QP Eng Grade 6 Sa II 2012 2013 Set 1 Comp

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SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT II [2012-2013]
SUBJECT: ENGLISH
CLASS : VI

ROLL NO

TIME ALLOWED : 3 Hrs MAX. MARKS: 90
Candidates MUST write their Roll Number on the space provided above
before opening the seal.
Please check that the question paper contains 24 printed pages.
Candidate must write the Code No of the question paper on the answer
book.
Please write down the serial number of the question before attempting it.
15 minutes time has been allotted to read this question paper, the students
will read the question paper only and will not write any answer on the
answer script during this period.
General Instructions:
1]. There are 10 Questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
2]. Marks for each question are indicated against the questions.
3]. Section A contains 2 questions.
4]. Section B contains 3 questions.
5]. Section C contains 1 question.
6]. Section D contains 3 questions.
7]. You need colour pencils and a ruler for Section B.
8]. Do not copy the questions. Write your answers only.
9]. Do not use whitener / white fluid.
1/2 Code No.
GIIS-ACA-PM-05/SAII/QP1/ENG6/150313

EXAMINATION INSTRUCTIONS

Write your Roll Number, Class, section, subject, and Code number of question paper
on the answer sheet, additional sheet, Graph and map even if the paper is not
attempted. Write only the roll number on the question paper.

Read question paper carefully and Check the paper title.

Use only blue / Black pen to write the answers. Use colour pens only if instructed. Do
not use correction pen / whitener.

Mention the question number/ Sections correctly while answering each question. No
marks will be awarded if the question number changes with regard to question paper.

All the queries related to the question paper must be completed within 30 minutes
from the beginning of exam.

Revise your answer and submit the answer paper along with graph, maps....etc., as
instructed before you leave the exam room.

You are not allowed to change your seat during the exam for any reason without
permission from your invigilator.

Don't pass your answer sheet or quest|on paper to anybody else.

Avoid give-take of a pen, pencil, scale etc.
Dear Candidate,
Remember the following:
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Don't wr|te anyth|ng on a question paper [ except roll number] , writing pad, compass,
body etc

You must not communicate with each other in any way in the examination room,
whether the exam is in progress or not. If you wish to talk to an invigilator, raise your
hand. If you wish to query an examination question you should raise your hand,
explain, and then work on other questions. If a correction to an examination paper is
necessary, you will be advised.

Conclusion of the examination
Candidate must cease writing immediately when instructed to do so and must remain
seated and silent until all answer books have been collected and the instruction to leave the exam
room has been given.

The Candidate who is in possession of any kind of
unauthorised materials [Used / Unused], improper use of
materials, unauthorised removal of materials from
examination rooms and bringing in any unauthorised
materials to the examination room or ignoring the
instructions given by supervisors will result in the students
being marked zero in the respective subjects or being
debarred from all other examinations.
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SECTION A READING [25marks]
I. Read the following passage and answer the questions
that follow.
The Inner Solar System
By Leslie Cargile

The inner solar system is the name of the terrestrial planets
and asteroid belt. Terrestrial is just a fancy way of saying
rocky. Like the Earth, terrestrial planets have a core of iron
and rock.
At the center of the solar system is the Sun. The Sun is a big
ball of hydrogen powered by nuclear reactions. Massive
explosions are going on all of the time inside the Sun. Its
what makes the light every day and keeps our planet warm.
Light zips from the Sun to us in about eight minutes. The Sun
is the most massive thing in our solar system. It is so big you
could fit about a million Earths inside of it!
Closest to the Sun is the planet Mercury. You could squeeze
about eighteen Mercurys inside of Earth. It is made of mostly
rock, but it has a huge iron core and it generates a big

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magnetic field. Speedy little Mercury sails around the sun in
only eighty-eight days. Mercury was the messenger of the
gods in Roman mythology, known for his speed.
Second in line comes Venus, which is sometimes called
Earth's twin. It's about the same size as Earth, but thats
where the similarities end. Venus is always covered in thick
clouds full of sulfuric acid. They whip around the planet at
more than two hundred twenty mph. Violent winds shoot
sand made of silicate around Venuss very dry, arid surface.
The temperature averages nine hundred degrees, and the
pressures ninety times that on Earth. It takes two hundred
and twenty four days to orbit the sun. Like Mercury, Venus
was also named after a Roman Goddess, the Goddess of
love.
You know what planet is next. You live on it! Yup, the Earth is
number three. We have a rocky iron core at the center of our
planet. We have liquid water, and our air is made of mostly
nitrogen and oxygen. It takes three hundred and sixty-five
days for us to circle the sun. We only have one moon.
Next to us in is Mars. Mars also has a core of rock and iron. It
is a little more than half the size of Earth. The most distinct
feature about Mars is its red color. Dust rich in iron oxide
covers the planet. Its sort of like the planet is rusting.
Whitecaps at the poles are water, forever frozen because of

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the colder temperatures further from the Sun. The only place
the temperature rises above freezing is at the equator, or the
middle of the planet. Mars has two moons, Deimos and
Phoebe but they are much smaller than our own moon. It
takes nearly twice as long for Mars to circle the sun at almost
684 days.
The last part of the inner solar system is called the Asteroid
Belt. Its the line between the inner rocky planets and the
outer gaseous planets. Unlike the rest of the Inner Solar
System, the Asteroid Belt isnt a planet at all. It is a bunch of
large rocky chunks, mostly meteoroids. There's also a dwarf
planet named Ceres in the asteroid belt. The rest arent very
large.
The Earth is the only planet that we know of with life on it, but
universe is a big place. Much of our solar system is still a
mystery, there is still plenty to explore.

1. Choose the correct option: [ 1 Mark ]

a. Mercury is 18 times the size of Earth
b. Mercury is 1/18 the size of Earth.
c. Earth is 1/18 the size of Mercury.
d. Earth is 18 times smaller than Mercury.


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2. Which statement about the inner planets' orbits is true?
[ 1 Mark ]
a. Venus orbits the sun more quickly than Mercury.
b. Mercury orbits the sun more slowly than Mars.
c. Earth orbits the sun more quickly than Venus.
d. Mars orbits the sun more slowly than Earth.

3. What two types of gas make up most of Earth's
atmosphere? [2 Marks ]

4. According to information in the article, where would you
find water on Mars? [2 Marks]
5. How long does it take light to travel from the sun to the
Earth? [1 Mark]

6. Which would be the most appropriate nickname for
Venus? [1 Mark ]
a. the cold desert planet
b. the first inner planet
c. the windy planet
d. the triple mooned planet


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7. Fill in the missing letters to create a word from the
article. [3 Marks ]

a.___ i ___ ___ ___ ___ r ___ ___ ___ e ___
clue: likenesses

b.___ ___ ___ a ___ ___ r
clue: an imaginary line around the center of a planet
c.___ a ___ e ___ u ___
clue: made of gas
d.___ r i ___
clue: lacking water or rainfall
e.___ e ___ ___ ___ s ___ ___ ___ a ___
clue: rocky
f.___ ___ ___ r ___ ___ e ___
clue: most abundant gas on Earth
II. Read the following passage and answer the questions
that follow.
Can You Hear Me Now? A study Unit on Cell phones
Introduction & History

Since the dawn of time, people have found
ways to communicate with one another.
Smoke signals and tribal drums were some of
the earliest forms of communication. Letters, carried by
birds or by humans on foot or on horseback, made it

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possible for people to communicate larger amounts of
information between two places. The telegraph and
telephone set the stage for more modern means of
communication. With the invention of the cellular phone,
communication itself has become mobile.
For you, a cell phone is probably just a device that you or
your friends use --to keep in touch with family and friends,
take pictures, play games, or send text messages. The
definition of a cell phone is more specific: it is a hand-held
wireless communication device that sends and receives
signals by way of small special areas called cells.
Walkie-talkies, telephones, and cell phones are duplex
communication devices: they make it possible for two
people to talk to each other. Cell phones and walkie- talkies
are different from regular phones, because they can be
used in many different locations. A walkie-talkie is
sometimes called a half-duplex communication device,
because only one person can talk at a time. A cell phone is
a full-duplex device because it uses both frequencies at the
same time. A walkie-talkie has only one channel. A cell
phone has more than a thousand channels. A walkie-talkie
can transmit and receive signals across a distance of about
a mile. A cell phone can transmit and receive signals over
hundreds of miles.

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In 1973, an electronic company called Motorola hired Martin
Cooper to work on wireless communication. Motorola and
Bell Laboratories (now AT&T) were in a race to invent the
first portable communication device. Martin Cooper won the
race and became the inventor of the cell phone. On April 3,
1973, Cooper made the first cell phone call to his opponent
at AT&T while walking down the streets of New York City.
People on the sidewalks gazed at Cooper in amazement as
he walked down the street talking on his cellular phone.
Coopers phone was called a Motorola Dyna-Tac. It
weighed a whopping 2 pounds (as compared to todays
cell phones that weigh as little as 3 or 4 ounces).
After the invention of his cell phone, Cooper began
thinking of ways to make the cell phone available to the
general public. After ten years, Motorola introduced the first
cell phones for commercial use. The early cell phone and its
service were both very expensive. The cell phone itself cost
about $3,500.
In 1977, AT&T constructed a cell phone system and tried it
out in Chicago with over 2,000 customers. In 1981, a
second cellular phone system was started in the
Washington, D.C. and Baltimore area. It took nearly 37
years for cell phones to become available for general
public use. Today there are more than sixty million cell

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phone customers with cell phones producing over thirty
billion dollars per year.
Parts of a Cell
Phone
A cell phone is not as complicated as you might think. Most
cell phones have only seven major parts: a circuit board, an
antenna, a liquid crystal display (LCD), a keypad, a
microphone, a speaker, and a battery.
Thirty years ago, these parts would have filled the entire
floor of an office building. Today they fit into a package
small enough to rest in the palm of your hand.
The circuit board is the most important part of a cell phone
because it contains the computer chip. One section of the
chip performs high-speed calculations. Another section of
the chip has a microprocessor that handles the commands
that you give the cell phone when you press keys on the
keypad.
Cell phones have tiny speakers and microphones that are
very powerful. As the size of the cell phone decreased, so
did the size of the cell phone battery.


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How Cell Phones
Work
When you speak into a cell phone, it picks up your voice
and changes the sound waves in your voice into radio
waves. The radio waves then travel through the air to a
receiver at a station or tower. The tower sends your call
through a series of networks or cells until it reaches the
person that you are calling,When you receive a call on your
cell phone, the message travels through a cellular network
until it reaches a tower or base station near your cell phone.
The base station then sends out radio waves that are picked
up by a receiver in your cell phone. The radio waves are
then changed back to the sound of a voice. A cell phone
can transmit and send signals over hundreds of miles. A cell
phone operates within cells, so that as you move from one
place to another, the signal is passed from one cell to
another. This is how someone using a cell phone can drive
hundreds of miles and hold a conversation during the entire
trip.

1. What does the microprocessor portion of the computer
chip do? [ 2 Marks ]


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2. How did people react to Martin Cooper as he talked on
his cell phone while walking down the streets of New
York City? [ 2 Marks ]

3. How does the size of the first cell phone compare with
the size of cell phones today? [ 2 Marks ]

4. How many major parts do most cell phones have?
[ 2 Marks ]

5. Why is the circuit board an important part of a cell
phone? [ 2 Marks ]
6. What happens when you speak into a cell phone?
[ 2 Marks ]

7. What are the two differences between walkie-talkies and
cell phones? [2 Marks ]

SECTION B WRITING [20 marks]
III. You are the Secretary of the Technology Society of your
school. You have been asked to inform students of class 5
to 8 about an Educational visit to a Computer-producing
Factory. Draft a notice to be put up on the School Notice

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Board, with all the necessary details. Let your notice look
attractive. [ 6 Marks ]
or
A lady decides to shop for a sari in a shop. The salesman
asks for her choice and shows her many saris. Write a
dialogue of six exchanges between the two.

IV. You have secured the first place in an essay writing
competition. The prize was a trip to Africa where you
took part in a safari and saw the wildlife there. Write an
email to your friend sharing your experience. Write
about 150 words. [ 6 Marks ]

V. You and your parents visited Malacca last week. Write a
letter to your brother in Australia telling him about the
place and what you and your parents saw and did there.
Write about 150 words. [ 8 Marks ]


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SECTION C GRAMMAR [20 marks]
VI. Do as directed:
A) Write the other degrees of comparisons for the
words given in the box. [ 5 Marks]
Positive Degree Comparative Superlative
(1) nice
(2) black
(3) dirty
(4) sad
(5) terrible

B) Read the sentence and write which word class each
underlined word belongs to. (PARTS OF SPEECH)
[ 5 Marks ]
1. You have to believe in yourself if you ever expect to be
successful at something.
2. We left for the mountain just before six in the morning.
3. We first went to the store to buy a few things.
4. We had a breakfast at a caf near the rail station.
5. My friend wasn't strong enough to lift
his heavy rucksack.

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6. I helped him carry it.
7. The weather was very cold.
8. My friend said, "Oh! What a cold weather!"
9. We didn't spend the night there.
10. We got back home late at night but we didn't go to
sleep immediately. We were very hungry.
C) Choose the best phrasal verbs from the given box
and fill in the blanks. [ 5 Marks ]

Passed away, do without, made up, break out, keep
up, carried away, run out, look forward to, called off,
put up with
1. Don't smoke in the forest. Fires ______ easily at this
time of the year.
2. I _____ seeing my friends again.
3. I'm afraid; we have ______ of apple juice. Will an orange
juice do?
4. Your website has helped me a lot to ____ the good work.
5. A friend of mine has __________ her wedding.
6. His mother can't _______ his terrible behavior anymore.
7. As an excuse for being late, she _______ a whole story.
8. I got ___________ by his enthusiasm.

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9. I just cannot ___________ my mobile. I always keep it
with me.
10. She was very sad because her father ______ last week.

D) Rewrite the passage and fill in the blanks with the
most suitable word. [ 5 Marks ]
Clouds and Rain
The heat from the Sun warms the Earths (a) ______.
This causes the warm air near the ground to (b)________. As
the air rises, it cools and the moisture(c) ________ into
clouds of water droplets. The highest clouds are the cirrus
and they may reach a (d)_______of 12,000 meters.
The tiny water droplets in a cloud (e)____ to become
larger droplets and these(f) _______ back to the Earth as
rain. Rain (g)_______ water for animals and plants. When
the water droplets are (h) ______ agitated electric current
may be created and this (i) ______ in lightning.
A rainbow is (j) ______ when sunlight is refracted
several times over by the tiny raindrops.


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SECTION D LITERATURE [25 marks]
By Daniel Nguyen

Born 1999, M, from Wichita, KS, United
States
VII

The Origin of The Resistance

Tyranny, dictation. The world of mankind ended, and a new era
begun. During the apocalypse many have died, and few have
survived and most who have survived have become deformed
and mutated. I am one of the last of mankind. A few years
afterwards, aliens and machines traveled to Earth in search of
the famous Intergalactic form of matter, Oxygen. We have
become endangered; our civilization destroyed, and now
humans are just refugees, and others, unfortunately, slaves.
We struggled to survive, and finally decided to revolt. We
crafted weapons out of old machine parts, and we trained
intensely. The day finally came, the Civil War! We hid in the
forest as the Machine and Alien Empires marched to fight
against one another. Once the battle began we struck! But, we
did not succeed. Many lives have been lost, but we all fought
our best. I alone as the last survivor retreated and was haunted
by being a coward. So I plotted to conquer territories and
assassinate rulers. My first target, X-02, a business tycoon
infamous for his black market trading. As I walked to the Mega

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Corps, X-02's business building, I stumbled upon a robot still in
good shape, I turned him on. It turns out he was a Soldier Bot,
but unlike the others, he was friendly so I recruited him in the
resistance and together we were an army of two!

Answer the following questions:

1. What happened to the world of mankind? [1Mark]
2. What were the aliens searching for? [1Mark]
3. Describe the revolt? [1Mark]
4. Why was the survivor haunted? What did he do? [1Mark]
5. How did he gather his army? [1Mark]

VIII. Read the poem and answer the questions:
Bird of Dreams
At night in dream I travel from my bed.
On wing of light I soar across vast skies
Where colors swirl and dance, and mingle and soar,
To far beyond the veil, where Phoenix flies.

The Phoenix is a wondrous bird of dreams.
Each five hundred years she builds a nest,
Piling feathers, branches, twigs, and leaves
Now will she lay her eggs and sit to rest?

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But no! The Phoenix strikes a
blazing spark
And sets her cozy nesting
place afire!
She dives in flight into the
dancing flames!
Why does she go into the flaming pyre?

There is no need to weep, for all is well.
For her the pyres fiery heat and flame
Burn away the years. She is reborn!
Her radiant, shining youth she doth reclaim.

The pyre burns down to ash, and all is still.
And from the ashen pile, her eyes alight,
The Phoenix rises up into the sky,
Renewed, with feathers luminous and bright!

And so this night, perchance my dreams will go
With wondrous Phoenix rising in the sky,
To soar among the planets and the stars,
Deep in the night to fly and fly and fly!


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1. Which words from the first and last stanzas tell the reader
that these stanzas are written in the first person? [1Mark]
A. Phoenix, sky
B. night, dreams
C. beyond, across
D. I, my

2. In this poem, what is both destructive and creative?
[1Mark]
A. fire
B. ash
C. light
D. air

3. The Phoenix could best represent a person who:

[1 Mark]
A. makes a promise and then breaks it.
B. loses everything and starts over.
C. wants only to be carefree and have fun.
D. lives a life of habit and routine.


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4. Which words from the poem are intended to provide a
sense that the poem was written long ago?
[1 Mark ]
A. soar, fly
B. branches, twigs
C. flame, burn
D. doth, perchance

MOON GAME
I am the moon and I play a game
I don't always look the same.
Sometimes I'm round, a silver sphere.
Sometimes just half of me seems to be here.
Sometimes I'm a crescent, shaped like a smile.
Sometimes I surprise you and hide for awhile!
Look up in the sky for my friendly light --
What shape will I be when you see me tonight?

IX Answer the following:

1. What is the rhyme scheme? [ 1 Mark ]
2. What is the reason for the game? [ 3 Marks ]
3. Why does the moon want us to look up? [ 2 Marks ]

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X: Read the selection, and then answer the question that
follow.

(1) It's quiet on the prairie. The only thing Lone
Shadow can hear is the beating of his heart. A few
butterflies silently swoop down to rest on tall
grasses that spread out as far as the eye can see.
Above, a few fluffy white clouds float in an endless
blue sky. A gentle breeze drifts past Lone Shadow's
ear. Suddenly, there's movement in the grass
ahead!
(2) A frightened deer leaps past Lone Shadow's
shoulder and races off toward a small clump of
trees. Then he hears it . . . a rhythmic sound like his
heartbeat, only louder! The ground begins to
tremble. He looks toward the horizon and sees a
swirling cloud of dust heading his way! Quickly he
turns and runs. The noise gets louder and the dust
thicker, so thick he can taste it! Just as he jumps
into a deep ditch, a thundering herd of buffalo
rushes past.
(3) Once the herd has moved on, Lone Shadow walks
to the place where he had been standing. There's a

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musty smell in the air above the grass, which is now
flat. "That could have been me!" he says. Quickly
he runs back to camp to tell the tribal leaders about
the buffalo. . . . There will be a hunt tonight!
A How did the author use sensory words to help
readers visualize the character, setting, and events?
Give at least one example from the text for each
sense. [10 marks]

a. Sight
b. hearing
c. touch
d. smell
e. taste

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