CBSE Class 7 English Question Paper Set E

CBSE Class 7 English Question Paper Set E. You can download the past year question papers in pdf format with solutions from the links below. The students should practice the question papers of last year which will help them to understand the pattern on the papers and will help them to practice for the exams. You can download the question papers for last 10 years free by clicking links below. Refer to the extract below and download the full pdf file of question papers below.

         SECTION A: READING

1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Art and Literature of the highest type cannot flourish in a world where men are increasingly becoming machines and society a rocket. The works of our famous literary men are hard and objective, forceful and penetrating. By submitting to scientific modes of thinking, they help improve our knowledge and sharpen our sensibility. But they fail to provide us with an affirmation of the meaning of life, an enchantment of invisible mystery, which is the sanction of the value. They suffer from a secret sterility, as the seeds of creative life are not deposited in them. There is a fundamental difference between Science and Art. The creative artist deals with the solitary side of human life, where each individual works out his unique vision. In regard to scientific invention, we feel that they could be replaced. That America devised the atom bomb is an accident. Britain, Russia, Germany, or even Japan, could have done it. If Columbus would not have lived, America would still have been discovered. If Vasco - da -Gama had not routed the cape and opened a sea-route to India, someone else would have done it. But if Kalidas had not lived, there would have been no Abhijnan Shakuntalam. Without Shakespeare, there would have been no Hamlet. These geniuses took up themes from earlier literatures and impregnated them with their own intensity, masterpieces of literature and miracles of art are irreplaceable in an absolute sense, for they are the products of a unique union of the universe with the personality of their authors. The union has existed only once, and yet has universal authority. There are institutes for scientific research, but we cannot have institutes for training poets and prophets. For science is a co-operative enterprise, the work of many minds, while art is the work of a solitary genius.

a.) Why can’t art and literature flourish in the world?

b.) What is the fundamental difference between science and art?

c.) Complete the following sentences :

i.) America was discovered by __________________________

ii.) Scientific invention and discoveries can be__________________________.

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