Summative Assessment-1(2011-2012)
Subject: English
Grade: VI
SA1ENG0611SET2QP
Max. Marks: 80
Time: 2 ½ Hrs
30-Nov-2011
General Instructions:
 This question paper consists of 6 printed pages.
 All answers to be written in the answer sheet provided.
 Read the questions and options provided carefully before answering.
SECTION-A READING(20 marks)
A.I. Read the given passage carefully:
THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES
The commonwealth Games is a multinational, multisport event. Held
every four years, it involves the elite athletes of the Common Wealth of
Nations. There are currently 54 members of the Commonwealth of Nations
and 71 teams participate in the Games. Only six teams have participated in
all Commonwealth Games held so far. These are Australia, Canada, England,
New Zealand, Scotland and Wales.
As well as many Olympic sports, the Games also include some sports
that are played mainly in Commonwealth countries, such as lawn bowls,
rugby sevens and netball.
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is the organization that
is responsible for the direction and control of the Commonwealth Games.
The first such event, then known as the British Empire Games, was held in
1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The name changed to British Empire and
Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name of the
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Commonwealth Games in 1978.
Complete the following sentences as briefly as possible.
1. The Commonwealth Games are held after every------------------------2. There are------- nations and----------teams that participate in
Commonwealth Games.
3. ---------------- are the teams that have participated in all
Commonwealth Games.
4. The Commonwealth Games were initially referred as------------------5. The word in the above passage that means’ accountable’ is----------A.2.
Read the given poem carefully:
A Child’s Evening Prayer
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay,
God grant me grace my prayers to say:
O God! Preserve my mother dear
In strength and health for many a year;
And, O! Preserve my father too,
And may I pay him reverence due;
And My I my best thoughts employ
To be my parents’ hope and joy;
And O! Preserve my brothers both
From evil doings and from sloth,
And may we always love each other
Our friends, our father, and our mother:
And still Lord, to me impart
An innocent and grateful heart,
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That after my great sleep I may
Awake to thy eternal day!!!!
____Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Read the questions given below and write the option you consider the most
appropriate in your answer sheet.
1
2
3
4
5
What does the poet pray for the mother?
a)to give her health and strength
b) to save her from evil spirits
c) to pay her reverence
d)to give her a kind heart
What does he pray for her brothers?
a)strength and health
b)save from evil doings and sloth
c) love each other
d)to be innocent and grateful
What does the poet pray for himself?
a) to give him peaceful sleeps
b)to impart innocent and grateful heart
c) to impart him strength
d)to be kind and save from sloth
What does the phrase ‘thy eternal day’ mean?
a)God’s unlimited love and happiness
b)God’s abode
c)God’s wrath
d)God’s mercy
Which word in the above poem means ‘awe’?
a)preserve
b)sloth
c)reverence
d)employ
Section-B WRITING (20 marks)
B.1. Complete the following dialogue :( 10 marks)
Bhoomi (a) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------Shopkeeper: Which type of dresses do you like to see?
Bhoomi (b) -------------------------------------------------------------------------Shopkeeper: ok, Ma’am. We have some latest collections.
Bhoomi: Can you show me some different colours of this dress?
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Shopkeeper(c) -------------------------------------------------------------------Bhoomi (d) ---------------------------------------------Shopkeeper: It costs 150 dirhams.
Bhoomi (e) -------------------------------------------------------------------------Shopkeeper: If that is the reason you may come after two weeks for a
better choice.
Bhoomi: Alright and Thank you for your help.
B.2. As Totto - Chan, write a page in your diary expressing what you experienced on
the first day in train school. (10 marks)
SECTION- C GRAMMAR (20 Marks)
C.1.In the passage given below one word has been omitted in each line. The place
where a word has been omitted has been indicated with a’/’.Write the word
omitted in your answer sheet.
Many people/ have grown up in
Multi-child families think that/single
e.g.: who
a)------ -------
Child family/a very fortunate one.
b) -----------
They mention such benefits/lack
c) ---- --------
Of competition/parental love in
d)----------
Such families. According / them each
e)------------
Of the children possesses/large wardrobe f)----------For keeping his or her clothes. But/picture g)----------Is not so rosy.Inspite of getting
Everything these children/ very lonely
And long for company.
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h)---------------
C.2.Fill in the blanks with correct degree of adjectives given in brackets:
1. Mr. Kumar is----------- (old) than Mr. Chopra.
2. Sneha is as----------- (tall) as Mary.
3. Mount Everest is the-------------- (high) peak in the world.
4. Sohan is-------------- (helpful) than anyone else in the class.
5. This box is so---------- (heavy) that I can’t move it.
6. This dress is-------------- (expensive) than that one.
C.3. Fill in the blank with the correct form of verb in the bracket:(5)
1. Rekha and Madhu ------------------- (is/are) sisters.
2. Slow and steady------------------------ (win/wins) the race.
3. The galaxy------------------------------- (glow/glows) brightly.
4. The army ---------------------- (march/marches) smartly.
5. The poet and the philosopher---------------- (is/are) dead.
C.4.Pick out the verbs in the following sentences and tell in each case whether the
verb is Transitive or Intransitive. Where the verb is Transitive, note the Object:
1. Bill is watching a movie.
2. Sally paints.
3. Tom struggled at his new school.
4. The ballerinas dance wonderfully.
5. The movie is about to begin so we will eat our ice –cream in the car.
SECTION-D LITERATURE (20 marks)
D.1.Explain with reference to context:
1.’Once a pitying bird dropped
Down an acorn into her lap’.
a) Who is ‘her’ in the above lines?
(1 mark)
1. Elizabeth Brewster
2. Gatrey Ketcheson
3. Bill Naughton
b) Why did the bird drop and acorn?
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( 1 mark)
1. Out of pity
2. Accidently
3. For her younger ones
c) What happened to the acorn?
(1 mark)
1. She ate it
2. Young ones of the bird took it
3. None of the above
2.’Come in and I’ll tell you’, he said. I walked across to his office.
a) Who is ‘he’ and ‘I’ in the above lines?
1. Reporter and Ved Mehta
2. Joe Red and Ved Mehta
3. Ed and Reporter
b) Who is Joe Red?
1. Director of the boy’s club
2. The life guard
3. The reporter
c) Explain the context.
1) Arkansas Democrat would like to get the picture of diving
2) He wanted to teach how to dive
3) He wanted to tell Ved Mehta about other divers
D.2 Answer the following: (9 marks)
1. What made Tony unhappy? Why?
2. Who did the eight winds belong to? How did the King of Aeolia get them?
3. Describe Gatrey’s life in the woods.
D.3. Answer the following questions: (5 marks)
1What problems were faced by Sushil when the wish was granted?
2. How did Radhamukund succeed in buying the property back?
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