JOSHI'S TUTORIALS -2

Std.: 9 (English Medium) ENGLISH Marks: 40

Date: 18-Jun-2022 Pre mid term Time: 2 hrs
Chapter: Unit-1, 2

Q.1 Prose Passage. 4

1 The Inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margie’s head. He said to her mother, “It’s not
the little girl’s fault, Mrs Jones. I think the geography sector was geared a little too quick. Those things
happen sometimes. I’ve slowed it up to an average ten-year level. Actually, the overall pattern of her
progress is quite satisfactory.” And he patted Margie’s head again.
I.The inspector had :

a. Frowned             

b. Smiled

c. Laughed             

d. Cried

II. The geography sector was geared too :

a. Quickly       

b. Slowly           

c. Highy           

d. Well

III. What did the County Inspector do to help Margie?

a. he reset the teacher to Margie's level

b. he changed the module

c. changed the teacher

d. changed the syllabus

IV. Why did Margie's mother call the County Inspector?

a. to repair a leakage

b. to talk to Margie

c. to talk to Tommy

d. to check the fault in Margie's teacher in the Geography section

V. Synomym for "PATTED"

a. fondled

b. dull

c. belted

d. hit

Ans I.   b. Smiled

II.  a. Quickly

III. a. he reset the teacher to Margie's level

IV. d. to check the fault in Margie's teacher in the Geography section

V.  a. fondled

Q.2 Editing 3
1                                                                                         Incorrect                              Correct

The children are regularly tell that a diet                         ________                            ________

having too much sugar and fat are bad                           ________                            ________

for them, and chocolate contain a agreat                        ________                            ________

deal of both off these.

Ans Incorrect                              Correct

 tell                                          told

are                                          is

contain                                contains

Q.3 Change Active voice into Passive voice: 2

1 Where will you spend the holidays?

Ans Where will your holidays be spent by you?

2 Music interests me.

Ans I am interested in the music.

Q.4 Unseen Prose 8

1 The happy man is the man who lives objectively, who has free affections and wide interests, who secures
his happiness through these interests and affections and through the fact that they in turn make him an
object of interest and affection to many others. To be the recipient of affection is a potent cause of
happiness, but the man who demands affection is not the man upon whom it is bestowed.

The man who receives affection is, speaking broadly, the man who gives it. But it is useless to attempt to
give it as a calculation, in the way in which one might lend money at interest, for a calculated affection is
not genuine and is not felt to be so by the recipient. What then can a man do who is unhappy because he
is encased in self? So long as he continues to think about the causes of his unhappiness, he continues to
be self-centered and therefore does not get outside it. It must be by genuine interest, not by simulated
interests adopted merely as a medicine.

Although this difficulty is real, there is nevertheless much that he can do if he has rightly diagnosed his
trouble. If for example, his trouble is due to a sense of sin, conscious or unconscious, he can first
persuade his conscious mind that he has no reason to feel sinful, and then proceed, to plant this rational
conviction in his unconscious mind, concerning himself meanwhile with some more or less neutral
activity. If he succeeds in dispelling the sense of sin, it is possible that genuine objective interests will
arise spontaneously. If his trouble is self-pity, he can deal with it in the same manner after first persuading
himself that there is nothing extraordinarily unfortunate in his circumstances. If fear is his trouble, let him
practice exercises designed to give courage.

Courage has been recognized from time immemorial as an important virtue, and a great part of the
training of boys and young men has been devoted to producing a type of character capable of
fearlessness in battle. But moral courage and intellectual courage have been much less studied. They also,
however, have their technique. Admit to yourself every day at least one painful truth, you will find it quite
useful. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not, as of course you are,
immeasurably superior to all your friends in virtue and in intelligence. Exercises of this sort prolonged
through several years will at last enable doing, free you from the empire of fear over a very large field.
 On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer ANY TEN questions from the twelve that follow.

1. According to the passage, calculated affection

(a) appears to be false and fabricated (b) makes other person to love you

(c) turns into permanent affection over a period of time

(d) leads to self-pity

2. Who according to the passage is the happy man?

(a) Who is encased in self

(b) Who has free affection and wide interests

(c) Who is free from worldly passions

(d) Who has externally centred passions

3. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE in the context of the passage?

(a) The happy man has wide interests.

(b) Courage has been recognized as an important virtue.

(c) Unhappy man is encased in self.

(d) Issue of intellectual courage has been extensively studied.

4. Which of the following virtues, according to the passage, has been recognized for long as an important
virtue?

(a) Patriotism

(b) Sacrifice

(c) Courage

(d) Self-consciousness

5. Which of the following words is SIMILAR in meaning of the word  ̳bestowed‘ as used in the passage?

(a) Conferred

(b) Accommodated

(c) Trusted

(d) Withdrawn

6. Which of the following, according to the passage, has not been studied much?

(a) Feeling of guilt and self-pity

(b) The state of mind of an unhappy man

(c) How to get absorbed in other interests

(d) Moral and intellectual courage

7. What should a man do who is suffering from the feeling of self-pity?

(a) He should control his passions and emotions.

(b) He should persuade himself that everything is alright in his circumstances.

(c) He should seek affection from others.

(d) He should develop a feeling of fearlessness.

8. What happens to a man who demands affection?

(a) His feelings are reciprocated by others.

(b) He tends to take a calculated risk.

(c) He becomes a victim of a vicious circle.

(d) He takes affection for granted from others.

Ans 1.   (a) appears to be false and fabricated

2.   (b) Who has free affection and wide interests

3.   (d) Issue of intellectual courage has been extensively studied.

4.   (c) Courage

5.   (a) Conferred

6.   (d) Moral and intellectual courage

7.   (b) He should persuade himself that everything is alright in his circumstances.

8.   (c) He becomes a victim of a vicious circle.

Q.5 Fill in the blanks with appropriate modals: 2

1 If we had a yacht we ……… sail the seven seas. (will / would).
 Ans If we had a yacht we would sail the seven seas.

2 We ……..obey our teachers. (have to, must).

Ans We must obey our teachers.

Q.6 Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct options: 2

1 Which option displays the correct change of the following to reported speech?

“Don’t make noise in the library.” the librarian said.

(a) The librarian said not to make noise in the library.
(b) The librarian ordered me not to make noise in the library.
(c) The librarian said to be quiet while in the library.
(d) The librarian asks me to not make any noise.
Ans Option (b)

2 Rima bought ................. she liked at the fair. 

a. nothing

b. everything

c. something

d. one thing

Ans Option: b

Q.7 Choose the correct options to fill in the blanks to complete narration. 3
1

Interviewer: Was shooting in jaipur challenging?

Sahil: Filming in any place is difficult, but in jaipur it was even more difficult.

Interviewer: How did the locals react to it?

Sahil: Many assisted us during the making of the film. I am thankful to the local residents.

The interviewer asked Sahil (a) _____________? Sahil replied that (b) _____________ difficult. But in jaipur ,It had
been even  more difficult. The interviewer wanted to know (c) _____________? Sahil told him that many had
assisted them during the making of film. He was very thankful to local residents.

a. (i) Was shooting in jaipur challenging

    (ii) if shooting was challenging in jaipur

    (iii) if shooting had been challenging in jaipur

    (iv) None of these

b. (i) filming in any place was 

     (ii) filming in any place is

    (iii) filming in any place would

    (iv) filming in any place will

c. (i) how the locals reacted to it

    (ii) how did the locals had react to it

    (iii) how the locals have reacted to it

    (iv) how the locals had reacted to it

 

Ans a. (iii) if shooting had been challenging in jaipur

b. (i) filming in any place was 

c. (iv) how the locals had reacted to it

Q.8 Answer the following in 100-120 words.(Any Two) 8

1 Give a brief character sketch of author’s grandfather describing his qualities. What values are reflected from
his character?

Ans The grandfather was an animal lover. He was an untrained zoologist. He had made his own private zoo in his
house. He was very kind towards birds and animals. Whenever he came across any animal, he would buy it at
any cost, if he liked it. Sometimes he had to bear the anger of the grandmother. He was a person of strong
determination. Once he bought a monkey and named it Toto. Toto troubled him in his zoo, made him pay extra
fare but still he loved Toto. Love for animals, determination, good sense of humour are some of the qualities
that are reflected in his character.

2 Debate the topic ‘The speaker is purposefully ambiguous about whether or not he’s -happy with his choice.’

Ans "The Road Not Taken” is a poem about the other road or the choices one makes. When he has to make a
choice, the speaker takes the road that many people have avoided, or the road less taken. The other road is
the road the speaker did not take. He does want to return to the road at some point, but knows he will not be
able to come back to take that road. There is something about his decision of not taking the other road that
causes the speaker to sigh in remembrance of not leaving it. The sigh seems to be a sad sigh, simply because
he could not take both roads. The speaker feels his decision has made all the difference. In a sense, the
speaker is trying to convince himself that he took the right road. However, the fact that the speaker is still
thinking about the other road is an indication that he will forever have a doubt. Truly, this poem is about the
other road, the road the speaker did not take. Seeing as how “way leads on to way,” the speaker doubts that he
shall ever go back. Therefore, he visits the idea of taking the other road only in his memory.

3 “If you work hard and know where you’re going, you’ll get there,” says Evelyn Glennie. You have now read about
two musicians, Evelyn Glennie and Ustad Bismillah Khan. Do you think that they both worked hard? Where did
they want to ‘go’? Answer these questions in two paragraphs, one on each of the two musicians.

Ans Yes, they both worked hard. It is a fact that dedication and determination help one in attaining one’s long
cherished goals. Evelyn Glennie was profoundly deaf. She was not ready to give up. She was determined to
lead a normal life and pursue her interest in music. She worked hard and got Royal Philharmonic Society’s
prestigious Soloist of the Year Award in 1991. She accomplished more than most people twice her age.
Ustad Bismillah Khan belongs to a well known family of musicians from Bihar. He took to music early in life.
He gave many memorable performances in India and abroad. He practised hard and reached his destination
in 2001 when he was awarded India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. The other National Awards like
the Padmashri, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan were also conferred on him. His life has been
a perfect example of the rich, cultural heritage of India.

Q.9 Poem Passage 4

1 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

 And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveller, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth.

I. The roads diverged in a ____ wood:

a. Yellow       

b. Brown       

c. Green       

d. Red

II. The poet was ____ he couldn’t travel both :

a. Happy     

b. Sad           

c. Sorry           

d .Excited

III. The poet is standing:

a. at a crossing

b. at a crossing in the autumn season

c. where two roads cross

d. in a forest

IV. He sees before him:

a. a yellow forest and roads

b. two roads crossing

c. a dense forest

d. two roads diverging in a forest

V. His desire at this moment is to:

a. cross on the road

b. travel further

c. travel on both the roads

d. see the forest

 

Ans I.   a. Yellow

II.  c. Sorry

III. c. where two roads cross

IV. d. two roads diverging in a forest

V.  c. travel on both the roads

Q.10 Answer in 30-40 words each(Any Two) 4

1 “Toto was a pretty monkey” In what sense was Toto pretty?

Ans Toto was a pretty monkey in the sense that his appearance was cute. His bright sparkling, deep – set
eyebrows, and pearly white teeth gave him a pretty look. Even Toto’s long tail added to his good looks.

2 Why does the poet plead with the wind to blow softly?

Ans When the wind blows softy, it is harmless and enjoyable but when it blows fiercely, it wreaks havoc. Therefore,
the poet wants the wind to be gentle and soft.

3 Describe the book that Tommy found in the attic.

Ans Tommy had found a real book in the attic. The pages had turned old and crinkly and it was almost two
hundred years old. Moreover, it was all covered with dust as it had been lying in the attic for ages.