M.P. Board Class 7th English
Textual Exercise
A. Answer the questions given below:
Question 1.
Where did the merchant live?
Answer:
The merchant lived in an Indian town.
Question 2.
Where was he going one day?
Answer:
He (the merchant) was going to a town one day.
Question 3.
Whom did he see on his way?
Answer:
He (the-merchant) saw a farmer on his way.
Question 4.
What did they agree to tell each other?
Answer:
They agreed to tell the wildest possible tale to each other.
Question 5.
What had each to pay the other, if one cast a doubt on the other’s story?
Answer:
Each of them had to pay the other a hundred rupees if he cast a doubt on the other’s story.
Question 6.
What was the maid doing?
Answer:
The maid was combing the hair of the princess.
Question 7.
What fell into the princess’s eye?
Answer:
The train of camels fell (right) into the princess’s eye.
Question 8.
What happened in the end?
Answer:
The farmer did not cast any doubt on the merchant’s story. He went on every part of the story till its end. The merchant felt disappointed.
B. Read the following sentences and tick true or false
There lived a farmer in a village. T / F
The merchant was greedy. T/ F
The merchant told an incident T / F
The maid was combing the princess’s hair. T / F
The farmer cast a doubt on the merchant’s story. T / F
Answer:
True
True
True
True
False
C. Tick the correct option:
(i) Who was an Englishman?
(a) Ravi
(b) Mr. Smith
(c) Ashok
Answer:
(b) Mr. Smith
(ii) Who wants to become a writer or a story teller?
(a) Ravi
(b) Ashok
(c) David
Answer:
(a) Ravi
(Hi) There was a long train of
(a) kites
(b) camels
(c) dogs
Answer:
(a) kites
Word Power
A. Choose the correct word to complete the sentence:
A monkey has a long……… (tale/tail)
Bubal’s…………are famous for their wit. (tales/tails)
Ladies like to go to a…………… (Sail/sale)
Vivek has a……….. boat of his own. (sail/sale)
The Milkmaid had a……….. of milk. (pail/pale)
The patient looked…………. (pail/pale)
Wounds ………… fast if bandaged properly. (hael/heel)
He got hurt in his……….. (heal/heel)
Answer:
tail
tales
sale
sail
pail
pale
heal
heel.
B. Rearrange the letters to make words
stwan – w………
Yotrs – s ……….
riwse – w……….
hrai – h……..
leamc – c……..
tiek – k………
daim – m…….
rfame – f………
Answer:
wants
story
wiser
Hari
camel
kite
maid
frame
A. Fill in the blanks with prepositions ‘by’, ‘of’, ‘for’, ‘to’ ‘on’.
The boy listened…………. me carefully.
I am fond………… milk.
She learnt the poem…………heart.
I was waiting………….my friend.
The book is………… the table.
Answer:
to
of
by
for
on
B. Use ‘as’ in place of ‘because’ or ‘so’. Two sentences are done for you.
1. (a) Because it was raining, we stayed at home.
(b) As it was raining, we stayed at home.
2. (a) I felt tired, so I went to bed.
(b) As I felt tired, I went to bed.
3. Because I had already seen the film, I did not go to the cinema.
4. Because the train was late, I went by bus.
5. I am going to Indore, so I can take your parcel with me.
6. The princess suffered from great pain, so she cried.
Answer:
3. As I had already see. the film, I did not go to the cinema.
4. As the train was late, I went by bus.
5. As I am going to Indore, I can take your parcel with me.
6. As the princess suffered from great pain, (so) she cried.
Read the following examples and notice how ‘used to’ describes things that happened regularly in the past.
My brother goes to work on bicycle now.
He used to go to work by bus.
My father does not play tennis now.
He used to play tennis when he was a young man.
write five sentences from the following table:
Answer:
When we lived in Delhi, we used to go to picture twice a week.
When I stayed with my sister, we used to go for swimming every week.
When we were younger, we used to visit Agra quite often.
When I stayed with my sister, we used to visit Agra.
When we were younger, we used to go to picture twice a week.