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ENGLISH 9 SET B

Started on Saturday, 19 September 2020, 12:00 PM

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Completed on Saturday, 19 September 2020, 12:41 PM
Time taken 40 mins 17 secs
Grade 29.00 out of 40.00 (73%)

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Question 1 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00

Read the following passage and choose the appropriate option :

1. Keep your watch accurate. For some people, moving up the time on their watch will help them
get up earlier. For others, they will remember that the time on the watch is wrong and will
disregard it altogether. It may be helpful to set your watch just two minutes ahead instead of ve
or ten.

2. Set all your clocks and watches to the same time. Don’t be an optimist.Things usually take longer
than what you’d expect, even without major delays. If you have a dinner appointment at 7·30 p.m.,
don’t think you can work till 7 p.m., then take a bath, dress and reach on time. Realistically,
calculate the time you will take at each step and then add 10 minutes more to allow for unexpected
delays, or you cannot get to your job in time.

3. Wake up when you are supposed to wake up. Don’t hit the snooze button, keep on lying in bed,
and watch TV at the very start of your day. Maybe try even setting your clock 10 minutes earlier
than you need. If you have di culty with this, move your alarm clock to somewhere away from
your bed; that way, you have to get up to turn it o . Commit yourself to being 15 minutes early for
everything.

Q1. Some people believe that if ______ it will help them be earlier.

Select one:

a. you rise the time

b. you keep your watch accurate

c. you keep the time as it is

d. you keep ve to ten minutes

The correct answer is: you rise the time

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Question 2 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00

For reaching in time add 10 minutes to 

Select one:

a. unexpected delays

b. each step

c.  calculated time of delay

d. realistic time

The correct answer is: each step

Question 3 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Find the antonym of ' anticipated' in para 2. 

Select one:

a. unexpected

b. usually

c. realistically

d. optimist

The correct answer is: unexpected

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Question 4 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Moving  the alarm clock away from bed will help you

Select one:

a. get up in time

b. wake up

c. press snooze button

d. take a bu er time

The correct answer is: get up in time

Question 5 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00

If you wish to wake up in time you must

Select one:

a. hit the snooze button keep on lying in bed

b. not watch TV keep on lying in bed

c. not hit the snooze button not to stay lying in bed

d. hit the snooze button not watch TV

The correct answer is: not hit the snooze button not to stay lying in bed

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Question 6 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Read the following passage and choose the appropriate option :

1. Music is perhaps the most popular and widely practised form of Fine Arts, transcending all kinds
of cultural and linguistic barriers. Any form of ne art is di cult to master and almost impossible to
perfect and music is no exception.

2. Nature, it is learnt, has blessed almost two-thirds of the human race with musical ability of some
sort. Music has the power to bring out the deepest emotions. It can make one cry or bring a smile
on one’s face. In-fact it is a magic medicine and many seek refuge in it when they are depressed or
stressed. It is this intimacy that makes us listen to music or even hum or sing sometimes. This
singing, or realistically speaking,expressing one’s emotion musically sometimes takes a serious
turn.This desire to show musical expression in public then becomes a serious business profession.

3.This desire to sing before an audience is innocent and beautiful and indeed it is perfectly alright
to have such a genuine desire. But it is also important to understand that singing is an intricate art
— a highly re ned one at that, which requires systematic, prolonged and strict training, to be
acceptable.It is almost like preparing a formal meal for some specially invited guests, without even
having learnt and trained in the basics of cooking.

Question 6: No art form is di cult to master. 

Select one:

a. FALSE

b. TRUE

c. Partially True

d. Partially False

The correct answer is: FALSE

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Question 7 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Almost two-third of the human race has

Select one:

a. musical ability

b. blessed others with musical ability

c. no musical ability

d. musical inability

The correct answer is: musical ability

Question 8 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00

Find the synonym of ' very complicated or detailed' (para 3)

Select one:

a. acceptable

b. genuine

c. intricate

d. prolonged

The correct answer is: intricate

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Question 9 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00

One who is desirous of singing must understand that music needs training which is 

Select one:

a. systematic usual strict

b. systematic prolonged relaxed

c. systematic strict ongoing

d. unsystematic ongoing relaxed

The correct answer is: systematic strict ongoing

Question 10 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

.............. is a magic medicine and many seek refuge in it.

Select one:

a. Nature

b. Music

c. Intimacy

d. Nature of music

The correct answer is: Music

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Question 11 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00

Choose the correct sentence from the choices given.  

This particular refrigerator is more costlier in the market as compared to online shopping site.

Select one:

a. This particular refrigerator is  costlier in the market as compared to online shopping site.

b. This particular refrigerator is more costlier in the market as than online shopping sites.

c. This particular refrigerator is more costlier in the market as comapred to online shopping
sites.

d. This particular refrigerator is more costly in the market as comapred to online shopping sites.

The correct answer is: This particular refrigerator is  costlier in the market as compared to online
shopping site.

Question 12 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

There is an error in the given sentence.Choose the correct sentence from the choices given.  

My great grandfather used to has an old Rolls Royce.

Select one:

a. My great grandfather used to had an old Rolls Royce.

b. My great grandfather would used to had an old Rolls Royce.

c. My great grandfather used to have a old Rolls Royce.

d. My great grandfather used to have an old Rolls Royce.

The correct answer is: My great grandfather used to have an old Rolls Royce.

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Question 13 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00

There is an error in the given sentence. Choose the correct sentence from the choices
given.  

'Your friend is in a bad mood.' 'Why not you send her some owers?'

Select one:

a. 'Your friend is in an bad mood.' 'Why don't you send her some owers?'

b. 'Your friend is in a bad mood.' 'Why don't you send her a owers?'

c. 'Your friend is in a bad mood.' 'Why don't you send her some owers?'

d. 'Your friend is in a bad mood.' 'Why mustn't you send her some owers?'

The correct answer is: 'Your friend is in a bad mood.' 'Why don't you send her some owers?'

Question 14 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

There is an error in the given sentence. Choose the correct sentence from the choices
given.  

I doesn't want that woman to come here ever again.

Select one:

a. I doesn't want that woman to come here ever over again.

b. I don't want that woman to come here ever again.

c. I don't want that woman to come there ever again.

d. I don't want that women to come here ever again.

The correct answer is: I don't want that woman to come here ever again.

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Question 15 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

There is one word missing in sentence. Choose the correct sentence from the choices
given.   

We are still waiting instructions.

Select one:

a. We are still waiting for instructions.

b. We are still waiting a instructions.

c. We are still waiting an instructions.

d. We are still waiting the instructions.

The correct answer is: We are still waiting for instructions.

Question 16 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

There is one word missing in sentence. Choose the correct sentence from the choices
given.   

He can't whether he should leave the job or not.

Select one:

a. He can't know whether he should leave the job or not.

b. He can't expose whether he should leave the job or not.

c. He can't decide whether he should leave the job or not.

d. They can't decide whether he could leave the job or not.

The correct answer is: He can't decide whether he should leave the job or not.

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Question 17 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

There is one word missing in sentences. Choose the correct sentence from the choices
given.   

Don't quick results when you start learning a new thing. 

Select one:

a. Don't need quick results when you start learning a new thing.

b. Don't except quick results when you start learning a new thing.

c. Don't prompt  quick results when you start learning a new thing.

d. Don't expect quick results when you start learning a new thing.

The correct answer is: Don't expect quick results when you start learning a new thing.

Question 18 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

There is one word missing in sentence. Choose the correct sentence from the choices
given.   

You need not have to me up.

Select one:

a. You need not have to woke me up.

b. You need not have to wake me up.

c. You need not have to shout me up.

d. You need not have to woken me up.

The correct answer is: You need not have to wake me up.

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Question 19 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

The little girl was left alone in the house with……………. .

Select one:

a. Alena, the cook

b. Alice, the cook

c. Alice, the housekeeper

d. Alena, the housekeeper

The correct answer is: Alice, the cook

Question 20 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Evelyn  had learnt to open her..................... to sounds and vibrations

Select one:

a. mind and body

b. body and soul

c. heart and body

d. feelings and expressions

The correct answer is: mind and body

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Question 21 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

At the end of singing 'Chaita' at ............... .. Bismillah would earn a laddu weighing ......... .

Select one:

a. Bihariji temple, 1.25 kg

b. Bihariji temple, 1.50 kg

c. Krishna temple, 1.5gm

d. Rameswaram temple, 1.25kg

The correct answer is: Bihariji temple, 1.25 kg

Question 22 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Margie was taught punch code when she was

Select one:

a. 7 years old

b. 6 years old

c. 11 years old

d. not mentioned

The correct answer is: 6 years old

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Question 23 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00

Kalam had a very secured childhood both………………… .

Select one:

a. mentally and emotionally

b. materially and physically

c. mentally and physically

d. materially and emotionally

The correct answer is: materially and emotionally

Question 24 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

She has a scarlet cap on her head,

And that was left the same;
But all the rest of her clothes were burned
Black as a coal in the ame.

Question: How did the woodpecker get a red crown and a black body?

Select one:

a. The woman was wearing a red cap and funny, furry clothes of bear skin.

b. The woman had scarlet cap on her head and her clothes got burnt as she ew out of the
chimney.

c. The woodpecker's skin is black as it has to bore for food in the dry hard wood.

d. The woman caught re so her crown was the colour of ames and her body was the colour of
ashes

The correct answer is: The woman had scarlet cap on her head and her clothes got burnt as she ew out
of the chimney.

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Question 25 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00

Identify the poetic device used in the rst line.

Select one:

a. Enjambment

b. Personi cation

c. Alliteration

d. Metaphor

The correct answer is: Alliteration

Question 26 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Why was the little woman punished?

Select one:

a. because she was highly stingy, mean and greedy 

b. because it was her life long dream to be seen in the woods by the schoolboys

c. owing to her generous behaviour

d. because the traveller was trying to perform a miracle

The correct answer is: because she was highly stingy, mean and greedy 

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Question 27 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Now in memory comes my mother

as she used in years agone
To regard the darling dreamers
Ere she left them till the dawn:

Question: Who is the writer of these lines?

Select one:

a. Coats Kinney

b. Coates Kinney

c. Cotz Kiney

d. Coates kiney

The correct answer is: Coates Kinney

Question 28 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

What does 'darling dreamers' refer to?

Select one:

a. young friends of the poet

b. young cousins of the poet

c. young siblings of the poet

d. young neighbours of the poet

The correct answer is: young siblings of the poet

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Question 29 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Which word in the extract means 'ability to remember things'?

Select one:

a. gone

b. regards

c. memory

d. mother

The correct answer is: memory

Question 30 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

What decides a person's future according to the poem 'The Road Not Taken'?

Select one:

a. the path one chooses to walk

b. the regrets

c. the path one leaves behind

d. the success

The correct answer is: the path one chooses to walk

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Question 31 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00

'He won't do what you tell him'- this line in the poem 'Wind' suggests that

Select one:

a. the wind is disobedient.

b. we should not make requests to any one.

c. di culties and troubles do not listen to pleadings.

d. the wind has a will of its own.

The correct answer is: di culties and troubles do not listen to pleadings.

Question 32 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Which memories of the poet are revived when he listens to the pitter patter sound of rain?

Select one:

a. his youth

b. his school days

c. childhood memories

d. his sad days

The correct answer is: childhood memories

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Question 33 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

The poet of 'A Legend of Northland' says the story is not true. Yet she narrates it. Why does she do
so?

Select one:

a. To tell that people lie about the people of Northland

b. To lie about an old woman who was cursed by an angry man.

c. To entertain people by telling lies

d. To teach people to be kind and share what they have with others

The correct answer is: To teach people to be kind and share what they have with others

Question 34 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

How did Toto manage to escape from the closet?

Select one:

a. he pulled out the peg he had been tied to from the wall inside the closet

b. he was losely tied 

c. the rope broke from between

d. he was tied to broken peg

The correct answer is: he pulled out the peg he had been tied to from the wall inside the closet

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Question 35 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00

Why did the grandfather decide to take Toto to Saharanpur?

Select one:

a. as Toto's existence was still hidden from the grandmother

b. as Toto himself wanted to accompany the grandfather as a good pet

c. if the grandfather left Toto behind, he wouldn't allow any animal to sleep at night  

d. the author asked the grandfather to take Toto along

The correct answer is: if the grandfather left Toto behind, he wouldn't allow any animal to sleep at
night  

Question 36 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

Why does the lost child lose interest in the things that he had wanted earlier?

Select one:

a. as he did not have money

b. as he couldn't enjoy with his strict parents

c. as he got lost in the fair, he was panic-stricken for being lost

d. as he got scolding from his father

The correct answer is: as he got lost in the fair, he was panic-stricken for being lost

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Question 37 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

In the story, 'The Happy Prince', what are the two most precious things?

Select one:

a. sapphires and ruby

b. the leaden heart of the Happy Prince and the dead swallow

c. ruby and the golden statue

d. sapphires and the sword

The correct answer is: the leaden heart of the Happy Prince and the dead swallow

Question 38 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00

How did the Happy Prince help the seamstress ?

Select one:

a. asked the swallow to take the ruby out of his sword and give it to the seamstress

b. asked the swallow to take out the gold leaves and the jewels on his body and distribute
among the poor

c. Not helped her at all

d. asked the swallow to give her a sapphire

The correct answer is: asked the swallow to take the ruby out of his sword and give it to the seamstress

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Question 39 Correct Mark 2.00 out of 2.00

Read the following conversation between Chinki and Niki and complete the dialogues by lling in
the spaces with appropriate options given.
Chinki: Have you bought a birthday gift for Pooja?
Niki: Yes, but I don’t know a) _________.
Chinki: I can help you if you want.
Niki: That’s really nice of you, tell me b) _____________?

Select one:

a. a) how to x it
b) for the payment

b. a) how to pack it nicely

b) what you require for packing.

c. a) I need a wrapping paper

b) where she puts up

d. a) how to reach on time

b) what to do

The correct answer is: a) how to pack it nicely

b) what you require for packing.

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