CBSE Class 9 English Communicative Sample Paper Set 56 . It’s always recommended to practice as many sample papers as possible before the examinations. Students can download the sample papers and also question papers of previous years to practice and score better marks in examinations. Refer to other links too for more sample papers.
Section A
Reading – 15 Marks
1. Read the passage given below and write the option that you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheets: (5 marks)
Many animals are able to communicate with each other very well – but none of them can talk as we do. That is, no animals use words. Birds cry out and make sounds that other birds understand. Smells, movements, and sounds are used for communication by animals, through which they express joy or anger or fear.
Human speech is a very complicated process, which no animal can perform. One reason is that in a very special way we use a whole series of organs to produce the sounds we want to make when we utter words. The way our vocal cords are made to vibrate, the way the throat, mouth and nasal cavities are adjusted, the way the lips, teeth, lower jaw,
tongue, and palate are moved – just to make vowel and consonant sounds, is something animals can’t do. They cannot produce a whole series of words to make a sentence. And there is another, perhaps more important reason why animals can’t talk. Words are only labels for objects, actions, feelings, expressions and ideas. For example, the word ‘bird’ is a label for a living, flying object. Other words describe its colour, shape, flying and singing. Still other words would be used to tell what the speaker thinks or feels about the bird or its actions.
For human beings, therefore, the use of words means the use of labels or symbols, and then organizing them in a certain way to communicate something. This requires a degree of intelligence and logical thinking that no animals have. So, they can’t talk the way people do.
A. Communication in animals is made through
a. smells, movements and sounds
b. smells, setting and flying
c. smells, sitting and running
d. smells, sitting and eating
B. The emotions which are expressed by birds are
a. joy, love, hate
b. joy, jealousy or zeal
c. joy, fear or anger
d. joy, cry or anger
C. Animals cannot talk like us as human speeche is a
a. complete process
b. easy process
c. complex process
d. confused process
D. For using words properly human beings require
a. a degree of graduation
b. intelligence and logical thinking
c. logical thinking and vocal cords
d. logical thinking and imagination
E. The noun form of ‘communicate’ is
a. communicative
b. communicated
c. communication
d. communicating
2. Read the passage given below and write the option that you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheets: (5 marks)
Prafulla Chandra Ray was born on 2 August 1861 in the district of Jessore, now in Bangladesh, close to the birth place of Madhusudan Dutt, widely regarded as the Milton of Bengal. It was the best of times and the worst… The British had by now perfected their role as masters and British values permeated the Indian upper classes to the very last detail like table manners. That of course, was not the worst of the British influence. What was far more demeaning to the educated Indians – and there were several – was the fact that senior government positions were closed to them. Being forfeited of one’s right in one’s land of birth would become the rallying point for the Indian intelligentsia in the years to come.
Ray’s father Harish Chandra Ray, a man of learning and taste, was closely associated with the cultural and intellectual leaders of the time and exerted great influence on his son. Ray had his early schooling in the village school founded by his father but soon his father shifted to Calcutta and at the age of nine, little Prafulla set eyes for the first time, on the bustling city that would be his home for many years to come. He was filled with wonder at the ever-changing sights and sounds – the city seemed to change moods ever so often! His formal schooling was interrupted due to illness but that did not affect his education.
A. The British perfected their role as masters because
a. they had enslaved Indians
b. they showed that they were superior
c. they were hated by the upper classes
d. upper class Indians accepted them as role models
B. The educated Indians felt insulted by the fact that
a. They had to follow British Customs
b. They were not allowed to study in institutions of higher learning
c. They were not promoted to senior government positions
d. They were forced to speak only in English.
C. Prafulla Chandra Ray was greatly influenced by…….
a. his brother
b. his uncle
c. his father
d. his cousin
D. Prafulla Chandra’s illness could not stop his
a. schooling
b. learning
c. routine
d. sportsman spirit
E. ‘Intelligentsia’ here means
a. intelligent animals
b. Intel television
c. intelligent people
d. a special detergent
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