UNIT TEST ; Std:9 English

Part:1Read the Para No.3 and answer the questions
1. How long was the skiff?
2. “He is two feet longer than the skiff” the old man thought
(Change in to reported speech)
3. Was the fish panicked? Why?
4. What was the old man trying to do?
5. What would happen if he couldn’t slow the fish with a steady pressure?
6. Find out a one word from the passage with the same meaning “a small boat”
7.”He is two feet longer than the skiff”.Who is “he” here?
Part: 2
Read the first stanza from the poem “Lead kindly light” and answer the following questions
1. Who is the speaker in this poem?
2. Who wrote the poem “Lead kindly light?”
3. What does the devotee pray to the God?
4. How is the night?
5. Who is “Thou” referred to?
6. Find out the rhyming words from the lines


Part: 3
Prepare a profile using the following hints
Earnest Heming Way
Birth – Illinois, USA, I899
Profession: - Journalist
Other Interests: - Writing short stories, Novels
Famous Novel: - The Old Man and the Sea
Nobel Prize: - Literature 1954
Death: - 1961
Part: 4
Fill in the blanks
They changed (a) …………………………. referees every four hours (b)………………………….the first eight (c)………………………..the referees could sleep. Blood came (d)…………………….from under the finger nails (e)………………..both his and his opponents hands.
(Of, So that, and, the, out, after)
part:5
Santiago won the hand game and became the champion .What would he write in his diary after the hand game?
You may begin like this

26 November 2009
Sunday
9 pm
What an Eventful day it was. I can`t believe this. I am the champion ……………………….



Part: 6
Complete the sentences
1. I Wish ………………………………………………….
2. If I were ……………………………………………….



SCORING KEY
Part: 1
1. Two feet longer than the skiff
2. The old man thought that he was two feet longer than the skiff
3. No .Because the line was going out fast and steadily
4. He was trying with both hands to keep the line just inside of breaking strength.
5. The fish could take out all the strength and brake it
6. Skiff
7. The Giant Marlin

Part: 2
1. Devotee
2. John Henry Newman
3. To lead him
4. Dark
5. God
6. See me
Part: 3
Refer Course Book Page No .85
part:4
(a) The (b) after (c) so that (d) out(e) of

Part: 5


26 November 2009
Sunday
9 pm
What an Eventful day it was. I can`t believe this. I am the champion.
How it happened? My God thanks a lot. I defeated the strongest man on the dock. Now I realize that it is nothing but my willpower helped me to become the champion.

part:6
1.I wish I were a doctor
If I were a bird I would Fly