PERIODIC TEST – 2 (1ST OCT, 2021)

Class:9 Sub: English

Time:3 Hrs. Max. Marks: 80

General instructions:

 You may attempt any section at a time.

 All questions of that particular section must be attempted in the correct order.

PART– A

Reading Comprehension (20 marks)

1. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. (10 marks)
1) A youngster quit Facebook in December after spending over three years on the social
networking site. With that one act, he bid a silent adieu to more than 300 contacts that he
had added to his account during the period. Like almost everyone from his “friends‟ circle,”
the 20–year–old was a regular on the service; visiting it every day to post photos and status
updates. But last week, a new feature on Facebook called Timeline forced him to reconsider
the pros and cons of being on the networking site.
2) “Everyone has some skeletons in their closet and I am just not comfortable with Facebook
digging up and displaying all the facets of my life on a bulletin board,” says this youngster
who joined the network in July 2007 while he was in Class 11.
3) Facebook, you see, had compressed the time he spent on the site and arranged it in
chronological order. And while he initially liked the new, neatly organised scrapbook–like
feature, he wasn‟t happy to reveal posts from the past, those that, until recently, were hidden
under layers and layers of recent updates. Just clicking on a date on the timeline could
transport his friends back in time and enable them to view every embarrassing comment, link
or photo he had posted on his profile.
4) “I think it‟s a recipe for disaster,” he says. “In 2007, I had some wall posts, which seemed
appropriate at the time, but now after a lapse of four years, I have moved on and don‟t want
them to be openly displayed for all to see.”
5) And he is not alone. Many users, worried about how Facebook activity could possibly affect
their offline lives, are choosing to commit „Facebook suicide‟. While some have privacy
 concerns, others feel that the site that was meant to bring them closer to their friends actually
does the opposite – it reduces their friendship to something superficial.
6) “Poking and liking are not enough to keep a friendship going,” says a business analyst. Having
quit Facebook three years ago, she prefers meeting her „real‟ friends face–to–face, instead of
reading their trite posts online.
7) “On Facebook, people hype everyday issues including what they ate and where they went on a
daily basis,” says this analyst who continues to use Twitter.
8) Similarly, an engineering student quit Facebook last December four years after joining it. One
fine day, he exported all the data from his account into a little zip file and hit the delete
button.
9) “I realised that when it came to my friends who really mattered, I could actually keep in touch
with them over the phone or by meeting them in real life,” he wrote on his blog.

On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer any ten of the following questions:
(1x10=10)

(a) The feature of Facebook where one can see the posts, the embarrassingcomments and
thoughts, photos and links that a person has put on his profile in the past is:
(i)Create story (ii)Facebook live
(iii)Timeline (iv)Messenger

(b) According to the passage, the social media:

(i) Can cause more harm than good
(ii) Is just a waste of time
(iii) Connects one to real life
(iv) Provides opportunity to meet people face to face
(c) The feature „Timeline‟ on Facebook according to the passage, forces the youngsters to
reconsider:
(i) Meeting friends face to face
(ii) Increasing use of social media
(iii) Saving time on social media
(iv) The advantages and disadvantages of being on Facebook
(d) Many people are getting out of Facebook as they feel:
(i) addicted to it
 (ii) that their Facebook activity could affect their real life
(iii) they should join Instagram, Whatsapp or Twitter
(iv) poking and liking is not enough
(e) The meaning of the word „share‟ in para 3 is:
(i)liked (ii)timeline (iii)hidden (iv)reveal
(f) Which of the following is OPPOSITE in meaning to the word „retained‟ as used in the
passage?
(i)exported (ii)delete (iii)account (iv)quit
(g) Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE in the context of the passage?
(i) People love being poked and liked on Facebook.
(ii)People visit social media everyday to post photos and for status updates.
(iii)No one prefers meeting „real‟ friends face–to–face, instead of reading their trite posts
online.
(iv) Few think that social media reduces their friendship to something superficial.
(h) The phrase “Facebook suicide” refers to get someone:
I. Poking and liking
II. quitting Facebook as it could affect their real life.
III. clicking on a date on the timeline
IV. Using Twitter
(i) Which of the following statements is TRUE in the context of the passage?
(ii) Time spent on social media is better than meeting face‐ to‐ face.
(iii) Social media use could increase the time teens spend together in person.
(iv) Stalking, personal attacks, and misuse of information are some of the threats faced
by the users of social media.
(v) Facebook activity does not affect real life.
(i) Select the option that makes the correct use of “trite”, as used in the passage, to fill in the
blank space.
(i) At that moment, his words sounded _______ to me.
(ii) It was either a _______or an excellent copy.
(iii) Her______ powers give life and colour to her paintings.
(iv) A little ____ air might clear some of the cobwebs.
(j) Which of the following can be the most appropriate title for the passage?
(i) Social Media: a powerful tool (ii)Your Privacy & Facebook
 (iii)Virtual Life (iv)Facebook Friends
2. Read the passage and answer any ten ofthe questions that follow. (10 marks)
1) Did you sleep well last night? Or did you wake up feeling fatigued and sluggish-perhaps
even wondering if you really slept at all? Understanding your sleep behaviourand preparing
for a sound slumber can help make sure every night is a good night for sleeping.
2) “Sleep is a behaviour and, like all behaviours, it varies greatly among people,” explains Dr
Carol Landis, sleep researcher and associate professor in bio behavioural nursing and
health systems at the University of Washington School of Nursing. “The greatest differences
occur in the timing of sleep and amount of sleep-the factors which are most important in
determining whether you will wake up feeling rested.”
3) Nobody knows why we sleep, but we all need to. There are no rules about how much sleep is
necessary but the average adult sleeps for 7hrs 20mins. About 8% of adults are happy with
5hr or less and 4% want 10hrs or more. Babies need between 14 and 18hrs. Whereas the
elderly need less than they did when young but often take a nap during the day.
4) If you miss a couple of hours of sleep, no harm is done. You may feel tired and irritable the
next day but the body soon makes up for the loss. If you try to stay awake night after night
however, you soon began to behave strangely. You lose the ability to concentrate and your
judgment is impaired. You begin to imagine strange things and your behaviour become
deranged.
5) There are a number of causes for sleeplessness. Worry and depression are the most
common. All kinds of things in the environment can affect sleep-noise, light, heat, cold, new
surroundings, etc. Pain in illness can also keep people awake. Many people become addicted
to their sleeping pills but sleeping pills do not deal with the causes of insomnia and it is
better to avoid them if you can. It is much better to identify the problem and remove it.

On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer the following questions:
(1x10=10)
(a) The environment factors that can affect sleep are:
(i) Noise (ii)New surroundings
(iii)Heat and cold (iv)All of the above
(b)Babies need between
(i) 13 to 15hrs of sleep (ii)14 to 18hrs of sleep
(iii)14 to 16hrs of sleep (iv)13 to 16hrs of sleep
 (c) Sleep patterns vary from individual to individual. True/false
(d)Worry and depression are not the most common cause of sleeplessness. True/false
(e)Sleeping pills help induce sleep and are good for a person. True/false
(f)The body makes up for the loss of______________.
(g)We can ensure a good night‟s rest by understanding our sleep__________.
(h)Write the word similar in meaning to „inability to sleep‟ from the passage. (Para 5)
(i)Write the word similar in meaning to „bad-tempered‟.( Para 4)
(j)Write the word similar in meaning to „focus‟. (Para 4)

LITERATURE (10 Marks)

(I) Answer the following reference to the context questions: (1x 5=5)

1. His wife watched us from behind the kitchen door. I wondered whether she had observed any
difference in the way I ate rice, drank water or cleaned the floor after the meal. When I was
leaving his house, Sivasubramaniam invited me to join him for dinner the next weekend.
Observing my hesitation, he told me not to get upset, saying “Once you decide to change the
system, such problems have to be confronted.” When I visited his house next week,
Sivasubramaniam Iyer’s wife took me inside her kitchen and served me food with her own hands.
(a)SivasubramaniaIyer‟s aim was to
(i) Humiliate Abdul
(ii) To break the social barriers that restricted people to mingle
(iii) To fight in the Second World War
(iv) To become rich
(b)Wife of Abdul‟s science teacher was horrified with the
(i) Communal violence
(ii) Idea of Muslim boy invited to dine with them
(iii) Terror of Second World War
(iv) The flood disaster
(c)Why did Sivasubramania serve Kalam himself and sat with him to eat?
(i) to avoid any disturbance because of biased behaviour of his conservative wife and to show
equality
(ii) respect for everybody
(iii) because he wanted to prove himself great
(iv) to demoralize his wife
(v) none of the above
 (d) How was the wife of Abdul‟s science teacher initially?
(i) Poor (ii)Rich (iii)Conservative (iv)Beautiful
(e) What does „confronted‟ mean?
(i) to stand infront of (ii)resist
(iii) halt (iv)withstand

2. Answer the following reference to the context questions: (1x 5=5)

(a) He came to the door of a cottage,
In travelling round the earth,
Where a little woman was making cakes,
And baking them on the hearth;

(i) „He‟ in the above lines refer to _________.

(ii) He asked for _________ from the little woman.
(iii) The setting of the poem is Northland. (True/ False)
(iv) Another word for „hearth‟ is_________.
(v) Name the poet and the poem from which the above extract has been taken.
Or
(b) Two roads diverged in yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down once as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

(i) The poet is standing at a point where __________.

(ii) The roads in the above lines signify ____________.
(iii) The rhyme scheme of the above lines is ____________.
(iv) The phrase „met at a point‟ is the antonym of the word _________ found in the above
extract.
(v) The name of the poem is ____________ and it is composed by _________.

PART – B
Writing Section 10 Marks
1. Write a descriptive paragraph in about 100-120 words to describe a social activist who
inspires you the most during this pandemic period. (5 Marks)
2. You recently visited a library, a favourite place for many, in your city. Write a paragraph on
the description of the library in 100-120 words. (5 Marks)

GRAMMAR (10 Marks)

1. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct options for the sentences given below.
(1x6=6)
(i) You______look after your old parents.
a)Should b) can c) would d) may
(ii) You will _____work very hard to stand first.
a) has to b) have to c) could d) must
(iii) You_______ reach school in time else you will be punished .
a) Must b) should c) ought to d) will
(iv) We_______pay attention to our studies.
a) will b)would c) ought to d)may
(v) He_____buy a car. He has a motorcycle.
a) Need b) can c) will d) may
(vi) We_____make our nation a superpower by the year 2022 as we have the ability todo
so.
a) can b) may c) would d) must

2. Fill in the blanks with suitable determiners (any four). (4 Marks)

You‟re going to take life away from (a)______ man with (b)_____ belief that you will give it back.
This is (c)_______ enormous step. (d)_________precious life is at stake. You must perform to do
to thebest of (e)_____ abilities to save (f)______patient‟s life.

LITERATURE SECTION (30 Marks)

1. Answer any four of the following questions in 20-30 words each: (2x4=8)
a) What did the new teacher in Kalam‟s school do on the first day?
b) Why did Aurangzeb ban the playing of the pungi?
c) How does Tommy describe the old kind of teachers?
d) Why did the Happy Prince ask the little swallow to stay with him?
e) Why does grandfather take Toto to Saharanpur and how? Why does the ticket collector
insist on calling Toto a dog?
 f) Why is „A legend of Northland‟ a ballad?
2. Answer any four of the following questions in 40-50 words each: (3x4=12)
a) Describe,briefly, the theme of the poem „Wind‟.
b)Give a character sketch of Sivasubramania Iyer.
c)Lushkoff is earning thirty-fiveroubles a month. How is he obliged to Sergei for this?
d)Was Kezia‟s father right to punish her? What kind of a person was he?
e)In the poem, „The Rain on The Roof‟, how does the sky look before the rain falls?

3. Answer any one of the following questions in 100-120 words. ( 5 Marks)

a. What kind of a family was Kalam born into? Who were the major influences in Kalam‟s
life, as mentioned in the lesson „My Childhood‟?
Or
Do you think the end of the poem „The Legend of Northland‟ is justified? Or was Saint Peter
too harsh?

b. Answer any one of the following questions in 100-120 words. (5 Marks)

Give an account of all the mischief that Toto played at the grandfather‟s house.
Or
Name all the people who are tried in the king‟s court, and give the reasons for their trial.