LE ASSIGNMENT NO. 4
CLASS- VII
Read the following passage carefully:
1. The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra
are about
30 rock cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from
2nd
century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE. The caves include
paintings and sculptures described by the government
and
Archaeological Survey of India as “the finest surviving
examples Indian art, particularly painting”, which are
masterpieces of Buddhist religious art, with figures of the
Buddha and depictions of the Jataka tales.
2. The Ajanta caves, lay in the side of a ravine in wild and desolate country, some
350 miles to the northwest, at the extreme tip of Hyderabad where it touches
the Bombay Province. Actually, they were not caves at all, but were temples
which had been excavated from the living rock by Buddhist monks.
3. These monks had first come to the ravine somewhere in the second century
before Christ and they had begun by hacking out the rock with hand and
hurling it down into the river below. Then, probably with large mirrors to
reflect the sunshine from the ravine outside, they set about the decoration of the
walls, the doorways and the ceilings. They continued for the next eight
hundred years, always painting and sculpturing Lord Buddha, but setting him
against an idyllic background of folk tales and the everyday life of their own
time.
4. The site is a protected monument in the care of the Archaeological Survey of
India, and since 1983, the Ajanta caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage
site. With the
Ellora Caves, Ajanta is the major tourist attraction of the Marathwada region
of Maharashtra.
Question and Answers:
1. Where are Ajanta Caves located?
2. Who came to the ravines in the second century before Christ?
3. What did the monks use to reflect light into the caves?
4. What did the paintings in the caves depict?
5. How are the caves protected?
6. Give antonyms of the following words:
a. Inhabited (para2) b. threatened (para 4)
REPORTED SPEECH
Q1. Complete the sentences in reported speech.
1. John said, "I love this town.".
2. "Do you like soccer?" he asked me.
3. "I can't drive a lorry," he said.
4. "Be nice to your brother," he said.
5. "Don't be nasty," he said.
6. "Don't waste your money" she said.
7. "What have you decided to do?" she asked him.
8. "I always wake up early," he said.
9. "You should revise your lessons," he said.
10. "Where have you been?" he asked me.
Q2. Rewrite the following sentences in reported speech. Note whether the sentence is a
request, a statement or a question.
1. He said, "I like this song."
2. "Where is your sister?" she asked me.
3. "I don't speak Italian," she said.
4. "Say hello to Jim," they said.
5. "The film began at seven o'clock," he said.
6. "Don't play on the grass, boys," she said.
7. "Where have you spent your money?" she asked him.
8. "I never make mistakes," he said.
9. "Does she know Robert?" he wanted to know.
10. "Don't try this at home," the stuntman told the audience.
Q4. Read the following Dialogues and complete the paragraph that
follows: Doctor: Hello, how are you feeling now?
Patient: I am much better, sir.
Doctor: Are you not fully well? Don’t you take proper rest?
Patient: I am not fully well as I cannot have proper rest because of the busy
schedule. Doctor: Take some tonic to regain your health, ok?
The doctor asked(i) ____________________Patient replied(ii)_________________ better. The
doctor asked(iii)_________________ The patient replied (iv) ____________________________________________________________ Finally, the doctor
advised the patient (v) __________________________________________________
Q5. Read the dialogues carefully and fill in the blanks in the passage below.
Akbar: Who can tell me how many birds are there in the forest?
Birbal: I can tell you the exact number of birds in this forest. There are ten thousand seven
hundred
birds here.
Akbar: How can you be sure there won't be more or less?
Birbal: If there are more than this number then their friends must have visited them and if
they are
less, then they might have gone to visit their friends in the other kingdom.
Akbar asked (a) __________________________Birbal told (b)
_____________________________________________________________________________
Akbar asked (c) ______________________________________________________________
Birbal said (d) _____________________________________________________________ and if
they were less, then they might had gone to visit their friends in the other kingdom.
Que 6. Arrange the following words and phrases to form meaningful sentences.
a) trunk/the/filled/elephant/its/water/with/the/muddy
b) yourself/you/Aren’t/ashamed/of/?
c) show/the/in/Did/dance/she/well/?
d) worked/to/She/hard/marks/score/good/the/in/exam
e) explosion/is the/mankind today/threatening/population/gravest problem