CBSE Class 7 English Making Things Simple Worksheet

INTERNATIONAL INDIAN SCHOOL, JEDDAH

CLASS VII [GS] WORKSHEET—Ls. 2 MAKING THINGS SIMPLE

Choose the correct answer/fill in the blanks/true or false:

1. Gerald Durrell in ‘Making Things Simple’ came across many -----------encounters.
[a] uninteresting [b] boring [c] interesting

2. The retired surgeon made simple things-----------------
[a] easy [b] difficult [c] simpler

3. One day Gerald noticed that one of his foxes had trouble ----------
[a] in his leg [b] in his head [c] in its tail

4. Medicating the fox was ----------------------
[a] a pleasant experience [b] a tedious experience [c] comfortable

5. The fox ran -------------round the outer perimeter of the cage.
[a] slowly [b] hurriedly [c] haste

6. Billy apologized to Gerald Durrell as he was-----------------------
[a] feeling too bad [b] feeling guilty and sorry [c] feeling bad and guilty.

7. The fox was caught across his --------------by the metal rim.
[a] hind legs [b] fore legs [c] both hind and fore legs

8. The captain was a qualified ---------------------
[a] a veterinary surgeon [b] surgeon [c] doctor

9. ‘On examination I found that the break was a beautiful clean one’ who is I referred here?-------
[a] Billy [b] Gerald Durrell [c] Captain

10. Plaster of Paris is a ---------------------------------powder.
[a] mixture of dry wet [b] mixture of wet [c] quick drying mixture of white

11. Acquisition of knowledge means -------------------------

12. The captain was exasperated by such a question means he was -------------------
[a] happy [b] angry [c] Annoyed

13. Gerald Durrell had ------------------------ pairs of Artic foxes.
[a] two [b] four [c] three

14. The simple present of the word ‘deployed’ is ----------------------

15. The office looked as though it had a -----------------------

16. In a cloud of Plaster of Paris the ---------------------- un ravelled sixteen feet of bandages.
[a] Durrell [b] Laura [c] Captain

17. Several inches of bandage was wound to his ----------------------
[a] fore finger [b] middle finger [c] thumb

18.Add a prefix to the word ‘read ‘ and change the meaning ‘not read properly’-----------------

19. Captain’s office at the end looked like ----------------
[a] I.C.U [b] operation theatre [c] causality station

20. According to Mr. Durrell the splinting was the most ------------------ piece
[a] professional [b] unprofessional [c] best

21. Inextricable means -------------------- to do.
[a] possible [b] quite possible [c] impossible

22. Non messy and fool proof means ----------------------
[a] clean and reliable [b] unclean and unreliable [c] Unclean and reliable

23. Things started getting difficult and confused because the instructions were -------------
[a] misread [b] partly read [c] not written properly

24’.The fox had more or less accepted the fate ‘ ,here’ more or less’ means-----------------
[a] more [b] almost [c] mostly

25.In ‘old days’ means ------------------------
[a] ancient times [b] centuries ago [c] in the past

26. Write three words ending with proof -------------------

27. At the end of the lesson the captain was -------------- with his job.
[a] satisfied [b] unsatisfied [c] sad

28.’Take it to daddy and he’ll set it ‘.who said this -------------------------
[a] Billy [b] Laura [c] Gladys

29.’Billy,Laura ,Gladys get hold of this bandage’who shouted this?------------------
[a] Mrs .Beale [b] The captain [c] Billy

30. ‘Don’t shout, William. You are frightening the fox.’ who said this?-----------------
[a] Mrs Beale [b] Laura [c] Durrell