These AP 8th Class English Important Questions 7th Lesson will help students prepare well for the exams.
AP Board 8th Class English 7th Lesson Important Questions and Answers
SECTION – A
READING COMPREHENSION
Question No. 1
Read the following passage and answer the questions.
1. Stephen Hawking is a worthy successor to Isaac Newton, whose Chair he has at the university.
And I started, because I had forgotten that this most brilliant and completely paralysed astrophysicist, the author of A Brief History of Time, one of the biggest sellers ever, lived here.
a) Who is Hawking a successor to? Where does he have his Chair?
Answer:
He is a successor to Isaac Newton. He has his Chair at the Cambridge University.
b) Who does T refer to? Who was completely paralysed?
Answer:
‘I’ refers to the author Firdaus Kanga. Stephen Hawking was completely paralysed.
c) What was Stephen Hawking? Who was the most brilliant, as mentioned in the passage?
Answer:
He was a great astrophysicist. Stephen Hawking was the most brilliant man.
d) Is Stephen a worthy successor to Newton? Is the author a disabled man?
Answer:
Yes, he is.
Yes, the author is a disabled man.
e) What is one of the biggest sellers? Who was its author?
Answer:
The book ‘A Brief History of Time’; Stephen Hawking.
2. When the walking tour was done, I rushed to a phone booth and phoned Stephen Hawking’s house. There was his assistant on the line and I told him that I had come in a wheelchair from India to write about my travels in Britain. I had to see Professor Stephen Hawking – even ten minutes would do.
a) Who was ‘I’? When did he rush to a phone booth?
Answer:
The author Firdaus Kanga. He rushed to it when the walking tour was done.
b) Whose house did he phone? Who did he talk to, over the phone?
Answer:
He phoned the house of Stephen Hawking. He talked to his assistant.
c) Where did he come from? How did he come?
Answer:
He came from India. He came in a wheelchair.
d) Where did he come? Why did he come?
Answer:
He came to England. He came there to write about his travels in Britain.
e) Who wanted to see whom? How much time did he want?
Answer:
The writer Firdaus Kanga wanted to see Stephen Hawking. He wanted at least ten minutes time.
3. Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest scientists of our time. He suffers from a form of paralysis that confines him to a Wheelchair, and allows him to ’speak’ only by punching buttons on a computer. Firdaus Kanga is a writer and journalist who lives and works in Mumbai. Kanga was born with ’brittle bones’. He moves around in a wheelchiar.
a) Who is Stephen Hawking? What does he suffer from?
Answer:
He is one of the greatest scientists of our time. He suffers from a form of paralysis.
b) How has it affect him? Can Hawking speak like a normal man?
Answer:
It confines him to a wheelchair. No, he cannot.
c) How does he speak? From which lesson is this passage taken?
Answer:
He speaks only by punching buttons on a computer. The passage is taken from A Visit to Cambridge’.
d) What is Firdaus Kanga? Where does he live?
Answer:
Firdaus Kanga is a disabled man. He is a writer and a journalist. He lives in Mumbai.
e) What was he born with? How does he move around?
Answer:
He was born with ‘brittle bones’. He moves around, in a wheelchair.
4. “Is there any advice you can give disabled people, something that might help make life better?”
“They should concentrate on what they are good at; I think things like the disabled Olympics are a waste of time.”
a) Who asked for whose advice?
Answer:
Firdaus Kanga asked for the advice of Stephen Hawking.
b) Who should the advice be given to? What kind of advice is sought?
Answer:
It should be given to the disabled people. It should make life better.
c) “They should concentrate……..” Who should concentrate? What should they concentrate on?
Answer:
The disabled people. They should concentrate on what they are good at.
d) Did the person give him the advice? Who does T refer to?
Answer:
Yes, he gave him. T refers to Stephen Hawking.
e) What are a waste of time?
Answer:
Things like the disabled Olympics are a waste of time.
5. I kept quiet because I felt guilty every time I spoke to him, forcing him to respond.
“A lot of people seem to think that disabled people are chronically unhappy.” I said.
“I know that’s not true myself. Are you often laughing inside?”
a) “I spoke to him.” Who does T refer to? Who does ‘him’ refer to?
Answer:
‘I’ refers to Firdaus Kanga. ‘him’ refers to Stephen Hawking.
b) Who kept quiet? Why did he do it?
Answer:
Firdaus Kanga kept quiet. He did it because he felt guilty.
c) Why did he feel guilty every time?
Answer:
He felt guilty because every time he spoke to him, he had to force him to respond.
d) How many people seem to think? What do they think?
Answer:
A lot of people seem to think. They think that disabled people are chronically un-happy.
e) What does the speaker ask Hawking?
Answer:
The speaker asks Stephen Hawking if he is often laughing inside.
Question No.2
Read the following lines and answer the questions.
1. When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away,
The rime was on the spray;
And starlight lit my lonesomeness
a) What is Lyonnesse?
Answer:
Lyonnesse is an imaginary name of a country in the legends.
b) Who is the poet?
Answer:
The poet is Thomas Hardy.
c) How were the leaves?
Answer:
The leaves were covered with frost.
d) How did the poet feel?
Answer:
The poet felt depressed.
e) Which was a hundred miles away?
Answer:
Lyonnesse was a hundred miles away.
2. When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred rrfiles away.
What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there,
a) What was the poet thinking of?
Answer:
The poet was thinking of the events that might happen at Lyonnesse during his visit there.
b) Where was the poet going to stay?
Answer:
He was going to stay at Lyonnesse.
c) What was the poet’s thought while going there?
Answer:
While going there, his thought was of the chance happenings at Lyonnesse.
d) Find the word that means ‘happen’.
Answer:
‘bechance’
e) Who set out for Lyonnesse?
Answer:
The poet Thomas Hardy
3. When I returned from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes,
All marked with mute surmise
My radiance rare and fathomless.
a) From which poem are these lines taken?
Answer:
The lines are taken from the poem ‘When I Set out for Lyonnesse’.
b) Who does ‘I’ refer to?
Answer:
I refers to the poet, Thomas Hardy.
c) Where did the speaker return from?
Answer:
from Lyonnesse
d) How did the speaker return?
Answer:
with magic in his eyes
e) Pick out the word that means ‘glow’.
Answer:
radiance
4. My radiance rare and fathomless,
When I returned from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes.
a) What is Lyonnesse?
Answer:
Lyonnesse is a country mentioned in Arthurian legends. This was located in South West England and is supposed to have been submerged in the sea.
b) What was there in his eyes?
Answer:
There was magic in his eyes.
c) Why was there magic in his eyes?
Answer:
It was because there was deep radiance in his eyes which made his eyes enchanting.
d) What is uncommon?
Answer:
The radiance in his eyes was uncommon.
e) Pick out the word that means ‘so deep that the depth can’t be measured’.
Answer:
‘fathomless’
5. No prophet durst declare;
Nor did the wisest wizard guess
What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there.
a) Where was the poet going to stay?
Answer:
He was going to stay at Lyonnesse.
b) What does the word ‘sojourn’ mean?
Answer:
‘stay’
c) Who is a wizard?
Answer:
A wizard is a magician.
d) What could a prophet not do?
Answer:
A prophet could not predict what might happen at Lyonnesse.
e) Who did not guess?
Answer:
The wizard did not guess.
Question No.3
Read the following passage and answer the questions.
1. “You may wonder why we keep that window wide open on an October afternoon,” said the niece, indicating a large French window that opened on to a lawn.
a) Who may wonder?
Answer:
Framton Nuttel may wonder.
b) What may surprise the person?
Answer:
Their keeping the window wide open on an October afternoon
c) Name the month mentioned in the passage.
Answer:
October
d) Who is the niece?
Answer:
Vera is the niece.
e) Where did the window open on to?
Answer:
It opened on to a lawn.
2. “I hope you don’t mind the open window,” said Mrs Sappleton briskly; “my husband and brothers will be home directly from shooting, and they always come in this way.”
a) Who does ‘you’ refer to?
Answer:
‘You’ refers to Framton Nuttel.
b) What does the speaker hope?
Answer:
She hopes that Frampton doesn’t mind the open window.
c) Pick out the word that means ‘quickly’.
Answer:
‘briskly’
d) Who always come in that way?
Answer:
Mrs Sappleton’s husband and brothers
e) For which have they gone out?
Answer:
They have gone out for shooting.
3. “He told me he had a horror of dogs. He was once hunted into a cemetery somewhere on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of dogs, and had to spend the night in a newly ‘dug grave.”
a) Who told whom?
Answer:
Framton Nuttel told Vera.
b) What did the person tell?
Answer:
The person told her that he had a horror of dogs.
c) Which hunted him?
Answer:
A pack of dogs hunted him.
d) Where did he have to spend the night?
Answer:
He had to spend the night in a newly dug grave.
e) Name the river mentioned in the passage.
Answer:
The Ganges
4. It was a relief to Framton when the aunt bustled into the room with a Whirl of apologies for being late in making her appearance.
“I hope Vera has been amusing you?” she said.
“She has been very interesting,” said Framton.
a) What was the relief?
Answer:
Mrs Sappleton’s coming into the room.
b) Who was the aunt?
Answer:
Mrs Sappleton
c) Who was Vera?
Answer:
Vera was the niece of Mrs Sappleton.
d) Why does she express a whirl of apologies?
Answer:
for being late in making her appearance
e) Who has been interesting?
Answer:
Vera has been interesting.
5. In the deepening twilight three figures were walking across the lawn towards the window, they’all carried guns under their arms,
a) Who were the three figures?
Answer:
They were Mrs Sappleton’s husband and two brothers.
b) Where were they walking?
Answer:
They were walking across the lawn towards the window.
c) What did they carry?
Answer:
They carried guns.
d) Pick out the word that means ‘dull light’.
Answer:
‘twilight’
e) Why were they walking towards the window?
Answer:
Since they had to come in through that window, they were walking towards the window.
Question No.4
Read the following passage and answer the questions.
1. As evening fell, the fair came to an end. The villagers dispersed as early as they had gathered. There were no traffic jams, no policemen to control mischief-makers and no voluntary agencies to look after the missing children. Everybody in the village knew one another and there was no fear of loneliness. This show of brotherhood among the villagers deserves to be followed by city-dwellers.
a) When did the fair come to an end?
Answer:
It came to an end as the evening fell.
b) Who would control mischief-makers?
Answer:
Policemen would control them.
c) There was no fear of _______. (iii)
i) policemen
ii) mischief-makers
iii) loneliness
Answer:
iii) loneliness
d) Who would look after the missing children? (i)
i) voluntary agencies
ii) policemen
iii) city-dwellers
Answer:
i) voluntary agencies
e) Choose the correct statement. (ii)
i) There were no traffic jams but mischief-makers.
ii) City dwellers should follow the brotherhood seen among the villagers.
iii) City dwellers should follow the methods of mischief-makers.
Answer:
ii) City dwellers should follow the brotherhood seen among the villagers.
2. Joseph was fourteen years old. He left his widowed mother and three younger sisters back in Bihar. He took up a long travel of hundreds of miles to find a new future. He reached Hyderabad, one of the main cities in India. Finding a job was not an easy task. Cursed by hunger, he joined a group of ragpickers.
a) Who did Joseph leave, back in Bihar?
Answer:
Joseph left his widowed mother and three younger sisters back in Bihar.
b) Why did he take up a long travel?
Answer:
He took it up to find a new future.
c) Joseph left ______. (ii)
i) Hyderabad
ii) Bihar
iii) Patna
Answer:
ii) Bihar
d) Why did he join a group of ragpickers? (i)
i) as he was suffering from hunger
ii) as he felt he could get more money by joining them
iii) as he liked doing rag picking
Answer:
i) as he was suffering from hunger
e) Choose the correct statement. (iii)
i) Joseph reached Bihar to find a new future.
ii) Joseph’s mother and sisters sent Joseph out as he was a mischief-maker.
iii) Finding a job was not an easy task.
Answer:
iii) Finding a job was not an easy task.
Question No.5
1. Study the following tree diagram.
a) What are the two parts of a sentence showed in the diagram?
Answer:
Main clause and sub-clause
b) What is this diagram about?
Answer:
This diagram is about the parts in a sentence.
c) How many clauses are there? (i)
i) two
ii) three
iii) four
Answer:
i) two
d) Object is a part of ……….. (iii)
i) subject
ii) verb
iii) predicate
Answer:
iii) predicate
e) Which of the following sentences is true according to the information given in the diagram? (iii)
i) There is no verb in a sentence.
ii) There is main clause in a sentence.
iii) There is a verb in every predicate.
Answer:
iii) There is a verb in every predicate.
SECTION – B
CREATIVE WRITING
Question No.6 & 7
6. a) Framton Nuttel was ready to leave for the countryside. Then his sister came and talked to him.
Write a possible conversation between Framton and his sister.
Answer:
Framton Nuttel : Sister, I want to spend a week’s time in the countryside.
His sister : Why?
Framton Nuttel : The doctor advised me to be in the countryside for a week so that I could have a complete recovery from my nervousness.
His sister : But you know, brother, there may not be many people in the country-side.
Framton Nuttel : So what?
His sister : There being a few people, I am afraid your condition may become worse.
Framton Nuttel : But, you know I am suffering from nervous-ness and I need a full recovery.
His sister : Yes, I know your condi-tion.
Framton Nuttel : What should I do now?
His sister : I want you to think it over, well.
Framton Nuttel : I’ve made up my mind to be there.
His sister : O.K. You proceed as you like. But I would like to do something for you.
Framton Nuttel : What’s that?
His sister : I know some people there as I have recently been to that place.
Framton Nuttel : So?
His sister : I’ll give you letters of introduction about yourself to people who I know.
Framton Nuttel : What should I do with those letters?
His sister : In them, I’ll mention the names and address of those people.
Framton Nuttel : Then?
His sister : You can meet them and hand over them the letters so that you can have a pleasant chat with them and get your-self cured of your illness.
Framton Nuttel : It’s a good thing and I’ll follow it.
His sister : Here are those letters. Take them. Have a nice journey.
Framton Nuttel : O.K. Bye, sister.
His sister : All the best! Bye.
b) Mrs Sappleton was shocked to find Framton Nuttel leave her house abruptly when her husband and brothers were coming.
She expressed the feelings she had then in her diary.
Now write that diary entry by Mrs Sappleton.
Answer:
6 July, 20xx.
Wednesday 9 p.m
Dear Diary,
Today something strange and interesting happened in my house. Mr Framton Nuttel whose sister I know came to meet me. I was then upstairs. I was busy with some work and so I could not make my presence before him at once. Luckily, my niece Vera who is talkative and can please the guest with her nice talk was there. She talked to him until I came down to meet him.
I apologized to him for being late. Then I showed him the open window and told him that my husband and two brothers who had gone out for shooting with the dog into the marsh, would come back through that large open window. I observed him looking at the window anxiously. I couldn’t understand the cause of his anxiety. Later instead of listening to what was saying, he began telling about himself. I understand he is interested only in telling about himself but not in others’ matter.
When I saw my husband and brothers coming along with the dog towards the window, I cried happily. Then he turned and looked at them. At once, he rushed out. I don’t know the cause of that sudden action. I felt sorry because he had said neither sorry nor goodbye while leaving. I am doubtful if he thought of the men to be ghosts. My niece told me that he was afraid of the dog that was coming along with the men as he had a fobia of dogs.
Mrs Sappleton
7. a) Framton Nuttel wanted to write a letter to his sister explaining all that had happened in Mrs Sappleton’s house.
Imagine yourself to be Framton Nuttel and write the letter.
Answer:
|
Pendine Street, Dear Sister, You know well the purpose of my staying in the countryside. You have given me letters of introduction to people who you know here and ask me to meet them to have some pleasant talk with them so that I come out of jny nervousness soon. As such, yesterday I went to the house of Mrs Sappleton. By the time I entered the hall of her house, she was upstairs and so I had to wait for her for sometime. But luckily, there I saw her niece, Vera. On being asked who I am, I told her about myself and my purpose of coming to that house. She is a very interesting girl. But instead of telling me something that amuses, she asked me to look at a large open window. She told me that some tragedy had happened in that house. She said that three years back, the husband and two brothers of Mrs Sappleton had gone out through that large open window for hunting some birds with their dog. But they had never returned home. It was understood that they were swallowed up by the marsh. Later Vera told me that Mrs Sappleton did not believe them to be dead. Instead, she said that the men would surely come back. They would come back through that large open window and so she kept that window open every evening till it was dark. I agreed with Vera to her opinion that they were dead. Later Mrs Sappleton came to me. She said that the window was kept open because her husband and brothers would soon come back through that window along with their dog. I wondered how she was able to say that as they were dead. After sometime, she suddenly cried out that the men were coming across the lawn towards the window with the dog following them. That frightened me and 1 turned and looked. I saw the men coming towards the window. I was afraid that they were ghosts. So, immediately I rushed out of her house with all my strength. Yours affectionately, |
b) Write a script for a speech on the position of the disabled people in the society, keeping in mind the great personalities who were disabled but managed to reach the high/ remarkable positions.
Answer:
Respected headmistress, respected teachers and my dear friends ! Good morning to all of you. I feel very happy to stand before you for expressing my views on the position of the disabled people in the society.
It is unfortunate to note that most people think that the disabled people are sufferes of unhappiness in life. But I don’t agree with them. In fact, though they are disabled, they have some special abilities which normal people do not have. Their willpower is great. They never seek the sympathy of others. With strong determination they are able to reach considerable heights in life. You might have come across some instances regarding this. I would like to mention some. There were the disabled like Helen Keller, Sudha Chandran, Nick Vujicic and Stephen Hawking who stood inspiration to the other disabled people. Their lives would astonish everyone of us.
Stephen Hawking suffered from a form of paralysis that confined him to a wheelchair. What he spoke would be in the form of a computer. But he became a great astrophysicist. Sudha Chandran had her leg amputated after she had met with a road accident. But with a strong will-power, she was able to come back to the world of Bharatanatyam with an artificial leg. She gave splendid performances all over the world with her Jaipur foot. Nick Vujicic is a torso. But he has become a great motivational speaker. He could swim, write and pick up things and lead a normal life. So my sincere appeal is – never discourage the disabled. Support them.
Thank you all for providing me with this opportunity.
SECTION – C
VOCABULARY
Question No.8
Choose the words with similar meaning (synonyms) from the list given to the words underlined.
1. [entirely, strange, position, able, inheritor, crippled]
Stephen Hawking is quite disabled (a) now, though he is a worthy (b) successor (c) to Isaac Newton, whose Chair (d) he has at the university.
Answer:
a) crippled
b) able
c) inheritor
d) position
2. [deputy, breaking up, productively, obtaining, actuality, option]
Surely, I wanted to say, living creatively (a) with the reality (b) of his disintegrating (c) body was a choice (d)?
Answer:
a) productively
b) actuality
c) breaking up
d) option
3. [idle, hard, floating, unsuccessful, dead bodies, severe distress]
And sitting opposite him I could feel his anguish (a), the mind buoyant (b) with thoughts that came out in frozen phrases and sentences stiff (c) as corpses (d).
Answer:
a) severe distress
b) floating
c) hard
d) dead bodies
4. [irritating, to support, at fault, gay, came out instantly, riduculing]
He responded, “I find it amusing (a) when people patronise (b) me.”
“And do you find it annoying (c) when someone like me comes and disturbs you in your work?”
The answer flashed (d) “Yes”.
Answer:
a) ridiculing
b) to support
c) irritating
d) came out instantly
5. [pay attention on, no use, avoided, energetically, removed the strings, joyously]
They should concentrate (a) on what they are good at; I think things like the disabled Olympics are a waste (b) of time.
How gleefully (c) I had unstrineed (d) it one night!
Answer:
a) pay attention on
b) no use
c) joyously
d) removed the strings
Question No.9
Write the words opposite in meaning (antonyms) to the words underlined.
1. The only thing that makes you stronger (a) is seeing somebody like (b) you, achieving something huge (c). Then (d) you know it.
Answer:
a) weaker
b) unlike
c) small
d) now
2. There was a choice (a). He had refused (b) to lead a dull (c) life of an inactive (d) disabled person.
Answer:
a) compulsion
b) agreed
c) bright
d) active
3. He felt that he had met the greatest and best (a) disabled (b) person on earth. The writer (c) expressed his gratitude (d) to Stephen Hawking.
Answer:
a) worst
b) abled
c) reader
d) ingratitude
4. The question (a) made the writer feel sorry (b). Others’ admiration (c) of Hawking’s living (d) could not console him.
Answer:
a) answer
b) happy
c) blame
d) dying
5. ‘And I started (a) because I had quite forgotten (b) that this most brilliant and completely (c) paralysed astrophysicist lived (d) here.
Answer:
a) stopped
b) remembered
c) incompletely
d) died
Question No.10
Fill in the blanks with the right form of the words given in brackets.
1. It was ______(a) (strange / strangeness / strangely) that when I ______(b) (leave / leaving / left), it had became ______(c) (altogether / altogetherly / altogetherness) ______(d) (something else / nothing else / anything else).
Answer:
a) strange
b) left
c) altogether
d) something else
2. I ______(a) (tells / tell / told) him ______(b) (why / what/ how) he had been an ______(c) (inspiring / inspiration/ inspired) beyond cliche for me and, surely, for others – did the ______(d) (thinking / thoughtfully / thought) help him?
Answer:
a) told
b) how
c) inspiration
d)thought
3. It was a ______(a) (disadvantageous / disadvantageous^ / disadvantage) of his voice ______(b) (synthesised / synthesiser / synthesising) that it could ______(c) conveyed / conveys / convey) no ______(d) (inflectioned / inflection / inflectioning).
Answer:
a) disadvantage
b) synthesiser
c) convey
d) inflection
4. The voice ______(a) (advise / advising / advised) the disabled to ______(b) (concentrate / concentrates / concentrating) on what they are ______(c) (best / better / good) at. They should try ______(d) (everything / something / nothing) beyond it.
Answer:
a) advised
b) concentrate
c) good
d) nothing
5. The writer felt thdt the disabled got fed up with people ______(a) (asked / asking / ask) them to be ______(b) (bravery / brave / bravely) They got ______(c) (strong / stronger / strongest) on seeing somebody like them, ______(d) (achieving / achieved / achieve) something.
Answers
a) asking
b) brave
c) stronger
d) achieving
Question No.11
a) 1. Complete the following words using ia, ie, ei, ee, ea, io, ou, ue, oi, ae, oo, ai.
1. i) The computer voice repl_ _d.
ii) He wanted to s_ _ him.
Answer:
i) replied
ii) see
2. i) It had a greater app_ _l for him.
ii) At last he wh_ _led out.
Answer:
i) appeal
ii) wheeled
3. i) The v_ _ce agreed fully.
ii) He has his Ch_ _r at the university.
Answer:
i) voice
ii) chair
4. i) Tell me the best thing about b_ _ng disabled.
ii) The interv_ _w began.
Answer:
i) being
ii) interview
5. i) He answered that q_ _stion.
ii) I want your opin_ _n.
Answers
i) question
ii) opinion
2. 1. i) ment_ _ned
ii) posit_ _n
Answer:
i) mentioned
ii) position
2. i) m_ _ning
ii) f_ _nd
Answer:
i) meaning
ii) found
3. i) earl_ _r
ii) brill_ _nt
Answer:
i) earlier
ii) brilliant
4. i) ach_ _ve
ii) f_ _lings
Answer:
i) achieve
ii) feelings
5. i) Pr_ _f
ii) sp_ _ch
Answer:
i) proof
ii) speech
b) 1. Complete the following words with the suffixes given in the brackets.
1. They were philosophi___ (a) (call / cal). He paid full atten___ (b) (ssion/ tion).
Answer:
a) philosophical
b) attention
2. I want to climb something high___ (a) (or/ er) than this. Don’t be particul___ (b) (ar / er).
Answer:
a) higher
b) particular
3. He advi___ (a) (ced/ sed) them. I want to have your advi___ (b) (ce / se).
Answer:
a) advised
b) advice
4. Itisaskelet___ (a) (an/on). She is beauti___ (b) (full/ful).
Answer:
a) skeleton
b) beautiful
5. Say wheth___ (a) (or / er) it is right. I admire brav___ (b) (ary / ery).
Answer:
a) whether
b) bravery
2.1. i) viol___ (ence/ance)
ii) desper___ (ate / ete)
Answer:
i) violence
ii) desperate
2. i) composi___ (tion/ shion)
ii) use___ (ful/full)
Answer:
i) composition
ii) useful
3. i) cour___ (ege / age)
ii) lugg___ (age / ege)
Answer:
i) courage
ii) luggage
4. i) appren___ (tis/ tice)
ii) narrat___ (or / er)
Answer:
i) apprentice
ii) narrator
5. i) mainten___ (ence / ance)
ii) train___ (er / or)
Answer:
i) maintenance ii) trainer
c) One word in the set given below is wrongly spelt. Rewrite it correctly in the space provided.
1. i) isue, basin, purpose, operation
ii) matter, exsite, certain, tremble
Answer:
i) issue
ii) excite
2. i) metaphar, journey, advice, console
ii) successer, chair, altogether, entirely
Answer:
i) metaphor
ii) successor
3. i) refered, crippled, figurative, amuse
ii) unstringed, grining, dodged, glare
Answer:
i) referred
ii) grinning
4. i) incandecence, accessory, synthesiser, inflection
ii) inspiration, cliche, admiration, irrelevent
Answer:
i) incandescence
ii) irrelevant
5. i) annoying, sentimental, patranise, corpses
ii) propelled, assistent, reality, guilty
Answer:
i) patronise
ii) assistant
6. i) embadiment, glare, rumbling, gleefully
ii) frustrated, taping, exhaustion, anguish
Answer:
i) embodiment
ii) tapping
Question No.12
Put the following words under correct headings.
1. [bad-tempered, industrious, cruel, miserly, generous, cheerful, haughty, polite]
| Positive Qualities | Negative Qualities |
| 1) industrious | 1) bad-tempered |
| 2) generous | 2) cruel |
| 3) cheerful | 3) miserly |
| 4) polite | 4) haughty |
2. [wheelchair, niece, aunt, bowl, ladle, Saucer, assistant, master]
| Persons | Things |
| 1) niece | 1) wheelchair |
| 2) aunt | 2) bowl |
| 3) assistant | 3) ladle |
| 4) master | 4) saucer |
3. [unstringed, rumbling, inflection, disadvantage, irrelevant, sentimental, chronically, impolite]
| Prefixes | Suffixes |
| 1) unstringed | 1) rumbling |
| 2) disadvantage | 2) inflection |
| 3) irrelevant | 3) sentimental |
| 4) impolite | 4) chronically |
4. [corpses, reality, annoying, brave, beautiful, inspiration, glimpse, poisonous]
| Adjectives | Nouns |
| 1) annoying | 1) corpses |
| 2) brave | 2) reality |
| 3) beautiful | 3) inspiration |
| 4) poisonous | 4) glimpse |
Question No.13
a) Use ‘all’ or ‘both’ in the blanks in the following sentences.
1. 1. ______ of you should do it.
2. ______ Raju and Ravi can swim.
Answer:
1) All
2) Both
2. 1. Look at the two boys. ______ are disabled.
2. ______ the ten students got A grade marks.
Answer:
1) Both
2) All
b) Fill in the blanks with the right form of the adjective given in brackets.
1. 1. Rose is the ______ (beautiful) flower.
2. India is ______ (powerful) than Pakisthan.
Answer:
1) most beautiful
2) more powerful
2. 1. You are short but he is ______ . (tall)
2. Hyderabad is the ______ city in Telangana. (large)
Answer:
1) tall
2) largest
SECTION – D
GRAMMAR
Question No.14
Read the following passage and correct the parts underlined. Rewrite the corrected parts in the space provided.
1. Ekalavya was a Bhil child. He loves (a) the forest. He learnt to climbed (b) trees but (c) hunt animals. He was never afraid for (d) anything.
Answer:
a) loved
b) climb
c) and
d) of
2. Parents brings up (a) their children with all their love but (b) care. They want them to been (c) in good positions. He (d) work hard for their future.
Answer:
a) bring up
b) and
c) be
d) They
3. Krithin is smart. He is good in (a) Mathematics. He can solve the problems gave (b) by her (c) teacher. But (d) the teacher likes him.
Answer:
a) at
b) given
c) his
d) So
4. Ayaasya is on (a) class VIII. He had (b) many friends. He listens to.the stories telling (c) by his grandfather interested (d).
Answer:
a) in
b) has
c) told
d) interestingly
5. Balu is a poor man. He lives in the (a) hut with their (b) wife but (c) children. His income was (d) low.
Answer:
a) a
b) his
c) and
d) is
Question No.15
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given below. Each blank is numbered and four choices are given. Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B) (C) or (D) in the blank.
1. Shah Jahan gathered ______ (1) best artists and architects ______ (2) India, Turkey, Persia ______ (3) Arabia to design the building. It then ______ (4) more than twenty thousand men working over a period of 18 years to build the Taj Mahal.
1) A) a B) the C) an D) some
2) A) in B) since C) to D) from
3) A) also B) and C) but D) so
4) A)took B)taken C) takes D) take
Answer:
1) D 2) D 3) B 4) A
2. Spiders are found in almost every part ______ (1) the world. Most soiders live only ______ (2) year. ______ (3) food is mainlv insects. SDiders ______ (4) in size.
1) A) of B) in C) from D) over
2) A) a B) the C) an D) some
3) A) They B) Their C) Our D) His
4) A) differ B) differs C) differed D) differing
Answer:
1) A 2) A 3) B 4) A
3. People lead ______ (1) very busy life in the present society. They ______ (2) like machines. They even don’t find time ______ (3) sit together. They forget ______ (4) families.
1) A) the B) an C) some D) a
2) A) works B) work C) worked D) working
3) A) to B) for C) with D) at
4) A) our B) your C) their D) my
Answer:
1) D 2) B 3) A 4) C
4. Prasanthi was ______ (1) home. On her way, she found ______ (2) old than sitting ______ (3) the gate of a house. The man looked rather ______ (4) so she took out an apple from her bag and gave it to him.
1) A) return B) returns C) returned D) returning
2) A) an B) the C) some D) a
3) A) on B) at C) to D) with
4) A) hunger B) hungry C) hungrily D) thirsty
Answer:
1) D 2) A 3) B 4) B
5. Sai Mahadeva ______ (1) for Guntur yesterday with his parents Nagalakshmi and Gouthami ______ (2) see his grandmother, Sitarama Kalyani. He will celebrate ______ (3) birthday there. His uncle Guruvardhan has bought ______ (4) expensive wrist watch for him.
1) A) leave B) leaves C) leaving D) left
2) A) to B) for C) on D) by
3) A) their B) his C) him D) theirs
4) A) a B) an C) the D) some
Answer:
1) D 2) A 3) B 4) B
Question No.16
a) Fill in the blanks in the following sentences using the right form of the adjective given in brackets.
1. 1) Hanuman is the _________ boy in the class, (tall)
2) The Godavari is _________ than the Krishna, (long)
Answer:
1) tallest
2) longer
2. 1) She is as _________ as the rose. (beautiful)
2) Mount Everest is the _________ peak in the world, (high)
Answer:
1) beautiful
2) highest
3. 1) It is an _________ creature. (ugly)
2) The well is very _________ .(deep)
Answer:
1) ugly
2) deep
4. 1) The position of Ayaasya is _________ than that of Venkateswarlu. (good)
2) Days are _________ in summer than in autumn. (hot)
Answer:
1) better
2) hotter
5. 1) I am not _________ than Krithin is. (intelligent)
2) This is the _________ film I have ever seen, (good)
Answer:
1) more intelligent
2) best
b) Fill in the blanks in the sentences below using the right form of the verb given in brackets.
1. 1) It _______ since morning, (rain)
2) _______ you _______ him yesterday? (meet)
Answer:
1) has been raining
2) Did, meet
2. 1)If I _______ (save) enough money, I would have sent my son to the U.S.A. for his M.S. Degree.
2) Before he went to bed, he _______ (finish) his homework.
Answer:
1) had saved
2) had finised
3. 1) Honesty _______ (be) the best policy.
2) Don’t be lazy when you _______ (be) alone.
Answer:
1) is
2) are
4. 1) Look ! They _______ (fight)
2) Oh ! You are late. The train _______ (leave) the platform just now.
Answer:
1) are fighting
2) has left
5. 1) If Lakshmi Soubhagyam studied well, she _______ (get) A grade marks.
2) Scarcely the teacher had entered the class when the students _______ (bid) good morning.
Answer:
1) would get
2) bade
c) Underline the stressed syllables in the following words.
1. 1) encouragement 2) encounter 3) driver
2. 1) excited 2) generation 3) degree
3. 1) magazine 2) maturity 3) neither
4. 1) otherwise 2) polite 3) savage
5. 1) resolution 2) resident 3) urgent
6. 1) spelling 2) together 3) twilight
Answer:
1. 1) en’couragement 2) en’counter 3) ‘driver
2. 1) ex’cited 2) gene’ration 3) de’gree
3. 1) maga’zine 2) ma’turity 3) ‘neither
4. 1) ‘otherwise 2) po’lite 3) ‘savage
5. 1) reso’lution 2) ’resident 3) ‘urgent
6. 1) ‘spelling 2) ’together 3) ‘twilight