Class nine English Home assignment/ 1st unit test 2021-22 (SEBA ASSAM)

Unite Test: 1 2021-22

Home Assignment

Sub: - English

Class: IX

Total Marks: 50

 

1. Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:-

(A) "National awards like the Padmashri,The Padma Bhusan and the Padma Vibhushan were conferred on him. In 2001, Ustad Bismillah khan was awarded India's highest Civilian award the Bharat Ratna. With the coveted award resting on this chest and his eyes glinting with the happiness he said ," All I would like to say is, Teach your children music, this is Hindustan's tradition even the west is now coming to learn our music.

 

Questions:

a) Name two national awards of India?                                                   1

Answer: The Padmashri and The Padma Bhusan is the two national awards name of India.

b) When did Bismillah receive the highest civilian award of India?     1

Answer: In 2001, Ustad Bismillah khan was awarded India's highest Civilian award the Bharat Ratna.

c) What did Bismillah Khan appeal to all Indians after he was awarded Bharat Ratna?                                                                                                       1

Answer: Bismillah Khan appeal to all Indians to teach our children music after he was awarded Bharat Ratna.

d) Find out the words from the passage which mean the following:

i) Custom         ii) give                                                                      1+1=2

Answer: i) Custom   - tradition

ii) Give - award

(B) Evelyn Glennie's loss of hearing had been gradual. He mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight year old Evelyn was waiting to play the piano. "They called her name and she did not move. I suddenly realized she had not heard,” Says Isabel Glennie. For quite a while Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness from friends and teachers’. But by the time she was eleven her marks had deteriorated and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist. It was then discovered that her hearing was severely impaired as a result of gradual nerve damage. They were advised that she should be fitted with hearing aids and sent to a school for the deaf."Everything suddenly looked black,” says Evelyn.

Questions:

a) What did Evelyn's mother notice when she was waiting to play the piano?    1

Answer: Her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight-year-old Evelyn was waiting to play the piano. “They called her name and she didn't move.

b) What was told by Evelyn's headmistress to Evelyn's parents to do? 1

Answer: Evelyn's headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist.

c) What was the result when the specialist examined Evelyn?             1

Answer: The result when the specialist examined Evelyn that her hearing had gone worse.

d) What was the name of Evelyn Glennie's mother?                                         1

Answer: Evelyn Glennie's mothers name was Isabel Glennie.

e) Find a word in the passage that means ‘hide’.                                              1

Answer: conceal

 

 

To get Mathematics solved paper

2. Do as directed:                                                                           1x6=6

 

a) Say whether the following statements are true or False-

b) Bismillah khan was born in Bihar.

Answer: True

c) Tommy was 11 years old.

Answer: False

d) Evelyn was twenty one when she decided to make music her life.

Answer: False

(e) Write the meaning of the following –

i) glade                    ii) loftily             iii) jostle.

Answer:

i) glade - an open space in a wood or forest.

ii) loftily - something done in an arrogant or haughty manner

iii) jostle - push

 

3. Answer the following questions briefly:                                                          2 x 12=24

a) Where was Margie's school? Did she have any classmates?

Answer: Margie's school was a virtual school in her house. It was located right next to her bedroom. No, she didn’t t have classmates.

b) Where does the traveler find himself? What problem does he face?

Answer: The traveler finds himself in the yellow woods at a point where the road forks into two. The problem that he faces is that he cannot decide which road to take to continue his journey since it is not possible for him to travel both roads at the same time.

c) Who first spotted Evelyn's potential in the field of music? What did he advise her to do?

Answer: Percussionist Ron Forbes spotted her potential in music. He helped Evelyn to continue with music. Ron Forbes advised her to feel the music instead of listening it. He began by tuning two large drums to different notes.

d) How is a shehnai different from a pungi?

Answer: Shehnai is a natural hollow stem pipe that is longer and broader than a pungi. Pungi has seven holes on the body of the pipe.

e) What are the things that the poet proposes to have around the cabin in the poem?

Answer: The poet wants to build a small hut of clay and wattles. He will have a nine bean-rows and a hive for the honeybees.

f) Give the rhyming words of the following:

 made, shore, wood, lay

Answer:

Made – fade

Shore- more

Wood- good

Lay- pay

g) Why did Aurangzeb ban the playing of the musical instrument, pungi in the royal residence?

Answer: Emperor Aurangzeb banned the playing of the musical instrument, pungi in the Royal residence because it had a very shrill unpleasant sound.

h) Why did Margie's mother send for the county inspector?

Answer: Margie's mother sent for the county inspector because she had appeared in many tests in geography but there was no improvement in her performance.

i) When was Evelyn's deafness first noticed? When was it confirmed?

Answer:  Her deafness was first noticed when she was eight years old. When she turned eleven, her deafness was confirmed.

j) What does the poet hear in his ‘heart’s core? When he is for away from Innisfree?

Answer: Even when the poet is far away from Innisfree, he hears the sound of the lake water washing the shore in his “heart's core”.

k) Why did Margie hate school?

Answer: Margie hated school because it was not fun. A mechanical teacher used to teach her everyday at a fixed time.

l) Why did Bismillah Khan refuse to start a shehnai school in the U.S.A.?

Answer: Bismillah Khan refused to start a shehnai school in the U.S.A. because he did not want to stay away from India.

4. Give the correct tense forms of the verbs given in the brackets:             1x5=5

a) Nobody (like) a traitor.

Answer: Nobody likes a traitor.

b) When I reached home mother (cook) rice.

Answer: When I reached home mother was cooking rice.

c) We (play) football at this time tomorrow.

Answer: We will be playing football at this time tomorrow.

d) She (suffer) from fever since January.

Answer: She has been suffering from fever since January.

e) We (know) each other for ten years.

Answer: We have known each other for ten years.

5. Make interrogative:                                                                              1x2=2

a) The boy thought of a plan.

Answer: did the boy think of a plan?

b) Rita lives in Delhi.

Answer: Does Rita live in Delhi?

6. Ask question to get the answer of the following:                                                    1x2=2

a) The book costs thirty rupees. (with ‘how much’)

Answer: How much is the book cost?

b) Reba went to Mumbai last year.

Answer: When Reba went to Mumbai? 

7. Add a tag question:                                                                                                        1

The boys play cricket, ________?

Answer: aren't the boys playing cricket?