Federal Class IX English

SECTION “A”

Q.1. Insert the correct option i.e. A/B/C/D in the empty box provided opposite each part. Each part carries one mark.

i. What did Hazrat Mohammad (P.B.U.H) dislike?

• Superiority
• Arrogance
• Pride
• Both B and C

ii. Horses, mules and donkeys are used for ________

• Pleasing children
• Research on animals
• Pulling carts
• Enjoying hilly areas

iii. Where did the Chinese king send his son Prince Tai?

• To Ming-Li forest
• To discover sounds
• To Pan Ku
• None of these

iv. The Chinese first meal on the New year must not contain ________

• Rice
• Vinegar
• Meat
• Spices

v. Worker bees make layers of ________ sided cells

• Four
• Eight
• Three
• Six

vi. PTCL accepts no responsibility ________ any mistake

• by
• for
• at
• on

vii. Choose the correct spellings

• Dominent
• Dominant
• Dominint
• Dominunt

viii. Which of the following words is NOT synonym to the word ‘Eradicate’?

• Uproot
• Destroy
• Flourish
• Remove

ix. We saw a fleet of ships in the harbour. The underlined word is a/an

• Noun
• Verb
• Abstract Noun
• Collective Noun

x. ________ man is mortal

• a
• an
• the
• None of these

xi. ‘One day I met him in the street’. The underlined word is a/an ________.

• Adjective
• Adverb
• Conjunction
• Noun

xii. ‘He ran a long distance’. The underlined word is a/an ________.

• Verb
• Intransitive Verb
• Past form of run
• All of these

xiii. Which of the following is the correct sentence?

• What has happened to him?
• What has happened with him?
• What has happened on him?
• What has happened by him?

xiv. Which of the following is NOT a sentence?

• Edison invented the phonograph
• We cannot pump the ocean dry
• Away from bad company
• Show me how to do it

xv. They have not completed their work since long. What tense is it?

• Present Indefinite
• Present Perfect
• Present Continuous
• Present Perfect Continuous

SECTION “B”

Q.2. Answer any SIX of the following parts in about 30 to 40 words each. Each part carries 3 marks. (18)

i. What kind of life is better, Rural or Urban life? How can we solve the problems in both the cases?

ii. How are women contributing in the field of journalism?

iii. What is the importance of the seventh day of the New Year for the Chinese people?

iv. How can we instill the spirit of discipline and teamwork?

v. What is Nectar? How do bees collect it? What is it used for?

vi. How is a river formed?

vii. What contribution did the Muslims make in spreading knowledge?

viii. How can we keep the flies and dust away from our food?

Q.3. (a) Paraphrase any ONE of the following stanzas.

i. Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Make our earth an Eden,
Like the Heaven above.

ii. Continuous as the stars that shine,
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They Stretched in never-ending line,
Along the margin of a bay
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their head in sprightly dance.

Q.3. (b) Read the following stanza carefully and answer the questions give at the end

The day is part, the sun is set,
And the white stars are in the sky,
White the long grass with dew is wet,
And through the air the bats now fly.

Questions

i. Which poem have these lines been extracted from?
ii. The poet tries to introduce a piece of time of the day. What is it?
iii. At what time of the day, do the bats fly?

Q.4. Change the voice of any FOUR of the following sentences.

i. The mason is building the wall.
ii. Who did this?
iii. Why was such a letter written by your brother?
iv. He will finish the work in a fortnight.
v. The farmers gather the harvest.
vi. I have sold my bicycle
vii. The captive was bound to a tree by them.

Q.5. Use any FOUR of the following phrasal verbs in sentences of your own

i. Bring about
ii. Cut off
iii. Give up
iv. Get through
v. Cast away
vi. Call in
vii. Keep in

Q.6. Punctuate and capitalize the following line/para

if anyone of you has caught the birds he must release them at once to comfort the mother bird

SECTION “C”

Q.7. Write a letter from a boarding school to your mother telling her that you dislike the life of a boarder.

OR

Write a letter to your friend thanking him/her hospitality during your visit to his/her house.

Q.8. Write a paragraph of about 50-70 words on ‘A scene at a Railway Station’ with the help of the following word bank

Typical scenes – Passengers – Vendors – Crowded platform – Compartment – Hustle and bustle – Hawkers – People from different areas.

Q.9. Translate any FIVE of the following sentences into English

OR

Write a dialogue between a bookish student and a athletic student on a comparative merits of mental and physical culture.

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