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Class 9 English — Model Question Paper (Set 1)

Second Language English (SLE) · Full syllabus · BSE Odisha HSC pattern

Odisha Board Class 9 · Full Marks 100 · Time 2 hrs 30 min · Exam-level (HOTS / difficult)

General Instructions: (i) The paper has an Objective Paper (50 marks) and a Subjective Paper (50 marks). (ii) All questions are compulsory. (iii) Figures in the right margin indicate full marks. (iv) Answer the subjective questions within the word limits indicated; alternatives (OR) are given where shown. (v) Full answers & marking scheme are in the ✍️ Answers & Scheme tab.
OBJECTIVE PAPER  [50 Marks]

Q.1. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given. Write the serial number and the correct option. [50 × 1 = 50]

1. Choose the complete subject: “The tall boy in the blue shirt won the race.”
  1. (a) The tall boy in the blue shirt
  2. (b) won the race
  3. (c) boy
  4. (d) the race
2. In “The children laughed happily,” the word ‘happily’ is a/an —
  1. (a) adjective
  2. (b) adverb
  3. (c) noun
  4. (d) preposition
3. Which sentence has an <i>intransitive</i> verb?
  1. (a) She wrote a letter.
  2. (b) The baby slept.
  3. (c) He kicked the ball.
  4. (d) They built a house.
4. Identify the predicate: “The old temple near the river collapsed yesterday.”
  1. (a) The old temple near the river
  2. (b) collapsed yesterday
  3. (c) the river
  4. (d) yesterday
5. “He has been reading since morning.” — the tense is —
  1. (a) present perfect
  2. (b) present perfect continuous
  3. (c) past continuous
  4. (d) simple present
6. Pick the auxiliary verb in “They will have finished by noon.”
  1. (a) finished
  2. (b) will have
  3. (c) by
  4. (d) noon
7. Which is an <i>uncountable</i> noun?
  1. (a) pencil
  2. (b) information
  3. (c) apple
  4. (d) chair
8. Choose the correct determiner: “____ of the two answers is correct.”
  1. (a) Both
  2. (b) Neither
  3. (c) Many
  4. (d) Few
9. The comparative degree of ‘little’ (quantity) is —
  1. (a) littler
  2. (b) less
  3. (c) lesser
  4. (d) least
10. In “No bird can fly here,” the word ‘No’ works as a —
  1. (a) verb
  2. (b) negative determiner
  3. (c) adverb
  4. (d) pronoun
11. What is the <i>head word</i> of the noun phrase “a narrow winding village road”?
  1. (a) narrow
  2. (b) winding
  3. (c) village
  4. (d) road
12. In “a beautiful old wooden box,” the under­lined pre-modifiers are all —
  1. (a) nouns
  2. (b) adjectives
  3. (c) adverbs
  4. (d) articles
13. Identify the <i>indirect</i> object: “Grandmother told us an interesting story.”
  1. (a) Grandmother
  2. (b) us
  3. (c) an interesting story
  4. (d) told
14. ‘Rarely’, ‘seldom’ and ‘often’ are adverbs of —
  1. (a) place
  2. (b) manner
  3. (c) frequency
  4. (d) degree
15. Make it interrogative: “She could solve the puzzle.”
  1. (a) She could solve the puzzle?
  2. (b) Could she solve the puzzle?
  3. (c) Did she could solve?
  4. (d) Can she solved it?
16. “Tapaswini gave him a book.” follows the pattern —
  1. (a) S+V
  2. (b) S+V+C
  3. (c) S+V+O+O
  4. (d) S+V+A
17. Which verb takes a <i>complement</i> (not an object)?
  1. (a) caught
  2. (b) wrote
  3. (c) seems
  4. (d) broke
18. ‘Much’ and ‘little’ are normally used with —
  1. (a) countable nouns
  2. (b) uncountable nouns
  3. (c) proper nouns
  4. (d) pronouns
19. The correct contracted negative of “I shall not go” is —
  1. (a) I willn’t go
  2. (b) I shan’t go
  3. (c) I shalln’t go
  4. (d) I won’t not go
20. Which is the <i>superlative</i> form of ‘far’ (distance)?
  1. (a) farer
  2. (b) farthest
  3. (c) more far
  4. (d) farther
21. ‘No Men Are Foreign’ is written by —
  1. (a) James Kirkup
  2. (b) Ben Jonson
  3. (c) David Roth
  4. (d) William Cowper
22. In ‘The Noble Nature’, Ben Jonson compares a man to an oak and a —
  1. (a) rose
  2. (b) lily
  3. (c) banyan
  4. (d) palm
23. ‘A Hero’, the humorous story of the timid Swami, is written by —
  1. (a) R.K. Narayan
  2. (b) Mulk Raj Anand
  3. (c) Khushwant Singh
  4. (d) Jayant Mahapatra
24. ‘Nine Gold Medals’ by David Roth is set at the —
  1. (a) Olympic Games
  2. (b) Special Olympics
  3. (c) Asian Games
  4. (d) Commonwealth Games
25. The ‘Missile Man of India’ lesson is about the life of —
  1. (a) Jagadish Chandra Bose
  2. (b) C.V. Raman
  3. (c) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
  4. (d) Homi Bhabha
26. ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ is written by —
  1. (a) Khushwant Singh
  2. (b) Mulk Raj Anand
  3. (c) Sudha Murty
  4. (d) R.K. Narayan
27. ‘The Lost Child’, about a boy lost at a fair, is written by —
  1. (a) Mulk Raj Anand
  2. (b) Jayant Mahapatra
  3. (c) Khushwant Singh
  4. (d) Abhi Subedi
28. In ‘The Swimmer Who Does Not Need Her Legs!’, Janaki’s legs were made useless by —
  1. (a) an accident
  2. (b) polio
  3. (c) a fall
  4. (d) fire
29. ‘Home and Love’ is written by —
  1. (a) David Roth
  2. (b) Robert William Service
  3. (c) William Cowper
  4. (d) Ben Jonson
30. The poem ‘Alexander Selkirk’ is written by —
  1. (a) William Cowper
  2. (b) James Kirkup
  3. (c) Robert Service
  4. (d) Ben Jonson
31. In ‘A Hero’, Swami unexpectedly becomes brave when he grapples with a —
  1. (a) tiger
  2. (b) burglar
  3. (c) ghost
  4. (d) dog
32. Road Safety Week is observed every year in the month of —
  1. (a) November
  2. (b) January
  3. (c) June
  4. (d) August
33. In ‘The Lost Child’, after he is lost the child finally wants only —
  1. (a) sweets and toys
  2. (b) a balloon ride
  3. (c) his parents
  4. (d) the roundabout
34. In ‘The Noble Nature’, the oak is said to stand for —
  1. (a) a hundred years
  2. (b) two hundred years
  3. (c) three hundred years
  4. (d) a thousand years
35. Janaki became the first physically handicapped person in a team to swim across the —
  1. (a) Palk Strait
  2. (b) English Channel
  3. (c) Bay of Bengal
  4. (d) River Ganga
36. ‘The Trunk of Ganesh’ is written by —
  1. (a) Jayant Mahapatra
  2. (b) Mulk Raj Anand
  3. (c) Khushwant Singh
  4. (d) Ben Jonson
37. The central message of ‘Nine Gold Medals’ is that true victory lies in —
  1. (a) speed
  2. (b) compassion and cooperation
  3. (c) strength
  4. (d) luck
38. In ‘No Men Are Foreign’, the poet reminds us that beneath all uniforms there is —
  1. (a) a single body like our own
  2. (b) a soldier
  3. (c) an enemy
  4. (d) a flag
39. ‘The Priceless Gift’ teaches that the value of a gift lies in —
  1. (a) its price
  2. (b) its size
  3. (c) the love and sacrifice behind it
  4. (d) its usefulness
40. In ‘The Noble Nature’, the lily lives only a —
  1. (a) week
  2. (b) day
  3. (c) month
  4. (d) year
41. The word ‘foreign’ means —
  1. (a) friendly
  2. (b) belonging to another country
  3. (c) very old
  4. (d) difficult
42. Choose the synonym of ‘brave’: —
  1. (a) timid
  2. (b) courageous
  3. (c) foolish
  4. (d) weak
43. Choose the antonym of ‘victory’: —
  1. (a) triumph
  2. (b) defeat
  3. (c) win
  4. (d) success
44. In ‘The Noble Nature’, ‘sere’ means —
  1. (a) green and fresh
  2. (b) dry and withered
  3. (c) tall and strong
  4. (d) wet
45. The word ‘paramount’ means —
  1. (a) supreme / most important
  2. (b) useless
  3. (c) ordinary
  4. (d) secret
46. ‘Solitude’ means the state of being —
  1. (a) crowded
  2. (b) alone
  3. (c) famous
  4. (d) afraid
47. In ‘No Men Are Foreign’, ‘defile’ means to —
  1. (a) decorate
  2. (b) pollute / make dirty
  3. (c) defend
  4. (d) march
48. The idiom ‘to break the ice’ means to —
  1. (a) start a conversation
  2. (b) end a quarrel
  3. (c) waste time
  4. (d) feel cold
49. The correct plural of ‘leaf’ is —
  1. (a) leafs
  2. (b) leaves
  3. (c) leafes
  4. (d) leave
50. Janaki says the word ‘impossible’ applies only to something that has —
  1. (a) failed
  2. (b) not been tried
  3. (c) been banned
  4. (d) been forgotten
SUBJECTIVE PAPER  [50 Marks]

Q.2. Answer the following. [5 + 5 = 10]

(a) [Prose] How does ‘The Priceless Gift’ show that the true worth of a gift lies in love and sacrifice, not in its money value? (in about 100 words)

— OR —

“True courage cannot be forced.” Discuss this idea with reference to Swami in ‘A Hero’.

(b) [Poetry] How does ‘Nine Gold Medals’ redefine the real meaning of winning? (in about 100 words)

— OR —

In ‘The Noble Nature’, how does Ben Jonson prove that the quality of a life matters more than its length?

Q.3. Answer the following. [2½ + 2½ + 5 = 10]

(i) [Prose, short] Why is Maggie’s single shilling called ‘priceless’? (OR) Why, according to Janaki, does ‘impossible’ apply only to what has not been tried?

(ii) [Poetry, short] What central message does James Kirkup give in ‘No Men Are Foreign’? (OR) Why does the poet of ‘The Noble Nature’ admire the lily more than the oak?

(iii) [Report / Summary writing] Write a short report on the ‘Road Safety Week’ observed in your school (in about 100 words). (OR) Write a summary of the poem ‘Nine Gold Medals’.

Q.4. Write an essay in about 200 words on any one of the following: [10]

(a) The Importance of Road Safety   (b) Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam — My Role Model   (c) Value of Games and Sports in Student Life

Q.5. Answer the following. [5 + 5 = 10]

(i) [Letter / Application] Write a letter to your friend describing your school’s Annual Sports Day (in about 100 words). (OR) Write an application to your Headmaster requesting three days’ leave to attend a family function.

(ii) [Unseen Passage] Read the passage and answer in one or two sentences each. [5 × 1 = 5]

Trees are among the greatest friends of human beings. They give us the oxygen we breathe and take in the carbon dioxide we breathe out. Their roots hold the soil firmly and prevent floods and erosion. Birds and countless small creatures make their homes in trees, and travellers rest in their cool shade. Yet, in our hurry to build cities, we cut down forests faster than we plant them. If we wish to leave a green and healthy earth for our children, each of us must plant and protect at least one tree.

(a) Name any two gases mentioned in connection with trees.

(b) How do the roots of trees help us?

(c) Who make their homes in trees?

(d) Why are forests disappearing, according to the passage?

(e) What does the writer ask each of us to do?

Q.6. [Translation] Translate the following sentences from your mother tongue (Odia) into English. [5 × 2 = 10]

(i) ମୁଁ ପ୍ରତିଦିନ ସକାଳେ ଉଠେ।
(ii) ସେ ଜଣେ ସଚ୍ଚୋଟ ବାଳକ।
(iii) ଆମେ ଆମ ଦେଶକୁ ଭଲ ପାଉ।
(iv) ପକ୍ଷୀମାନେ ଆକାଶରେ ଉଡ଼ନ୍ତି।
(v) ମୋ ମାଆ ମୋ ପାଇଁ ଏକ ସୁନ୍ଦର ଉପହାର ଆଣିଲେ।

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