THE DOON SCHOOL DEHRA DUN – 248001

ENTRANCE TEST – SPECIMEN PAPER

ENGLISH

CLASS – 7

 

NAME ……………………………………………………………………………

 

DATE OF BIRTH …………………………REGISTRATION NO. : ………………………

 

Q.1.     Write a composition of about 200 words on any one of the following topics:

(i)                I was never interested in butterflies till the day I found one in my drawer.

(ii)             Describe your experience riding a bicycle without brakes.

(iii)           Ways of earning pocket money.

(iv)            Cooking as a hobby.

(v)               Write a story beginning: He ate every morsel on the plate and then looked up for more.

 

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Q. 2.    Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow it:

            The lighthouse-keeper, who had been in this service for thirty years, was feared by the village children because of his stern look and the tremendous voice with which he stormed at the young scamps who stole in to explore the lighthouse; but at heart he was actually a gentle person.  Solitude had taken away from him any feeling that men could have bad intentions.  At a lighthouse there can be no greater treat than to have visitors.  Surely no one would call at an isolated lighthouse with ill-will, or at least any such feelings would surely vanish from his heart in the face of the hospitality he was certain to receive.  Actually, it was just as the lighthouse-keeper so often said: " Bad intentions cannot travel as far as good."

 

            The mistress too was truly a good person, and also very well read.  Not only had she once been a teacher in a rural girls' school, but her many years of living in lighthouses had encouraged her love of reading even more, until she now possessed an almost encyclopedic knowledge about everything.   She would argue her husband into a corner, and then, as if to make up, put her whole soul into darning his socks or fixing his supper.  When visitors came she would chatter away incessantly.  The villagers listened spellbound to her, some of them comparing her unfavourably with their own rather quiet women and feeling a sort of sympathy for the lighthouse keeper.  But he himself had great respect for his wife's learning.

 

            The living-quarters provided for the lighthouse-keeper was a one-storey house of three rooms.  Everything about it was kept as neat and polished as the lighthouse itself.  A steamship-company calendar hung on the wall, and the ashes in the sunken hearth of the sitting-room were always neatly shaped up around the charcoal.  Even in their daughter's absence, her well polished desk stood in one corner of the parlour.  Behind the house there was a bath heated by gas made from the dregs of the oil used to lubricate the beacon light.  Unlike conditions in the shabby houses of the fishermen, here even the new-washed hand towel hanging by the basin in the toilet was always bright and clean.

 

Mark the most appropriate answer with a tick (Ö ). 

(i)        How do we know that the couple live by the seaside?

(a)               The passage mentions the sea.

(b)              The man is a lighthouse-keeper.

(c)              The man's wife is well-informed on the news from overseas.

(d)              The passage clearly mentions fishermen's boats.

 

(ii)       What made the man think well of people?

(a)               He was surrounded by extraordinarily kind people.

(b)              His solitude softened him and he believed that people would not call at the remote lighthouse with ill-will.

(c)              Bad intentions cannot travel as far as good.

(d)              He was popular with children.

 

(iii)     What was the big difference between the man and his wife?

(a)               She put her whole soul into darning his socks and fixing his dinner.

(b)              She was better educated and more argumentative.

(c)              She loved him more than he loved her.

(d)              She was truly a good person.

 

(iv)      What made the one-storey house of three rooms different from the houses of fishermen?

(a)               It was a lighthouse.

(b)              Everything within was kept neat and polished.

(c)              The daughter of the house had a desk.

(d)              Fishermen were not admitted to this house.

 

 (v)      Find a word of similar meaning in the first paragraph for each of the following phrases:

(a)               not kind or cheerful ________________ (d) shouted angrily______________

(b)              find out ______________                          (e) standing alone ______________

(c)              entertainment of guests _________________

(vi)      Write a word or phrase of similar meaning against each of the following:

(a)               vanish (line 7) ______________________________

(b)              argue (line 13) ________________________________

(c)              chatter (line 15) ______________________________

(d)              sympathy (line 17) _____________________________

(e)              lubricate (line 23) ______________________________

 

Q. 3. (i)           Circle the correctly spelt word in each case:

(a)               proffesor              professor                   professer

(b)              separate                seperate                      sepperate

(c)              receive                  recieve                        receve

(d)              comming              coming                       comeing

(e)              nescessary            nessessary                  necessary

(f)               mischievous         mischevious               mischeivous

(g)              arithmetic             arithmatic                   arithametic    

(h)              priviledge             previlidge                   privilege

 

(ii)       Punctuate the following sentences:

(a)               Wake up said Rams mother  It is 8 o clock.

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(b)              What time does the 4.20 express leave asked the passenger

At 4.20 p.m. was the guards reply.

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(c)              I give up exclaimed Rani I cant work so hard

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Q.4.     Fill in the blanks with a suitable word:

(i)  (a)        "Can you _____________ a secret ?" she asked me

(b)              Don’t ________________a quarrel with him.  He is dangerous.

(c)              "_______________ careful aim before you press the trigger", the officer instructed the cadets.

(d)              While you get the dinner ready I will _____________ the table.

(e)              My old friend ______________ me a visit.

 

(ii)(a)  Go _______________ your work carefully after you have done it.

(b)              Even if you find the work hard to do, don’t give _____________.

(c)              The careless driver nearly ran  ______________ my cat.

(d)              The boxer knocked _______________ his weaker opponent in two minutes.

(e)              The children pleaded _______________ their teacher to give them the last period off.