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SUBJECT- ENGLISH MARKS- 40

CLASS - IX TIME- 1.30 Hrs.

Instructions:-
1) Write question numbers properly.
2) Read questions properly. All questions are compulsory.

SECTION –A (READING)
Q.1) Read the following passage carefully and answers the questions that follow:
(1x10 =10M)
Every event a person sees and every noise he hears is a part of a life that has been created for him as a unit.
Whether major or insignificant, no event in the universe happens by coincidence. No flower blooms or
fades by chance. No man comes into existence or dies out of pure coincidence. No man becomes sick by
mistake and neither does his sickness develop in an uncontrolled manner. In each case, these occurrences
are especially predestined by God, from every moment they were created.

Destiny is something that you have been creating unconsciously. You can also create it consciously. You
can rewrite it; all that we do in the form of a spiritual process is just that. If you can touch the core within
you, if you can experience that the source of creation is within you and then shift your focus on yourself,
you can rewrite your own destiny. This is true as far as I know.

All the time your focus is scattered because what you consider as ‘myself 'is your house, your car, your
wife, your children, your education, your position, and your other identities. If I strip you of all these things,
including your body and mind, which are just accumulations, you will feel like a nobody.

Once you become a true individual, your destiny is yours. Individual comes from ‘indivisible’ – it cannot
be divided any more. It cannot be here and there. Why people in the spiritual process, who are in a hurry
for spiritual growth, are not getting into marriage, children and relationships, because the moment you have
a wife or a husband, you fall into a trap. ‘Me’ gets identified with the others. The significance of Sanyasi
and Brahmacharya is just shifting your focus on you. When I say ‘you’, it is just ‘you’, neither your body
nor your mind.

If you are unable to be like that, you just choose one identity. When you say ‘you’, make it you and your
Guru. You attach yourself to the Guru without any hesitation because you can get as entangled as you want
with him but he is not going to get entangled. The moment you are ‘ripe’ you can drop the attachment. With
other relationships, it is never so. Even if you want to get free, the others will not let you go

So, just create a longing to grow, to dissolve and to know. What has to happen will happen? Once you
become an individual, your destiny becomes yours. Once your destiny is happening in awareness, the next
step will happen by itself, because life within you has the intelligence to choose freedom.

On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer the questions that follow: (10 marks)
1. What is the greatest lesson being taught by the author? (1)

2. Which of the following sentences from the above passage is not an example of 'coincidence’?(1)
(a) "This is true as far as I know." (b) "Once you become a true individual, your destiny is yours.
(c) "What has to happen will happen." (d) "No man becomes sick by mistake and neither does his
sickness develop in an uncontrolled manner."
3. Study the following statements. (1)
I. All the events in the universe happen by coincidence.
II. Destiny is always created consciously.
(a) (I) is right (II) is wrong (b) (II) is right (I) is wrong
(c) Both (I) and (II) are right (d) Both (I) and (II) are wrong

4. "The moment you are ripe you can drop the attachment." 'Ripe' in the above expression has
been used as a metaphor. Ripe stands for- (1)
(a) developed to the point of readiness for harvesting and eating.
(b) having arrived at the fitting stage or time for a particular action or purpose
(c) having reached a stage of mental or emotional development characteristic of an adult.
(d) used euphemistically to describe someone middle-aged or old.

5. Fill in the blank: (1)

One will feel like a______________ if stripped of all the things like house, family, body etc.

6. Select the qualities from the passage that the author wants us to imbibe. (1)
(1) Atheist (2) Anti-social (3) Individualistic (4) Introspective (5) Confining
(a) 1, 3 and 4 (c) 2, 4 and 5 (b) 1, 3 and 5 (d) 3 and 4

7. What qualities do the Sanyasis and Brahmacharyas imbibe in their quest of spiritual growth? (2)

8. According to the passage, which practice shifts your focus to yourself? (2)

SECTION – B WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Q.2) Complete any Five of Six tasks as directed: (5x1=05)

1) Fill in the blank by using the correct form of the word given in the bracket for the given portion
of the letter:
Dear Madam

I am really sorry to mention that some students of your school are in the habit of ________________
(climb) the walls and jump into my garden.

2) Fill in the blank by choosing the correct option to complete the line from a wild life researcher:

I was surprised to find that _________________ (much, more, some) of the most poisonous spiders in the
world are found in Australia.

3) Identify the error and supply correction for the given line spoken by participants in a talk show
on T V about fitness:
 We have recently start to walk to work instead of taking the bus.
Use the given format for your response.
Error Correction

4) Select the option that identifies the error and supplies the correction for the given narrative:
It was now getting late and my eyes had now trouble focusing on the birds in the disappeared lights.

Option No Error Correction

A Was is
B Had Have
C focusing focus
D disappeared disappearing

5) Complete the line of a poem on climate change by choosing the correct word:

Summers are getting hotter,

___________ with spells of drought,
Our climate is now changing,
It’s true without a doubt.
a) Faces b) Face
c) Faced d) Facing

6) Neither you nor your sister should …………. to them.

a) talk c) talked
b) talks d) talking

Q.3) You went on a trip to Kerala. Write a diary entry describing the trip, how you went, places visited
and the overall experience. (5M)

OR

Q.4.Complete the story with help of given outlines, also suggest a suitable title.

Once a wise monkey lived on a big tree ……………………….

Outline: Gave ripe mangoes to crocodile……..took some for wife ………she was wicked
………wanted to eat the monkey itself ……she invited monkey for dinner …..Wife
adamant……..invited monkey ….in the middle of the river…….crocodile disclosed wife’s
plan…heart is on the tree…. ‘Heart is inside me’ friendship ended.

SECTION – C LITERATURE (20 MARKS)

Q.5. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow. (1X4= 04M)

A slumber did my spirit seal—

I had no human fears.
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

Question 1: What does the poet mean by "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"?

(a) a deep sleep sealed off his mental power to see the reality of life.
(b) his power to think was sealed off by a deep sleep.
(c) he lost the power to dream.
(d) None of the above.

Question 2: Which human fears does the poet talk about?

(a) the fears of ghosts, wild animals and natural calamities.

(b) the human fears of death, illness and starvation.
(c) the human fears of unknown events to come.
(d) None of the above.

Question 3: What did the poet feel about his loved one?
(a) He felt that his loved one would grow old and die.
(b) He felt that his loved one might be attacked by wild animals or be a victim of some natural calamity.
(c) He felt that his loved one was ageless and immortal.
(d) None of the above.

Question 4: Which slumber is the poet talking about?

(a) the illusion he had about his loved one.

(b) the deep sleep he fell into after hard work.
(c) the state of intoxication he was in after consuming an excessive amount of liquor.
(d) None of the above.

Q.6. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow. (1X4= 04M)
Kathmandu is vivid, mercenary, religious, with small shrines to flower-adorned deities along the narrowest
and busiest streets; with fruit sellers, flute sellers, hawkers of postcards; shops selling Western cosmetics,
film rolls and chocolate; or copper utensils and Nepalese antiques. Film songs blare out from the radios, car
horns sound, bicycle bells ring, stray cows low questioningly at motorcycles, vendors shout out their wares.

Question 1: Kathmandu has a religious look because of :

(a) shops selling flowers and leaves (b) narrow and busy streets
(c) small shrines and flower adorned deities (d) shops selling idols of Gods and Goddesses

Question 2: What were the shopkeepers selling?

(a) fruits and flutes (b) film rolls and chocolates (c) utensils and antiques (d) all of these

Question 3: What kind of utensils and antiques are sold in Kathmandu?

(a) Clay utensils and Indian antiques (b) Steel utensils and Indian antiques
(c) Brass utensils and Nepalese antiques (d) Copper utensils and Nepalese antiques

Question 4: The meaning of the word 'mercenary' is :

(a) kind (b) merciful (c) clever (d) greedy

Q.7. Answer the following (two out of three) questions in about 40-50 words each: (3X4= 12M)
1. What is written on the signboard outside the Pashupatinath temple? What does the
proclamation signify?

2. What activities are observed by the writer on the banks of the Bagmati river?

3. How does the poet react to his beloved’s death?

4. How will time not affect the poet’s beloved?

5. Why was Johnsy’s condition worrisome according to the doctor?

6. Why did the author miss his old teachers?

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