Question

Annual Examination 2020-21
Subject - English
Time Allowed - 3 hurs
Class - 9th
M.M.80
Section -A
1. Read the passage given below and answer the question that following question. 10 Marks
I know poverty and misery and I quite appreciate by personal experience what it is to be poor, what
it is to have no clothes, what it to have no books what it is to struggle through life, what it is to walk
through the streets without an umbrella, without conveyance along miles on duty road. I have been
through it all and I can understand the difficulties that most of you graduates have to face today, I am
speaking from a long experience of 60 years please do not imagine that all the 60 years are
milk and roses. To be able to accomplish something I want to tell you that you have to go
through such experience.
I admit success in life is not always to be intelligent or be strong. And it is to some extent a bit
of a gamble but those who got their minds right and those who know their job sooner or later, will
sooner perhaps later make their way in life. But they should not be disappointed if they do not, they
have to face up life and take it as they find it. What I say is that the great things in life are not really
great things in life. What love is to enjoy the common things of life. I am happy that I am still able to
sleep at night provided I have three miles walk in the evening. I am still able to enjoy a good lunch
or a good dinner I am still able to look at the blue sky and like it. I still like to walk in the open fields
and like the smell of the Ragi or the Jowar
We think that happiness consist of going to pictures and seeing thrilling films and Technicolor
dramas. Not at all, the great things in life are god given thing which cost nothing. If you have your
minds and heart open you ha around your things wh give you joy. What you need is the desire
toappreciate them. There is the butterfly jumping about in flourishing colors on all sides. Look at the
wonderful thing that God has given for our enjoyment
We have to love nature and appreciate nature and appreciate her wonderful gifts. Of nature's
marvelous ingenity, its resourcefulness, the infinite vanety. It is the same thing that has inspired me
all my life.
1 How had C.V. Raman's childhood been difficult?
(a) He had lived hfe as a poor
(b) He had access to books only
(c) He had to run on the streets
(d) He never drank milk as child
2. Why has life been termed as a gamble?
(a) It disappoints you always.
(b) Life is good to only hardworking people.
(c) Even an intelligent or strong person is unsure of success
(d) Raman has lost money in this gamble.
3. How does C.V. Raman's speech inspire us?
(a) He told us easy ways to enjoy life (b) He told us one needs to be poor to succeed in life.
(c) He told us to work day and night (d) He told us that life is never easy.
4. What according to CV Raman consists of happiness?
(a) Seeing thrilling films and Technicolors dramas
(b) Thing that cost money (c) Cod given gifts which cost nothing
(d) A graduate student's life
5. According to the text, what should we love?
(a) Life (b) Gamble (c) CV Raman (d) Nature
6 Which smell did he like in the fields?
(a) Butterflies in fields (b) Ragi and Towar (c) Dinner
7. What has inspired C.V. Raman all his life?
(a) Gamble
(b) Family
(c) Nature
(d) Dusty Roads
(d) Films​

Answer 1

Answer:

1) (a)

2) (a)

3) (d)

4) (d)

5) (a)

Answer 2

1) a
2) a
3) d
4) d
5) D
6) b
7) c