First Summative Evaluation : 40 marks (April) Internal Formative Evaluation: 10 Marks

Textbook: ‘Bliss’

Lesson—
1. Tales of Bhola Grandpa – Manoj Das
2. Autumn-John Clare
3. All about a dog-A.G Gardiner
4. A Day in the Zoo-Gerald Durrell
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Grammar And Vocabulary—
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First Summative Evaluation
Class 9 Sub- English
Time – 1hr 30mins. F.M – 40

Reading Skill (Seen)

1. Read the following passage:

At ten o’clock the zoo gates open and the first rush of visitors arrive. As they come flooding into the grounds, everyone has to be alert. This is not to ensure that the animals do not hurt the people, but to make
sure that the people do not hurt the animals. If an animal is asleep, they want to throw stones at it or prod it with sticks to make it move. We have found visitors trying to give the chimpanzees lighted cigaretters and razor blades. The uncivilized behaviour of some human beings in a zoo has to be seen to be believed.
Towards evening the visiting crowd thins out. The slanting rays of the sun light the cage where the cr 38/54
pigeons live. As the light fades, the robin ceases to sing and files off to roost in the mimosa tree. The w
faced owls that have spent all day pretending to be grey tree stumps, now open large golden eyes. Shadows are creeping over the flower beds and rockery. There is a sudden chorus from the chimpazee’s bedroom. You know they are quarrelling over who should have the straw.

A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives: 1×3=3

(i) In the morning, the zoo gates open at-
(a) nine o’clock (b) ten o’clock
(c) eleven o’clock (d) eight o, clock

Ans. (b) ten o’clock

(ii) The visiting crowd thins out towards –
(a) night (b) dusk (c) evening
(d) afternoon

Ans. (c) evening

(iii) The shadows creep over the flower beds and-
(a) meadow (b) valley (c) cage
(d) rockery

Ans. (d) rockery

B. Fill in the chart with information from the passage: 1×2=2

Time of Action	What happened
1. At ten o’clock	a)
2.	b) the robin ceases to sing and flies off to perch.

Ans. a) zoo gates open and the first rush of visitors arrive.

2) As the light fades

C. Give two examples of uncivilized behaviour of human beings as you find them in the text.

Ans. visitors trying to give the chimpanzees lighted cigaretters and razor blades.

2. Read the following poem:

I love the fitful gust that shakes
The casement all day,
And from the mossy elm-tree takes
The faded leaves away,
Twirling them by the window pane
With thousand others down the lane.

I love to see the shaking twig
Dance till the shut of eve
The sparrow on the cottage rig.
Whose chirp would make believe
That spring was just now flirting by
In summer’s lap with flowers to lie.

A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:

(i) The fitful gust takes the faded leaves away from the-
(a) banyan tree (b) elm-tree
(c) cherry tree (d) fig tree

Ans. (b) elm-tree

(ii) The bird whose chirp would make believe that spring was just now flirting by is-
(a) pigeon (b) cuckoo (c) robin
(d) sparrow

Ans. (d) sparrow

B. List two things that the poet loves.

Ans. (i) fitful gust (ii) shaking twig

Reading Skill (Unseen)

3. Read the following passage:

In one of the largest marline life disasters on the Indian coast in recent memory, 46 car casses of
were found washed ashore near the Tiruchendur beach in Chennai district early today while more than 250,
which were stranded in shallow waters, were pushed back into the deep sea.
Of them, 35 could be rescued by forest department officials, fisherman and fire and rescue personnel and
46 died due to dehydration in shallow waters on the shore. According to the officials and fishermen in the area,
125 whales were found dead at Kallamozhi in 1973.
In August last year, the carcass of a 33-ft long whale was found on a beach near a village in Nagapattinam
district. In April, the carcass of a whale was washed a shore on the Veppalodai coast, which was identified as a ‘Sperm Whale’ by a team of scientist from the Fisheries Collage and Research Institute (FCRI), but the mass
stranding which happend now is a rarity.
– The Statesman 13 Jan 2016

A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives: 1×3=3

(i) The number of whale carcasses found in the Tiruchendur beach is-
(a) 45   (b) 49   (c) 46   (d) 47

Ans. (c) 46

(ii) 35 whales could be rescued by-
(a) local people
(b) fishermen
(c) members of FCRI
(d) forest department Officials

Ans. (d) forest department Officials

(iii) 125 whales were found dead at Kallamozhi in-
(a) 1972 (b) 1973 (c) 1971 (d) 1974

Ans. (b) 1973

B. State whether the statements are True False. Give supporting sentence for each of the answer: 2×2-4

(i) The carcass of a 33ft long whale was found on Triuchendur Beach. (F)

SS : the carcass of a 33-ft long whale was found on a beach near a village in Nagapattinam district.

(ii) The carcass of a whale, found in Veppalodai coast, was identifyed as a “Sperm Whale” by FCRI. (T)

SS : identified as a ‘Sperm Whale’ by a team of scientist from the Fisheries Collage and Research Institute (FCRI)

C. Give a suitable title to the above passage.

Ans. Largest Marline life Disasters in India.

Grammar and Vocabulary

A. Tick the correct answer from the alternatives given in the brackets. 1×2=2

(i) My sister (has finished finished finishes) her painting just now.

Ans. finished.

(ii) Yesterday Mr. Sen (has donated / donated donates) some money in an orphanage.

Ans. has donated

B. Change the voice: 1×2=2

(i) They have won the football match.

Ans. The football match had been won by them.

(ii) Our teacher will deliver a lecture tomorrow.

Ans. A lecture will delivered tomorrow by our teacher.

C. Change the mode of narration:
1×2=2

(i) Grandmother said to me, “I was the first girl in my class.”

Ans. Grandmother told me that she was the first girl in her class.

(ii) Father said to his son, “God bless you, my child”.

Ans. My father prayed that God might bless me.

D. Following are the meanings of the words that you came across in the passage given in Q. No. 3. Find out the words and write them in the given boxes. 2×2
(i) Dead body of an animal

Ans. Carcass

(ii) Unusual case-     Ans. rarity

Writing

1. Use the following flow-chart to write a paragraph within 100 words on how steel is produced.

Iron ore – mixed with coke and lime – taken to blast furnace – melted under high temperature – pig iron –
melting for purification – add carbon-steel.

PRODUCTION OF STEEL

Steel is a very useful thing. It is manufactured in a big way in a factory. The production is done in the following way. At first, iron-ore is collected from mines. Next, it is mixed with coke and lime. The mixture is then taken to the blast furnace. There it is heated at a very high temperature. Thus, it is melted and pig iron is produced: At the next stage, the pig iron is purified by adding carbon to it and melting it. Now steel is obtained as the final product.