Model
Paper
Class 9th Total
Mark: 80
Q no 1: Read the following passage carefully
and answer the questions given at the end: (20 Marks)
One day the old emperor Shahjahan became ill. His son Aurangzeb, who always wanted to be the emperor, put his father in a jail. Jahanara begum, the eldest child of Shahjahan, did not leave her father and went to jail along with him. She said, “ I shall share the suffering of my father. He needs me in his old age, and I shall never leave him.” Shahjahan lived in the jail for seven years and then he died. During that period princess Jahanara stayed with him and took care of him. After the death of her father she returned to her own palace. She continued to live there and spent the rest of her life serving the needy and the poor. Before her death she gave away all her money to the poor and the needy. She was highly educated and well versed in Persian and Arabic, as well as a writer, painter and poet.Jahanara was Shahjahan’s preferred child. Legend says that once when Aurangzeb was severely sick, Jahanara took care of him. Jahanara died on September 5, 1681 , at the age of 67. Upon her death, Aurangzeb gave her the posthumous title: Sahibat-uz-Zamani (mistress of age).
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*Read the passage given below and answer the questions that
follow.
What exercise is to the body, reading is to the mind. There are different purposes of reading. One of them is deriving pleasure. Children reading for their pleasure rarely stop to ask about the words. They want to get on with the story. If the word is important, they can usually make a good guess about what it is. “He drew an arrow from his quiver”. Easy to see that a quiver is some sort of gadget to put arrows in. More complicated words they figure out by meeting them in different contexts. People learn to read well and get good vocabulary, from books, not work books or dictionaries. As a kid I read years ahead of my age, but I never looked up words in dictionaries, and didn’t even have a dictionary. In my lifetime I don’t believe I have looked even as many as fifty words – neither have most good readers. Most people don’t know how dictionaries are made. Each new dictionary starts from scratch. The company making the dictionary employs thousands of ‘editors’, to each of whom they give a list of words. The job of the editor is to collect as many examples as possible of the ways in which these words are actually used. They look for the words in books, newspapers, and so forth and every time they find one, they cut out or copy that particular example. Then after reading these examples they decide ‘from the context’ what the writer in each case had meant by the words. From these they make definitions. A dictionary in other words, is a collection of people’s opinions about what words mean as other people use them.
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*Read the following comprehension for class 8 exam and answer the
questions that follow:
One of the greatest mysteries of bird life is travelling. Every year during autumn and early winter birds travel from northern regions of Asia, Europe and America to the southern warmer lands. They make the return journey again during spring and early summer. They are punctual unless they are delayed by bad weather. They face many dangers and hardships while travelling long distances through the air, over hills, forests, plains and large stretches of water. Sometimes sudden storms arise and drive them far out of course. Often they are blown right out to sea and are drowned in the wild waves. At night bright lights attract and confuse the birds. They cannot fly at their fastest. The migration speed is usually from 48 to 64 km an hour and rarely exceeds 80.
5.1 Answer the following questions:
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5.2 Which words in the passage mean the same as the
following words:
(i) Surpasses (ii) Secrets
Qno2:
Write a Paragraph on the following topic: (Do any two) 10 Marks
I) Impact of COVID - 19 on the
Global Economy.
II) The future of Artificial
Intelligence.
III) War Crimes
iv) Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan
v) Russia-Ukraine war
Qno3: Answer the following Questions. (8
x 5=40 Marks)
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Qno 4: Read the following passage carefully and answer the
questions given at the end: (Marks 10)
“Far
away,” continued the statue in a low musical voice, “far away in a little street there is a poor house. One of
the windows is open, and through it I
can see a women seated at a table. Her face is thin and worn, and she has
coarse, red hands, all pricked by the needle, for she is a seamstress. She is
embroidering flowers on a satin gown for the loveliest of the queen\s maids
of honour, to wear at the next court
ball. In a bed in the corner of the room her little boy is lying ill. He has
fever, and is asking his mother to give him oranges. His mother has nothing to
give him but river water, so he is crying. Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow,
will you not bring her the ruby out of my sword hilt? My feet are fastened to
this pedestal and I cannot move.”
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*Suddenly
Sue heard Johnsy Whisper something. She quickly rushed to the bed and heard
Johnsy counting backwards. She was looking out of the window and was saying,
“Twelve” After sometime she whispered “eleven”, Then “ten”, then “nine”,
“eight”, “seven”. Sue anxiously looked out of the window. She saw an old ivy
creeper climbing half-way up the brick wall opposite their window. In the
strong wind outside, the creeper was shedding its leaves.
‘What is
it, dear? Sue asked
“six”,
whispered johnsy, “They are
falling faster now. Three days ago there were almost a hundred leaves. There
are only five left now.”
“it is
autumn,” said sue “and the leaves will fall.”
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