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CONTENTS
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PROSE Learning the Game – Sachin Tendulkar 1 - 22
*Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
1 POEM 23 - 34
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– Robert Frost
SUPPLEMENTARY The Envious Neighbour – A Japanese Folk Tale 35 - 42
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PROSE I Can’t Climb Trees Anymore – Ruskin Bond 43 - 57
2 POEM A Poison Tree – William Blake 58 - 65
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SUPPLEMENTARY The Fun They Had – Isaac Asimov 66 - 71
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Old Man River (Drama) – Dorothy Deming
*On Killing a Tree – Gieve Patel
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SUPPLEMENTARY Earthquake – M.S.Mahadevan 107 - 116
PROSE Seventeen Oranges – Bill Naughton 117 - 132
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4 POEM The Spider and the Fly – Mary Botham Howitt 133 - 144
SUPPLEMENTARY The Cat and the Pain-killer – Mark Twain 145 - 155
PROSE Water – The Elixir of Life – Sir C.V. Raman 156 - 177
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POEM *The River – Caroline Ann Bowles 178 - 183

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Little Cyclone: The Story of a Grizzly Cub
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From Zero to Infinity
PROSE 192 - 207
– Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan
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6 POEM *The Comet – Norman Littleford 208 - 215

SUPPLEMENTARY Mother’s Voice – Vasil Berezhnoy 216 - 226
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PROSE A Birthday Letter – Jawaharlal Nehru 227 - 240
7 POEM The Stick-together families – Edgar Albert Guest 241 - 248

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SUPPLEMENTARY The Christmas Truce – Aaron Shepard 249 - 258
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QUESTION PAPER CONTENTS

(Based on the updated new Textbook for the year 2019-20)
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1. Homonyms, Homophones 261
2. Prex / Sufx 261
3. Anagrams 262
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4. Preposition 262
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5. Prepositional Verbs 267 - 269
6. Degrees of Comparison 269 - 271
7. Clauses and Phrases 272 - 273
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Non-nite verbs (Gerund, Innitives, Participles) 274 - 276
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13. Tenses 284 - 295
14. Connectors 295 - 298
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15. Active Voice, Passive Voice 298 - 305

16. Determiners 306 - 310
17. Reported Speech (Direct to Indirect Speech) 311 - 318
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18. Framing Questions 318 - 319

19. Punctuation 319 - 322
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1. Letter Writing (to friend) 323 - 326

2. Preparing a Speech (on a given topic) 327 - 328
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3. Article Writing 329 - 330

4. Dialogue Writing 331 - 332
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5. Completion of Dialogues (Fill in type) 332 - 334

6. Diary Writing 334 - 335
7. Poster Making 335
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8. General Comprehension 336 - 338

9. General Para writing, using given hints 339 - 340
10. Matching Slogans with Products 340 - 341
11. Unknown Poem – Paraphrase 341 - 343
12. Expressing views on a given(v)
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LEARNING THE GAME
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- Sachin Tendulkar
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The retired Indian Cricket Player Sachin Ramesh Tendukar is considered as one of
the greatest batsmen of all times. He was born on 24th April 1973 in Mumbai. He was
introduced to cricket at the age of eleven by his brother Ajit Tendulkar. In 2005, he
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played 664 International Cricket matches in total, scoring 34,357 runs. In 2012, Tendulkar
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15. (a) The spider’s parlour can be reached (OR)

through a winding stair. (ii) Gieve Patel spins a very visual tale of
(b) The fly will get to see many curious pain where the reader can almost feel the
things in the parlour. hacks made at a tree. The ‘bleeding bark’
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(b) She was thinking of her beautiful eyes Patel envisions the tree going through.
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and the colours of her wings.
filled with caustic remarks. The poet,
17. (a) Leaves sprout out of the leprous hide.
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(b) Metaphor : Hidden comparison. 'Bark of propose his actual view on cutting down
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18. (i) The poem begins with the spider’s pursuit short of committing an act of murder.
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its home. The spider describes his parlour death. Every time Patel talks of cutting
as the prettiest one. The spider kindles down a tree, he portrays it as killing it.
the curiosity of the fly so that she may The death the poet incorporates in this
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enter his home. Fortunately, the fly was poem is both natural and spiritual.
witty and refused to get into his home. 19. (a) (iii) endanger
Now the spider pretends to be a host and
asks her to come and rest in his home.
He offers her food and a bed to rest. This
time also the fly declines the spider’s
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in his parlour. The fly is tempted by the life.
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phrase given below. 5×1=5 5. Molthi was completely devasted because
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adverse effect on the cat. Aunt Polly entered (b) thunder and hail storm
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the room in time to see the cat throw a few (c) drought and famine
(iii) _______ and sail through the open
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window. She found the (iv) _______ with
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be the same to the boy too. It was four years ago, in the month of
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(a) cup of milk (b) cup of tea Aunt Polly was
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minutes.
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(a) three (b) four Tom Sawyer and Peter the cat.
(c) five (d) two
2. Explain the efforts taken by the Army
officer to save the baby.
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SECTION - II ANSWERS
EFFECTIVE LEARNING SKILLS
I. (i) (iii) peter (ii) (iv) painkiller
VII. Write a letter to your friend telling about
(iii) (i) summerset (iv) (v) teaspoon
how your house was burgled when your
family was away on a holiday. 1 × 5 = 5 (v) (ii) cruelty
II. 1. Aunt Polly 2. Brij
VIII. Prepare a speech in about 80-100
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highlighting the importance of. 5. Army officer
(a) Saving trees 1×5=5 III. 1. (b) cup of tea
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(b) Saving Pets. floor
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IX. Write a diary entry in 60-80 words 3. (c) five
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(a) Water Scarcity 1×5=5 5. (a) a high intensity earthquake
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(b) Effect of Earth quake of October.
X. March the slogans with the product :
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3. Himalayas may look solid and eternal,
but deep down, they are unstable.
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into theatre (ii) various types of remedies on him.
5. Computer - make you fresh and (iii) like the painkiller and asked for it very
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Never trust a mirror,
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for a mirror is always lies.
like liquid fire. Tired of the daily doses,
It makes you think that all you're worth
one day Tom feeds a spoonful to the cat
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The (i) _____ tells not to trust a (ii) _____ his path.” When Aunt Polly learns that
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that you're (iv) ____. It shows your (v) ____. explains for his actions by saying that he
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views on it. 5×1=5 (the cat) hadn’t any aunt” to “burn him
out” and “roast his bowels."
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armed with spades and crowbars. Without
a word, the men began to remove the
debris. They laboured doggedly. When it
was completely dark, some one brought a
few lit petromax lamps. Two hours later,

Sura’s IX Std Term - II Summative Assessment 2018-19 with Answers 361
a soldier called out, “ Sir”. He stood in benefit the environment by the way of
the middle of a small hollow. The wall preventing soil erosion and flooding.
had caved in at that spot. Brij recognised They reduce the speed of the wind.
a part of the door. Beneath it, was a little They act as natural air conditioners by
foot. Feverishly, the soldiers began to cooling the roadsides by their shade.
clear the hollow. Then they lifted the They are helpful for children to play in
door. It was a miracle. They rescued the and discover their sense of adventure.
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baby alive after a hundred and sixteen They also help in protecting us from
hours. A ragged cheer went up and she the harmful effect of ultra-violet rays.
was carried to a make-shift hospital. So it is our responsibility to save trees.
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Chennai – 45 (Or)
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04 August 2018 (a) Respected teachers and students,
Dear Ramesh, Warm greetings to all of you.
How are you? I feel sad to inform you
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that my house was burgled last week when “Saving Pets”.
I was on a holiday. Burglars might have
known from the accumulated newspaper pile
that I had gone away. When I came back last
Sunday, I found the back-door lock broken.
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dog or a cat is our moral responsibility.
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can save pets. A person can adopt his
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through it. My room was ransacked. They realize that they are unknowingly
took my laptop and other valuables. I must
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have deposited the jewellery in a bank locker when they purchase animals from pet
to avoid this loss. I should have informed my stores or buy a puppy online. A person
neighbours about my week-long trip. Well, I may talk with the owners of pet stores
have registered an FIR with the police. They and ask them to feature homeless pets
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are investigating the case. They have assured for adoption instead. We can add an
that I would get my jewels back. The burglars advocacy message in the signature line
will be caught very soon. Convey my regards of our email to help educate people
to all at home.
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about the issue. Instead of buying

Yours lovingly, pet animals, we can adopt them. We
Aadhav can use our social networking skills
to promote adoptable animals. Most
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rescue groups need volunteers who
Warm greetings to all of you. can help with a variety of professional
I am here to deliver a speech on services. So as a volunteer, we can save
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“Saving Trees”. a lot of lives. There are lots of ways

Trees play a significant role in to provide assistance without giving
our daily life. Trees provide oxygen. a donation. However, donations allow
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They absorb carbon dioxide, thereby shelters and rescue groups to increase
reducing the global warming. They adoptions, promote spay/neuter, create
provide food for us and also for forest lifesaving programs, educate the public
animals. Trees offer habitation to birds, about animal welfare issues, and much
insects, lichen and fungi. Their trunks more. A person can save lives by
provide the hollow cover needed by fostering homeless animals.
species such as bats, wood-boring Thank you for listening to my speech.
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IX. (a) Diary entry about Water Scarcity 1. They cause loss of human life due
12-10-2018, Friday to collapse of buildings.
9.30 p.m. 2. Transport is affected due to
disruption of railway and road
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People are suffering due to water 3. Infrastructure like buildings, dams
scarcity everywhere. Do you know and bridges develop cracks due to
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the reasons for water scarcity? It is earthquakes.
mainly because of excess population
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agriculture. Assets like houses and
agriculture is prevalent everywhere.
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are reduced due to rapid construction 5. Problems arise due to shortage
of residential and commercial of electricity. At the same
buildings. Sewage and wastewater time, underlying cables are
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implemented. These sewage disposal communication systems.
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lines are connected to water bodies. 6. It becomes difficult to meet basic
Chemicals and effluents are dumped necessities of people like food and
into rivers, streams and ponds. De- water.
silting operations in large water bodies 7. Water shortage also leads to
like dams, lakes, ponds are not being
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water storage capacity during monsoon the solution for such a disaster is
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Today an earthquake hits Indonesian 5. Computer - Ten man's brain
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people had been killed and the death
toll was expected to rise. Most deaths (v) skin deep
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and the construction practices also The tap is opened and the water is overflowed
play a major part in the death toll of from a bucket.
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an earthquake. Other effects such as At every place, people are suffering from
landslides, liquefaction, and tsunamis water scarcity.
have also played important role in So, it is our duty to avoid wastage of water.
destruction produced by earthquakes. We should create awareness on saving water
I list the harmful effects of earthquakes among others.
as follows:
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