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The document contains a reading passage about a traveller who stops a cart for a ride. The cartman charges 10 rupees for the ride but later demands 20 rupees, claiming payment is also due for the shade provided by the cart. This leads to an argument that is settled by the village headman, who cleverly resolves the dispute.

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The document contains a reading passage about a traveller who stops a cart for a ride. The cartman charges 10 rupees for the ride but later demands 20 rupees, claiming payment is also due for the shade provided by the cart. This leads to an argument that is settled by the village headman, who cleverly resolves the dispute.

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JNANA GANGOTRI ENGLISH MEDIUM PRIMARY SCHOOL, BABALESHWAR

ENGLISH QUESTION PAPER


Language - II
ENGLISH
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
(Q. No. 1 - 8)
One hot day a man was travelling along a busy road. He was going to his
village. He was tired and sweat was pouring down his face. He stopped a
cart that came along and asked the cartman to give him a lift.
"I'll take you there for ten rupees," said the cartman. The traveller agreed
and climbed onto the cart. An hour later the cartman stopped for his mid-day meal. He went and
sat under a tree. The traveller got down and sat under the shade of the
cart. The cartman finished eating and they started their journey again. When
they reached the village, the traveller took out a ten rupee note to pay the
cartman. But the cartman would not take it. "Didn't you rest in the shade
of my cart in the heat of the mid-day sun ?" he asked, "Pay me for the shade
too. Give me twenty rupees !"
The traveller refused there was a quarrel. They went to the village head
person and asked him to settle the dispute. It was late afternoon. The headman
asked the traveller to stand in the middle of the road holding a ten rupee note
in the hand.
The traveller did as he was told. The headman then turned to the cartman.
"Go! take both the rupees," he said
"Both ?" asked the cartmán, confused
"Yes," said the headman, "Both. The one in his hand and its shadow on
the ground. I think the shadow of a rupee is a fair price for the shade of a
cart".
1. Choose the word which means "Quarrel".
1) Dispute
(2) Confuse
(3) Reveal
(4) Refuse

2. 'The cartman stopped for his meal.' The part of speech of the underlined
word in the sentence is
(1) Verb
(2) Adjective
(3) Adverb
(4) Noun

3. The cartman demanded rupees twenty on reaching the village as


(1) the village took longer to reach than expected
(2) he felt that the traveller was rich
3) he felt that the traveller had to pay for the ride and the shade the
traveller had received from the cart
(4) he felt that the traveller should pay for his meal which he took
during the ride

4. The headman told the traveller to stand in the middle of the road
holding a ten rupee note in his hand and said
(1) Go! Take the note
2 Go! Take both the notes
(3) Go! Take the note in his hands
(4) Go! Take the note in the shadow

5. The traveller wanted a lift because


(1) he wanted to got to his village in a cart
(2) he was tired
(3) he did not want to talk
(4) he wanted to reach the city soon

6. The cartman agreed to take the traveller because


(1) he pitied his plight
(2) he wanted to cheat the traveller
(3) the traveller agreed to pay ten rupees
(4) he did not want to refuse the traveller

7. The traveller refused to pay rupees twenty as fare because


(1) he had agreed to pay only ten rupees
(2) he did not have twenty rupees
(3) he did not have the change
(4) he wanted to cheat the cart driver

8. The opposite for the word 'refuse' is


(1) expect (2) accept
(3) demand (4) decline

Answer questions 9 – 12 choosing the most appropriate option following the


given directions:
9. 'Spoorti was planting a sapling'.
The passive form of the above sentence is
(1) A sapling is being planted by Spoorti
(2) A sapling was being planted by Spoorti
(3) A sapling has been planted by Spoorti
(4) A sapling was planted by Spoorti

10. Aditi throws_______ one rupee coin into______ river Krishna.


The suitable words to be used in the above sentence are
(1) an, the (2) a, an
(3) a, the (4) the, a

11. The bridge was built _______the river.


The suitable word to be used in the given sentence is
(1) across
(3) at
(2) along
(4) in

12. If she had returned home earlier, I_______ met her.


The suitable form of words to be filled in the blank is
(1) will have
(2) have been
(3) would had
(4) would have

13. Teacher uses online audio dictionary, in the classroom, to teach


(1) Spellings of the words
(3) Pronunciation of the words
(2) Meanings of the words
(4) Word order

14. The correct sequence of facilitating a prose lesson by the teacher is


(1) Engage, Evaluate, Explain, Expand, Explore
(2) Engage, Explain, Evaluate, Explore, Expand
(3) Engage, Explore, Explain, Expand, Evaluate
(4) Engage, Expand, Explore, Evaluate, Explain

15. Effective communication involves


(1) Appropriate use of voice and body language
(2) Use of good voice only
(3) Use of body language only
(4) Casual listening

16. The study of speech sounds, their production and the script is
(1) Syntactic
(3) Sequencing
(2) Transcription
(4) Phonetics

17. When the ability of a student to be brief in writing is enhanced, then he has
attained the skill of
(1) Editing
(3) Summarising
(2) Paraphrasing
(4) Formatting

18. The "Role play" activity helps learners to develop


(1) Fluency in speaking 2) Accuracy in wrtiting
(3) Casual listening 4) Lexical competence
19. The teacher conducts formative Assessments in the classroom.
(1) at the end of every semester
(2) at the beginning of the academic year
(3) throughout the academic year
(4) at the end of the academic year

20. Mrs. Latha is a teacher. She______ teaching in the class now.


The correct word to be filled in the blank is
(1) was (2) are (c) is (d) were

21. If 'break down' means stop working, the word 'break in' means
(1) enter illegally
(2) break a pipe
(3) end a marriage
(4) to leave some thing

22. 'Story telling activity' in a classroom facilitates


(1) hand-eye co-ordination in children
(2) passive participation
(3) interactive teaching-learning environment
(4) reading skills

23. CCE stands for


(1) Comprehensive Continuous Evaluation
(2) Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation
(3) Common Comprehensive Evaluation
(4) Continuous Comprehensive Examination

24. The purpose of remedial teaching is to


(1) introduce new language items
(2) test recently taught items
(3) teach again the language items not properly learnt
(4) teach again the language items learnt, to reinforce

25. By engaging students in dictionary work, the teacher will facilitate


them to improve their
(1) listening skill
(2) reference skill
(3) writing skill
(4) speaking skill

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