SSC English Preparation 2019-2020

Class :  Nine

Subject :    English 1^st Paper

                                       Time: 1.30                                      Marks: 50

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions 1, 2 & 3

There is change in people’s preferences for pastimes. A recent survey shows that during the last twenty years, teenagers have gone through significant changes in choosing their pastime. There is a steady rise in young people’s tendency to watch TV. In 1990, 41% of teenagers liked watching TV which increased to 48% in the next ten years and it further increased to 52% in the next decade. Unfortunately, the picture is grim in terms of young people’s attraction to field games and sports. While 50% of youngsters opted for games and sports in the 1990s, the figure was 12% less after a decade at 38%. Unfortunately the falling tendency persisted through the next ten years and by 2010, it came down to 25%. Though the young people have dissociated themselves noticeably from games and sports, there is a sharp and steady rise in their association with online or computer assisted programmes. In 1990 when the users of online or computer for pastimes were only 9%, in 2000 the number nearly doubled and reached 14% and with a rapid increase in the next ten years it shot up to 23%. The survey also explains the reasons for this change. It says that television has become a part of everyday life even to the underprivileged section of society. This has resulted in larger number of young people opting for watching TV as one of the most favourite pastimes. The increasing urbanization has reduced the number of open fields. Therefore, there is fall in selecting games and sports as favourite pastimes, though it’s not good news for the country. And the reason for selecting the computer assisted or online programmes is that computer technology is getting cheaper, easier, and more popular every day. Indeed, our young generations are stepping into the e-world.

1. Choose the best answer from the alternatives:  1x7=7

a) The world ‘underprivileged’ could substituted by ______

i) deprived                             ii) deeper                 iii) weak                               iv) sick

b) “Gone through” refers to ______

i) come through                   ii) met through     iii) mispresented              iv) passed through

c) _______ has reduced the number of open fields.

i) The increasing desertification                        ii) The increasing industrialization

iii) The increasing urbanization                        iv) The increasing utilization

d) How is young people’s association with online or computer assisted programme?

i) Expanding                         ii) Minimizing        iii) Static                               iv) Drastic

e) Favourite pastimes _______.

i) are static                                                                 ii) are being changed

iii) permanent                                                          iv) will never change

f) Which of the following is not true?

i) Urbanization has reduced the number of open fields

ii) Teenagers now being attracted to online activities

iii) Popularity of open field sports is increasing

iv) Our young generation are stepping into the e-world.

g) “Persist” means _______.

i) increase                              ii) continue             iii) cease                               iv) hinder

2. Answer the following questions.           2x5=10

a) Can you explain how our young generations are stepping to an e-world?

b) Give reason why young people aren’t selecting games and sports as their favourite pastimes.

c) What is the grim picture of the passage?

d) Television has become a part of everyday life even to the underprivileged section of people? “Do you support the attitude, why/why not?

e) What does the survey explain?

3. Fill in the gaps with a suitable word.                 1x5=5

There is a (a) ________ change in people’s pastimes. This change (b) ________ according to their tastes and abilities. Young people’s tendency to go to field is slowly on the (c) ________. They are associated with online or computer programmes (d) ________ their detachment from games and sports. This change is (e) ________ to the advancement of computer technology and its popularity.

4. Rearrange the following sentences.        1x8=8

a) But the corporal, full of dignity, did nothing but stood by and shouted orders.

b) “Are you?” said the officer.

c)  Presently an officer, not in uniform node up?

d) “Hello” he said to the corporal, “why don’t you lend your men a hand to get that beam up?”

e) He then getting down from his horse worked very hard to put the beam to its place and the man was not other than Washington himself.

f) ’Don’t you know that I am a corporal?’ was the reply.

g) There were too few men for the work.

h) In the American war of independence a corporal and a party of soldiers were sent to raise a heavy beam for a battery.

5. Write a paragraph on “A Village Doctor” (250 words):         10

6. Write a dialogue between two friends about “climate change”.     10

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