KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN, RAIPUR REGION

KV_________________ : SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT I

CLASS : VI MARKS :60
SUBJECT : ENGLISH TIME : 2hrs 30mins.

Instructions:-
This question paper consists of four sections.
Section A Reading -15 m.
Section BWriting -15 m.
Section C Grammar -10 m
Section DLiterature -20 m

SECTION A (READING) 15MARKS

Q 1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions that follow:
(5
Marks)

Mobiles Everywhere

Mobiles phones are now everywhere. These are with everyone every minute. Mobiles phones have
become very cheap, so it is no more problem to have it. Biggest advantage is that these can be
carried anywhere. We can talk to a distant person within seconds. You just have to dial his phone
number. Undoubtedly, mobile phones are a big help but these can become bad and harmful if used
unwisely. For example, bad characters are also using mobile for wicked purposes. Young boys and
girls keep chatting on phone for long hours, thereby wasting their precious time as well as parents
hard-earned money. No doubt, mobile phones are a blessing, but only if used judiciously. It all
depends how we use our mobiles. It is in our own hands to make it a boon or a bane.

1. Why is there no problem in having mobile phones?

2. What is the biggest advantage of mobile phones?
3. What do young girls and boys do with mobile phone?
4. Pick out a similar word from passage for :-
a) far
b) not costly
5. Pick out an opposite word for:-
a) good
b) small

Q 2. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions from the options given
below:
(5 Marks)

HOLI

Holi is a very colourful and enjoyable festival. It is the festival of colours, fun and frolic. People
apply colours on each other faces. Children and some adults also play with coloured water. There is a

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story about the festival. On this day, Prahlad, the child devotee of lord Vishnu, escaped from being
burnt to death while sitting in the lap of Holika. She had a boon which made her fire proof, when she
tried to burn Prahlad Vishnu got angry. Lord Vishnu took his boon. So Holika was burnt to death .I
eagerly await the Holi festival in March.

1. Holi is a festival of ___________________

A) Lights B) Colours C) Water D) Fire

2. The story about this festival is on __________________

A) Sri Ram B) Prahlad C) Hanuman D) Ganesh

3. Who had a boon which made him/her fire proof?

A) Prahlad B)Holika C) Child D) Festival

4. Write a word from the passage similar to Happy

A) Unhappy B) Colourful C) Enjoyable D) Boon

5. Who is burnt to death?

A) Holika B) Prahlad C) Child D) Devotee

Q 3.Read the given passage carefully and complete the following sentences.- (5 Marks)

Murlidhar Devdas Amte, better known as Baba Amte, was educated to be a lawyer. One day,
when he was quite young, a fierce tiger attacked him in the forest. But he was not afraid and
somehow managed to escape. He was very proud of the courage he had shown until the day he
saw a leper living in ditch. He felt afraid to touch him and help him. It was then he realized that
he was not really brave person. What courage could he claim to have when he couldn`t help a
fellow human being? Amte took the leper home and treated him. This experience brought about a
drastic change in his life. He now began to devote himself to the service of the poor and the sick.

Amte gave up legal practice in 1949.He took training in Calcutta in the treatment of leprosy. He
then founded Anandvan, the forest of joy, a township near Nagpur in 1950. There is now new
hope for leprosy patient. From just a handful of patients in 1950 the number has gradually risen
to over two thousand.

a. The full name of Baba Amte is ________________ .

b. He was very proud of his courage until _____________________ .

c. In Calcutta he took a special training in __________________________ .

d. In 1950, he founded a township for lepers which is called ________________.

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e. From just a handful of patients the number has _____________________ .

SECTION B- Writing 15 marks

Q 4. You are Raman/Rama, the head boy/girl of your school. Your school is organizing a
Dance competition. Draft a notice inviting the school students and giving the details of it.
(4 Marks)

Q 5. Write a paragraph on any one of the following . (5 Marks)

My Pet Animal or Tansen

Q 6. Write a letter to your friend inviting him for your birthday party. (6 Marks)

SECTION- C (GRAMMAR) 10 MARKS

Q 7. Complete the following phrases with a suitable word: (3 Marks)

Eg: a fleet of ships.

a.A _________________ of flowers .

b. A _________________ of wolves.

c. A _________________ of sticks.

Q 8.Make nouns from the words given below by adding ness or ity or ty. (3 Marks)

(choose the correct options).

a. Kind 1.Kindy 2. Kindity 3. Kindness 4. Kindty

b. Active 1.Activate 2.Activity 3. Activty 4.Activeness

c. Cruel 1. Cruelty 2.Cruelity 3.Cruelness 4 Cruelly

Q 9. Write the opposite word for (2 Marks)

a. Identified b. Trained

Q10. Rearrange the jumbled words (2 Marks)

a. should/ neat / be / clean / we / always / and

b. learning/ a/ school / is / temple / of

SECTION D ( LITERATURE ) 20 Marks

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Q 11. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions from the given options.
(3 Marks)

We hated one another

The afternoon-turned black
Then suddenly my brother
Thumped me on my back
And said, Oh, come along.
We cant go on all night
I was in the wrong
So he was in the right.
1. The persons who hated were the
a. The poet and her friend c. The poet and her brother
b. The poet to herself d. The poet and her father
2. Name the poem and the poet of the given extract.
a. Beauty by E-Yeh-Shure c. A house A Home by L.M.Halli
b. The Quarrel by Eleanor Farjean d. The Kite by Hassj Behn
3. The afternoon turned black means-
a. The day became black.
b. The afternoon became sad and tensed.
c. The afternoon was very good.
d. The afternoon became peaceful.

Q 12. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow- (3 Marks)
After only one swallow of liquid he stopped shivering and did a little dance in the middle of the
floor.
1. Name the lesson from which this extract has been taken.
2. Who did the dance after having a swallow of the liquid?
3. What was the name of the liquid and who gave him the liquid?

Q 13. Answer the following questions.(any four) (8 Marks)

a. Why did the dog feel the need for a master?
b. Why did the little man grant Patrick a wish?
c. How did Mr. Ray communicate with the customer?
d. How did the King reward the new governor?
e. What abilities must an astronaut have according to the journalist?

Q 14. Say what you feel about home work. Do you think it is useful? (6 Marks)
OR
Write a paragraph on Beauty.