First term examination model questions and answers

English

Read the questions carefully before answering them.

Activity I is compulsory.

• Attempt any four activities from Activity II to VII.

Activity 1-

Reading Comprehension

Read the poem given below and select the most appropriate answers:

I’m not lonely in the night,

For I have a magic light. When you look at it by day,

You can’t see a single ray.

But at night there can be seen

Teeny-weeny rays of green

For my light, you realize, Is a jar of fireflies

1. By ‘magic light’ the speaker means:

a. moon,b. teeny-weeny,c. stars

d. fireflies

2. The expression ‘teeny-weeny’ denotes:

a. big

b. very big

c. very small

d. bright

3.The word ‘realize’ means:

a. clear

b. understand

c. forget

d. none of these

4. Which is not a rhyming pair?

a. night – light

b. day – ray

c. seen – green

d. flies – fire

Activity 2-

Conversation

“Mom, may I go for the trip?” Totto-chan asked hesitantly to her mother. “What about your father? Will he allow you to go for the trip?” Her mother asked. Then Totto-chan met her father.

What would be the likely conversation between Totto-chan and her father?

ANSWERS

Activity 1-

Reading Comprehension

1. fireflies

2. aa bb

3. very small

4. understand

5. flies – fire

Activity 2-

Conversation

Totto-chan : Could I ask you a favour, Dad?

Father: What’s it dear?

Totto-chan: May I go on a trip to the Hot Spring with my friends?

Father : What does your mother say?

Totto-chan: She says she’ll let me go if the journey is safe. This is her only concern.

Father: Okay. What do you say?

Totto-chan: We have made all the arrangements to make the trip totally safe.

Father :Tell me about how you plan to go there.

Totto-chan: We’ll go by train, and be bade after three days.

Father : Okay. Go ahead. Plan everything carefully. Don’t forget to take your phone.

Totto-chan:Thank you so much, father.

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