2.

Word- Meaning: 1*10=10

R.B. CONVENT SCHOOL Vocabulary, record, essential, conquering, trails, ebb, hindrance, jaunt,
skillful, outer limit.
Final exam 2021-22 3.Answer the following short questions: 2*5=10
A) Why is sympathy described as ‘heavenly’?
Subject = English
B) Who was the founder of modern Olympic games?
Class= 7th MM: 80 C) Who was Jesse Owens? Why did he visit berlin.
Reading skills D) Why does the author decide not to kill his fellow traveller?
1. Read the following passage and Answer: the question that E) What does the abbreviation D.O.R.A stand for?
follows. (10)
People moan about poverty as a great evil and it seems to be an
4.Answer the following long type questions: 3*2=6
accepted belief that if people had plenty of money, they would be
happy, and get more out of life. As a rule there is more genuine A) Who was luz long? Why was he called the great example of Coubertin’s
satisfaction in life and more is obtained from life in the humble cottage ideal
of the poor man than in the palace of rich men, who are attended by B) How did the author desire to recover his prestige?
servants and governesses at a later stage. At the same time I am glad to 5.Read the poem carefully and find the given answers: 2*4=8
think they do not know what they have missed. I wandered only as a cloud
It is because I know how sweet and happy and pure the home of honest That floats on high o’er Vales and hills,
poverty is, how free from perplexing care and social envies and
When all at once I saw a crowd,
jealousies, how loving and united the members are in the common
interest of supporting the family that I sympathise with the rich man’s A host of golden daffodils,
boy and congratulate the poor man’s son. It is for these reasons that Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
from the ranks of the poor so many strong eminent self–reliant men Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
have sprung. If you read the list of the “Immortals who were not born to A) Who was taking a walk there?
die” you will find that most of them have been poor. B) What did the poet see at once?
C) Write the rhyming word of “hills”.
Answer the following questions based on the reading passage.
D) Write the name of poet.
1. What is the popular notion about poverty?
2. Where can one get more genuine satisfaction in life?
3. Why does the author pity the rich man’s boy? 6.Rhyming words: me, heard, back, shine, glance, cloud 1*6=6
4. Find two other words in the passage with similar meanings to Grammar
‘confusing and self–dependent. 7. Answer the following question:
5. How has the author compared rich with the poor? What is his A) What is an adjective. Explain its kind (5)
conclusion?
B) Write comparative and superlative degrees of the following: (5)
Supplementary Reader a) White
b) Safe
 c) Healthy
d) Ugly
e) big

8. Write any one: (10)

Write a letter to your friend inviting him to your birthday party.

OR
Write a paragraph on how I prepared meal for a guest.

9. You are Mrs Shalini Gupta a reporter from Times of India you are an
eyewitness to a Road mishap write your report in about 100 words. (10)