ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL, BATHINDA MIL.

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UNIT TEST-II, SESSION 2017-18
SUBJECT- ENGLISH
CLASS-IX
SET: A/B
Name:___________ M.M. : 40
Roll No.__________ Time: 1hr 30mins
Section: __________ No. Of pages: 2

General Instructions:
1. Read all the questions carefully and then answer them
2. Marks for each question are indicated against it.
3. All questions are compulsory
4. Write neatly

SECTION- A (READING) (8MARKS)

I. Read the following passage carefully:

Low Women Workforce a Setback to Development

1. Gender equality/disparity has become one of the most important indicators of a developed
society. Women work participation is a gender lens to look at this problem (phenomenon).
According to International Labour Organization statistics, societies still having feudal ethos in
the 21st century have the least women labour participation rates, and hence the highest gender
disparity ratios. Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq and Jordan have the least female participation
rates (around 16 per cent), but globally the rate is 50 per cent.
2. India and Pakistan record only 27 per cent, but Bangladesh has crossed the global average and
achieved 57 per cent. Relatively small nations like Indonesia and Malaysia also have touched the
global average, but Vietnam, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda have the maximum rates around 75
per cent. This shows that the correlation between womens work participation rate and gender
equality is complex.
3. No doubt, the least women participation in work is a clear indication of sharp disparity. But
mere increase in work participation is not enough for gender equality since in some of the least
developed countries with high rates of work participation, women are forced to get involved in
back-breaking agriculture labour and deprived of good education and health care.
4. Their families will be starved if they are not in the fields, often with very low wages. India
has to think about its low women workforce participation if it wants to get into the real
development orbit. Skilling the working population, especially the women, must be the top
priority. China could break the barriers of low women work participation, and it is one of the
reasons for their excellence in manufacturing, especially in the small and medium enterprises.
5. Non-farm womens work participation can only push their status up. The Vietnamese
experience provides more insights. Even with very high women participation, the gender pay gap
has widened while it declined in many countries. Equal pay for equal work has to be ensured if
we are serious about gender inequality.

Answer the following questions as briefly as possible: (8* 1 = 8 MARKS)

a) What is one of the most important indicators of a developed society?
b) What is International Labour Organisation statistics?
c) Which countries have the least women work participation rates?
d) Which country has crossed the global average? Name two countries which have achieved the
maximum rates in womens work participation.
e) Why is mere increase in work participation not enough for gender equality?
f) What does India need for real development of the country?
g) Find a word in paragraph 1 that means the same as a mutual relationship or connection
between two or more things
h) Find the opposite of well fed in paragraph 4.

SECTION-B (WRITING & GRAMMAR) (18 MARKS)

II. Your school library has updated its Mystery Section with new editions of Nancy Drew,
Sherlock Holmes, Dead End, A to Z Mysteries and Harry Potter series. Write an
article for your school magazine Mystery fiction: An adventure for the mind, to

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encourage students to indulge in reading mystery fiction as it not only develops a love of
reading but also improves critical thinking skills and promotes problem solving
independently and in groups. (1*8=8MARKS)

III. Fill in the blanks with suitable words: (6*= 3MARKS)

The Vedic rishis had forewarned the (a) ______ to protect the environment. They mentioned (b)
______ need to perform the daily yajanas (c) ______ protecting ecology. Dharamshastras
prohibited man (d) ______ disturbing the biodiversity (e) ______ ecosystem as it (f) ______
against the principles of religion and considered a sinful activity.

IV. In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing
word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it.
(8* = 4 MARKS)
Before Missing After
Advertising is close companion of e.g. is a close
the market economy. Yet is an unpleasant (a) _____ ______ ______
feature modern life. Sometimes strange (b) _____ ______ ______
but sensational commercials TV can cost (c) _____ ______ ______
ones pocket heavily. Not only do cost (d) _____ ______ ______
ones pocket heavily, but costs ones life (e) _____ ______ ______
heavily. Not long before, innocent student (f) _____ ______ ______
tried to imitate acrobatics of a young (g) _____ ______ ______
man in an advertisement lost his precious life. (h) _____ ______ ______

V. Rearrange the following jumbled phrases to form meaningful sentences:

(3*1=3MARKS)
(a) Lalima / newborn / is / the / named / calf
(b) worlds / cloned / she / calf / the / first / is / buffalo
(c) donor cell / the / murrah buffalo / taken / ear / from / was / a / the / of

SECTION-C (LITERATURE) (14 MARKS)

VI. Read the following extracts and answer the question that follow: (6 MARKS)

1. All the worlds a stage, (3*1=3MARKS)

And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

a) The poetic device used in the first line is ________. (1)

b) Exits and entrances symbolically refer to________ and ______ respectively. (1)
c) What do you understand by the phrase in his time? (1)

2. Goodness know Ive never liked your profession, Bill, but there is this to be said for it, that
its earned you good money and made it possible for us to give Harold as good an education as
any duke ever had, Im sure. (3*1=3MARKS)

(a) What profession is being talked about? (1)

(b) Who is the speaker? (1)
(c) What has prompted the speaker to say this? (1)

VII. Answer any four of the following questions in 30-40 words (4*2=8MARKS)
a) Which event was Mrs Bramble waiting for that could end all her anxieties?
b) How did Private Quelch respond to mistakes made by his colleagues in the army training
camp in the chapter The Man Who Knew Too Much?
c) Compare the sixth stage with seventh stage in the poem The Seven Ages.
d) How does the poem successfully awaken the reader to his dental hygiene and care?(Oh, I
wish Id Looked after me teeth)
e) Who was Jerry Fisher? What did he say to try and convince Bill to change his mind?

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