One tunnel, three times
Outside, inside, aboard.
Suraj meets the same stretch of line three times and stands somewhere different each time. That is the story.
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The Tunnel · Class 7 English · Poorvi
English 3 topics 105 leveled MCQs 51 flashcards 5 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Why he is at the cutting
He is not catching it.
He cycles out of town and walks over a hill to watch a train come out of a hole in a hill.
How he sees the engine
A dragon out of his dreams.
Green, black and gold, snorting, showering sparks. Twelve-year-olds do not see locomotives.
Heard before seen
A whistle, then thunder.
Nothing important in this story is seen before it is heard. A sound is a guess; a sight is the answer.
A machine made alive
Green, black and gold.
The engine snorts, puffs, showers sparks and roars a challenge. Bond never calls it fast.
The leopard, announced
Like cutting a branch.
A rhythmic sawing in the dark. Regular, so it sounds like work, and it is coming from inside a hill.
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1
Three Passes Through One Tunnel
A boy cycles out of town to watch a steam engine come out of a tunnel, walks through the tunnel himself, and meets the watchman who calls it his own. This topic follows the three times the same train passes, and where Su…
- Suraj is not catching a train. He cycles out of town and walks over a hill to watch one come out of a tunnel.
- He walks into the tunnel for one reason only: he wants to know what the inside of a tunnel is really like.
- Sunder Singh calls the tunnel his own, lent to the Government, and the leopard his own, which he does not lend.
~33 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
A Jungle You Can Hear
Almost everything in this story reaches a reader as a sound: thunder in a hillside, a sawing in the dark, a hum in the rails. This topic names the sounds, works out what each one is doing, and turns the method into a par…
- Suraj knows the train is coming before he can see it, from a whistle and then a sound like distant thunder.
- The leopard announces itself as a rhythmic sawing, as if somebody were cutting through a branch.
- The last arrival is felt rather than heard: the rails begin to hum, and he puts his hand on one.
~32 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Would, Used To, and Two Marks
The watchman’s whole routine is written with one word: would. This topic separates that use from the two commoner ones, sets it against used to, and then takes up the colon and the semicolon, which tell a reader how far…
- Would has three common uses: a polite request, a wish, and a habit in the past. This chapter needs the third.
- The watchman’s routine is all would: he would walk the tunnel, would wave the flag, would return to his hut.
- Used to also marks a regular past action, and adds that it does not happen any more.
~31 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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105 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Suraj is at the cutting but is not catching a train. What does that tell a reader at once?
Intermediate
A that he has come for the engine itself
B that the station is further up the line
C that he lives nearby
D that he has missed the one he wanted
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that he has come for the engine itself
He cycles out of town and walks over a hill to watch, which nobody does by accident.
Bond tells the reader plainly that the inside of the tunnel holds nothing worth looking at, which seems an odd thing to say. He says it because
Advanced
A because the watchman has already inspected it that day
B because wanting to know is reason enough for Suraj
C because the smoke has not cleared
D because the tunnel turns out to be dangerous later on
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because wanting to know is reason enough for Suraj
The emptiness is the point: he walks through to find out what it is like, not to find something.
Suraj never says the engine frightened him, and the story shows it another way instead. Showing it without saying it is that he
Intermediate
A he looks back towards the opening
B he turns and walks away
C he steps back without deciding to
D he shades his eyes with one hand
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he steps back without deciding to
Instinctively, says Bond, which means the feet moved before the boy did.
Sunder Singh says he has lent the tunnel to the Government. What is he claiming?
Advanced
A that he built the tunnel himself, years ago
B that the care of it is his and nobody else’s
C that the Government pays him rent for it
D that he can close the tunnel if he likes
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that the care of it is his and nobody else’s
It is truly his, he says, since nobody else cares for it at all.
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