Dayanand Anglo Vedic Public School, Airoli Question Bank (2010-11) Subject English Class V

Q1] India has a large number of historical buildings. These buildings stand as a proof of our art and culture. A visit to any of the historical buildings is both informative and exciting. It fills ones mind with details of the past rulers their style of living their dress, food habits as well as the architecture of the past. Most of the historical buildings were built during the Mughal period no book of history can let us learn as much about historical buildings as we do after seeing it. Out of all the historical buildings the Taj is really worth seeing it is one of the wonders of the world. It was built by the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan, in the memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal in Agra. The Taj, which is built of white and yellow marble, is like a dream house of marble. It is an emblem of true love. It is built on the banks of the river Yamuna. The Taj looks beautiful in the moon lit night. Its beauty enchants everybody who visits the Taj. On the basis of your reading of the above passage complete the summary-: Many of Indias historical buildings stand as a ______ of the art and culture. A visit to these buildings is ____. The Taj is really a ____ building. It is rightly called one of the ____ of the world. It is like a ____house caste in marble. It is truly an ____ of true love. Everybody is _____ by its____. Answer the following questions -: 1) Why do people prefer watching the Taj in a moonlit night? 2) Why is the Taj called an emblem of love? Q2] Read the passage carefully and answer the questions:One night Jimmy fell asleep and had a dream about a treasure. In his dream, he saw a big box of gold coins buried near the bushes in his backyard. The dream seemed so real to Jimmy. He began to think that maybe there really was a treasure in his backyard, near the bushes. The next morning Jimmy woke up and began to dig a hole. He kept digging. The hole got deeper. The pile of dirt became higher. Then Jimmy got tired. He could not dig anymore. Then he saw something. It was a dog bone. Jimmy was very sad because he did not find a treasure. For all his hard work, he had found only a dog bone. But then, Jimmys mother came. She saw what Jimmy had done. She wanted to plant a rose bush in the backyard.

The hole Jimmy dug was in the perfect place. She was very happy. She gave him five dollars for digging the hole. Jimmy smiled. He did get a treasure after all. 1) Why did Jimmy think there was real treasure in his backyard? 2) What did Jimmy find in the dirt? 3) How did Jimmy's mother feel when she found out that Jimmy dug a hole in the backyard? Why did she feel this way? 4) What did Jimmy's mom give him at the end of the story? Q3] Read the passage carefully and answer the question that is given below:Sam lived on a farm and had a job to do. He had to wake up early every day to feed the chickens and get their eggs. One morning Sam went outside to do his job. He reached down and got three eggs from the first chicken. He reached down and got two eggs from the second chicken. He reached down and felt a huge egg under the third chicken. He could not believe it. The egg felt strange. It was much bigger and heavier than the others. He looked at with surprise. Sam smiled and said, So thats where my baseball went! 1) What two things did Sam have to do each morning? a. He went on a farm & collected eggs b. To feed chickens and get their eggs 2) How many eggs did he get from the second chicken? a. Three eggs b. Two eggs 3) In the end Sam got surprised when he saw a. Huge egg b. It was his basement ball Q4] Read the poem carefully and answer the given questions:She tosses me the ball. I toss it back to Sis. She throws it really high: Lets see you catch this! The sun is in my eyes! Where IS that ball now? Ive got to spot the ball and catch it somehow. Im waiting and Im waiting. My glove is waiting, too. Im looking up, not looking down. I trip on my left shoe. Im diving toward the ground. My arms are stretched out straight. I open up my glove, but Im afraid that Im too late. I cant believe my eyes. I think I see the ball! Its nestled in my glove; I caught it after all! I hear my sister cheering. She saw my super catch. But Fido stole the ball from me. He thinks were playing fetch!

1) Choose another appropriate title for this poem. a. My Sister's Amazing Toss b. Fido's Bad Day c. My Amazing Catch d. The Ball That Went Up, But Never Came Down 2) Name two reasons the girl had difficulty catching the ball? 3) What silly event happened in the last line of the poem? 4) What does the word nestled mean in line 10? a. fell from above b. held on by a little bit c. rolling around d. held snugly or tightly Q5] Read the poem carefully-: I watch you, watch, My tick-tock watch, Just to pass the time. I hear you, watch, My click-clock watch, How you tick in time. I wonder, watch, My tick-tock watch, If it is a bore To just keep time, That click, tick time, Forever, ever more? I'm thinking, watch, My click-clock watch I guess you must feel glee When you rest, watch, A stopped-clock watch, For a dead battery. 1) In the first stanza of the poem, the word watch has different meanings. What are the two meanings of the word watch? 2) Line 15 reads: I guess you must feel glee Define the word glee. Use a dictionary if you need help. 3) What is the poet thinking in the last two stanzas of the poem? a. The watch probably enjoys taking a break when the battery dies. b. The watch probably gets bored keeping track of the time. c. The watch will probably stop working. d. The watch likes to take a rest now and then.

4) Do you think the poet is writing about a digital watch or a watch with hands? How can you tell? Writing SkillQ6] Identify the type of sentence and write their kindsi) How wonderful the movie was! ii) Will you help me? iii) Geeta is the tallest boy in the class. iv) Close the door. Q7] Fill in the blanks with suitable reflexive pronounsOne day Tom decided that he would tackle Jerry all by _____________. So he called on his cousin sisterMary for help. As Tom could not think of a plan Mary thought of it_______. But in the end they both were trapped __________ in their own plans when Jerry came to know about their foiled attempts he shouted loudly We should not dig a hole for others as sometimes we fall ___________ in our own traps. Q8] Put the verbs in the bracket into correct tenses using the rules for second kind of conditionali) If I had a laptop I ____ (type) all my documents myself. ii) If Arun ____ (study) hard hed never fail. iii) He _____ (look) a lot better if he shaved more often. iv)He might get fat if he _____ (stop) smoking. Q9] Rewrite the following sentences by omitting the articles wherever necessaryi) The Man is mortal. ______ ii) Oh! My dear a girl! Whatve you done!_________ iii) A silver ornament looks good on many ladies _______ iv) She had the milk for the breakfast.________ v) I love to read the books in the French._______ Q10] Unjumble the following sentences to form meaningful sentencesi) Sister Mumbai my in lives. ii) the licked dog bone the. iii) a to for we Essel World picnic went. iv) thief the into house the broke. v) walk a go lets for. Q11] Underline the adverbs and state its kind:-

i) We go to school everyday. ii) My mother cook food nicely. iii) What are you doing here? Q12] Determine whether each noun is a common noun or a proper noun. example: waterfall common noun niagara falls Niagara Falls 1) march ___________ _____ 2) month _________________ 3) day ___________________ 4) tuesday ________________ 5) holiday ________________ 6) christmas ______________ Q13] Choose the correct word from the bracket i) The wife of the man killed in the accident took the news the ____ (hard, harder, hardest) of all ii) You must pay more attention and talk ______(little, less, least) in class iii) My mother gets up ______ (early, earlier, earliest) than my father Q14] Complete the following passage by using the adverbs. (Merrily, Very, Once, Nicely) _____ there lived a Honeybee and an ant. They lived _____together. The honeybee was foolish, but the ant was ______ wise. He spent his time singing songs ________. Q15] Rewrite the passage using apostrophe wherever necessary. Let me introduce myself and my friends to you. I am Minal Desai I study in class V. I have few friends. We are from the same school. We enjoy studying & playing together. Among my few friends, Nita and Rani are my best friends. Today I will be going to their house for dance practice. Q16] Circle the main verb in each sentence. Underline the helping verb. i) Nick will eat spaghetti and meatballs for dinner tonight. ii) Mallory is walking to the park. iii) The dogs are sleeping on the bed. iv) Elizabeth and Cheyenne had gone to the library. v) Those quick squirrels have run up the maple tree. Q17] Choose the correct option from the bracket given below1. The fat duck ate a fish. The word fat describes (the duck / the fish). Duck is a (noun / verb). Fat is an (adjective / adverb)

2. The boy yells louder than anyone else. The word louder describes (how the boy yells / the boy). The word yells is a (noun / verb). Louder is an (adjective / adverb) Q18] Fill in the blanks with the correct uncountable nouns from the words given below-: (milk/homework/luggage) i) At the train station, a porter helped me with my____ ii) The teacher told the pupils to hand in their ____ iii) One of the most wholesome food is _____ Q19] Fill in the blanks with articles: My friend is _____ pilot. After finishing his education, he took up ____ job in Indian Airlines. His job is extremely interesting. He has travelled all around ___ world. Q20] Complete each sentence with the correct form of the noun in parenthesis i.e (capital letters) i) Mama and I will go to the ______ next month. (lake or Lake) ii) Aunt Jo went to ___ for the weekend. (lake placid, Lake placid or Lake Placid) iii) Ivy and Jan went to _____. (florida or Florida) iv) We live near the ______. (city or City) v) My ____ gave us a homework assignment. (teacher or Teacher) Q21] Today is your birth day and suddenly you receive a message that your maternal uncle has met with an accident and has been hospitalized. Now you have to postpone your birthday party. Write a letter to your friend informing this. You are Sagar / Sagrika. Q22] You are Sanil, monitor of class V B of Agustin Dale School, Nasik. You have lost your bicycle key. Write a notice to be put up on the notice board giving details in about 50 words. Q23] You are Nikhil Verma of VIID of Deva Public School, Nasik. You have found a brand new compass box in the Art room. Write a notice to be put up on the notice board informing to collect it from the coordinators room in about 50 words. Q24] You are Mihr Solanki of V-G. Youve found a set of brand new skates in the school play ground day before yesterday. Write a notice on the notice board in not more than 50 words.

Q25] You are Ketan, the Head boy of St. Xaviers School, Kolkata. You want to join western music classes after school. Write a letter to the principal of the school to grant you permission for the same. Q26] Youve borrowed the science note-book of your friend Rohit. Unfortunately you have misplaced it. Write a letter of apology to your friend explaining how you lost the note-book inadvertently. Also, offer to prepare a fresh note-book for him in a couple of days. You are from Naz Society at 2 Patel Apartment, Maruti Enclave, Sholapur. (80-100 words) Q27] Your uncle had gifted you an imported sketch pens. Write a notice on the notice board in not more than 50 words. Q28] You had a Social week last month in your school. Youve recently came to know about the results that youve got prize for the best costume worn on that day. You are very thrilled and excited about it. So you want to share your feelings and thoughts with your aunt. Write a letter to her in not more than 150 words. Q29] Youve lost your Scrap book which you had made for English project. Since you had not written your name on it. Now you cant find it. Write a notice on the notice board in not more than 50 words. Q30] You want to issue a leaving certificate as your fathers office is shifted to Delhi. Write an application to the principal of your school informing about it in not more than 150 words. Q31] You are Sameer. You have misplaced your library permit card .Write an apology letter and ask him/her to issue a new one for you. Write an application to the librarian of your school in not more than 150 words. Q32] After few days your I semester exams will get over. You want your favorite cousin who stays in Gujarat, should come and spend his Diwali vacations at your place. Write a letter to your friend in no more than 150 words. Q33] You had fallen down from the stairs and now you are unable to walk properly. Doctor has advised you take rest, Write an application to your class teacher asking him/her to help you in your studies & also in whatever youve missed in the class.

Q34] You are Manish Koli of V-D, St Marys high School. Your friend always disturbs you in the class. You want to change your place. So you write an application to your class teacher in not more than 150 words. Q35] You have found a pair of sports shoes from the playground .Write a notice on the notice board informing about in not more than 50 words. Complete the following sentence by choosing the correct options given belowQ36] Tom remembered hearing the doctor describe an illness that ____ a) caused a patient loose his tooth b) caused a patient loose his thumb c) caused a patient loose his finger Q37] The old lady sank down in the chair because ______ a) she was happy what Tom had said b) she was unhappy with Tom. c) she got a relief that Tom was lying to her. Q38] Swaminathan, pea and Shankar were rolling ___ a) over the bench b) over each other c) on the ground. Q39] Benny sat down suddenly because ____ a) he got excited. b) his head was paining c) his legs felt queer. Q40] Eklavyas family lived away from Hastinapur because ____ a) they were very poor b) they were very rich c) they belonged to a low caste family Q41] Read the extract carefully and the following questions that follows-. Though you would like to idle Wait for the world to right, Keep your hand on the bridle Fight when you have to fight According to the poet what does everyone like? i) to sit idle ii) to waste time

Q42] What is the poet trying to tell us from the above stanza? i) We should sit idle ii) We should wait for the right time to come. iii) We should not sit idle, nor wait for the world but be prepared to face all the difficulties that comes our way. Q43] Books are zoos that make a home For birds and beast not free to roam. And Im the keeper of the zoo I choose the things to show to you Come, let us visit in a zoo. a) Who refers to I here? i) The zoo keeper ii)The speaker of the poem b) What does he want us to visit? i) The speaker home ii) The speaker zoo Answer the following in briefQ44] What made Aunt Polly laugh a little and cry a little, and then she did both together? Give reason to your answer Q45] Describe the fight that took place between Mani and Somu in the lesson The Tale of a Tail Q46] What did Benny see when he went to his room? Q47] What made Eklavya learn to shoot with both with both hands and feet? Q48] In the end what did Benny promise to do? Q49] Imagine you are Tanay / Tanaya. Youve won a first prize in debate competition. You are waiting to convey this message to your parents when you go home. Write a diary entry in about 80-90 words sharing your feelings and excitement. Q50] Imagine you are Eklavya. Guru Dronacharya has refused to teach you archery. Write a diary entry in not more than (80-90words) sharing your feelings when he refused to teach you, what did you decide to do then?