Class 9 PT II Question Paper 2024-25 English

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PERIODIC TEST – II 2024-25
SUBJECT – ENGLISH
CLASS - IX
TIME: 1:30 HRS. M.M: 40
General Instructions:
This question paper is divided into three sections.
All the questions are compulsory.
SECTION -A- READING 10 MARKS
SECTION -B- WRITING & GRAMMAR 15MARKS
SECTION -C- LITERATURE 15 MARKS
SECTION -A- READING

Q1. Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: 10 marks

1.​ Overpowering prey is a challenge for creatures that do not have limbs. Some species have like Russell’s
viper inject poison. Some others opt for an alternative non - chemical method. Rat snakes, for instance,
catch and push their prey against the ground, while python use their muscle power to crush their prey
to death. But snakes can’t be neatly divided into poisonous and non- poisonous categories.
2.​ Even species listed as non-poisonous aren’t completely free of poison. The common Sand Boa, for
instance, produces secretions particularly poisonous to birds. So, the species doesn’t take any chance –
it crushes its prey and inject poison as an extra step.
3.​ Do vipers need poison powerful enough to kill hundreds of rats with just one drop? After all, they eat
only one or two at a time.
4.​ While hunting animals try their worst to kill most efficiently, their prey uses any trick to avoid becoming
a meal, such as developing immunity to poison. For instance, California ground squirrels are resistant to
Northern Pacific rattlesnake poison.
5.​ Competition with prey is not the only thing driving snakes to evolve more and more deadly poison.
Snakes also struggle to avoid becoming prey themselves. Some snake killers have partial immunity to
poison. Famously, mongooses are highly resistant to cobra poison and with their speed and agility, kill
snakes fearlessly. It would be the death of cobras as a species if they didn’t evolve a more deadly poison
to stop mongooses.
6.​ Poison has another important role. It’s an extreme meat softener; specific enzymes break up the insides
of the prey. Normally, a reptile depends on the sun’s warm rays to aid digestion.
7.​ But I wonder if we cannot use venom in our favour. In remote parts of India, local hospitality often
involves leather tough meat. I chew and chew until my jaws ache. If I spit it out or refuse, our hosts
would be offended; I swallow like a python stuffing a deer down its throat and hope I don’t choke. If
only I had poison.
(a)​ Name the species that inject poison to kill its prey.
(i)​ Rattlesnake (ii) Rat Snake (iii) Python (iv) Russel

(b) What effect does the poison have on the meat?

(i) Enhances taste (ii) Hardens (iii)Softens (iv) Breaks down

(c) Californian squirrels are ___________rattlesnake poison.

(i) afraid of (ii) helpless against (iii) resistant to (iv) indifferent to

(d) Complete the following analogy correctly with a word /phrase from paragraph 1:

Substitute : replacement : Another : _________(para I)

(e) Find word from the passage which means same as Liquid substances released from glands.

(para 2)

(f) Find the Antonym of the word ‘General’ in paragraph 6.

(g) Complete the following with a phrase from Paragraph 5.

Opinion: Mongoose can easily kill the snake.

Reason: ______________________________.

(h) In the line ‘local hospitality often involves leather tough meat’, which figure of speech is used

In ‘Leather tough meat’?

(i)​ Metaphor (ii)Simile (iii) Repetition (iv) Consonance

(i)Most reptiles depend on _______________to aid digestion.

(j) Which species of snake uses its muscle power to crush its prey to death?

(i) Viper (ii) Rattle Snake (iii) Pythons (iv)Sand Boa

SECTION – B- WRITING & GRAMMAR

Q2. You are Nira/Nirav, Secretary of the ‘Environmental Club’ of Vidya Mandir School, New Delhi.
Write a notice in 50 words informing the students of your school about Poster making and Slogan
Writing Competition on the topic: “Clean India, Green India”. Give all the necessary details.
4 marks

Q3. You are Alia Malhotra, head girl of DPS, Rohini. You wish to request to the principal of your school
for a school trip for your class. Write an e-mail to the principal regarding the same.
4 marks

Q4. Choose the most appropriate word and fill in the blanks to complete the following passage.
3 marks

Legends will tell you that flamingos are no ordinary visitors to Kutch. They were the honoured guests
(a) ___________(for/by/of/from) king Lakho and he (b)______________(forbade/forbid/had
forbidden/forbidden) the hunting of flamingos, which (c)___________(come/came/are come/has
come) to Kutch from various parts of the world every year to breed.

Q5. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line against which blanks
are given. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet: 4 marks

Error Correction

Chocolate can make peoples happy. (a) _________ ______________

Chocolate are also considered very (b) __________ _______________

Good for health. One bar off (c) __________ _______________

Chocolate has many protein than one banana. (d) __________ _______________

SECTION – C – LITERATURE

Q6. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow: 4 marks

No nightingale did ever chant

More welcome notes to weary bands

Of travellers in some shady haunts.

Among Arabian Sands.

(a)​ Name the poet of the poem.
(b)​ What for do the nightingale sing?

(i)to relieve themselves of pains (ii)to please themselves

(iii)to welcome the travellers (iv)to welcome the tired travellers

(c)Where do the nightingale bird sing?

(i)deserts (ii)deserts of Arabia (iii)Ezypt (iv)Deserts of Africa

(d)The effect of the nightingales’ song is that its sound-

(i)spreads everywhere (ii)welcomes the tired travellers

(iii)refreshes the tired travellers (iv)break the silence of the sea

Q7. Answer any FOUR of the following questions in about 30-40 words. 8 marks

(a)​ Who was Charles -Chuck Hooper and where did he work?
(b)​ What happened when Corporal Turnbull was telling about hand grenade?
(c)​ What guess does the poet have about the subject matter of the reaper’s song?
(d)​ How is the world a stage showing seven ages of human life?
(e)​ Why does Jeanne want to buy the Villa?

Q8. Answer any ONE of the following questions in about 80 to 100 words. 3 marks

What does Mrs. Al Smith say about French people first to the maid, then to Gaston? What does
she actually mean in that?

OR

How did Private Quelch prove that he had a vast knowledge of army things and other aspects of
human knowledge?

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