DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL VARANASI

Subject –ENGLISH
Class –VII
PRACTICE SHEET I
NAME________________________________________SEC.________________
DATE.___________________
INSTRUCTIONS:
 Read the passage and answer the following questions in the worksheet.
 Underline difficult words; refer dictionary and note meaning of difficult words in your
daily English notebook.

Reading Comprehension

Q 1: Read the passage carefully and answer the right alternative from the option given
below:

Children should be educated without pressure then should enter into adulthood free form
damaging effects of tradition and fear. Free expression of thought should be given to the
children. A child once asked Krishnamurthy. Is it your hobby to give lecture? Don’t you get tired
of talking long? Why do you do it?” Krishnamurthy replied; “I am glad you asked that question.
You know if you love something, you never get tired of it. I mean ‘Love’ in which there is no
desire of wanting something out of it. If you are talking you are getting something out of it:
money, reward, Sense of your importance; then there is weariness. It has no meaning because it
is only self-fulfillment, but if there is love in your heart, it is like a fountain, always giving fresh
water. The joy of speaking is rather felt when the speaker speaks for he has reason to speak. It is
not talking, it is reaching out.”

Question: Choose the right answer:

1. Children should be educated without.

(a) money (b) pressure (c) fear (d) books
2. If you _________ something you never get tired of it.
(a) Love (b) hate (c) express (d) enjoy

3. What type of expression should be given to children?

(a) Complex (b) busy (c) free (d) Damaging.

4. Which quality of Krishnamurthy excited the child?

 (a) Enjoying (b) listening (c) talking (d) talking

5. Weariness means feeling ___________

(a) Anger (b) tiredness (c) joy (d) happiness

Q.2. Read the following passage and answer the question that follow

In England Gandhi ji at first, did not give his time to his studies, entirely. Instead he tired to
enjoy fashionable English gentlemen in every way like so many young men of his age. He was
attracted by what was new and foreign, as materialism is another word for the ‘world of
consumers.’

He wasted lot of money on buying smart English clothes. He started taking lessons in ballroom
dancing, playing the violin etc. What a change from a shy boy on the ship who would not talk to
the other passengers after three months, he suddenly, realized how silly it was to waste good
brother’s money on such things. After this he devoted all his time to serious studies. From the
very childhood, when Ghandiji found out he was doing a wrong thing he at once stopped doing
it.

Gandhi ji became an epitome of self discipline. How introspection affects the person and habits
change. Priorities are re-set, targets and goals redefined and a man becomes ‘Gandhi’.

Questions : Choose the correct option

1)What purpose had driven Gandhiji to England?

a) Wine b) games c) politics d) studies

2) Gandhiji was a completely changed man for a period of

a)Two months b) three months c) Four months d) five months

3) Who did Gandhiji try to copy?

a) friends b) young men c) young women d) parents

4) In England he started many new things –which one is not true?

a) Taking lessons in ballroom dancing

b) Buying smart English clothes

c) Playing the violin

d) Playing cards
5) Which Opposite has been wrongly matched?

a) Attracted- Repelled

b) Waste- Save

c) Shy- Extrovert

d) Entirely – completely

Q.3 An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer of his plans to leave the
house building business and live a more leisurely life with his family. He would miss the pay
cheque, but he needed to retire. The employer was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if
he could build just one more house as a personal favour. The carpenter said’yes’ but in time it
was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and
inferior material. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.

When the carpenter finished his work, his employer handed over the key of house to the
carpenter-“This is your house, my gift to you.’’

What a shock ! What a shame ! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would
have done it all so differently! Now he had to live in a poorly built house. So it is with us. We
build our lives, a dayat times ,often putting less than our best into the building. Then, with a
shock, we realise we have to live in the house we have built. If we could do it over, we can do it
much differently. But, you cannot go back . You are the carpenter ,and everyday you hammer a
nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Someone once said, your attitude , and the choices you make
today,help build the ‘house’ you make today, help build the ‘house ‘ you will live in tomorrow.
Therefore build wisely!

a). Frame ‘THREE’ Questions from the above passage to get the answer.. “This is your house
my gift to you”?

b). Find a word from the passage that means inefficient?

c). What makes the carpenter think?

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