BAL BHAVAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Sec – 12, Dwarka, New Delhi – 75

Sample Paper (2017 – 18)

“Honesty is the best Policy”

Name: _______________ Roll No.: ______________

Class: VI Time: 90 mins.
Subject: ENGLISH M.M.: 50
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Q1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions: (5)
Even in very early times, people in the rest of the world knew something about India. At first,
most of the men who could tell them about life in India were traders. We know, for example
that businessmen from Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro went to the cities of Mesopotamia and
seem to have spent some time there. Later Greeks, who had served in the invading armies,
carried home news about the country they had stayed in and the people they had seen. They
talked about the beliefs and ideas of the Indian people. Some of them took home small statues
and other beautiful objects. Some even studied in Indian cities.
In all these ways, Indian culture began to be known in the rest of the world. In Greece and
then later on in the Roman Empire, rich people were eager to buy Indian cotton cloths, pearls
and jewels as well as elephants, lions, tigers, monkeys, parrots and peacocks. By the
beginning of the first century AD, India was carrying on quite a big trade with Rome. The
remains of a Roman trading station have been found at Arikamedu, a village a few miles
south of Pondicherry. Even now, many centuries later, the children in Arikamedu sometimes
scratch the soil after rain, looking for treasure. The lucky ones now and then find Roman
coins, beads and bits of pottery which are almost 2000 years old. You can see some of the
things which have been found at Arikamedu in the Chennai museum.

I. Answer the following questions:

a) Who were the first people to tell the world about India?
b) Name two more groups of people who took home news about India.
c) Why do the children of Arikamedu scratch the soil?
II. Unscramble the following words:
a) kapcceo b) dviignna

Q2. Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions: (5)
Water pollution is a major problem of modern times. The pollution that enters our waterways
comes from various radioactive wastes from reactors, chemical wastes from factories, wastes
from hospitals and chemical sprays applied to crops. Everyday a huge volume of chemical
waste is poured into the nation’s waterways. When mixed with domestic and other waste, the
waste becomes even more polluted .The chemicals added to the river makes the water
poisonous, something that is proved by daily deaths of fishes in the rivers.
Polluting water sources have contaminated even the drinking water supplied to major cities
and villages causing health hazards and destructions of flora and fauna. Strict measures on
the part of government and citizens are required before the water pollution become lethal at
large. Water pollution is a burning problem of today. We have failed in keeping a clean
environment.
 The Supreme Court has directed various governments to clean rivers and provide
hygienic and unpolluted atmosphere to the citizens, because they have a fundamental right to
have a pollution free atmosphere. The scientific advancement and rapid organizations
resulting in increase in hazardous industries which extract polluted substance is the main
cause of increasing danger of our environment.
Answer the following questions-:
a. What are the various sources through which the pollution enters our waterways?
b. What has contaminated the drinking water?
c. Find a word from the passage that means the opposite of the following
i) Unhygienic (Para 3)
ii) Solution (Para 2)
d. Give a suitable title for the passage.

Q3. Imagine that you are the Cultural Secretary of your school. Draft a notice to inform
children about an Inter-Class Folk Dance competition which will be organised in school and
give the required details. You may request the class monitors to give the list of participants
by a particular date. (5)

Q4. Read the following outlines and write story based on them: (5)
A good boy---obedient and sincere----got into bad company---disobeyed his parents-----
father gave him a basket of ripe apples-----told him to keep it in his room for a few days----
had kept a rotten apple among them----soon the red and ripe apples began to rot----the rotten
apple spoiled the ripe ones----bad company should always be avoided

Q5. Write the type of sentence. (2)

a. How cold it is today!
b. Please clear the table.

Q6. Change the gender of the following noun: (2)

a. Lord
b. Monk

Q7. Write the plural form of the following: (2)

a. Close-up
b. Louse

Q8. Identify the adjective in these sentences and state their kind: (2)
a. Which fruit is available in this market?
b. It was rainy day.
Q9. Fill in the blanks with appropriate pronouns: (2)
a. Can_____ open this window please?
b. I saw the movie and loved ____.

Q10. Answer the following Questions: (8)

a. ‘Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still winter’. Why do you think it was
winter in the Giant’s garden?
b. According to the poem, what is the reason for the change of mood?
c. Did the abuses of the little dog have any effect on the big dog? Why?
d. What did the Giant do to keep the children away from his garden?

Q11. Read the following extract and answer the questions following: (4)
 Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sparingly dance
Answer the following question:
1. Write name of the chapter along with poet’s name.
2. Write the rhyming words of the given stanza.
3. With what does the poet compare the daffodils in this stanza?
4. At the end of the stanza, what image of the daffodils crosses your mind?

Q12. Read the following extract and answer the questions following: (4)

Yet once I wanted a sandwich,

Either caviar or cucumber,
When the sun had not yet risen
And the moon had not yet sank;
As I tiptoed through the hallway
The big dog lay in slumber,
And the little dog slept by the big dog,
And her head was on his flank.
a. Describe the setting as portrayed in this stanza.
b. What was the poet doing at that hour?
c. What did the poet see?
d. Write name of the chapter along with poet’s name.

Q13. Write meaning of following words: (4)

a. Cloak
b. Pensive
c. Jugular
d. Flank