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Newton was a great scientist. He had a pet dog, Diamond. One day he went out. Then Diamond jumped upon the table. It upset the lighted candle. The papers caught fire and became ashes. Newton came back, saw everything. But he was not angry with the dog. He patted it tenderly.

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions below in a word or two:

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1. Fill in the blanks :

1. Name of the scientist Newton

2. Diamond was the name of Newton’s pet dog

3. The candle was upset by Diamond

4. The papers became ashes

5. He treated the dog affectionately

2. Answer the following questions in complete sentences:

Question 1. Who was the great scientist ?
Answer:

Newton was a great scientist.

Question 2. Why was the candle upset?
Answer:

The candle was upset as Diamond jumped upon the table.

Question 3. How did he treat the dog?
Answer:

He treated the dog affectionately.

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Question 4. When did. Diamond jump upon the table?
Answer:

Diamond jumped upon the table when Newton went out.

Question 5. Who was Diamond ?
Answer:

Diamond

Diamond was the name of Newton’s pet dog.

3. Write True statements or False statements in the boxes.

Question 1. Diamond was the name of a stone.
Answer: False

Question 2. Newton was a great poet.
Answer: False

Question 3. Diamond upset the lighted candle.
Answer: False

Question 4. The papers turned into ashes.
Answer:

False

Question 5. Newton beat the dog.
Answer:

False

2. The dog has four legs, but the bird has two. The bird has wings, but the dog has no wings. The dog has a tail and the bird also has a tail, but it is different. The bird flies but the dog walks and runs.

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Read the following and answer the questions in a word or two :

Question 1. Does the dog have a tail?
Answer:

Yes, the dog has a tail.

Question 2. Does the dog have a wing?
Answer:

No, the dog does not have a wing.

Question 3. Can a bird run?
Answer:

No, a bird cannot run.

Question 4. Can a bird fly?
Answer:

Yes, a bird can fly.

2. Write The boxes if the statements is true or False:

Question 1. A bird has no tail.
Answer:

True

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Question 2. A dog has wings.
Answer:

False

Question 3. A bird has wings.
Answer:

False

Question 4. A dog cannot walk.
Answer:

False

Question 5. A bird has legs.
Answer:

True

Question 6. A dog has four legs.
Answer:

True

3. An ant was thirsty. It went to a river to drink some water. But by chance it fell into the rive A parrot was there on a tree beside the river. He saw the ant, took a leaf from the tree and droppe it into the water. The ant got on it. It came out of the water safely.

1. Answer the following questions :

Question 1. Why did the ant go to the river ?
Answer:

The ant went to the river to drink some water.

Question 2. What was there by the side of the river ?
Answer:

There was a tree by the side of the river.

Question 3. Who was there on the tree?
Answer:

A parrot was there on the tree.

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Question 4. Why did the parrot drop a leaf into the water?
Answer:

The parrot dropped a leaf into the river to help the ant.

2. Pick out the correct statements :

Question 1. The ant came out of the water

1. With The Help Of The Leaf.
2. By Swimming.
3. With The Help Of Another Ant.

Answer: 1. With The Help Of The Leaf

Question 2. The parrot dropped a leaf

1. To Save The Ant.
2. To Kill The Ant.
3. Accidentally.

Answer: 1. To Save The Ant

Question 3. _____fell into the river.

1. The parrot
2. The ant
3. A tree

Answer: 2. The ant

4. Rahamat came to Kolkata from Afghanistan. He had a daughter. Her name was Rabeya. Rahamat was a hawker. He was hawking delicacies through the streets of Kolkata. At the time of hawking Mini gave him a five-rupee note. He was put into jail. He could not forget Rabeya in Jail, and with Rabeya he could not forget Mini also.

Read the passage given above and answer the questions set on it:

1. Fill in the blanks with information from the passage:

1. Rahamat came to Kolkata.

2. He was a hawker.

3. His daughter’s name was Rabeya.

4. He was put into jail.

5. Mini gave him a five-rupee note.

2. Answer the following questions:

Question 1. Who was Rahamat ?
Answer:

Rahamat was a hawker.

Question 2. What was he hawking?
Answer:

He was hawking delicacies.

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Question 3. Whom could he not forget?
Answer:

He could not forget Rabeya, his daughter and Mini.

Question 4. Where did he come from?
Answer:

He came from Afghanistan.

3. Write True or False statements.

Question 1. Rahamat was a grocer.
Answer:

False

Question 2. Mini was his daughter.
Answer:

False

Question 3. He loved both Mini and Rabeya.
Answer:

True

Question 4. Rahamat and Mini lived in the same country.
Answer:

False

Question 5. In the jail he remembered Rabeya.
Answer:

True

5. Read the paragraph below and answer the questions:

Cairo is the capital of Egypt. It is a very ancient city. It stands on the river Nile. The Nile is the longest river in Africa. It gives water to Egypt. As a result cotton, wheat and other crops grow there. Just outside the city, you can see the Pyramids. These are the tombs of some kings and some queens of ancient Egypt. There is also the Sphinx here. The Sphinx is a stone figure. It is half man and half animal.

1. Question And Answers:

Question 1. What is the capital of Egypt? Where does it stand?
Answer:

Cairo is the capital of Egypt. It stands on the river Nile.

Question 2. Which is the longest river in Africa?
Answer:

The Nile is the longest river in Africa.

Question 3. What are the Pyramids?
Answer:

Pyramids are the tombs of some kings and queens of ancient Egypt.

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Question 4. What helps Egypt to grow cotton, wheat and other crops?
Answer:

The water of the Nile helps Egypt to grow cotton, wheat and other crops.

Question 5. What is the Sphinx?
Answer:

The Sphinx is a half man and half animal stone figure.

2. Write True or False statements:

Question 1. Cairo is a new city.
Answer:

False

Question 2. Egypt is in Africa.
Answer:

True

Question 3. Pyramids are high rise buildings.

False

Question 4. The Nile helps agriculture in Egypt.
Answer:

True

Question 5. Pyramids are located at the centre of the Cairo city.
Answer:

False

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6. Read the following and draw a family-tree of the Boses:

I am Mira Bose. Ramen Bose is my husband. I am a school teacher. My husband Ramen Bose is a doctor. He works in a hospital. I go to Purulia Government Girls’ School. Soma and Uma are my daughters.
Soma has a good voice. She sings for the radio. Uma is a professor at Nistarini College. Santanu is my son. He is an engineer. He works in Durgapur Steel Plant.

7. The Japanese call their own country “Nippon”, It means “The Land of the Rising Sun”. Though the Japanese are not tall, they are brave. They also work hard. It is almost a religion with them to love their own country and respect their king. For these reasons Japan became a great country within a short time.

1. Answer the following questions:

Question 1. What do the people of Japan call their own country?
Answer:

The Japanese people call their country “Nippon”.

Question 2. What is the meaning of “Nippon” ?
Answer:

The meaning of Nippon is ‘the Land of the Rising Sun.’

Question 3. Are the Japanese very lazy?
Answer:

No. They are hard working people.

2. Some of the True or False. Pick out the correct ones:

Question 1. The Japanese are very brave.
Answer:

True

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Question 2. They respect their king.
Answer:

True

Question 3. They like to work hard.
Answer:

True

Question 4. Most of the Japanese people do not love their country.
Answer:

False

Question 5. Japan is a great country.
Answer:

True

Question 6. The Japanese are very tall.
Answer:

False

8. Read the following text and answer the questions below.
Major Edward James Corbett is known to us as Jim Corbett. He was a great ‘Shikari’ or hunter. He loved Indian jungles and wild animals which had become man-eaters because of some injury or famine. When a tiger or a leopard becomes a man-eater it begins to kill cattle and human beings for food. Then it becomes necessary to kill it. Jim Corbett shot such animals.

1. Answer the following questions :

Question 1. Who was Jim Corbett? What is his full name?
Answer:

Jim Corbett was a famous hunter. His full name is Major Edward James Corbett.

Question 2. What did he love in India?
Answer:

He loved Indian jungles and wild animals.

Question 3. When does a tiger or a leopard become a man-eater ?
Answer:

A tiger or a leopard becomes a man-eater at the time of famine or when it is injured.

Question 4. Which wild animals did Corbett mostly shoot?
Answer:

Corbett shot mostly tigers and leopards.

2. Find out the True or False statements:

Question 1. Jim Corbett was a missionary.
Answer:

False

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Question 2. He loved wild animals.
Answer:

Ture

Question 3. Tigers are always man-eaters.
Answer:

False

Question 4. Man-eaters should be killed as they are dangerous for human life.
Answer:

Ture

9. I am Sanat Agarwal. My father’s name is Asok Agarwal. I came from Benaras in the Uttar Pradesh. I have my business establishment in Kolkata. I am forty-five now. My wife Shila is thirty-eight. She is a school-mistress. We have three children-two sons and a daughter.
My elder son Rajen is twenty-one. He is an engineering student, now studying in Benaras. My younger son Rakesh is nineteen. He is studying B. Com. in Goenka College in Kolkata. Our daughter Rekha is seventeen. She is reading in Higher Secondary class in Bethune College, Kolkata.

1. Read the following passage and draw a family-tree of Mr. Agarwal:

2. Answer the following:

Question 1. What is Mr. Sanat Agarwal ?
Answer:

Mr. Sanat Agarwal is a businessman.

Question 2. How old is he?
Answer:

He is now forty-five.

Question 3. What is his wife?
Answer:

His wife is a teacher.

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Question 4. What is Rajen going to be?
Answer:

Rajen is going to be an engineer.

Question 5. How old is Rakesh ?
Answer:

Rakesh is nineteen years old now.

Question 6. What is he at present?
Answer:

He is at present studying B. Com. in Goenka College of Kolkata.

Question 7. Which place does Mr. Sanat Agarwal came from?
Answer:

Mr. Sanat Agarwal came from Benaras.

10. More than two thousand years ago, there was a small state in Greece known as “Macedonia”. It was ruled by a famous hero named Alexander the Great. He became the king at the age of twenty. He wanted to conquer the world. So he raised a large army and conquered Egypt and Persia. At last he came to India.

1. Answer the following questions :

Question 1. What was the name of the state in Greece?”
Answer:

The name of the state in Greece was “Macedonia”.

Question 2. Who was Alexander the Great ?
Answer:

Alexander the Great was the king of Macedonia.

Question 3. What did Alexander want?
Answer:

Alexander wanted to conquer the world.

2. Pick out the correct answers:

Question 1. Macedonia was a State in

1. Greece
2. Persia
3. Egypt

Answer: 1. Greece

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Question 2. Alexander the Great was

1. An Indian
2. A Greek
3. An Egyptian.

Answer: 2. A Greek

Question 3. Alexander raised a large army

1. To Become The King Of Macedonia.
2. To Conquer Egypt.
3. To Conquer The World.

Answer: 3. To Conquer The World

11. Read the passage and answer the questions given below:

Rabindranath was a great poet. He was born at Jorashanko in Calcutta. His father’s name was Maharshi Debendranath Tagore. He composed a book of poems called Gitanjali, that had won the Nobel Prize. He established ‘Santiniketan’. This is known as Visva Bharati. This great man is known as ‘Kabiguru’.

1. Question And Answers:

Question 1. Who was the father of Rabindranath ?
Answer:

Maharshi Debendranath Tagore was the father of Rabindranath.

Question 2. Who is known as Kabiguru ?
Answer:

Rabindranath is known as ‘Kabiguru’.

Question 3. What did he establish?
Answer:

He established ‘Santiniketan’.

Question 4. What is the birth-place of Kabiguru?
Answer:

The birth-place of Kabiguru is Jorashanko in Calcutta.

Question 5. Which of his works brought him the Nobel Prize?
Answer:

Gitanjali brought him the Nobel Prize.

12. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions below:

Once there was a big lion. He lived in a cave. A little mouse lived near the lion. Every afternoon the big lion slept in the sun. Every afternoon the mouse went for a walk.

One day the little mouse thought, “I’ll run over the lion’s back. He won’t see me. He’s asleep”. So she ran over the lion’s back and over his big paws. The lion caught the little mouse with his big paw. “Let me go! Let me go!” cried the little mouse. “Let me go and I’ll help you one day”, she said.

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1. Question And Answers:

Question 1. Where did the lion live?
Answer:

The lion lived in a cave.

Question 2. When did the lion slept in the sun?
Answer:

The lion slept in the sun every afternoon.

Question 3. What did the little mouse do then?
Answer:

The little mouse went for a walk.

Question 4. When did the lion catch the mouse with his paws?
Answer:

The lion caught the mouse with his paws when she ran over the lion’s back and over his big paws.

Question 5. What did the little mouse pray to the lion?
Answer:

The little mouse prayed to the lion to let her go.

13. Long, long ago, in the north Africa, there lived a Roman slave called Androcles. His master was very cruel to the slave Androcles, and often beat him. Androcles had to work hard, and he had little to eat. He was very unhappy, and at last he could not bear it any longer. So one dark night he ran off. He ran and ran. At last he came to a cave. He was so tired that he lay down on the sandy floor, and at once fell fast asleep.

Read the above text and answer the following questions:

1. Question And Answers:

Question 1. Who was Androcles ?
Answer:

Androcles was a Roman slave.

Question 2. How did his master treat him?
Answer:

His master treated him very cruelly, often beat him and gave nothing to eat.

Question 3. Why did he run away on a dark night?
Answer:

He ran away as he was very unhappy and could not bear the ill-treatment meted out to him.

Question 4. Why did Androcles fell fast asleep?
Answer:

Androcles fell fast asleep because he was very tired.

2. Match the words in ‘A’ with their meanings in ‘B’:

Answer:

3. Mark True or False statements:

Question 1. Androcles lived in America.
Answer:

False

Question 2. His master was very kind to him.
Answer:

False

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Question 3. Androcles had little to eat.
Answer:

True

Question 4. He came to a cave.
Answer:

True

Question 5. He fell fast asleep.
Answer:

True

14. India is a very beautiful country with high mountains, wide rivers, green forests and broad plains. Mt. Everest in the Himalayas is higher than any other peak in India. In fact, it is the highest peak in the world. There is snow on most of the peaks of the Himalayas all the year round. The most important rivers of India are the Ganga, the Yamuna, the Brahmaputra in the north and the Godavari, the Krishna and the Kaveri in the south. The Ganga is the longest river in our country.

Read the above text and answer the questions below:

1. Question And Answers:

Question 1. Which is the highest peak in the world?
Answer:

Mt. Everest is the highest peak in the world.

Question 2. What do you find on most of the peaks of the Himalayas ?
Answer:

Snow is found on most of the peaks of the Himalayas.

Question 3. Which are the important rivers in the northern part of India ?
Answer:

The Ganga, the Yamuna and the Brahmaputra are some important rivers in the northern part of India.

Question 4. Which is the longest river in the country?
Answer:

The Ganga is the longest river in the country.

2. Write True or False statements in the boxes:

Question 1. India does not have green forests.
Answer:

False

Question 2. There are many high mountains in our country.
Answer:

True

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Question 3. The Yamuna flows in the southern part of India.
Answer:

False

Question 4. The Godavari is a big river in the southern part of India.
Answer:

True

Question 5. The Brahmaputra is longer than the river Ganga.
Answer:

False

15. This is Ardhendu. He is a student of Class VI. He studies in Bankura Zilla School. He gets up at 6 o’clock in the morning. He washes his hands and face and takes his breakfast. He prepares his lessons for three hours from 7 o’clock to 10 o’clock and gets ready for school. He goes to school on foot. Classes start at 11 o’clock. His school ends at 4 o’clock and he returns home in a quarter of an hour. He plays outdoor games in the park from half past five to half past six and does homework in the evening.

Read the paragraph above and answer the following questions:

1. Question And Answers:

Question 1. Where is Ardhendu at 10 o’clock in the morning?
Answer:

Ardhendu is at his home at 10 o’clock in the morning.

Question 2. Where is he at a quarter to four ?
Answer:

He is at school at a quarter to four.

Question 3. What does he do from 5-30 p.m. ?
Answer:

He plays outdoor games in the park from 5-30 p.m.

Question 4. Where is he at a quarter to six in the evening?
Answer:

He is at the park playing games at a quarter to six in the evening.

Question 5. Where is Ardhendu at ten minutes past four in the afternoon?
Answer:

At ten minutes past four in the afternoon, Ardhendu is on his way back home from school.

Question 6. What does he do at 8 o’clock in the morning?
Answer:

He prepares his lessons at home at 8 o’clock in the morning.

16. Read the following carefully and answer the questions that follow:

A dog and a donkey were going together on a long journey. The donkey was carrying a basket of bread. They felt hungry. The donkey began to eat grass in the field by the roadside. The dog could not eat grass. He begged for a piece of bread from the donkey. But the donkey did not give it. Shortly after, a wolf was coming towards the donkey. He requested the dog to help him. But the dog refused. The wolf attacked the donkey and ate him up.

1. Answer each question in English in one sentence:

Question 1. Where were the dog and the donkey going?
Answer:

The dog and the donkey were going on a long journey.

Question 2. What did the donkey do when he felt hungry?
Answer:

The donkey began to eat grass when he felt hungry.

Question 3. Why did the dog beg for a piece of bread ?
Answer:

The dog begged for a piece of bread as he was hungry.

Question 4. Did the donkey keep the request of the dog?
Answer:

No, the donkey did not keep the request of the dog.

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Question 5. Why did not the dog help the donkey?
Answer:

The dog did not help the donkey because the donkey did not give him a piece of bread.

2. Write True or False statements in the boxes provided:

Question 1. The dog was carrying a basket of bread on his back.
Answer:

False

Question 2. The donkey gave some bread to the dog.
Answer:

False

Question 3. The dog did not help the donkey.
Answer:

True

Question 4. The wolf attacked the donkey and ate him up.
Answer:

True

Question 5. The donkey was very selfish.
Answer:

True

17 . A wolf carried off a lamb. “I know you will eat me,” said the lamb, “But before you eat me, I request you to play the flute. I have heard that you can play the flute very nicely. Even I have heard that you can play it better than a shepherd.”
The wolf was pleased. He started to play his flute. The shepherds and dogs heard the sound. They came running and killed the wolf.

Read the above passage and then answer the following questions:

Question 1. What request did the lamb make to the wolf?
Answer:

The lamb requested the wolf to play the flute.

Question 2. Was the wolf pleased to hear the request?
Answer:

Yes, the wolf was pleased to hear the request.

Question 3. What did he do then?
Answer:

He then started to play his flute.

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Question 4. What was the result?
Answer:

The shepherds and dogs came running and killed the wolf.

18.Once a foolish dog stole a piece of meat. He took it in his mouth and ran away with it. On his way home, he was crossing a river. There was a narrow bridge over a river. All of a sudden he looked into the water. He saw his own shadow in the water. He thought it was another dog. He wanted to get the meat which the dog in the water had.

He opened his mouth to take the meat from the other dog. But his piece of meat fell out of his mouth into the water.

1.  Answer the following questions :

Question 1. What did the dog steal?
Answer:

The dog stole a piece of meat.

Question 2. What did the dog see in the water of the river?
Answer:

The dog saw his own image in the water of the river.

Question 3. What did the dog think?
Answer:

The dog thought it was another dog with a piece of meat in his mouth.

Question 4. How was the bridge ?
Answer:

The bridge was narrow.

Question 5. What happened to the piece of meat the dog was carrying?
Answer:

The piece of meat fell out of his mouth into the water.

2. Write False or True statements:

Question 1. The dog was very clever.
Answer:

False

Question 2. He had a piece of meat in his mouth.
Answer:

True

Question 3. He saw his shadow in the water.
Answer:

True

Question 4. He fell from the bridge into the water.
Answer:

False

Question 5. The piece of meat fell from the mouth of the dog into the water.
Answer:

True

19. A gentleman took his mother to a dinner party. His mother was a bit dull of hearing. They sat next to a lady Susan by name who was very proud of her jewels. She wanted to show how rich she was. “I clean my diamonds with warm water,” she said, “and my rubies with red wine, my emeralds with brandy and my sapphires with milk. What do you do?” she turned to the gentleman’s mother and asked. “Oh, I don’t clean mine at all” said she smiling. “When they get dirty, I just throw them away”, said she.

Read the above text and answer the questions below:

1. Answer in brief.

Question 1. Who went to a dinner party?
Answer:

The gentleman, his mother and Susan went to a dinner party.

Question 2. What did the proud lady want to show ?
Answer:

The proud lady wanted to show how rich she was.

Question 3. How did Susan clean her rubies and sapphires?
Answer:

Susan cleaned her rubies with red wine and sapphires with milk.

Question 4. What did the gentleman’s mother say to Susan?
Answer:

The gentleman’s mother said that she did not clean her jewels at all and she threw them away when they became dirty.

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2. Write True or False statements:

Question 1. The gentleman took her mother to a jewellery show.
Answer:

False

Question 2. Susan was very proud of her wealth.
Answer:

True

Question 3. She cleaned her emeralds with brandy.
Answer:

True

Question 4. The gentleman’s mother cleaned her jewels with warm water.
Answer:

False

20. Now-a-days pupils read in schools in the town. But in olden days there were no schools. The parents sent their sons to the houses of the teachers or ‘gurus’. The boys lived with their ‘gurus’ and the ‘gurus’ gave them food and clothes. The ‘gurus’ also taught the boys the Vedas and the Sastras. The boys served their second father honestly.

1. Rearrange the following sentences in the context of the passage:

Question 1. The ‘gurus’ gave them food and clothes.
Answer:

Now-a-days pupils read in schools in the town.

Question 2. In olden days there were no schools and boys lived with their ‘gurus’.
Answer:

In olden days there were no schools and boys lived with their ‘gurus’.

Question 3. The pupils served their teachers honestly.
Answer:

The ‘gurus’ gave them food and clothes.

Question 4. They also taught the pupils the Vedas.
Answer:

They also taught the pupils the Vedas.

Question 5. Now-a-days pupils read in schools in the town.
Answer:

The pupils served their teachers honestly.

2. Pick Out The Correct Answers.

Question 1. In Olden Days.

1. There Were No Schools.
2. Parents Did Not Like To Send Their Sons To ‘Gurus’.
3. ‘Gurus Taught The Boys In Schools.

Answer: 1. There Were No Schools

Question 2. In Olden Days Students

1. Lived With Their ‘Gurus’
2. Went To Their ‘Gurus’.
3. Went To Schools Everyday.

Answer: 2. Went To Their ‘Gurus’

21. Hamlet was the prince of Denmark. His uncle Claudius wished to become the King of Denmark. One day when Hamlet’s father was sleeping in his beautiful garden Claudius came there. He dropped poison into the King’s ears. The king died. Claudius told everybody that a snake had bitten the king. Hamlet lost his dear father. He became very sad. One day Hamlet came to know that his uncle had killed his father to become the king. He became very angry. He decided to punish his uncle. Horatio was the dear friend of Hamlet. Hamlet began to think how he would punish his uncle.

Read the passage above and answer the following questions:

1. Answer in brief:

Question 1. Who was Hamlet?
Answer:

Hamlet was the prince of Denmark.

Question 2. Who was Claudius?
Answer:

Claudius was Hamlet’s uncle.

Question 3. Why was Hamlet sad?
Answer:

Hamlet was very sad because he had lost his father.

Question 4. Why was Hamlet angry with Claudius?
Answer:

Hamlet was angry with Claudius because he had killed his father.

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Question 5. What did he decide?
Answer:

He decided to punish Claudius.

2. Write True Or False statements in the boxes provided:

Question 1. A snake had bitten Hamlet’s father.
Answer:

False

Question 2. Hamlet wished to become the King of Denmark.
Answer:

False

Question 3. Hamlet’s father was killed by his uncle.
Answer:

True

Question 4. Hamlet, decided to forgive Claudius.
Answer:

False

Question 5. Horatio was a dear friend of Hamlet.
Answer:

True

3. Complete the sentences with information from the text:

1. Claudius poisoned the king because he wanted to become the King of Denmark.

2. Hamlet became very angry to know that his uncle Claudius had killed his father.

3. Claudius entered the garden when Hamlet’s father was sleeping there.

4. It was known to everybody that a snake had bitten the king.

5. Hamlet began thinking of punishing Claudius.

6. Claudius dropped poison into the ears of the king.

22. Trees are our friends. They give us timber, fruit, flowers and oxygen. Similarly, animals also are our friends. They help us in many ways. The cow gives us milk. The dogs bark at night and keep watch over our houses. The horses and bulls draw carts. The camel is the ship of the desert. It carries man and luggage in the desert. Bees collect honey from flowers. Ants make the soil fertile. So, we should love our friends.

Read the above text and answer the questions below:

1. Answer briefly:

Question 1. Who are our friends?
Answer:

Trees and animals are our friends.

Question 2. What are the things we get from trees?
Answer:

We get timber, fruit and flowers from trees.

Question 3. How does a dog help us?
Answer:

A dog helps us by keeping watch over our houses at night.

Question 4. Who gives us milk?
Answer:

The cow gives us milk.

Question 5. What does a camel do?
Answer:

A camel carries man and luggage in the desert.

2. Multiple Choice Questions:

Question 1. Bees collect honey from

1. Fruit.
2. Flowers.
3. Soil.

Answer: 2. Flowers

Question 2. By ‘ship of the desert’ is meant

1. A Horse.
2. A Bull.
3. A Camel.

Answer: 3. A Camel

Question 3. Carts are drawn by

1. Ants.
2. Dogs.
3. Horses.

Answer: 3. Horses

Class 6 English Reading Skills Unseen Passages WBBSE

3. Write True or False statements:

Question 1. Trees give us oxygen.
Answer:

True

Question 2. Camels guard our house.
Answer:

False

Question 3. Cows give us honey.
Answer:

False

Question 4. Trees and animals help us in many ways.
Answer:

True

Question 5. Bulls give us milk.
Answer:

False

23. Read the passage and answer the following questions as directed:
Lamartine, the French poet and statesman, was never rich. He had a great desire to possess a car of his own. For this purpose he saved money. He put this in a box. He had saved about a thousand francs. At this time a poor widow with several children came to his room. She told him with tears that she had no bread to eat, that her furniture had been seized and that she and her children had been turned out into the street. Hearting this, the poet gave all his savings to the poor widow.

1. Multiple Choice Questions:

Question 1. Lamartine was a

1. German.
2. British.
3. French.

Answer: 3. French

Question 2. He was

1. A Painter.
2. A Musician.
3. A Poet And A Statesman.

Answer: 3. A Poet And A Statesman

Question 3. He wanted to have

1. A Bus.
2. A Train.
3. A Car.

Answer: 3. A Car.

Question 4. He had saved about

1. One Thousand Francs.
2. Two Thousand Dollars.
3. Three Thousand Francs.

Answer: 3. One Thousand Francs

2. Write whether the statements are True or False:

Question 1. Lamartine was a rich poet.
Answer:

False

Question 2. He had no car of his own.
Answer:

True

Question 3. He gave all his savings to a poor man.
Answer:

False

Question 4. He saved money to buy a car.
Answer:

True

Question 5. He was a kind-hearted person.
Answer:

True

3. Sentences below are not in order. Put the numbers in the boxes to show the correct order:

Question 1. The poet put all his savings into her hand.
Answer:

Lamartine was not rich.

Question 2. To fulfil his desire he had saved one thousand francs.
Answer:

But he had a desire to possess a car.

Question 3. A poor widow with her children came to him for help.
Answer:

To fulfil his desire he had saved one thousand francs.

Question 4. But he had a desire to possess a car.
Answer:

A poor widow with her children came to him for help.

Question 5. Lamartine was not rich.
Answer:

The poet put all his savings into her hand.