LAKSH ACADEMY

English
Weekly Test
Max Marks: 50

Date : 24/Nov/2023 Grade: 9th (CBSE) Time: 2Hrs

SECTION –A: READING (20 Marks)

Q.1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (Any Ten) 10
Q.2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (Any Ten) 10
SECTION B: WRITING AND GRAMMAR (15 Marks)
OR
Q.4. Fill in the following blanks choosing the most appropriate option from the ones given below. 3
Write the answers in your answer –sheet against the correct blank numbers.
Q.5. In the following passage one word has been omitted in each line .Write the missing word, in 3
any four sentences of the given paragraph, along with the word that comes before and the word
that comes after it in the space provided .
Q.6. Rearrange any four of the following word clusters to make meaningful sentences . 4
SECTION C LITERATURE (15 Marks)
Q.7. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: (Any TWO) 10
I took off my black coat, white shirt and not-so-white vest and hung them up. I opened the two 5
windows in the room. It was an outer room with one wall facing the open yard. It had a tiled roof
with long supporting gables that rested on the beam over the wall. There was no ceiling. There was a
regular traffic of rats to and from the beam. I made my bed and pulled it close to the wall. I lay down
but I could not sleep. I got up and went out to the veranda for a little air, but the wind god seemed to
have taken time off.
I went back into the room and sat down on the chair. I opened the box beneath the table and took out
a book, the Materia Medica. I opened it at the table on which stood the lamp and a large mirror; a
small comb lay beside the mirror.

Questions
1. Why did the doctor open the two windows in the room? (2)
2. How did the rats run when 'there was no ceiling'? (1)
3. Explain:'... but the wind god seemed to have taken time off. (1)
4. Find a word from the passage which means 'looked'. (1)
That forced my cousin, Samsuddin, who distributed newspapers in Rameswaram, to look for a 5
helping hand to catch the bundles and, as if naturally, I filled the slot. Samsuddin helped me earn my
first wages. Half a century later, I can still feel the surge of pride in earning my own money for the
first time.

Questions
1. Who does T in the passage refer to? (1)
2. What would the writer's cousin do? (1)
3. What forced Samsuddin to look for a helping hand? (2)
4. Which word in the passage means the same as 'sudden increase'? (1)
One feels tempted to look into a mirror when it is near one. I took a look. In those days I was a great 5
admirer of beauty and I believed in making myself look handsome. I was unmarried and I was a
doctor. I felt I had to make my presence felt. I picked up the comb and ran it through my hair and
adjusted the parting so that it looked straight and neat.

Questions
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 1. What does a person being face to face with a mirror want to do? (1)
2. What for did the doctor want to look handsome? (1)
3. What did the doctor actually mean in saying that he was a doctor and a bachelor? (2)
4. Find a word from the passage which means 'charmed'. (1)
Q.8. Read the extract given and complete the sentence that follow: 5
Once, when the good Saint Peter 5
Lived in the world below,
And walked about it, preaching,
Just as he did, you know,

Questions:
(a) Is St. Peter alive today? Which lines answer the question? (2)
(b) Who was St. Peter and what did he use to do? (1)
(c) Explain or interpret in detail: 'And walked about it, preaching'. (1)
(d) Find a word from the passage which mean: sermonising. (1)
OR
Then up she went through the chimney, 5
Never speaking a word,
And out of the top flew a woodpecker,
For she was changed to a bird.

Questions
(a) What was the effect of St. Peter’s curse on the little lady? (1)
(b) What did the old lady do after she had been changed to a bird? (2)
(c) What particular bird was she changed to? (1)
(d) Find a word from the passage which means: space in the roof for the smoke to come out’. (1)
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