These TS 9th Class English Important Questions Grammar Choose the Correct Word Question Number 23 to 28 will help the students to improve their time and approach.
TS 9th Class English Grammar Choose the Correct Word Question Number 23 to 28
Questions : 23 – 28, Marks : 3
Choose The Correct Word:
Read the following passage and fill the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet. (6 × 1/2 = 3 Marks)
1. The Public Distribution System which (23) (which / that) provides food at (24) (with / at) low prices, is (25) (is / are) a subject of vital concern. There is a growing (26) (growing / grown) realisation that though India has enough food to feed (27) (to feed / feeding) its masses two square meals a day, the monster of starvation and food insecurity continues (28) (continue / continues) to haunt the poor in our country.
2. Children are loved (23) (loved / are loved) by all human beings. But in this world of (24) (of / with) human beings there is no worse (25) (worse / worst) nuisance than a boy at the age of fourteen. He is neither ornamental nor (26) (or / nor) useful. It is impossible to show (27) (show / shying) affection on him as (28) (as / so) on a tiny boy.
3. In most Western countries, it is required that I every (23) (every / each) young man, when his education is completed (24) (complete / is completed) shall give three, four or five years to military service. He goes into barracks, is regimented (25) (regimented / regimenting) and drilled, makes a unit in the standing army and (26) (and / but) passes out usually when his term is’ended as an (27) (an / the) efficient soldier, to remain (28) (remain / to remain) for the rest of his life ready at any moment to join in the armed force of his country.
4. Veerendra Sehwag is a former Indian cricketer. Sehwag holds multiple records including the highest (23) (higher / highest) score made by an Indian in Test Cricket that (24) (that / which) was also the fastest triple century in the history of international cricket as well as (25) (besides / as well as) the fastest 250 by any batsman. “Sehwag is amongst (26) (among / amongst) the most entertaining batsmen I have ever seen (27) (saw / seen),” Chappel said. ‘The Nawab of Najafgarh’ as he was fondly called, last (28) (last / latest) represented India in a Test Match against Australia in March 2013.
5. After his graduation Subhash Chandra Bose left for (23) (left / left for) Cambridge in 1919 to appear (24) (appear / to appear) for the Indian Civil Service Examination. But he had made up (25) (make up / made up) his mind to dedicate his life to the service (26) (serve / service) of his country ; he resigned from the Indian Civil Service and returned to India in 1921. He took part in freedom struggle and fought against (27) (for / against) the British rule in India. Subhash is called Nethaji because (28) (because / so) he was a true and passionate leader of Indian freedom movement.
6. The story of Helen Keller is so much the history of her teacher who (23) (who/ that) one must lightly sketch Annie’s background. She was the child of (24) (of / to) poor Irish immigrants, her mother died (25) (died / had died) when she was eight. Her father deserted (26) (deserted / had deserted) the three children Sadly (27) (Luckily / Sadly) Annie born nearly blind, had been sent (28) (sent / sending) to state infirmary.
7. Books give us all the information for (23) (for / to) a man. They show his (24) (his / their) interest. They are the index to his mind. All the riches of the world lose (25) (lose / loose) their importance in the face of books. A man with money and without (26) (without / some) books is a poor man. Books have become so (27) (too / so) cheap that library can easily be made. Money spent on good books is never (28) (always / never) wasted.
8. One day in early summer Squealer ordered the sheep to follow (23) (to follow/follow) him to a piece of waste ground at the other end of (24) (of/on) the farm. He was with them alone (25) (lonely / alone) for a week. He told the other animals that he was teaching them a new song for which (26) (which/where) privacy was needed. A week later (27) (latter/later) one day the animals were shocked to see a pig walking (28) (walk/walking) on his hind legs.
9. During the Civil War President Abraham Lincoln was visited (23) (Visit/visited) by Colonel Scott, one of the commanders of the troops (24) (troops/troupes) guarding the capitol from attack by the confederate forces in Northern Virginia. Scott’s wife had drowned (25) (sunk/drowned) in a steamship collision while returning home after a journey to Washington to nurse (26) (nurse/to nurse) her sick husband. Scott had appealed to regimental (27) (regimental/regimented) command for leave to attend her burial and comfort (28) (comfort/comforted) his children.
10. The Governor General Lord Dalhousie announced that he was taking over (23) (over/on) Jhansi, since the British did not accept an adopted (24) (adopted/adapted) child as a legal heir to the throne. This was only a clever plan oh the part of the British to annex the land with force and cunning. The clever way of acquiring (25) (acquire/acquiring) new territories for their Empire was called the Doctrine of Lapse. That’s what they used now. If an (26) (an/a) Indian ruler died without a natural heir (27) (hair/heir), the British simply annex his or her kingdom. The kingdom or (28) (and/or) state “lapsed” to the British.