Organisation : Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE)
Exam : Class IX Final Examination
Document Type : Question Bank
Subject : All Subjects
Year : 2024
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NBSE Class IX Question Bank
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NBSE Class IX English Questions
Section-A (Literature):
1. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given: 1×2=2
(a) When Rip Van Winkle returned to the village, he found __________.
A. that wolf had disappeared
B. he had slept on the mountain the whole night
C. his beard had grown a foot long
D. the dogs in the village strange
i. A and C
ii. C and D
iii. B and C
iv.A and D
(b) The Americans abandoned various British things but could not abandon the _______.
i. language
ii. ideas
iii. culture
iv. eating habits
2. Answer either 2(i) or 2 (ii) or 2(iii) 5
(i) Dr. T.Ao was proud to be a Naga and wanted to uphold their reputation. How do you know this?
(ii) Describe the circumstances that led Rip into a deep slumber.
(iii) What does R.K Narayan mean by Bharat English? Explain.
3. Don’t keep saying ‘Yes, Madam’ like a parrot, nincompoop.
i. Who is the speaker here? 1
ii. What traits do the words reveal about the speaker? 2
4. In ‘The Bishop’s Candlesticks’, the convict was a victim of circumstances. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons.
Or
Why did the Bishop sell the salt-cellars?
Section – B (Reading):
5. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
1. Overpowering prey is a challenge for creatures that do not have limbs. Some species like Russell’s viper inject poison into their prey. Some others opt for an alternative non-chemical method- rat snakes, for instance, catch and push their prey against the ground to immobilize them, while pythons use their muscle power to crush their prey to death. But snakes can’t be neatly divided into poisonous and non-poisonous categories.
2. Even species listed as non-poisonous are not completely free of poison. The common Sand Boa, for instance, produces secretions that are particularly poisonous to birds. So the species doesn’t take any chance—it crushes its prey and injects poison as an extra step.
3. Do vipers need poison powerful enough to kill hundreds of rats with just one drop? After all, they eat only one or two at a time. While hunting, animals try their best to kill most efficiently, their prey will use any trick to avoid getting caught and becoming a meal, such as developing immunity to poison. For instance, Californian ground squirrels are resistant to Northern Pacific rattlesnake poison.
4. Competition with prey is not the only thing driving snakes to evolve more and more deadly poison. Snakes also struggle to avoid becoming prey themselves. Some snake killers have partial immunity to poison. Famously, mongooses are highly resistant to cobra poison and with their speed and agility, kill snakes fearlessly. It would be the death of cobras as a species if they didn’t evolve a more deadly poison to stop mongooses.
5. Poison has another important role. It’s an extreme meat softener, specific enzymes break up the insides of the prey. Normally, a reptile depends on the sun’s warm rays to aid it in its digestion. But I wonder if we cannot use venom in our favour. In remote parts of India, local hospitality often involves leather-tough meat. I chew and chew until my jaws start aching. If I spit it out or refuse, our hosts would be offended, I swallow like a python stuffing a deer down its throat and hope I don’t choke. If only I had poison.
(i) Answer the following questions:
(a) What immunity does the Californian ground squirrel have? 1
(b) How do rat snakes and pythons attack their prey? 2
(c) Why did the writer wish to have poison when he was in a remote part of India? 2
(ii) Answer the questions given below as directed: 1×3=3
(a) The liquid substance released from glands is called _________. (Paragraph 2)
i. secretion
ii. immunity
iii. species
iv. injects
(b) How many rats do vipers consume at a time? (Paragraph 3)
i. Seven or eight
ii. Five or six
iii. Three or four
iv.One or two
(c) Why do animals try to kill efficiently?
i. As their prey might attack them.
ii. As their prey will use any trick to avoid becoming a meal.
iii. As they are testing their skills.
iv. As they are trying to learn new tricks.
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