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Model Paper 3 ENGLISH [Communicative] - Model Paper 3

CBSE - STD 9 - ENGLISH [Communicative] (CBSE - English Medium). 21 questions in this chapter.

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Q 1Excerpts and answer the questions briefly : [4M]4 Marks
Read the following extract and answer the questions briefly:
Those who saw it said the dog knew instantly. He never jumped on Chuck again. From that moment, he took up a post beside his master's bed around the clock. But even Duke's presence didn't reach Chuck. The once-iron muscles slacked on the rangy frame.
a. What does rangy frame mean here?
b. Why did Duke never jump on Chuck again?
c. Why even Duke's presence didn't reach Chuck?
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Q 2Excerpts and answer the questions briefly : [4M]4 Marks
Read the extract given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:
"You folk are queer. You think about the past all time. We always think about the future."
a. Who are you and we here?
b. Who speaks these lines? Why does the speaker call you queer?
c. What is the difference between you and we?
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Q 3Excerpts and answer the questions briefly : [4M]4 Marks
Read the extract given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:
"Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow.
For old, unhappy, far-off things."
a. What do the given lines suggest?
b. Why does the poet use the word perhaps here?
c. Pick out a word similar in meaning to to move continuously.
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Q 9Textual questions: [6M]6 Marks
What made the grandmother so much interested in the serial of Kashi Yatre that appeared in the weekly Karmaveera? What happened when the narrator went to attend a wedding in the neighbouring village?
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Q 10Textual questions: [6M]6 Marks
Charity begins at home. What do you understand from the given line as said by Persome? Do you think she was right in saying this? Discuss the values that we learn from this statement, with respect to the play The Bishop's Candlesticks.
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Q 11Read the following passage.[UN SEEN][10M]10 Marks
An air-conditioned office seems an unlikely place for a work related injury. Yet, more and more white collar workers in high-tech offices are complaining of disorders involving hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, neck and back. The common factor in most cases is swelling and growing pain at one of these sites. The many variations of this problem are now covered by a common name - Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI), also commonly known as Cumulative Trauma Disorder. No statistics are available for India, but the US Bureau of Labour Statistics recently reported that in their heavily mechanized work environment, 48 per cent of all occupational injuries were RSI.
2. With computer keyboards becoming almost standard equipment, Repetitive Stress Injury crop up most frequently in modem offices. But anyone who spends long hours in repetitive motion every day is at the risk of injuring the muscles and joints involved. This includes post office staff involved in nonstop sorting and stamping, assembly line workers and packers. Swollen finger joints are common complaint of children who earn their living by rolling thousands of bidis a day. Musicians and athletes in heavy practice can also be struck by RSI. The condition could begin with the occasional ache or numbness, later leading to a permanently painful condition. Why are Repetitive Stress Injuries in the limelight now, although people have been working at repetitive stress jobs since time immemorial? Why didn't the typists who slaved over stiff typewriter's complain of RSI, while modem operators working on "soft-touch" keyboards need treatment for swollen wrists? To some extent, such injuries probably went unreported. (What was earlier known as a tennis elbow or housemaid's knee would now be called a Repetitive Stress Injury!)
3. But there are also other reasons, say RSI specialists. Jobs are becoming more specialized. A few decades ago, the office clerk got relief from the key-board when he got up to file, attended the phone or walked to other departments. Now that everything from record-search to faxing, proof reading to filing is done on the computer, the office worker is pounding the keyboard almost non-stop all day. There's less old fashioned paper insertion or carriage-throwing and that adds to the speed and productivity. Less office space means tight seating, with limited leg room and no place to stretch.
4. RSI experts also blame the pressure of modem day working life. The need to appear "on top of the work", performance anxiety and the fear of being laid off all make the average office worker a bundle of stress that affects muscle tension. Individual habits also increase the risk of RSI. Working on the key- board while cradling a receiver between neck and shoulder, stretching the neck to read the screen or hitting the keys with excess force are some traits which put extra strain on hand and neck joints. The risk of RSI goes up significantly when your workstation makes you operate in an unnatural posture: a monitor that makes you look upwards all the time, a keyboard that bends your wrists awkwardly, a chair that gives no back support or a writing surface that is too high. "The human body can take heavy duty but it protests with misuse," says one orthopaedic specialist.
(i) What are the complaints by victims of RSI?
(ii) What is the main cause of RSI?
(iii) Who are the people most vulnerable to RSI?
(iv) What are the symptoms of RSI?
(v) What is the opinion of orthopaedic doctors about human body?
(vi) The most unlikely place for a work related injury is
a) playground $\quad$ b) library
c) garden $\quad$ d) air-conditioned office
(vii) The painful condition of RSI can be reached
a) all of these $\quad$ b) rolling bidis
c) heavy practice by athletes $\quad$ d) stamping post
(viii) Risk of RSI goes up due to
a) a keyboard that bends your wrists awkwardly
b) unnatural posture
c) a chair that gives no back support
d) all of these
(ix) RSI was earlier known as
a) tennis elbow $\quad$ b) housemaid's knee
c) golfer's elbow $\quad$ d) both tennis elbow and housemaid's knee
(x) People are familiar with repetitive stress injuries for the last few decades.
a) True $\quad$ b) False
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Q 12Read the following passage.[UN SEEN][10M]10 Marks
At Burdwan, we were told, "Third-class tickets are not booked so early." I went to the station master. He also made the same reply. As soon as he booking window opened, might was right and passengers, who were forward and indifferent to thers, coming one after another continued to push me out. I was, therefore, about the last of the first crowd to get a ticket.
The train arrived and getting into it was another trial. I went to the guard. He said, "You must try to get in where you can, or take the next train." Much against my mind, I got into an inter class compartment with my wife. The guard saw us getting in. At Asansol Station he came to charge excess fares. I said to him, "It was your duty to find us room. We could not get any, and so are sitting here."
"You may not argue with me", said the guard, I cannot accommodate you. You must pay the excess fare or get out." I wanted to reach Pune somehow, so I paid the excess fare demanded, but I resented the injustice.
The woes of third-class passengers are undoubtedly due to the high-handedness of railway authorities. But the rudeness, dirty habits, selfishness and ignorance of the passengers themselves are no less to blame. The pity is that they often do not realize that they are behaving ill, dirtily or selfishly. They believe that everything they do is in the natural way. All this may be traced to the indifference towards them of us educated people'.
(i) The author travelled by inter-class because __________.
(ii) The author had to pay excess fare because ___________.
a) he intended to travel up to Pune.
b) he was travelling in a class higher than the one he was entitled to.
c) the guard had seen him entering the inter class compartment.
d) he had purchased tickets up to Asansol.
(iii) According to the author, the hardships of third-class passengers will be minimized if __________.
a) there was provision of more third-class compartments.
b) passengers were allowed to travel inter class in case third class compartments were overcrowded.
c) railway authorities show genuine concern for the passengers.
d) railway authorities maintain cleanliness in the trains.
(iv) According to the passage, the author could have easily purchased tickets if __________.
a) there were fewer passengers.
b) there were two booking windows.
c) he had decided to travel by inter class.
d) there was a proper queue system at the booking window.
(v) In which compartment did the author board with his wife?
a) Second compartment
b) Third class compartment
c) First class compartment
d) Inter class compartment
vi) Another word for impolite is:
a) ignorant $\quad$ b) selfish
c) dirty $\quad$ d) rude
(vii) At which station did the guard ask for excess fare:
(viii) Where were the author and his wife travelling to?
(ix) According to the passage, the most pitiable thing about third class passengers is __________.
a) lack of awareness of their ill- behaviour
b) rudeness to their co-travellers
c) indiscipline behaviour during the journey
d) poverty and depression
(x) From which station did the author boarded the train?
a) Pune $\quad$ b) Kolkata
c) Asansol $\quad$ d) Burdwan
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Q 13Notice writing: [4M]4 Marks
You are Secretary of Health club of your school. You find that after the lunch break school playground and veranda are littered with wrappers, paper/polythene bags, etc. Write a notice in about 50 words advising students to refrain from doing so.
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Q 14Dialogue writing: [5M]5 Marks
Imagine you have been suffering from stomach ache for the last four days. So you have consulted a doctor for its treatment. Write a dialogue between you and a doctor. You are Govind. The opening lines have been given for your help.
Govind: Good morning! I've been suffering from stomach ache for the last four days.
Doctor: Morning! Well, stomach ache for four days? How old are you?
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Q 16letter writing: [7M]7 Marks
Your uncle has offered to get you a pet for your birthday. Write a letter to him telling him what you would like, give reasons for your choice and tell him how you would take care of your pet.
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Q 17Paragraph writing: [8M]8 Marks
Write a descriptive paragraph on how I Spent My Last Sunday or A Visit to a Zoo in the following inputs:
Input: name location time water-birds - monkeys and apes in cages - ferocious animals in enclosures - other animals and birds, snakes and reptiles in glass enclosure - elephant-ride - tired returned - how you liked the zoo etc.
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Q 18Paragraph writing: [8M]8 Marks
Use the notes in the following box to write a paragraph

Trip Chhattisgarh:

Important features: 45% of its area forests. One of the richest biodiversity areas in the country. 
Landscape: Beauty of ancient monument, waterfalls, caves.
Festivals: The Hareli Festival (harvest festival) Baster Dussehra.
Tourist Top: By air-to Raipur
By rail-Mumbai-Nagpur-Kolkata rail route.
By road - NH 6 passes through.
Accommodation: Star hotels, Government Guest Houses, Hotels. 

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Q 19Do as directed.10 Marks
(i) Fill in the blanks (a)-(c) with the appropriate option from those in the brackets. [3] Reading is one of the best hobbies (a) _____________ this/that/who) you can adopt. (b) ____________ (It/They/Them) not only helps you to pass your leisure time usefully (c) ___________ (and/so/but) also keeps you well informed. Besides that, it builds your vocabulary and helps to improve your expression.

(ii) The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in the space provided against the correct blank number :

  ErrorCorrection
Inactivity is the greater cause of overweight these days.(a)  
People physical activity(b)  
had decreased these days. The main(c)  
reason is there are many labour saving devices.(d)  


(iii) Do as directed.
i. Rearrange the following jumbled words/phrases in the given dialogue to create a meaningful sentence.
Religion teaches us to be honest in our dealings. An honest man is respected and admired everywhere.
leads/he/a/and/happy/prospers/life
ii. Read the conversation given below. Based on your reading, fill in the blanks appropriately.
Mr. Yadav: Have you booked the rooms in the Hotel for our holiday?
Mrs. Yadav: Yes I have. I have asked them to book a double room on the tenth floor.
Mr. Yadav: Why did you ask for a room on the tenth floor?
Mrs. Yadav: The view from there is really great.
Mr. Yadav: Have you forgotten I am afraid of lifts?
Mr. Yadav inquired from his wife (a) ____________ She replied that she had
and added that she had asked them to book a double room on the tenth floor. Mr. Yadav then wanted to know (b) _________ replied. that the view from there was really great.

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