7th standard questions for practice 2nd term 2022

Q.1 Read the passage and answer the following.    

                  Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the giant's garden.
                  It was a large lovely garden with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the springtime broke out in the delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop the games in order to listen to them."How happy we are!" they cried to each other.
                One day the giant came back he had been to visit his friend the Cornish Ogre and had stayed with him for seven years. After the seven years, he determined to return to his own castle. When he arrived he saw the children playing in the garden.
                   " What are you doing here?" he cried in a very gruff voice, and the children ran away.

1) Where did the children play every afternoon?

  2) Whose garden was that?

 3)  What did the giant say when he returned to his Castle?

4) Find the pair of 4 describing words for the following nouns

  i) grass -             ii) flowers -           iii) voice -                Iv) giant -    v) wall-    

5)  Do you like to read stories name any two stories?

6)  Where had been the Selfish Giant for the 7 years?

Q.2 Read the passage and answer the following questions.

             "Come, Baby, Wake up! We will go and eating today!" Mama Pangolin gave a gentle loving push to her one month old baby with her long tapering mouth. Baby was still drowsy after a day's sleep. Mother tried to persuade him, "You keep asking me to take you out; you are tired of drinking milk all the time. Now get up get ready".
          "No! Won't!" said Baby, stretching his long tail lazily, "I don't want to walk all the way".
 "Don't worry," said Mama, "I'll carry you on my tail. Good boy, come on, it's time!"                
               Mama set him on her tail and finally brought him out of the home. Their home was snug hole in the earth, nine inches wide and more than a metre long. Mama cautioned baby to sit tight and hold on to her scales with his clothes she began to walk out steadily  and cautiously. Just then a Porcupine went past them.
                       " Who's that?" Baby wondered.
                       "Oh! That's a porcupine!"
                       " And  who are we?"

A1) Complete the following sentences.

a) Mama Pangolin gave a gentle push to …………………….

b)  Their home was a……………………..

2) Where did mama pangolin  set on the baby Pangolin to bring him out ?

3) Where are the cousins of the Pangolin?

4) Find the word for the following.  a) carefully - ………..  b)  get up from sleep ………..