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CBSE SAMPLE PAPER 03 SUMMATIVE ASSESSTMENT-II CLASS –IX ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE TIME ALLOWED: 3 HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS: 70 General Instruction: These question paper consists of three sections: Section A-Reading (20 marks) Section B-Writing and Grammar (25 marks) Section C -Literature (25 marks) Textbooks (15 marks) Novel (Long Reading Text) (10 marks) 1. Attempt all questions. 2. Do all not write anything in the questions paper. 3. All the answer must be correctly numbered as in the question paper and written in the answer sheet provided to you. 4. Attempt all questions in each section before going on to the next section. 5. Read each question carefully and follow the instructions. Section-A 1. Read the passage given below: (8 Marks) Baisakhi, which occurs on April 13 (and rarely on April 14), is the beginning of the year. It is also a harvest festival. The rabi crop is ready for harvest; the fields are lush green and heavy with the grains; it is a season of plenty. Naturally the mood of the people in the villages is one of joy. What better things to do than to celebrate, to sing and dance? That’s what Baisakhi is all about; it is a community for the festival. The men and women dance the robust and energetic bhangra and giddha. People wear bright coloured traditional dresses for the festival. Traditionally the festivities take place on the banks of rivers. People eat ‘rotis’ made out of freshly ground atta (wheat flour) along with desi ghee and gud (jiggery). On the whole, it is a day of merry-making and feasting. A bonfire is lit, and the dances are performed around it. For the Sikhs, Baisakhi also marks the beginning of the Khalsa Movement. It was on this day, that the tenth Guru, Gobind Singh, initiated the Khalsa Movement of the Sikh brotherhood in 1699. For Hindus, it is the start of the second month of New Year after Chaitr, and is celebrated with requisite bathing, partying, and worshipping. It’s believed that thousands of years ago, Goddess Ganga descended to earth and in her honour, many Hindus gather along the sacred Ganges River for ritual baths. The action is centered in the holy cities along the Ganges in north India, or in Srinagar’s Mughal Gardens, Jammu’s Nagbani Temples, or anywhere in Tamil Nadu. Hindus plant poles (wrapped in flags of gold-embroidered silk) in front of their homes, and hang pots of brass, copper or silver on top. Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj on vaisakha, Vesak or Weasak. It commemorated the birth, the Awakening and the Enlightened Passing Away of Gautama Buddha who was born as prince Siddhartha. Answer the following questions briefly: (a) Apart from being a festival, what makes Baisakhi an important one? Material downloaded from http://myCBSEguide.com and http://onlineteachers.co.in Portal for CBSE Notes, Test Papers, Sample Papers, Tips and Tricks

(b) Name the folk dances of Punjab. (c) How is the festival celebrated? (d) What importance does Baisakhi hold for Sikhs? (e) Who founded Arya Samaj and when? (f) How is Baisakhi an important day for Buddhists? (g) What is the Hindu belief referred to in the passages? (h) Find the word from the passage which means the same as ‘healthy and forceful”. Ans. (a) Baisakhi is important as it marks the beginning of the year. (b) Bhangra and Giddha. (c) Traditionally the festivities take place on the river banks. People eat rotis made out of freshly ground atta, along with desi ghee and jiggery. (d) Baisakhi also marks the beginning of the Khalsa movement. It was on this day, the tenth guru Gobind Singh, initiated the Khalsa movement of the Sikh Brotherhood in 1699. (e) Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded Arya Samaj in 1875 on Vaisakhi. (f) For Buddhists, it commemorated the birth, the Awakening, and the Enlightened Passing Away of Gautam Buddha who was born as prince Siddhartha. (g) For Hindus, Baisakhi is the start of the second month of the year after Chaitra. It is believed that thousands of years ago Goddess Ganga descended to earth and in her honour many Hindus gathered along sacred Ganges River for ritual baths. 2. Read the passage given below and answer the following questions: (12 marks) Being eco-friendly is in vogue. Whether on the ramp or at home, a large number of people are emphasizing the use of eco-friendly products, thereby doing their bit to protect the environment. “Eco-friendly products are those products that inflict minimal or no harm to the environment. Made of natural elements, these products are not only safe but also add an artistic dimension to one’s home”, explains C.K. Nair of Home stop. The product are made of environment sensitive material such as recycled wood, dead wood, recycled paper, bamboo, jute, natural fiber and natural or organic cotton. “Grasses like sabai grass and vetiver can be woven to make mats, screens, bags and baskets. Old textile can be used to make mats, screens, bags and baskets. Old textiles can be used to make recycled paper, which can be used for packing, lampshades, note books and other stationery. Recycled paper, which can be used for containers and furniture, says Minhazz Majumdar of the Bamboo store. Though there’s been a lot of awareness about using eco-friendly products, it si still not the first thing that people look for when buying things for their homes. Eco-friendly products not only stand out in their looks, their durability is also high. “The life cycle of these products can be up to fifty years”, says Majumdar: There are many other benefits of using eco-friendly products; by using these products, you can help decrease pollution, the destruction of forests and other ecosystems, and the amount of waste sent to landfills. In addition to this, eco-friendly products are better for your health. As they don’t contain any harmful chemicals that can irritate skin or eyes. Another benefit of using green products is the peace of mind that you’re helping keep the planet a clean and safe place to live not only for your generation, but for generations to come! Material downloaded from http://myCBSEguide.com and http://onlineteachers.co.in Portal for CBSE Notes, Test Papers, Sample Papers, Tips and Tricks

Short answer type questions: (2x4=8 marks) (a) What are eco-friendly products? (b) What are the benefits of using eco-friendly products? (c) Why eco-friendly products are considered environment friendly? (d) How are these products good for our health? Very short answer type questions to test vocabulary: (e) What is meant by ‘vogue’? (Para 1) (f) What is meant by ‘inflict’? (Para 2) (g) Find the word opposite in meaning to ‘artificial’ (Para 2) (h) find the word opposite in meaning to ‘soothe’. (Para 5) Ans. (a) Eco-friendly products are those products that inflict minimal or no harm to the environment. (b) The benefits of using Eco-friendly products are that they are made of natural elements and are safe. (c) They are considered environment friendly because they decrease pollution, the destruction of forests and other ecosystems, and the amount of waste send to landfills. (d) These products are good for our health because they don’t contain any harmful chemicals that can irritate our skin or eyes. (e) Trendy (f) Deliver (g) Natural (h) Irritate Section B-Writing and Grammar 3. You are Asha. You came to know that some of your friends skip breakfast to reduce their weight/or they do not have time for it in the morning. Stressing the consequences of skipping breakfast, write an article- ‘Breakfast, the most important meal of the Day’. (100-120 words) (5 marks) Ans. Breakfast the Most Important Suitable Meal of the day It is rightly said ‘Eat breakfast like a king; Lunch like a Prince and dinner like a pauper. This common quote is a great way to remember how to eat throughout the day. You should start the morning by eating a full, balanced and healthy diet. As the day progress, you should start to eat light and eat less carbohydrates, in the evening. This helps your metabolism. As a result of which one can sleep comfortably without feeling to full. Your body will be ready in the morning for the cycle again. Thus it not right to skip breakfast. It is the most important meal of the day. Moreover, by skipping breakfast you feel hungry by lunch time making you eat more as well as take snacks in between. Thus the whole purpose of weight loss it lots. 4. Your teacher has given you a few hints to write a story with a suitable title for the school magazine. Using these hints, develop a story in about 150-200 words. (10 marks) Last week I went to the market to buy some books on my bicycle. I placed the bicycle outside the shop but when I came out I saw that it was missing. Alarmed, I asked the people standing outside the shop but no one had seen anything. I had no option but to go the police and lodge a complaint. At the police station, I found an old lady weeping bitterly. She had been brought to the police station for interrogation. She was repeatedly saying she was innocent. But all Material downloaded from http://myCBSEguide.com and http://onlineteachers.co.in Portal for CBSE Notes, Test Papers, Sample Papers, Tips and Tricks

her pleas were falling on deaf ears. Suddenly a middle aged man came and whispered something in the jeweller’s ears. The jeweler, without saying anything, went away. While I was registering my complaint against the maid. The SHO that they were taking back the complaint against the maid. The SHO angrily told the man, “If you had to take back the complaint then why did you lodge it in the first place. Do you think we have nothing to do?” Later, I came to know that their teenage son was a drug addict and he had robbed his own parents. I felt sad for the old lady who had to go through the trauma of a false charge just because she was poor. Oh, I forgot, my cycle this is still at large. 5. Complete the following passage by choosing the most appropriate options from the ones given below. Write your answer in the answer sheet against the correct blank number. Do not copy the entire passage. (3 marks) The first ever manned airplane that can fly (a)__________day or night (b) __________ solar power alone, landed in the dark (c) __________ a major south-western US airport. (a) (i) in (ii) through (iii) by (iv) over (b) (i) in (ii) with (iii) on (iv) through (c) (i) in (ii) at (iii) on (iv) upon Ans. (a) (i) in (b) (iii) on (c) (ii) at 6. The following passage has not been edited. One word is missing from each line. Write the missing word along with the world that comes before it and the word that comes after it in your answer sheet. (3 marks) Word before Missing word Word after Much the information (a) __________ ____________ __________ We today about chimpanzees (b) __________ ____________ __________ Comes the ground breaking, (c) __________ ____________ __________ Long term research the (d) __________ ____________ __________ Great conservationist Jane Goodall, who Was born in London. Ans. Word before Missing word Word after (a) Much of the (b) We have today (c) comes on the (d) research of the 7. Rearrange the following words or phrases into meaningful sentences: (3 marks) e.g. Kerala/natural/its/called/is/” Gods own Country”/beauty/for Material downloaded from http://myCBSEguide.com and http://onlineteachers.co.in Portal for CBSE Notes, Test Papers, Sample Papers, Tips and Tricks

Kerala is called “Gods Own Country” for its natural beauty. (a) located/Arabian sea/in/between/it/is/and/western ghats (b) Cholas/Kerala/ninth/governed/the/the/up/century/A.D./to (c) Mr Dobbin/’Anatomy book’/keep/drawer/to/a/thick/his/used/big/in Ans. (a) It is located in between Arabian sea and western ghats. (b) The Cholas governed Kerala up to the ninth century A.D. (c) Mr Dobbins used to keep his thick, big ‘Anatomy book’ in his drawer. Section-C-Literature 8. Read the extract given below and answer the following questions: (1x3=3) I get a cheap room in the centre of town and sleep for hours. The next morning, with Mr. Shah’s son and nephew, I visit the two temples in Kathmandu that are most sacred to Hindus and Buddhists. Questions: (a) With whom does the author visit two temples? (b) The two temples in Kathmandu are sacred to which two religions? (c) Find the word from the passage opposite in meaning to dear’. Answers: (a) The author visits the two temples with Mr. Shah’s son and his nephew. (b) The two temples in Kathmandu are sacred to Hindus and Buddhists. (c) Cheap Or The game’s up as far as I’m concerned. Things went wrong with me. I said it with bullets and got away. Unfortunately they got one of my men, and found things the fool should have burnt. Tonight I’m expecting trouble. My bag’s packed ready to clear off. There it is. INTRUDER: It’s a bag all right and this is a gun all right. What’s all this? Gerrard: That’s a disguise outfit; false moustaches and what not. Now do you believe me? Questions: (a) How Gerrard eludes the intruder? (b) What was there in the Gerrard’s bag? (c) Find the word from the passage opposite in meaning to veal’. Answers: Material downloaded from http://myCBSEguide.com and http://onlineteachers.co.in Portal for CBSE Notes, Test Papers, Sample Papers, Tips and Tricks

(a) He eludes him by telling a false story that he himself is a criminal. (b) In his bag there was disguise outfit and false moustaches. (c) False. 9. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words each: (2x4=8 marks) (i) What happened to Bruno when he was sent to the zoo? Ans. When Bruno was sent to the zoo, he became very thin and sad. He fretted and refused food too. He became very emotional and sentimental. (ii) What do you know about the early life of Santosh? Ans. Santosh was a sister to five brothers. She was born on in a small village of Joniyawas Rewari District in Haiyana. Her parents were well-off landowners. She was given the name 'Santosh' which means contentment. She studied in the local village school. After passing the high school examination, she went to Jaipur and joined Maharani college there. (iii) How did the duck ride on the Kangaroo’s back? Ans. The duck sat steady at the end of his tail. So that his balance might be maintained. She sat without speaking anything and hopped the world three times. She followed the instructions given. By the Kangaroo and sat there without making any movement. (iv) What was Jerome’s real intention when he offered George and Harris to pack? Ans. The real intention of Jerome to offer them to pack was to supervise their work. He wanted to act as a boss only. But his offer was misused but to spoil the things. 10. Answer one of the following questions in about 80-100 words: (4 marks) Describe the title ‘A House is not a Home'. Ans. Life without love is not life. Human relationship is based on love. The title itself indicates it clearly that a house is not a home without love. The author had to face adverse circumstances in his life. He was a fatherless boy. He led a satisfactory life with his old friends and teachers. But when he changed his school, he could not adjust himself in the new environment. He felt himself alienated. Later on his house caught fire and he lost all the things including his cat. He started feeling dejected and isolated. Life had no interest for him anymore. He started building a new house. But it was not a home, as a house is a home only when there is love and happiness. The author did not have any attachment to the new house. His reunion with his cat, his new friends and the new house made his house a home. ‘Society has power to reform a man.' Elucidate. Ans. Man is a social animal. One becomes antisocial when he does not get proper environment. Sometimes circumstances too compel us to choose a wrong path. Man is part and parcel of society. In our society, people from all spheres of life lead their lives peacefully. In the chapter it is the contribution of the society that improved the condition of Lushkoff. Good and bad people are always there. There have been great social reformers. They sacrificed their lives for the betterment of humanity. Even in recent times the noble people are involved in the public welfare deeds. They work with the sole motive of reforming those who have deviated from the right path. Material downloaded from http://myCBSEguide.com and http://onlineteachers.co.in Portal for CBSE Notes, Test Papers, Sample Papers, Tips and Tricks

NOVEL-Long Reading Text 11. Answer one of the following questions in about 100-120 words: (10 marks) Gulliver was not able to tolerate the company of human beings but enjoyed the company of the two stone-horses he bought after returning home. What did it tell you about the sea change that had come on him? Did it seem logical to you? Ans. It tells us that, alas, he was able to bring some peace within him. He hated the smell of humans as he had come to know how bad they were. He hated to live with his wife and children because they did not appeal to him anymore. His admiration was solely for the horses or Houyhnhms. So in order to do justice to his liking, he bought two stone-horses, reared them in his own house, and took great care of them. He stayed near them at least four hours every day. He was able to enjoy their company that way. He did not use any bridle or saddle on them, there by proving that they deserved to be treated respectfully and not as beasts meant for carrying people of pulling loads/carriages. He felt his spirits had revived by the smell he came across in the stable. He found mental peace as he was near to those whom he adored. These sea change that had come upon him prove that Gulliver was then at complete peace with himself. He thought it was perfectly logical on his part to live with the horses in his home. Or Explain the kind of life spent by the noblemen, according to Gulliver. Ans. Gulliver said that the noblemen in his country were very different from the impression which he (the master) had about them. He said that the young noblemen were bred from their childhood in idleness and luxury and that as their age progressed they found themselves depleted in strength and contacted extremely unpleasant diseases by frequenting with lewd females. Gulliver said that when their fortunes were almost ruined they married some woman of mean birth, disagreeable nature, of unsound constitution, just for their money. They hated and despised such women and the off springs of such marriages produced sickly, unhealthy and deformed children. Due to this unhealthy environment, the family seldom continued beyond three generations, unless the wife took care to provide a healthy father, chosen from among her neighbours or servants in their homes, in order to improve and continue the breed. Gulliver added that a weak diseased body, a small face, and a pale complexion are the true marks of a nobleman and a healthy robust appearance is so disgraceful in a nobleman, that the word concludes his real father must have been a groom or a coachman. Gulliver also said that without the permission of this sickly nobility no law could be enacted, and that the citizens had no way to appeal against the decisions taken by the nobility. Or Material downloaded from http://myCBSEguide.com and http://onlineteachers.co.in Portal for CBSE Notes, Test Papers, Sample Papers, Tips and Tricks

For whom according to the narrator, was Barley Mow inn at Clifton not a suitable place to live in? Give reasons. Ans. The quaintest, most old-world in up the river was Barley Mow inn at Clifton. It Stood on the right of the bridge, quite away from the village. It was not a “suitable place for the heroine of a modern novel to stay at,” according to the narrator. He believed that heroines were always “divinely and ever “drawing herself up to her full height”. He felt that at that inn she would have bumped her head against the ceiling each time she drew herself to her full height. The narrator also felt that the inn would have been a bad house for a drunken man to stay at. He said that there were too many surprises in the way of unexpected steps down into each room; and, as for getting upstairs to his bedroom or ever finding his bed when he had got up, either operation would have been an utter impossibility to him. Or What was the effect of the song two lovely black eyes” on the narrator and Harris? Ans. The song “Two Lovely Black Eyes” affected the narrator and Harris in a very emotional manner. They fell upon each other’s necks and wept; with great effort they kept back the rising tears, and listened to the wild mournful melody in silence. When the chorus came, they made a desperate attempt to be merry. They refilled their glasses and joined in; Harris in a voice trembling with emotion, leading and the narrator and George following a few words behind. They broke down the unutterable pathos of George’s accompaniment to that song. That was their state of depression they were unable to bear. Harris sobbed like a little child and the dog howled till the narrator thought his heart or his jaw must surely break. Material downloaded from http://myCBSEguide.com and http://onlineteachers.co.in Portal for CBSE Notes, Test Papers, Sample Papers, Tips and Tricks