ENGLISH

TEACH FOR INDIA

GRADE 4
PAPER I

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Roll No.: ________________________________________________________

School: ________________________________________________________

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[Reading Time: 10 minutes] [Time: 60 minutes]

[Total Marks:35 ]
General Instructions:
This question paper consists of 35 questions.
Marks are indicated for each question separately.
Space has been provided in the question-cum-answer booklet itself to answer the
questions. Space for rough work also has been provided on each page.
This question paper contains 12 sheets (including the cover).
Write your name, roll number and school in the space provided above.
 TOTAL MARKS
Q. No. STANDARD DESCRIPTION BLOOMS LEVEL
MARKS RECEIVED

4.9a) Describe in depth a character, setting or

1. event in a text, drawing on specific details in Factual 1
the text
4.9a) Describe in depth a character, setting or
2. event in a text, drawing on specific details in Factual 1
the text
4.9a) Describe in depth a character, setting or
3. event in a text, drawing on specific details in Factual 1
the text
4.9a) Describe in depth a character, setting or
4. event in a text, drawing on specific details in Factual 1
the text
4.9a)  Describe  in  depth  a  character,  setting  or  
5. event  in  a  text,  drawing  on  specific  details  in   Inferential 1
the  text
4.9a) Describe in depth a character, setting or
6. event in a text, drawing on specific details in Inferential 1
the text
4.9.b) Describe the main them e of the text
7. Inferential 1
using details given in the text
4.10. b) compare ideas, events and characters
8. in the text with prior knowledge and Critical Thinking 1
experience
4.11 compare the authors perspective and
9. Critical Thinking 1
opinion with own
4.10 a) Describe the relationship between ideas,
10. Critical Thinking 1
events and characters in the text using clues
11. Grammar-Adjective Identify 1
12. Grammar- Question Tags Apply 1
13. Grammar-degree of comparison Apply 1
14. Grammar-type of sentences Compare/ Synthesize 1
15. Grammar-tenses Compare/ Synthesize 1
4.9a) Describe in depth a character, setting or
16. event in a text, drawing on specific details in Factual 1
the text
4.9a) Describe in depth a character, setting or
17. event in a text, drawing on specific details in Factual 1
the text
4.9a) Describe in depth a character, setting or
18. event in a text, drawing on specific details in Factual 1
the text
4.9a) Describe in depth a character, setting or
19. event in a text, drawing on specific details in Factual 1
the text
4.11 compare the authors perspective and
20. Inferential 1
opinion with own
21. 4.10.b) Compare ideas, events and characters in Inferential 1

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 the text with prior knowledge and experience
4.11 compare the authors perspective and
22. Inferential 1
opinion with own
4.11 compare the authors perspective and
23. Critical Thinking 1
opinion with own
4.12 describe the effect the text had on the
24. Critical Thinking 1
reader
4.11 compare the authors perspective and
25. Critical Thinking 1
opinion with own
26. Grammar- Adverbs Identify 1
27. Grammar-Adjectives Identify 1
28. Grammar-degree of comparison Identify 1
29. Grammar-question tags Identify 1
30. Grammar-type of sentences Apply 1
31. Grammar-tenses Apply 1
32. Grammar-adjectives Apply 1
33. Grammar-adverbs Apply 1
34. Grammar-identify correct sentence Compare/Synthesize 1
35. Grammar-punctuation Compare/Synthesize 1

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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
"If God had blessed you with sons, we wouldn't have to break our fingers over
wedding dresses," says Auntie as she sews the hem of the skirt. Her sons, ages
three and five, play noisily nearby.

Mama ignores her and sets the silk aside, for Dadi will come soon from tending the
camels, and she'll be hungry.

Auntie dips her tall, graceful frame through the doorway of our hut and comes out
with a large wooden bowl. Squatting before the fire, she kneads water into wheat
flour to make chapatis. "I worry," Auntie goes on, her fingers flying over the
yellow silk. "You'll spend your life's savings on two dowries and two weddings.
And who will take care of you when you're old?"

Mama pulls at the dough and slaps it into disks. She whirls the flat bread onto the
black pan over the fire.

"Mama and Dadi are happy," I say, sticking my chin out.

"What do you know?" Auntie asks, folding her pudgy arms over her bosom.
"You're nothing but a twig” says Aunty.

I said, “They laugh and sing. Aren't you happy, Mama?"

Mama smiles, and her eyes are merry in the glow of the fire. Auntie almost never
laughs.

"Don't worry, little one," says Mama. "You and Phulan are better than seven sons."
Auntie purses her lips and picks up her sewing again.

1. Where was Dadi at the beginning of the story? (_____/1 mark)

(A) She was making chapatti.
(B) She was sewing a dress for Phulan
(C) She was tending camels
(D) She was playing with Auntie’s sons.

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2. What did Auntie do when Mama told that her daughters are better than
seven sons? (_____/1 mark)
(A) She told Mom that she was wrong
(B) She walked out of the house
(C) She pursed her lips and started sewing again.
(D) She waited for Dadi to come back

3. Complete the sentence from the passage. (_____/1 mark)

Mama smiles ______________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

4. Complete the sentence from the passage. (_____/1 mark)

_________________________________________________________
_______________________, comes out with a large wooden bowl.

5. "If God had blessed you with sons, we wouldn't have to break our
fingers over wedding dresses," says Auntie.
What does this tell you about Auntie? (____/1 mark)
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

6. Why do you think Mama felt that her daughters were better than seven
sons? (_____/1 mark)
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

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7. “You and Phulan are better than seven sons.” What is this excerpt
about? (_____/1 mark)
(A) One daughter is better than seven sons
(B) There is no difference between a daughter and a son
(C) Only daughters are important
(D) One should have seven sons instead of one daughter

8. How do you think the Auntie’s behavior towards the daughters would
affect them in the future? (_____/1 mark)
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

9. If you were Phulan, how would you change your Auntie’s opinion
about girls? (_____/1 mark)
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

10. What is the relationship between Mama and Auntie?

(_____/1 mark)
(A) Auntie worries about Mama and her daughters
(B) Auntie likes to say mean things to Mama
(C) Auntie doesn’t like Mama
(D) Auntie is indifferent towards Mama and her daughters

11. Underline one adjective in the given sentence. (_____/1 mark)

She whirls the flat bread onto the black pan over the fire.

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12. Fill in the blank with a suitable question tag. (_____/1 mark)

Mama and Dadi are happy, _______________? (aren’t they, are they)

13. Fill in the blank with the right degree of comparison of adjective in the
bracket. (_____/1 mark)
You and Phulan are ________ than seven sons. (Good)

14. Tick the interrogative sentence from the two sentences given below.
(_____/1 mark)
(A) Who will take care of you when you're old?
(B) Don’t worry, little one!

15. Tick the sentence in the past continuous tense.

(_____/1 mark)
(A) Dadi will come soon from tending the camels.
(B) Dadi was tending the camels.
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

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Read the following passage and answer the questions.

Food Chain

A food chain is a link between plants and animals. It starts with a plant. The
next part of the link is a plant eater. When the prairie plants were uprooted,
the animals that depended on them lost their food source. So while the
farmers produced more food for people, they broke the animals’ food chain.

A food chain is part of a bigger system called a food web. That web links the
living things in an environment. The herbivores in that system depend on the
plants. If the plants are removed, the herbivores cannot survive.

When herbivores lose their food, they die out. Then the carnivores, the
animals that eat other animals, lose their food, too. Wolves used to depend
on the deer for their food. Without deer, the wolves lost their food. Foxes
died out, too. They had hunted birds, even catching ducks when they were
on the side of ponds.

Remove just one kind of plant from an environment and you disrupt a food
chain. Plow up the land and you destroy the whole system.

16. What are herbivores? (_____/1 mark)

(A) Prairie plants
(B) Animals that eat plants
(C) Animals that eat other animals
(D) Animals that eat both plants and animals

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17. What happens when you remove one kind of plant from the
environment? (_____/1 mark)
(A) You start a new food chain
(B) You completely stop the food chain
(C) You sow another plant and balance the food chain
(D) You disrupt the food chain

18. Fill in the blank in the sentence below (_____/1 mark)

When a prairie plant was uprooted, _____________________________
_________________________________________________________

19. Fill in the blank in the sentence below (_____/1 mark)

The web __________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

20. What does the author mean when he says: (____/1 mark)
“Plow up the land and you destroy the whole system.”
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

21. What does the author want his readers to be careful about? (_____/1 mark)

_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

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22. The author’s purpose to write this passage was: (_____/1 mark)
(a) To help us understand importance of food chain
(b) To give us information about the food chain and the food web
(c) To give us solutions to save the food chain
(d) To give us ways to disrupt the food chain

23. Do you believe in saving the environment? Why or why not? Give
examples. (_____/1 mark)
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

24. After reading this article, would you be selective in your actions?
How? Give examples. (_____/1 mark)
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

25. Understanding of the food chain would NOT necessary lead to which of
the following? (_____/1 mark)
(A) A decrease in harmful activities in the environment
(B) Increased rational thinking
(C) Increase awareness of the importance of food chain
(D) Both (a) and (b)

26. Underline one adverb. (_____/1 mark)

I regularly clean my school surroundings.

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27. Underline one adjective. (_____/1 mark)
A food chain is part of a bigger system called a food web.

28. Fill in the blank with the appropriate degree of comparison.

(_____/1 mark)
An ocean is certainly ____________ than a sea. (big)

29. Fill in the blanks with the correct question tags from the brackets.
(_____/1 mark)
You should respect the environment, ______________? (wouldn’t you/
shouldn’t you)

30. Change the following sentence into an imperative sentence/ command

sentence (_____/1 mark)
Will you please come here?
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

31. Rewrite the following in present continuous tense. (_____/1 mark)

Foxes hunted birds on the side of the pools.
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

32. Use correct form of adjective in the bracket to fill in the blank.
(_____/1 mark)
China is ______ than India but Russia is the __________ country.
(big)

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33. Use the adverb form of the verb in the brackets to complete each
sentence. (_____/1 mark)
I __________ (usual) go to bed by 10’o clock.

34. Tick the correct sentence. (_____/1 mark)

(A) Riya lives more near to school than Nisha.
(B) Riya lives nearer to school than Nisha.

35. Tick the sentence with the correct punctuation.

(_____/1 mark)
(A) Without deer, the wolves lost their food.
(B) Without Deer, the Wolves lost their food.

(_________/ 35 marks)
marks)

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