Summative Assessment – II

Class- VI Subject – English

Time – 2 ½ hrs M.M. 60

ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS.

THIS PAPER CONSISTS OF THREE SECTIONS.
SECTION-A READING 1OMARKS
SECTION-B WRITING AND GRAMMAR 20 MARKS

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SECTION-C LITERATURE 20 MARKS

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OTBA: 10 MARKS
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. ALL QUESTIONS ARE CUMPULSORY
2. READ EACH QUESTION CAREFULLY AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS

SECTION A (READING)
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1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions.
(1X5=5 marks)
1. Yoga has a lot to offer as we move on in the 21st century .It gives us the means to compliment medical
technology with a holistic system of healthcare that addresses the problems of the mind and spirit as
well as those of the body..Instead of trying to reduce the cause of disease to a single factor and to
correct it using a specific cure yoga aims to treat illness by improving health on all levels simultaneously
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and by restoring inner harmony.
2. Yoga contains elements that address the problems at every level - “asanas” that relax and tone your
muscles and massage your internal organs, “pranayama” that slows breathing and regulates the flow of
“prana” relaxation and meditation that act to calm your mind and emotion culturing to heal your spirit.
3. The different types of yoga practice augment each other and are more effective when done together. When
you do the asanas and stretch your muscles, muscular tension is released and you are more able to relax..
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Likewise, when you relax the mind and release suppressed emotions you tend to become less tense on a
physical level. Regular practice of yoga can restore your natural and positive good health to all parts of
your body.
1. What does yoga refer to in first para?
2. How does yoga treat illness?
3. Name the elements contained in yoga?
4. Name the benefits of “asanas” and relaxation.
5. Pick out one word from the passage which means the same as “particular”.
2. .Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow: 5
marks

The elephant is the only animal with a trunk . It uses its trunk in many ways. It pulls
leaves off trees with its trunk and then puts them into its mouth. It can even use its

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 trunk to pull up trees when it wants to make a path through the jungle. It also uses
its trunk to get water. The trunk can hold a lot of water, as an elephant needs to
drink more than three hundred pints of water every day.

When an elephant is angry, its tusks can be very dangerous. The tusks of an elephant
are really its front teeth. People pay a lot of money for ivory of an elephant’s tusks.
In Africa men hunt elephants for their tusks. The ivory from the tusks is made into
many beautiful things.

It has been easy for men to train elephants in Asia. They use them to carry heavy
things for long distances

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Many people say that the kings of Siam used to give white elephant to people they
didn’t like. These white elephants were sacred and couldn’t be made to work . They
could not be killed or given away. A person who owned a white elephant had to pay
a lot of money to keep it properly. After a certain time , he usually became vey poor

Choose the most appropriate option out of the following

i. Which is most useful to the elephant?

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b. Its tusks
c. Its trunk
d. Its body
ii. Which types of elephants are desirable?
a. Working elephants
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b. Black elephants
c. White elephants
d. Sacred elephants
iii. For what do people hunt elephants ?
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a. For its meat

b. For its hide
c. For its tusks
d. For its bones
iv. Why did people not put white elephants to work?
a. They are defiant by nature
b. They are considered sacred
c. They eat a lot
d. They are lazy
v. The expression ‘a white elephant ’ now means:
a. Something sacred

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 b. A useful thing or person
c. A useless thing or person
d. A working elephant

SECTION B (WRITING AND GRAMMAR)

3. Write a paragraph in about 125 words on any one topic given below:

I. My mother ii. Morning walk iii. My favourite book 5 marks

4. Write a story based on the given outlines: 7 marks

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A crow finds a piece of cheese --------- flies to a tree ------- hungry fox -----sees the crow------

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thinks of a plan-------praises him ----------- requests him to sing ------------ the crow very
pleased---------opens its beak----------the cheese fall down ---------- fox picks up----------runs
away. Moral.

5. Rearrange the following to form meaningful sentences : 4 marks

a. a fatal disease/ vitamin B/ lack of / Beri beri / is / due to

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b. by / marked / is / paralysis/ it

c. claimed/ in 19th century/ it/ a heavy/ toll of / human lives

d. available / those days/ was / this / disease/ for / no remedy

6. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct option from the options given below :
4 marks
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Blood- letting was a common practice in ancient times. The doctors used to treat patients(a)
…….. the help of leeches. It was generally believed that certain diseases [b]……. by too much of
blood or by impure blood getting blocks in one of the parts of the body. The doctors [c]…….
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make slit on the body or attach leeches.

They sucked the blood [d]……… prevented it from clotting.

A. 1. From 2. With 3. In 4. As
B. 1 were caused 2 cause 3 will be caused 4 are caused
C. 1 should 2 will 3 was 4 would
D. 1 and 2 but 3 or 4 while

SECTION C (LITERATURE)

7.. Read the following extract and answer the following questions : 4 marks
When the gong sounds ten in the morning and I walk to school by our lane,
Everyday I met the hawker crying, “bangles , crystal bangles!”

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 There is nothing to hurry him on , there is no road he must take
No place he must go to , no time when he must come home.
i. Write the name of poem and poet of this extract. 2 marks
ii. Whom does ‘I’ stand for? 1 mark
iii. Write the synonym of gong. 1 mark
8. Answer any four questions: 4x2=8 marks
a. What is Dolma’s ambition?what does she plan to do?
b. Who was Sahu? From whom he had purchased bullock?
c. How did Rashid lose all his money in lucky shop?
d. How do girbles survive in the desert?

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e. When did the Banayan tree become a noisy place? Which birds were a common sight there?

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f. How did the old aunt get justice?
9. Answer any four questions: 4x2=8 marks
a. What is most obvious advantage of sleep?
b. What assurance did the sun rays give to Saeeda?
c. In what way is Pambupatti different from any other village?
d. Who was Vijay Singh ? What did he look like?
e. Who helped Vijay Singh in defeating the ghost and why?
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f. What happens when we are asleep ?
SUB-SECTION OTBA
Answer the following questions: (5x2=10 Marks)

Theme 1
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A. What lesson did the boy Devi Prasad learn when his mother explained to him why the
student like Santosh had to leave school? (5 Marks)
B. How did the plight of the young girl with a heart problem mould young medical student
Devi’s career and life? (5 Marks)
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Theme 2

A. Explain how pigeons have helped our military during war times? Do you think our country’s
military still uses carrier pigeon during war times? (5 Marks)
B. Do you know about any other animals that are being used by military and police in their
day-to-day work? Write the names of such animals mentioning the work they are used for
by the military and police. (5 Marks)

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