SUBMITTED BY: Teacher Name Ashok Kumar (S.ST Teacher)

Reading Skills ( Prose Passage,Poems) SUBMITTED BY: Teacher Name Ashok Kumar (S.ST Teacher) Class: 9th Subject: English Students Name Govt.High.SchoolBinaheri

Reading Skills ( Prose Passage, Poems)

A Read the passage and answer the questions During the winter of 1945 lived for several months in a house in Brooklyn. It was not a shabby place, but a pleasantly furnished one. It was well kept by its owners-two elderly sisters. Mr. Jones lived in the room next to mine .My room was the smaallest in the house,his the largest, a nice big sunshiny room, which Mr. joins never left. he was handsome man about forty. he was always dressed in pressed dark grey or blue there-piece suit and a light colored tie-as though he was set off for work.

Circle the correct answer : 1 Jones earned his living by a} selling drugs b} telling future c} giving advice to people 2 Mr. Jones was looked after by a} the landladies b} the visitors c} the author 3 _____came to people a} old people b} young people c} people of all ages 2. What did the landladies do for Mr. Jones ? 3. Write the words in the brackets which in the passage means: a} not in a good condition [ ] b} easy to understand [ ] c} thin and attractive [ ] 4. Describe Mr. Jones in not more than five sentences.

B. Read the passage carefully and answer the question: Yehdui Menuhin moved from high gate into his early 19th century house in London s Belgravia last July but has only lived in it for a couple months. Born in 1917, the famous violinist and conductor, who first began his public career at the age of seven in San Francisco, still spend nine month of the year on tour. His room is four stories up on the top floor and lift was wafting for us in the front hall. His wife greets us and we find the maestro waiting for us on the landing. An Indian string instrument lying by the window contrasts with the record player and tape deck nearby.

Now answer the following questions: • Where dose Yehudi Menuhin live? • What instrument dose he play? • When did he perform for the public for the first time? • Circle the Correct answer: a} San Francisco b} London c} Athens • Dose he live in his home-town through out the year? • Briefly describe Yehudi Menuhi s studio.

Now answer the following questions: 1. why will the new cars be developed? 2. Who is going to develop them? 3. How will the future cars be different from the present ones? 4. Why will the future cars have different seating arrangement? Will the new seating arrangement be safe? How? 5. complete the following statements: a) The driving will become safer and easier because_______ b) The future cars will leave the environment clean because____ 6. write 3-4 sentences about the future car.

C read the passage given below and answer the questions: What kind of car will we be driving in 2010? Rather different from the type we know today ,with the next 20 year bringing greater change than the past 50. the people who will be designing the models of tomorrow ,believe that environmental problems may well accelerate the pace of the car’s development. Their vision is of a machine with three wheels instead of four , electrically powered environmentally clean .this view of the future car based on a much more sophisticated road system .cars will not need drivers because computer will provide safe .

D. Read the following passage and answer the question? Tokyo is an ugly city. There are hardly any beautiful or even good buildings; there are very few parks; there are no mountains or outside the city ; there is n green belt; there are few monuments worth looking at; the air pollution is terrifying; the perpetual noise deafening; the traffic murderous. But not is all ugliness in Tokyo.

There are few good buildings and impressive temples and shrines; there are a few park worth visiting. And the overcrowding, the lack of space, has on advantage, pleasing at least to the eye. Tokyo at night is very different place from Tokyo in day time. After the office have closed and commuters have left the town.

Tokyo puts on a new face. Million of neon signs are switched on. The cafes, bars night club, cinemas, sushi-places, yakitoriya, Chinese restaurants and theatres, cinemas and many other places.

Now answer the following questions: • Is Tokyo environment friendly ? Mention at least there characteristics that go against Tokyo. • Is Tokyo different at night? How? • What makes the city pleasant? • Dose the author like the city? How does he describe it? • Write the word which in the passage mean: • a} gives satisfaction ( ) • b} atmosphere ( )

Read the passage given below and answer the questions:Even after there decades, the memory of that September afternoon is still fresh. It started and ended in a few seconds; but the disappointment haunts me till the day. today when l recall those moments, my heart bleeds. The pain is more then words can ever describe. missing an Olympic medal by a whisker caused me more disappointment than the happiness which experienced after winning the Asian games and from my Winning sequence all over the Europe. looking back l would say it was a matter luck. The toil, the tension, the torment, l ved live with them all. I am sure Ron Clarke would agree with that. The great middle-distance runner set 17 world records but could not win an Olympic gold.

Now answer the following questions: • What disappointment does milkha singh talk about ? • Why does his heart bleed? • Why does his heart bleed ? • Write the words in the brackets which in the passage mean : • {a} thought keeps coming again and again [ ] • {b} different from what you expect [ ] • {c} a narrow margin. [ ] • Which words describe milkha singh s feelings best? why? • {a} pain {b} anger {c} disappointment

B. Read the poem given below and answer the questions: The road Not Take (Robert frost ) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both ; And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Now answer the following questions: • Where did the two road diverge? • Why did the poet choose the grassy road? • The phrase wanted wear means: a) the road needs repair. b) the road was too difficult to travel on. c) not many people traveled on that road . 4. Yet knowing how away leads on the way mean_____ 5. was the poet certain that he would travel on that road some day? How do you know? 6. Choose the correct answer: The poet uses the word to talk about ________ in life . 7. The words wood , stood and could rhyme in the first in the first stanza. 8. Which last words rhyme in stanzas 2,3, and 4?

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SUBMITTED BY: Teacher Name Ashok Kumar (S.ST Teacher)