NAND VIDYA NIKETAN

ANNUAL EXAM
REVISION PAPER (2022- 2023)
ENGLISH
Class – V
General Instructions:
i) All questions are compulsory.

ii) Number the sections and questions correctly.

iii) Only answers to be written in the answer sheet.

SECTION A (READING)

1. Read the passage and answer the following questions:

A Rajput Boy
Pratap, a Rajput boy, lived with his parents in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
Riding on his white pony outside the town one day, he saw a
rainbow in the sky, and wandered off in search of the pot of gold
believed to be at its other end. He ended up getting lost in the
desert. He got off his pony and made a big pile of rocks and stones.
"Now I shall know if I'm going round and round in a ring ," he said
and rode off. (1)
Sometime later, he saw the pile of stones in front of him! (2)
Pratap looked at the sun. It was midday and the sun was almost
overhead. Which way was it moving? He knew Jodhpur was on
the east side of the desert. (3)
“I'll see which way the sun moves,” he said, “and then I'll go the
other way. That will take me to Jodhpur.” (4)
He watched the moving shadow cast by the pile of stones. “That's
the way I must go,” said Pratap and pointed to the east. (5)
He set off but all along the way, he stopped now and then and
made piles of stones at regular intervals . Whenever he looked
back, he saw the piles of stones stretching in a line across the desert
behind him, and it ensured he would not get lost. (6)
When he reached home, his parents were overjoyed to see their lost
child. They admired his cleverness in making piles of stones to
keep himself on track . (7)
Pratap sipped some water very slowly - water was very scarce in
their region - had some supper and went to bed. He dreamed that
he found the pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow. But the pot
contained something more precious than gold. It contained water -
lots and lots of lovely, cold water. (8)
 i) Why did Pratap look at the sun when he saw the pile of stones he
had made in front of him?
ii) From the events in the story, the reader can say that the child used
his ________ to reach home.(refer paragraph 7 for answer)
iii) Why did Pratap make a big pile of rocks and stones?
iv) Which of these expressions in the story means 'to work towards
achieving a particular result'?
a) wandered off in search of b) at regular intervals
c) round and round in a ring d) keep himself on track

SECTION B (WRITING)

1. Write a letter to the Principal of your school requesting

him to excuse you from the upcoming examinations
because you are unwell.

SECTION C (GRAMMAR)

2. Fill in the blanks with the suitable prepositions.

(among over between into below)
a. There are many children _________the volunteers.
b. The fox jumped ___________the wall.
c. Making a clear distinction ________ different ethnic and
cultural groups of the world is very difficult.
d. The cat plunged _____________ the tank to catch the fish.
e. There is a spider ________ the clock.

3. Choose the option that completes the sentence

meaningfully.
My mum said I should be ____________when riding my
1.
bicycle on the road than when riding it in our compound.

a. most careful b. more careful

c. careful d. carefuller
 2. Shatabdi runs ______________than Duronto Express.
a. punctually b. most punctually
b. punctuallier d. more punctually

4. Fill in the blanks after changing the noun into an

adjective.
a. We need to think of a ___________slogan for our
campaign. (catch)
b. Remove your ____________shoes before you come in,
please. (mud)

5. Do as directed:
a. Write the adjective and state its kind.
i. There are several flowers on the rosebush.

ii. The car did not cost me much money.

b. Write the adverb and state its kind.

Cough and cold is a fairly common problem among
i.
children.
ii. I have seen rarely such a creature.

6. Fill in the blanks with the positive, comparative or

superlative degrees of the adverbs given in the
brackets:
a. Of John and William, who lives __________to the
school.(near)
b. Of all the teams in the tournament, our team played the
______________. (well)
 c. Ashok ruled his kingdom ____________than any other
king. (bravely)
d. The sun shines ___________ than the moon. (brightly)

SECTION D (LITERATURE)

1. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow

Granny wore a pair of old glasses; she’d been wearing
them for well over ten years, but her eyes had grown
steadily weaker, and the glasses had grown older. They
were now scratched and spotted, and there was very
little she could see through them. Still, they were better
than nothing. Without them, everything was just a topsy-
turvy blur.
Of course Granny knew her way about the house and the
fields, and on a clear day she could see the mountains –
the mighty Himalayan snow peaks – striding away into
the sky; but it was felt by Mani and his father that it was
high time Granny had her eyes tested and got herself
new glasses.
“Well, you know we can’t get them in the village,” said
Granny.
a. Which adjective s is used to describe the Himalayan
snow-peaks and also state its kind?
b. Why did Mani and his father feel that Granny needed a
new pair of glasses?
c. Fill in the blanks to complete the sentence.
Everything seemed like a ____________blur to Granny
without her glasses.
d. Which word from the passage means ‘something that is
not clear’ ?
2. Write the words for the given meanings.

flashing blaze arrants topsy-turvy

a. upside down -
b. a word used to say how bad something is -
c. moving very fast -

3. Answer the following questions in detail:

a. Based on the chapter ‘The King’s Wish’ , why did the
King design the test for his sons?
b. In the poem ‘My Shadow’, why is there no shadow in the
morning?
c. Based on the chapter ‘Bhoomi’s Story’, what game does
the Moon play with Bhoomi?
d. Based on the chapter ‘Getting Granny’s Glasses’ , what
made Granny’s love for Mani so strong?

4. Who said this to whom?

a. “Father, we heard your wish. We want you to have time
to fish.”
b. “I can manage quite well”

5. Write true or false:

a. Granny was Mani’s dad’s mother. _____________

b. Moon circles around Bhoomi. ____________
c. The stars are actually tiny, glowing balls of fire, like sun.
________________
6. Make meaningful sentences using the words given
below.
a. blaze -
b. blur -
c. coward -

7. Fill in the blanks.

a. Sometimes big _______of rock and ice go flashing past
Bhoomi.
b. _____________was the nearest town with an eye hospital.