9th Class English Past Paper 2013 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)
Q.2: Answer any FIVE of the following questions:
(i) What happened when Abu Jehl asked about Hazrat Abu Bakr (R.A)?
(ii) What message do you get from the life of Hazrat Asma (R.A)?
(iii) How do festivals promote peace and harmony?
(iv) How do people spend Nauroz holidays?
(v) What was Quaid’s concept of our nation?
(vi) How can we become a strong nation?
(vii) How does media provide entertainment?
(viii) How does the interior of the Mosque S look?
SECTION- II
Q.3 Translate any TWO of the following paragraphs into Urdu:
(a) The preparation for this journey was made at the house of Hazrat Abu Bakr (R.A). Hazrat Asma (R.A) rendered useful services in this regard. She made necessary arrangements and prepared food for this journey and tied it on the camel back with her own belt when nothing else could be found. For this service, she was given the title of Zatun-Nataqin by the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
(b) “We are a nation,” he affirmed three years before the birth of Pakistan, with our own distinctive culture and civilization, language and literature, art and architecture, names and nomenclature, sense of values and proportion, legal laws and moral codes, customs and calendar, history and tradition, aptitude and ambitions. In short, we have our own distinctive outlook on life.”
(c) Sometimes I have thought that it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should 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 the above paragraphs into simple English.
Q.4 Write down the summary of the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost.
OR
Paraphrase the following lines into simple English with reference to the context:
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
Q.5 Use any FIVE of the following words/phrases/idioms in your sentences:
(i) Gave away
(ii) Supervise
(iii) Raise awareness
(iv) Herald
(v) Confidence
(vi) Adorned
(vii) To make up one’s mind
(viii) Anguish
Q.6 Write a letter to your mother about the test you have just taken.
OR
Write a story with the moral “Greed is a curse.”
OR
Write a dialogue between a brother and a sister concerning time.
Q.7 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end:
King Robert Bruce ruled over Scotland. He had been defeated many times by the English. He ran for his life and hid himself in a cave. He had lost all hope to win. As he lay there, thinking if he should give up his struggle or not, he saw a spider trying to reach its cobweb in the ceiling of the cave. It fell down again and again but did not give up its attempt. The little insect reached its home in its ninth effort. At last, this gave courage to King Bruce. He made up his mind to fight and this time he won the battle.
QUESTIONS:
(i) By whom had Robert been defeated many times?
(ii) Where did he hide himself?
(iii) What did he see in the cave?
(iv) After how many attempts did the spider succeed?
(v) What lesson did King Bruce learn from the spider?
Q.8 Translate any FIVE of the following sentences into English:
(i) کیا امیر آدمی غریبوں پر مہربان تھا؟
(ii) خدا ان کی مدد کرتا ہے جو اپنی مدد آپ کرتے ہیں۔
(iii) پاکستان دن دوگنی رات چوگنی ترقی کر رہا ہے۔
(iv) آپ نے میرے لیے ٹکٹ کیوں خریدا ہے؟
(v) انہوں نے ہمارے مشورے پر عمل کیا۔
(vi) تم تین دن سے مضمون لکھ رہے تھے۔
(vii) ہر پاکستانی پاکستان کے لیے جان قربان کرے گا۔
(viii) وہ اپنا کام مکمل کر چکے ہوں گے۔
Exclusively for candidates whose Medium of Examination is English
Write TEN sentences about “My School.”
Q.9 Change the voice of the following:
(i) She loves her cat very much.
(ii) I did not paint the wall.
(iii) My teacher will help me in my studies.
(iv) He is abusing me for nothing.
(v) We have done our homework.