Grade Nine Compulsory English Model Question - NEB, New Curriculum

Grade - Nine Compulsory English Model Question Candidates are required to show creativity in the answers wherever possible. The figures in the margin indicate full marks. Sub.:- Compulsory English FM - 75 Grade - IX Time: 3 hrs Reading Section - 40 Marks 1. Read the text and write True or False for the given statements. 5 Sky Burial is a traditional custom in Tibetan Buddhism to farewell the dead. These days, outsiders are mostly forbidden from witnessing them. I had heard of Tibetan Sky Burials with a mixture of horror and fascination. To put it bluntly, a dead body is chopped up into pieces and fed to waiting vultures. So, we arrived at a very isolated and traditional Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Tagong in North Eastern Sichuan. I thought, "let's just look at the site where it happens". We'd been told that foreigners were not allowed to experience the secret ritual anyway. Sky Burial is a traditional custom of Hinduism. Outsiders are welcomed at the funeral. The d…