Reading Passages for class VI

1.Read the given passage carefully (5Marks]



Peter’s Donkey


My friend Peter went to live in a village. One day his new neighbor said to him, ‘You must buy a donkey. Every family here has a donkey to carry things for them’.


So Peter bought a donkey for five pounds. But it was a very slow animal. It did not like to work. When he beat it with a stick, it stopped. One day he met his neighbour again.


Peter said, ‘I can’t understand this donkey. It will not work for me. When I put something on its back, it will not walk. I beat it and beat it, but it’s no good’.


The man said, ‘Don’t beat it. You must speak to it. A donkey likes to hear kind words. Get on its back, and I will show you.’


Peter got on to the donkey’s back. The man spoke into the donkey’s ear. ‘Tirri, tirri’, he said. And the animal ran all the way home.






Read the questions given below and write the option you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheet:


(a) Peter bought a donkey because (i) it could do work for him (ii) his neighbour wanted it to do his work (iii) it was a kind animal.


(b) Peter found the donkey (i) working hard for him (ii) not working at all (iii) very slow to do any work


(c) Peter tried to make it work by (i) speaking kind words to it (ii) beating it with a stick (iii) getting on to its back.


(d) The neighbour asked Peter to (i) speak kind words to the donkey (ii) beat it (iii) make it starve to get the work from it.


(e) When the man spoke to the donkey, it (i) stopped working (ii) brayed (iii) ran all the way home,carrying Peter on its back.




2. Read the given passage carefully (5Marks]


WILD BIRDS


Wild birds are afraid of us. They fly away when we go near them. But it is easy to be friendly with any birds. You must be patient and have plenty of time. You must not try to catch a bird or hurt it. Peter always feeds the birds which come to his garden. They are quite wild, but they are also hungry.


At first they were afraid of him. He used to put some food on the top of a wall for them. They waited until he went back into the house. And then they flew down to eat the food. After a few months they used to sit on the wall, waiting for him. They came nearer and nearer to his hand, because there was food in his hand.


Now, some of the birds eat the pieces of bread out of his hand. At the end of the meal, they whistle to say ‘Thank you’.



Read the questions given below and write the option you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheet:


(a) Wild birds fly away from us because (i) they are strange (ii) they are afraid (iii) they are hungry.


(b) Peter shows kindness to such birds by (i) catching them (ii) feeding them (iii) frightening them.


(c) He used to put some food (i) at the backyard (ii) on the top of a wall (iii) in his own room.


(d) The birds used to sit on the wall (i) waiting for him (ii) because they were afraid of him (iii) because Peter called them.


(e) Some of the birds thank Peter by (i) flying over him (ii) going closer to him (iii) whistling.