9th Class English Past Paper 2020 Evening
Note: English 2nd Time Paper of 9th Class.
Group-II (Subjective) 56 Marks
SECTION- I
Q.2 Answer any FIVE of the following questions: (10)
(i) What was the first revelation?
(ii) What are the qualities of a patriot?
(iii) What was the ideology of Pakistan in view of Quaid-e-Azam?
(iv) How does the interior of Sultan Ahmed Masjid look?
(v) What are the qualities of the nurse in the story “All is Not Lost”?
(vi) What are the causes of drug addiction?
(vii) How do you define noise pollution?
(viii) How can we become a strong nation?
SECTION- II
Q.3 Translate any TWO of the following paragraphs into Urdu:
(a) In the fifth and sixth centuries, mankind stood on the verge of chaos. It seemed that the civilization which had taken four thousand years to grow had started crumbling. At this point in time, Allah Almighty raised a Rasool among themselves to lift humanity from ignorance into the light of faith.
(b) The interior of the masjid at the lower level is lined with more than 20,000 hand-made ceramic tiles in more than 50 different tulip designs. At the gallery level, the design becomes flamboyant with representations of flowers, fruit, and cypresses.
(c) Sometimes, I have thought that it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor, and a keenness of appreciation which is often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come.
OR
Rewrite any TWO of the above paragraphs into simple English.
Q.4 Write down the summary of the poem “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth.
OR
Paraphrase the following lines into simple English with reference to the context:
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
Q.5 Use any FIVE of the following words/phrases/idioms in your sentences: (5)
(i) Determination
(ii) Motherland
(iii) Alleviate
(iv) Pass through
(v) Dexterously
(vi) Refuge
(vii) Nationalism
(viii) Quietly
Q.6 Write a letter to your friend congratulating him/her on the marriage of his/her sister.
OR
Write a story with the moral “Pride hath a fall.”
OR
Write a dialogue between a tailor and a customer.
Q.7 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end:
One day, a girl found a coin. It rolled away before her broom when she was sweeping the yard and fell with a little clatter against the wall. She ran and picked it up. Someone had dropped it while crossing the yard and perhaps had not even troubled to look for it. It was worth little, but it seemed a whole fortune to her, who never had anything of her own before. She rubbed it clean on the sleeve of her blue cotton jacket and put it into her pocket.
Questions:
(i) What did the girl find?
(ii) When did she find it?
(iii) How had the coin been dropped there?
(iv) What was the worth of the coin?
(v) How did she clean it?
Q.8 Translate any FIVE of the following sentences into English: (5)
(i) عدالت میرے حق میں فیصلہ دے چکی ہے۔
(ii) وہ ایک گھنٹے سے خط لکھ رہا تھا۔
(iii) مہم کے بازی کا کھیل سند نہیں کرتے ہیں۔
(iv) ڈاکٹر دس منٹ سے مریض کا معائنہ کر رہا ہے۔
(v) وہ اپنا کام مکمل کر چکے ہوں گے۔
(vi) ہم نے تمام تاریخی مقامات کی سیر نہ کی۔
(vii) امیر غریبوں کی مدد کرے گا۔
(viii) کیا علاج شروع ہونے سے پہلے مریض مر چکا تھا؟
ALTERNATIVE QUESTION FOR FOREIGN/ENGLISH MEDIUM CANDIDATES
Write TEN sentences about “A Meena Bazaar.”
Q.9 Change the voice of the following: (5)
(i) She likes apples.
(ii) He took away my books.
(iii) Why was such a letter written by her?
(iv) They have bought a horse.
(v) A letter will be written by him.