2ND SUMMATIVE EVALUATION
CLASS 9 (IX) WBBSE
ENGLISH QUESTION PAPER

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Set-1

Textbook: ‘Bliss
Lesson—
5 : All summer in a Day – Ray Bradbury (Prose)
6 : Mild the Mist upon the Hill – Emily Jane Bronte (Poetry)
7 : Tom Loses a Tooth – Mark Twain (Prose)
8 : His first flight – Liam O’Flaherty (Prose)
Grammar, Vocabulary and Writing (স্কুলভিত্তিক পরিবর্তন হতে পারে)

Second Summative Evaluation
Sub- English Class-9
Time-80 minutes Full Marks- 40

Group-A : Reading (Seen)

1. Go through the following passage and answer the questions below as directed.

(7 : Tom Loses a Tooth– Mark Twain)

Tom always found Monday mornings to be miserable. Monday began another week’s, slow suffering in school. Tom lay thinking. Presently, he wished that he was sick : then he could stay home from school. He investigated his body with the hope of finding some ailment. He thought that he had found symptoms of stomach trouble. He began to grow hopeful. However, the symptoms soon grew feeble and wholly went away. Tom thought further. Suddenly he discovered something. One of his upper front teeth was loose. He felt lucky. he was about to gro an when it occurred to him that if Aunt Polly was to know she would surely pull it out and that would hurt. Tom thought he would hold the tooth in reserve for the present. He remembered hearing from a doctor that a certain ailment could lay up a patient for three days and make him lose a finger, He eagerly drew his sore toe from under the sheet and held it up for inspection. He did not know the necessary symptoms.

A. Answer the question : 1×4=4

(a) Who is the writer of the text “Tom loses a Tooth” ?
Ans. ____________________________________________________________

(b) Which day was miserable to Tom?

Ans. ____________________________________________________________

(c) Why did Tom wish that he was sick ?
Ans. ____________________________________________________________

(d) What did Tom remember hearing from a doctor ?
Ans. ____________________________________________________________

B. Tick the correct answer from the given alternatives : 1×3=3

(a) If Aunt Polly was to know that Tom had a loose tooth, she would –
(i) Surely pull it out
(ii) bring him some medicine
(iii) Call a dentist
(iv) advise him to stay at home

(b) Tom pulled out his sore toe from under the-
(i) quilt (ii) blanket (iii) Sheet
(iv) bed cover

(c) He did not know the necessary symptoms of –
(i) stomach trouble (ii) sore toe
(iii) loose teeth (iv) headache

C. Why did Tom leave the idea of tooth ache to stay home from school? 1×3=3

Ans. __________________________________
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
_______________________________________

Group-B : Reading (Unseen)

2. Read the following passage and answer the following questions:

Sitar Maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar’s ashes were immersed in the Ganga at his birth place on Tuesday. One of the most celebrated sons of Varanasi, Shankar died at a hospital in San Diego, California, on December 11,2012. Wife Sukanya, daughters Norah Jones (winners of nine Grammy Awards) and Sitar player Anoushka Shankar, and Anoushka’s husband Joe Wright arrived here with the ashes on Monday afternoon. It may be mentioned here that shankar would go boat riding in the Ganga whenever he visited the city. Though he settled abroad, his fascination for Varanasi led him to establish the Ravi Shankar Institute for Music and performing Arts in the Shivpur area in 1976. He left for Paris with the troupe of his eldest brother Uday Shankar as a child artist in 1930. He was born in 1920 in Bengali Tola locality.

A. Tick the correct answers from the given alternatives: 1×2=2

(i) Norah Jones won ___________________
Grammy Awards.
(a) nine (b) nineteen (c) eleven
(d) seven

(ii) The abroad city where he visited as a child artist with his eldest brother is –
(a) London (b) Amsterdam
(c) New York (d) None of these

B. Complete the sentences with appropriate informations from the above passage. (1+1)×2=4

(i) Whenever Shankar visited the city
___________________________________________________________

(ii) One of the most celebrated sons of Varanasi was ____________________________
_________________________________

C.Write “T” for True and “F” for False statements and supply relevant supporting statement : (1+1)×2 = 4

(i) Jac Wright was Anoushka’s husband.
Supporting statement ___________________
________________________________

(ii) Ravi Shankar lost fascination for Varanasi while abroad.
Supporting Statement ___________________
_______________________________

D. When and where did Pandit Ravi Shankar die ? [2]
Ans. ____________________________________________________________

Group-C : Grammar

3. (i) He uttered a joyful scream (rewrite using noun form of “joy”) [1]

Ans. ____________________________________

(ii) Replace the underlined words with suitable Phrasal Verbs from the list given below of the following sentences : 2×1=2

(a) The child was cured in a month.

Ans. ___________________________________

(b) Puja could not understand what her sister said.

Ans. __________________________________

(List of phrasal verbs : look into, come round, call up, make out.)

(iii) He was confused and stopped working. (Change inito a simple sentence)

Ans. ___________________________________

(iv) He loves to play football. (Change into an interrogative sentence)

Ans. ___________________________________

Group-D: Writing Skill

4. Write a paragraph on the water cycle, using the following flow-chart : [7]

Water evaporates from water bodies – rises as Vapour-gets heavier – condenses – forms clouds – falls to earth as rain.

5. Write a newspaper report on a road accident using the following hints : [8]

brake failure of a bus – collided with a truck – 5 injured including a child and a woman – injured sent to hospital – released with first aid-traffic disrupted – police intervened – normalcy restored.

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