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AMBE SCHOOL-CBSE Manjalpur, Vadodara -11.

Pre-Mid Examination Year :2020-21

Subject :English

Grade :IX Max. Marks: 40

Day & Date: Tuesday, 11th August’20 Duration: 1½ Hours

Name of the Student: ____________________________________________________________ Section: ________ Seat No. ________

SECTION – A

Q.1Read the following passage carefully: (10)

For three weeks I sailed on the S.S. Roma, an Italian cargo vessel, in a cabin next to the ship's

engine, across the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, and finally to England. I lived in

London, in Finsbury Park, in a house occupied entirely by penniless Bengali bachelors like myself,

at least a dozen and sometimes more, all struggling to educate and establish ourselves abroad. I

attended lectures at L.S.E. and worked at the university library to get by. We lived three or four to

a room, shared a single, icy toilet, and took turns cooking pots of egg curry, which we ate with our

hands on a table covered with newspapers. Apart from our jobs, we had few responsibilities. On

weekends, we lounged barefoot in drawstring pajamas, drinking tea and smoking Rothmans, or

set out to watch cricket at Lord's. Some weekends, the house was crammed with still more

Bengalis, to whom we had introduced ourselves at the greengrocer, or on the Tube, and we made

yet more egg curry, and soaked our dirty dishes in the bathtub. Every now and then someone in

the house moved out, to live with a woman whom his family back in Calcutta had determined he

was to wed. In 1969, when I was thirty-six years old, my own marriage was arranged. Around the

same time, I was offered a full-time job in America, in the processing department of a library at

M.I.T. The salary was generous enough to support a wife, and I was honored to be hired by a

world-famous university, and so I obtained a green card, and prepared to travel farther still. By

then, I had enough money to go by plane. I flew first to Calcutta, to attend my wedding, and a

week later to Boston, to begin my new job. During the flight I read "The Student Guide to North

America," for although I was no longer a student, I was on a budget all the same. I learned that

Americans drove on the right side of the road, not the left, and that they called a lift an elevator

and an engaged phone busy. "The pace of life in North America is different from Britain, as you

will soon discover," the guidebook informed me. "Everybody feels he must get to the top. Don't

expect an English cup of tea." As the plane began its descent over Boston Harbor, the pilot

announced the weather and the time, and that President Nixon had declared a national holiday:

two American men had landed on the moon. Several passengers cheered. "God bless America!"

one of them hollered. Across the aisle, I saw a woman praying. (Extract from ‘The Third and Final

Continent’, by Jhumpa Lahiri)

I. Answer the following questions briefly(DO any four)

a. The author travelled to England ______________.

b. The people with whom the writer lived in London were ______________.

c. Apart from their jobs, they had ____________.

d. The writer and his roommates went to watch cricket _______________.

e. In London, the Bengalis ______________ with each other at the greengrocer, or on the Tube.

f. While in London, every now and then a boy had to move out to live with a woman

___________.

II. Fill in the blanks with ONE word only:

Somewhere around 1969, the author got a job in the processing department of a library at (1)

_________. He came to India to attend his (2) ________. While flying back to America, he read "The

Student Guide to North America". He discovered that the pace of life in North America was

different from Britain, and that the people there were very (3) _____________. As the plane began its

descent, an announcement was made that the President had declared a national holiday as two

American men had (4) __________ on the moon.

III. Find a word in the passage that means the following:

a. giving out

b. to come down​

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