Std:- 9th
Sub:- English
Marks:-20
First Unit test Examination
Q. 1) Passage (7 marks)
Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed 17 May 2157, she wrote, "Today Tommy found a real book!"
It was a very old book. Margie's grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper.
They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly. and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to on a screen, you know. And then when they turned back to the page before, it had the same words on it that it had when they read it the first time..
"Gee," said Tommy, "what a waste! When you're through with the book, you just throw it away. I guess. Our television screen must have had a million books on it and it's good for plenty more. I wouldn't throw it away."
"Same with mine," said Margie. She was eleven and hadn't seen as many telebooks as Tommy had. He was thirteen.
She said, "Where did you find it?" "In my house." He pointed without looking because he was busy reading. "In the attic."
"What's it about?"
"School."
Margie was scornful. "School? What's there to write about school? I hate school."
Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the County Inspector.
He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires. He smiled at Margie and gave her an apple, then took the teacher apart.
1) When does the story take place? 1M
2) What does Margie mean by 'a real book'? 1M
3)what do you understand from the chapter write 5 to 6 lines of your own. 2M
4) Write Antonyms from the passage:- 1M
a) loved b) idle
5) ___ world is waiting for us, come with me. (Use Article) 1M
6)What does Margie mean by a real book? 1M
Q. 2) Poem (8 marks)
"Walk a little slower, Daddy.
Said a little child so small.
I'm following in your footsteps
And I don't want to fall.
'Sometimes your steps are very fast,
Sometimes they are hard to see:
So, walk a little slower. Daddy,
For you are leading me."
Some day when I'm all grown up.
You're what I want to be;
Then I will have a little child
Who'll want to follow me.
And I would want to lead just right,
And know that I was true;
So walk a little slower. Daddy.
For I must follow you."
1) What would happen if the child tried to walk fast? 1M
2)What qualities of your parents/elders would you like to adopt? 2M
3)Does the word walk refer only to the act of walking? 1M
4) Write a pair of rhyming words from the given poem. 1M
5) Write any one example of simile. 1M
6) Write prefix and suffix form of: 2M
a) Complete b) Direct
Q. 3) Letter writing (5 marks)
Write a letter to your Principal asking for 5 days leave.
