Worksheet 1
Class VIII
English
I. Read the passage from the story ' the boy who drew cats' and answer the questions that follows. (5)
A long long time ago, in a small country village in Japan, there lived a poor farmer and his wife, who were very good people. They had a number of children,and found it very hard to feed them all.But the youngest child, a little boy,did not seem to be fit for the hard work. He was very clever,cleverer than and all his brothers and sisters, but he small and people said he could never grow very big. So his parents thought it would be better for him to become a priest. They took him with them to the village temple and asked the good old priest who lived there, if he would had a little boy for his acolyte and teach him all that a priest ought to know.
a. How is the youngest child introduce in the story?
b. Why did the parents take the boys to the priest?
c. Which would mean 'a person who helps a priest in certain
religious ceremonies'
II. Read the lines from the poem 'from a railway carrage ' and answer the questions that follows. (4)
Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches,
And charging alone like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and Cattle
a. Pick out two pairs of rhyming words.
b. Write the rhyme scheme
c. Write an example of alliteration
III. The following are the major events in the story `the mysterious picture´ write true or false. (5)
a.Tyl shows the picture of infant Jesus to the archduke.
b. Tyl meets the archduke.
c. The courtiers ask Tyl to paint them as they look like.
d. Tyl enjoys dinner with Archduke.
e. Archduke's jester also praises Tyl's painting.
IV. And prefix and suffix to root word (4)
a. Appear
b. Appoint
c. Cover
d. Happy
V. Make word pyramid (3)
Painter
__________
____________
_____________
VI. Write the two other degrees of comparison (4)
a.__________ stronger _______
b. Popular ___________ __________
c._________ ___________ best
d.small ___________ __________
VII. Match the authors with their works (4)
a.Charles de coster --- The boy who drew cats
b. Hasegawa Takesiro--- From a railway carriage
c.R. L.Stevenson --- Taj Mahal
d. Rabindra Nath Tagor --- The mysterious picture
VIII. Write the profile (5)
Name :Rabindra Nath Tagor
Born :7 May1861, Calcutta
Occupation : poet,writer, composer, painter
Works :Gitanjali, Amar Shonar Bangla,
Awards : Nobel Prize in literature(1913)
Died :7 August 1941
IX. Editing (3)
The ship plunged into a abyss and disappeared. I had no idea what was happened.It was a prefectly clear day.
X. Write the character sketch of Tyle. (3)
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Answer:X.Tyl is a flemish painter who likes to wander on his donkey.He is slim and almost skeleton-like.He is comical in look as he always wears a cap with feathers. He is cunning and tricky but values freedom of creativity.
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