MP Board Class 7th General English Solutions Revision Exercises 3
Read and Learn (पढ़ो और याद करो) :
Students should do themselves.
Comprehension (बोध प्रश्न):
(A) Answer These questions :
(इन प्रश्नों के उत्तर दीजिए)
Question 1.
What is the poem Lohri about ?
Answer:
The poem is about the festival of ‘Lohri’.
Question 2.
Where did the five friends go one day?
Answer:
The five friends went to the fair one day.
Question 3.
Why is the story called, “One Way Ticket” ?
Answer:
All the five friends collected their money they had and then only they were able to buy a one way ticket for the return journey.
Question 4.
Who built the buildings at Orchha ?
Answer:
Bundela kings built the buildings at Orchha.
Question 5.
What were Laxmi Bai’s last words?
Answer:
The last words of Maharani Laxmi Bai were, “Let no Britisher touch my body.”
(B) Read the following and tick true or false :
(निम्नलिखित वाक्यों को पढ़कर सत्य/असत्य पर चिन्ह लगाइए)
(i) Manu was a cowardly girl. T/F
(ii) The five friends had no money to return home. T/F
Answer:
(i) False
(ii) False
(C) Tick the correct option:
(सही विकल्प पर चिह्न लगाइए)
(i) Bonfires consume a lot of/a little wood.
Answer:
a lot of
(ii) The Bundela Kings made Orchha/Sanchi their capital.
Answer:
Orchha.
(D) Fill in the blank spaces :
(रिक्त स्थान भरिए)
(i) Lohri celebrates the harvesting of new …………..
(ii) Laxmi Bai took training in martial …………..
Answer:
(i) crop
(ii) arts.
Word Power (शब्द समर्थ):
(A) Write the homophones for :
(समान स्वर वाले शब्दों को लिखो।)
(i) hear
(ii) write
Answer:
(i) here
(ii) right.
(B) Write one work for each phrase given below:
(नीचे दिए प्रत्येक शब्द समूह के लिए एक शब्द लिखिए।)
(i) A monument built in memory of someone who died somewhere else.
(ii) Words written in memory of a person who has died; an inscription on a tombstone.
Answer:
(i) Cenotaph
(ii) epitaph.
(C) Write the meanings of the following words:
(निम्न शब्दों के अर्थ लीखिए)
(i) merge
(ii) rear
Answer:
(i) mix
(ii) to bring up.
(D) Classify the following into cenotaph and tomb:
(निम्न को स्मारक और मकबरे में वर्गीकृत कीजिए।)
(i) The Taj Mahal.
(ii) Amar Jyoti at Vijay Chowk.
(iii) Rajghat.
(iv) Humayun Ka Makbara
(v) Chhatries at Orchha
(vi) Samadhi of Laxmi Bai
Answer:
Cenotaph-Amar Jyoti at Vijay Chowk, Rajghat, Chhatries at Orchha, Chhatries at Maheswar and Indore.
Tomb – The Taj Mahal, Humayun Ka Makbara, Samadhi of Laxmibai.
Grammar in Use (व्याकरण प्रयोग):
(A) Fill in the blank spaces using ‘between’ and ‘among’:
(between और among का प्रयोग कर रिक्त स्थान भरिए)
(i) The letter S comes ……… the letter R and T of the English alphabet.
(ii) She works ………. the poor.
Answer:
(i) between
(ii) among.
(B) Combine the sentences using ‘where’ and ‘when’:
(Where और When का प्रयोग कर वाक्यों को जोड़िए।)
(i) I found the pen. I had kept it.
Answer:
I found the pen where I had kept it.
(ii) Sona called me. I was reading.
Answer:
Sona called me when I was reading.
(C) Encircle the correct adjective for the following nouns :
(निम्नलिखित संज्ञाओं के लिए सही विशेषण पर गोला लगाओ)
(D) Make more words by adding ‘ly’.
(‘ly’ लगाकर अधिक शब्द बनाइए)
(i) brave – bravely
(ii) fearless – fearlessly
(iii) extreme – extremely
(E) Punctuate the following paragraph.
(निम्न अनुच्छेद में विराम चिन्ह का प्रयोग कीजिए।)
Answer:
Once Bishni, Kishto, Gittoo and Lambu went to see a Bal mela in a school. There, they saw many Science models made by students. Bishni asked, “What is the model about ?” Kishto explained, “This is about a water pump.”
Let’s Write (आओ लिखें) :
Question 1.
Write about the Holi celebration in one paragraph.
(होली पर्व के बारे में एक अनुच्छेद लिखिए।)
Answer:
Holi is the festival of colours. The people express their happiness by throwing colours on their friends, relatives and neighbours. They make fun. They use dry and wet colours. Relating to the festival and season people are lost in singing songs. They feel happy by welcoming their friends with sweetmeats and tea or coffee or cold drink. Sugarcane fields look full of cheerfulness of the farmers who work there. Grain fields look very beautiful. Some people throw mud on one another and shout. Everyone small or big bears a smile on his face.
(ii) Write a paragraph about Orchha.
(ओरछा के बारे में एक अनुच्छेद लिखिए।)
(iii) Write five lines about the qualities of Maharani Laxmi Bai.
(महारानी लक्ष्मी बाई के गुणों के बारे में पाँच लाइनें लिखिए)
Answer:
Maharani Laxmi Bai was the queen of Jhansi. She was brave, courageous and bold from her early childhood. She was skilled in horse riding, shooting, wrestling and all the martial arts and continued to practise them even after her marriage with Gangadhar Rao, the king of Jhansi.
When Britishers declared to merge Jhansi with British empire, after her husband’s death, she opposed it and bravely fought against them not thinking that she was a woman. She was a great patriot. She tied her son to her back and led her army against the British. She fought courageously till her last breath and did not let any Britisher touch her living or dead.
Let’s Do It (आओ इसे करें):
(A) Read the given paragraph and write answers to the questions that follow :
(दिए गए अनुच्छेद को पढ़कर उसके नीचे दिए प्रश्नों के उत्तर लिखिए।)
Question 1.
Why do birds build nests?
Answer:
Birds build nests to lay their eggs which need to be kept warm.
Question 2.
Which bird makes its nest out of mud ?
Answer:
Swallows and martins make their nests out of mud.
Question 3.
What does a tailor bird do to build its nest ?
Answer:
A tailor bird sews leaves together to make its nest.
Question 4.
Which birds make their nests on the ground ? Why?
Answer:
Ostrich and Kingfisher make their nest on the ground because they cannot fly.
Question 5.
Which birds lay their eggs in other birds, nests?
Answer:
Cockoo lays its eggs in other bird’s nests.
(B) Match these words with words opposite in their meaning :
(इन शब्दों को उनके विपरीतार्थक शब्दों से मिलान कीजिए)
1. many – (a) similar
2. safe – (b) unsafe
3. strong – (c) uncomfortable
4. different – (d) few
5. comfortable – (e) weak
Answer:
1. → (d)
2. → (b)
3. → (e)
4. → (a)
5. → (c).