Revision Test 2.

(February 2022)
English
Grade7
Total 20 marks
SECTION A READING
Q1. Read the following passage: (5 marks)

Nicholas Chorier is not your usual photographer. He is a kite aerial photographer. He uses a kite to
hoist his camera into the skies and clicks photographs while the camera dangles precariously mid-
air. As a teenager, Nicholas had two passions – photography and kite flying. During a trip to India to
make a photo report on kite making, he learnt about this unique style of photography. Fascinated,
he literally tied his two hobbies together for a living. Nicholas learnt to make strong kites modelled
on the Japanese kites, Rokkaku that could endure harsh winds. A novice in his chosen field, he
then set out to train himself. Today he is one of the most well–known kite aerial photographers in
the world. The technique is to tie a cradle containing the photography equipment to the string of
the kite and then fly it, thus launching the camera into air. From the
ground, Nicholas manipulates the angles of the camera with a remote. An air–to–ground video link
enables him to see the view from the kite’s vantage point. Once satisfied with the frame, he clicks
a picture.
However, the job does have its pitfalls too. Once, his kite disappeared in the Yamuna river, with his
expensive camera in tow. He is especially fond of India, having made a couple of trips and taken
many spectacular photos. “India is too vast and beautiful a country to be captured through the
lenses in one life” he says. He recently released a book, Kite’s Eye View : India between Earth and
Sky. Though it includes photographs of off taken sites like the Taj Mahal, it shows them from a
totally different perspective.

On the basis of your reading the passage, answer the questions:

Q1) What were Nicholas’s two passions?
1. Nicholas had two passions – photography and kite flying..
Q2) Find the synonyms of the following from the passage.
a) suffer, live through b) beginner 1
2. a) endure b) novice.
Q3) What is the speciality of his book, ‘Kite’s EyeView’? 1

3. It includes photographs of off taken sites like the Taj Mahal, it shows them from a totally
different perspective.
Q4) Explain what technique is used by Nicholas to take aerial photographs. 2

4. The technique is to tie a cradle containing the photography equipment to the string of the kite
and then fly it, thus launching the camera into air. From the ground, Nicholas manipulates the
angles of the camera with a remote. An air–to–ground video link enables him to see the view from
the kite’s vantage point. Once satisfied with the frame, he clicks a picture.

SECTION B GRAMMAR &WRITING

Do as directed: 2
1. He told his father that he would go for cycling the next day . (Change into direct speech)
1. He said to his father, “I will go for cycling tomorrow”.

2. Kareem said, ‘’I am going to picnic today”. (Change into indirect speech)
2. Kareem said that he was going to picnic that day.

3. My old house was very big. I was born there. (Combine the clauses using an adjective
clause)
3. My old house where I was born was very big.

4. They ................(kill) in a nuclear bomb attack. (Complete the sentence in passive voice)

They were killed in a nuclear bomb attack.

5. You are Sameer Khan / Reena Verma, monitor of class VIII in Delhi Public School,
Faridabad. Write a letter to your Principal asking him to arrange for special coaching in
Mathematics explaining the reasons why your class need it. 3

SECTION C LITERATURE
Answer the following questions: (10 marks)

1. What was Shonku’s morning routine? 1

1. Shonku used to get up before sunrise, wash his face and go for a walk by the river.

2. In the novel, ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone’, what effect did the author
build up by showing the letters being flooded in? 1
2. The author wants to give the impression that Harry had some connection with the magic
world and someone from there was trying to contact him. And they could go to any extent to
communicate with him.

3. Why did the speaker’s mother not go to that part of the field for a long time? 1
3. She did not go to that part of the field because Rob Roy, a good horse was shot down by
them in that part of the field. She knew Rob Roy for a long time, so she was quite sad
about the incident.

4. In the story, ‘The Hunt’, who was the young man who lost his life? 1
4. The young man who lost his life was George Gordon, the squire’s only son, who was
a fine tall young man and the pride of his family.

5. How old is Harry when he finds out that he is a wizard? 1

5. Harry was eleven years old when he came to know that he was a wizard. It was Harry’s
eleventh birthday when Hagrid visited him with the admittance letter from Hogwarts and at
the same time he disclosed his reality to him.

6. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow. ‘She said she had
known that horse for years, and that his name was “Rob Roy”; he was a good horse,
and there was no vice in him. She would never go to that part of the field afterward.’
Who was Rob Roy and what happened to him? 2
6. Rob Roy was a good horse, whom the horse mother knew very well for years. His leg
broke during the hunt, and was groaning with pain. When Mr. Bond , the farrier
found him seriously injured, they shot him down with the gun.

7. Write character sketch of ‘Ron’.

7. Ron One of the protagonists in the novel, Ron Weasley is one of Harry’s best friends,
along with Hermione Granger. Ron is the youngest son in the Weasley family, and he has five older
brothers. Ron and Harry meet on the train to Hogwarts and became fast friends. Ron serves as a
gateway to help Harry learn about some of the customs of the wizarding world, and alleviates
Harry’s fears that he won’t know how to do any magic because he didn’t grow up around it. Harry,
in turn, makes Ron feel better about his family’s poverty when Draco Malfoy makes fun of Ron,
and
Harry remains loyal to Ron when Malfoy offers to help Harry become friends with the “right sort”
of people. Ron accompanies Harry on nearly all of his adventures, and also picks up on Harry’s self-
sacrificing tendencies: when Harry, Ron, and Hermione try to save the Sorcerer’s Stone from
Voldemort’s supporters, Ron sacrifices himself in a violent game of life-sized chess with living
pieces so that Harry and Hermione can continue on and make sure that Voldemort does not get
the
Sorcerer’s Stone.