RAMAKRISHNA VIVEKANANDA MISSION

MODEL ANSWER FOR ANNUAL EXAM 2020

SUBJECT- ENGLISH (ENGLISH MEDIUM)
CLASS- V Full Marks-100

1] Word meaning:-
a) prance = Walk or move with sprightly steps.
b) gaping = starting at something with open mouth.
c) protracted = longer than expected.
d) skirting = going around.
e) wattle = frame made from sticks woven together.

2] Make sentence :-
a) glade = The traveller found a glade in the forest.
b)quiver = The opening bars of the music sent a quiver of excitement through the crowd.
c)parchment = The clerks studied the parchment curiously.
d) stare = The guard looked at the student with a frigid stare.
e) restive = The audience was becoming restive as they waited for the performance to begin.

3] Answer the following questions :-

a) In the poem ‘The clothesline’ the poetess charlotte Druitt Cole is talking about the clothes hanging on
the clothesline. To her, they look as if they are holding hands, standing in a row and dancing merrily. She
compares them to the white birds that fly in the sky.
The wind, which is blowing wildly makes them dance.

b) In the poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” the poet W.B Yeats declares that he will arise and go to
Innisfree, where he will build a small cabin “of clay and wattles made”. There he will have nine bean-rows
and a bee-hive, “and live alone in the bee-loud glade.” The line in the poem- “And live alone in the bee
loud glade” – tells us that the poet loves a solitary life.

c) When the children were digging for treasure, Albert from next door asked what they were doing. Alice
replied that they were digging for treasure and when they dug deep enough, they would find a great pot of
red clay, full of gold and precious jewels. Alice also asked Albert to come over and help them. But Albert
sniggered and said that it was nonsense. Then, Oswald promised Albert a share of the treasure if he dug,
and Alice said she would lend him her spade. Hearing it, Albert came over the wall and dug. Thus they
persuaded Albert to dig with them.

d) In Jane Yolen’s short story ‘Owl Moon’, when the narrator and her father went owling, it was late one
winter night, long past the narrator’s bed time. They walked on towards the wood and reached the line of
pine trees, black and pointy against the sky. Then the narrator’s father held up his hand and they stopped
right where they were. The narrator’s father looked up, as if searching for the stars, as if reading a map up
there. The moon made his face in to a silver mask. Then her father made a sound of a great horned owl. He
was calling out again and again. After each call, he was silent and for a moment they both listened, but
there was no answer.

4] “Oswald promised him a share of the treasure if he dug and Alice said she would lend him her spade” –
this extract has been taken from the text ‘Digging for Treasure’ Written by Edith Nesbit.
a) Oswald promised Albert a share of the treasure if he dug.

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b) The children got their spades from the cellar to dig for treasure, and marked out a square in the garden,
and began to dig.

c) Albert from next door saw them digging.

When Albert saw them digging, he asked them what they were up to.

d) The children were digging for treasure. An ancient parchment revealed to them the place of
concealment. They hoped to find a great pot of red clay, full of gold and precious jewels.

B] “No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began”.
- There lines have been taken from the poem ‘Leisure’, Written by W. H. Davies.
a) The beautiful nature is referred to here as ‘her’ in these lines.
b) In the following lines, the poet explains that the rush of life never provides the chance to the people to see
the smile of the beautiful nature that started from her eyes. Actually the poet wants to say we have no time
to wait till the nature flourishes her beauty completely.
c) In these lines the poet has personified the beautiful Nature and hints that many of people often fail to
observe this due to a lack of leisure. The nature is full of life and beauty but we have no time to watch her
sweet smile.
d) By saying ‘no time’, the poet means that the rush of life provides no leisure to the people to turn at the
dance of the beauty of Nature and marvel at her dancing feet.

5] Answer the following questions:-

i) Kamala reached the Pandit’s house on Friday afternoon to receive the money due for the milk. That day a
large number of people had gathered at the pandit’s house. They were sitting on his veranda and he was
reading to them from a holy book. The book said that going through life, from birth to death, was like going
across an ocean. After reading the pandit told them not to be afraid. He advised them that they could
easily cross that ocean if they took the name of Hari as they went.

ii) On Saturday morning, Kamala stood waiting on the bank of the river. The ferryman was late again. Then
Kamala remembered the Pandit’s words. She picked up her pail of milk and placed it on her head. Then,
thinking only of Hari, she stepped on to the water. She did not sink. She was able to walk over the water as
if it were land. Repeating the name of Hari as she went along, Kamala crossed the river and reached the
Pandit’s house.

iii) At noon the neighbours began to arrive. Sarvamangala had invited them all to partake of the fruit
offering made to the Mother. Devicharan thought that Sarvamangala had played a prank. Devicharan’s
wife told Devicharan that they should look very foolish when the guests would find that they had nothing
to offer the guests. So, Devicharan was worried to see the invited guests.

iv) Devicharan worshipped the Mother in the form of Durga. Very often people asked Devicharan to go and
read to them about the Mother from a book called the Chandi. In return they gave him gifts of food or
clothing. In this way, Devicharan was able to get enough to eat. He lived happily with his wife and
daughter, and although they were so poor they never felt sad.

6] Complete each phrase with a suitable word : -

i) A gang of robbers.
ii) A shoal of fish.
iii) A series of events.

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 iv) A litter of puppies.
v) A pack of hounds.

7] Fill in the gaps with suitable preposition : -

i) There is a lane between the two buildings.
ii)She jumped into the pond.
iii) The moon moves around the earth.
iv)It has been raining since morning.
v)Rajen was born in 1948.

8] Fill up each blank with suitable form of have / do : -

i)We have to go to school daily.
ii)She has to decide and answer right now.
iii) Have you seen the car?
iv)You have to do this work right now.
v)He had to buy new shoes last week.

9] Do as directed : -
i) Monalisa has not done her homework.
ii) Has she slept well at noon?
iii) We reached the field after the match had started.
iv) It had been raining for one week.
v) I have been waiting for over an hour.
vi) He will have been arriving here at lunch.
vii) I had been trying to meet him for a year before he died.

10] A] i) Jamini started his career as a photographer. False

ii)Jamini Roy liked the simplicity of rural life. True
B] i)Jamini Roy was a student of Abanindranath Tagore.
ii)Jamini Roy’s work was exhibited in London in 1946 .
C] During the 1940s Jamini Roy’s popularity reached a new height.
11] Write a letter to your elder sister about winning an inter school Quiz competition.
8/28, J.C . Road
Kolkata – 700028
14/09/2020
Dear Nandini Di,
I want to share with you an amazing experience. You will be delighted to know that I have
won the first prize in the Inter-school quiz competition. As you already know that I was quite nervous
about this competition, I have been preparing for weeks. Derek o’ Brien was our quiz master. His friendly
approach made us feel quite at case. There were total eight rounds, including audio-visual, rapid fire and
others were the simple question answer rounds. Total five schools were chosen and our contenders were
very strong. We were almost neck to neck till the second last round. It was the last round that we beat
everyone.

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 Ending here with love. In Your next visit to our home, I will show you my trophy.

Stamp Your loving brother,

Nandini Laha Rohan
C/O – Mohan Laha
1, Prafulla Sarkar street.
Kolkata - 700006

12] Friendship

Friendship is the biggest bliss in human life. A man is deprived of many experiences in life if he does not
have any friend. Every relationship on this earth demands something. Every relationship is based on a
commercial give and take term. Only friendship goes beyond this and two friends can remain friends
without any condition. There are many occasions when we cannot talk freely in front of our elder or
teachers. Only friends lend their attentive ear at this time and true friends always lead us in the right
direction. When the entire world closes its doors, when one feels dejected at the failures, only friends
stand by him and they help him to overcome the sadness. Every relationship expires at one point of time
but friendship remains forever and so remains the happiness that comes out from the blessings of
friendship.

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