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Summer Vacation Homework (Class IX)

Unseen Pasage

Read the Passage and answer the following questions


1. Ever since I can remember, I always felt I was stupid, really stupid. I lost my father when I was
three. Since I was a sick child, a polio victim, I lived with my grandmother in Mumbai so I could avail
of the metro’s advanced medical facilities. I remember being on the streets all day, playing or lazing
around.

2. When I turned ten, my mother and my sister came to live in Mumbai too. My sister was a bright
student, always securing high grades. She and my mother encouraged me to study, but I just could
not bring myself to concentrate on any subject. I would get bored and feel sleepy when forced to open
my books. After innumerable lectures on the importance of studying had failed, mother tried threats
as well, but nothing worked, I truly believed I was stupid; no matter how much I worked, it wouldn’t
help.

3. One afternoon, as always, I was sitting under a tree in the school premises eating potato wafers
when I saw a former classmate approaching me. Aditi and I had been in the same class the year
before. I had failed sixth grade and had to repeat the year; Aditi had topped the class and was the
brightest student of the seventh grade too. I flinched a little Aditi as I saw her walk towards me. ‘Hi,’
she said. ‘Hi,’ I replied, but not with much enthusiasm; I wanted her to leave. I continued to eat my
chips. Ignoring my coldness, she sat down next to me. For five minutes neither of us spoke and then
she asked, ‘Is Devika your real sister?’ ‘Yes, she is, ‘I answered.

4. ‘So how come she doesn’t teach you so that you too can do well? she asked. I peered at her,
wondering if she was making fun of me, but all I could see on her face was earnestness. No, she is
not trying to tease me, I decided. This time I answered a little more warmly, ‘She tries to, but I don’t
like studying.’ ‘Why not? I’m sure you can get good grades too,’ she said emphatically. ‘No, I can’t. I
have no brains. God forgot to give me brains, health or beauty. He gave me nothing.’

5. “That’s not true. And anyway, health and beauty can’t be helped, but God has given brains to
everyone, we only have to learn to use it.’ I shook my head, ‘No, I have difficulty in concentrating, and
books bore me; there is no hope for me. Please leave me alone. I am stupid, and always will be.’ With
the gentlest tone that she could muster she said, ‘I can prove it to you that you are not stupid. Give
me one chance, I will teach you to study.’

6. Though I was softening from inside, I still held on to my low self-esteem. ‘You’ll be wasting your
time.I cannot study, I am not as bright as you are nor lucky as my sister,’ I said ‘Let me try and help
you, please. I will show you the right way to study. You just have to cooperate with me. Will you try?’
Her belief in me proved more powerful than my doubts about myself. She won and I relented.
A.1 Give reasons for the following- 4 marks

a) The writer believed that she was stupid.


b) The writer flinched as she saw her friend walking towards her.
c) The writer lacked interest in her studies.
d) The writer was not a very confident or assertive girl.

B 1 From the passage find one word which means the same as – 2 marks
a) Make a sudden movement as a result of pain, fear , surprise etc. (para 3)
b) Find as much support, courage etc as you can (para5)
c) Finally agree to something after refusing (para 6)
d) To look carefully at something, to see it clearly (para 4)

Writing Skill

1 .Write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper complaining about irregular
water supply on the one hand and wastage of water on the other.

2.You decide to write an article in the school magazine on how it is important to


save the planet, Earth. Write the article in about 180 words.
3. Write a paragraph on ‘Friendship – A Beautiful Relation’.(300 words)

4.Write a paragraph describing how you celebrated Diwali without crackers. (300
words)
Literature
1. How old are Margie and Tommy?

2. What did Margie write in her diary?

3. Had Margie ever seen a book before?

4.What things about the book did she find strange?

5. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?

6 What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?

7. Why did Margie’s mother send for the County Inspector?

8. Why was Margie doing badly in geography? What did the County Inspector Do to help her
9. .Did Margie have regular days and hours for school? If so, why?

10. Where does the traveller find himself? What problem does he face?

11.Discuss what these phrases mean to you:


a Yellow Wood.
b it was grassy and wanted wear.
c. the passing there.

12 . Is there any difference between the two roads as the poet describes them

(i) in stanzas two and three?

(ii) in the last two lines of the poem?

13 How did Evelyn Glennie fight with her physical disability ?

14. “A problem is only as big as we make it.” This thought has been very beautifully
brought out in the lesson. Discuss.
15. Give a brief character sketch of Ustad Bismillah Khan.

16. Do you think Bismillah Khan had very pure and deep feelings for India ?

17. What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag
behind?

18. When does he realise that he has lost his way? How have his anxiety and
insecurity been described?

19. Why does the lost child lose interest in the things that he had wanted earlier?

20. What do you think happens in the end? Does the child find his parents?

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