Download CBSE English Guess Paper IX (9th) 2007

ENGLISH (COMMUNICATIVE)

Class – IX

(set-1)

 

Max. Marks: 80                                                                                              Time: 3 hours

 

   Instructions:

1.     Attempt all questions.

2.     Do not write anything in the question paper.

3.     All the answers must be correctly numbered as in the question paper and written in the answer sheet provided to you.

4.     Attempt all questions in each section before going on to the next section.

5.     Read each question carefully and follow the instructions.

 

SECTION A – READING

 

1.  Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

 

ABOUT COMPUTERS

 

  There is a myth that there is something magical about computers and those who run them. The legend has got about that computers are ‘electronic brains’ and that programmers are some sort of supermen. The facts are that computers are very stupid and the people who programme them are normal human beings. Any one who can count from 0 to 7 on his fingers and make eight can learn to be a programmer. The business is not difficult, just tricky. It is very misleading to imagine that computers can think like people. They cannot. They have no more a mind of their own that a lawn-mower. However they make it possible for people to ‘bottle’ thought. You work out how to do a particular job or solve a problem, write a programme and the computer will apply your thinking to that job or problem as long as often as you like. In this sense computers are half alive because they perpetuate the thinking of their creators (167 words)

 

1.1 Based on your reading of the passage, complete the below notes.                                                         (6)

  Facts and Fiction about Computers

I. What computers cannot do(a) __________________________

II. What computers can do     (b) __________________________

III. Programmers are not (c) __________________________.

They are (d) __________________________ who (e) ______________________ logically or clearly.

Computers are like lawn-mowers because (f) ___________________________

 

2.  Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

1.  The newspapers have taken the place of the Gita, the Bible and the Quran with the people. For them, the printed sheet is gospel truth. The fact throws a great responsibility on the editors and newswriters.

2. Newspapers are a powerful influence. It is the duty of the editors to see that no false report or report likely to excite the public is published in their newspapers. The editors and their assistants have to be extra careful about the news they give and the manner in which they dress it. In a state of independence, it is practically impossible for Governments to control the Press. It is the duty of the public to keep a strict watch on the newspapers and keep them on the right path. An enlightened public would refuse to patronize inflammatory or indecent newspapers.

3. Newspapers which indulge in untruth or exaggeration harm the cause they profess to espouse. I admit that there is enough untruth in enough newspapers to warrant action. But my experience is that no amount of public criticism will affect the policy of newspapers which make their livelihood by such policy But I write this in no way to condone untruths in newspapers. I am quite clear that if newspapers weighed every word that is printed therein, we should have a speedier removal of abuses whether in the States or elsewhere.

4. The superficiality, the one-sidedness, the inaccuracy and often even dishonesty that have crept into modern journalism, continuously mislead honest men who want to see nothing but justice done.

5. The sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy. If the control is from without, it proves more poisonous than want of control. It can be profitable only when exercised from within. If this line of reasoning is correct, how many of the journals in the world would stand the test? But who would stop those that are useless? And who should be the judge? The useful and the useless must, like good and evil, go on together, and man must make his choice.

2.1 On the basis of your reading of the passage complete the following sentences. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers.                                                                                              (6) (a) It is the duty of the editor to see that ..............

(b) As it is practically impossible for the Governments to control the press, ............

(c) Newspapers which indulge in untruth or exaggeration need to be rejected by the people because ................

(d) The modern journalism suffers from ......................... which mislead honest men.

(e) The sole aim of journalism should be because it ................

(f) As the useful and the useless must, like good and evil go on together, man ...................

2.2 Find words / phrases from the passage which mean the same as the following from the paragraphs indicated.                                                                                                                                                     (3) (a) intending to cause very strong feelings of anger (para 2)

(b) not studying or looking at something thoroughly (para 4)

(c) to go under the surface of water (para 5)

 

SECTION B - WRITING

 

3.   Your school has decided to choreograph a dance drama for the school annual day. You are the cultural secretary of the school. Write a notice in not more than 50 words for your school notice board inviting talented students to assemble on 12th Nov. in the auditorium. They will be selected by the famous dancer Sarala Nagpal. Put your notice in a box.                             (5)

 

4.   You wish to see the famous film ‘The Jurassic Park’, but not alone. Write a note to your reluctant friend Mohan telling him why you think he should see it too. Arrange to meet him at the cinema hall of your choice. Do not exceed 50 words.             (5)

 

5.  There has been number of the cases recorded for the diarrhea and loose motions. The doctors have concluded this as the effect of the consumption of the junk food regularly. Write a letter to the editor of the news paper regarding your views.                   (7)

 

6.   All the schools in Bangalore are celebrating a Road Safety month now. You being the Head Boy/Head Girl of your school have been asked to deliver a short speech on the subject of Road Safety for school children. Study the graph given below showing the number of school children who lost their lives in Road Accidents in the first half of the year, 2006. Using this information, together with your own ideas, write a short speech stressing the importance of road safety for school children. Also make some practical suggestions in this regard. Your answer should not exceed 200 words.                  (8)

 

 

SECTION C - GRAMMAR

 

7. In the paragraph given below, one word has been omitted in each line.  Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it in your answer sheet against the correct blank number.  Make sure that the word that forms your answer is underlined.                                                        (3)

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