DTEA SR SEC SCHOOL LODI ESTATE

CLASS VII ENGLISH UNIT TEST - NOV.2013

Time Duration -1 Hour Max Marks -20

I. Read the following passage and answer the questions.

( 5 marks )

Elephants eat all day long. They eat vegetables, such as grass,
leaves, and other plants. They also eat fruit, like bananas. Elephants use their
trunks to grab food and put it in their mouth. They can also suck water into
their trunks and squirt the water into their mouths. Elephants sometimes
drink up to forty gallons of water a day! Elephants use their trunks to pick up
things and to hold things. They can pick up something as small as a marble, or
as big as a tree. They also breathe through their trunks.
Elephants have two tusks, which are made of ivory. The tusks grow to
the right and the left sides of their trunks. Elephants can use their tusks to
fight and to dig. People used to hunt elephants so that they could get their
tusks. Ivory was used to make beautiful jewelry and statues. It is against the
law to hunt elephants now, because hunting them made them endangered
animals.

1. What do elephants eat?

2. How many gallons of water does an elephant drink in a day?
3. What are elephants tusk made of?
4. Why did people hunt elephants?
5. Why is it against the law to hunt elephants nowadays?

II. Read the poem and answer the questions. ( 4 marks )

Once there was a talking fan

Electrical his chatter.
I couldnt quite hear what he said
And I hope it doesnt matter
Because one day somebody oiled
His little whirling motor
And all the mystery was spoiled
He ran as still as water.

1. HE refers to whom?
 2. Give two pairs of rhyming words.
3. The chatter is electrical because___________.
4. Who oiled the whirling motor?

III. Fill in the blanks with correct forms of verbs given. ( 2 marks )

1. It ____________ ( rain ) outside now.

2. He ____________ (read) a book when his father came in.

IV. Choose the right answer. ( 3 marks )

1. Mr Willy Wonka is
(a) a cook, (b) an inventor
2. Wonka-Vite makes people
. (a) older, (b) younger
3. Mr Wonka wants to invent a new thing which will make people
(a) younger, (b) older.

V. Answer the following questions. ( 6 marks )

1. What trees does Mr Wonka mention? Which tree does he say lives the longest?
2. How many of the oldest living things can you remember from Mr Wonkas
list? Do you think all these things really exist, or are some of them purely
imaginary?

3. What happens to the volunteer who swallows four drops of the new invention?
What is the name of the invention?