CBSE Class 6 English Sample Paper Set 15

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Section A (Reading)

Read the given poem carefully and complete the sentences given below:

The Arrow and the Song

I shot the arrow in the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For, so swiftly it flew, the sight

Could not follow it in its flight

I breathed a song into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For who has sight so keen and strong,

That it can follow the flight of song.

Long, long afterward, in an oak

I found the arrow, still unbroken;

And the song, from the beginning to end,

I found again in the heart of a friend.

                         Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

a) The poet shot ______________

b) The arrow _________________

c) ‘The poet breathed a song ‘into the air’ means _______

d) He found long afterward ____________

e) The poet found the song in ____________

Section B (Writing)

Topics

1) Design a poster

2) Notice Writing

3) Biography

4) Article Writing

1. You are Kirti studying in class VI A, you have lost an expensive citizen watch in the school playground. The watch has a silver dial and brown strap. Prepare a poster announcing an award for the finder.

2. You are the secretary of the debating club. The Annual Inter-School Debate to be held in your school. Write a notice and include details of time, place and date.

3. You are Ema. Write an article for your school Magazine on the need and importance of sports in 150 words.

4. On basis of the information given below, write a biographical sketch in about 180 words.

• Name : George Washington

• Born : February 22, 1732 Westmoreland Country, Colony of Virginia

• Died : December 14, 1799 (aged 67) Mount Vernon, Virginia

• Spouse: Martha Dandridge Custis

• Occupation: Soldier (officer)

First President, USA

In office April 30, 1789

March 4, 1797, American Revolutionary war.

Section C (Grammar)

Topics Covered

1) The Tense

2) The Pronoun

The Pronouns

a) Fill in the blanks with suitable pronouns.

1. The small child was crying for ____________ mother.

2. Sita has returned the book which you lent ______________.

3. You must write __________ letters carefully.

4. She _________ did the work.

5. Rahul completed his homework _______________.

6. We offered to help ______________ in their difficulty.

b) The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line. Find the incorrect word and write it along with the correction. Do not forget to underline the correction. (Pronouns)

You am sorry to bring to a)____________

my notice the very bad condition b)____________

of their locality. I contacted the c)____________

municipal authorities and we assured d)____________

me that she would look into the e)_____________

matter. However he regret to say f)_____________

that nothing has been done. g)_____________

The Tenses

a) Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the simple or continuous form of the verb.

1. The Indians ______________ in India. (live)

2. He ___________ to office every morning. (go)

3. Jack __________ a novel now. (read)

4. Some birds ________ every year. (migrate)

5. My aunt __________ with us for a few weeks. (live)

b) Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of verb given in the bracket.

1. She ______________________ absent for a month.

(past perfect of be)

2. Manu ___________________ for Mumbai tonight.

(present continuous of ‘leave’)

3. The train ____________________ before he reached the station.

(past perfect of ‘leave’)

4. Seema ______________ her work.(present perfect of ‘complete’)

5. Raju __________________ a novel now.(present continuous of ‘read’)

6. Mother ________________ me a gift yesterday.(simple past of ‘give’)

7. My friends __________ softly when I entered into the class.(past continuous of ‘talk’)

c) Complete the following passage by using the suitable form of verb given in bracket.

The ghost ________(make) his second appearance on Sunday night shortly after the boys _________(go) to bed. They were suddenly alarmed by the fearful crash in the hall. Rushing downstairs, they ________(find) that a large suit of gold armor _________(become) detached from its stand and _________(fall) on the stone floor.

Section D (Literature)

Topics covered

1. The boy who boasted (Poem)

2. The miracle merchant (Prose)

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow :

1. “The American President told me next June

I can go in a rocket and visit the moon”

a. What did the American President promise?

b. Whom does he refer to ?

c. Write the name of the month given in extract.

2. “ We even began to feel sorry when he had to be taken school in a sorry”

a. Whom does ‘he’ refer to ?

b. Why was he taken to school in lorry?

c. Name the poem and the poet.

3. ‘His brain was no bigger,

I’d say than a prune.’

a. Whom does ‘I’ refer to ?

b. Give the meaning of the word ‘ prune’

c. To what is his brain compared?

4. ‘Miss Martlet wants a copy of the inspiration on its blade. I wish you would take it to her; my hands are all oil.”

a. Who said these words to whom ?

b. Give the meaning of the word ‘inspiration’.

c. What does ‘it’ refer to ?

5. ‘I’ am glad we’re alone, I wanted to ask you’

a. Whom does ‘I’ refer to ?

b. What did the speaker want to ask ?

c. Whom does ‘we’ refer to?

6. ‘The excellent Sturridge a nuisance’

a. Who was Sturridge ?

b. Why did Louis Call Sturridge as a nuisance ?

c. Name the author.

7. ‘And he almost arrived at a premature death

From boasting so much that he ran out of breath’

a. Explain ‘premature death’ in your own words. Why was John Braggar threatened by it ?

b. Complete the following sentences :

I’m quickest at sums ______________________but _________________

8. “He would only just manage to squeeze through the door ! We were sure that it could not increase anymore”

a. What was ‘it’? Did it stop increasing?

b. Why did the children begin to feel sorry for the boy?

c. How was he brought to the hall?

9. ‘No a hen has come between them’

a. Whose words are there?

b. Whom does ‘them’ refer to ?

c. What is the role of a hen here?

10. “My dear Louis, you will be clever if you get Jane out of this house before Thursday.”

a) Is Louis willing to perform the task given to him?

b) What does Louis expect in return from his aunt?

Writing Task

1. Write the summary of the poem ‘The Boy who boasted’.

2. Is this poem ‘The Boy who boasted’ written by Charles Thomson a humorous one? Give reasons to support your answer?

3. Imagine yourself as ‘Louis’ from the lesson ‘The Miracle Merchant’ and write a diary entry about how you had succeeded to get rid of Jane Martlet from the house before Thursday.

4. Write the character sketch of Mrs. Beauwhistle and Louis Courcet.

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