QUESTION PAPER OF CLASS 9
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT- I
SAMPLE PAPER/CLASS IX
English Communicative
Maximum marks: 80 Time-3hours
The question paper is divided into four sections.
Section A:
Section B: Writing 20 marks
Section C: Grammar 20 marks
Section D: Literature 20 marks
SECTION A
(READING -20 MARKS)
Q1 Read the following passage carefully. (5 Marks)
Sponsored Festivals
This is the high noon of the Age of Sponsorship. For several years now, we have become used to all kinds of events being sponsored. In many newspapers, every possible feature, barring the editorials, is sponsored. Even the daily weather report is.
Student organizations, which were once content to hold low-key festivals in their college, now find corporate sponsors and get massive media exposure for such events.
Thus each year something precious is being lost –and the worst part of it is that the majority of us are not even aware of it.
Answer the following questions by selecting the most appropriate options from the ones given below :
1) It is called the age of sponsorship as
a) there’s too much money in the market
b) newspapers , festivals in colleges are all commercialized
c) common man loves the paraphernalia
d) money attracts the common man
2) The role Garba played in the lives of the women in the past was to
a) help them get rid of their inhibitions
b) provide a stage for their talent
c) root them in tradition
d) prove commercially viable for them
3) Today
a) is confined to individual homes
b) provides an opportunity for sponsors to invest money
c) is held with great fanfare
d) has a few sponsors