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DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL- BOPAL, AHMEDABAD

ASSIGNMENT I (2024-25)
CLASS: IX SUBJECT : ENGLISH
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1. Read the passage given below:
The novel corona virus has given rise to a global pandemic that has destabilized most institutional
settings. While we live in times when humankind possesses the most advanced science and
technology, a virus invisible to the naked eye has massively disrupted our lives, economies,
healthcare, and education systems worldwide. Given the corona virus’s current situation, some
households have also had time to introspect on gender roles and stereotypes. For instance, women
are expected to carry out household chores like cooking, cleaning, and looking after the family.
With men sharing household chores responsibilities during the lockdown period, it gives hope
that they will realize the burden that women have been bearing and will continue sharing such
responsibilities.
This tough period also gave people some time to reflect on the importance of keeping themselves
fit. With sufficient time in hand, people started investing their time learning new ways to
exercise. Those who never exercised before, giving excuses of busy lives, too developed some
new habits of Yoga, Pranayam and exercises during the lockdown period. These new habits and
people’s increased focus on their health, wellness and immunity will surely change the way we
lead our lives even in future. The nature too healed itself during the lockdown period. Restricted
human movement led to better air quality, cleaner water bodies and joyful wildlife movements.
The human beings, we hope, reflected during this time, how some of their unconscious activities
cause disruption in nature and worked out ways to adopt environmental-friendly options for their
activities in future. This situation also affected the education sector to a great extent. It has forced
us to shift from offline to online mode of teaching-learning process, almost immediately without
prior preparation. Is it giving us a peek into the reality ahead? Technology enabled teaching is
definitely the future we are looking towards, but it is important to identify key challenges for
students and teachers in the current scenario.
Once identified, academic leadership and the government can address these through innovations
in the focused areas to minimize the effect of pandemic on the education of the students. The
current scenario has also affected our economies to the extent wherein many businessmen had to
bear heavy losses in their businesses. The governments and individuals need to take actions to
mitigate risk and minimize transmission while maintaining social and economic activities.
However, relaxed control measures, declining risk perception and the understandable desire to
return to normalcy have led to reduced protective behavior and more social and workplace
interactions, often in confined, close-contact settings, where the virus spreads really fast . It is our
responsibility that we take all necessary precautions through mask-wearing, physical distancing,
hand hygiene as part of daily life. It is highly important to make these new behavior part of our
everyday habits. Travelling to new places, casual café visits with a large bunch of friends,
spending our weekends in shopping, window shopping and casual strolls, large gatherings in
birthday parties and other celebrations; will require some modifications and patience to fit into
“New Normal” keeping all the safety norms in mind. We are sure that regular communication
from authorities, improved understanding of individual responsibility and, subsequently, a greater
willingness to adopt infection prevention practices can be a stepping stone to a “new future”.

On the basis of understanding of the passage, answer the questions:

1. The outbreak of COVID-19 is called a pandemic because-
(a) it has spread across the globe.
(b) it has spread across India
(c) it is invisible to naked eye
(d) it has disrupted many institutional settings

2. According to the passage the lockdown period made people introspect on gender roles
and stereotypes because –
(a) Women started handling all the household responsibilities
alone
(b) Men started handling all the household responsibilities alone
(c) People talked about gender stereotypes during lockdown period
(d) Men started sharing responsibilities related to household chores

3. Choose the option that is NOT TRUE:

People, who never exercised before, started exercising during the lockdown period
because-
(a) they had sufficient time in hand
(b) exercise was the only way to treat people from the novel corona virus.
(c) people learnt new ways to exercise their body.
(d) people understood the importance of health and wellness in the face of the
pandemic

4. A positive change was seen in nature during lockdown period in terms of cleaner air
and water bodies because _______
(a) there was less human movement due to lockdown
(b) the virus helped in cleaning air and water
(c) the government made extra efforts to clean air and water
(d) People got together to clean water bodies.

5. How did schools continued educating students during the pandemic?

(a) Through offline mode of teaching
(b) Through online mode of teaching
(c) By calling students to school on weekly basis
(d) Students were asked to study at home themselves.

6. Which of the following has NOT led to reduced protective behaviours amongst people?
(a) relaxed control measures
(b) declining risk perception
(c) physical distancing
(d) understandable desire to return to normalcy

7. Which of the following is OPPOSITE in meaning to the word ‘mitigate’ as used in the
passage?
(a) lessen
(b) reduce
(c) aggravate
(d) weaken
8. Which of the following is NOT TRUE in the context of COVID Appropriate Behaviour?
(a) Wearing Mask
(b) Being in crowded places
(c) Washing hands
(d) Maintaining physical distancing
9. The phrase “stepping stone” refers to:
(a) Stones and pebbles lying on the road
(b) Something used as a way to progress
(c) The destination of our journey
(d) Blocks and problems in your path
10. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE in the context of the passage?
(a) People started introspecting on gender roles and stereotypes.
(b) People started realising the importance of keeping themselves fit.
(c) There was a boom in the economy.
(d) School started following Technology-enabled online teaching

11. Select the option that makes the correct use of “disrupt” as used in the passage, to fill
in the blank space.
(a) He is a popular leader so many union members__________his decision.
(b) Climate change could______________ the agricultural economy.
(c) She wants to improve her relationship with her brother so she attempted to
_________with him.
(d) It is important for him to _________the odds in his favour if he wants to be
successful in his plan.
12. “New Normal” would include
(a) Frequent visits to small eateries with a large bunch of friends
(b) attending large gathering in small auditoriums
(c) Making mask-wearing, physical distancing, hand hygiene as part of daily routine
with great responsibility.
(d) casual visits to market for window shopping

2.In the passage given below some words are missing. Choose the correct word from the given
options and complete the passage meaningfully.
Amitabh Bachchan is (a)_______(one/two/a/of) of the greatest actors this country has produced. His
fluency, his gift of timing, his command (b) ______ (of/over/off/upon) the language is unparalleled,
(c)________(never/otherwise/always/sometimes) his histrionic talents too are among the
(d)_______(best/better/worst/good) this country (e)______ (was/have/has/had) produced. Even now he
(f) (has/had/have/is) to be the most popular actor of the country.

3. Indian weddings are matchless in grandeur, glamour and luxury. They are matchless in
wastage, extravagance and vulgar display of money and wealth. Record your experience of such
marriages in your diary. (SDG 1)

4. Read the extract and answer the following questions.

Then took the other, just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

1. Why did it have a better claim?

(a) as there was no other road (b) as it was fair
(c) as it was grassy and wanted wear (d) as there was no time
2. What do the given lines suggest about the speaker ?
(a) he loved challenges (b) he was confused
(c) he never wanted to take risks (d) he was lazy
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3. The poetic device used in the 1 line of the stanza is_____
(a) Alliteration (b) Repetition (c) Metaphor (d) Simile
4. Who is the poet of this poem?
(a) James (b) William James (c) William Wordsworth (d) Robert Frost
5. Find the phrase from the extract that mean “had not been used.”
(a) perhaps (b) fair (c) wanted wear (d) grassy
5. Read the extract and answer the following questions.
MARGIE even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed 17 May 2157,
she wrote, “Today Tommy found a real book!” It was a very old book. Margie’s
grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was
a time when all stories were printed on paper. They turned the pages, which were yellow
and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the
way they were supposed to — on a screen, you know.

1. On which date did Margie make an entry in her diary about schools?
(a) 17 May 2157 (b) 17 May 2156 (c) 17 May 2158 (d) 17 May 2159
2. What did Margie write about in her diary?
(a) A real school (b) a real teacher (c) a real book (d) tommy
3. Who told Margie once about real books?
(a) her father (b) her grandfather (c) the mechanical teacher (d) Tommy
4. Why were the pages of the book yellow and crinkly?
(a) it was very old book (b) colour was yellow
(b) Written in yellow ink (d) none of the above
5. How were the words in the book?
(a) moving (b) steady (c) misprint (d) active
6. Answer the following questions :
(a) What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have? How were they different from
teachers in the book?
(b) What did the County Inspector do to improve Margie’s performance??
(c)What would the poet tell after ages with a sigh?
7. Answer the following questions:
(a) How was Margie’s school different from the schools that existed hundreds of years
ago?
(b) Bring out the symbolism in the poem “The Road Not Taken”
8. Answer the following questions in 100- 120 words
(a) Do you agree that schools today are better than the schools in the story ‘The Fun They
Had’. Give reasons for your choice.