KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA AFS KUMBHIRGRAM

PERIODIC TEST – II
ENGLISH
Class - IX
Maximum Marks: 40 Time:90 min

Instructions :
The question paper is divided into Three sections.
Section A : Reading 10 marks
Section B : Writing & Grammar 15 marks
Section C : Literature 15 marks

SECTION A

1. Read the following passage and answer the given questions. 10 marks
Anyone who has met Marcus, my huge St. Bernard, will not believe that he recently had
an idea. His idea was this: “If I were deaf, I could not hear when they called me for my
walk, and they would not be able to move me, so I will pretend to be deaf.” The day on
which he put his plan onto action my wife came to me disturbed. “Marcus has gone
deaf!” she explained. “Deaf?” I cried. ”But he could hear perfectly last night”.
I went into the kitchen and said, “Coming with a walk Marcus?” Marcus like a perfect
actor gazed at me eagerly as though he would have given his last bone to have heard
what I said. After a good deal of shouting we left him and he went to sleep smiling.
It was some days before we noticed that Marcus was only part deaf. He was able to hear
anything connected with food. I was carving a joint one Sunday when a tiny scrap of
meat slipped from the fork and dropped on the carpet. Though Marcus was asleep he
heard it fall, rushed into the kitchen and gulped it down. “Hey I thought you were deaf!”
I said. Marcus’s jaw and tail both dropped. He seemed to remember that he was deaf.
Later again he failed to hear three repeated commands to come out for a walk, and then
leapt to his feet at the arrival of the butcher. We agreed that he had to be cured. The
course we took was not entirely sporting. Marcus had gone deaf; we would go silent.
When Marcus was about, we would now go through the actions of speaking but would
not say a word.
Marcus’s first reaction was to be lazily puzzled. The thought he might be missing was a
real torture to him. As we actions with one another Marcus would stare painfully into
our faces and try to lip read. Finally we decided to restore his hearing. I said in a loud
voice one morning, “Come out Marcus!” An expression of beautifully relief spread over
his face. He bounded to his feet. Marcus was not troubled with his deafness. Neither
were we.

A. On the basis of reading the passage, answer the following questions briefly:-

a) Why did Marcus, according to the author, get the idea of pretending to be deaf?
2
b) Why was the author surprised to hear that the dog had become deaf? 2
c) Give one instance from the passage which proves that Marcus was not actually
deaf. 2
d) What was the course taken by the writer to mend the ways of Marcus? 2
B. Find words from the passage which have similar meaning to those below by
choosing from the options given below:
a) ‘Pretend’ in the passage means:
(i) dress(ii) real (iii) fake (iv) sleep 1

b)The word from the passage which is the opposite in meaning to ‘departure’ is:
i)Move (ii) reaction (iii)actions (iv) arrival 1

SECTION B
WRITING & GRAMMAR
2. Write a diary entry in 100 -120 words on your dream to pursue sports as a career where as
your parents want to see you as an established doctor . 5

3.Write a story in about 120 words beginning with the following line .
I was walking alone near the sea beach when I heard somebody screaming from the pine bushes.
5

4.There is an error in each line Write the incorrect word and the correct one against the corresponding
blanks 1/2x4=2 marks
. Incorrect Correct
Humans have been decorating themselves by gold (a) ……………. …………………..
Since at list 4000 B.C. From Eastern Europe to the (b) ………………… …………………
Middle East to the tombs off Egyptian Pharaohs ,gold (c) …………………… ………………
appears throughout an ancient world (d) ……………………. ………………….
5.Rearrange the given words to form meaningful sentences. 1x3=3 marks

(a) are /community/The Parsis /immigrant/an

(b) they/came/and now/possibly located/fromPersia/in Bombay

(c) distinguished by /they are / the Zorostrian/ their adherence/to/faith

 SECTION -C

6. Answer the following questions in about 30- 40 words . (Any three) 2x3=6Marks

a) How did Montmorency add to the confusion during the packing ?

b) What shows Santosh”s concern for the environment ?
c) What is the moral that ‘ The bond of Love teaches?
d) How does the earth give protection to the tree?

7. Answer any one of the following questions . 4marks

a)What impression do you form about the bears after reading Anderson’s account of his
bear in ‘ The Bond of Love’ ?

or

b) Do you think that the three characters in the story ‘Packing’will have a nice trip ? Give
reasons for your answer.

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