Government Senior Secondary School Manasgaon

Half Yearly Examination Questions:

Session – 2023-24 1. From where was the blood flowing?
2. When did the wounded man faint?
Class – 7 Subject – English M.M. 40 3. What did the king do to stop bleeding?
All questions are compulsory (5)Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions
that follow.
(1) Choose the correct answer :
(A) What is the synonym of the word ‘chat’.
The elephant is different from other animals because of two things- its
(a) cry (b) talk (c) answer (d)error ( )
trunk and its tusks. The trunk of the elephant is very long. Elephants use
their trunks in many ways. When they face an enemy it is a weapon for
(B) The children are making noise, ………are very naughty. them.
(a) she (b)they (c)it (d) we ( ) They also use their trunks to breathe and to drink water. The trunk is the
(C) I want to live on ……. mountain. most sensitive part of the elephant’s body. Even a small boy can shoot
(a) a (b) x (c) an (d) the ( ) an elephant by hitting it on the trunk with an arrow. The tusks of an
(D) The…….shines during the day. elephant make it look beautiful. Only male elephants have tusks, the
(a) son (b) sun (c) soon (d) X ( ) females don’t. People, therefore, hunt only the males, not the females.
(E) The opposite word of ‘early’. 1. What is the most sensitive part of the elephant’s body?
(a)late (b)fresh (clow (d) small ( ) 2. Why do people hunt only the male elephants instead of females?
3. What weapon does an elephant use when it faces an enemy?
(2) Write 'True' or 'False' against each of the following sentences :
(i) The wise man wins the reward........ (5) Write a paragraph on 'My Family’.
(ii) Gopal was a mad man. ............ (6) Write the following stories with the help of the given outlines :
(iii) The old farmer and his wife loved the dog. ......... Tortoise walking on the road ...... is seen by a hare........... hare laughs at the
tortoise for his very slow speed........... bet for race .......... Tortoise moving with
(iv) The greedy couple got a pile of gold. ...
his slow speed.......... Hare moves fast but sleeps ...... tortoise reaches winning
(3) Fill in the blanls. point first .......... wins the bet.
(A) I ……going to buy some books from the market. (is/am/are)
(B) She was................good teacher. (a/an/the) (7) Imagine you are Gayatri/Mohan studying in Upper Primary School Kota,
(C) He …….a bicycle.(has/have) your father has been transferred to Ajmer .Write an application to your
(D) Divide this pizza ………….Geeta and Ravi. (between/before) Headmaster requesting him to issue your T.C.

(4) Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions
that follow :
The king turned round and saw a bearded man running towards
them. His hands were pressed against his stomach, from which blood
was flowing. When he reached the king he fainted and fell to the
ground. The king and the hermit removed the man's clothing and
found a large wound in his stomach. The king, washed and covered it
with his handkerchief, but the blood would not stop flowing. The king
re-dressed the wound until at last the bleeding stopped.