CBSE Class 7 English Revision Worksheet Set A

Rent for water

My Vocabulary
1.Buy 
6. Inside 
2. Well 
7. Solve-
3. Neighbour 
8. Court 
4. Argument
9. Pay 
5. Refused 
10. Take out

Answer the following questions:

Q-1. Why did the farmer buy the well? 
Ans:-The farmer bought the well to water his fields.

Q-2. Who did he buy it from?
Ans:- He bought it from his neighbour.

Q- 3. What was the argument between the farmer and his neighbour about?
Ans:- The neighbour sold the well to the farmer but refused to give water inside the well.

Q- 4. Where did they go to solve the issue? auh mwmly nUM sulJwaux leI ik`Qy gey?
Ans:- They went to the court of the king.

Q- 5. What did the king do to solve their case?
Ans:- The king asked Tenali Raman to solve their case.

Q- 6. How did Tenali Raman solve the case? qynwlI rwm ny mwmlw ikvyN sulJwieAw?
Ans:- Tenali Raman said to the man to take the water out of the well at once or pay the rent to the farmer for keeping water in the well.

Q. Read the following passage and answer the under given questions:

At the Movies

It was one of those terribly hot days in Baltimore. We always had those for about a month between July and August. They were the days that were so hot that they made you regret ever wishing it would be summer. That day in particular was hotter than I could remember it being. The weatherman on the radio said it would get up to 104°!

Needless to say, it was too hot to do anything outside. But it was also scorching in our apartment. This was 1962, and I would not live in a place with an air conditioner for another ten years. So my brother and I decided to leave the apartment to find someplace indoors. I suggested the drug store, because I wanted to get a soda or malt. But he reminded me that the drug store would not let you sit there all day, especially once the afternoon rush started. My brother instead suggested we could see a movie. It was a brilliant plan.

Movie theaters were one of the few places you could sit all day and—most important—sit in air conditioning. In those days, you could buy one ticket and sit through both movies of a double feature. Then, the theater would show the same two movies again after that. If you wanted to, you could sit through them twice. Most people did not do that, but the manager at our theater, Mr. Bellow, did not mind if you did. That particular day, my brother and I sat through both movies twice, trying to escape the heat. We bought three bags of popcorn and three sodas each. Then, we sat and watched The Music Man followed by The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. We’d already seen the second movie once before. It had been at the theater since January, because Mr. Bellow loved anything with John Wayne in it. Watching it again was better than going outside, and at least The Music Man was new to us.

We left the theater around 8, just before the evening shows began. Mr. Bellow was expecting a big crowd for the premier of Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, so he insisted that we leave. But we returned the next day and saw the same two movies again, twice more. And we did it the next day too. Finally, on the fourth day, the heat wave broke. Still, to this day I can sing half the songs in The Music Man and quote half of John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart’s dialogue from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance! Those memories are some of the few I have of the heat wave of 1962, and they’re not really my memories. They’re really memories of the screen, not memories of my life.

1) Based on its use in paragraph 2, the word scorching most nearly means

   A. very hot B. very dry

   C. very humid D. very affordable

2) According to the passage, when did the narrator first live in a place with an air conditioner?

A. 1952 B. 1962

C. 1972 D. 1982

3) It can be assumed from the passage that the narrator saw The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

A. three times B. five times

C. six times D. more than six times

4) Which of the following statements best explains why the narrator and his or her brother chose to see the same movies multiple times?

A. The drug store would not let them inside.

B. They wanted to avoid the heat outside.

C. The manager at the theater was friendly.

D. They were huge fans of John Wayne.

5) What does the narrator mean when he or she writes that the memories are “not really my memories” in the final paragraph?

A. that he or she is remembering scenes from a film, not scenes from his or her life

B. that the only days of the summer of 1962 that he or she remembers are those days spent in the Movie Theater

C. that the memories are actually those of the narrator’s brother, not the narrator himself or herself

D. that he or she saw the films too many times and now can only remember what happened in them

Q. Complete the exercise with the correct prepositions.

1. The first McDonald’s restaurant was opened Dick and McDonald the 15th May 1940.

2. The best selling products their restaurant were hamburgers.

3. So the McDonald brothers thought a way to produce hamburgers more quickly.

The season of Hilsa fish was going on everywhere as we have season of mangoes in summer. People were talking about Hilsa fish and nothing else. Even the court was not an exception. The king was tired of this. He made and announcement to buy a Hilsa fish and to bring it to the palace without anyone asking a word about it. Gopal, one of the courtiers accepted the challenge. He made preparation. He half shaved himself, smeared with ash and wore torn clothes. Then, set out to the palace with a big Hilsa fish. Throughout the way every body talked and laughed on his face and strange appearance, but nobody said about Hilsa fish. Finally Gopal reached to palace where the guards stopped him to enter. Gopal started singing so loudly that king allowed the stranger to come in. inside the palace even no one asked about Hilsa fish . Everybody impressed and accepted his appearance. Even the king asked about Gopal’s dressing and not Hilsa fish. In the ends Gopal reminded the king about the challenge. The king congratulated Gopal for achieving the impossible task.

Word meanings:-
1) Courtiers - attendants at the court
2) Guilty - shamed
3) Comical - laughable / funny
4) Disgraceful - shocking / shameful
5) Challenge - take exception to
6) Ridiculous - idiotic / nonsensible

Short Question Answers:-

Question. Why did the king want no more talk about the hilsa-fish?
Ans. The king did not want any more talk about the hilsa-fish because it was the season for hilsa-fish and no one could stop talking about it for even five minutes. He was getting annoyed with all the talk about hilsa-fish.

Question. What did the king ask Gopal to do to prove that he was clever?
Ans. In order to prove that he was clever, Gopal was asked to buy a huge hilsa-fish and bring it to the palace without anyone asking anything about the fish.

Question. What three things did Gopal do before he went to buy his hilsa-fish?
Ans. Before he went to buy hilsa-fish, Gopal half-shaved his face, smeared himself with ash, and wore disgraceful rags.

Long Question Answers:-

Question. How did Gopal get inside the palace to see the king after he had bought the fish?
Ans. After he had bought the fish, Gopal reached the palace and told the guards that he wanted to see the king. When the guards did not let him in, he began to dance and sing loudly. When the king heard this, and also the comments of the people watching the man sing and dance, he asked for the man to be brought before him.

Question. Explain why no one seemed to be interested in talking about the hilsa-fish which Gopal had bought.
Ans. No one seemed to be interested in talking about the hilsa-fish which Gopal had bought because of Gopal’s ridiculous appearance. Some people found him comical, others thought he was a madman, still others thought he was a mystic. They were so engrossed in discussing his appearance that the hilsa-fish went unnoticed.

NOTE Do the above mentioned exercises in a copy or on paper.

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