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CBSE Sample Papers for Class 9 English Set 3 with Solutions
Time: 3Hrs
Max. Marks: 80
General Instructions
Read the instructions very carefully and strictly follow them.
- This question paper is divided into three sections.
- This question paper has 11 questions. All questions are compulsory.
- Attempt questions based on specific instructions for each part.
Section A
Reading Skills (20 Marks)
Question 1.
Read the following passage carefully. (10)
(1) Many countries face general elections this year. Political campaigning will include misleading and even false information. Just days ago, it was reported that a robocall impersonating U.S. president Joe Biden had told recipients not to vote in the presidential primary. But can disinformation significantly influence voting?
(2) There are two typical styles of election campaigning. One is positive, presenting favourable attributes of politicians and their policies, and the other is negative – disparaging the opposition. The latter can backfire, though, or lead to voters disengaging with the entire democratic process.
(3) Voters are already fairly savvy – they know that campaigning tactics often include distortions and untruths. Both types of tactics, positive and negative, can feature misinformation, which loosely refers to inaccurate, false and misleading information. Sometimes this even counts as disinformation, because the details are deliberately designed to be misleading.
(4) Unfortunately, recent research shows that the lack of clarity in defining misinformation and disinformation is a problem. There is no consensus. Scientifically and practically, this is bad.
It’s hard to chart the scale of a problem if your starting point includes vague or confused concepts. This is a problem for the general public, too, given it makes it harder to decipher and trust research on the topic. For example, depending on how inclusive the definition is, propaganda, deep fakes, fake news and conspiracy theories are all examples of disinformation. But news parody or political satire can be too.
(5) Unfortunately, researchers often fail to provide clear definitions, and do not carefully compare different types of disinformation, adding uncertainty to evidence examining its effect on voting behaviour. Nevertheless, let’s investigate the research on disinformation so far, which is generally viewed as more serious than misinformation, to see how much influence it can really have on the way we vote.
(6) Consider a study published in 2023, investigating the role of fake news in the Italian general elections in 2013 and 2018. It used debunking websites to help create a fake news score for articles published in the run-up to the election. Then the researchers analysed populist parties pre-election Facebook posts containing such news content. This also generated an engagement score based on the number of likes and shares of the posts.
(7) Finally, scores were combined with actual electoral votes for populist parties to gauge the possible influence of fake news on such votes. The researchers estimated that fake news added a small but statistically significant electoral gain for populist parties. But the researchers suggested that fake news could not be the sole cause of the overall increase in vote share for populist parties it only seemed to add a small amount to the overall increase in vote share.
(8) Similar studies showing low effects of fake news on persuading voters has led some researchers to argue that the panic about fake news is overblown. Other recent studies have looked at the potential influence of disinformation by asking people how.they intended to vote and whether they believed specific pieces of disinformation. This was examined in national or presidential elections in the Czech Republic in 2021, Kenya in 2017, South Korea in 2017, Indonesia in 2019, Malaysia in 2018, Philippines in 2022 and Taiwan in 2018.
(9) The general finding among all these studies was that it is hard to establish a reliable causal influence of fake news on voting. One reason was that people who say they vote for and how they actually vote can be vastly different. In fact, research has gone into understanding the reasons for dramatic failures of traditional pollsters to predict elections and referendums in Argentina in 2019, Quebec in 2018, UK in 2016 and US in 2016. People didn’t, for many reasons, reveal their actual voting intentions to pollsters and researchers.
Answer the following questions based on the above passage.
(i) There are two typical styles of election campaigning. What are they? (2)
Answer:
There are two types of election campaigning
1. Positive campaigning Presenting favourable attributes of politicians and their policies.
2. Negative campaigning Disparaging the opposition and highlighting unfavourable attributes about them.
(ii) Complete the following with the correct option from given two. (1)
Fact Failures of traditional pollsters to predict elections and referendums in Argentina in 2019, Quebec in 2018, UK in 2016 and US in 2016.
Reason ……….
(A) General public didn’t reveal their actual voting intention to pollsters and researchers.
(B) This was examined in national or presidential elections in Czech Republic in 2021.
Answer:
(A) General public didn’t reveal their actual voting intentions to pollsters and researchers.
(iii) Briefly explain the study published in 2023 to show the effects of disinformation on Italian elections. (2)
Answer:
The study used debunking websites to create a fake news score for articles published before the elections. Then, they analysed populist parties’ pre-election Facebook posts and generated an engagement score based on the number of likes and shares of the posts. These scores were combined with actual electoral votes for populist parties.
They found that fake news added a small but statistically significant electoral gain for populist parties. But they also suggested that fake news could not be the sole cause of the overall increase in votes.
(iv) Fill in the blank with correct option. (1)
If negative campaigning backfires, it can lead to ………..
(a) boycott of elections
(b) disengagement of voters
(c) news parody
(d) political satire
(e) misinformation
Answer:
(b) and (e)
(v) State whether the following statement is True or False.
Taiwan in 2017 was not a part of the study mentioned in Paragraph 8. (1)
Answer:
True
(vi) Which of the following is not the correct meaning of the word ‘propaganda’? (1)
(a) A congregation of the Roman curia having jurisdiction over missionary territories
(b) Ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause
(c) Pressurise someone into adopting radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible means
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(d) None of the above
(vii) What is the difference between misinformation and disinformation? (1)
Answer:
The difference between disinformation and misinformation is that misinformation can be accidental.
(viii) Write an appropriate title for the article.
Answer:
Effects of Disinformation on Political Elections
Question 2.
Read the following passage carefully.
(1) The past few Graphs of the Day have examined income inequality, and we’ve seen that it’s bad, getting worse, and not dramatically altered by our tax system. So what is the cumulative effect of all this income inequality?
(2) Well, it turns out that when the top households get paid a lot more year after year and don’t have to spend as large a percentage of their income on things like food and housing, they accumulate wealth. This can then be passed down from generation to generation, providing stability and the potential for more growth. The result is today’s graph.
Wealth Inequality is Even Worse
(3) For as bad as the income gap is, the wealth gap is even worse. One fifth of U.S. households (who make just over half of total income) own almost three quarters of total household net worth. This wealth takes the form of investment accounts, real estate, and other durable property. Even if one of these households loses all of its income, it has a private safety net in the form of its wealth.
(4) A gap like this puts a serious crimp on the possibility of the people on top moving down the class ladder, and therefore also makes it harder for the people on the lower rungs to displace someone and move up. This may be a reason that countries like ours with high levels of income inequality also end up with lower relative social mobility.
(5) The wealth gap also contributes to some of the ongoing conflation of race and class in the U.S. These wealthy families are overwhelmingly white, in part because for much of the country’s early history, the only people who could be in those top income levels were white. Once that economic power got enshrined in wealth, it could be passed down, transformed, and grown over time.
(6) Meanwhile, people who weren’t white were often kept out of jobs that could move them up and even as late as the postwar period forced to rent. Even as the GI Bill was helping build a white middle class in the suburbs, real estate practices like redlining kept minorities in rented urban apartments. Suburban houses are wealth; an apartment isn’t.
A wealth gap this big gives children born into the top levels a major, unearned advantage over those born at the bottom. Our policymakers need to know that this isn’t OK.
Answer the following questions, based on the above passage.
(i) Which of the following is the correct meaning of ‘redlining’ in context of the article? (1)
(a) Drive with a car engine at or above its rated maximum revolutions per minute
(b) Cancel a project
(c) The process of editing a contract when two or more parties are negotiating or working together
(d) Drawing a red line on a map around the neighbourhoods they would not invest in based on the racial demographics of the neighbourhood
Answer:
(d) drawing a red line on a map around the neighbourhoods they would not invest in based on the racial demographics of the neighbourhood.
(ii) Select the option that is true for the Assertion and Reason given below. (1)
Assertion “One fifth of U.S. households (who make just over half of total income) own almost three quarters of total household net worth”.
Reason If for some unforeseen reason, such households face a major loss in income, they will go bankrupt.
(a) Both the Assertion and Reason are true and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.
(b) Both the Assertion and Reason are true, but the Reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.
(c) The Assertion is true, but the Reason is false.
(d) The Assertion is false, but the Reason is true.
Answer:
(b) Both the Assertion and Reason are true, but the Reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.
(iii) How did the rich stay rich even after so long? (2)
Answer:
The author explains that when the rich people continue to get paid a lot more year after year and don’t have to spend as large a percentage of their income on things like food and housing, they accumulate wealth. This wealth has been passed down from generation to generation, providing stability and the potential for more growth. This has helped the rich stay rich even today.
(iv) How has the wealth gap contributed to conflation of race in the U.S.? (2)
Answer:
The wealth gap contributes to conflation of race as it doesn’t allow minorities from middle class background to move up in class. As, in the old times, wealthy families in the U.S.A. were predominantly white, they had the economic power which they passed on and grew over time.
Contrarily, the people from other races were prevented from moving up. They were kept out of jobs or owning property. Real estate practices like redlining kept minorities from buying suburban houses and forced them to stay in urban apartments which have no real estate value in the future.
(v) Read the prompt and select the correct option from the bracket to fill in the blanks.
Children born into the top levels have a ………. over those born at the bottom, due to ……….. (major unearned advantage, wealth gap)
Answer:
major unearned advantage, wealth gap
(vi) How much of the total household net worth is represented by people falling under the 60-80% bracket according to the graph? (1)
(a) 13
(b) 12
(c) 70
(d) 7.4
Answer:
(a) 13
(vii) Complete the sentence suitably.
Income inequality has led to ………… (1)
Answer:
widening of the gap between the rich and poor.
(viii) What are the negative effects of the wealth gap? (1)
Answer:
The wealth gap has decreased the possibility of the poor or middle class people to move to the top of the class ladder, as it’s harder for them to displace someone on the top and move up.
Section B
Grammar and Creative Writing Skills (20 Marks)
Question 3.
Complete any ten of the following twelve tasks, as directed. (10 x 1 = 10)
(i) Fill in the blank by using the correct form of the word in the bracket. (1)
By the end of tomorrow, Dortmund ……… (eliminate) Chelsea Champions from the League Cup.
Answer:
will have eliminated
(ii) Fill in the blank by choosing the correct option to complete the sentence. (1)
Due to ……… rainy weather we’ve had recently, I didn’t have to water ……….. garden of our house every day.
(a) the, the
(b) a, an
(c) the, a
(d) a, the
Answer:
(a) the, the
(iii) Read the following conversation carefully. (1)
Coach Are you ready for the competition?
Rahul I am ready to beat the best swimmer in this region.
Select the option to complete the reporting of the above dialogue.
The coach asked Rahul ………. . Rahul replied that he was ready to beat the best swimmer in that region.
(a) if he is ready for the competition
(b) if he is ready for a competition
(c) if he was ready for a competition
(d) if he was ready for the competition
Answer:
(d) if he was ready for the competition
(iv) Identify the error and supply correction for these sentences. (1)
Banana is an popular fruit and an important part to our diet today. It originally belonged in South Asia region where it used to grow wild in the forests.
Use the given format for your response.
Error
Answer:
(v) Complete the given sentence by filling the blank with the correct option. (1)
This advance ………. because such sensors cannot measure touches precisely enough, nor will they capture the multiple fingertips simultaneously.
(a) will be challenge
(b) was challenging
(c) had challenged
(d) were a challenge
Answer:
(b) was challenging
(vi) Fill in the blank by choosing the correct option to complete the sentence. (1)
We ……….. flying to Spain now if we had bought tickets in time.
(a) should have been
(b) would be
(c) need to be
(d) must have been
Answer:
(b) would be
(vii) Identify the error and supply correction for these sentences. (1)
First of all, we would reduce global warming which is the root cause from all the problems. We should also have insurance policies such that we have sufficient money to rebuilt our lives after any such disaster.
Use the given format for your response.
Error Correction
Answer:
(viii) Convert the below sentence into reported speech. (1)
Colby said, “Why are1 my emails bouncing back”?
Answer:
Colby said why his emails were bouncing back.
(ix) Select the option that identifies the error and supplies the correction. (1)
Most successful businessmen and leaders have a habit of waking up early. In their opinion, it plays a crucial part in their success story. People whom wake up early have a routine and develop qualities and skills that help them thrive.
Tablee
(x) Convert the below sentence into reported speech. (1)
Mother said to the daughter, “Go and change your dress”.
(xi) Identify the error and supply correction for these sentences. (1)
Getting up early in the morning has lot benefits. If we start our day early, we have more times in the day than most people to complete our day to day tasks. Getting up early is always refreshing for our mind and body. Mornings are generally quite with less distractions.
Use the given format for your response.
Error
Answer:
(xii) Complete the given sentence. (1)
Sarah said, “I read this book before I gave it to you”.
Sarah said that she …….. before she gave it to me.
Writing
Note : All details, presented in the questions are imaginary and created for assessment purposes.
Answer:
Question 4.
Attempt any one from (A) and (B) given below.
(A) You go to the local library everyday. Describe the place in 100-200 words.
Answer:
(B) ‘Career Fair’ was organised this year as well in your school. As many as 30 institutes had put up their stalls. Some of the participants included NIFT, NID, IIPM, and Computer Academy, etc. The school had invited career counsellors as well. Write a description of the event.
Answer:
Question 5.
Attempt any one from (A) and (B) given below. (5)
(A) Using the following hints, develop a short story in 100-120 words.
• a stormy night
• a traveller reaches a Dharmshala
• door locked
• knocks
• keeper says he has no key
• asks if the traveller has a silver key
• traveller pushes a rupee under the door
• admitted
• asks keeper to bring in his box
• traveller shuts the door
• keeper knocks
• traveller asks for the silver key
• his rupee returned
• the door opened
Answer:
(B) You are Ankita/Ankit. You attended an exhibition on ‘Fashion Designing and
Technology’ at the Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi. You were impressed by the exhibition. Using the clues given below, write a diary entry in 100-120 words recording your feelings and experiences.
• visit to the exhibition an eye-opener
• commendable exhibits
• use of sophisticated machines
• happy over India’s progress
• a fascinating experience
Answer:
Section C
Literature (4o Marks)
Question 6.
Read the following extracts and answer the questions for any one of the given two (A) or (B). (5)
(A) At the age of two-and-a-half, Einstein still wasn’t talking. When he finally did learn to speak, he uttered everything twice. Einstein did not know what to do with other children and his playmates called him ‘Brother Boring’. So the younger played by himself much of the time. He especially loved mechanical toys.
(i) Which word does ‘uttered’ not correspond to?
(a) Expressed
(b) Pronounced
(c) Suppressed
(d) Voiced
Answer:
(ii) Why was Einstein called ‘Brother Boring’ by his playmates? (1)
Answer:
(iii) Fill in the blank with the correct word from the bracket. (1)
Particulary : (Finally/Especially) : : Eminent: Important
Answer:
(iv) State whether the following statement is True or False.
Einstein showed a deep interest in science from a very early-age.
Answer:
(v) Why does the writer point out that Einstein wasn’t talking till the age of two-and-a-half?
Answer:
(B) “Thank you for your kind words and deeds. I am very grateful to you and your cook. God bless that good and noble woman! You spoke finely then, and I shall be indebted to you to my dying day; but strictly speaking, it was your cook, Olga, who saved me”.
(i) What does the phrase ‘You spoke finely’ indicate?
(a) Sergei good vocab
(b) Sergei’s wisdom
(c) Sergei’s concern
(d) Sergei’s compassion
Answer:
(ii) Who is ‘he’ grateful towards in the above lines?
Answer:
(iii) Fill in the blank with fhe correct word.
Strictly : Rigorously : : ……….. : Duty Bound
Answer:
(iv) Which of the following words is not the opposite of ‘noble’?
(a) Common
(b) Plebeians
(c) Humble
(d) Aristocrat
Answer:
(v) Who is the speaker of the given lines?
Answer:
Question 7.
Read the following extracts and answer the questions for any one of the given two (A) or (B). (5)
(A) Let us remember, whenever we are told To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn Remember, we who take arms against each other It is the human earth that we defile.
Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence .
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember no men are foreign, and no countries strange
(i) How do we defile the Earth, according to the poet? (1)
(a) By deforestation
(b) By discrimination
(c) By killing each other
(d) By pollution
Answer:
(ii) How did the poet prove “no men are foreign, and no countries strange”? (1)
Answer:
(iii) Fill in the blank with the correct option from the bracket.
Portray : (Defile/Betray):: Arm : Farm
(iv) Who do you think tells us to ‘hate our brothers’?
(a) Selfish people
(b) Gods
(c) Soldiers
(d) Business men
Answer:
(v) What is the poet arguing against in the above lines?
Answer:
(B) She had a scarlet cap on her head,
And that was left the same
But all the rest of her clothes were burned
Black as a coal in the flame
(i) Which kind of bird did the lady transform into? .
(a) Parrot
(b) Sparrow
(c) Woodpecker
(d) Flamingo
Answer:
(ii) What is the overall theme of the poem?
Answer:
(iii) Fill in the blank with the correct word from the bracket.
Burned : Turned :: ………. (Coal/Flame): Same
Answer:
(iv) What does the given extract show?
Answer:
(v) What is the rhyme scheme of the given lines?
Answer:
Question 8.
Answer any four of the following five questions in 40-50 words each. (4 x 3 = 12)
(i) Why did Aurangzeb ban the playing of the ‘pungi’?
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(ii) In the lesson ‘The Fun They Had’, how does Tommy describe the old kind of school?
Answer:
(iii) Why did the intruder say,- “They can’t hang me twice” in the story ‘If I Were You’?
Answer:
(iv) What does each sound on the shingle create in the poem ‘Wind’?
Answer:
(v) Why was the performance of Margie deteriorating day by day?
Answer:
Question 9.
Answer any two of the following three questions in 40-50 words each. (2×3 = 6)
(i) What was Johnsy’s illness? What can cure her?
Answer:
(ii) Why did Sergei threaten to call the police?
Answer:
(iii) Why did the author break down in tears after the fire in ‘A House is Not a Home’?
Answer:
Question 10.
Answer any one of the following two questions in 100-120 words each. (6)
(i) “The other tennis pupils would.come in at 11:00 p.m. and wake me up and order me to tidy up the room and clean it”. This treatment of Maria by her seniors was like bullying the junior mates. How would you treat your junior mates if you were in the same V situation?
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(ii) In the short story “The Little Girl’, how was Kezia’s father different from Mr. McDonald’s? Write a brief character sketch on both and compare them.
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Question 11.
Answer any one of the following two questions in 100-120 words each. (6)
(i) Most of the teenagers today have baseless fear like Johnsy had in the story ‘The Last Leaf’. It is very common among teenagers who go into depression. Sue, as a good friend, helps Johnsy in coming out of the situation. According to you, what role can the peer group play in such conditions?
Answer:
(ii) Do you think it is advisable to keep a monkey like Toto as part of pets in the house? Why/Why not?
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