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Sample Paper - 2017

Subject - English
Class: VII
SA1

Time: 2: 30 Hrs. M.M. 60

General Instructions:

The questions paper consists of sections:
• Section A – Reading 10 mark s
• Section B – Writing 10 marks
• Section C- Grammar 15 marks
• Section D – Literature (Text book) 35 marks
• All questions are compulsory
• You may attempt any section at a time.
• All questions of a particular section must be attempted in the correct


SECTION A [READING] (10)
1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Choose
the best alternative.
When I was a school boy, I loved to search through the leaves of bushes in the school
garden. It would look for male spiders and catch them. I would make two male spiders
fight with each other on the cover of the matchbox or flat tin.
Nowadays, spiders are still commonly seen in our homes and parks. You might find one
in your bathroom or in a dark corner of your room. Do you feel frightened when a spider
crawls up your body?
Some people don’. They even keep spiders as pets.
However, there are some spiders which are dangerous to humans. One such spider is
the black widow spider. However, this spider bites only in self-defense.
Spiders trap their prey by spinning a web. The thread which the spider spins is one of
the longest in the world and quite difficult to break.
Questions:
(a) Where did the write catch spiders?
(b) Where are you likely to find spiders in your homes?
(c) Complete the sentence:
Spider uses its web for ……………………..
(d) Which spider is dangerous to humans?
(e) Find a word in the passage which is the opposite of ‘easy’

2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
Bananas are most popular fruit in the world. The banana is infact, not a tree but a high herb
that grows upto 15 metres. Every part of the banana tree is used. The raw banana is cooked

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and eaten. The ripe fruit is nutritious and juicy. The stem too it cut and cooked as is the flower.
The fibre of the tree is found to be useful as string. The leaves are used as plates and are even
folded into cups. From the point of nutrition, the banana is rich in fibre and potassium. With
an abundance of vitamins and minerals, the banana is a healthy part of the diet.
Questions:
a) How is raw banana used?
b) Which part of the banana tree is useful as string?
c) Complete the sentence:
d) Why is banana known as healthy part of any diet?
e) Find a word in the passage which means ‘a lot of’

SECTION ‘B’: WRITING (10 marks)
3. Write an application to the Principal of you School requesting him/her for arranging music
classes in school.
OR
Write a letter to your younger brother advising him to take care of his health.
4. Write a paragraph on any one of the following topics:
(a) Value of trees
(b) Diwali
(c) The policeman

SECTION ‘C’: GRAMMAR (15 Marks)

5. Combine the following pairs of sentences using words in the brackets:
a) Rohan is intelligent
Rohan is hardworking. (and)
b) She works hard
She may pass (so that)
c) I like fruits.
I do not like sweets. (but)
6. Change the following into passive voice:
(a) The eat drank the milk.
(b) I like tea
(c) He is selling mangoes
7. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word given in brackets:
(a) The conductor ………………….. the whistle. (blue/blew)
(b) I saw a hunter shooting a …………………….. ( dear/deer)
(c) Our team………………….. the match( won/one)
8. Rewrite the following jumbled words into meaningful sentences :
a. the/to/market/we/going/are

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b. a/boy/is/Gopal/good
c. a/song/she/sings
9. Fill in the blanks with A, An, The :
(a) ……………………… umbrella is a useful thing.
(b) ……………………… lion is the king of animals.
(c) He is ……………………….. cleverest boy in the class.

SECTION ‘D’: LITERATURE (35 marks)
10.
a) Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow (attempt any one):
The monsoons broke the next day. Dark clouds accompanied by blinking flashes of
lighting and roaring rolls of thunder burst with all their fury, flooding the streets with a
heavy downpour. School was to have reopened after the summer holidays, but no traffic
could move through the flooded roads and there was an unexpected holiday.
(i) What happened the next day?
(ii) Why did Nishad and Maya get a holiday?
(iii) Which word in the passage means ‘heavy rain’?
OR
One of the peculiarities of cricket is that a Test match can go on for five days and still end
in a draw. No other modern team sport takes even half as much time to complete. A football
match is generally over in an hour and a half.
(i) How is cricket a peculiar game?
(ii) How is football different from cricket?
(iii) Which phrase in the passage means ‘the result of a game in which neither team
wins or loses’?
b) Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
I saw a snake and ran away-
Some snakes are dangerous, they say,
But mother says that kind is good,
And eats up insects for his food.
(i) Name the poem.
(ii) Which line tells us that the poet is afraid of snakes?
(iii) Pick out a pair of rhyming words from the stanza.
OR
He got out the ladder
From the garden shed.
It slipped. He landed
In the flower bed.
(i) Name the poem?
(ii) Who brought the ladder?
(iii) Pick out a pair of rhyming words from the stanza.

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11.
a) Answer any two of the following questions (Answer in one word or one sentence)
(i) What did Mr. Gessler make?
(ii) Name the invention which made people younger.
(iii) What was the early man frightened of?
b) Answer any two of the following questions. Answer in one word or one sentence only:
(i) Who advised Golu to go to the Limpopo river?
(ii) Where did Chandni, the goat, want to go?
(iii) What name did the grandfather give to the tiger cub?
12.
a) Answer any two of the following in 20-30 words :
(i) What is strange about Mr. Nath’s Sundays?
(ii) Mr. Wonka asks himself two questions. What are they?
(iii) What are the three things needed to make fire?
b) Answer any two of the following in 20-30 words each :
(i) Why did Tilloo’s father advise him not to try to reach the surface of the planet?
(ii) The bear was not allowed to do two things. What were they?
(iii) How had the man who came to Mr. Purcell’s shop earn five dollars he had?
13. Answer any two of the following in 30-40 words each:
(i) What happens to the volunteer who swallows four drops of the new invention? What
is the name of the invention?
(ii) What does Nishad find out about Mr. Nath from Ramesh?
• What he eats
• When he eats
• What he drinks and when
• How he pays
(iii) Answer any two of the following questions in 30-40 words each:
(i) Why did the wise old bird say, “Chandni is the winner”?
(ii) Name two things that an elephant can do with his trunk and two things he cannot.
(iii) Why, in your opinion, did the man set the doves free?
14. Answer any one of the following in 40-50 words :
a) Fire is a good servant but a bad master. Explain how? What are some of the things we
should do to prevent fire at home and in the school?
b) What should human beings do to save their planet so that we may not have to make our
homes underground like Tilloo?