DAV BORL PUBLIC SCHOOL, BINA

PRACTICE PAPER, HALF YEARLY(2018-19)

Class: VI Subject: English
Time Allowed: 3 Hrs. Maximum Marks: 80
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SECTION A(READING)
Q1 Read the following passage carefully : 5
A long time ago, people didn't sleep in bed. Ten thousand years ago,
people probably slept on leaves and animals furs. Long ago in Egypt,
people ate, slept, and talked to friends in bed. Over 3,000 years ago,
King Tut of Egypt had a beautiful bed made of wood and gold! But
common people in Egypt slept on beds of grass and leaves. In the
16th century, in the 1500's, people piled bird feathers 6 or straw on
rope webs. Later, people made mattresses by stuffing feathers inside
large cotton bags. Louis 14th, king of France from 1643 until 1715,
had 413 beds. He liked to talk to his friends and do his work in bed.
He liked beautiful beds. In 1865, people started to put springs
under their mattress, the modern waterbed was invented. Today
there are different kinds of beds. Some people have waterbeds.
Some sleep on foam mattresses or airbeds
Tick the correct option:
a. King Tut and Louis 14th both had.....
a) springs in their beds b. beds made of fur
c. beautiful beds d. many beds.
b. How many beds did Louis 14tth have?
a) 3,000 b. 1,715
c. 1,643 d. 413
c. Who liked to talk in bed?
a. Egyptian people b. French people
c. The king of France d. Both A and c are correct
d. The modern waterbed was invented in.........
a. the 1830's b. the 1860's
c. the 1930's d. the 1960's
e. What do people sleep on now?
a. Foam mattresses b. Waterbeds
c. Airbeds d. All of the above
Q2 Read the poem. 5x1=5
Playing Catch
She tosses me the ball. I toss it back to Sis.
She throws it really high: “Let’s see you catch this!”
The sun is in my eyes! Where IS that ball now?
I’ve got to spot the ball and catch it somehow.
I’m waiting and I’m waiting. My glove is waiting, too.
I’m looking up, not looking down. I trip on my left shoe.

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 I’m diving toward the ground. My
arms are stretched out straight.
I open up my glove, but I’m afraid that I’m too late.
I can’t believe my eyes. I think I see the ball!
It’s nestled in my glove; I caught it after all!
I hear my sister cheering. She saw my super catch.
But Fido stole the b
all from me. He thinks we’re playing fetch!

by Liana Mahoney
Answer the following questions:
a. Choose another appropriate title for this poem.
i. My Sister's Amazing Toss
ii. Fido's Bad Day
iii. My Amazing Catch
b. Why the girl had difficulty catching the ball?
c. What silly event happened in the last line of the poem?
d. What does the word nestled mean in line 10?
a. fell from above
b. held on by a little bit
c. rolling around
d. held snugly or tightly
e. The word „trip‟ is a homograph, make two sentences with the word
to bring out its meanings.
Q3 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions:
My grandmother and I were good friends. My parents left me with
her when they went to live in the city and we were constantly
together. She used to wake me up in the morning and get me ready
for school. She said her morning prayers in a monotonous singsong
while she bathed and dressed me in the hope that I would listen and
get to know it by heart; I listened because I loved her voice but never
bothered to learn it. Then she would fetch my wooden slate which
she had already washed and plastered with the yellow chalk, a tiny
earthen ink-pot and a red pen, tie them all in a bundle and hand it
to me. After a breakfast of a thick, stale, chapatti with a little butter
and sugar spread on it, we went to school. She carried several stale
chapattis with her for the village dogs. My grandmother always went
to school with me because the school was attached to the temple.
The priest taught us the alphabet and the Morning Prayer. While the
children sat in rows in either side of the verandah singing the
alphabet or the prayer in a chorus, my grandmother sat inside
reading the scriptures. When we had both finished, we would walk
back together. This time the village dogs would meet us at the
temple door. They followed us to our home growling and fighting
with each other for the chapattis we threw to them.

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 Khushwant Singh
QUESTIONS
I. Complete the following sentences: (5)
i. Khushwant Singh and his grandmother lived in a
______________________.
ii. Every morning grandmother would say her
___________________________.
iii. The school was attached to a __________________.
iv. The old lady sat inside reading the _________________________.
v. After the school, they were followed
by______________________________.

II. Answer the questions:

i. How did grandmother help the writer for going to school? (2)
ii. Did he learn the morning prayers, why? (2)
III Find out a suitable title for the passage: (1)

SECTION B (WRITING)
Q4 You are Chander Sharma, Secretary, General Knowledge Club of 5
Vikas Academy, Ranchi. The club has decided to organize an Inter-
class Quiz Contest. The winning team will be awarded a cash prize
of Rs 1000 and a running trophy. Write a notice for your school
Notice Board in not more than 50 words.
Q5 Write a paragraph on “Pleasures Of School Life ”. 7
Q6 You are Romi/Roshni, residing at 83, Patparganj, Delhi. Write a 8
letter to your friend congratulating her on her winning a Gold Medal
in a school function.
SECTION C (GRAMMAR)
Q7 Do as directed: 4
a)We have done our work ____________( fill with reflexive pronoun)
b)He went to the market. ( change into negative)
c)She is going abroad __________? ( use suitable question tag)
d)Radha is a good girl.( underline adjective in this line.)

Q8 Fill in the blanks with suitable articles if necessary: 4

In __________ hopeless situation like this, it is better to sit at

_______home and keep __________ watch till there is _____________
improvement in the situation.

Q9 Write past and past participle of the following verbs: 4

a. Go

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 b. Shake
c. Hurt
d. choose 6X1/2=3
Q10 Complete the following conversation by filling in the blanks
with appropriate form of the verbs given in the brackets.
Sonu : We’re organizing a dance party. __________ you
__________(play) the guiter, by any chance?
Bobby : No, I don’t. Sorry.
Sonu : What instrument ______________you ____________(play)?
Bobby : I ______________(not know) how to play any musical
instrument.
Sonu : Is there anyone who can play guitar?
Bobby : My younger brother _____________(have) all the musical
talent in our family.

SECTION D(LITERATURE)
Q11 Read the following extract and answer the following questions

A. ‘Don’t tell me of tomorrow; 3

Give me the man who ‘ll say,
That when a good deed’s to be done,
“Let’s do the deed today.”
i. Name the poem.
ii. Which figure of speech is used in last line?
iii. Name the poet.

B. No time to see, in broad daylight, 3

Streams full of stars , like skies at night.
i. Name the poem and the poet
ii. What do ‘stars in the stream’ refer to?
iii. Which figure of speech is used in last line?

Q12 Answer the following questions: 5x2=10

a. Why did Daddy want to be a nightwatchman?

b. How did the elephant help the forester??
c. Why did Gandhiji dislike games and gymnastics?
d. How can we command the present?
e. What does the speaker miss because of lack of time?

Q13 Value Based questions:

How did the young man’s goodness fetch him support in the time of 4
need?

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 or
‘First of all,you should be a good human being.’What according to
you should be the traits of a good human being?

Q14 Gandhiji’s father experiences mixed feelings for his son on receiving 5
the confession note. He pens down his feelings in the form of a diary
entry. Imagine yourself in his place and write a diary entry in about
80 words.

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