Winter Holiday Homework (2015-2016) Class-IX

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Winter Holiday Homework (2015-2016)

Class - IX

ENGLISH:

Do the given question sample paper

HINDI :

Do the given worksheet

MATH :

Do the exercise 9A and 9B from R.S.Agrawal

CCE question Q.1 – 32 MCQ with solutions

SCIENCE :

Chemistry – Do the given worksheet

Physics – Complete the questions based on high order thinking skills(HOTS )

of chapter work and energy from reference book LSMK given at

page no. 148 and 149

Biology –1. Write 7 special features of kingdom Monera , Protista , Fungi

Animalia,Plantae

2. Give two examples of each and draw diagram for above mentioned

kingdom

S.ST - Do practice of the given maps

SCIENCE WORKSHEET-

Chemistry

What is the mass of

(a) 0.2 mole of oxygen atom

(b) 0.5 mole of water molecule

If one mole of carbon atoms weighs 12 g . what is the mass of (in gms) of 1 atom of carbon?
Which has more number of carbon atoms , 100 g of sodium or 100 g of iron ?
Calculate the number of aluminium ions present in 0.051 g of aluminium oxide ?
How many moles are present in 4.6 g of Na ?
Convert 12.043*10²² molecules of sulphur dioxide into moles ?
Calculate the number of sulphur S₈ present in 16 g of solid sulphur ?
A 0.24 g sample of compound of oxygen and boron was found by analysis to contain 0.096 g of boron and 0.144 g of oxygen . calculate the percentage composition of compound by weight ?
Calculate the percentage composition of glucose (C₆H₂₂O₆)?

10. What is then of

(a) 1 mole of nitrogen atoms?

(b) 4 moles of aluminium atoms (c) 10 moles of sodium sulphide ?

Biology:

Write 5 or 7 important features of kingdom plantae , animalia , division algae , bryophyte , pteridophyta , gymnospermae , angiospermae ?
Draw related diagrams for the above given headings?

Physics

1) Complete High order thinking questions of chapter Work and energy from reference book LSMK given at page no 148 & 149.

ENGLISH WORKSHEET-

ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE -

Rule: When writing, your sentences should be active. That means you should have the subject taking an action.

Passive: The material was shipped to Japan.

Active: The Company shipped the material to Japan.

Directions: Rewrite the following sentences in active voice. The subject should be performing the action. If there is no doer, add one.

The dishes were washed by Jane.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

After the game we bought hamburgers for everyone.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

During the intermission, our band played several numbers.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

Alice broke her pen.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

My computer was read by Miss Jones.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

Jean broke her arm during a volleyball game.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

Ruth washed and ironed her blouse.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

The money was found under the floor.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

Eleanor loves the Rolling Stones.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

The officer did nothing about the accident.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

John won the first-place tennis trophy.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

Nancy baked and frosted the cake.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

Jill lost the election.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

Jean played tennis all morning.

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My books were returned before class.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

My window was broken by the storm.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

Miniature elephants were collected by my sister.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

Colette danced a tap dance in the variety show.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

Nothing was accomplished by crying.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

That video was seen three times.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

Changing Passive Voice to Active Voice-

Directions: The verbs in the following sentences are in the passive voice. Rewrite each sentence in the active voice. If the sentence doesn’t have a doer, supply one.

Example: The letter was sent earlier. Jeannie sent the letter earlier.

The trees were stripped last month.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

The computers were shipped early in September.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

The letter was written by my brother.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

The old car was driven by my brother.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

The school bell was repaired in September.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

This man has been stabbed.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

My shoes were taken to the shoemaker.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

The trees were uprooted by the storm.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

The bookcase was stained a dark walnut.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

The flowers were planted in March.

………………………………………………………………………………………………

Now take any three sentences of your choice and write them into active and passive voice.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………

MM: 80 Time 3 hrs.

The Question paper is divided into four sections:

Section A: Reading 20 Marls

Section B: Writing 20 Marks

Section C: Grammar 20 Marks

Section D: Literature 20 Marks

General Instructions

1. All questions are compulsory
2. You may attempt any section at a time
3. All questions of that particular section must be attempted in the correct order

SECTION - A

READING - 20 MARKS

1. Read the poem given below and complete the summary by filling in the

appropriate word. Supply only one word for each blank.

5 Marks

YOUNG, GIFTED BUT BLACK

When Mebula Ramsandra

Was three years old

His mother told him, that if he wanted

To be a big strong man

He’d have to drink all his milk ---

And he did.

When Mebula Ramsandra

Was five years old

His teacher told him

That if he wanted

To go to a grammar school¹

He’d have to try harder with his homework ---

And he did.

When Mebula Ramsandra

Was fifteen years old

His lecturer told him

That if he wanted to be a lab technician

He’d have to go to University ---

And he did.

So ten years later

When Mebula Ramsandra

Was twenty-five years old

A big, strong, clever, educated postgraduate -----

The man on the other end of the telephone said

If he wanted to work for him,

He’d have to be big, strong, clever, educated postgraduate ----- and

White.

A young Mebula Ramsandra was advised by his mother to consume (a) _________ if he wanted to be big and strong. At the age of five his teacher warned him that if he didn’t put in (b) _______ work, he wouldn’t be able to go to Grammar School. When he was in his teens, he was told that he would have to go to University to be a lab (c) _________. After ten years his job application was rejected because he was (d) _______. Surely the man on the other side of the telephone was (e) __________.

2. Read the passage and complete the sentences given below. 5 Marks

Massage can be a natural tranquilliser. It has been used in virtually every culture throughout history to relieve aches and pains, unknot tense muscles, and help the body-- and the mind-- to relax. There are several types of the massage, but the most popular are Oriental massage and Swedish massage. The chief difference between them is that some of the strokes in Swedish massage are designed to stimulate a rather than to relax the body.

It is unfortunate that many people who might benefit from massage never try it, dismissing it as a specialised treatment for athletes or disabled people or as an unjustifiable indulgence. If you think this way, you are missing out on something enjoyable. Any one can learn to give massage. It is a simple extension of warm human care and touch.

Professional masseurs and masseuses offer the benefit of both skill and experience. They should be trained in anatomy and physiology so that they can identify muscles that are in spasm or painful knots that have built up by misuse of the body. Experienced professionals generally understand the requirements of various body types and are able to choose strokes that the beneficial for the individual. During a typical one-hour session the routine builds subtly in intensity and then subsides.

1. Besides relieving pain, massage also (a) ________________________________________.

2. While the oriental massage focuses on (b) ____________________________________. some aspects of the Swedish massage are meant for (c) ______________________________.

3. Many people associate massage with pleasure, thinking that it is useful only for (d) ________.

4. To identify painful muscles and knots, masseurs should have knowledge in (e) ____________.

Q3 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answers from the given options. 5 Marks

SPACE

"It scares me," said Jack Hills, an astronomer at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory. "It really does." He and the rest of the world had good reason to be worried. Astronomer Brian Marsden, at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics had just announced that a newly discovered asteroid 1.6 km wide was headed for Earth and might pass as close as 48,000km in the year 2028. "The chance of an actual collision is small," Marsden reported, "but not entirely out of the question."

An actual collision? With an asteroid of that size? It sounded like the stuff of science fiction and grade-B movies. But front-page stories and TV newscasts around the world soon made clear that the possibility of a direct hit and a global catastrophe well within the lifetime of most people on Earth today was all too real.

Then suddenly, the danger was gone. Barely a day later, new data and new calculations showed that the asteroid, dubbed 1997 XF11, presented no threat at all. It would miss Earth by 1 million Km - closer than any previously observed asteroid of that size but a comfortable distance. Still, the incident focused attention once and for all on the largely ignored danger that asteroids and comets pose to life on Earth.

XF11 was discovered last Dec. 6 by astronomer Jim Scotti, a member of the University of Arizona's Spacewatch group, which scans the skies for undiscovered comets and asteroids. Using a 77-year-old telescope equipped with an electronic camera, he had recorded three sets of images. The digitized images, fed into a computer programmed to look for objects moving against the background of fixed stars, revealed an asteroid that Scotti, in an e-mail to Marsden, described as standing out "like a sore thumb."

1. The world had reasons to worry because…………………….

a. it could come to an end

b. it would be hit by an asteroid

c. it might be hit by an asteroid

d. the astronomers had predicated a definite collision

2. The news that soon came as a relief was that………………….

a. there was no asteroid

b. the asteroid would disintegrate in space

c. it would cross the earth at a safe distance

d. it would be too small to cause harm

3. The asteroid XF11was discovered when…………………………..

a. Jim Scotti observed the sky

b. Scotti saw it through a telescope

c. Marsden discovered it through the computer

d. Jack Hills observed the sky

4. The astronomer, described the asteroid as standing out "like a sore thumb"

because………………

a. it was not a pleasant sight

b. it was noticeable in an unpleasant way

c. it was threatening and ugly

d. it had become huge as it neared the earth

5. The word in the second paragraph that means disaster is………………….

a. collision

b. dubbed

c. catastrophe

d. danger

4. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answer from the given options: 5 Marks

Coded Messages

Arabic mathematicians made tremendous contributions to cryptanalysis — the science of decoding scrambled messages. Their interest stemmed partially from their religion.

The holy Koran contains revelations made by the Prophet Mohammed. The text contained dictated messages that the Prophet had received from the archangel Gabriel. However, these revelations were not necessarily placed in the order in which the Prophet had received them. To deduce the order of the revelations and place them in chronological context, Muslim scholars determined that some passages contained words coined more recently, and some contained words that were older.

Then, they counted the frequencies of words in each revelation, paying attention to the frequencies of modern and ancient words. Passages which contained a greater frequency of modern words were considered to have been written later.

In the ninth century, an Arab mathematician called Al-Kindi employed a similar technique to break encrypted messages — frequency analysis. Letters are ranked according to how commonly they occur. Then, the encrypted message is taken, and the most frequent letter appearing in the code is noted. The code is then compared to the language, and using the correspondence in rank, the encrypted message can be unscrambled. He described this in a book — A manuscript on deciphering cryptographic messages.

1. The art of deciphering scrambled messages has its roots in………………

a. cryptanalysis

b. Arabic language

c. religion

d. Mathematics

2. The Holy Koran documents the messages of …………………..

a. The Prophet Mohammed

b. Archangel Gabriel

c. Arabic hymns

d. Muslim Scholars

3. Placing the text of Koran in a sequential order was done……………..

a. by determining the chronological order of events

b.with the help of Arabic mathematicians

c. by using the frequency of modern and ancient words

d. by breaking the cryptic code contained in the messages

4. Al-Kindi’s contribution has been acknowledged in the field of……..

a. encrypting messages

b. cryptanalysis

c. language analysis

d. preparing a manuscript

5. The word in the last paragraph that means ‘coding of a clear text’ is…………

a. deciphering

b. encrypted

c. revelation

d. scrambled

SECTION - B WRITING

20 MARKS

5. One hundred persons each in three age groups were interviewed on their musical

preferences. All the persons did not have interest in music. Of those who did like

music, there was much variation in their tastes. On the basis of the information given

in the table below about musical preferences of the people in the three age groups,

write a paragraph in about 80 words about the popular forms of music and how the

taste in music differs with age.

4 Marks

Age Form	15-20	21-30	31+
Classical	6	4	17
Pop	7	5	5
Rock	6	12	14
Jazz	1	4	11
Hip-Hop	9	3	4
	29	28	51

6. While reading a magazine you came across the following article

There is a growing lack of sensitivity and respect for our fellow creatures. There is talk about the food web and the energy cycles and ecological balance and how removal of any element disrupts the whole system, and how this can affect human beings too. What this approach lacks is the essential interaction with Nature and with other human beings. Indeed, in many environmental activities the opposite takes place.

You are an educationist and feel that Environmental Education imparted in schools, need reorientation. The stress should not be on preserving Nature for human use, but for protecting animals and plants for their own sake. Based on the information given above and ideas from the Unit Environment, write a letter to the editor of a national daily in about 120 words on the subject and give it a suitable title. 8 Marks

7. Look at the picture given below and write in 150 words a story that begins

“I didn't tell my Dad about the green monster I found at the bottom of the garden because...

8 Marks

SECTION – C GRAMMAR

20 MARKS

8. Choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below to complete the following passage. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank number. Do not copy the whole passage. (4 Marks)

Since the beginning of human existence, people (a) ______________________ over the world have expressed their emotions and ideas (b) ________________ the medium of dance. The word ‘folk’ means people. Folk dances express the moods and feelings of (c) ___________________ common people. Different regions (d) _____________ India have their own dances. (e) ______________ dance is accompanied by music and songs of the region to (f) ______________ it belongs. (g)______________ recent times folk dances have gained (h) ___________________ popularity, partly because of films and television shows.

(a) (i) all (b) (i) in

(ii) whole (ii) into

(iii) much (iii) through

(iv) more (iv) of

(ii) a (ii) of

(iii) an (iii) for

(iv) some (iv) from

(e) (i) Each (f) (i) what

(ii) All (ii) which

(iii) Whole (iii) who

(iv) Many (iv)whose

(g) (i) Of (h) (i) great

(ii) For (ii) for

(iii) In (iii) much

(iv) Until (iv) many

9. Given below are some tips on how to improve your memory. Read the given hints and complete the passage by filling in the gaps choosing the answers from the given options. (1 × 4 = 4 Marks)

How to Improve Your Memory

• Exercise your brain.

• Reduce stress.

• Create vivid, memorable images.

• Repeat things you need to learn.

• Group things you need to remember.

• Try meditation.

There are some simple steps that can help you to improve your memory. The first step (a) .................................... with things like crossword puzzles, chess etc. The second step is (b) ..................................... lives because stress can cause us to forget things. The next step (c).......................................... which will help us to remember things. Another method involves repeating things that we want to learn and (d)……………………. so that we do not forget them easily. Finally, the most important method is to try meditation.

(a) (i) being to exercise your brain (ii) is to exercise one’s brain

(iii) is to exercise your brain (iv) being exercising the brain

(b) (i) to reduce stress in your (ii) reducing stress in one’s

(iii) reduction of stress in one’s (iv) to reduce stress in our

images

(iii) creating vivid and memorable images (iv) creation of vivid and memorable

images

(d) (i) to group things together (ii) group things together

(iii) to be grouping things together (iv) grouped things together

10. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct question number. Remember to underline the word you have supplied. (½ x8=4 Marks)

Often these days we hear and speak of the conquered (a) _______ _________

in nature, ‘the taming of a river’, ‘the war against insects’ (b)_______ _________

and so on. Often these phrases being used without consciously (c) _______ _________

attaching

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