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|| Swami Shreeji ||, , Shree NaitikJigar Education Trust initiated, Smt. R. A. Kalathiya Vidhya Bhavan, Botad, SUB : English, , Question Bank, Unit -7, STANDARD –VII, Question 1., Choose the right answer:, 1. Mr. Willy Wonka is ………………, A. a cook., B. an inventor., C. a manager., Answer:, B. an inventor., , 2. Wonka-Vite makes people ………….., A. older., B. younger., Answer:, B. younger., 3. Mr. Wonka wants to invent a new thing which will make people ………………., A. younger., B. older., Answer:, B. older., , Question 2., Can any one’s age be a minus number ? What does ‘minus 87’ mean ?, Answer:, No, age cannot be in minus because we all start growing up from the moment we, are born. ‘Minus 87’ means the man is 87 years back to his actual age., Question 3., Mr Wonka begins by asking himself two questions. What are they ?, 1. What is …………… ?, 2. What lives ………………. ?
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Answer:, 1. What is the oldest thing in the world ?, 2. What lives longer than anything else ?, Working With The Text, Question 1., What trees does Mr Wonka : mention ? Which tree does he say lives the longest ?, Answer:, Mr Wonka mentions fir, oak, and cedar. He says that the Bristlecone pine trees, lives the longest., (2) How long does this tree live ? Where can you find it?, Answer:, Bristlecone pine lives for over 4000 s years and you can find them upon the, slopes of Wheeler Peak in Nevada, U.S.A., Question 2., How many of the oldest living things can you remember from Mr Wonka’s list ?, (Don’t look back at the story!) Do you think all these things really exist, or are s, some of them purely imaginary?, Answer:, Mr Wonka has mentioned some very oldest things. He said he had collected a, pint of sap from a 4000-year-old Bristlecone pine tree, toe-nail clippings from a, 168-year-old Russian Farmer, an egg laid by a 200-year-old tortoise, the tail of, 51-year-old horse, whiskers of a 36-year-old cat called Crumpets, a flea that lived, on Crumpets for 36 years, tail of a 207-year-old rat, the black teeth of a 97-yearold Grimalkin and knucklebones of a 700-year-old Cattaloo. Very few of these, things would have really existed. A majority of them are purely imaginary., Question 3., Why does Mr Wonka collect items from the oldest things ? Do you think this is, the right way to begin his invention ?, Answer:, Mr Wonka wanted to create an item that will make people older so he collected, items from the oldest things. This is in fact a foolish way to begin an invention.
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Question 4., What happens to the volunteer who swallows four drops of the new invention ?, What is the name of the invention ?, Answer:, The Oompa-Loompa volunteer was 20 years old before swallowing the drops., After swallowing four drops of the new invention, he started wrinkling and, shrivelling up all over. His hair started dropping off and his teeth started falling, out. He suddenly became 75 years old. The name of the invention is Vita-Wonk., Select the most appropriate options as answers and complete the following, sentences:, Question 1., The magical substance invented by Mr. Willy Wonka was ………………. ., A. Wonka-Vita, B. Wonka-Vite, C. Vita-Wonka, D. Vite-Wonka, Answer:, B. Wonka-Vite, Question 2., What are the effect / s of the medicine invented by Mr. Willy Wonka?, A. Some people disappear., B. Their age becomes Minus., C. Some people grow overage., D. All of these three., Answer:, D. All of these three., Question 3., The phrase ‘squeezed brain’ is ……………., A. ‘did excessive exercise of thinking’., B. ‘removed thinking from brain’., C. ‘forgot the previous happenings’., D. ‘lost memory’., Answer:, A. ‘did excessive exercise of thinking’.
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Question 4., …………………… lives longer than anything else., A. Douglas Fir, B. Oak, C. Bristlecone Pine, D. Cedar, Answer:, C. Bristlecone Pine, Question 5., Dendrochronologist is the one who ………….., A. knows how trees are grown., B. studies tree rings for dating., C. identifies trees from their trunk and leaves., D. None of these three., Answer:, B. studies tree rings for dating., Question 6., Whose toe-nail clippings were collected for preparing Wonka-Vite?, A. Mr. Willy Wonka, B. Charlie, C. A Russian farmer, D. Grimalkin, Answer:, C. A Russian farmer, , Question 7., For preparing Wonka-Vite, the knucklebones were taken from …………………, A. A Russian farmer, B. Cattaloo, C. Crumpets, D. Petrovitch Gregorovitch, Answer:, B. Cattaloo
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Question 8., …………….. can spit poison right into one’s eye from fifty yards away., A. Squerkle, B. Curlicue, C. Skrock, D. Bobolink, Answer:, A. Squerkle, Question 9., One of the following does not include the procedure of the magic liquid, preparation:, A. Grinding, B. Boiling, C. Mixing, D. Testing, Answer:, A. Grinding, Question 10., What was the effect of the magic liquid on the volunteer-a brave twenty-year old, person ?, A. His teeth started falling out., B. He began wrinkling up all over., C. His hair started dropping off., D. All of these three., Answer:, D. All of these three., Say whether the following sentences are True or False:, 1. Mr. Wonka was working on how to make people very very old., Answer:, True, 2. Douglas fir can live for over 4000 years., Answer:, False
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3. Mr. Wonka took a pint of sap from a cedar tree., Answer:, False, , 4. Mr. Wonka collected an egg laid’ by a 200-year old ostrich., Answer:, False, 5. Mr. Wonka also searched for old and ancient animals to get a bit of something, from each of them., Answer:, True, 6. Carrying out different recipes finally Mr. Wonka prepared one tiny cup of, powder as a magic substance., Answer:, False, Answer the following questions in two to three sentences each:, Question 1., What was the need for Mr. Wonka to invent Vita-Wonk?, Answer:, Vita-Wonk had gone wrong. After taking it many people have grown younger to, an extent that their ages have gone in minus. All such people have disappeared, and will be back only after they spend all those minus years being invisible. To, alter these changes Mr. Wonka decided to invent a new drug which will help, people to grow older., Question 2., Name five ancient things collected by Mr. Wonka., Answer:, Mr. Wonka collected a pint of sap from a 4000-year-old Bristlecone pine tree,, whiskers of a 36-year-old cat called Crumpets, an egg laid by a 200-year-old, tortoise that belonged to the King of Tonga. He also collected the tail of a 207year-old rat from Tibet and the tail of a 51-year-old horse in Arabia.
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Question 3., What happened to the Oompa-Loompa volunteer after taking the drops of VitaWonk?, Answer:, After taking four drops of Vita-Wonk, the Oompa-Loompa volunteer began to, wrinkle and shrivel. His hair started dropping off and teeth started falling out., Soon the changes were visible and he became an old mam who looked around, 75 years old., Answer the following questions in four to five sentences each:, Question 1., Describe Mr. Wonka., Answer:, Mr. Willy Wonka was a strange man. He used to make all strange inventions. He, had a subordinate called Charlie. There was an Oompa-Loompa volunteer on, whom he used to carry out the testing of his inventions. He had an Inventing, Room where he carried out all such mysterious works. He had earlier invented, Wonka-Vite that had made people younger to an extent that their ages have, gone into minus and they have become invisible. He then invented Vita-Wonk, after collecting ancient items from across the world which could help people, grow older., , Question 2., Describe the process of invention of Vita-Wonk., Answer:, Mr. Willy Wonka travelled across the globe in his Great Glass Elevator to collect, items for Vita-Wonk. He collected samples from some of the oldest living, creatures in the world. He mixed these items, boiled and bubbled them several, times in his inventing room and then invented a one tiny cupful of an oily black, liquid. He tested this on a 20-year-old Oompa-Loompa volunteer and within, minutes it turned into a 75-year- old creature. This was how Vita-Wonk was, discovered., Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below, them:, Question 1., ‘What is the oldest living thing in the world ? What lives longer than anything else
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?’, “A tree,” Charlie said. “Right you are, Charlie ! But what kind of a tree ? Not the, Douglas fir. Not the oak. Not the cedar. No, no, my boy. It is a tree called the, Bristlecone pine that grows upon the slopes of Wheeler Peak in Nevada, U.S.A., You can find Bristlecone Pines on Wheeler Peak today that are over 4000 years, old! This is fact, Charlie. Ask any dendrochronologist you like (and look that word, up in the dictionary when you get home, will you please?). So that started me off., I jumped into the Great Glass Elevator and rushed all over the world collecting, special items from the oldest living things ………., Questions:, (1) Where does the Bristlecone pine grow?, Answer:, The Bristlecone pine grows upon the slopes of Wheeler Peak in Nevada, U.S.A., (2) How can we say that the Bristlecone pine is the oldest tree in the world?, Answer:, Today the Bristlecone pines are found on Wheeler Peak that are over 4000 years, old; so we can say that the Bristlecone pine is the oldest tree in the world., (3 ) How did Mr. Wonka visit the world ?, Answer:, Mr. Wonka jumped into the Great Glass Elevator and rushed all over the world., (4) Why did Mr. Wonka rush all over the world?, Answer:, Mr. Wonka rushed all over the world to collect special items from the oldest living, things., , Question 2., “All over the world, Charlie,” Mr Wonka went on “I tracked down very old and, ancient animals and took an important little bit of something from each one of, them — a hair or an eyebrow or sometimes it was no more ? than an ounce or, two of the jam scraped s from between its toes while it was sleeping. I “tracked, down THE WHISTLE-PIG, THE BOBOLINK, THE SKROCK, THE POLLYFROG, THE, GIANT CURLICUE, THE STINGING SLUG AND THE VENOMOUS SQUERKLE who
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can spit poison right into your eye from fifty yards away. But there’s no time to, tell you about them all now, Charlie., Let me just say s quickly that in the end, after lots of boiling i and bubbling and, mixing and testing in my s Inventing Room, I produced one tiny cupful of oily, black liquid and gave four drops of it to a brave twenty-year-old Oompa-Loompa, volunteer to see what happened.”, Questions:, (1) What efforts did Mr. Wonka put in to prepare the unique medicine ?, Answer:, Mr. Wonka tracked down very old and ancient animals and took an important, little bit of something from each one of them., (2) Which different animals did Mr Wonka track down to collect the required bits?, Answer:, Mr. Wonka tracked down THE WHISTLE-PIG, THE BOBOLINK, THE SKROCK, THE, POLLYFROG, THE GIANT CURLICUE, THE STINGING SLUG AND THE VENOMOUS, SQUERKLE., (3) Which animal was dangerous among all? How?, Answer:, THE VENOMOUS SQUERKLE was the most dangerous among all as it could spit, poison right into a person’s eye from fifty yards away., (4) How did Mr. Wonka prepare the black liquid ?, Answer:, Mr. Wonka carried out lots of boiling and bubbling and mixing and testing in his, Inventing Room to prepare the black liquid.
