 3 hrs MM: 80

SECTION A
(READING)20 marks

Q1.In your quest to become as happy and fulfilled in your life as you choose to be, you can be
motivated by two types of need. The more common form of motivation is called imperfection or
deficiency motivation, while the healthier variety is labelled growth motivation.
If you place a rock under a microscope and observe it carefully, you will note that it never changes.
But, if you put a piece of coral under that same microscope, you‟ll detect that it is growing and
changing. Conclusion: the coral is alive, the rock is dead. The only evidence of life is growth! This is
also true in the psychological word, if you are growing, you are alive. If you are not growing, then
you might as well be dead.
You can be motivated out of a desire to grow rather than a need to repair your deficiencies. If you
recognise that you can also grow, improve, become greater, that is enough. When you decide to be
immobilized or to experience hurtful emotions, you‟ve made a non-growth decision. Growth
motivation means using your life energy for greater happiness, rather than having to improve yourself
because you have sinned or because you are in some way incomplete. A corollary of choosing growth
as motivation is personal mastery in every present moment of your life. Mastery means you are the
decider of your fate.

AAnswer the following questions by choosing correct options: (8x1=08marks)

a. What are the two types of motivation in a man's life?
i. Deficiency and growth motivation ii. Deficiency motivation only iii. Growth
motivation only iv. none
b. What is the difference between a rock and a coral?
i. Rock and coral both grow ii. Rock grow while coral does not iii. Coral grow while
rock does not iv. Both are made up of precious stones
c. What is true in psychological world?
i. Everything is mind ii. Everything is the behaviour iii. If you do not react then you
are dead iv. If you are growing, you are alive
d. Why should one opt for growth motivation rather than on growth decision?
i. Using life energy for greater happiness ii. Improve yourself for better job iii.
Desire to grow iv. Desire to grow to make oneself happy
e. What influence does your desire to grow put on you?
i. Improve and become greater ii. Improve iii. Become greater iv. Become master of
everything
f. When do you come to know that you have made a non growth decisions?
 i. When we experienced hurtful emotions and decide to immobilize ii. When we are
hurt iii. When we are immobilized iv. When we are not getting old
g. What does mastery mean?
i. you are the best ii. You have finally improved iii. You are happy iv. You are the
decider of your fate.

Q2. We protested. But she ignored our protests. She lay peacefully in bed praying and telling her
beads. Even before we could suspect, help lips stopped moving and the rosary fell from her life less
fingers. A peaceful pallor spread on her face and we knew that she was dead.
We lifted her off the bed and, as is customary, laid her on the ground and covered her with a red
shroud. After a few hours of mourning, we left her alone to make arrangements for her funeral. In the
evening we went to her room with a crude stretcher to take her to be cremated full stop the sun was
setting and had lit her room and verandah with a blaze of golden light. We stopped half-way in the
courtyard. All over the verandah and in her room right up to wear she lay dead and stiff wrapped in
the red shroud, thousands of sparrows sad scattered on the floor. There was no chirrping. We felt
sorry for the birds and my mother fetch some bread for them. She broke it into little crumbs, the way
my grandmother used to, and threw it to them. The sparrows took no notice of the bread. When we
carried my grandmother‟s corpse off, they flew away quietly. Next morning the sweeper swept the
bread crumbs into the dustbin.

Answer briefly: (4x2=08marks)

a. What was the reaction of the grandmother at the protest of the members of the family?
b. What was the appearance of the grandmother‟s face before she was dying?
c. What was the dead body of the grandmother covered with?
d. How did the sparrows react to when narrators mother through grams of bread to them?
Vocabulary test: (4x1=04marks)
a. Write the verb form of „mourning.‟
i. Mourn ii. Mourned iii. Mournful iv.sad
b. The word from the passage which means „rough‟.
i. Customary ii. Chirruping iii. Crude iv. Pallor
c. Find the word from the passage which is the antonym of „uncovered.‟
d. Give the noun form of „peacefully‟.

SECTION B
(WRITING AND GRAMMAR) 30 marks
Q3. Write a diary entry in 100 - 120 words on your feelings and desperation to be in the (08)
school‟s basket ball team.
Q4. You‟ve been having strange dreams for the last few months. You observe that whatever your
dream comes true and soon you realize that you are having premonitions. Convert one such
dream, which helped in saving a toddler from getting kidnapped into a short and interesting story
in 180-250 words. (12)
 Q5. Choose the most appropriate options from the ones given below to complete the following: (03)
The College was closed (a) __________ the summer vacation and I spent most (b) __________ my time
(c) __________ my room.

(a) (i) on (ii) for (iii) by (iv) on

(b) (i) under (ii) in (iii) by (iv) of
(c) (i) on (ii) above (iii) in (iv) at
Q6.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. (04)

Error Correction
Teachers tend to respect hard work or high (a) _____ ________
quality work. Did you best to keep your grades up. (b) _____ ________
Show them that you had put in a (c) _____ ________
lot of time or effort. (d) _____ ________

Q7. Look at the words/phrases given below and rearrange to form meaningful sentences. (03)
a. commonly / form / the / language is the most / used / of communication / humans / among.
b. ideas / express / use / we / thoughts / it / feelings / to / our / and.
c. strive / linguists / language / study / to / an / both / as /art /science / and / a

SECTION C
(LITERATURE) 30marks
Q8.Reference to Context:
I.
Reference to context: (04)
Then the matter
Of scorching and choking
In sun and air,
Browning, hardening,
Twisting, withering,
And then it is done.
i. Name the poem and the poet.
ii. What happens to a tree when it is pulled out?
iii. What happens to the tree after withering?
iv. Write meanings of Scorching and Choking.
II.

Reference to context: (04)

Along the sand
he lay until observed
and chased away, and now
he vanishes in the ripples
among the green slim reeds.
i. Name the poem and the poet.
ii. Give meanings of Ripples and Vanishes.
 iii. Where the snake does disappears?
iv. Where was the snake before anyone saw it?
Q9. Answer the following 30-40 words: (10)
i. How is the atmosphere of Pashupatinath?
ii. What did Gerrard tell the intruder about his clothes?
iii. How does the snake protect itself?
iv. Has Lushkoff become a beggar by circumstances or by choice?
v. Was Bruno a loving and playful pet? Why? Then, he have to sent away?
Q10.Answer the following in 150-180 words: (12)
i. Is Lushkoff a willing worker? Why? Then, does he agree to chop woods for Sergei?
ii. What is the meaning of “My cat was back and so was I”?
iii. What difference does the author note between the flute seller and the other hawkers?