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New At. Stephen Public School Unit-3, Periodic Assessment-4 (2021-22), ENGLISH – Language and Literature, CLASS-IX, Time allowed: 2 Hrs. Maximum Marks: 20, General Instructions:, 1. The Question Paper contains THREE sections-READING, WRITING & GRAMMAR and LITERATURE., 2. Attempt questions based on specific instructions for each part., SECTION A- READING (5 marks), 1. Read the passage given below and write the option that you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheet: (5 marks), Time is running out and the parents are worried. With just 10 days left for the schools to reopen after homework .Since the children have enjoyed through their vacations it is their parents who are surfing the internet, painting the charts, writing essays and preparing science models .Some busy parents who are well off but cannot spare time are compelled to send their wards to the “holiday homework special” classes., Sumedha, who holds classes for completing the children’s homework, says that she charges anything between Rs.1000 and 5000per child depending on the class and volume of homework. Many schools give away prizes for the best homework or add the marks in internal assessment. This makes it almost imperative for parents to get the best quality. Majority of the parents’ complain that the level of the homework is so high that their children are clueless about how to do it. Also many of them fret that the quantum of holiday homework is so much that children fail to complete it within the stipulated holidays., In spite of all the troubles all parents agree that holiday homework is essential for the children. Some of them opined that homework helps establish and strengthen bonds between them and their children as it brings them close to each other .Some others think that holiday homework keeps the children in touch with their studies when they are not going to school., Q (i). The two objections raised by parents regarding holiday homework are____________, (a) children playing through the holidays and amount of homework, (b) high level of homework and amount of homework, (c) too much time and high level of homework, (d) lack of ideas among children and level of homework, Q (ii). Holiday homework special ‘classes are conducted for________________, (a) busy parents, (b) children of busy parents, (c) for all well off children, (d) teachers, Q (iii). That _________________makes it necessary that quality homework is done., (a) Schools assign difficult homework, (b) parents are doing the homework, (c) schools add marks of the homework to internal assessment, (d) parents are paying a heavy price for the homework., Q (iv). Besides keeping the children in touch with their studies homework ____________between parents and children., (a) sets up bonds, (b) builds bonds, (c) weakens bonds, (d) sets up and builds bonds, Q (v). The word/phrase ______________in the passage means the same as “expressed opinion”., (a) running out, (b) spare, (c) imperative, (d) opined, SECTION B- Writing & Grammar (5 marks), 2. Write a story in 150-200 words with the help of the following outline :, Tortoise and hare – good friends – tortoise – known for his slow speed – hare has fast speed – makes fun of tortoise – challenges him – referee selected – race starts – hare overconfident – takes a nap – tortoise wins., 3. Fill in the blanks choosing the most appropriate option given below., Thousands of species of plants (a) ………………………. animals are fast disappearing from the face of our earth and no one else (b) ………………………. human being is responsible for this. (c) ………………………. of trees in the hilly regions has destroyed (d) ………………………. lives of people living there., Answer:, (a) i. And ii. But. iii. That. iv. To, (b) i. But. ii. And. iii. That. iv. So, (c) i. Felling. Ii. Fallen. iii. Fall. iv. Felled, (d) i. The ii. A. iii. An. iv. None, SECTION C- Literature (10 marks), 4. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow., It takes much time to kill a tree,, Not a simple jab of the knife, Will do it. It has grown, Slowly consuming the earth,, Rising out of it, feeding, Upon its crust, absorbing, Years of sunlight, air, water,, And out of its leprous hide, Sprouting leaves., (a) Why does it take so much time to kill a tree?, (b) Explain “leprous hide”., 5. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow., I’ve got the freedom to gain. As for myself, I’m a poor hunted rat. As Vincent Charles Gerrard I’m free to go places and do things. I can eat well and sleep and without having to be ready to beat it at the sight of a cop., (a). Why does the intruder call himself ‘a poor hunted rat’?, (b). Why does he have to run at the sight of a cop?, 6. Answer ANY THREE of the following questions in 30-40 words:, (a) Where did Gerrard live? Why was it a suitable place for the intruder’s plan?, (b) How did the villagers make the helicopters drops regular quantities of food?, (c) How does the snake protect itself? What kind of body does it have?, (d) Who was Lushkoff ? What were the lies he told to extract money from Sergei?, 7. Describe the destruction caused by the super cyclone as narrated in the story Weathering the Storm in Ersama'.