Divine Child International School, Adalaj

2022-2023
Subject: English Grade: VI Div: –––––– Quarterly Revision Worksheet

Section A Reading
Q.1 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

On the island of Crete near ancient Greece lived a king named Minos. King Minos had a terrible monster that
was half bull and half man called the Minotaur. He decided to build a prison to keep the beast. When he was
looking for a builder, he was told that there was only one man who could build for him the way he wanted it.
He was Daedalus, the most skilful builder and inventor those days in Greece. The palaces and gardens built
by him throughout the land were greatly admired for their beauty and craftsmanship.

When the king invited Daedalus, he sailed to Crete with his son Iracus. There on the island Daedalus built the
famous Labyrinth, a maze of winding passages so entangled and twisted that whoever went in could never
find the way out. And there they put the Minotaur.

Once the Labyrinth was finished Daedalus wanted to go back to Greece with his son, but the selfish king
Minos had made up his mind to keep the builder and his son in Crete. He wanted the two craftsmen to stay in
his kingdom and invent more wonderful devices for him. So, he locked Daedalus and his son in a high tower
by the sea. The king who knew that Daedalus was clever enough to find a way to escape from the tower also
ordered that any vessel that set sail from Crete be searched for stowaways before sailing.

1. Choose the correct option from the following.

1. King Minos had a terrible ––––––––––––––––––––––––––
a) Tiger b) Panther c) Monster d) Dog
2. Minotaur was half bull and –––––––––––––––––––––––
a) half cow b) half lion c) half beast d) half man

2. Answer the following questions:

3. Daedalus was the most skilled? Name the king of Greece?
4. Give the synonym of: a) Selfless: –––––––––––––––––
5. Give the synonym of: b) Intelligent: –––––––––––––––––––––––

Q2. Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:

I would like to eat grass

It's free and green and looks healthy
And horses and cows and sheep and small wriggly creatures
All eat grass.

But if I could eat grass, I might be bored and sometimes,

For a treat,
I would eat a nettle, a thistle, or a dandelion.
And maybe I'd think about how nice they taste,
But then someone, somewhere, would tell me
(because someone, somewhere, will always tell you such things)
That too many weeds are bad for you.
"Dandelions are bad for your teeth", they'd say.
"And thistles make you fat."

You might never get it right

When it comes to food,
Even if you could eat grass.
– J H Rice
1. Choose the correct option from the following questions:
1. What would the poet like to eat?
a) sandwich b) pizza c) grass d) jelly
2. _________________ are bad for your teeth.
a) Dandelions b) rose c) lilies d) sunflowers
3. And thistles make you __________________.
a) tall b) short c) thin d) fat

2. Answer the following questions:

4. What will the poet eat for a treat?
5. Find the word from the poem which is the synonym of ‘moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike
fashion.’ –––––––––– in stanza 1.

Q3. (A) Ram Yadav is the Head Boy of Vidhya Bhavan, New Delhi. He and some other students of the
school are touched by the plight of the poor 5 and the destitute in the state-run homes, and wish to make a
difference in their lives by lessening their sufferings. They decide to raise funds for this purpose. Write a
notice, not exceeding 50 words, making an appeal for generous donations.
OR
Q3. (B) Write a letter to your uncle describing your wonderful vacation that you recently took. You are
Sunil Khanna of R-512, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi.

Q4. Rearrange the following jumbled parts to make a meaningful sentence

1. uppermost/soil/layer/is/earth/the/of/the
2. it/plants/which/supports/food/provide/all living things/to/planet/on/this
3. several years/to become/but/fertile/takes/sail
4. soil/thus/foundation/earth/life/on/of/is/the/all
5. people/look at/tend to/you look/the way/yourself/at/you
6. brought up/oliver/was/workhouse/orphanage/run by/the/an/in

Q5. Identify the subject and predicate from the below sentence:
1. My family went to the zoo.
2. The weather was hot.
3. I saw the albino crocodile!
4. The elephants squirted water with their trunks.
5. The flowers smell nice.
6. Jimmy won the marathon race.
7. A dog barked at the squirrel.

Q6. Read the following sentence carefully and state its kind:
1. Does Mary like John?
2. Stop! Close the door.
3. What a funny story he told us!
4. I do not like coffee.
5. Why didn’t you go to the park?
6. Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago.
7. What is your favourite movie?

Q7. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow in one or two lines.

And I must rise and leave my dell,

And leave my dimpled water well,
And leave my heather blooms.
Alas! And as my house I neared,
How very big my nurse appeared.
How great and cool the rooms!

1) Mention a pair of rhyming words given in the passage above.

2) Mention any figures of speech found in the stanza given above.
3) Name the poet and the poem of the above lines.

Q8. Answer the following questions in short. (Word limit 30-40 words)
1. In the poem ‘My Kingdom’. Poets often repeat words to emphasize an idea. Which word does this poet
repeat many times to tell us who the speaker is?
2. In the chapter, ‘Through a Coloured Glass’. Name the places R.K. Laxman worked for. For how many
years did he draw for The Times Of India?
3. In the chapter, ‘The Blossom Tree’ In which city did King Brahmadatta live? What was King
Brahmadatta’s favourite tree? What fell into the King’s tea?
4. In the poem, ‘The Banyan Tree’. What would happen when the women would come to fill their jars? To
what is the dancing sunlight compared to? What is the meaning of ‘weedy margin’?