Class 5 English Sample Question Paper (CBSE) — with Answer Key

SECTION A — Reading Comprehension (2 marks each) Read the passage and answer Q1–Q3. The honey bee is a small but very hard-working insect. Bees live together in a home called a hive. In every hive there is one queen bee, and thousands of worker bees. The worker bees fly from flower to flower and collect a sweet juice called nectar. They carry the nectar back to the hive and turn it into honey. Bees also help flowers to grow by carrying pollen from one flower to another. Q1. Where do bees live?

Q2. What sweet juice do worker bees collect from flowers?

Q3. How do bees help flowers to grow?

SECTION B — Grammar (1 mark each) Q4. Choose the correct article: I saw ___ elephant at the zoo.

Q5. Choose the correct preposition: The cat is hiding ___ the table.

Q6. Identify the verb in the sentence: The children played in the garden.

Q7. Change to past tense: 'She writes a letter.'

Q8. Fill in the correct plural: One child, many ______ .

Q9. Fill in the opposite (antonym) of 'ancient': ______

Q10. Fill in a synonym of 'happy': ______

SECTION C — Writing & Vocabulary (3 marks each) Q11. Make a sentence using the word 'garden'.

Q12. Write the naming word (noun) and the action word (verb) in this sentence: 'Birds fly in the sky.'

Q13. Rearrange the words to make a correct sentence: 'to / go / I / school / every / day'.

Q14. Write two lines about your favourite animal.

Q15. Give the opposite of each: (a) open (b) day (c) full