Vidya Bharti Vidyalaya

Keshav Saraswati Vidya Mandir

Keshavpuram, Patna
Periodic TEST-1, 2021-22
Class : IX Full Marks: 20
Subject : English Time : 1 hour
Answer the questions as directed:

1. Your elder brother gifted you a dictionary on your birthday. Just write a letter in 100-120 5
words thanking him for the gift. You are Ram/Sita living at XYZ Complex, Housing Colony,
Patna City, Patna.
2. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct options for any six of the eight sentences given ½x6=3
below:.
(i) Ram and Mohan........... done their work.
(a) not have. (b) has not
(c) have not. (d) not had
(ii) Sita and Gita did not ..........their letters.
(a) wrote (b) written
(c) write (d) writing
(iii) Have you ..........doing your work?
(a) being (b) are
(c) been (d) were
(iv) Will Ram not have been...........his work?
(a) done (b) doing
(c) did (d) does
(v) If Ram comes,he.............go there.
(a) would (b) will
(c) could (d) should
(vi) One..........obey one's parents.
(a) can (b) must
(c) may (d) will
((vii) None.............break discipline.
(a) can (b) can't
(c) mustn't (d) won't
(viii) You..........done your duty well.
(a) should have (b) should has
(c) should had (d) should having
3. Answer any three questions in 20-30 words each: 2x3=6
(i) 'Everything suddenly looked black.' Why does Evelyn feel this?
(ii) Why does Kezia go slowly to the drawing- room when mother asked to come downstairs?
(iii) What does Robert Frost think to do one day?
(iv) What is the bliss of the poet in the poem 'Rain on the Roof'?
4. Answer any three questions in 20-30 words each: 2x3=6
(i) How does the man try to comfort the crying child lost in the fair
(ii) How can we say that Toto was a mischievous monkey?
(iii) How is Toto a pretty monkey?
(iv) How does Ishwaran spend his day after his master's departure for work?

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