ATOMIC ENERGY EDUCATION SOCIETY

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT-2, (2015-16)

Date of Examination: 10th March, 2016

Total Printed pages:10

Subject: English Time: 2 hours Max. Marks: 50

Class: III Section: _________ Roll No. _________

Name: ___________________________________________

Invigilators signature: _____________________________

Marks obtained: _________________ out of ___________

Examiner’s signature: _____________________________

Checker’s signature: ______________________________

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 SECTION A – READING (10 MARKS)

A1. Read the passage carefully.

On a farm lived four good friends. A donkey, a dog, a cat and a cock. They all
loved to sing. “Why don‟t we all go to Bremen?” said the donkey one day. It is a
good place for musicians.

His friends agreed. By sunset, the four friends reached Bremen. They were
hungry. They came across an old farmhouse.

Inside the house they saw a band of thieves. They were having a feast. All over
the floor were gold coins and jewels.

“Let‟s scare them away,” said the dog. “Then we can eat their food. With the
treasure we will buy a house in Bremen.”

A1.1. Tick the correct options and fill in the gaps. (1 X 2 = 2M)

1) The four friends loved to __________________.

a)draw b) dance c) sing d) act

2) The friends thought that with the __________________ they would buy
a house.

a) measure b) treasure c) pleasure d) laughter

A1.2. Choose the correct words and fill in the gaps. (1 X 2 = 2M)

1) The donkey, the dog, the cat and the cock went to ________________
to become musicians. (London / Bremen)

2) The four good friends saw a band of __________________ inside the

old farmhouse. (thieves / soldiers)

A1.3. Answer the question. (1 X 1 = 1M)

1) What were the men doing inside the house?

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A2. Read the poem carefully.

Tooth Truth

I have a little space

in the middle of my face,

And in that space,

there used to be
a tooth.

It was little,
It was white,

And it just fell out one night,

and a fairy came and took it-
that‟s the truth!

The fairy left me money

when she took my tooth away
took it from the pillow it was under.
What do fairies want with teeth
that they get from underneath
my pillow as I‟m sleeping?
That, I wonder.

A2.1. Tick the correct options and fill in the gaps. (1 X 2 = 2M)

1) The child kept her tooth under the ___________________.

a) window b) pillow c) bed d) table

2) It was a little _________________ tooth.

a) light b) bright c) quite d) white

A2.2. Write two pairs of rhyming words from the poem in the blanks.

(1 X 2 = 2M)

1) ___________________ - ___________________

2) ___________________ - ___________________

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A2.3. Answer the question. (1 X 1 = 1M)

1) What did the fairy leave for the child when she took her tooth away?

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SECTION B – WRITING (15 MARKS)

B1. Make sentences with. (1 X 2 = 2M)

1) always - _______________________________________________

2) enough -_______________________________________________

B2. Look at the picture and write four sentences about what you see. (4M)

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B3. Write a paragraph of four sentences on how you would help to keep the
surroundings of your school clean. (4M)

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B4. Write a letter to your friend telling him/ her about your best friend in
school. Use the clues given in the brackets (studious, helpful, monitor,
good in music and dance). (5M)
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 SECTION C – GRAMMAR (10 MARKS)

C1. Choose the correct answer. (1/2 X 4 )= 2M)

1) It rained all _________________. (week / weak)

2) The sky was ________________. (dark / shady)

3) Penguins _______________ fly. (can / cannot)

4) We ______________ our heads to say a „No‟. (nod / shake)

C2. Do as directed. (1/2 X 8 = 4M)

1) The seals ________________ into the icy water.

(Use a suitable action word)

2) Ben took out one brush from a box of _______________.

(Fill in the blank with the plural form of the underlined word)

3) Alice laughed __________________ (harsh).

(Add –ly to the word in the bracket and fill in the gap)

4) Ratan Tata is a rich and ____________________ man (power).

(Add –ful to the word in the bracket and fill in the gap)

5) The dog scratched behind its ear with its _______________. (paw/ hoof)

6) There were thick and lovely woods of pine and fir trees. (Circle the
words that describe the woods)

7) __________________ knew which path to follow. So, they asked

somebody on the way. (Fill in the gap with the opposite of the underlined
word)

8) The geese flew with the net. ________________ were trapped in it. (Fill
in the gap with a word in place of the underlined word)

C3. Fill in the blanks. (1 X 2 = 2M)

1) The lamb gave a low _________________.

2) A spider lives in a __________________.

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C4. Rearrange the words to make meaningful sentences(1 X 2 = 2M)

1) write / some / going to / I am / letters

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2) calling / softly / are / birds / the

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SECTION D – LITERATURE (15 MARKS)

D1. Answer the questions based on the given extract. (1 X 4 = 4M)

Camel: Look at my feet. They are thick and padded. The hot sun does not burn
them.

Lion: My feet are padded too. Thorns don‟t prick them and I can run 80
kilometres an hour.

Camel: That is true. You can run 80 kilometres an hour in the forest but can you
run even a mile on the hot sand?

Lion: May be not.

1) Why doesn‟t the hot sun burn a camel‟s feet?

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2) Can a lion run on the hot sand?

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3) At what speed can a lion run?

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4) How does a lion‟s padded foot help him?

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D2. Fill in the blanks. (1 X 2 = 2M)

1) Mother, your baby is so very _______________________ .

2) The trains run over mountains and plains carrying _________________

and mail.

D3. Give one word for the following. (1/2 X 4 = 2M)

1) A box outside a person‟s house where letters are put.

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2) When children behave badly or do not do what they are told to do, they

are _________________ .

3) Wild animals and birds that are hunted for food or sport –

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4) One who travels in a spacecraft is an - ____________________

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D4. Answer the following questions in short. (1 X 3 = 3M)

1) What does the baby do with the pebbles?

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2) What did the tiger cub catch one night?

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3) Where does a camel store its food?

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D5. Arrange the sentences in the correct order and re-write them in the
space given below. (1/2 X 4 = 2M)

A man saw Meena and felt sorry for her.

Meena went with her brother up the hill.

She carried her brother on her back.

There was a holy place on the hill.

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D6. Correct the sentences. (1/2 X 4 = 2M)

1) The children caw while going to school.

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2) The horse was going to the village to buy some bread.

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3) The mother tiger and her small tiger cub lived near a mountain.

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4) Meena carried her brother because he was unable to see.

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ALL THE BEST

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