SRI SRI ACADEMY

FIRST TERMINAL EXAMINATION 2024-25

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CLASS IX
Time: 2 hours Full Marks-80.

Answers to this paper must be written on the paper provided separately.

You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes.
This time is to be spent in reading the question paper.
The time given at the head of this paper is the time allowed for writing the answers.

Attempt all five questions.

The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ].
You are advised to spend not more than 30 minutes in answering Question 1 and 20 minutes in
answering Question 2.

Question 1:
(Do not spend more than 30 minutes on this question.)
Write a composition (300-350 words) on any one of the following:
i. Write an original short story entitled ‘The Adventurous Trip’.
ii. Your class had to conduct a Morning Assembly. Write an account of how you prepared for it,
what your role was and what you gained from the experience.
iii. Express your views either for or against the statement ‘Social media sites should not be
accessible for all age groups’.
iv. Summers are becoming hotter with each passing year. Describe what you saw, heard and felt on
one such very hot day when you went outside.
v. Study the picture given below. Write a story or a description or an account of what it suggests to
you. Your composition may be about the subject of the picture, or you may take suggestions from
it; however, there must be a clear connection between the picture and your composition.

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Question 2:
(Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this question.)
Select any one of the following: [10]
i. You have received an unusual pet on your birthday. Write a letter to your friend
describing your pet and telling him how you take care of your pet.
ii. There is a lot of chaos and traffic disruption outside your school in the morning. Write
a letter to the Superintendent of Traffic Police complaining about the problems faced by
the students regularly. Suggest some measures to control this situation.
Question 3:
a. Your school is hosting an Inter-school Quiz Competition. Write a notice to be put up on the
school notice board informing the students about the event.
b. Write an email to the Principal of the neighbouring school requesting to send students to
participate in the competition.
Question 4:
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
His mother was in the kitchen, taking advantage of the cook’s afternoon out to make a cake. He
stood at the door, watching her morosely. It says much about his unpleasant spirit, that he made no
attempt to secure any of the uncooked cake mixture for which he had a passion.
“Aren’t you rather late home, dear?” said his mother.
“Mr. Ferris has just come to see your father. They’re in the morning room.”
William felt as if his stomach had been wafted away from him, leaving a vacuum in its place.
“What’s he come for?” he said at last hoarsely.

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“I don’t know,” said Mrs. Brown. “He just asked to speak to your father, and I took him in there. I
do hope you haven’t been getting into any mischief, William.”
His face mechanically assumed its look of outraged innocence.
“Me?” he said in the tone of offended surprise that, like his look of innocence, seemed to come of
its own accord to meet a familiar need. “No. Course not.”
He went dragging out into the garden.
In the garden he remembered that Mr. Smith had slipped on a banana skin and broken his leg. It
was an idea……..
He crept into the dining-room, took a banana from a dish on the sideboard, ate it and carried the
skin out to the garden. There he carefully laid it on a path, returned to the end of the path, then
advanced jauntily, head in air. He walked over it ten times without success. Next he climbed to the
roof of the cow-shed and fell from it, meaning to break his collar- bone. He landed unhurt. At this
point he heard his mother calling from the front door.
“William, your father wants you.”
i. For each word given below choose the correct meaning (as used in the passage) from
the options provided:
1. morosely
a. dully
b. sullenly
c. melancholy
d. sadly

2. wafted
a. moved
b. shifted
c. changed
d. altered

ii. Which word in the passage means the opposite of the word ‘pleased’?
a. horrified
b. outraged
c. afraid
d. offended

iii. Answer the following questions briefly in your own words:

a. How can you say that William was upset and in a bad mood? [2]
b. What was William’s condition when he came to know that Mr. Ferris has come to meet his
father? [2]
c. According to you, who is Mr. Ferris? [1]
d. Why do you think William was coming up with ideas to injure himself? [2]
e. What did William remember in the garden? [2]

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 iv. In not more than 50 words describe the activities William was engaged in to escape
from punishment. [8]

Question 5

(i) Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the verb given in the
brackets. Do not copy the passage but write in correct serial order the word or
phrase appropriate to the blank space. [4]

She lived in a world of silent darkness. Her only way of (1) (know) anything
was by touch or smell. Day after day, she would sit on her mother’s lap and put her hands against
her mother’s lips feeling them move as she (2) (speak) Helen
(3) (try) to copy the shapes with her own lips but of course she could not make the
correct sounds. No one could understand her. She (4) (want) to ask for things
but how could she do this? Helen could only try (5) (make) people understand
what she (6) (want) with the help of gestures. A cut motion with her hand
(7) (mean) she wanted bread or food, a shake of the head meant ‘no’ and a
nod ‘yes’, a pull ‘come’ and a push ‘go’. But every day she wanted to express more
and more. When she could not, she burst out (8) (cry) or flew into a temper.

(ii) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words. [4]

(a) My mother told me not to keep the ladder the wall.

(b) The lady was taken surprise on hearing of her son’s victory.
(c) My father sets a part of his income each month for charity.
(d) The naughty child was prohibited entering the classroom.
(e) The two political parties will discuss the matter a cup of coffee.
(f) The Monarch deals fairly everyone.
(g) We entered an agreement with a leading company.
(h) The party was called due to the non-availability of an appropriate venue.

(iii) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but
or so. Choose the correct option. [4]

1. The guard was sincere. The committee hired him.

(a) The committee decided to hire the guard as he was sincere.
(b)The committee hired the sincere guard.
(c) The committee hired the guard for his sincerity.
(d)Being sincere, the guard was hired by the committee.

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 2. The young man died suddenly. It took everyone by surprise.
(a) The sudden death of a young man did take everyone by surprise.
(b) What surprised everyone was the death of the young man.
(c) The sudden death of the young man took everyone by surprise.
(d) The young man dying was a surprise to everyone.

3. The delivery boy saw the house door open. He went in.
(a) The delivery boy went in because he saw the house door open.
(b)Seeing the door open, the delivery boy went in.
(c) Going inside the house, the delivery boy saw the house door open.
(d)On seeing the house door open, the delivery boy went in.

4. The examinees were seated. The invigilator distributed the papers.

(a) The invigilator decided to distribute the papers as the examinees were seated.
(b) The examinees being seated, the invigilator distributed the papers.
(c) The examinees having seated, the papers were distributed by the invigilator.
(d) As the invigilator distributed the papers, the examinees were seated.

(iv) Choose the correct option and rewrite the sentence according to the instruction
given after each. [8]

1. You are to visit the counsellor tomorrow. (Add a question tag)

(a) You are to visit the counsellor tomorrow, won’t you?
(b) Aren’t you visiting the counsellor tomorrow?
(c) You are to visit the counsellor tomorrow, aren’t
you? (b)Are you not visiting the counsellor tomorrow?

2. Though brilliant in science, she was not offered the scholarship. (Begin: Despite…)
(a) Despite her brilliance in science, she was not offered the scholarship.
(b)Despite of her brilliance in science, she was not offered the scholarship.
(c) Despite being brilliant in science, she was not offered the scholarship.
(d)Despite her brilliance in science, she was offered the scholarship.

3. The comedian entertained the crowd by his performance. (End: ……. the comedian)
(a) The crowd was entertained by the performance of the comedian.
(b) The entertainment of the crowd was followed by the performance of
the comedian.
(c) The performance of the crowd entertained the comedian.
(d) The crowd was too entertained by the performance of the comedian.

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 4. As soon as the rain stopped, the sky cleared and a beautiful rainbow
appeared. (Begin: No sooner….)
(a) No sooner had the rain stopped when the sky cleared and a beautiful
rainbow appeared.
(b)No sooner did the rain stop than the sky cleared and a beautiful
rainbow appeared.
(c) No sooner did the rain stop when the sky cleared and a beautiful
rainbow appeared.
(d)No sooner does the rain stop than the sky clears and a beautiful rainbow appears.

5. When the captain heard the weather report, he decided to leave the harbour.
(Begin: Having…….)
(a) Having heard the weather report, he decided to leave the harbour.
(b) Having heard the weather report the captain decided to leave the harbour.
(c) Having heard the weather report he decided to leave the harbour.
(d) Having heard the weather report, the captain decided to leave the harbour.

6. He said, “I visit the dentist every month.” (Begin: He said….............)

(a) He said that he visits his dentist monthly.
(b) He said that he visits his dentist on a monthly basis.
(c) He said that he visits the dentist monthly.
(d) He said that he visits the dentist every month.

7. The mistake is too grave to be forgiven. (Rewrite using so …. that…)

(a) So grave is the mistake that it cannot be forgiven.
(b) The mistake is so grave that it can be forgiven.
(c) The mistake is so grave that it cannot be forgiven.
(d) The mistake is grave so that it can be forgiven.

8. He must apologise, otherwise he will not be permitted to participate in the match.

(Begin: Unless….)
(a) Unless he is permitted to participate in the match, he will not apologise.
(b) Unless he does apologise, he will not participate in the match.
(c) Unless he apologises, he will not participate in the match.
(d) Unless he apologises, he will not be permitted to participate in the match.

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