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Class 6 English Reading Comprehension Worksheet with Answers
Worksheet 1
Directions Read the passage given below and answer the following questions.
1. Yoga in India is considered to be around 5,000 years old mental, physical and spiritual practice. It originated in ancient times when people used to meditate to transform their body and mind. Launching and celebrating 21st June as Yoga Day was an initiative taken by the Indian Prime Minister in the United Nations General Assembly. From then, the yoga day became a worldwide event celebrated by the people of all countries.
Yoga is essentially a spiritual discipline. It is the art and science of healthy living. It is a practice of controlled body part movements and control of breath. It is not just a physical practice but also a way to get control over mental, emotional and spiritual thoughts. It improves discipline and sense of power while providing a chance to live a healthy life without physical and mental problems.
Yoga is very safe, easy and healthy way to get fit whole life without any problems. It can be practiced by people at any age be it childhood, teenage, adult or old age irrespective of age, religion or health circumstances. It needs only safe, slow and controlled movements of body with controlled breathing. Regular practice of yoga regularises the connection between the body, mind and soul. It enhances the functioning of all the body organs. By providing good health it fulfills our physical needs, through knowledge it fulfills our psychological needs and through inner peace it fulfills the spiritual need thus, it helps in maintaining the harmony among all.
(i) Complete the following statement by choosing an appropriate option.
Yoga in basically ___________.
(a) a material discipline
(b) associated with material living
(c) a practice of uncontrolled body movements
(d) the art and science of healthy living
Answer:
(d) the art and science of healthy living
(ii) What kind of people can practice yoga?
Answer:
People irrespective of age, religion or health circumstances from all walks of life can practice yoga.
(iii) How does yoga fulfill our psychological needs?
Answer:
Yoga fulfills our psychological needs by providing us knowledge.
(iv) Which of the following is true for yoga?
(a) It is an art and science combined into one
(b) It is primarily spiritual in nature
(c) It is not backed by WHO
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Answer:
(d) Both (a) and (b)
(v) Complete the given sentence with an appropriate inference with respect to the following.
Yoga enables one to get control over ___________.
Answer:
our mental, emotional and spiritual thoughts
2. Why don’t I have a telephone?
Not because I pretend to be wise or pose as unusual. There are two chief reasons: because I don’t really like the telephone, and because I find I can still work and play, eat, breathe, and sleep without it. Why don’t I like telephone? Because I think it is a pest and time-waster. It may create unnecessary suspense and anxiety, as when you wait for an expected call that doesn’t come, or irritating delay, as when you keep ringing a number that is always engaged.
If you have a telephone in your house, you will admit that it tends to ring when you least want it to ring-when you are asleep or in the middle of a meal or a conversation, or when you are just going out or when you are in your bath. Are you strong minded-enough to ignore it, to say to yourself ? You are not. You think there may be some important news or message for you. Have you never rushed dripping from the bath, or chewing from the table, or dazed from bed, only to be told that you are a wrong number? You were told the truth. In my opinion all telephone numbers are wrong numbers. If, of course, your telephone rings and you decide not to answer it, then you will have to listen to an idiotic bell ringing and ringing in what it supposed to be the privacy of your own home.
If, like me, one is without a telephone, somebody is sure to say, Oh! But don’t you find you have to write an awful lot of letters?’ The answer to that is ‘Yes, but I should have to write an awful lot of letters anyway. This may bring the remark ‘Ah, well, if you don’t have a telephone, at least you must have a typewriter.’ And the answer to that is ‘No’. What, no telephone and no typewriter! ‘Do please explain why.’ Well, I am a professional man of letters.
(i) The writer’s question about why he doesn’t have a telephone is intended to
(a) criticise all aspects of telephone.
(b) highlight the negative aspects of telephones.
(c) show how letter writing is being overtaken by telephones.
(d) encourage letter writing over telephones.
Answer:
(b) highlight the’negative aspects of telephones.
(ii) The writer says ‘All telephone numbers are wrong numbers’ because
(a) the author always gets wrong calls.
(b) he always calls the wrong numbers.
(c) he does not give much importance to telephone numbers.
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(c) he does not give much importance to telephone numbers.
(iii) What happens when the writer decides not to answer the telephone?
Answer:
When the writer does not answer the telephone, it keeps on ringing continuously.
(iv) Write the words from the passage which is the synonym of ‘terrible’.
Answer:
Awful
(v) Complete the sentence appropriately.
The writer seems to be ___________ by the telephone.
Answer:
irritated
Worksheet 2
Directions Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. We sometimes think that it would be very nice to have no work to do. How do we envy rich people who have not to work for their living but can do just what they please all the year round. Yet, when we feel this, we make mistake. Sometimes they are tired of having nothing to do. Most of us are happy when we have regular work to do. The first thing work does for us is to give us happiness. The work gives us self-respect. The idler however, rich lives on the work of others, But the honest worker who earns his living by useful toil, can hold up his head and respect himself. Lastly, regular work helps us in building up character. It teaches us such good habits as punctuality, carefulness and faithfulness in work. It is the man who works, not the idler, that as a rule develops the best character.
(i) Why do we sometimes envy rich people?
Answer:
We envy rich people because they do not have to work ail the time and can do whatever they want.
(ii) What is the first thing that work given us?
Answer:
The first thing that work gives us is happiness.
(iii) Who develops the best character?
Answer:
A man who is not an idler and has work to do develops the best character.
(iv) What is opposite of the man who works? Give only one word.
Answer:
Idler
(v) What do we feel when we have to work to do?
(a) Happy
(b) Angry
(c) Regretful
(d) Sad
Answer:
(c) Regretful
2. Discipline must be enforced early in life. Discipline at home makesr for the future
greatness of a child. It forms his/her character and makes him/her a fit citizen. The child who is allowed to have his/her own way becomes wayward. The child who is allowed all sorts of excesses like running about in the Sun, exposing himself/herself to cold, eating wholesome things, will fall ill frequently as a result. A child, who habits have been disciplined and who has been taught to rise early, attend to his/her lessons properly, take physical exercise at the proper time and avoid things that are injurious, will grow up to be a useful member of the society.
(i) Discipline is important for a child because
(a) it makes him/her hardworking.
(b) it makes him/her truthful.
(c) it makes him/her honest.
(d) it forms his/her character and makes him/her a good citizen.
Answer:
(d) it forms his/her character and makes him/her a good citizen.
(ii) A disciplined child will grow up to be a
(a) problematic person.
(b) senseless person.
(c) useful member of the society.
(d) poor fellow.
Answer:
(c) useful member of the society.
(iii) Which word is opposite of the word ‘frequently’ as used in the passage?
Answer:
Rarely
(iv) What happens to a child who is allowed all sorts of excesses?
Answer:
A child who is ail sorts of excesses will fall ill frequently.
(v) The tone of the given passage is ___________
Answer:
informative and cautionary
Worksheet 3
Directions Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. Environmental pollution refers to the introduction of harmful pollutants into the environment. The major types of environmental pollution are air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, thermal pollution, soil pollution and light pollution. Deforestation and hazardous gaseous emissions also lead to environmental pollution.
We all live on planet Earth, which is the only planet known to have an environment, where air and water are two basic things that sustain life.
Without air and water the Earth would be like the other planets. The biosphere in which living beings have their sustenance has oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, argon and water vapour. All these are well balanced to ensure and help a healthy growth of life in the animal world.
Major sources and causes of environmental pollution include the following Industrial Activities The industries, that brought prosperity, made in roads in the biosphere and disturbed the ecological balance. The pall of smoke, the swirling gases, industrial effluents and the fall-out of scientific experiments became constant health hazards, polluting and contaminating both air and water. The improper disposals of industrial wastes are the sources of soil and water pollution.
Rapid Urbanisation and Industrialisation The urbanisation and the rapid growth of industrialisation are causing, through environmental pollution, the greatest harm to the plant life, which, in turn, harms the animal kingdom and human lives.
Many attempts have been made to solve the problem of environmental pollution. The government can atleast see that future factories are set up at a distant place, an industrial complex far away from the township. Deforestation should be stopped and forestry should be devolved.
(i) Select the way in which deforestation can be controlled.
(a) By launching new industries
(b) By cutting more and more trees
(c) By purchasing new vehicles
(d) By planting new plants and not cutting trees
Answer:
(d) By planting new plants and not cutting trees
(ii) How is Earth different from any other planet in our Solar System?
Answer:
Earth is the only planet known to have an environment. It has what no other planet has life, plants and an atmosphere.
(iii) How have the industries have become successful?
(a) Poor ecological balance
(b) Encroaching the environment
(c) Disposing wastes carelessly
(d) Doing scientific experiments
Answer:
(c) Disposing wastes carelessly
(iv) What is causing the greatest harm to the plant life?
Answer:
Urbanisation and the rapid growth of industrialisation are causing the greatest harm to the plant, which adversely affects the animal and human lives.
(v) Substitute the underlined word in the given sentence from the given word from the passage which means the same.
The constant cutting of trees had damaged the ecological balance.
Answer:
disturbed
2. A Journey The story of Joanne Kathleen Rowling’s near magical rise to fame is almost as well known as the Characters She Creates. Rowling was constantly writing and telling stories to her younger sister Dianne. Rowling said in an interview “my parents, both of whom come from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension art.” A writer from the age of six, with two unpublished novels in the drawer, she was stuck on a train when Harry walked into her mind fully formed. She spent the next five years constructing the plots of seven books, one for every year of his secondary school life.
Rowling says she started writing the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, in Portugal, where she was teaching English. At first nobody wanted to publish Harry Potter. She was told that plot was too complex. Refusing to compromise, she found a publisher. In 1997 Rowling received her first royalty cheque.
By book three, she had sky rocketed to the top of the publishing world. A row of zeroes appeared on the author’s bank balance and her life was turned upside down. Day and night she had journalists knocking on the unanswered door of her flat. Rowling’s quality control has become legendary, as her obsession with accuracy. She’s thrilled with Stephen Fry’s taped version of the books and outraged that an Italian dust jacket showed Harry minus his glasses. “Don’t they understand that the glasses are the clue to his vulnerability.”
(i) What was the drawback of achieving fame?
Answer:
The drawback of achieving fame was constant disturbance of journalists knocking at her door day and night for interviews.
(ii) Rowling was
(a) a college student
(b) in a train
(c) 6 years old
(d) watching TV
Answer:
(b) in a train
(iii) What was Rowling’s profession when she wrote the first Harry Potter book?
(a) Writer
(b) Editor
(c) Publisher
(d) Teacher
Answer:
(d) Teacher
(iv) Complete the sentence appropriately.
Flarry’s glasses are important because ___________.
Answer:
they are a clue to his vulnerability
(v) Why was Rowling outraged with the Italian dust jacket?
Answer:
Rowling was outraged with the Italian dust jacket because it showed Harry without his glasses.
Worksheet 4
Directions Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. In a democratic setup, a consensual decision carries a special significance for any remarkable change. It reflects the collective spirit of the transformational journey. Recently, Bharat has witnessed historic decisions of global resonance – one is the building of consensus on the Delhi Declaration as part of the G20 presidency, the other is the passing of Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam.
The first legislative agenda of the new Parliament building has set the tone for women-led development as a way forward for the nation. The Modi government has shown zeal to turn this sankalp into siddhi. This has been a 27-year-long journey to give women their due share in representative democracy. In a very simplistic manner, the existing minimal share of nari shakti, which constitutes half the population, was a lacuna. Social dynamics had made women a mere decision-adherer rather than a decision-maker to some extent. Numerous exceptions are there to counter this view: Women have broken the glass ceiling and have made the nation proud in every sphere. Now, the Narendra Modi Government has prioritised this moral choice and showcased a strong will to correct this historical lacuna. The gender justice proposed by the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam in the legislative domain will provide impetus to balanced policy formulation. It is a step to realise the spirit of one person, one vote and one value.
(i) What is an important criterion for a remarkable change?
(a) Consensual decision
(b) Democratic setup
(c) Diversity
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Answer:
(d) Both (a) and (b)
(ii) What does the phrase ‘global resonance’ indicate?
Answer:
The phrase global resonance’ indicates the importance of Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam.
(iii) What changed with the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam?
Answer:
With Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam women became decision makers.
(iv) The phrase ‘glass ceilings’ indicate ___________.
(a) limitations
(b) advantages
(c) rights and duties
(d) freedom
Answer:
(a) limitations
(v) The word in the passage means ‘gap’.
Answer:
lacuna
2. If a country should have a message for its people, it should be a message of human dignity. The ideals of a nation should be freedom of thought, speech, press, right of assembly and right of worship. A country should boldly declare to a world dominated by tyrants that “all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights” and “among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. It should be the source of strength and power for a nation. If people have the freedom to live their lives with dignity, they can function with a sound mind and physical health.
A country’s moral, political and economic status lies in the strength of its people. A nation should strive to become a more perfect, perfect country where people are given a commitment and hope in their hearts to work and cherish freedom, justice and opportunity. We don’t always get what we want when we want it, but it’s always good to believe that someday, somehow, we will get what we want.
(i) What message should a country have for its people?
(a) A message of power and strength
(b) A message of superiority over other nations
(c) A message of human dignity
(d) A message of domination over other nations
Answer:
(c) A message of human dignity
(ii) What lies in a country’s moral, political and economic status, according to the passage?
(a) The strength of its people
(b) The size of its military
(c) The amount of its natural resources
(d) The power of its political leaders
Answer:
(a) The strength of its people
(iii) What should a country declare?
Answer:
A country should boldly declare to a world dominated by tyrants that all men are equals and everyone has the access to certain rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
(iv) What is the tone of the given passage?
Answer:
The tone of the given passage is hopeful and informative.
(v) Which word from the passage means the same as ‘want’?
Answer:
Pursuit
Worksheet 5
Directions Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. Adventure sports or extreme sports are recreational activities that are known to involve a high degree of risk. These risks could be in the form of speed, height, or a high level of physical exertion, and involve the use of highly specialised sports equipment. Hence, adventure sports require skills and physical prowess. These sports are usually competitive in nature. These are bold undertakings that involve hazardous action and their outcome is almost always uncertain. These are all about excitement. While some people do it for sheer fun, some others do it to test. The idea of unbounded freedom draws many to the sport.
Adventure sports encompass a very wide range of activities that require unusual physical and mental challenges. Some of these are skydiving, bungee jumping, surfing, skiing, sand – boarding, snowboarding, jet – boating, white – water rafting and scuba diving. Adventure sports are undertaken at various places depending on the topography and weather conditions. Many of them are undertaken in hilly and mountainous areas.
On snow-covered mountains, it is possible to carry out activities like skiing and sledging. Hang – gliding involves piloting a flexible wing aircraft by shifting one’s weight on to it.
(i) Define adventure or extreme sports.
Answer:
Adventure or extreme sports are defined as recreational activities that involve high degree of risks and involve the use of highly specialised sports equipment.
(ii) Complete the sentence appropriately.
Skills and ___________ are required when participating in adventure sports.
Answer:
physical prowess
(iii) How are the places for extreme sports chosen?
(a) Topography
(b) Weather condition
(c) Team spirit
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Answer:
(d) Both (a) and (b)
(iv) State whether the statement is True or False.
Activities like skiing and sledging can be performed on snow-covered hilly and mountainous areas.
Answer:
True
(v) Find the word from the passage which is a synonym of ‘result’,
(a) Equipment
(b) Uncertain
(c) Undertaken
(d) Outcome
Answer:
(d) Outcome
2. The city has spread quietly, suddenly. Everywhere it springs up, this futile architecture, its garish forms shuffled and heaped, its grass sprouting sparse and indifferent, its women brittle with paint, its wrists young and hairless, dipped into the pool where gold reflections rise, quiver at the rims of its eyes.
The old scalps are dry, each hair has lost its root, and the mouth that rehearsed its verses in these streets now is elsewhere. The monuments are black, rainblack and shoulderless, and the plains that once stretched green towards the South are grey with dust and grime.
The old have nowhere to go now, in this new city they haven’t built, and the impatient young are idle, and don’t know where to turn.
(i) What does the poet say about the city’s architecture?
(a) It is meaningless
(b) It is confusing
(c) It is dull
(d) It is colourful
Answer:
(a) It is meaningless
(ii) Does the city offer itself as a home for the people who inhabit it?
Answer:
No, the city does not seem to offer itself as a home to its inhabitants
(iii) What has happened to the green pastures in the city?
Answer:
The green pastures seem to have turned grey because of dust and pollution.
(iv) What does the poet say about the women?
Answer:
According to the poet, the women in the city seem to be interested only in appearances and gold. They are no longer capable of any greater responsibilities.
(v) From the passage, choose the antonym of the word ‘busy’.
(a) brittle
(b) idle
(c) impatient
(d) grime
Answer:
(b) idle
Worksheet 6
Directions Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. Like watering a tree, we grow our friendships (and all our relationships) by nurturing them. Friendships need the same attention as any other relationship if they are to continue. These relationships can be delightfully non-judgmental, supportive, understanding and fun.
Sometimes a friendship can bring out positive aspects that you would never see in any other relationship. This may be because the pressure to play the ‘role’ (daughter, partner or child) is removed. With a friend, you will be free to be yourself and change. Of course, you are free to do this in all other relationships as well, but in friendships: you will have a lot of rehearsal and discussion about the changes they experience.
It’s an unconditional experience where you get as much as you give. You can openly explain yourself to a friend without fear of offending a family member. Flow does friendship grow? The answer is simple, expresses itself; By carefully remembering what shows the most empathy, and seeing the world through your friend’s eyes, you will understand the value of friendship. It means learning to accept a person from a completely different family to your own or perhaps someone from a completely different cultural background. This is how we learn tolerance. Instead, we gain tolerance and acceptance for our own differences.
(i) What is the importance of nurturing friendships?
(a) It helps to play a role in other relationships.
(b) It helps to bring out positive aspects of oneself.
(c) It helps to maintain the relationship with family members.
(d) It helps to maintain cultural values.
Answer:
(b) It helps to bring out positive aspects of oneself.
(ii) How can friendships help in accepting people from different cultural backgrounds? ‘
Answer:
Friendships help us in accepting people from different cultural backgrounds as it teaches us to accept differences.
(iii) What does it mean to express oneself in a friendship?
(a) To avoid offending friends.
(b) To be able to criticise a friend’s behaviour.
(c) To openly communicate with a friend.
(d) To compete with a friend
Answer:
(c) To openly communicate with a friend
(iv) What is the synonym of the word ‘offending’?
Answer:
Insulting
(v) Why are friendships deliqhtfully non-judgemental?
Answer:
Friendships are delightfully non-judgemental as they remove the pressure to play a set role.
2. I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine.
And he knew that it was mine,
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
(i) How does the poet’s anger for his friend ends?
Answer:
The poet checks his anger for his friend and thereby manages to control it.
(ii) What happened to the anger for the poet’s foe?
Answer:
The anger for the poet’s foe grows as he nurtures it and does not stop it from growing.
(iii) How does the poet’s friend die?
Answer:
The poet’s friend dies by eating an apple from the poisoned tree that was nurtured by his foe.
(iv) Give the synonym of the word ‘foe’.
(a) wrath
(b) enemy
(c) wiles
(d) cheat
Answer:
(b) enemy
(v) What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
(a) aabb
(b) abab
(c) abca
(d) abba
Answer:
(a) aabb
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