❖ NARMADA PUBLIC SCHOOL NANDARWADA ❖

Periodic test – 1. (2023-24)

Subject – English
Class – 9th Roll No-
Time – 1.00 Hrs Marks -20

Instructions —

1. All questions are compulsory.

2. Marks allotted to each question are mentioned against each question.
{Section –A}

Q.1 Answer any three of the following questions:- { 6 marks}

(a) What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have ?

(b) What had once happened to the Tommy’s teacher ?
(c) How does Tommy describe the old kind of school ?
(d) Why was Margie doing badly in geography?

Q.2 Read the passage carefully answer the question :- {4 marks }

Two crows challenged each other to see which of them could fly higher, while carrying sacks of the same size.
The first crow filled his sack with cotton and laughed at the other crow who had filled his with salt which was
much heavier.
However, when it began to rain, as the second crow had expected, the salt began to dissolve. The cotton
absorbed the rain water and became so heavy that the first crow did not even have the strength to get off the
ground and he had to admit defeat.
Now answer any four of the following questions:-
1. What was there in the first crow’s sack ?
2. Who was expecting rain?
3. Who was defeated?
4. What was there in the second crow’s sack ?
5. What was the challenge?
{Section –B} {10 marks}
Q.3. Fill in the blanks using this adverbs:-
( Awfully , completely , carefully ,differently ,quickly )
1. We all behave ____________ while we are hungry.
2. I ____________ forgot about it .
3. I finished my work ____________ so that I can go out to play.
4. When I complemented Shreya , she just smiled ________ .
Q.4. Write a letter to the publisher of Mind fame private limited, Asif Ali road ,New Delhi requesting
that a set of Issac Asimov’s stories magazine be sent to you by value payable post and giving your address .

{All the best}