ZIMSEC Grade 7 General Paper Past Exam Paper 3 Set 15

Section A

Answer question 1 and any other two questions from this section.

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions which follow.

One day Fred was sent to the local butchery by his mother to buy a kilogram of
beef for $5. He bought beef for $4 and used $1 to buy himself some goodies.
When he got home, his mother asked why the beef was little. He told his mother
that the price of beef had increased to $6 a kg.

a) What commandment did Fred observe well in the story? (1)

b) What wrong did Fred do? (1)

c) Give one word to describe Fred’s character. (1)

d) If you were Fred, what would you have done after realising you have done
wrong? (1)

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2. a) What is the holy book for Christians called? (1)

b) What do the Muslims call their God? (1)

c) The Jews worship their God in a place called ________. (1)

d) Which religion uses ancestors to talk to God? (1)

e) The holy day for the Jews is called ________. (1)

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3. a) In churches, what do pastors use to baptise their members? (1)

b) Who baptised Jesus Christ? (1)

c) Where did the baptism of Jesus Christ take place? (1)

d) When the Holy spirit descended on the disciples, it came in the form

of ________. (1)

e) To the Jews, the action of baptism showed ________. (1)

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4. a) Name any two ways in which Mother Teresa helped the people. (2)

b) Where was Mother Teresa born? (1)

c) What was her name at birth? (1)

d) What home did Mother Teresa start in India? (1)

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Section B

There are five questions in this section. Answer any three.

5. a) Which country colonised Zimbabwe? (1)

b) Give any one cause of the First Liberation War. (1)

c) Give any two things the Europeans wanted in Zimbabwe. (2)

d) Name any one hero of the Second Chimurenga War. (1)

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6. a) Name one nutrient on the food square. (1)

b) What is a staple food? (1)

c) Kwashiorkor is a disease caused by a lack of ________. (1)

d) The source of vitamin foods is fruits and ________. (1)

e) Foods that lack roughage cause ________ in the body. (1)

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7. a) Name any one continent of the world. (1)

b) In which continent is Egypt found? (1)

c) Which neighbouring country is to the south-west of Zimbabwe? (1)

d) Which river borders South Africa and Zimbabwe? (1)

e) An ocean to the west of Africa is ________. (1)

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8. a) Why do people need rules and laws? (1)

b) Give any one rule at school. (1)

c) State one rule of the road. (1)

d) Give one right of any citizen of a nation. (1)

e) Give any one responsibility of a citizen. (1)

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9. a) Give any two modes of transport. (2)

b) What would you use to talk to someone in Harare if you were in

Bulawayo? (1)

c) What would the government use to send information to many people in a

nation at once? (1)

d) The fastest type of transport is ________. (1)

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Section C

There are four questions in this section. Answer any three questions.

10. a) The three processes that you need to change the states of water are
________. (3)

b) Give one use of water. (1)

c) Rain water flows back into rivers or seas and the other ________. (1)

d) Name any one property of liquid water. (1)

e) What can you do to water from a dam to make it safe to drink? (1)

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11. a) What is siltation? (2)

b) What causes siltation? (2)

c) What is stream bank cultivation? (2)

d) State one way of preventing soil erosion. (1)

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12.a) Name any two crops which are in the grass family. (2)

b) A cereal grown in Northern America is _________. (1)

c) Which fuel is made from sugarcane? (1)

d) Which cereal is a staple food for most of the Asian countries? (1)

e) Give any one product made from groundnuts. (1)

f) Sorghum grows well in _________ areas. (1)

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13.a) The earth has the shape of a _________. (1)

b) The earth rotates on its axis _________ a day. (1)

c) The earth’s revolution around the sun causes _________. (1)

d) Name any two other planets, besides the Earth. (2)

e) The path of the earth as it moves around the sun is called an _________. (1)

f) How long does it take for the Earth to move around the sun? (1)

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