Class Test
Class-9
Subject-English
F.M=25
Read the poem and do the activities that follow.
What is this life if, full of care,
No time to turn and beauty’s glance
We have no time to stand and stare?
And watch her feet, how they can dance:
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
No time to wait till her mouth can,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
No time to see, when woods we pass,
A poor life this if, full of care,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in glass:.
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:
1. Match the words with their meanings. 5x1=5
4. Write true for true statement and false for false statement.5x1=5
a. Stare
i. An areas of trees
a. The meaning of leisure is free time.
b. Beneath.
ii. To improve the quality of something
b. According to the poem, The squirrels hide their nuts in trees.
c.
iii. To look quickly at or something
c. According to the poem, life is full of care.
Woods
d. Enrich
e. Glance
iv. To look at somebody or something for long time
v. Under something or somebody
2. Answer the following questions. 5x1=5
d. According to the poem, we have no time to see.
e. According to the poem, Our life is miserable.
5. Fill in the blanks. 5x1=5
a. Why is our life so miserable, according to the poet?
a. Life is _______.
b. What do sheep and cows do in nature?
b. Squirrels hide their ______ in grass.
c. What do squirrels do in the woods?
c.
d. What magic does Beauty perform?
d. We have _____ stare.
e. What is human life like, if observed carefully?
e. A ______ life this if, full of care.
_______ full of stars.
3. Write antonyms of the words in left side and synonyms of the word in right side.5x1=5
a. Study
c. Branches
b. Head
d. Enhance
e. below