CBSE Class 6 English Sample Paper Set 19

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SECTION - A

Reading

A.I Read the following passage carefully :-

SO, YOU WANT TO BE A CARTOONIST ?

What writers struggle to say through a number of lines through newspaper columns, the cartoon manages in a pointed one – liner. Little  onder then, that the first thing most of us like to see when we pick up a newspaper is the cartoon. It may look simple, but making a cartoon is an art that requires a lot of hard work, training and a good sense of humour.

Cartoonists say that the cartoons that make us laugh the most are in fact the cartoons that are the hardest to make. Even the famous  artoonists like R.K. Laxman admit that making a cartoon is not a piece of cake. Laxman says he has to wait for over six hours, which includes spending a lot of time scanning newspapers and television channels before any idea strikes him. So how does one become a cartoonist? Which of us has the talent to make it ? How can we master the rib-tickling strokes and the funny one-liners ? How can we make people smile or laugh ? There are few colleges or schools for cartoonists. Most cartoonists come from art colleges, while some learn the craft on their own.

Most established cartoonists are of the view that no institute can teach you to make a cartoon. ‘You can pick up the craft, you may learn to sketch and draw in institutes, but no one can teach anyone how to make a good cartoon,’ says Uday Shanker, a cartoonist with Navbharat times newspaper. While basics like drawing and sketching can be learnt in an art college, and are important skills, these alone, do not make a good cartoonist. Because it’s a question of one’s creativity and sense of humour; two qualities one person simply may not have.

The advice the established cartoonists give is that just because you can sketch, don’t take it for granted that you will become a cartoonist.

A.1.1 On the basis of your reading of the passage, choose the answers that you consider the most appropriate for the following questions and write them in your answer sheets. (5x1=5)

a) What according to Laxman, is the challenge in creating a good cartoon ?

(i ) waiting for the right thought to emerge

(ii) browsing newspapers and television

(iii) getting the right kind of training

(iv) good drawing and sketching skills

b) Which of these words BEST describe this passage ?

(i ) humorous (ii) technical (iii) challenging (iv) informative

c) Of the many qualities that cartoonists should have, which of the

following is not referred to directly but can be understood after reading the passage ?

(i ) Knowledge of current technologies

(ii) Knowledge of educational institutions

(iii) Knowledge of news and current affairs

(iv) Knowledge of different languages

d) According to the passage, which group of people is of the opinion that one cannot learn to make a cartoon in institutions ?

(i ) many struggling writers (ii) highly creative artists

(iii) well-respected cartoonists (iv) all newspaper editors

e) ‘Don’t take it for granted that you will become a cartoonist.’ Choose the option that is closest in meaning to the sentence.

(i ) Don’t assume that you will become a cartoonist

(ii) Don’t hope that you will become cartoonist

(iii) Don’t believe that you will become a cartoonist

(iv) Don’t imagine that you will become a cartoonist

A.1.2. Complete the following statements on the basis of your reading of the passage:- (5x1=5)

a) Famous Cartoonists like R.K. Laxman admit that making a cartoon is not ____________________________ .

b) Most established cartoonists are of the view that no ______________ can teach you to make a cartoon.

c) While basics like ________________ and _______________ can be learnt in an art college, and are important skills, these alone, do not make a good cartoonist.

d) Making a cartoon is an art that requires a lot of _____________, training and ____________________.

e) ‘You can pick up the craft, you may learn to sketch and draw in institutes, but no one can teach anyone how to make a good cartoon,’ says _______________________

Ans. a) a piece of cake

b) institute

c) drawing and sketching

d) hard work, training and a good sense of humour

e) Uday Shanker

A.2 Read the following Poem carefully:-

MY COUNTRY

I ought to love my country

The land in which I live:

Yes, I am very sure my heart

Its truest love should give.

For, if I love my country,

I’ll try to be a man

My country may be proud of.

And if I try, I can.

She wants men brave and noble,

She needs men true and kind,

My country needs that I should be

The best man she can find.

Answer the questions given below after reading the poem :- (10x1=10)

a) What does the poet say about his country ?

a) The poet says that he should love his country and the land in which he lives.

b) Is the poet sure that he loves his country ?

b) Yes, the poet is sure to give his truest love to his country.

c) Why would his country be proud of him ?

c) As he would be a good man and serve his country.

d) Is the poet sure that he will be ‘a man’ ? How?

d) Yes, the poet is sure that he would be a man if he loved his country.

e) The pronoun ‘she’ in the poem refers to whom ?

e) 'She' in the poem refers to the country

f) What quality of men does the country need ?

f) The country needs brave, noble, true, and kind men.

g) What does the word ‘ought to’ mean ?

g) should

h) What does his country expect of the poet ?

h) His country expects the poet to be the best man she can find.

i) What is the name of your country ?

i) India

j) When you grow up, what would you wish to do for your country ?

j) I wish to serve my country sincerely as a patriotic citizen.

SECTION - B Writing

B.1. Your school is organising a tour to Rajasthan. Imagine you are Anupam / Anupama, the student Secretary of Class VI. Write a notice to be put up on the school notice board informing students about the tour, giving all the details.Your notice should not exceed 30 words. (4)

Content : 2

Format : 2

B.2. Imagine your school celebrated the Annual Day recently. Write a letter to your friend describing the function in about 120 words. (8)

Ans. Content : 3

Fluency : 2

Accuracy : 2

Format : 1

B.3. What is your formula for keeping good health ? Have you ever made a pact with the Sun ? When would you make a pact with the Sun like Saeeda in the story, ‘A Pact with the Sun” ? Write two paragraphs describing, ‘Importance of Sunlight in the Nature for keeping Good Health’. (8)

Ans. Content : 4

Fluency : 2

Accuracy : 2

SECTION - C Grammar

C.1. Do as directed :- (10x1=10)

a) A man at the door is asking to see you. (Rewrite the sentence using 'there' in the beginning.)

b) We _________________ see bacteria with our eyes.We ___________ look at them through a microscope. (Complete the above sentences using - cannot / has to / have to )

c) Mr. Sinha is 160 cm. tall.

Mr. Gupta is 180 cm. tall.

Mrs. Gupta is 160 cm. tall.

( Rewrite the above sentences (in one sentence) using - 'as tall as'.)

d) Write the opposite words of :-

blunt -

forget -

e) Write another word that has the same pronunciation but different

spelling as of the following :-

which -

fair -

f) Which animal runs the ___________________ (fast) ?

(Complete the above sentence using the correct form of the word

given in the bracket.)

g) Why don't you ______________ your ideas on paper ?

(Fill in the blanks choosing the correct phrase - set aside / set down / set up )

h) (Lots of) fruit have plenty of sugar, (some) citrus fruit are low in sugar. (Rewrite the sentence using 'most' and the clues given above.)

i) Use the phrase ‘carry on’ in a sentence of your own.

j) Write the plural of the word ‘thief ‘.

Ans. Do as directed :- ( 10x1=10)

a) There is a man at the door asking to see you.

b) cannot : have to

c) Mrs. Gupta is as tall as Mr. Sinha.

d) sharp ; remember 9consider any other relevant answer)

e) witch ; fare

f) fastest

g) set down

h) Most fruits have plenty of sugar but a few citrus fruits are low in sugar.

i) Accept any grammatically correct sentence.

j) thieves

C.2. Edit the following passage. Every line has an error. Identify the errors and write both the incorrect and correct words in your answer sheet. (8 x ½ =4)

                                                incorrect    correct

Sanjay mine six year old brother - ex- mine     my

(a) refuse to go to play. (a) ________ _________

(b) He simply do not have the time. (b) ________ _________

(c) He argue that one year consists (c ) ________ _________

(d) of 365 days. Games takes at least (d) ________ _________

(e) two hours a day. Sleep take (e) ________ _________

(f) eight hours. This come to a (f) ________ _________

(g) waste of 2920 hours, more then (g) ________ _________

(h) 121 days in a year. So, he didn’t (h) ________ _________

have time to go to play.

Ans . incorrect    correct

   (a) refuse      refuses

   (b) do            does

   (c) argue      argues

   (d) takes       take

   (e) take        takes

   (f) come       comes

   (g) then        than

   (h) didn’t     doesn,t

C.3. The words in the following sentences have been jumbled up. Arrange them so as to get meaningful sentences:- (2x 1 =2)

Example :

one / fell / day / a / farmer’s / well / donkey / into / down / a

One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well.

i) the / farmer / know / to / didn’t / do / cried / animal / the / and / what

ii) invited / he / neighbours / all / help / his / to / him

Ans  i) The animal cried and the farmer didn’t know what to do.

ii) He invited all his neighbours to help him.

C.4. Complete the following words filling in the blanks :- (4x ½ =2)

(a) ha _ n _ ed

(b) p _ n _ c

Ans. a) haunted

b) panic

C.5. Complete the following passage using the suitable form of words given in the brackets :- (4x ½ =2)

Few adventure sports offer the thrill, challenge and

(a) ______________________ (excite) of white water rafting.

(b) ________________ (seat) on a raft, one can splash down a

(c ) ___________________ (roar ) river, ride on roller -

(d) _________________ ( coast), wild rapids as well as experience moments of tranquillity.

Ans. (a) excitement

(b) seated

(c) roaring

(d) coaster

SECTION - D Literature

D.1 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:-

Last night, while I lay thinking here,

Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear

And pranced and partied all night long

And sang their same old Whatif song:

a) Who is the speaker of the above lines ? List out the happenings the speaker is worried about. (Mention any two.) ( 2 )

b) The speaker is trying to make an image of what she / he experiences. Pick out one image from the above given lines. What does the word ‘pranced’ in the above line mean ?

Ans a The speaker of the above lines is the poet Shel Silverstein / a child. (1+1)

* Whatif I'm dumb in school ?

* Whatif I get beat up ?

* Whatif I get sick and die ? (Consider any two)

b) Some Whatif's crawled inside my ear - image. (1+1)

'danced'

D.2. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :- (2x1=2)

There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no road he must take, no place he must go to, no time when he must come home.

A) a) Name the writer of the above lines.

    b) According to the poet, there are many things the child has to do. Mention any one.

B) Complete the following sentence. (2x1=2)

When at four in the afternoon I come back from the

(a______________,I can see through the gate of that house the

(b) ___________________ digging the ground.

Ans. A . a) Writer - Rabindranath Tagore (1)

            b) ( i) The child must come home at a fixed time.

                ( ii) He must not get his clothes dirty in the dust. (1)

B . a) the school (1)

     b) the gardener

D.3. (a) When Jumman’s aunt realised that she was not welcome in his house, what arrangements did she suggest ? What was the villagers’ reaction when the aunt explained her case to them ? ( 2 )

b) In the lesson, ‘Desert Animals’, how do desert animals survive without water? How does the camel survive when there is no water ?

Ans. (a) Aunt suggested that Jumman should pay her a monthly allowance so that she could set up a separate kitchen. Some villagers sympathised with her, others laughed at her and a few advised her to make it up with her nephew and his wife. (2)

(b) The desert animals find a way of coping with the harsh conditions. The gerbils live in burrows, beetles catch drops of moisture on their legs until the drops trickle down into their mouths. The hump helps the camel to survive in the desert by acting as storage containers. The hump contains the fat that nourishes the camel when food is  scarce. (2)

D.4. (a) What made the ghost speechless ? Why did Vijay Singh say ‘appearances can be deceptive’? ( 2 )

b) In what way is Pambupatti different from any other village? (2)

Ans. (a) The ghost was speechless when Vijay Singh said that he wanted to fight a ghost. Vijay Singh said it because the ghost didn’t appear all that strong to him. (2)

(b While the people in other villages clashed with one another, people of Pambupatti lived in peace. They did not fight in the name of religion or language. In this way, Pambupatti was different from any other village. (2)

D.5. In the story, ‘A Game of Chance’, why was the shop called ‘Lucky Shop’ ? In what way did the shopkeeper make a fool of Rasheed ? ( 4 )

OR

In the story, ‘What happened to the Reptiles’, how do we understand that ‘Each of us has a place in this strange, funny world of ours.’

Ans. • The shopkeeper wanted everybody to try their luck.

• There were discs on the table with numbers from one to ten facing down.

• All they had to do is to pay 50 paise and try their luck.

• The shopkeeper fooled Rasheed by taking all his money and giving objects of little value. (4)

OR

• Every animal is important in the Nature.

• Each animal has its own work to do to maintain balance in the Nature.

• All animals have their own role to play in the Nature to keep the environment clean.

• No animal can be selfish in nature.

• Unity is very important to survive in the Nature.

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