Model Question -4 | English | Class 8 | Question & Answer | Grammar

 Model Question - 4 || English || Class 8  || Question & Answer || Grammar

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Model Question - 4

Class VIII

 

 

Reading Comprehension (Seen)

 

1. Read the following text and answer the questions given below:

There was once a lad who wanted to be a sailor but his mother would not let him go to the sea. "Child, what do you know of sailing?" she would say. "You're a farmer's son, you know the turn of the seasons and the smell of the soil but you do not know the sea."

Now the boy whose name was Jon, had always obeyed his mother. So he went about his farm work with a heavy heart but did not again mention the sea.    

 

A. Answer the following questions :

(i) What did the lad want to be ?

Ans.> The lad wanted to be a sailor.

 

(ii) What did his mother tell him ?

Ans.> As a farmer’s son he knows the turn of the seasons and the smell of the soil but he does not know the sea.

 

(iii) What did the lad do then ?

Ans.> The boy went about his farm work with a heavy heart.

 

(iv) What was the name of the lad?

Ans.> The name of  lad was Jon. 

 

(v) What is the title of the text ?

Ans.> The title of the text is ‘The Wind Cap’.

 

Reading Comprehension (Unseen)

 

2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:

The shoe-maker was a good man, but was very poor. One day he had just one piece of leather left. He could make only one pair of shoes with it. He had no money to buy any more. He cut out the leather. Then he went to bed. In the morning he got up from his bed. He saw that the leather had been made into shoes. He had no servants. Who had done the work? The shoes were very well-made. A man came in and bought the shoes. He paid a good price for them. The shoe-maker bought leather for four pair of shoes with that money.

A. Answer the following questions :

(i) What sort of a man was the shoe-maker?

Ans.> The shoe-maker was a good man but he was very poor.

 

(ii) What did the shoe-maker do with his one piece of leather ?

Ans.> The shoe-maker made only one pair of shoes with it.

 

(iii) Why did the shoes fetch a good price?

Ans.> The shoes were very well-made.

 

Grammar

 

3. Fill in the following blanks with appropriate articles :

 (i) Rice sells at ten rupees ------ kilo.

Ans.> Rice sells at ten rupees a kilo.

 

(ii) -------kindness of Vidyasagar is well-known.

Ans.> The kindness of Vidyasagar is well-known.

(iii) Metre is ----- unit of length.

Ans.> Metre is a unit of length.

 

(iv) Do you have ------- one-rupee note ?

Ans.> Do you have a one-rupee note ?

 

(V) He is ------- European.

Ans.> He is a European.

 

(vi) The sun rises in ------ east.

Ans.> The sun rises in the east.

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