Budge Budge PK High School (HS)
Reading Skill (Seen)
1. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below :
He stepped slowly out to the brink of the ledge. He stood on one leg with the other leg hidden under his wing. Closing one eye and then the other, he pretended to be falling asleep. Still his parents took no notice of him. He saw his two brothers and his sister lying on the plateau. They were dozing, with their heads sunk into their wings. His father was preening his feathers on his white back. Only his mother was looking at him. She was standing on a little high hump on the plateau, eating a piece of fish.
A. Tick (✔️) the correct answer:
(i) His two brothers and sister were lying on the (a) plateau, (b) ground, (c) plain, (d) sea,
(ii) His______ was looking at him (a) father, (b) mother, (c) brother, (d) sister.
(iii) The colour of his father's back was (a) grey, (b) black, (c) blue, (d) white.
(iv) The word 'preening' means (a) washing, (b) drying, (c) smoothening, (d) flying.
B. Answer the following questions:
(i) What did the young seagull pretend?
(ii) What was the father doing?
2. Read the poem and answer the questions given below:
The damp stands in the long, green grass
As thick as morning's tears;
And dreamy scents of fragrance pass
That breathe of other years.
A.State whether the following sentences are True or False. Write 'T' for True and 'F' for False and also provide sentences in support of your answers:2×2=4
(i) The damp stands in the long green grass.
Supporting Sentence:
(ii) The scents were fruity.
Supporting Sentence:
Reading Skill (Unseen))
3. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below :
Teaching is the noblest of professions. A teacher has a sacred duty to perform. It is he on whom rests the responsibility of moulding the character of young children. Apart from developing their intellect, he can inculcate in them qualities of good citizenship remaining neat and clean, talking decently and sitting properly. These virtues are not easy to be imbibed. Only he who himself leads a life of simplicity, purity and rigid discipline can successfully cultivate these habits in his pupils.
A.Complete the following sentences with information from the passage:
(i) A teacher has
(ii) A true teacher leads a life of
(iii) Teaching is the
(iv) It is the teacher on whom rests the responsibility of
Grammar and Vocabulary
4. Do as directed: 1x5=5
(i) He is too intelligent to be fooled.[Omit ‘too’ and rewrite the sentence)
(ii) Being thirsty he took a cup of tea.[Split into two simple sentences)
(iii) He learnt English rapidly. The teachers were astonished.
[Join into a compound sentence)
(iv) I am left handed.[Turn into a negative sentence
(v) I could not buy the car. It was very costly.[Join using relative clause)
5. Replace the underlined words with suitable phrasal verbs from the list given below. You may change the form where necessary:1x3=3
(i) I can not understand what he says.
(ii) He wore a white shirt.
(iii) She rejected my proposal.
[List: turn down, make out, put on]
6. Given below are the meanings of two words that you will find in the passage in question no 3. Find them out and write them in the spaces given below:
(i) Holy:
(ii) Qualities
Writing Skill
7. Suppose you are the Captain of your school. Write a notice for the students of your school requesting them to participate in a programme entitled 'Keep Your School Clean'. 7
8 . Write a biography on 'Prafulla Chandra Roy' using the following points:
[Time and Place of birth: 1861 at Khulna - Primary Education: village school - Higher Education: Hare School Albert School in Kolkata - Passed FA: Metropolitan College - won Gilchrist Scholarship and went to England - Studied, in Edinburgh University, completed DSc - joined Presidency College in 1889 - famous for making Mercurous Nitrate-established 'Bengal Chemicals' - Death: 1914]
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Answer
Budge Budge PK High School (HS):
Reading Skill (Seen)
1. Read the passage and answer:
A. Tick (✓) the correct answer:
(i) His two brothers and sister were lying on the
✓ (a) plateau
(ii) His_____ was looking at him
✓ (b) mother
(iii) The colour of his father's back was
✓ (d) white
(iv) The word 'preening' means
✓ (c) smoothening
B. Answer the following questions:
(i) What did the young seagull pretend?
→ The young seagull pretended to be falling asleep by closing one eye and then the other.
(ii) What was the father doing?
→ The father was preening his feathers on his white back.
2. Read the poem and answer:
(i) The damp stands in the long green grass.
Answer: T
Supporting Sentence: The damp stands in the long, green grass.
(ii) The scents were fruity.
Answer: F
Supporting Sentence: Dreamy scents of fragrance pass that breathe of other years.
Reading Skill (Unseen)
3. Read the passage and complete the sentences:
(i) A teacher has
→ a sacred duty to perform.
(ii) A true teacher leads a life of
→ simplicity, purity and rigid discipline.
(iii) Teaching is the
→ noblest of professions.
(iv) It is the teacher on whom rests the responsibility of
→ moulding the character of young children.
Grammar and Vocabulary
4. Do as directed:
(i) He is too intelligent to be fooled.
→ He is so intelligent that he cannot be fooled.
(ii) Being thirsty he took a cup of tea.
→ He was thirsty. He took a cup of tea.
(iii) He learnt English rapidly. The teachers were astonished.
→ He learnt English rapidly, and the teachers were astonished.
(iv) I am left handed.
→ I am not right handed.
(v) I could not buy the car. It was very costly.
→ I could not buy the car which was very costly.
5. Replace the underlined words with suitable phrasal verbs:
(i) I cannot understand what he says.
→ I cannot make out what he says.
(ii) He wore a white shirt.
→ He put on a white shirt.
(iii) She rejected my proposal.
→ She turned down my proposal.
6. Find words from the passage (Q3):
(i) Holy: sacred
(ii) Qualities: virtues
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