Summit_English_Grade 4_Bridge Course_QP_Assesment

Name: _______________________________________ UUID: ___________________________________ School: ______________________________________ Section: ________________________________ School ID: _____________ Date: _________________ Inv. Sign: _______________________________ 1) Read the story and answer the questions given below. (_____/5M) Anandi looked excited. ‘OK Papa, which places will we visit tomorrow?’ she asked. Manohar said, ‘We will visit Anjuna, Candolim and Calangute beaches tomorrow. We will also visit a few churches. Let us go back to the hotel and take rest now.’ The family had a quiet dinner at the hotel. They enjoyed the traditional food of Goa: fish curry, rice and Arroz Doce, a pudding. Sharat and Anandi sat next to their parents on the bed before going to sleep. Sharat asked curiously, ‘Papa, tell us more about Goa.’ Manohar said, ‘Goa is India’s smallest state in terms of area and fourth smallest in terms of population. It is located on the western coast of India along the Arabian Sea. Panaji is the capital of Goa. The other important city is Margao. Isn’t all this interesting?’ The children nodded, ‘Yes, Papa’. ‘Konkani is the official language here. Marathi, Hindi and Portuguese are also spoken here by the people. So you can learn Konkani here, children.’ a) Which beaches were Anandi’s family going to visit in Goa? Name any two. A. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________

b) Where is Goa located? A. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ c) Write the noun forms of the following words. i) traditional – _______________________________ ii) excited – _______________________________ d) Which word from the passage is the opposite of the word 'forgettable'? A. _______________________________________________________________________________ e) Match the words with their correct meanings. Column A Column B 1. official a. residents of a place 2. population b. famous or well-known c. formal 2) Read the passage and answer the questions given below. (_____/5M) ‘It is a wonderful book, Maa’, Barun replied happily. ‘I am reading about Rakesh Sharma right now.’ ‘So you are reading about the first Indian to go to space’, said his mother. She sat on the bed beside her son and asked him, ‘Have you read about Kalpana Chawla?’ Barun hadn’t. So, he started reading about Kalpana Chawla in the evening. Kalpana Chawla was born in 1962 in Karnal in the state of Haryana. Nicknamed ‘Montu’ by her family, she went to school at the age of three. Later, she studied Aeronautical Engineering at Punjab Engineering College, India. In 1982, Kalpana went to the USA to study at the University of Texas at Arlington. In 1988, she became a research scientist at the NASA Ames Research Centre in Sunnyvale, California.

In November 1996, Kalpana joined the STS-87 mission aboard space shuttle Columbia. On 16th January 2003, Kalpana went into space again. She was on board the space shuttle Columbia. After a successful flight, Columbia was lost with its crew during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere on 1st February 2003. A hill on Mars and a star in deep space have been named after Kalpana. Her story shows the value of hard work and sincerity that is remembered even after one’s time. a) Who was the first Indian to go to space? A. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ b) Where was Kalpana Chawla born? A. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ c) Fill in the blanks with the correct prepositions from the options given in brackets. i) Barun started reading about Kalpana Chawla _____________________ (on/in) the evening. ii) She was _____________________ (next to / among) a group of astronauts who travelled to outer space. d) Which word from the passage means 'answered'? A. _______________________________________________________________________________ e) Match the words with their correct meanings. Column A Column B 1. space shuttle a. honesty 2. crew b. spacecraft c. team

Vocabulary 3) Choose the correct option. (_____/2M) Which of the following words means easily broken or cracked? [] (A) griddle (B) brittle C) kettle (D) prattle 4) Choose the correct option. (_____/2M) Which of the following words means a stage in the life cycle of a butterfly? [] (A) chrysalis (B) tadpole C) cub (D) chick 5) Choose the correct option. (_____/2M) Which of the following words means to order someone to come? [] (A) offence (B) defence C) demon (D) summon 6) Choose the correct option. (_____/2M) Which of the following words means having a pleasing appearance? [] (A) positive (B) negative C) attractive (D) imperative 7) Choose the correct option. (_____/2M) Which of the following words means well planned and not by chance? [] (A) operate (B) deliberate C) calibrate (D) capture 8) Fill in the blanks with the correct antonyms of the words in brackets. (_____/3M) a) It is very __________________________ here. (cool)

b) Please meet me __________________________ dinner. (after) c) This dress is very __________________________. (cheap) 9) Fill in the blanks by using the correct suffix from between ‘-tion’ and ‘-ment’ in each case. Use the base words in brackets as hints. (_____/2M) a) Mira is moving in the ________________________________ (direct) of the campus. b) Zaheer showed a marked ________________________________ (improve) in his writing skills. 10) Fill in the blanks with ‘to’, ‘two’ or ‘too’. (_____/2M) a) I was invited to a party, and my sister was ________________. b) His father came home and gave him ________________ oranges. 11) Write the antonyms of the words given below. (_____/2M) a) rough x ____________________________ b) narrow x ____________________________ Grammar 12) Rewrite the following sentences with the correct usage of punctuation and capital letters. (_____/3M) a) why are you going now. A. _______________________________________________________________________________ b) Do you want to buy the small. medium or large shirt! A. _______________________________________________________________________________ c) Rajeev, Usman. and Tina went to delhi during their holidays. A. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ 13) Fill in the blanks with the present perfect forms of the verbs. (_____/3M) a) They ____________________________________ (see) this play before. b) She ____________________________________ (be) nervous all day.

c) I ______________________ just ____________________ (eat) my dinner. 14) Rewrite each sentence in the type given in brackets. (_____/3M) a) What a sharp-eyed detective Sherlock Holmes was! (declarative) A. _______________________________________________________________________________ b) The boy in the blue shirt has won the match. (interrogative) A. _______________________________________________________________________________ c) One should not waste one’s time. (imperative) A. _______________________________________________________________________________ 15) Fill in the blanks with the correct modal verbs from the options in brackets. (_____/3M) a) I                                                      (might not / cannot) pick up this box; it is very heavy. b) He                                                      (could not / may not) speak fluently in English when he came here two years ago. c) You                                                      (might/can)go home if you like. 16) Do as directed. (_____/3M) a) Rishav is happy to be home. (Change this to the simple future tense.) A. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ b) My best friend will come to school. (Change this to the present continuous tense.) A. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ c) The dog barked at the stranger. (Change this to the past continuous tense.) A. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________

17) Choose the correct forms of the verbs from the given options and fill in the blanks. (_____/2M) a) The old woman and old man ___________________________ (looks/look) healthy. b) Either the girl or the boy ___________________________ (rides/ride) this cycle. c) The athletes ___________________________ (runs/run) five kilometres a day. d) Neither my mother nor father ___________________________ (have come / has come) home yet. 18) Complete the table with positive, comparative or superlative degrees of the given adjectives. (_____/3M) Positive Comparative Superlative quick _________________________ quickest _________________________ younger youngest bright brighter _________________________