class-8

Part A : Grammar (40 Marks)

1.   Complete the passage with suitable verbs from the list. Put them in the correct tenses. Use negative where necessary.

    

call

write

provide

relate

reading

understand

be

Although language usage (a) _____ a teacher with the information about a child’s development and (b) _____ a means for socialization, previous experience with language is probably most important as it (c) _____ to the specific task (d) ____ reading. Reading is a language process requiring the (e) ____ of written language.

2.   Fill in the gaps with appropriate prepositions.

Population growth belongs (a) ____ one of the major causes responsible (b) _____ the environmental degradation. Although the growth rate in the world has (c) _____ some extent slowed (d) _____ still it adds 77 million human beings (e) _____ the world population.

3.   Use articles where necessary and put a cross (x) where article is not needed.

Patriotism means (a) ____ love for one’s (b) ____ country. It’s (c) ____ noble virtue. It removes (d _____ mean-mindedness of (e) ____man. It also inspires (f) ____ man to shed (g) _____ last drop of blood from the body to defend (h) ____ freedom of (i) _____ country. A man devoid of patriotic feelings is inferior to (j) _____ beast.

4.   Make sentences with any five of the following idioms.

Die out, white elephant, play truant, red tape, make good, beggar description, fall flat.

5.   Change the speech in the following passage.

“Prince of the Faithful”, replied the vizier, “they are doubtless a company of drunkard. If we go in, I fear that some hard may befall you.” “We must go in”, insisted the Caliph. “You shall invent some pretext for entrance.”

6.   Change the underlined sentences as directed.

(a) Plato is the most celebrated. Honored and revered of all philosophers of the western world (Positive). (b) He Athens twenty-four years ago (Complex). (c) He is said to be the greatest of all philosophers (Active). (d) The praise of plato has been expressed in figures of speech, which compete with one another in their eloquence (Simple). (e) He is the father of western philosophy (Negative).

7.   Fill in the blanks with question tags.

a)   I’m pleased with his conduct, ______?

b)  Neither of them complained, ______?

c)   We ought to love our country, ______?

d)  Everybody is liable to error, ______?

e)   Do study attentively, ______?

8.   Complete the incomplete sentences below.

a)   If we drink arsenic polluted water _____.

b)  Surface water is safe when _____.

c)   Pond water is not safe as _____.

d)  ______ because they are not conscious.

e)   Since there is scarcity of pure water _____.

 ANSWER

 Part A : Grammar

1.   Right form of verbs

(a) provides; (b) is; (c) Is related; (d) called; (e) understanding.

2.   Appropriate prepositions

(a) to; (b) for; (c) to; (d) down; (e) to.

3.   Use of articles

(a) x; (b) x; (c) a; (d) the; (e) a; (f) a; (g) the; (h) the; (i) the; (j) a.

4.   Making sentences with phrases & idioms

Die out : Many old customs are gradually dying out.

A whiter elephant : Setting up a nuclear project will become a white elephant in out county.

Play truant : He was punished for plying truant from school.

Red tape : Many people cannot set up industries in the country because of red tape formalities.

Make good : You will have to make good the loss if your construction work damages my house.

Beggar description : The sufferings of the flood- affected people beggar description.

Fall flat : My advice fell flat upon him.

5.   Changing the form of speech

Addressing the Caliph as the prince of the Faithful, the vizier replied that they were undoubtedly a company of drunkards. He also warned the Caliph that if they went in, he feared that some harm might befall him. But the Caliph insisted that they must go in and told the vizier that he (v) would invent for entrance. Jafar said that he heard and obeyed.

6.   Transformation of sentences

a)   No other philosopher of the western world is so celebrated, honoured and revered as Plato.

b)  It was twenty four years ago that he lived in Athens.

c)   People call him the greatest of all philosophy?

d)  The praise of Plato has been expressed in figures of speech to compete with one another in their eloquence.

e)   Isn’t the father of western philosophy?

7.   Tag questions

a)   I’m pleased with his conduct, ain’t/aren’t I?

b)  Neither of them complained, did they?

c)   We ought to love our country, oughtn’t we?

d)  Everybody is liable to error, aren’t they?

e)   Do study attentively, won’t you?

8      Completing sentences

a)   If we drink arsenic- polluted water, we are sure to fall sick.

b)  Surface water is safe when it is boiled.

c)   Pond water is not safe as different types of filthy things are mixed with it.

d)  The illiterate people of our country fall a prey to various diseases because they are not conscious of their health.

e)   Since there is scarcity of pure water, everybody living there fetches drinking water from the tube well of the neighbouring village.