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VIVEKANANDA COACHING CENTRE

CLASS:- IX ; SUB:- ENGLISH(B)

F.M:- 30; TIME:- 1 HOUR

READING COMPREHENSION ( SEEN )

 1. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions which follow : 

Tom always found Monday mornings to be miserable . Monday began another week's slow suffering in school . 

Tom lay thinking . Presently , he wished that he was sick then he could stay home from school . He investigated his body with the hope of finding some ailment . He thought that he had found symptoms of stomach trouble . He began to grow hopeful . However , the symptoms soon grew feeble and wholly went away . 

Tom thought further . Suddenly he discovered something . One of his upper front teeth was loose . He felt lucky . He was about to groan when it occurred to him that if Aunt Polly was to know she would surely pull it out and that would hurt . Tom thought he would hold the tooth in reserve for the present . He emembered hearing from a doctor that a certain ailment could lay up a patient for three days and make him lose a finger .

A. Tick  the correct answer from the given alternatives : 1 x 4= 4

( i ) The times which were miserable to Tom were ( a ) Sunday mornings ( b ) Saturday mornings ( c ) Tuesday mornings ( d ) Monday mornings.

 ( ii ) Tom began to grow hopeful when he found symptoms of ( a ) backache ( b ) stomach trouble ( c ) toothache ( d ) sore throat.

 ( iii ) Tom wished that ( a ) the school was closed ( b ) he was sick ( c ) he could play with his friend ( d ) he could go swimming.

(iv) If Aunt Polly know that Tom's tooth is loose she would --- (a) call the doctor. ( b) laugh a while. ( c) pull it out. ( d) give medicine .

B. Answer the following questions in about fifteen words : 2x3=6

 ( i ) Why were Monday mornings so miserable to Tom ?

 ( ii ) What did Tom remember hearing from a doctor ? 

( iii) Why  did Tom feel cucky ?

2. Answer any two of the following questions:- 2x10=20

( a) Write a letter within 100 words to the Headmaster / Headmistress of your school seeking leave of two  days for the purpose of attending the marriage ceremony of your elder sister . 

(b)  Write a newspaper report on a road accident within 100 words . Use the following hist Hints : brake failure of a bus - collided with a truck - 5 injured including a child and a woman - injured sent to hospital - released with first aid - traffic distrupted - police intervened - normalcy restore .

( c) Write a  paragraph on the water cycle , using the following flow chart . 10

 Flow - chart : Water evaporates from water bodies --- rises as vapour -- gets heavier --- condenses , forms cods--- fails to earth as rain ]