Passage - 2 | English Grammar Class 7 PDF Download

Q.4. Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow each of them:
The Nightingale and the Glow-worm
A nightingale, that all day long
Had cheered the village with his song,
Began to feel as well he might,
The keen demands of appetite ;
When looking eagerly around,
He spied far off, upon the ground,
Something shining in the dark,
And knew the glow-worm by his spark ;
So, stooping down from the hawthorn top,
He thought to put him in his crop.
The worm, aware of his intent,
Harangued him thus, right eloquent—
“Did you admire my lamp”, quoth he,
“As much as I your minstrelsy
You would abhor to do me wrong,
As much as I to spoil your song ;
For ’twas the self-same power divine,
Taught you to sing, and me to shine ;
That you with music, I with light,
Might beautify and cheer the night.”
The songster heard his short oration,
And warbling out his approbation
Released him, as my story tells,
And found a supper somewhere else.
—William Cowper

Answer the following questions briefly:
(i) The intent of the nightingale was
(a) to sleep
(b) to feed the glow worm
(c) to eat the glow worm
(d) to enjoy the night

Ans: (c) to eat the glow worm

(ii) The night became beautiful
(a) due to the clouds
(b) due to the song of the nightingale
(c) due to the light of the glow-worm
(d) both (ii) and (iii)

Ans: (d) both (ii) and (iii)

(iii) Both the nightingale and the glow-worm.
(a) had an important role to play in the world
(b) had no role to play in the world
(c) were jealous of each other
(d) had plans to kill

Ans: (a) had an important role to play in the world

(iv) The act ‘released him’ means that the nightingale
(a) approved of his point of view
(b) approved of the glow-worm’s point of view
(c) did not like the insect’s taste
(d) felt proud for releasing the glow-worm

Ans: (b) approved of the glow-worm’s point of view

(v) The phrase ‘warbled out his approbation’ means
(a) singing more vigorously
(b) spilled out words
(c) gave judgment
(d) expressed his appreciation

Ans: (d) expressed his appreciation

Q.5. Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow each of them:
Death to the Dentist!
Death to his chair!
Death to his ‘This might hurt’!
“There! There! There !”
Death to his injections!
Death to his Nurse!
Death to his amalgam!
Curse! Curse! Curse!
Death to his needle!
Death to his drill!
Death to his “Open wides”!
Kill! KU1! Kill!
—A poem from Tasmania

Answer the following questions briefly:
(i) The patient _________ to go to the dentist.
(a) loves
(b) is encouraged
(c) dislikes
(d) had

Ans: (c) dislikes

(ii) The doctor quotes _________.
(a) This is going to hurt
(b) This might hurt
(c) The extraction is painful
(d) The extraction will hurt a little bit

Ans: (b) This might hurt

(iii) The instructions given by the dentist __________.
(a) will help the dentist do the needful
(b) will not help the dentist do the needful
(c) will help the patient get rid of the pain
(d) will not help the patient get rid of the pain

Ans: (a) will help the dentist do the needful

(iv) The word ‘Amalgam’ is
(a) a verb
(b) an adjective
(c) a noun
(d) an adverb

Ans: (c) a noun

(v) The patient’s sense of thinking
(a) is positive about the dentist
(b) is negative about the doctor and his techniques
(c) is of killing everything
(d) is to ignore the dentist’s instructions

Ans: (b) is negative about the doctor and his techniques

Q.6. Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow each of them:
Weavers, weaving at the break of the day,
Why do you weave a garment so gay?
Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild,
We weave the robes of a newborn child.
Weavers, weaving at fall of night,
Why do you weave a garment so bright?
Like the plumes of a peacock purple and green,
We weave the marriage veils of a queen.
Weavers, weaving solemn and still,
What do you weave in the moonlight chill?
White as a feather and white as a cloud,
We weave a dead man’s funeral shroud.

Answer the following questions briefly:
(i) The ‘break of day’ has parallel thoughts to:
(a) the day is over
(b) the new-born babies
(c) cheerful looking colors
(d) both (ii) and (iii)

Ans: (d) both (ii) and (iii)

(ii) ‘Blue’ is common to :
(a) sky, halcyon
(b) halcyon, newborn baby
(c) Baby, its dress
(d) both (i) and (ii)

Ans: (a) sky, halcyon

(iii) The color of the baby’s dress is:
(a) silver
(b) gray
(c) white
(d) blue

Ans: (d) blue

(iv) The phrase ‘white as a cloud’ is a:
(a) metaphor
(b) simile
(c) consonance
(d) assonance

Ans: (b) simile

(v) Weavers weave different colors:
(a) to match the occasion
(b) to match the person
(c) to bring out the beauty
(d) both (i) and (ii)

Ans: (d) both (i) and (ii)