Half Yearly
Exam 23
Answer key
Standard 9
Synonyms
1.
Stride - progress
2.
Verge - edge
3.
Cloudburst – rain
storm
Antonyms
4.
Winning x losing
5.
Elderly x young
6.
Hark x deny
7.
joyous
8.
too fearful to do
anything
9.
on behalf of
10. preparing
11. on
12.
is visiting/visits
13. unless
14.
blackboard
Part-II
Section -I
15.
Sir suggested to admit Sachin in
Shardashram Vidhyamandir school, Where all cricket facilities were available.
16.
The house that has many trees is considered to be blessed.
17.
The narrator went in and out of the docks to carry and deliver the goods.
18. Divie Amritha is the
imaginary elixir of life.
Section -II
19.
A) The rose grows on the banks of the river.
b) The youth stage of man is
compared here.
20. a) The curled green twigs will rise from close to the
ground.
b) The
colour of the twigs are green.
21.
a) The poet stops in the middle of the forest without any farmhouse so the
horse must think it queer.
b) The horse belongs to the
poet.
22. a) It refers to the plant of anger.
b) The poet
watered it with fears and tears.
Section-III
23. Food
is being cooked by my mother then.
24. She
advised to be happy with what they had.
25. Ragu
is the most intelligent boy in the class.
26. Do you remember how fascinated you were
when you first read the story? 27. a) A
letter can hardly take the place of a talk. b) Besides English she speaks two
languages.
Part -III
Section -2
35.
i) Rhyming words : night-bright, shine- mine
ii) Rhyming scheme : aabb
iii) FOS : Metaphor
IV. Alliterated words: bore-bright
Section – 3
37.
Coherent order.
a) Margie always hated school. b) The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in
geography. c) Margie’s
performance in geography has been poor.
d) Margie’s
mother has sent for the county’s inspector.
e) He set
it right with in an hour.
38.
Reading comprehension
1. Little
Cylone lived in Alaska.
2. Valiantly they bit and scratched, and bawled aloud. 3. Little
Cylone found his mother fired at timbered hillside facing Chilkat river.
4. Before
the early morning they reached the mountains.
5. A
grizzly cub from Alaska was called by the nick name Little Cyclone.
Section -4
43. a) Many students have turned
up for the seminar.
b) One of
the boys is missing.
c) I bought
a book this morning.
d) Serena
avoids eating fruits.
e) The deer
runs fast.
PART-IV
47. a) Bee Humming birds
weigh less than a penny. They are just a bit bigger than bees.
b) Bee Humming birds build tiny homes. They use
cobwebs and bits of bark to make their homes.
c) The most beautiful shells are found
in the Indo Pacific, Caribbean and Mediterranean regions.
d) They move fast.
e) Nectar is a sweet liquid which the
humming birds get from the flower.
48. a) The poet saw a bird.
b) The bird ate the raw angel worm in
halves.
c) Yes the bird drank the water from dew
in grass.
d) The eyes looked like frightened
beads.
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