SHARDEIN SCHOOL

CLASS V
ENGLISH SAMPLE PAPER SECTION A : READING A 1 Read the following passage carefully Group life gave many advantages to man. It made the task of collecting food easier. Hunting wild and fast running animals with weapons like the lance or the bow and the arrow can produce good results only if several persons join hands. Some Red Indian Tribes hunt wild animals in this manner. They surround a herd of animals and begin to close upon them.When they come, they kill many of them. Also defence against danger and enemy can be better organized by a group of persons. Above all, the care of the young is possible in a group. Some members of the group particularly mothers, must stay at home to look after the children. They can do so only if those, who go out in search of food,share with them what they get. On the basis of your reading of the passage ,answer the following questions A1.1 Which type of animals are hunted by the group? A1.2 Name the weapons used by Red Indians ? A1.3 Why do mothers stay back at home? How do they get their share of food ? A1.4 Find words from the passage which have similar meaning as the following a) Benefits b) beasts c) protection d) many

A1.5 Taking information from the passage ,complete the following web chart E Effective hunting of wild animals Advantages of group life

A2 Read the following poem carefully: How poisonous is the smoke! It is harmful for the insects,human beings and trees, The earth is crying for losing the population and greenery, The diseases like diphtheria,cholera ana asthma are Increasing, How poisonous is the smoke! Because of plants dying we wont get food, And balance in nature also gets disturbed, And we will also die; How poisonous is the smoke! A2.1 Taking information from the above poem,complete the following paragraph by writing one suitable word in each blank . (6) The smoke is very . It harms human beings, trees and . . The population and the greenery is decreasing,so the earth is .. . Diptheria is one of the many that are increasing. Because of the smoke plants are dying, so we will not get .. . Soon we all .. . A2.2 Complete the following web diagram taking information from the poem. (4)

Harmful effects of smoke

SECTION B

WRITING

Decreases population

B 1 Write a letter to the editor of a daily newspaper regarding the poor conditions of the roads and streets in your locality. (7 ) B2 Imagine you are Raghav, the monitor of your class. The class teacher has asked you to write a notice informing the students of the class to bring Rs 10/- for buying Army Day Flags.You have to collect the money on February 16,2013 . (6) B 3 Write a composition on If I were invisible Or (7) The first time I performed on the stage SECTION C : GRAMMAR

C 1 a) What does the abbreviation IAS stands for ? (2) b) Write the meaning of the idiom Heart of stone .

C 2 a) Rearrange the words to make an interrogative sentence. (2) do what you food type of eat b) Circle the noun and state its kind. The elephant has great strength. C3 a) (2) Complete the collective noun The tourists were attacked by a _______________ of natives in Africa. c) Fill in the blank with suitable subject . _________________ ran through the field. C4 a) (2) Pick out the verb and state its kind.

She sings a sweet song. b) Fill in the blank with correct degree of adjective. Shimla is the ____________ (cold) place in this region.

C 5 a) Write the correct article (a ,an , the ) (2) ______ view of _______ Alps was breathtaking. b) Under the pronoun and state its kind . The king himself gave alms to the poor. C 6 a) Fill in the blanks with prepositions (2) Christians get presents _______ Christmas. ( in / on / at )

b) Replace the underlined phrase with an adverb and rewrite the sentence. We must all help the victims of the earthquake without delay. C 7 a) Join these sentences by means of suitable conjunction . (2) I have read the story . I forgot the title . b) Identify the tense . Reena has been studying for two hours. C8 (2) a) Change into passive voice . Unleaded petrol controls pollution . b) Change into direct speech . She said that she would sing a song. C9 (2) a) Punctuate the following sentence . The Indian team said hurrah we have won the match

b) C 10 (2)

Complete :

Unconscious is to ____________ as unseen is to seen .

a) Frame question with How Raju will go home on foot . b) Write similar meaning of petrified

SECTION D1 D2 D3 D4

D :

LITERATURE

Why could Mr Simpson not get a stamp from the machine ? What did policeman Jones do every Saturday ? You cant call it justice , said the Chief . Why did he say so ? Where does the boy floats his paper boats ?

D 5 The plane did not crash even though the pilot and the copilot were unable to fly it . Why ? D6 D7 What did Mr Junes and his wife do on the farm ? What do the following refer to

a) the wakening skies b) the leaping wealth of the tide D 8 write the rhyming words of glee , lights D 9 Why did no Swiss go past that road ? D 10 Complete : Even though it was a __________ and _____________ flight, two of the passengers became ______________