CBSE Sample Papers for Class 2 English Mock Paper 1

Q1. Which of the following synonym pairs is NOT correct?

Opt.
A intelligent: clever

B tiny: small

C road: map

D see: look

Ans. road: map

Q2. Rhyming puzzles.

What’s a big orange vegetable that rhymes with skin?

Who guards the crops and rhymes with row?

What do farmers harvest that rhymes with mops?

What is another word for autumn that rhymes with ball?

What do students study in that rhymes with cool?

Ans. Pumpkin

Scare-crow

Crops

Fall

school

Q3.

Ans.

Q4. Read the poem and answer the questions given below.

Sing a song of people

Walking fast or slow;

People in the city,

Up and down they go.

People on the side walk,

People on the bus;

People passing, passing,

In back and front of us.

People on the subway

Underneath the ground;

People riding taxis

Round and round and round.

People with their hats on,

Going in the doors;

People with umbrellas

When it rains and pours.

1. Find a synonym of the given word in the poem.

(a) below

2. From the poem given above, find the rhyming words of:

(a) round

(b) go

3. Find and write the opposites of the given words from the poem.

(a) slow

(b) down

Ans.

1.

(a) underneath

2.

(a) ground

(b) slow

3.
(a) fast

(b) up

Q5. Choose the correct sentence.

Ans. Do not throw garbage on the streets..

Q6. Write each sentence in the negative form.
1. He is a good cricket player.
2. She will participate in the dance competition.
3. They have seen the movie.

Ans.

Answer may vary.
1. He is not a good cricket player.
2. She won’t participate in the dance competition.
3. They haven’t seen the movie.

Q7. Complete the conversation between two friends. Use words like Where, Who, What.

Amira – Hi, Kaira! ________ were you this Christmas?

Kaira – I went home on Christmas.

Amira: ________ is your home?

Kaira: It’s in London.

Amira: ________ all travelled with you?

Kaira: My whole family. See this picture.

Amira: Wow! _____ is standing next to you in the picture?

Kaira: My brother.

Ans.

Amira – Hi, Kaira! Where were you this Christmas?

Kaira – I went home on Christmas.

Amira: Where is your home?

Kaira: It’s in London.

Amira: Who all travelled with you?

Kaira: My whole family. See this picture.

Amira: Wow! Who is standing next to you in the picture?

Kaira: My brother.

Q8. Complete the questions with question words.

a) ________ is her favourite singer?

b) _______ is your favourite chocolate?

c) ________ is she from?

d) ________ is the post office?

Ans.

a) Who

b) Which

c) Where

d) Where

Q9. See the picture carefully. Write sentences using Here and There.

Ans.

Answers may vary.

Here is a girl playing badminton.

There is the sun shining brightly.

There are two benches near the trees.

There is a dog running.

Here are some flowers.

Q10. Fill in the blank with the correct word.

Ans. There

Q11. Form a new word each with the following suffixes and use them in sentences of your own.
1. –ship
2. -al

Ans.

Answer may vary.
Probable answers:
1. friendship
Our friendship is very valuable.

2. national
Tiger is our national animal.

Q12. Fill in the blanks by either adding a suitable prefix or suffix to the words given in the brackets.
1. The story Joe was writing was left ___________ because he could not think of a suitable ending. (complete)
2. Can you please help me? I am ______ to open this can. (able)
3. They _________ with each other on almost everything! (agree)
4. Mary never loses her things. She is a very _________ girl. (care)
5. Mrs. Johnson is a _________ person. (wonder)

Ans.

1. incomplete
2. unable
3. disagree
4. careful
5. wonderful

Q13. Choose and write the correct homophone for each sentence.

1. I saw a beautiful _______(deer/dear) in the zoo.
2. There is a ______(hole/whole) in my shirt.

Ans.

1. I saw a beautiful deer in the zoo.
2. There is a hole in my shirt.

Q14. Fill in the blanks with the correct option.

I am _______ tired _______ go anywhere.

Ans. too, to

Q15. Write the correct words for the underlined contractions and rewrite the sentences.
1. They’ve not been coming to the office since Monday.
2. I think you’ve had enough chocolates.
3. He’s done a lot of work today.
4. She’d been waiting for you at the café.
5. I’m sure you’ll like the movie.

Ans.

1. They have been not coming to the office since Monday.
2. I think you have had enough cookies.
3. He has done a lot of work today.
4. She had been waiting for you at the café.
5. I am sure you will like the movie.

Q16. Use an apostrophe to combine the words.
1. I have
2. We are
3. Do not

Ans.

1. I’ve
2. We’re
3. Don’t

Q17. Give two examples of words before which we use each of the articles ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’.

Ans.

Answers may vary.

Probable answer:

A- A banana, A pen

An- An umbrella, An Alligator

The- The Taj Mahal, The Andamans

Q18. Pankaj went to see the worlds biggest aquarium. There he got some information about dolphins. He writes a paragraph about dolphins. Look at the paragraph given below. Some of the articles are used incorrectly. Rewrite the paragraph by using correct articles.

Dolphins are a aquatic mammals of the Delphinidae family. There are around 30-40 different species of dolphins. Even though Dolphins are water animals they breathe air like whales through the blow holes which is located on top of their head. The group of dolphins is called a pods. They are highly playful, curious and intelligent. They can swim very fast. A male dolphin is called an Bull while a female is called a cow. Every dolphin recognizes the other through its whistles. Dolphins eat squids, fishes and crustaceans. Dolphins use echolocations for locating objects and finding their ways. With the use of this technique, they can find the location, size and distance of the object. There are different species of dolphins such as the Rissos dolphin, the bottleneck dolphin and an spinner dolphin. The killer whale is a largest dolphin while the spinner dolphin is known for its acrobatic spins and leaps.

Ans.

Dolphins are the aquatic mammals of the Delphinidae family. There are around 30-40 different species of dolphins. Even though dolphins are water animals they breathe air like whales through the blow holes which is located on top of their head. A group of dolphins is called a pods. They are highly playful, curious and intelligent. They can swim very fast. A male dolphin is called a Bull while the female is called a cows. Every dolphin recognizes the other through its whistles. Dolphins eat squids, fishes and crustaceans. Dolphins use echolocations for locating objects and finding their ways. With the use of this technique they can find the location, size and distance of the object. There are different species of dolphins such as the Risso dolphin, the bottleneck dolphin and the spinner dolphins. The killer whale is the largest dolphin while the spinner dolphin is known for its acrobatic spins and leaps.

Q19. Form the opposites of the given words by using ‘-un’ or ‘-dis’.

1. Pleased

2. Safe

3. Seen

4. Appear

Ans.

1. Displeased

2. Unsafe

3. Unseen

4. Disappear

Q20. Write a subject to complete the sentence.

Ans.

Answers may vary.

1. My father bought some watermelons.
2. The sky was very black before the storm.
3. The firemen put out the fire very quickly.
4. Mother served a delicious meal.
5. The trekkers slowly trekked up the slope.

Q21.

Ans.

Q22. Look at the underlined nouns in the sentences below. Are they countable or uncountable?

a. There was a red car behind the boy.

b. Robert plays golf daily.

c. Sam waited ten minutes at the bus stop for Sunny.

d. Kindness costs us nothing.

e. Can I pick an egg from your basket?

Ans.

a. countable

b. uncountable

c. countable

d. uncountable

e. countable

Q23. i. Read the passage below and find two pairs of noun gender.

ii. Along with it tell whether ‘witch’ is a masculine or feminine gender.

iii. Give the opposite gender of ‘witch.’

Ans.

i. man and woman, husband and wife

ii. witch is a feminine gender.

iii. The opposite gender of witch is wizard.

Q24. Change the highlighted words in the sentences into pronouns.
1. Maya is unwell. Maya did not go to the office today.
2. Our neighbours are very friendly. Everyone likes our neighbours.
3. Joe told Mary that Joe would help Mary.

Ans.

1. Maya is unwell. She did not go to the office today.
2. Our neighbours are very friendly. Everyone likes them.
3. Joe told Dan that he would help her.

Q25. Look at the word bank and replace the common nouns within the bracket with a proper noun.

Stuart and (his sister)________ went to watch (movie)_________ with their parents. They drove down (street)__________________ and stopped at

(theatre)________________. After the movie got over, they went to (restaurant)

____________________ to have a pizza. They went to (park)_________________

andlazed around  on the green grass.

Ans.

Stuart and (his sister) Josephine went to watch (movie) Sound of Music with their parents. They drove down (street) Grand Avenue and stopped at (theatre)

Regal Theatre. After the movie got over, they went to (restaurant) Papa Joe’s

to have a pizza. They went to (park)Central Parkand lazed around on the green grass.