Exam 1- question paper

Test paper (Juniors)

Total marks= 80, time= 2 hours

Q1. Composition (20)

a) Choose any 1 topic and write a complete essay on it.

b) Write the introductions for all the topics as discussed in class. If you write climax introduction for topic (1), you cannot repeat climax dialogue with any other topic.

1. The most memorable day of my life
2. a helicopter ride
3. The day I met my favorite filmstar
4. a fight in school

(Essay- 14 marks, introductions- 2 marks each)

Q2. Comprehension (10)

African Elephants

African elephants are the largest mammals that live on land. They grow all of their lives. Male African elephants can get to be thirteen feet tall if measured from the ground to the top of their shoulder. They can weigh up to 14,000 pounds. African elephants have ears that can be five feet long and are shaped like the continent of Africa. Elephants can flap their ears. The big ears help keep the elephants cool. Elephants eat all day long. They eat vegetables, such as grass, leaves, and other plants. They also eat fruit, like bananas. Elephants use their trunks to grab food and put it in their mouth. They can also suck water into their trunks and squirt the water into their mouths. Elephants sometimes drink up to forty gallons of water a day! Elephants use their trunks to pick up things and to hold things. They can pick up something as small as a marble, or as big as a tree. They also breathe through their trunks. Elephants have two tusks, which are made of ivory. The tusks grow to the right and the left sides of their trunks. Elephants can use their tusks to fight and to dig. People used to hunt elephants so that they could get their tusks. Ivory was used to make beautiful jewelry and statues. It is against the law to hunt elephants now, because hunting them made them endangered animals.

Answer the following questions:

1. What do African elephants eat? (2)
2. What does an African elephant look like? (3)
3. How do they drink water? How much water can they drink? (2)
4. What do elephants use their tusks for? (1)
5. Why are elephants hunted? What is ivory used for? (2)

Q3. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate answers (15)

1. Ria is very _________. Therefore all the teachers like her. (savvy, polite, pompous)
2. Raj wont even get himself a glass of water because he is so _______ (perceptive, versatile, indolent)
3. Viraj’s ________ behavior annoys the class teacher. (open minded, eager, silly)
4. I am very __________ towards my baby sister and love spending time with her. (enthusiastic, manipulative, affectionate)
5. Tracy is _________ to come first in the competition so she practices very hard. (determined, enterprising, calculating)
6. The new girl in class likes to stay ______ so she has not made many friends. (rigid, aloof, irresponsible)
7. I am very__________ for my birthday to arrive. (impatient, realistic, eager)
8. “Raj is a ________ boy,” the teacher complained. (naughty, lenient, resourceful)
9. She is a very _____________ students so she scored full marks . (communicative, dedicated, aloof)
10. John is very ______ so no one wants to be in his team. (bossy, charming, clever)
11. Charlie keeps losing his things. He is very ___________. (determined, careless, imaginative)
12. Sheela did not face any problems while moving to a new place and a new school because she is very __________. (adaptable, silly, analytical)
13. She is very ___________ because she wants me to finish the vacations homework before the vacations began. (pushy, demanding, interfering)
14. He thinks so highly of himself. He is so _________. (vain, timid, stimulating)
15. Monica is as __________ as a fox. (silly, cunning, miserly)

Q4 Bad Qualities (5)

Make sentences with the following bad qualities

1. Coward

2. Unsatisfied

3. miserly

4. stubborn

5. impatient

Q5 Good Qualities (5)

1. sincere
2. dedicated
3. expressive
4. eager
5. affectionate

Q7 Basic Vocabulary (25)

1. Fill in the blanks with ‘beautiful’ words

(fascinated, charming, spectacular, gripping, delightful)

1. The Taj Mahal looks absolutely ___________.
2. That lady in the red sari looks ____________.
3. I had a _________ time at the circus.
4. The height of the Eiffel Tower __________ me.
5. The story was very __________.

2. Fill in the blanks with ‘angry’ words

(outraged, infuriated, enraged, threatened, glared)

1. Father ______ at me when I came home late.
2. Rohan was ________ when I broke his toy.
3. Karan _________ the teacher by making so much noise.
4. “Don’t enter my room,” Rita ____________me.
5. Mother was _________ with my bad marks.

3. Fill in the blanks with ‘happy’ words

(ecstatic, cloud nine, merry-cricket, shrieked, high pitched whoop of joy)

1. Jay was as _________ as a _________ when he stood first.
2. The children let out a _________________ when school was over.
3. I was on __________________ when I got a new car
4. Priyank was ___________ on winning the competition
5. Dave _________ with joy when he found his phone.

4. Make sentences with:

1. grief stricken

2. stopped dead in my tracks

3. left speechless

4. could not believe my eyes

5. depressed

6. face went white

7. shaking from head to toe

8. taken aback

9. astonished

10. gloomy