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The Smart School

(A project of The City School )

UNIFIED MIDTERM EXAMINATION 2016
CLASS VII - ENGLISH
Total Time Allowed = 2:30 hours

Maximum Marks = 100

Name: ________________________________

Section: ________________

Campus/Branch: ________________________

Date: __________________

INSTRUCTIONS FOR STUDENTS

1. Make sure your name, roll number, section, branch and date is filled in.
2. Use 10 minutes to read through the paper.
3. Write answers of all the questions in the space provided.
4. Check your answer sheet carefully before you hand it over to the invigilator.

Section -A
Comprehension
(25)

Parts

Questions

Max.
Marks

Section B
Grammar
(25)

Section C
Section D
Composition Literature
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Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5

Q6 Q7

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Total %age Grade

100

Marks
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Invigilated by: _______________Marked by: _______________ Rechecked

by:____________ This question paper consists of 10 pages including the cover page.

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Section A
Comprehension

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Read the comprehension passage and answer the following questions:

Rembrandt
Rembrandt, one of the greatest artists of all time, was born in Leyden in the Netherlands. His family ground its
own grain in a windmill on the citys wall. As a child he liked to sketch the sun coming in through a tiny window
and making a streak of light on the inside of the windmill. He carried this interest in light and shadow through
life. His paintings often show one hand of a person in light and one in dark.
Many artists travelled to faraway lands. Rembrandt always stayed within 50 miles of his home, although he lived
to be 63. Much of his life was spent in Amsterdam, then the richest town in Europe. In some of Rembrandts
paintings we see the rich clothes and jewels worn by people of that time in Amsterdam.
During the ten first years of his career he was a famous and fashionable painter. Then something happened which
ruined him. He became so poor that he had to sell all his furniture and even his rich velvet clothes. To make
matters worse, his wealthy wife died, and her parents took the money she had left for him. This is what happened
to ruin the sale of his paintings: the Amsterdam Civic Guard had paid him to paint a picture of them. Since he
liked light and shadow, he painted the men as they were leaving the armory at noon to go on their duty. The men
still inside were in such deep shadow that their faces could not be recognized. These men were very angry. The
men in the sunlight of course showed well. But their satisfaction did not make up for the anger of the others. The
picture is one of Rembrandts best. It is called The Night Watch, although it was painted at noon.
The Dutch artists of the time painted cloth of lovely texture, dishes, tiles and other such things simply because
they were beautiful. They painted the pictures of rooms with handsomely dressed people in them. Rembrandt was
greater because he painted people so that we can tell how they felt and thought. He painted their personalities, not
just clothes. Rembrandt worked hard all his life, becoming a better and better artist. The world stopped paying
him. The people of his time stopped honoring him. But he was far greater than they. He was a great artist working
on art problems ahead of his time.
Even poverty did not keep Rembrandt from painting. He married a girl who had been a nurse to his son. They had
a daughter. Since Rembrandt was too poor to hire models, he painted his wife, his daughter, and, with the help of a
mirror, himself. He painted the poor, the lame, the blind, and the sick. He dressed them in Biblical costumes, as
was often done in his time.
Q1. Choose the best answer:

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i. Rembrandts was born in:

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a.

Netherlands

c.

Russia

b.

England

d.

Germany

ii. How did he become poor?

a.
b.
c.
d.

He spent his money foolishly on rich velvet clothes and expensive furniture.
His parents-in-law took away all his money when his first wife died.
He painted only the poor and the handicapped who could not afford to pay him.
He painted a picture which caused his reputation as an artist to be ruined.

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iii. The best picture of Rembrandt is:

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a. The Night Watch

c. The Blind Man

b. The Sunflower

d. The Beggar Maid

iv.

Rembrandts interest in light and shadow started:

a. when he first saw a windmill

b. in his childhood

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c. in the first ten years of his painting
career
d. just before he painted The Night
Watch

v. Rembrandts age was:

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a. 65

c. 73

b. 27

d. 63

vi. Rembrandt painted people wearing:

a. Biblical clothes
b. Jewels

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c. dirty clothes
d. gold

Q.2 What is the major difference between Rembrandt and other contemporary painters? ( ___/3)
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Q.3 Who was not satisfied with the painting The Night Watch?

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Q.4 Could you suggest any other title for the passage?

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Q.5 Suppose if you were Rembrandt what would you like to paint?

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Q.6 Give a synonym for each word from the passage:

a. time (l.1)

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b. show (l.4)

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c. faraway (l.8)

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d. famous (l.13)

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e. ruined (L.14)

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Q.7 Use the following expressions/words in sentences of your own:

a. faraway lands

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Section B - Grammar & Vocabulary

Q1a. Change the following sentences as directed in the brackets:
i.

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Tariq climbed the stairs with difficulty.(Future Tense)

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ii.

Amina got a doll from her uncle.(Present Tense)

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iii.

The wind is blowing. (past continuous)

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iv.

Irfan buys a diamond.(present perfect tense)

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v.

Shazia buys a doll from the market. (present continuous)

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vi.

Tariq will not fall off from the slope. (present tense)

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vii.

Nida has bought a new camera. (simple past)

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viii.

It is raining.

(past continuous)

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b. Pick out the adverbs in the following sentences:

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i.

I have only once written a book.

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ii.

The two men were perfectly sighted by the police.

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iii.

I was secretly terrified.

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iv.

This happens sometimes.

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Q2 a Use was and were to fill in the blanks in the following sentences:

(____/5)

a) Ahmad ------------------- listening to his iPod last night.

b) The children------------------- playing in the park.
c) What-------------------- it she said about him?
d) What ------------------- you doing Saturday?
e) I ------------------- in Tokyo last year.
Q2 b. Underline the metaphors and similes used in the following sentences and write them in the space
provided:
(____/4)
i.

The king was as brave as a lion.

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ii.

The sun bathed us in glorious light.

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iii.

She traveled fast; like the wind.

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iv.

The hungry children were as thin as sticks.

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Q3. Add a prefix to each of the following words and change them into opposite words.

Dependent

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Able

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Responsible

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Likely

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Section C- Composition

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Q1. Write a description of your grandmother or grandfather but concentrate on the qualities rather
than a physical description (150 words)
OR
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What do you think life on the moon would be like? Write a short description.
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Q2. Write a letter to your friend telling him/her to spend summer holidays with you in Swat (150 words)
OR
Write a letter to your uncle on his Sixtieth birthday and wish him well.

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Section D
Literature

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Q1. Answer the questions based on the Novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne.
A. Tick the correct answer:
1. Professor Lidenbrock lived in:
a. Hamburg
b. London
2. Axel was Professor Lidenbrocks:
a. son
b. uncle
3. The exciting discovery of Professor Lidenbrock was:
a. a
b. machine
c. a parchment
4. Axel and his uncle wants to find:
a. South America
b. the center of the Earth
5. Professor Lidenbrock tried to find the key to the:
a. door
b. house

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c. Boston
d. New York
c. nephew
d. neighbour

d. a virus
e. a new way of mining
c. Mars
d. a suitable church
c. shop
d. code

B. Write short answers.

(____/10)

1. Who was Hans and what was his condition to work for Axels uncle?
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2. What did Professor Lidenbrock find that made him discover the center of the Earth?

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Q.3 Who said these words? Choose the names from the box:
Axel,

Grauban,

Professor Lidenbrock,

Martha,

(______/6)
Mr. Fridriksson

1. It will be a wonderful journey. I would gladly come with you if I could. _______________
2. Of course we must go now! Do you think its so easy to get to Iceland.________________
3. Is the master mad? And hes taking you with him? ________________________
4. But when we have gone down; we still have to come up again.______________________
5. I want to find the works of Arne Saknussman.___________________________
6. There are so many mountains, glaciers and volcanoes still to be studied.________________
Q2. Read the poem to answer the questions that follow. All questions carry equal marks. ( ____/10)
Grandfather
by: Oliver Shirley
Our grandfather by the sea, blind.
His deck chair settles our rug on the stones
And his face takes sunlight like thirst.
We always play games that need speaking;
Each of our cards and moves are told
And he smiles in his taking part.
We are saying our childhood to this old man
And his beautiful face, liver-marked and shy,
Has no end in its place, no end in its gentleness,
To hold a whole life listening left to do.
1. What important fact do we learn about the grandfather from the first three lines of the poem?

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2. Describe the personality of the grandfather in a few words.

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3. Where does grandfather sit?

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Q4. Why do children play games with grandfather that need speaking?

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