Final Exam Model Paper 2

1. Read the text given below and do the tasks.

Kopila’s Futsal Team

Kopila is in Grade 9 at a school in Tikapur, Kailali. Two years ago, the boys of her school played futsal every afternoon while the girls only watched from the steps. One day Kopila asked the sports teacher, Mr. Chaudhary, whether the girls could have the court on Fridays. He agreed, but only six girls came to the first practice, most of them in borrowed shoes. Kopila did not give up. She kept asking her friends to join. Now there are fourteen girls in the team, and last winter they won the district school championship. The boys still use the court on the other days, but on Fridays they sit on the steps and cheer for the girls.

A. Write ‘True’ for the true statements and ‘False’ for the false ones. (5 × 1 = 5)

2. Read the text given below and do the tasks.

Our School Weather Station

Two years ago, our science teacher, Mrs. Bista, helped us set up a small weather station in a corner of our school ground in Jumla. It has four instruments. A thermometer hangs inside a white wooden box with slatted sides and tells us the temperature of the air. A rain gauge, a metal funnel over a measuring cylinder, collects the rain, and we read how many millimeters have fallen. A wind vane on a tall pole shows the direction from which the wind is blowing, and an anemometer, with three small cups that spin round in the wind, measures how fast it blows.

Every morning at nine o’clock, two members of our weather club read the instruments and write the numbers in a logbook. At the end of each month, we draw graphs of the temperature and the rainfall and put them up on the notice board. Last Asar, we measured 180 millimeters of rain in the month. One morning in Poush, the thermometer showed minus six degrees Celsius, and the water in the rain gauge had frozen solid.

Now farmers from the village stop at the school gate to ask us about the weather before they spread their apples and buckwheat out to dry. Last year our records won first prize at the district science fair.

A. Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the text above. (5 × 1 = 5)

B. Answer the following questions. (5 × 1 = 5)

3. Read the story given below and do the tasks.

The Umbrella at the Bus Park

One evening in Shrawan, Binita was waiting at the bus park in Butwal for the last bus to her village. It was raining hard. An old man stood beside her, holding a plastic bag over his head. Binita had only one small umbrella, but she held it over both of them.

When the bus came, it was full. The conductor shouted that there was room for just one more person. Binita looked at the old man’s wet clothes and let him take the seat. Then she walked back through the rain to her aunt’s house to spend the night there. She arrived wet through, and her aunt scolded her for being so foolish.

A week later, a man came to Binita’s school with a parcel for her. Inside was a new umbrella and a letter. “My father has told us about the girl who gave him her seat on a rainy night,” it said. “He did not know your name, but he remembered the school badge on your bag. Please accept this small gift. You gave him far more than shelter from the rain.”

That evening, Binita’s aunt read the letter twice. Then she smiled and said, “Perhaps you were not so foolish after all.”

A. Choose the correct answer. (5 × 1 = 5)

B. The sentences below tell the story. Write the number of each sentence’s place in the order in which the events happened (1–5). (5 × 1 = 5)

4. Read the biography given below and do the tasks.

Pasang Lhamu Sherpa: The First Nepali Woman on Everest

Pasang Lhamu Sherpa was born in December 1961 in Solukhumbu, into a family of mountaineers. As a teenager she went on treks with her father, Phurba Kitar Sherpa, and she later worked as a trekking guide. She married Lhakpa Sonam Sherpa, who ran a trekking agency in Kathmandu, and they had three children.

She was a determined climber. In 1987 she climbed Pisang Peak and Yala Peak, and in 1990 she climbed Mont Blanc in France. Her dream, though, was Everest. She made an attempt on it in 1990, again in 1991, and again in 1992, when she reached the South Summit but had to turn back because of strong winds.

In 1993, she and her husband organized the Nepalese Women’s Sagarmatha Expedition. Shortly after midnight on 22 April, she left the South Col with the Sherpa climbers of her team, and that afternoon she stood on the summit, the first Nepali woman ever to do so.

The descent ended in tragedy. Near the South Summit, Sonam Tshering Sherpa, a member of the team, became gravely ill. Pasang Lhamu stayed with him. Their oxygen ran out during a night in the open, and strong winds stopped a rescue. She died on the mountain.

Nepal has honored her in many ways. She was the first woman to receive the Nepal Tara, a statue of her stands in Kathmandu, and a postage stamp was issued in her name. The road from Trishuli to Dhunche was named the Pasang Lhamu Highway, and a peak in the Mahalangur range became Pasang Lhamu Chuli. In 2024, a small crater near the Moon’s south pole was named Lhamu after her. Her courage opened the way for the many Nepali women who have climbed Everest since.

A. Match the words from the text in Column A with their meanings in Column B. There is one extra meaning that you do not need. (5 × 1 = 5)

B. Write ‘True’ for the true statements and ‘False’ for the false ones. (5 × 1 = 5)

C. Answer the following questions. (5 × 1 = 5)

9. Reproduce the following sentences as instructed in the brackets. (6 × 1 = 6)

10. Choose and copy the best answer for the numbered blanks below. Rewriting is not compulsory. (10 × 0.5 = 5)

Indra Bahadur is (a) ………. (a, an, the, no article) retired teacher in Birgunj. Two years ago, he turned the ground floor of his house (b) ………. (into, onto, in, at) a free library. Children (c) ………. (whose, who, which, whom) homes have no books come there after school. The library (d) ………. (has, have, are having, were having) more than three thousand books now. Most of them (e) ………. (gave, were given, have given, give) by people in the town. (f) ………. (Although, Because, So that, Unless) he is over seventy, he opens the doors every day at four. “If children read every day, they (g) ………. (will become, would become, had become, became) better at everything,” he says. He gets the older students (h) ………. (help, helped, to help, helping) the younger ones. He always speaks (i) ………. (soft, softly, softness, softer) in the reading room. “You (j) ………. (had better, would rather, used to, ought) return the books on time,” he tells every new reader, “or other children will have to wait.”