CLASS TEST

Subject: English Topic: Class Test 1

Grade: IX Div: _________ Roll No: _________ Date: ____________

Section - A (Reading)
Q1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 12
1 Education is the beginning of empowerment. It is a key to happy and
satisfactory life for the special children, who are cruelly segregated from the
society. In India, there are around 35 million disabled children but less than
one per cent have access to education. The most pressing need is to bestow
the precious gift of education on them and let them be the bearer of torch
towards the path of progress.
2 Special children, without education, are a burden on their families as well as
society. The crude discrimination between normal and abnormal children
leads to severe psychological disorders, giving birth to frustration which we
all know, is not healthy for any progressing nation. Several NGOs are
working towards the upliftment and betterment of such children, but again a
grave problem that is faced by the volunteers is lack of motivation in such
children and even their families. Those who are from the well-to-do families
may not find themselves in this menace, but those belonging to the lower
economic section feel that the effort to obtain education is wastage of time
and energy not to say anything about money.
3 Another factor which is hindering the path of education for such children is
the lack of opportunities or facilities available in schools. Even if the parents
do send such children to schools, the schools themselves are sadly lacking
the facilities to cater to their needs. The government has started the
‘Integrated System of Education’ that enables the disabled to study with
normal children in normal circumstances with few facilities for them. Yet
again we find psychological barriers amongst impaired children that they
cast themselves in a hard mould. Special schools have also been
established by the government and NGOs to meet specific needs of such
children but their number is pitiably low as compared to the normal schools.
4 There is an urgent need to strike at the roots of this neglect to enable the
disabled.
On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following 2x4=8
questions.
(a) Why is education important for special children?
(b) Why should discrimination between normal and special children be avoided?
(c) What problems do volunteers face when dealing with special children and

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their families from the lower economic section?

(d) What is the hindrance to the path of education for special children?

On the basis of your reading of the passage, fill in the followings 1x2=2
blanks with appropriate words/ phrases
(a) In India, there are around 35 million disabled children but less than one per
cent have ……………
(b) Special children, without education, are a burden on ……….

Find out the words that mean the same as under. 1x2=2

(a) to give a gift or right - (paragraph 1)

(b) obstructing - (paragraph 3)

Section –B (Writing and Grammar)

Q2 There is a lack of adult education programs in our villages and towns. Write 8
a letter in about 100-120 words to the editor of ‘India Times’ expressing your
concern and offering solutions to meet the need.

Q3 Complete the following paragraph by filling in the blanks with the help 1x4=4
of the given options.
I (a)___________ a book from the National Library. The librarian said
someone (b)___________ it yesterday. She (c)___________ for another
copy now. That book (d)………good reference material needed for my
presentation.
(a) i. wants ii. wanted iii. am wanting iv. had wanted
(b) i. have taken ii. is taking iii. had taken iv. was taking
(c) i. had looked ii. has looked iii. was looking iv. is looking
(d) i. has ii. have iii. is having iv. was having

Q4 In the following passage one word has been omitted in each line. Write 1x4=4
the missing word, in the sentences of the given paragraph, along with
the word that comes before and the word that comes after it in the
space provided.
Before Missin after
g word
Last night, the people waiting in the hall e.g people were waiting

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almost two hours before show. When (a)

the bell rang 7p.m, the heavy curtains swung (b)
the audience clapped cheered loudly.in (c)
the end, they were given standing ovation. (d)

Section -C (Literature)
Q5 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
(a) She never looked back from that point onwards. She toured the United 1x4=4
Kingdom with a youth orchestra and by the time she was sixteen, she decided
to make music her life. She auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music and
scored one of the highest marks in the history of the academy.
i. What ‘point’ is being referred to?

ii. Who encouraged her at that point?

iii What had the girl achieved at the end of her three year course with the Royal
Academy of music?
iv Give the antonym of the words ‘onwards’

(b) ‘And both that morning equally lay 1x4=4

In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.’
i. What does ‘both’ refer to?

ii. What made the narrator doubt whether he ‘should ever come back’?

iii. Explain ‘In leaves no step had trodden black’

iv. Find the antonym of –‘believed’

Q6 Answer the following in 30-40 words.

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(a) Why did Tommy think that the old books were funny and a big waste? 2

(b) How was the ‘pungi’ improved and why was it named ‘shehnai’? 2
(c) Why did the poet choose the other road? What was the doubt in poet’s mind? 2
(d) What did the child want from the fair? Why does he move on without waiting 2
for an answer from his parents?
(e) What did the child see as they neared the village? what was his reaction? 2

Q7 Answer the following in 100-150 words.

(a) Why did Margie hate school? Why did she think the old kind of school must 8
have been fun?
(b) The poet says “I took the one less travelled by /And that has made all the 8
difference.”
What is the difference that the poet mentions?

Q8 Answer the following in 100-150 words. 8

(a) How was the child lost in the fair? What happened at the temple?

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