CLASS
: VIII SUBJECT: ENGLISH - REVISION FOR
HALF-YEARLY 2019
GRAMMAR AND READING
PASSAGE
Q1.
The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line.
Write
the incorrect word and the correct word as given in the example:
Incorrect Correct
1.1
All life on earth can ultimately is
ex. is be
traced back on the sea.Creatures (a)
………… …….
with
limbs or fingers rather than
(b) ………… ……..
fins has evolved from fishes (c) ………… ……..
about 335 million years before, (d)
………….. ………
which remain a mystery. (e)
…………… ………..
1.2.There
is often things wrong with Ex. is are
our school.Time and again we had (a) …………… ………….
seen which a good teacher (b) …………… ………….
with desire as care (c) …………… ………….
can get over all difficulties is produce
(d) ………….. ………….
great student. (e)
…………… …………..
1.3
Her mother said that you must go straight to
Ex. you she
your grandmother. There was a wolf (a) …….. ……………
in the wood through which she are (b) …….. …………….
going.But if she keep the road, he (c) ………
…………….
will not do any harm.
The mother (d)
……… …………….
asked her to do as she tells her. (e) ……… …………….
1.4
Garbage is an great environmental hazard.
Ex. an a
It comes from various sources. It makes
a (a) ………. ……………..
premises ugly but breeds diseases. A lot
of (b) ……….. …………….
trash who is thrown away contains
materials (c) ………… …………….
that can be recycled and reused. They
also (d) ………… ……………
contains organic matter.
Q.2.
Rearrange the jumbled words and phrases into meaningful sentences:
a) dislike travelling/ as it/by
sea/makes them/some people/sea-sick
b) to walk/ a long way/is /ten miles
c) his father/a farm/a bank/in/ on /works/
he /and
d) one/one’s/keep/should/promise
e) Kerala/cultivation/famous/is/for
coconut
f) last Sunday/the/to see/went/I/
Baisakhi fair
g) had come/ their goods/tradesmen from
far and near/ to sell
Q.3.Do
as directed:
a) Fill in the blank with
the correct form of the verb in the bracket.
i) The bell ____ (ring)
before I reached the school.
ii) When I reached home, my
uncle and aunt ………….. (leave).
iii) The classes ……..
(begin),when they reached the centre.
iv) By the time I ………………(reach). , they …………………….(fall) asleep.
b)Fill in the blank with the noun form of the verb given in the bracket.
1. They were filled with ___(relieve) when
their names were announced for the final round.
2. I need your
………………..(guide) in this matter.
3.
There are many beautiful paintings in the gallery.Their -------------------- is
incomparable
4..
There was much ……………… (excite) in the crowd when a snake appeared before
them.
( C ) Fill in the blank with “had to/have to/has to”
1. They
…………………… perform the dance next week.
2.
There was no participant, so they ---------- cancel the competition.
3.
I …………. repair my cycle
yesterday.
4.
He …………. tell a new word
everyday.
5.
She ………….. go for swimming classes yesterday.
(d)Choose the correct preposition and fill in
the blank:
(for, in , about, on )
1.The parents blamed the
teacher --------- their son’s
failure.
2. We will meet …………..
Friday.
3. Cricket is played ………….
India.
Q.4.
Read the passage carefully: 8 marks
In
a country like India where over 40 percent of the population is living in
conditions of extreme poverty, child labour is a complex issue. India has the
largest number of child labourers in the world. The child labourers endure
miserable and difficult lives. They earn little and struggle to make enough to
feed themselves and their families. They do not go to school.
Extreme
poverty is the chief cause of child labour. The children either supplement
their parent’s income or are the only wage earners in the family.
Low
level of parental education is also an important factor in determining the
incidence of a child labour. A majority of parents prefer to send their
children to work rather than to school at the child-going age,primarily on
account of their need for a supplementary income.
Child
labour is a universal problem and we must strive to take stern actions against
child labour. Government does not have the infrastructure to reach every
section of the society and particularly
the millions who work and live in remote areas. NGO’S can act as a
bridge between hard-to-reach areas and the government to eliminate Child
labour.
The
media should give certain monetary incentives to the families that live Below
Poverty Line (BPL) to avoid child labour so that their children can be sent to
school.
It
requires cumulative efforts to wipe it out. The need of the hour is to expand
the machinery for enforcing the various laws on child labour. There is a set of
laws but nothing can eradicate child labour unless thaere is awareness among
parents and children, which will go a long way in saving the future of millions
of working children in India.
4.1
Answer the following: (8 marks)
a.
Give any two causes of Child Labour.
b.
How can media help in eradicating Child
Labour?
c.
How can government help the families to avoid Child Labour?
d.
What is the role of NGO in eliminating Child Labour?
4.2
Find the synonym of the word ‘award’ or ‘benefit’:
(i) income (ii) incentives (iii) eliminate
(iv) earners
4.3
Find the antonym of the word, ‘prefer’ :
(i) cumulative (ii) avoid (iii) eradicate
(iv) violate
4.4
Most of the parents do not like to send their children to work rather than
going to school.
(True/False)
4.5
……………. is needed among parents and children to eradicate Child Labour.
CLASS
: VII SUBJECT: ENGLISH - REVISION FOR
HALF-YEARLY 2019
GRAMMAR AND READING
PASSAGE
Q1.
The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line.
Write
the incorrect word and the correct word as given in the example:
Incorrect Correct
1.1
All life on earth can ultimately is
ex. is be
traced back on the sea.Creatures (a)
………… …….
with limbs or fingers rather than (b)
………… ……..
fins has evolved from fishes (c) ………… ……..
about 335 million years before, (d)
………….. ………
which remain a mystery. (e) ……………
………..
1.2.There
is often things wrong with Ex. is are
our school.Time and again we had (a) …………… ………….
seen which a good teacher (b) …………… ………….
with desire as care (c) …………… ………….
can get over all difficulties is produce
(d) ………….. ………….
great student. (e)
…………… …………..
1.3
Her mother said that you must go straight to
Ex. you she
your grandmother. There was a wolf (a) …….. ……………
in the wood through which she are (b) …….. …………….
going.But if she keep the road, he (c) ……… …………….
will not do any harm.
The mother (d)
……… …………….
asked her to do as she tells her. (e) ……… …………….
1.4
Garbage is an great environmental hazard.
Ex. an a
It comes from various sources. It makes
a (a) ………. ……………..
premises ugly but breeds diseases. A lot
of (b) ……….. …………….
trash who is thrown away contains
materials (c) ………… …………….
that can be recycled and reused. They
also (d) ………… ……………
contains organic matter.
Q.2.
Rearrange the jumbled words and phrases into meaningful sentences:
a) dislike travelling/ as it/by
sea/makes them/some people/sea-sick
b) to walk/ a long way/is /ten miles
c) his father/a farm/a bank/in/ on
/works/ he /and
d) one/one’s/keep/should/promise
e)
Kerala/cultivation/famous/is/for coconut
f) last Sunday/the/to see/went/I/
Baisakhi fair
g) had come/ their goods/tradesmen from
far and near/ to sell
Q.3.Do as directed:
3.1.Fill
in the blanks with appropriate forms of the words given in brackets:
a)
Sarita …………. to do the sorting for me. Do you think she had forgotten her ………….
? (promise)
b)
It is ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, for us to follow rules but sometimes ,,,,,,,,,,
requires us to break them.(necessary)
c)
Asking for ………………….. is easy but to ………. someone who had really hurt us is
difficult.(forgive)
d)
Where ignorance is bliss,it is foolish to be ………….. . But ……….. cannot be held
for the asking.(wise)
e)
The school authority has ………. to make Mohan the head boy, but their ………… has
not made Mohan himself happy. (decide)
3.2
Complete the following by using – if you want to/if you don’t want to/ if you
want him to
a)
You can pick and read any of the storybooks …………………. .
b)
Rajesh will buy the notebooks ………………….. .
c)
Please use my scale ………………………….. .
d)
You need not go to the market …………………. .
e)
My brother will show you the house …………………. .
3.3
Rewrite each of the following pairs of sentences as a single sentence. Use ‘if’
at the beginning of the sentence.
a)
Hurry up now. You’ll not miss the school bus.
b)
Don’t eat all the sweets. You won’t get any afterwards.
c)
Work hard. Success will be yours.
3.4
Add ‘im’ or ‘un’ to each of the word in the box and use them to complete the
sentences below:
|
Possible,happy,important,necessary,patient
|
a) The
father was ………….. to hear about his son’s failure.
b) Buying
this book now is ………………….. .
c) Getting
inside the auditorium is ………………. .
d) Don’t
be ………………. . Your turn will come soon.
e) My
advice to you now appears to be ………………… .
3.5
Fill in blanks with suitable articles:
a)
What’s the matter with you ?
b)
………… Atlas is …………. Book of maps.
c)There was ……… heavy traffic this morning because
of ……… accident.
4. Read
the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (8 Marks)
1.Honey bees are social
insects that live in colonies called hives. They build hives to store food and
lay eggs. There are three types of bees in each colony- the worker bees, the
drones and a queen bee.
The workers are young female bees. They collect
nectar and pollen, build hives and keep them clean and look after their larvae
too. They also help maintain the temperature of the hive by beating their
wings. Worker bees can travel up to eight miles to get nectar and pollen. The
worker bees sting if they find a danger to the hives. A bee will rarely sting
if it is far away from the hive unless it senses danger.
Drones are
male bees that live in the hive. They do not collect nectar or build hives.
Their only job is to mate with the queen. Hundreds of drone bees live in the
hive during summer. When winter arrives and food is limited and survival is
threatened, the drones are thrown out of the hive.
The queen
bee is the single, largest bee in the hive. Her only job is to lay eggs. She is
the only fertile bee in the hive. A queen bee can lay up to 2500 eggs a day.
When the old queen’s time is almost over, some larvae are put into special
cells to grow into the new queen. They are fed with the ‘royal jelly’ to
provide them with the nutrition required to be the fertile queen. As soon as
the female bee develops into a queen bee, she kills the other prospective queen
bees.
(a) Why are
honey bees called ‘social insects’?
(b) Why does the new queen bee kill other
prospective bees?
(c) What are the three types of bees mentioned
in the passage?
(d) Explain
the role of worker ants?
(f) The
suitable title for this passage can be ……………………………… .
(g) Find a
word that is the synonym of ‘state of trouble or danger’.(para 3)
(i) limited (ii) thrown out (iii)
threatened (iv)survival
(h) Find
the word that is the antonym of
‘ordinary’. (para 4)
(i) largest (ii) special (iii)fertile (iv) prospective
(i) A bee
stings only when it senses danger. (True/False)
LONG ANSWERS;
1.Suppose
you are the young man who has taken over Gessler’s shop. Write a letter to your
friend,describing how Gessler starved himself to death.
2.Imagine
you are the farmer in the story ‘The ashes that made the trees bloom’. Write a
letter to your friend in another town describing your good fortune.
3.Imagine
you are Gopal. Write a paragraph about your preparation for the king’s
challenge step by step.
4.Imagine
you are the king in the story,’Three Questions’. Write a letter to your son
telling him about your decisions to visit the hermit and what happened.
5.
Imagine yourself to be Soapy and narrate what happened when you saw your
childhood home?
6 “Each ant does its share of work
intelligently and bravely and never fights with other members of the group.”Do
you find any lesson for you and your friends in the above statement?
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