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Class 9 English — Model Question Paper (Set 2)

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. Assertion-type: In “The clerk kept the file on the table,” the part ‘on the table’ is —
  1. (a) an optional adjunct that can be dropped
  2. (b) needed to complete the verb ‘kept’
  3. (c) the subject
  4. (d) an indirect object
2. In “Suddenly the frightened deer ran into the forest,” the <i>complete predicate</i> is —
  1. (a) Suddenly the frightened deer
  2. (b) ran into the forest
  3. (c) the frightened deer
  4. (d) into the forest
3. Which sentence is in the <i>past perfect</i> tense?
  1. (a) He has gone home.
  2. (b) He had gone home before I arrived.
  3. (c) He was going home.
  4. (d) He goes home.
4. “She <u>need not</u> worry.” — ‘need’ here is a —
  1. (a) main verb
  2. (b) modal auxiliary
  3. (c) noun
  4. (d) adjective
5. Which noun is used only as <i>uncountable</i>?
  1. (a) advice
  2. (b) book
  3. (c) idea
  4. (d) star
6. Choose the correct determiner: “I have very ____ money left.”
  1. (a) few
  2. (b) little
  3. (c) many
  4. (d) several
7. In “He teaches us grammar,” the direct object is —
  1. (a) He
  2. (b) us
  3. (c) grammar
  4. (d) teaches
8. Turn into a yes/no question: “Mother cooks nicely.”
  1. (a) Does Mother cooks nicely?
  2. (b) Does Mother cook nicely?
  3. (c) Do Mother cook nicely?
  4. (d) Is Mother cook nicely?
9. A <i>post-modifier</i> appears in which noun phrase?
  1. (a) a red car
  2. (b) the man in the corner
  3. (c) two small boys
  4. (d) my old bag
10. “Neither of the boys <u>has</u> come.” — the verb is singular because ‘neither’ is —
  1. (a) plural
  2. (b) treated as singular
  3. (c) an adverb
  4. (d) a conjunction
11. Which word is an adverb of <i>degree</i>?
  1. (a) yesterday
  2. (b) there
  3. (c) almost
  4. (d) slowly
12. Identify the sentence with pattern S + V + C:
  1. (a) The milk turned sour.
  2. (b) She wrote a poem.
  3. (c) They ran fast.
  4. (d) He gave me a pen.
13. The exclamatory sentence that CANNOT be made negative is —
  1. (a) He is not well.
  2. (b) How lovely the garden is!
  3. (c) Do not shout.
  4. (d) Is she coming?
14. Choose the correct form: “Each of the students ____ a prize.”
  1. (a) get
  2. (b) gets
  3. (c) are getting
  4. (d) have got
15. ‘Hardly’, ‘scarcely’ and ‘barely’ carry a ____ meaning.
  1. (a) positive
  2. (b) negative
  3. (c) questioning
  4. (d) future
16. Which is the abstract (uncountable) noun?
  1. (a) honesty
  2. (b) table
  3. (c) river
  4. (d) boy
17. Report: She said, “I <u>am</u> writing now.” →
  1. (a) She said she is writing now.
  2. (b) She said she was writing then.
  3. (c) She says she wrote now.
  4. (d) She said I was writing now.
18. The phrase ‘a cup of hot tea’ — the head noun is —
  1. (a) cup
  2. (b) of
  3. (c) hot
  4. (d) tea
19. Passive voice of “The baby broke the toy.” is —
  1. (a) The toy was broken by the baby.
  2. (b) The toy is broken.
  3. (c) The baby was broken.
  4. (d) The toy broke the baby.
20. “I bought her a frock.” rewritten with ‘for’ is —
  1. (a) I bought a frock to her.
  2. (b) I bought a frock for her.
  3. (c) I bought for her a frock.
  4. (d) I bought her for a frock.
21. ‘The Magic Flute’ is a story translated by —
  1. (a) Abhi Subedi
  2. (b) Mulk Raj Anand
  3. (c) Khushwant Singh
  4. (d) David Roth
22. In ‘The Portrait of a Lady’, the grandmother spends her last days —
  1. (a) travelling
  2. (b) feeding sparrows and praying
  3. (c) teaching school
  4. (d) writing letters
23. The poem ‘Alexander Selkirk’ describes the feelings of a man living in —
  1. (a) a busy city
  2. (b) complete solitude on an island
  3. (c) a palace
  4. (d) a battlefield
24. In ‘No Men Are Foreign’, the poet says the same ____ feeds people everywhere.
  1. (a) fear
  2. (b) peaceful harvest
  3. (c) hatred
  4. (d) war
25. In ‘A Hero’, Swami’s father challenges him to prove his courage by —
  1. (a) fighting a boy
  2. (b) sleeping alone in the office room
  3. (c) climbing a tree
  4. (d) swimming a river
26. ‘Home and Love’ by Robert Service suggests that home and love are —
  1. (a) useless without money
  2. (b) incomplete without each other
  3. (c) found only in cities
  4. (d) gifts of fate alone
27. The lesson ‘Project’ mainly teaches students how to —
  1. (a) win prizes
  2. (b) plan and carry out a project step by step
  3. (c) write poems
  4. (d) debate
28. In ‘The Lost Child’, before he was lost the child had begged his parents for —
  1. (a) only books
  2. (b) sweets, toys and a roundabout ride
  3. (c) nothing
  4. (d) money
29. ‘The Noble Nature’ belongs to which literary age/poet?
  1. (a) Romantic — Wordsworth
  2. (b) Renaissance — Ben Jonson
  3. (c) Victorian — Tennyson
  4. (d) Modern — Eliot
30. The ‘Missile Man’, Dr Kalam, later became the ____ of India.
  1. (a) Prime Minister
  2. (b) President
  3. (c) Chief Justice
  4. (d) Governor
31. In ‘Nine Gold Medals’, when one runner falls, the other eight —
  1. (a) run faster to win
  2. (b) turn back to help him
  3. (c) stop the race angrily
  4. (d) laugh at him
32. Janaki’s story proves that a physical handicap is —
  1. (a) an excuse to give up
  2. (b) no bar to success
  3. (c) a permanent defeat
  4. (d) unimportant to others
33. ‘The Trunk of Ganesh’ is set against the background of —
  1. (a) a sports meet
  2. (b) a flood/temple-town scene in Odisha
  3. (c) a war
  4. (d) a school exam
34. In ‘No Men Are Foreign’, by waging war we finally harm —
  1. (a) only the enemy
  2. (b) ourselves and the human earth
  3. (c) soldiers alone
  4. (d) nobody
35. The grandmother in ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ is remembered as —
  1. (a) modern and restless
  2. (b) serene, religious and loving
  3. (c) harsh and proud
  4. (d) rich and idle
36. ‘A Hero’ gently criticises parents who —
  1. (a) love their children
  2. (b) push children too hard to be brave
  3. (c) tell stories
  4. (d) are too strict about study
37. In ‘The Noble Nature’, ‘in bulk’ refers to growing —
  1. (a) wiser
  2. (b) large in size
  3. (c) older
  4. (d) richer
38. The main value taught by ‘The Priceless Gift’ is —
  1. (a) greed
  2. (b) selfless love and sacrifice
  3. (c) ambition
  4. (d) revenge
39. ‘No Men Are Foreign’ is best described as a/an —
  1. (a) love poem
  2. (b) anti-war / brotherhood poem
  3. (c) nature poem
  4. (d) nonsense poem
40. The repeated line in ‘No Men Are Foreign’ reminds us that —
  1. (a) war is glorious
  2. (b) no men are foreign and no countries strange
  3. (c) the earth is small
  4. (d) soldiers are brave
41. Choose the synonym of ‘courage’: —
  1. (a) fear
  2. (b) bravery
  3. (c) doubt
  4. (d) rest
42. Choose the antonym of ‘ancient’: —
  1. (a) old
  2. (b) modern
  3. (c) past
  4. (d) former
43. One word for ‘a person who cannot see’ is —
  1. (a) deaf
  2. (b) blind
  3. (c) dumb
  4. (d) lame
44. ‘To pass away’ is a polite phrase meaning to —
  1. (a) travel
  2. (b) die
  3. (c) faint
  4. (d) leave office
45. The word ‘serene’ means —
  1. (a) noisy
  2. (b) calm and peaceful
  3. (c) angry
  4. (d) busy
46. Change the voice: ‘Who wrote this letter?’ →
  1. (a) By whom was this letter written?
  2. (b) Whom this letter wrote?
  3. (c) This letter was wrote by whom?
  4. (d) Who was written this letter?
47. The correct spelling is —
  1. (a) recieve
  2. (b) receive
  3. (c) receeve
  4. (d) receve
48. ‘A bolt from the blue’ means something —
  1. (a) expected
  2. (b) sudden and shocking
  3. (c) blue in colour
  4. (d) very slow
49. Fill in with a preposition: “The deer ran ____ the forest.”
  1. (a) in
  2. (b) into
  3. (c) at
  4. (d) on
50. ‘Determination’ in the Janaki lesson most nearly means —
  1. (a) laziness
  2. (b) firm resolve
  3. (c) sadness
  4. (d) fear
SUBJECTIVE PAPER  [50 Marks]

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

(a) [Prose] How does ‘The Swimmer Who Does Not Need Her Legs!’ show that a physical handicap is no bar to success? (in about 100 words)

— OR —

What qualities of Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, shown in ‘Missile Man of India’, make him a role model for the youth?

(b) [Poetry] In ‘No Men Are Foreign’, how does James Kirkup argue for the universal brotherhood of mankind? (in about 100 words)

— OR —

What picture of loneliness does the poet paint in ‘Alexander Selkirk’, and how does the exile feel about his solitude?

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

(i) [Prose, short] Why is Swami called a ‘hero’ although he is really a timid boy? (OR) In ‘The Portrait of a Lady’, how did the sparrows show their attachment to the grandmother?

(ii) [Poetry, short] What does the poet mean by ‘nine gold medals’ in David Roth’s poem? (OR) Why does ‘The Noble Nature’ call a long, big life less noble than a short, beautiful one?

(iii) [Report / Summary writing] Write a report on a tree-plantation programme held in your school (in about 100 words). (OR) Write a summary of the poem ‘No Men Are Foreign’.

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

(a) The Tree — Our Best Friend   (b) If I Were the Headmaster of My School   (c) Importance of Discipline in Life

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

(i) [Letter / Application] Write a letter to your younger brother advising him to work hard for the examination (in about 100 words). (OR) Write an application to your Headmaster for a free studentship / fee concession.

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

Reading is a habit that rewards us for a lifetime. A good book is like a patient teacher that never scolds and is always ready to help. Books carry us to distant lands and past ages without our leaving home; they introduce us to great minds we could never meet in person. Those who read widely think more clearly and speak more confidently, for words and ideas become their friends. The reader is never truly lonely, because a book is a companion that waits quietly on the shelf until it is needed.

(a) To what is a good book compared in the passage?

(b) How can books take us to distant lands?

(c) What two benefits do wide readers gain?

(d) Why is a reader ‘never truly lonely’?

(e) Find a word in the passage that means ‘a friend or companion’.

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

(i) ସୂର୍ଯ୍ୟ ପୂର୍ବ ଦିଗରେ ଉଦୟ ହୁଏ।
(ii) ଆମେ ଗୁରୁଜନଙ୍କୁ ସମ୍ମାନ କରିବା ଉଚିତ।
(iii) ସେ ବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟକୁ ଯାଉଛି।
(iv) ଶିକ୍ଷା ଆମ ଜୀବନର ଆଲୋକ।
(v) ପରିଶ୍ରମ ହିଁ ସଫଳତାର ଚାବିକାଠି।

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