These AP 8th Class English Important Questions 8th Lesson will help students prepare well for the exams.
AP Board 8th Class English 8th Lesson Important Questions and Answers
SECTION – A
READING COMPREHENSION
Question No. 1
Read the following passage and answer the questions.
1. Yesterday afternoon the leopard lifted a dog from near the servants’ quarter below the school. In theevening it attacked one of Bijju’s cows but fled at the approach of Bijju’s mother, who came screaming imprecations.
As for the leeches, I shall soon get used to a little bloodletting every day.
a) Which lifted a dog? When did it lift?
Answer:
The leopard lifted. It lifted yesterday afternoon.
b) Where did it lift the dog? Was it successful in killing the dog?
Answer:
If lifted the dog near the servants’ quarter below the school. Yes, it was successful.
c) What did the leopard attack? When did it do it?
Answer:
It attacked one of Bijju’s cows. It attacked the cow in the evening.
d) Did it kill the cow? If not, why didn’t it kill the cow?
Answer:
No, it did not kill the cow. Because it had to flee at the approach of Bijju’s mother.
e) How did the mother come? Pick out the word that means ‘curses’.
Answer:
The mother came screaming imprecations.; ‘imprecations’.
2. All night the rain has been drumming on the corrugated tin roof. There has been no storm, no thunder, just the steady swish of a tropical downpour. It helps me to lie awake; at the same time, it doesn’t keep me from sleeping.
a) How long did it rain? How is the roof?
Answer:
It rained all night. It is a corrugated tin roof.
b) Which has been drumming? Where has it been drumming on?
Answer:
The rain has been diumming. It has been drumming on the corrugated tin roof.
c) Who does ‘me’ refer to? What helps the person to lie awake?
Answer:
‘me’ refers to the author Ruskin Bond. The steady swish of a tropical downpour helps him lie awake.
d) Which doesn’t keep whom? From which doesn’t it keep the person?
Answer:
The rain doesn’t keep the author. It doesn’t keep him from sleeping.
e) Are there storms or thunders? Pick out the word that means ‘rain’.
Answer:
No, there are no storms or thunders, ‘downpour’ means ‘rain’.
3. Other new arrivals are the scarlet minivets (the females are yellow), flitting silently among the leaves like brilliant jewels. No matter how leafy the trees these brightly coloured birds cannot conceal themselves, although, by remaining absolutely silent, theysometimes contrive to go unnoticed.
a) What are the other new arrivals? Are the males and the females in the same colour?
Answer:
The scarlet minivets. No, they are not in the same colour.
b) Where are the minivets? How are they like?
Answer:
They are among the leaves of the tree. They are like brilliant jewels.
c) Why can the minivets not conceal themselves?
Answer:
Because they are brightly coloured.
d) How are they remaining? What does ‘scarlet’ mean?
Answer:
They are remaining absolutely silent, ‘scarlet’ means ‘blood-red’ colour.
e) What colour are the males in? What colour are the females in?
Answer:
Males are in scarlet colour. Females are in yellow colour.
4. The rain stops. The clouds begin to break up, the sun strikes the hill on my left. A woman is chopping up sticks. I hear the tinkle of cowbells. In the oak tree, a crow shakes the raindrops from his feathers and caws disconsolately.
a) Which break up? What does the sun do?
Answer:
The clouds break up. The sun strikes the hill on the author’s left.
b) Who is chopping up the sticks? Why does the sun strike the hill?
Answer:
A woman is chopping up the sticks. The sun strikes the hill because the rain has stopped.
c) Who hears? What does the person hear?
Answer:
The author Ruskin Bond hears. He hears the tinkle of cow bells.
d) Where is the crow? What does it do?
Answer:
The crow is in the oak tree. It shakes the rain drops from his feathers and caws.
e) Pick out the word that means ’unhappily’. What does the word ‘chopping’ mean?
Answer:
‘disconsolately’ means ‘unhappily’, ’chopping’ means ’cutting’.
5. Snakes and rodents, flooded out of their holes and burrows, take shelter in roofs, attics and godowns. A shrew, weak of eyesight, blunders about the rooms,much to the amusement ot the children.
“Don’t kill it,” admonishes their grandmother. “Chuchundars are lucky — they bring money!”
And sure enough, I receive a cheque in the mail.
a) Where do snakes and rodents take shelter in?
Answer:
They take shelter in roofs, attics and godowns.
b) Why do they take shelter in roofs, attics and godowns?
Answer:
Because their holes and burrows were flooded and they found these places safe for them to live in.
c) Which is much to the amusement of the children?
Answer:
A shrew’s blundering about the rooms
d) Why does it blunder about the rooms?
Answer:
It blunders because of its weak eyesight.
e) What does the grandmother say? Why does she say?
Answer:
The grandmother says that chuchun-dars should not be killed. She says that because chuchundars are lucky – they bring money.
Question No.2
Read the following lines and answer the following questions.
1. The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
a) What does the poet mean by ‘the poetry of earth’?
Answer:
’The poetry of earth’ means music of birds and it is constant.
b) Why do the birds hide in trees?
Answer:
They hide in trees because of heat.
c) Whose voice is mentioned in the given stanza?
Answer:
The ’voice’ mentioned is the voice of a grasshopper.
d) Pick out the word that means ‘freshly cut’.
Answer:
‘New-mown’
e) Which flies from hedge to hedge?
Answer:
Grasshopper
2. And seems to one in drowsiness half lost;
The grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.
a) Why is one lost in drowsiness?
Answer:
One is lost in drowsiness because of the bad weather.
b) Which sings the given lines?
Answer:
A cricket sings the given lines.
c) What does the cricket’s song seem like?
Answer:
The cricket’s song seems to be lost in half drowsiness.
d) Pick out the word that means ‘half asleep’.
Answer:
’Drowsiness’
e) What does the cricket’s shrill may appear, to a drowsing person?
Answer:
To a drowsing person, the cricket’s shrill may appear as the grasshopper’s whirl coming from grassy hills.
3. The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stone there shrills
The cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever.
a) Which is constant?
Answer:
The poetry of earth
b) Why is the winter evening ‘lone’?
Answer:
It is because there is silence all around.
c) What does the cricket’s song do?
Answer:
The cricket’s song breaks winter’s depression.
d) Pick out the word that means ‘ending’.
Answer:
‘ceasing’
e) Where does a shrill sound come from?
Answer:
It comes from the stones.
4. That is the grasshopper’s — he takes the lead
In summer luxury — he has never done
With his delights, for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
a) What does the word ‘that’ in the first line refer to?
Answer:
‘That’ refers to the voice.
b) In which season is the grasshopper happy?
Answer:
It is happy in summer.
c) What does ‘the grasshopper has never done’ mean?
Answer:
It means he is never constant.
d) Pick out the word that means ’pleasures’.
Answer:
‘delights’
e) What does the grasshopper do when tired with fun?
Answer:
When tired with fun, he rests beneath some pleasant weed.
Question No.3
Read the following passage and answer the following questions.
1. My mouth watered, but I wasn’t about to be swept away so easily. In schooll was among the most promising students. In the fourth standard exams, I had even won a scholarship of four rupees a month. Besides, I came from a particularly well-to-do family.
a) Who is the speaker?
Answer:
The school boy Munna
b) What was the speaker in school?
Answer:
He was among the most promising students.
c) In which exams had he won the scholarship?
Answer:
In the fourth standard exams
d) From which family did he come?
Answer:
He came from a well-to-do family.
e) What did his mouth water for?
Answer:
His mouth watered for jalebis.
2. I went up to the signal and returned, smiling. But I could not find the courage to pick up the rock. What if the coins were not there? But then, I thought, what if they were?
Finally after saying bismillah, when I lifted up the rock, this big hairy worm got up.
a) Who does ‘I’ refer to?
Answer:
‘I’ refers to Munna.
b) Why did he go up to the signal?
Answer:
He went up to the signal so that God would secretly put four rupees under the rock.
c) How did he return?
Answer:
He returned, smiling.
d) Did he find the coins?
Answer:
No, he did not find the coins.
e) What did he find?
Answer:
He found a big hairy worm.
3. He offers to play a game with Allah Miyan. The game was that he would go to the signal, God should put four rupees under a big rock, he would touch the signal and come back. It would be a great fun to find four rupees under the rock.
a) What does he offer?
Answer:
He offers to play a game with Allah Miyan.
b) Who should put four rupees?
Answer:
God should put four rupees.
c) Where should the four rupees be put?
Answer:
They should be put under a big rock.
d) What would be a great fun?
Answer:
Finding four rupees under the rock
e) When would he come back?
Answer:
He would come back after touching the signal.
4. Munna went to school the next day. He found that the scholarship had not come that day. It would come next month. Master Ghulam Mohammed had announced that he would take the fees during the recess. But when the recess bell rang, Munna left the school. On the way he prayed to God to arrange 4 rupees for him.
a) What did Munna find the next day?
Answer:
He found that the scholarship had not come that day.
b) Who is Master Ghulam Mohammed?
Answer:
He is Munna’s teacher to whom Munna had to pay the fees.
c) What did Master Ghulam announce?
Answer:
He announced that he would take the fees during the recess.
d) Munna left the school. Why?
Answer:
Because he could not pay the fees and so the teacher would keep him standing on the bench.
e) What did he pray to God?
Answer:
He prayed to God to arrange four rupees for him.
5. The rupiyas went on persuading him to eat jalebis. So he rushed out of the house barefoot to eat jalebis. He ran towards the bazaar. He told the halwai to give him a rupee worth of jalebis.
a) What did the rupiyas persuade him to do?
Answer:
They persuaded him to eat jalebis.
b) Were they successful in their persuasion?
Answer:
Yes, they were.
c) Why did he rush out of the house?
Answer:
He rushed out to eat jalebis.
d) Who was the halwai?
Answer:
The halwai was the jalebi seller.
e) What did he tell the halwai?
Answer:
He told the halwai to give him a rupee worth of jalebis.
Question No.4
1. Read the following passage and answer the following questions.
Mrs Janaki is a Social Studies te&cher. One day she came a bit late to the class. She brought into the class the brilliant red and black checked rumals, shawls with black and blue geometric patterns, with her. The material made the class vibrant. She wrote on the blackboard ‘Textiles of India – ‘Ikat’ of Telangana. ‘Ikat’ means to bind’ or ‘knot’. She made them know the name ‘Pochamapalli’, a village in Nalgonda district in connection with ‘Ikat’ – A ‘handloom’ is a hand operated loom which waves fabrics of different colours.
a) What did the teacher Janaki bring into the class?
Answer:
the brilliant red and black checked rumals, shawls with black and blue geometric patterns
b) Define a ‘handloom’.
Answer:
A ‘handloom’ is a hand operated loom which weaves fabrics of different colours.
c) Mrs Janaki is a ______ teacher. (iii)
i) Science
ii) Mathematics
iii) Social Studies
Answer:
iii) Social Studies
d) Choose the correct statement in the following. (i)
i) Pochampalli is a village in Nalgonda district.
ii) Because of the fabrics that the teacher had brought into the class, the class became dull.
iii) The teacher wrote ‘Ikat’ of Gujarat, on the blackboard
Answer:
i) Pochampalli is a village in Nalgonda district.
e) Which is connected to handloom fabrics? (ii)
i) Nalgonda
ii) Pochampalli
iii) Palakollu
Answer:
ii) Pochampalli
2. In the old age homes, trained staff can assist the old people. They can be kept clean and fed well. Proper medical care is provided. Old age homes have special medical facilities for senior citizens such as mobile health care systems, ambulances, nurses and provision of well-balanced meals. Apart from food, shelter and medical amenities, the entertainment and library facilities are also available for them. These homes create a family-like atmosphere among the residents. Senior citizens live peacefully.
a) What special medical facilities for senior citizens are provided by the old age homes?
Answer:
Special medical facilities such as mobile health-care systems, ambulances, nurses and provision of well-balanced meals are provided.
b) Apart from food, shelter and medical amenities, what facilities do senior citizens get at old age homes?
Answer:
They get entertainment and library facilities.
c) Senior citizens live in _______ . (iii)
i) anxiety
ii) frustration
iii) peace
Answer:
iii) peace
d) Choose the correct statement. (ii)
i) In the old age homes untrained staff assist the senior citizens.
ii) These homes create a family-like atmosphere among the residents.
iii) Entertainment and library facilities are not available in the old age homes.
Answer:
ii) These homes create a family-like atmosphere among the residents.
e) Senior citizens are _______. (iii)
i) kept clean only
ii) kept unfed
iii) kept clean and fed well
Answer:
iii) kept clean and fed well
Question No.5
1. Study the table given and answer the questions.
Marks secured by students in all the subjects in the Pre-Public examinations
a) Who got the highest marks in English?
Answer:
Both T. Sitarama Kalyani and K. Nagalakshmi got 97 marks, the highest marks in English.
b) How many more marks has Krithin got than Ayaasya, in Telugu?
Answer:
In Telugu K. Krithin has got three marks more than Ayaasya has.
c) How many marks has Guruvardhan secured in Mathematics? (iii)
i) 96
ii) 98
iii) 99
Answer:
iii) 99
d) Choose the true statement. (ii)
i) Venkata Najasamma has got more marks than Anjaneyulu in Telugu.
ii) Ayaasya &nd Guruvardhan have got equal marks in Hindi.
iii) Nagalakshmi has got as many marks as Sitarama Kalyani has got, in Mathematics.
Answer:
ii) Ayaasya &nd Guruvardhan have got equal marks in Hindi.
e) Who has got the highest total marks? (i)
i) Krithin
ii) Anjaneyulu
iii) Satya Goutham
Answer:
i) Krithin
SECTION – B
CREATIVE WRITING
Question No.6 & 7
6. a) After some days of the happening to Munna, one of his close friends asked why it happened for Munna unable to pay the fee in time and he was able to pay it later. Munna told him all about it.
Write a possible conversation between Munna and his Mend Sai.
Answer:
Sai : Hai, Munna.
Munna : Hai, Sai.
Sai : Munna, I would like to ask you something.
Munna : What’s that?
Sai : Why weren’t you able to pay the fees in time?
Munna : Because of a grave mistake, I wasn’t able to do it.
Sai : Let me know that.
Munna : One who hears it will think of me a fool and so I don’t like to disclose it.
Sai : I don’t think so, as I know you are smart.
Munna : O.K. I’ll tell you. But don’t tell it to anyone else.
Sai : Certainly not.
Munna : As our teacher concerned to take the fees was on leave, I was going home with the money in my pocket.
Sai : O.K.
Munna : On my way I found fresh jalebis being sold by the halwai.
Sai : Then?
Munna : My mouth watered for them.
Sai : Did you buy and eat them?
Munna : No. I thought I should not spend the four rupees as it is meant for the fees.
Sai : Next?
Munna : I went home.
Sai : When that money was not spent, why didn’t you give it to our teacher the next day?
Munna : Listen ! When I went to bed, jalebis swang in my mind and so I rushed out for them. I spent all the money and got the julebis for that.
Sai : You must have got many jalebis. Did you eat them all?
Munna : How could one eat them all?
Sai : Then what did you do?
Munna : I ate some and I distributed the remaining to all those boys who surrounded me for them.
Sai : So what?
Munna : The next day, I came to know that my scholarship of four rupees hadn’t come and it would be received next month.
Sai : So?
Munna : I was terribly afraid that our teacher would keep me standing on the bench’if I didn’t pay him the fees.
Sai : What did you do, then?
Munna : I came out of the school during the recess time.
Sai : Later?
Munna : I payed to God to give me that amount but failed.
Sai : How could you thinkt’hat God would give you?
Munna : ‘You’re right. I realized that God would not do that as his granting all the asking by man would keep the man lazy and unaware of the work.
Sai : How were you able to pay the fees, later?
Munna : I sincerely told my parents what I had done.
Sai : Did they beat you or curse you?
Munna : No. They are kind enough to understand my problem positively and so they gave me the amount for the fees.
Sai : So you paid it next day.
Munna : Yes.
Sai : O.K. Thank you for telling me all.
b) Having found no rupees under the rock, Munna felt sad. Later he understood why God had not kept four rupees under it. He realized that man would forget the value of work if he goi everything he asked God for. He went back to his house. That night he remembered his experience near the railway track.
Imagine yourself to be Munna and write that diary entry.
Answer:
11 June, 20xx
Monday
9 p.m.
Dear Diary,
Today I went back to the railway track and reached the signal as I had done the previous day. I hoped that God would certainly keep four rupees under the rock before I touched the signal and come back to the rock. I touched the signal and came back to the rock. But when I lifted the rock, I found that same hairy worm there. It was staring at me. I felt sad. I thought why God hadn’t kept the four rupees under it. I realized the fact after undergoing a deep thought about it.
I realized that man would forget the value of work if God granted him everything he asked for. I decided not to repeat such mistake. I returned home and told my parents sincerely all that happened. They understood me positively. The next morning they gave me four rupees and asked me to pay the fees. I felt happy. They also gave me a letter that was meant for my teacher. They asked the teacher, in that letter, to excuse me for not paying the fees in time.
At school, I gave my teacher both the fees amount and the letter. He took the money and read the letter. He did not curse me nor beat me. He simply said O.K. That evening I returned home happily.
Munna
7. a) Write a biographical sketch of Florence Nightingale, using the details given below.
Name : Florence Nightingale
Year of birth : 1820
Places of birth : Florence, Italy
Family background : – Very rich parents
– Florence grew up in England
– Nursed the villagers and sick animals around her home
Aim : Wanted to become a nurse against her parents’ wishes
Her services : – After becoming a nurse, started a nursing home for women in 1853.
– heard of wounded British soldiers in Crimean war
– went to the main hospital at Scutari in Turkey
– washed the hospital clean
– served the soldeirs well
– walked by the beds night after night carrying an oil lamp
– spoke to some and smiled at others
– was made inspector of all the hospitals in Crimea
– worked for more than 50 years to improve nursing
Title : Soldiers loved her and called her the ‘Lady with the Lamp’.
Death : 1910 after having saved thousands of lives
Answer:
A Biographical Sketch of Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy in 1820 to very rich parents. But she grew up in England. Ever since she was a child, she had nursed the villagers and sick animals.
Florence wanted to become a nurse. Her parents did not agree with her. But she did not change her mind. At last she started a nursing home for women in 1853. A year later she heard of the wounded British soldiers in Cremean war.
Florence went to Scutari, the main hosphital in Turkey. The hospital was not in good condition. She kept the hospital clean with the help of other nurses. She dressed the wounded and comforted the dying. Night after night carrying an oil lamp, she walked by the beds. She spoke to some and smiled at others. She was made inspector of all hospitals in Crimea. She worked for more than 50 years to improve nursing.
The soldiers loved her and called her the ‘Lady with the Lamp’. She died in 1910 after having saved thousands of lives.
d) Write a story using the hints given below.
A crow – living happily – in its nest – on tree – a snake – living – under same tree – eats – crow’s eggs – in its absence – crow sad – plans to save eggs – from snake – one day – a princess bathing – in pond – nearby – places necklace – on ground – crow sees it – takes it with beak – flies away – king’s soldiers – chase it – crow come to the tree –
drops necklace – into snake’s hole – soldiers – dig hole – snake comes out – soldiers kill snake – take necklace – moral.
Answer:
A Crow and a Snake
Once a crow was living happily in its nest on a tree. A snake was living under the foot of the tree.
The cruel snake ate away the eggs of the crow in its absence. So the crow was sad. It planned to save her eggs from the snake.
One day a princess was bathing in the pond nearby. She placed her necklace on the ground. The crow saw it and took it with its beak while she was bathing. The crow flew away with the necklace.
The king’s solderis chased it. The crow came to the tree and dropped the necklace into the hole of the snake. The soldiers dug the hole. The snake came out. They killed the snake and took the neckalce.
Moral: Bad deeds are harmful.
SECTION – C
VOCABULARY
Question No.8
Choose the words with similar meaning (synonyms) from the list given to the words underlined.
1. [hide, covers, very sad, fog, rising, stop chattering]
The first day of monsoon mist (a). And it’s strange how all the birds fall silent (b) as the mist corpfes climbing (c) up the hill, perhaps that’s what makes the mist so melancholy (d).
Answer:
a) fog
b) stop chattering
c) rising
d) very sad
2. [announced, ran away, picked up, curses,, coming, shouting]
In the evening it attacked one of Bijju’s cows but fled (a) at the approach (b) of Bijju’s mother, who came screaming (c) imprecations (d).
Answer:
a) ran away
b) coming
c) shouting
d) curses
3. [insect-eaters, damp, wafit, shining, fast, grabbing]
A tree-creeper moves rapidly (a) up the trunk of the oak tree, snapping (b) up insects all the way. Now that the rains are here, there is no dearth (c) of food for the insectivorous (d) birds.
Answer:
a) fast
b) grabbing
c) want
d) insect-eaters
4. [falls, sodden, moving up and down, valley, walk, not dry]
We haven’t seen the sun for eight or nine days. Everything damp (a) and soggy (b). No where to go. Pace (c) the room, look out of the window at a few bobbing (d) umbrellas.
Answer:
a) not dry
b)sodden
c) walk
d) moving up and down
5. [a flower, inclined planes, creating, stony, appear, show]
Ground orchids, mauve lady’s slipper (a) and the white butterfuly orchids put on a fashion display (b) on the grassy slopes (c) of Landour. Wild dahlias, red, yellow and magneta, rear their heads (d) from the rocky crevices where they have taken hold.
Answer:
a) a flower
b) show
c) inclined plane
d) appear
6. [real, raises, a type of, dale, aloofness, gives]
The mist affords (a) a certain (b) privacy (c).
A school boy asked me to describe the hill station and valley (d) in one sentence, and all I could say was : ‘A paradise.ihat might have been’.
Answer:
a) gives
b) a type of
c) aloofness
d) dale
Question No.9
Write the words opposite in meaning (antonyms) to the words underlined.
1. It is a good (a) sound to read (b) by the rain outside (c), the quiet (d) within.
Answer:
a) bad
b) write
c) inside
d) noise
2. The first (a) cobra lily is seen with the arrival (b) of the monsoon. When its seeds begin (c) to turn red, it is an indication that the rains are over (d).
Answer:
a) last
b) departure
c) end
d) on /still
3. Yesterday (a) afternoon (b) the leopard lifted a dog from near (c) the servants’ quarter below (d) the school.
Answer:
a) tomorrow
b) forenoon
c) far
d) above
4. Endless (a) rain, and a permanent (b) mist. We haven’t seen the sun for eight or nine days. Everything (c) damp and soggy. Nowhere (d) to go.
Answer:
a) ended / endful
b) temporary
c) nothing
d) everywhere
5. It’s strange (a) how all the birds fall silent (b), as the mist comes (c) climbing up (d) the hill.
Answer:
a) common / familiar
b) noisy
c) goes
d) down
Question No.10
Fill in the blanks with the right form of the words given in brackets.
1. The blackest cloud I’ve ever seen ______ (a) (squat / squatted / squatting) over Mussoorie, ______ (b) (or / but / and) then it hailed marbles for half an hour. Nothing like ______ (c) (an / a / the) hailstorm to clean the sky. Even as I write, I see a rainbow ______ (d) (forming / formed / form).
Answer:
a) squatted
b) and
c) a
d) forming
2. In the oak tree, a crow shakes the raindrops ______ (a) (with / on / from) his feathers and caws ______ (b) (disconsolately / disconsolating / disonsolate) water ______ (c) (drips / dripped / drip) from ______ (d) (a / an / the) leaking drainpipe.
Answer:
a) from
b) disconsolately
c) drips
d) a
3. After ______ (a) (an / a / the) evening hailstorm, the sky ______ (b) (or / and / but) hills are ______ (c) (suffusing / suffuse / suffused) with a beautiful ______ (d) (golden / gold / goldenly) light.
Answer:
a) an
b) and
c) suffused
d) golden
4. All night the rain ______ (a) (has been drumming / has drummed / is drumming) on the corrugated tin roof. It helps me to lie ______ (b) (awoke / awoken / awake) at the same time, ______ (c) (he / it / they) doesn’t ______ (d) (keep /keeps / kept)-me from sleeping.
Answer:
a) has been drumming
b) awake
c) it
d) keep
5. The sound of the rainfall ______ (a) (with / on / from) the tin roof ______ (b) (pleased / pleasing / pleases) the author. One is ______ (c) (untouching / untouched / untouches) and ______ (d) (so / yet / if) in touch with the rain.
Answer:
a) on
b) pleases
c) untouched
d) yet
Question No.11
a) Complete the following words using ai, ie, ei, ea, ee, ae, iou, ou, au, ae, oo.
1. 1) A short (i) mons_ _n (ii) d_ _ry.
2) Only an (i) h_ _r ago, the (ii) tr_ _s were ringing with bird song.
3) (i) The mist cone_ _ls the hills.
(ii) I can h_ _r him.
4) Water drips from a (i) I_ _king (ii) dr_ _n pipe.
5) It is a (i) g_ _d (ii) s_ _nd.
Answer:
1) i) monsoon ii) diary
2) i) hour ii) trees
3) i) conceals ii) hear
4) i) leaking ii) drain
5) i) good ii) sound
2. 1) (i) cert_ _n (ii) r_ _dy
2) (i) cr_ _per (ii) insectivor_ _s
3) (i) scr_ _ming (ii) d_ _thly
4) (i) p_ _se (ii) m_ _ve
Answer:
1) i) certain ii) ready
2) i) creeper ii) insectivorous
3) i) screaming ii) deathly
4) i) pause ii) mauve
b) Fill in the blanks with the suffixes given in brackets.
1. i) I can hear him run ____. (ing /ning)
ii) His mother came screaming impreca ____. (tions / ssions)
Answer:
i) running
ii) imprecations
2. i) the move ____(mant / ment) in the open
ii) a crow shakes the raindrops from his feath ____(ors / ers)
Answer:
i) movement
ii) feathers
3. i) the rain out ____(side / cide)
ii) a tropi ____(cle / cal) downpour
Answer:
i) outside
ii) tropical
4. i) She is chop ____(ine / Ding) up sticks.
ii) a perman ____(ant / ent) mist
Answer:
i) chopping
ii) permanent
5. i) vigo ____(rous / ras)
ii) favou ____(rite /rate”)
Answer:
i) vigorous
ii) favourite
6. i) simi ____(ler / lar)
ii) direct ____(for /er)
Answer:
i) similar
ii) director
7. i) explana ____(tion / ssion)
ii) tradi ____(shion / tion)
Answer:
i) explanation
ii) tradition
c) One word in the set given below is wrongly spelt. Rewrite it correctly in the spaace provided.
1. i) thril, absolute, thread, edcuate
ii) border, create, efect, origin
Answer:
i) thrill
ii) effect
2. i) continue, imagin, excite, intersect
ii) partial, fabrics, design, patern
Answer:
i) imagine
ii) pattern
3. i) favourite, measure, comprehenshon, phrase
ii) decided, knot, bless, knowlege
Answer:
i) comprehension
ii) knowledge
4. i) companion, starvation, excelent, carefully
ii) assistent, arrived, uniform, neighbour
Answer:
i) excellent
ii) assistant
Question No.12
Put the following words under correct headings.
1. [coins, boy, poet, author, rupees, jalebis, mist, writer]
| Living beings | Non-living beings |
| 1) boy | 1) coins |
| 2) poet | 2) rupees |
| 3) author | 3) jalebis |
| 4) writer | 4) mist |
2. [asleep, drowsiness, describing, disappear, restart, statement, depression, immature]
| Prefixes | Suffixes |
| 1) asleep | 1) drowsiness |
| 2) disappear | 2) describing |
| 3) restart | 3) statement |
| 4) immature | 4) depression |
3. [capital, director, town, room, teacher, restaurant, ortar, preacher]
| Persons | Places |
| 1) director | 1) capital |
| 2) teacher | 2) town |
| 3) orator | 3) room |
| 4) preacher | 4) restaurant |
4. [chopping up, downpour, minivets, creeper, shakes, scream, rears, privacy]
| Verbs | Nouns |
| 1) chopping up | 1) downpour |
| 2) shakes | 2) minivets |
| 3) scream | 3) creeper |
| 4) rears | 4) privacy |
5. [famous, disconsolately, suddenly, permanent, endless, now, babbing, soon]
| Adjectives | Adverbs |
| 1) famous | 1) disconsolately |
| 2) permanent | 2) suddenly |
| 3) endless | 3) now |
| 4) bobbing | 4) soon |
Question No.13
a) Fill in the blanks using the correct words choosing from the list given below.
1. [flooded, rocky, weak, rear, crevices, blunders, amusement]
Snakes and rodents, ______ (i) out of their holes and burrows, take shelter in roofs, attics and godowns. A shrew, ______ (ii) of eyesight, ______ (iii) about the rooms, much to the ______ (iv) of the cildren.
Answer:
i) flooded
ii) weak
iii) blunders
iv) amusement
2. [mist, menace, holds, starts, drenched, loneliness, pause]
As I ______ (i) near a window, the rain stops. And ______ (ii) again.
And the trees, no longer green but grey, ______ (iii) me with their ______ (iv).
Answer:
i) pause
ii) starts
iii) menace
iv) loneliness
3. [awake, steady, rapidly, snapping, drumming, dearth, downpour]
All night the rain has been ______ (i) on the corrugated tin roof. There has been no storm, no thunder, just the ______ (ii) swish of a tropical ______ (iii). It helps me to lie ______ (iv).
Answer:
i) drumming
ii) steady
iii) downpour
iv) awake
4. [rears, heralded, genuine, seem, ferns, paradise, first]
The plants ______ (i) to know it too, and the ______ (ii) cobra lily ______ (iii) its head from the ______ (iv).
Answer:
i) seem
ii) first
iii) rears
iv) ferns
b) Use the following in sentences of your own.
1. a) drummed
b) dripped
Answer:
a) When the teacher announced that sweet news, we all drummed on our desks.
b) The water was dripping onto the floor from the roof.
2. a) swish
b) tinkle
Answer:
a) My friend heard the swish of a snake when he stood near the compound wall and at once he ran away in fear.
b) I heard the tinkle of the bell that a cyclist outside my house was making.
3. a) big enough
b) kind.enough
Answer:
a) The hall was big enough for conducting the staff-meeting in.
b) Go and ask him because he is kind enough to help you.
4. a) foolish enough
b) serious enough
Answer:
a) You are foolish enough to follow his advice which makes you a laughing-stock.
b) The patient’s condition is serious enough to keep in ICU.
SECTION – D
GRAMMAR
Question No.14
Read the following passage and correct the parts underlined. Rewrite the corrected parts in the space provided.
1. Chennakesava Sarma why (a) is my friend Sravan’s father leave (b) for Piduguralla yesterday, by (c) some personal work. They (d) will be back here tomorrow.
Answer:
a) who
b) left
c) on
d) He
2. Parameswari was an (a) ten-year old girl. She sowed tomato seeds into (b) the kitchen garden. They grows (c) into little plants after a few days. She looked after the plants very good (d).
Answer:
a) a
b) in
c) grew
d) well
3. Srikanth and Aditya are cousins. All (a) are good on (b) studies. Srikantah likes cricket or (c) Aditya likes playing chess. Both helped (d) their mothers in their house-hold works.
Answer:
a) Both
b) at
c) but
d) help
4. Child Rights and You (CRY) is an organization that believed (a) that children are citizens but (b) they have their own rights. The role of CRY is that with (c) a bridge between child development organisations and people working for marginalising (d) children.
Answer:
a) believes
b) and
c) of
d) marginalised
5. At the top of the table, seating (a) in an armchair rather highly (b) than the rest, was a fat gentleman on (c) a very round, red face.
The boy brushed away two and (d) three tears that were lingering in his eyes.
Answer:
a) seated
b) higher
c) with
d) or
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. My best friend is Kallem Krithin. He _______ (1) me _______ (2) helps me always. He is _______ (3) always. _______ (4) can tackle a problem easily.
1) A) support B) supports C) supported D) supporting
2) A) and B) but C) or D) otherwise
3) A) cheering B) cheered C) cheerfully D) cheerful
4) A) We B) He C) They D) I
Answer:
1) B 2) A 3) D 4) B
2. As a young apprentice architect, British poet _______ (1) novelist Thomas Hardy once _______ (2) a parish _______ (3) supervise the restoration of a church. On _______ (4) return from the Darish. DeoDle noticed two things bout him.
1) A) and B) but C) yet D) or
2) A) visit B) visits C) visiting D) visited
3) A) for B) on C) to D)into
4) A) their B) his C) him D) he
Answer:
1) A 2) D 3) C 4) B
3. One day Hanuman walked a _______ (1) mile. He found _______ (2) crooked coin against a crooked stile _______ (3) bought a crooked cat _______ (4) caught a crooked mouse.
1) A) crooking B) crook C) crooked D)crooks
2) A) the B) an C) a D) many
3) A) They B) He C) His D) We
4) A) which B) who C) whom D) where
Answer:
1) C 2) C 3) B 4) A
4. A young man named Ayaasya stood at _______ (1) gate of a house. Nagalakshmi who was _______ (2) something inside the house saw _______ (3) and came _______ (4) him.
1) A) a B) an C) some D) the
2) A) write B) writing C) written D) wrote
3) A) him B) her C) them D) us
4) A) for B) into C) to D) of
Answer:
1) D 2) B 3) A 4) C
5. Depending _______ (1) another person’s power _______ (2) property _______ (3) not promise Deace and _______ (4) in the long run.
1) A) on B) by C) with D) from
2) A) or B) and C) but D) yet
3) A) do B) does C) did D) are
4) A) secure B) secured C) secures D) security
Answer:
1) A 2) A 3) B .4) D
Question No.16
a) Put the verbs in the brackets into their proper form. An example has been given.
Ex : The traffic _______ (stop). Some people _______ (sit) on the road and they _______ (shout) slogans.
Answer:
The traffic stopped. Some people were sitting on the raod and they were shouting slogans.
1. I _______ (a) (go) to the playground. Some children _______ (b) (play) volleyball and some others _______ (c) (run) round the playground.
Answer:
a) went
b) were playing
c) were running
2. My father _______ (a) (come) into the house. My mother _______ (b) (cook) and I _______ (c) (read) a lesson.
Answer:
a) came
b) was cooking
c) was reading
3. The train _______ (a) (arrive). People _______ (b) (get) into the compartments. A child in the hands of its mother _______ (c) (cry).
Answer:
a) arrived
b) were getting
c) was crying
4. The new teacher _______ (a) (enter) the classroom. Some children _______ (b) (dance) and some others _______ (c) (sing).
Answer:
a) entered
b) were dancing
c) were singing
b) Fill in the blanks in the following sentences using simple past or past continuous form of the verb given in the brackets.
1. 1) The train _______ (a) (come) onto the platform when it _______ (b) (rain).
2) you not _______ (a) (run) when I _______ (b) (see) you?
Answer:
1. a) came b) was running
2. a) Were, running b) saw
2. 1) While she _______ (a) (water) the plants, he _______ (b) (paint) a picture.
2) A boy _______ (a) (throw) a stone piece at the dog which _______ (b)(bark).
Answer:
1. a) was watering b) was painting
2. a) threw b) was barking
3. 1) When you _______ (a) (notice) the snake. it _______ (b) (move) into that hole?
2) He _______ (a) (drive) the car fast as some men _______ (b) (chase) it with long sticks in their hands.
Answer:
1. a) noticed b) was, moving
2. a) drove b) were chasing
4. 1) Last Sunday Guruvardhan _______ (a) (return) from Hyderabad and Nagalakshmi _______ (b) (go) to Hyderabad.
2) He not _______ (a) (complete) the work then as he _______ (b) (suffer) from fever.
Answer:
1. a) returned b) went
2. a) did, complete b) was suffering