MBOSE Class 7 Sample Question Paper 2026 English

Meghalaya Board of School Education

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ENGLISH
Class- VII
Duration : 3 hours
Max Marks : 80
General Instructions:
 Read the question paper carefully and answer ALL Questions
 The question paper is divided into three sections
 Section A: Literature (Prose, Poetry & Supplementary Reader) (50 marks)
 Section B: Reading Comprehension (5marks)
 Section C: Grammar & Composition (25 Marks)

SECTION A
(Literature)
1. Match the word in Column A with its meaning in Column B :- (1x4=4)
Column A Column B
i. Gleamed a. Grassland
ii. Rake b. Grandfather (in Tamil)
iii. Meadow c. Shine brightly/glittered
iv. Thatha d. Gather

2. Fill in the blanks with words from the poems you have read in the
class (1x4=4)
i. When everyone else is wearing a uniform, the rebel chooses to wear
_______________
ii. I often think there’s someone _____________ at me
iii. Trees are to make ________ in summer
iv. The ants’ _______________ mound.
3. Choose the correct option from the choices given below (1x7=7)
i. The wounded man was
a. a friend of the hermit.
b. a friend of the king.
c. an enemy of the king.
d. a guard of the king.
ii. The squirrel sat in
a. a straight manner.
b. an erect position.
c. the trunk.
d. the burrow.

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iii. During the New year, the rice pastry turned out to be
a. a delicious food
b. a poisonous food
c. a heap of gold coin
d. a waste
iv. The author’s brother wants him not to
a. enter the shed
b. play in the garden
c. touch the web
d. fear the ghost
v. The meadow offers surprises like
a. tableware
b. wild plants
c. wild burrows
d. kitchenware
vi. Who dressed up to buy Hilsa Fish?
a. Gopal
b. Gopal’s mother
c. The courtier
d. The king
vii. Chandni made that window a passage to
a. freedom
b. the village
c. the hut
d. the ground
4. Write ‘True’ or ‘False’ against each of the following sentences
(1x7=7)
i. The kitten was lapping up milk from a cotton half shell.
ii. It is good to be a rebel oneself.
iii. Gopal was a mad man.
iv. The poet of ‘Chivy’ is Michael Rosen.
v. Mr. Gessler was a baker.
vi. Mr. Nath is a crook.
vii. Tilloo’s parents lived on the surface of a planet.

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5. Very short answer type questions (1x6=6)
i. What is the real name of Seven?
ii. Give an example of how trees are used by the children in the poem.
iii. Whom does Golu ask, “Why don’t you ever fly like other birds?”
iv. What does the speaker initially do when she sees a snake?
v. What did the king promised to anyone who would answer the three
questions?
vi. Why did the King lose his temper?
6. Short Answer Type Questions (2x5=10)
i. “He liked to tease and play”. Who is teasing whom? Why?
ii. What was the noise that started Mridu and frightened Mahendran?
iii. Which houses are characterised by the term “meadow house”?
iv.What do you know about Abbu Khan’s new goat, Chandni?
v. How did Tilloo manage to find his way to the forbidden passage?
7. Long Answer Type Questions (choose Any two) :- (2x3=6)
i. What information did Nishad gather from Ramesh about Mr. Nath?
ii. Why was Ravi upset with the elders?
iii. What is the attitude of the Rebel towards the sun and the rain?
iv. The ant is called a tiny teacher. Why?
8. Read the extract and answer the following questions (2x3=6)
A. “Dey get id all, he said, “dey get id by advertisement, nod by work.
Dey take id away from us, who lofe our boods. Id gomes to dis -
bresently I haf no work. Every year id gets less. You will see.’’ And
looking at his lined face, I saw things I had never noticed before,
bitter things and bitter struggles and what a lot of grey hairs there
seemed suddenly in his red beard!
i. What does the expression ‘Dey get id all’ mean?
ii. What were the signs of his struggle?
iii. Explain ‘every year id gets less’.
B. We used to keep large plates of fruits on a table near a window in
the dining room. One day all the bananas on the table disappeared
and my family blamed the servants for eating all the fruits in the
house. A few days later the fruits disappeared again; this time the

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blame was put on me, and I knew I had not done it. It made me
very angry

with my parents and the servants, for, I was sure they had taken all
the fruit. The next time the fruit disappeared, I found a banana all
smashed up in Kari’s Pavilion.
i) Where did the family keep large plates of fruits?
ii) Who was initially blamed for the disappearance of the bananas?
iii) What did the author discover in Kari’s pavilion that surprise him?

SECTION B
(Reading Comprehension)
9. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follows:
(1x5=5)
A camel and a jackal were friends. One day, the jackal took his friend
to a big sugar cane farm. It was on the opposite side of the river. After
a sumptuous meal the jackal began to howl loudly. The camel pleaded
the jackal not to do so, but the jackal said it was his habit. Soon the
farmers came and thrashed the camel badly. When the camel crossed
the river, the jackal joined him on his back. The camel took a
deliberate dip into the water. When the jackal pleaded, the camel said
that he had the habit of rolling in the water after every meal. The poor
jackal was drowned.
i. Where did the jackal take the camel one day?
ii. Why did the farmers thrash the camel?
iii. How did the camel take his revenge on the jackal?
iv. What happened to the camel in the end?
v. Give the meaning of the word ‘thrashed’.

SECTION C
(Grammar & Composition)
10. (i) Write a letter to your friend letting him/her know about how you plan
to spend your winter vacation (5)
OR

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(ii) Write a letter to the Principal of your school requesting him/her for
leave of absence. (5)

11. Write a paragraph about the season you like the most (5)

12. Rearrange the jumbled words to form meaningful sentences
(1x3=3)
i. soccer (he plays/his friends/with
ii. our gratitude (to show/we have/to them
iii. often go/we/library/to the
13. Combine each pair of sentences using a Relative pronoun (1x3=3)
i. This is the boy. His dad is in the Airforce.
ii. We all like the song. Maria sang it.
iii. This school is the best in the country. It has 2000 students.
14. Supply appropriate Comparative or Superlative degree to the
following (1x3=3)
i. Clouds are ____ than air (light)
ii. Daman is ___________ than Kitbok (tall)
iii. The Taj is the __________ building in the world (beautiful)
15. State the tense of the underlined verbs (1x3=3)
i. It is raining heavily _____________
ii. He has been driving for two hours ______________
iii. A thief broke into the house ______________
16. In the following sentences, underline the adjectives and write down
the noun it describes (3x1=3)
i. My daddy brought me colourful flowers ___________
ii. The kitten is fluffy ________________
iii. A tiny bug landed on my sandwich_______________

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