Class: 7th
Name:_____________________________
Section:________________
Subject: English
Islamic Alta Vista High School
Read story#4, “Why the Opossum’s Tail is Bare” from Oxford reading circle (7) and solve the given
questions.
Q # 1: Write five sentences in direct speech from the story.
1) ______________________________________________________________________
2) ______________________________________________________________________
3) ______________________________________________________________________
4) ______________________________________________________________________
5) ______________________________________________________________________
Q # 2: Identify the character sketch with the help of these words and describe the character in your
own words.
proud, thick black fur, brushing beauty, jealous, soft bed, favourite occupation grooming his tail,
downfall, special seat, dance with his scaly tail, victim of flattery.
Q # 3: What do these expressions mean? Use them in sentences.
1) smooth and shiny
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2) vexation
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3) crusty and flaking
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4) pride and conceit
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Q # 4: Write adjective to describe each word.
Words
Adjectives
i. Opossum
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ii.
buzzard
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iii.
rabbit
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iv.
lizard
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v.
cricket
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Q # 5: Write 5 proper nouns from the story, e.g Opossum.
1) _____________
2)
_____________
4) _____________
5)
_____________
3) ______________
Class: 7th
Name:_____________________________
Section:________________
Subject: English
Q # 6: Underline the adverbs from the following sentences.
1) ‘How they admire me!’
2) He continued dancing and singing loudly.
3) He dismissed such an absurd idea and continued dancing.
Comprehension
Q # 7:
 Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions.
Opossum was proud of his tail which, in those days, was covered with thick black fur. He spent
long hours cleaning and brushing it and composing songs about its beauty and vigour.
Sometimes, when he walked through the village he carried his tail erect, like a banner rippling in
the breeze.
1) Why was opossum proud of his tail?
2) Where did opossum spend his long hours?
3) How did he carry his tail in village?
Q # 8: Rectify the given statements.
1) Rabbit was very happy of Opossum’s tail.
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2) Opossum found Rabbit’s ministrations so soothing that he fell asleep.
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3) At this, the birds shrieked so loudly that Opossum stopped in this tracks and looked at them.
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Q # 9:Convert the sentences.
1) Opossum was very proud of his tail.
(Simple present)
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2) Rabbit was very jealous of his tail.
(Future indefinite)
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3) He began to progress.
(Present perfect)
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Class: 7th
Name:_____________________________
Section:________________
Subject: English
Q # 10:Write synonyms of the following words:
Words
Synonyms
Words
chagrin
groom
convulsed
ministrations
Synonyms
swathe
Q # 11:Write antonyms of following words.
Words
Antonyms
Words
jealous
fierce
bold
beautiful
Antonyms
special
Q # 12:What do these expressions mean? Use them in sentences.
1) beside himself
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2) sing the praises
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3) engaged in
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4) overcome with
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Q # 13:Underline the relative pronoun and encircle the conjunctions:
1) I have such a beautiful long tail that I ought to sit where everyone can see it.
2) The animals left the earth and took rainbow path to sky land where they still remain.
Q #14:Bring out prepositions and verbs from the following lines.
When Rabbit arrived with news of the meeting, Opossum was sitting by the door of his lodge
engaged in his favourite occupation grooming his tail.
Q # 15: Punctuate the following paragraph.
only if i am given a special seat replies conceited opossum carefully smoothing some untidy
hairs at the tip of his tail after all he went on grinning maliciously at rabbit i have such a beautiful long
tail that i ought to sit where everyone can see and admire it.
‫‪Subject: English‬‬
‫________________‪Section:‬‬
‫_____________________________‪Name:‬‬
‫‪Class: 7th‬‬
‫‪Q #16:Write grammatical status of the following words and use them in sentences.‬‬
‫____________________________________________________________________‪1) convulsed :‬‬
‫__________________________________________________________________‪2) counterpart :‬‬
‫______________________________________________________________________‪3) groom:‬‬
‫________________________________________________________________________‪4) jibe:‬‬
‫_________________________________________________________________‪5) maliciously :‬‬
‫________________________________________________________________‪6) ministrations:‬‬
‫______________________________________________________________________‪7) chagrin:‬‬
‫_________________________________________________________________‪8) characteristics:‬‬
‫_______________________________________________________________‪9) oppression:‬‬
‫_______________________________________________________________‪10) obsequious:‬‬
‫‪Q # 17: Write one word for the following.‬‬
‫‪1) North American vulture______________________.‬‬
‫‪2) a small tuft of feather on the head of some birds________________________.‬‬
‫‪3) to wrap or over somebody with bandages _________________.‬‬
‫‪4) in a showy and affected way_________________________.‬‬
‫__________________‪5) a small tree-dwelling animal that comes out at night‬‬
‫‪Q # 18: Translate into English.‬‬
‫‪1‬۔جب داین اک آ اغ ز وہآ وت اجونز اکیف بڑےےھت۔ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬
‫‪2‬۔اجونزوں ےن آمہ اعممالت یک اشموزت ےک ےیل آجالس بالےن اک ہلصیف ایک۔ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬
‫‪3‬۔ہی اکزآ دم وہےن ےک ساھت ساھت وخوصبزت یھب یھت۔ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬
‫‪4‬۔ ریمی ُدم سانیہ یک ُدم ےس زبادہ طاوتقز ےہ۔ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬