ARYA MISSION VIDYAPITH
Kurewa, Deoghar
Time:-3hrs
Half Yearly Examination-2020-21
Sub:-English
Class:-IX
F.M:-80
Section-A (Reading)
Read the following passage and answer the questions:-Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller’s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was approached by graveled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front. There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches. Then, there was the pumping plant for the artesian well, and the big cement tank where Judge Miller’s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon.
And over this huge demesne Buck ruled. Here, he was born, and here he had lived four years of his life. It was true, there were other dogs. There could not but be other dogs on so vast a place, but thery did not count. They came and went, resided in the populous kennels or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysable, the Mexican hairless-strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground. On the other hand, there were the fox terriers, a score of them at least, who yelped fearful promises at Toots and Ysasble looking out of the windows at them and protected by a legion of housemaids armed with brooms and mops.
But, Buck was neither house-dog nor kennel-dog. The whole realm was his. He plunged into the swimming tank went hunting with the Judge’s sons; he escorted Mollie and Alice, the Judge’s daughter on long twilight or early morning rambles; on wintry nights he lay at the judge’s feet before the roaring library fire; he carried the Judge’s grandsons on his back, or rolled them in the grass, and guarded their footsteps through wild adventures down to the fountain in the stable yard, and guarded their footsteps through wild adventures down the fountain in the stable yard, and even beyond, where the paddocks were, and the berry patches. Among the terriers, he stalked imperiously, and Toots and Ysable, he utterly ignored, for he was king-king over all creeping, crawling, flying things of Judge Miller’s place, humans included.
His father, Elmo, a huge St Bernard, had been the Judge’s inseparable companion and Buck bid fair to follow in the way of his father. He was not so large; he weighed only one hundred and forty pounds, for his mother, Sheep, had been a Scotch shepherd dog.
Answer the following questions:-
-2+2+3+3+2+2 = 14
Who was Buck and where did he live?
Who were Toots and Ysable?
How was Judge Miller’s house approached?
How did Buck look after Judge Miller’s daughters?
How did he care for the Judge’s grandsons?
Who were Buck’s parents?
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I think this is a passage
but sorry, I hate passage
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