CBSE Class 9 English Question Paper Set 05

CBSE Class 9 English Question Paper Set E. Students can download the last year question papers using the link below. Free download of examination question papers with solutions. Last 10 year question papers should be practised to get better marks in examinations.

                                    SECTION A

1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow

Python snake, also known as Ajgar, is one of the most massively built snakes of the Indian subcontinent. It belongs to the Boidae family and is dependent on water to quite an extent. One of the unique features of the Rock pythons of India is that they can raise their body temperature above the ambient level through muscular contractions.

Python snake grows to an average length of somewhere around 4 metre, and its weight varies from 70 to 129 pounds. An adult Python is white or yellow in colour, depending upon its habitat.

Rock Python of India is a lethargic creature, moving only while hunting a prey or when threatened. It shows great swimming ability and is quite at ease in water.

Python snakes can be found in dense as well as open Indian forests, mostly estuarine mangrove forest, acid scrub jungle and rain forest. They may live in abandoned mammal burrows, hollow trees, dense water reeds and mangrove thickets. However, pythons prefer to live near a permanent source of water, like rivers and lakes. Rock python of India is an endangered species, now partly protected by the Tamil Nadu Government. The reason for this is that it is killed for its fine skin, meat and even for medicinal purposes.

These snakes are carnivore animals and they feed on mammals, birds and reptiles indiscriminately, but seem to prefer mammals. Roused to activity on sighting prey, the snake will advance with quivering tail and lunge with open mouth. Live prey is constricted and killed. One or two coils are used to hold it in a tight grip. The prey, unable to breathe, succumbs and is subsequently swallowed head first. After a heavy meal, they are disinclined to move. If forced to, hard parts of the meal may tear through the body.

(a) How does Python increase its body temperature?

(b) The colour of the Python depends on its ____________.

(c) On what is python snake largely dependent on?

(d) Which is the preferred habitat of Python snakes?

(e) Where can Python snakes be found?

(f) What made Rock Python an endangered species

(g) What happens if they are forced to move after a heavy meal?

(h) Find the word from the passage which means the same as „in danger of becoming extinct”?

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