PODAR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Year End Examination (2020-21)

Std: VI Answer Scheme Subject: English

Section A: Reading
1. Read the passage below and answer the questions.
There were other boys in Manjari village, but Bisnu was the only one who went to
school. The other boys worked in the farms. Bisnu had set his heart on receiving a
good schooling. He walked to school every day.

A colony of langoors lived in the forest. They usually remained on trees but came
down to the ground only to play. They leapt from tree to tree with great agility.

They had grown used to seeing Bisnu walk on the path and did not fear him. They
did not go near the town because the boys threw stones at them. Two paths led
to the town and at the junction of the two paths, Sarru used to wait for him. Sarru
came from a small village which was about three miles from Bisnu’s village and
closer to the town. They often met at this spot, keeping each other company for
the remaining two miles.

“There was a panther in our village last night,” said Sarru.

This information did not excite Bisnu. Panthers were common in the hills and did
not usually pose a problem except during the winter months, when their natural
prey was scarce.
“Wasn’t that the one that left the shikaris wounded?”
“It could be the same. It has a bullet in its leg. These hunters are the people who
cause all the trouble. They think it’s easy to shoot a panther. It would be better if
they missed altogether, but they usually wound it.”
“And then the panther becomes too slow to catch the barking-deer and start
preying on our animals. We are lucky that it didn’t become a man-eater. Do you
remember the man-eater six years ago? I was very young then. My father told me
all about it.”
“What happened to it?”
“I don’t know. Some say it poisoned itself when it ate the headman of the village.”

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 Bisnu laughed. “No one liked the old villain.” They linked arms and scrambled up
the stony path to school.
Choose the correct option.
a. What did the other boys of Manjari village do instead of going to school?
i. played in the river
ii. ran across the fields
iii. worked in the farms
iv. collected wood from the forest
b. Bisnu had set his heart on ________________.
i. receiving good schooling
ii. learning new tricks
iii. working on farms
iv. earning money
c. A colony of ________________ lived in the forest.
i. ants
ii. bees
iii. langoors
iv. bats
d. Why did the animals not go near the town?
i. They were afraid of the boys who threw stones at them.
ii. They were afraid of the loud noise in the town.
iii. The weather was very hot and humid.
iv. There was no water available in the town.
e. Sarru’s village was about ___________ miles away from Bisnu’s village.
i. two
ii. three
iii. four
iv. five
f. How many miles further was the school from the place where the boys met?
i. one mile
ii. two miles
iii. three miles
iv. four miles
g. Why did the news of the panther in Sarru’s village not excite Bisnu?

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 i. He saw a panther around his village every day.
ii. He was not afraid of panthers.
iii. He knew Sarru was lying.
iv. Panthers were common in the hills.
h. When do the panthers cause a problem?
i. during heavy rains
ii. when the water is scarce
iii. when the prey is scarce
iv. when the climate is too hot
i. How did the boys come to know that the panther was the one that was
wounded by the shikaris?
i. The panther had a wound on his back.
ii. The panther’s tail looked stained in blood.
iii. The panther was crying in pain and despair.
iv. The panther had a bullet in its leg.
j. The wounded panthers are too slow to catch the barking-deer so
they___________.
i. prey on the village animals
ii. prey on humans
iii. stay near the village
iv. lurk in the dark
k. According to Sarru, what happened to the man-eater panther?
i. The hunters killed it.
ii. It died of old age.
iii. It poisoned itself.
iv. It drowned in the river.
l. Find out the word from the passage which means the same as ‘ability to move
quickly and easily’.
i. agility
ii. junction
iii. scarce
iv. pose
Section B: Grammar (Objective)

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2. Choose the correct option.
a. Everybody rushed out when the fire alarm __________ because of some technical
fault. (Fill in the blank with the correct phrase.)
i. went about
ii. went out
iii. went up
iv. went off
b. He is too weak to move about. (Change into a negative sentence.)
i. He is so weak that he cannot move about.
ii. He is too weak to not move about.
iii. He is not weak to move about.
iv. He is weak and cannot move about.
c. We are not here to waste time. (Change into an interrogative sentence.)
i. Aren’t we here to waste time?
ii. Are we here to waste time?
iii. Why are we here to waste time?
iv. Why should we waste time here?
d. He said that he would play tennis the following year. (Change into direct
speech.)
i. He said that,” He would play tennis the following year.”
ii. He said, “He will play tennis the following year.”
iii. He said, “I will play tennis the next year.”
iv. He said, “I am playing tennis the next year.”
e. Sushil said, “Here is the book I have been looking for.” (Change into indirect

speech.)

i. Sushil said that there was the book he had been looking for.

ii. Sushil exclaimed here is the book I was looking for.

iii. Sushil said if this was the book he was looking for.

iv. Sushil said there is the book he has been looking for.

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 f. The factory _____________ by the mayor. (Fill in the blank with appropriate active
or passive forms of verbs.)
i. was inaugurated
ii. has inaugurated
iii. were inaugurated
iv. have inaugurated
g. Who ___________ this book on Greek mythology? (Fill in the blank with
appropriate active or passive forms of verbs.)
i. has wrote
ii. have written
iii. was written
iv. wrote
Section C: Grammar (Subjective)
3. Do as directed.
a. Mayank bought some flowers which he wanted to give his mother. (Identify the
main and dependent clause.)
Mayank bought some flowers-independent clause
which he wanted to give his mother.- dependent clause
b. They said to him, “Where have you been wandering since yesterday?” (Change
into indirect speech.)
They asked him where he had been wandering since the previous day.
c. He said, “Ice melts when it is heated.”(Change into indirect speech.)
He said that ice melts when it is heated.
d. She said that it may rain that night. (Change into indirect speech.)
She said, “It may rain tonight.”
e. They laughed at the poor man. (Change the voice.)
The poor man was laughed at by them.
f. We must listen to his song. (Change the voice.)
His song must be listened to by us.
g. The cart was being loaded by the labourers. (Change the voice.)
The labourers were loading the cart.

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 h. How well she sings! (Change into an assertive sentence.)
She sings very well.
i. No other chair is as comfortable as this one. (Change into an affirmative
sentence.)
This chair is the most comfortable one.

Section D: Descriptive Writing (Subjective)

4. Write a descriptive paragraph in 100-120 words on the school fete (fair) that was
held in your school recently.

Section E: Letter Writing (Subjective)

5. You are Ratan/Ratna of New Spring High School. Write a letter to your Principal

requesting him/her to include yoga classes as part of your extra-curricular

syllabus. Explain the advantages of yoga for students.

Section F: Literature (Subjective)

6. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words.
a. In the story ‘The Loaves’, describe Miss Martha and her bakery.
Miss Martha Meacham kept a little bakery on the corner of the street. It was
the one where you went up three steps and the bell tinkled when you opened
the door. Miss Martha was forty, single and possessed a sympathetic heart.
b. In the story ‘Loaves’, how did Miss Martha’s act of kindness ruin the artist’s
work?
Miss Martha was an extremely sympathetic and kind person. Miss Martha felt
pity for the artist as she assumed that he consumed stale bread every day. She
went out of her way to add a generous amount of butter to the loaves. The
artist used the stale bread to erase pencil marks on his drawing which in turn
ruined the artist’s work.
c. In the story ‘Physical or Virtual Games’, why didn’t Varun and his friends play
any sports that day?
When Varun went down to play, all his friends were hovering around Farhan,
who had a new Play Station portable. Soon all the boys were so engrossed in

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 taking turns to play the game that they neither played cricket nor any other
sport that day.
d. In the story ‘Physical or Virtual Games’, what did the doctor prescribe for
Varun?
The doctor prescribed an eye drop for Varun and also wrote the following in
the prescription:
- Balanced diet recommended.
- Physical exercise and outdoor games recommended.
- At least eight hours of sleep every day recommended.
- Limit screen time to one hour a day.
e. In the poem ‘The Palanquin Bearers’, how do the palanquin bearers carry the
bride? Why?
The Palanquin Bearers carry the bride ‘lightly’ because she is very precious and
also because it is the most auspicious occasion for her. So they handle her like
a very precious jewel.
f. In the poem ‘The Palanquin Bearers’, how does the poet describe the bride?
The poet draws a very vivid description of the bride. She states that the bride is
‘like a flower’, ‘a bird’, ‘a laugh’, ‘a star’, ‘a beam’, and ‘a tear’. By using such
similes, the poet's intention is to get across that the bride is very fragile but
precious and needs to be handled with care.
7. Answer the following questions in 80-100 words.
a. In the story ‘The Loaves’, why was the artist very angry with Miss Martha?
The second man told Miss Martha that the German man’s name was
Blumberger. He was an architectural draftsman. Both of them worked in the
same office. Blumberger was working hard for three months drawing a plan
for a new city hall. It was a prize competition. He had finished inking the lines
the day before. A draftsman always made his drawing in pencil first. When it
was done, he rubbed out the pencil lines with handfuls of stale bread crumbs.
That was better than India rubber. It was for this purpose that Blumberger was
buying the bread. Unfortunately, that day the buttered bread had ruined the
draft and his chances of winning the competition. It was not good for
anything except to be cut up into railroad sandwiches.
b. In the story ‘Physical or Virtual Games’, why did Varun decide to change his
lifestyle?

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 Due to constant gaming, one day Varun felt that his eyes were burning and his
head hurt. The next day at school too he had a splitting headache and his eyes
began watering. He was taken to the sick bay in school and questioned by the
nurse. His mother picked him up from school and took him to the
ophthalmologist who asked Varun about his daily schedule and if he played
video games. The doctor understood the reason for Varun’s symptoms. The
doctor prescribed some eye drops. He also advised him to limit screen time
and indulge in physical activity. This made Varun decide to change his lifestyle.
c. In the poem ‘The Palanquin Bearers’, what do the tears in the eyes of the bride
say about the bride’s feelings?
The bride has mixed feelings. The tears in the poem depict the mixed emotions
of the bride in the palanquin. The tears are tears of joy because she will be
soon united with her husband. She is happy as she is about to start a new life
with her beloved. At the same time, she has tears in her eyes as she is leaving
her parents behind and going to her in-law’s place. The tears in the eyes of the
bride say that the bride is sad about leaving her parent’s house.
d. In the story ‘The Corridor’, what did Mary find in the one place that she went
most often to?
Mary found Ben Weatherstaff's robin redbreast, perched on top of the wall. It
was tilting forward to look at her with his small head on one side. She spoke
to him as if she was sure that he would understand and answer. It did not
seem at all queer to her. The robin twittered and chirped and hopped along
the wall as if answering her.
It seemed to Miss Mary as if she understood him, too, though he was not
speaking in words. Mary began to laugh, and as he hopped and took little
flights along the wall, she ran after him. She cried out to the robin that she
liked him. She chirped and tried to whistle. The robin seemed to be quite
satisfied and chirped and whistled back at her. At last, he spread his wings and
made a darting flight to the top of a tree, where he perched and sang loudly.
e. In the story ‘An Invitation’, what according to the writer is a curious fact which
makes life interesting?
None of us have any expectation that things are going to happen till the very
moment when they do happen. We wake up some morning with no idea that
happiness is at hand and the world has changed for us; or we wake bright and

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 cheerful, with never a guess that clouds of sorrow are lowering in our sky, to
put all the sunshine out for a while and before noon, all is dark. Nothing
whispers of either the joy or the grief. No instinct bids us to delay or to hasten
the opening of the letter or telegram, or the lifting of the latch of the door at
which stands the messenger of good or ill.
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