FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT – I ENGLISH SET - B

Maximum Marks: 20

Time allowed: 1 hour

Class: VII Date: 17.7.2015

General Instructions:

<math>\bullet</math> This question paper contains 5 questions and 2 printed pages.

All the questions are compulsory.

Marks for each question are indicated against it.

SECTION - A (READING)

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1. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:

Metal detectors make magnetic waves. These waves go through the ground. The waves change when they hit metal. Then the device beeps. This lets the person with the device know that metal is close. The first metal detectors were meant to help miners. They were big. They cost a lot of money. They used a lot of power. And worst of all, they didn't work well. People kept trying to make them better.

Metal detectors got smaller. Now they are light and cheap. They also work better. That is why people bring them to the beach. They can look for rings in the water. They can look for phones in the sand. Metal detectors help them find these things. They usually just find junk though.

Metal detectors also protect people. They help keep guns out of some places. They are at airports. They are at courthouses. Some schools use them. They help guards look for weapons. Guards use special wands to find metal on a person.

These devices save lives in other ways too. During wars, people plant bombs in the ground. When the war ends, they don't clean up their messes. This is unsafe for the people who live in those places. Soldiers use metal detectors to find bombs. They remove them and help the people. These devices also make clothes safer. It sounds funny, but it's true. Most clothes are made in big factories. There are lots of needles in these places. Needles break from time to time. They get stuck in the clothes. They would poke people trying them on. They don't though. That's because our clothes are scanned for metal. Isn't that nice? They make the world a safer place.

I. On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following questions.

1. Why were metal detectors first used?
2. How do metal detectors help soldiers?

e the correct answer from the given options.

II. How do metal detectors make clothing safer?

1. 1. Metal detectors make sure factory machines are working the right way.
2. Metal detectors make sure workers don't bring weapons into factories.
3. Metal detectors make sure that broken needles don't get into clothing.
4. Metal detectors help people recover lost clothing at the beach.

According to the text, metal detectors have been used in all of the following except

1. ......•

1. schools

1. churches iv. airports

Find a word from the passage, which means the same as, 'to look carefully in order to detect

1. some feature '. (Para 4)

Ch 00S

SECTION - B (WRITING)

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1. You are Avdesh/ Avantika, Secretary, Science Forum, Modern School, Allahabad. Write a notice for the school notice board in not more than 50 words, inviting the students to attend a lecture to be delivered by an eminent scientist. Invent all the necessary details.

SECTION - C (GRAMMAR)

3. Change the following sentences into passive voice.

1. The gardener looks after the flowers.
2. Who taught you French?
3. They were painting the house.
4. I have placed an order for a digital camera.

SECTION - D (LITERATURE)

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4. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words each.

1. Why are the flowers so eager to reach the sky?
2. Why did Anne feel that 'teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth'?

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1. Use the following words to frame meaningful sentences.
2. pleading
3. inherited