MINORITY ENGLISH SCHOOL

ST
I SEMESTER EXAM ( 2019-2020)
Std- 5th Marks – 40 M
Subject- English Div- ________
Name - _________________________________________________Roll no - _________

Q.1 A) Fill in the blanks –

1. Gulliver worked as a ____________________________________________

2. It required fifteen hundred ____________________________________ to pull Gullivers cart

B) Match the phrases in column ‘A’ with their meanings in column ‘B’-

A B

1. quite a scare a. one who get up late

2. not an early rises b. frightening

C) Use the words given below to make sentences-

1. prosperous-

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2. affection-

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Q.2 A) Who said these words to whom-

1. “I sold the rice to my customers”

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2. “Sister, you know that I have a very prosperous business”

B) Tick the correct option for each of the following question-

1. How is its appetite?

a. Its just nibbles

2. Its appetite is hearty

3. Its just gobbles

2. What does the insect eat?

a. It lives on green leaves

b. It lives on nectar

c. It lives on weeds and wattle gum

3. Who has seen the triantiwontigongolope?

a. None of us have seen it

b. Dennis the poet has seen it

c. C.J Dennis the poet has seen it

C) Write the word or phrase that means the same as the following-

1. Collect and treat rubbish to reproduce useful material _________________________________________

2. Small bits of rubbish strewn all around ________________________________________________

Q.3 A) Answer the following questions-

1. What common qualities did the three brothers have?

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2. How was Gulliver taken to the city?

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3. What difficulties do the people in the play face in the morning?

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B) Use Its or It’s and complete the sentences-

1. _______________ head is very big

2. ________________manner is disgraceful

C) Find the opposites of the words –

1. earned X ___________________________________

2. Begun X ___________________________________

D) List as many words as you can (at least 3 each) that will go with the given adjective-

1. long - ________________________________________________________________________________

2. only - ________________________________________________________________________________

Q.4 A) Write the opposites of the following adverbs-

1. often X ____________________________________

2. honestly X __________________________________

B) Write any one of the stories, not as told by Gulliver, but by some other person?

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GRAMMAR
C) State whether the following sentences are Affirmative (A) or Negative (N)

1. Shamu is a hardworking farmer _____________

2. No one can live without water ____________

D) Rewrite the following as Interrogative sentences-

1. The part will not be there tomorrow

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E) Change the following into exclamatory sentences using ‘what’, ‘how’, ‘alas’-

1. It is a horrible dream

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2. A whale is a huge mammal

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F) Identify the following sentence as a command, request, advice or wish-

1. Silence please __________________________________

2. Hope you stand first in the class ____________________________

Q.5) Write the composition on – (any 1)

1. My Mother 2. If I were a doctor

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