SECOND LANGUAGE-ENGLISH-8
1. Shantiniketan was founded by …………….
a) Mahatma Gandhi b) C.F. Andrews c) Rabindranath Tagore d) Neharu
2. Radhika is strong, but her sister is …………. ( the correct antonym for the underlined )
a) week b) weak c) hard d) easy
3. Beauty can be seen in the………..
a) Sunlight b) night c) harvest d) dreams
4. C.V.Raman was awarded Nobel prize for …………….
a) Literature b) Scattering of Light c) Radioactivity d) Law of Motion
5. The correct compound word for speed…………….. a) class b) table c) post d) map
6. The first job of C.V.Raman was ………………
a) Special accountant General b) professor in University c) Deputy Accountant General d) Scientist
7. write the noun form of the word educate………….
a) education b) educated c) educationally d) educate
8. “The Little Busy Be” is written by……………….
a) E-Yeh-Shure b) Isaac Watts c) A.L.Hendricks d) C.F.Andrews
9. People like the bee because…………………
a) it is a clever b) it sits in the opening flower c) it works hard d) it eats a lot
10. The author of Jamiacan Fragment is ……………
a) C.F.Andrews b) A.L.Hendricks c) C.V.Raman d) Isaac Watts
11. The two boys in the story Jamaican Fragment are……………
a) good friends b) brothers c) neighbours d) classmates
12. The past tense form of the verb know
a) knows b) known c) knew d) knowed
13. The poet James Kirkup remind us of in the first line of the poem ………….. a) No Men Are Foreign b) All are enemies c) All are strangers d) Friends
14. The name of The Boy Who Asked For More …………….
a) Mr. Bumble b)Oliver c) Charles Dickens d)Mr. Brownlow
15. The meaning of the word hymn is………………
a) dancing b) A song in praise of God c) respect d) singing a song
16. My mother ……………… early in the morning everyday a) walked b) walking c) walks d) walk II.
17. The opposite of the word ‘special’
a) unspecial b) ordinary c) worst d) inspecial a) unspecial b) ordinary c) worst d) inspecial
18.The plural of the word ‘wife’
a) wifes b) wiwes c) wives d) wifies
19. Match the following and choose the correct code given below.
A B
1. Homi Jahangir Baba a. Radiactivity
2. Sir, Isaac Newton b. Steam Engine
3. Marie Curie c. Laws of Motion
4. J.C.Bose d. Nuclear Physics e. Plant Science
a) 1-a 2-b 3-c 4-d b) 1-b 2-c 3-d 4-e c) 1-d 2-c 3-a 4-e d) 1-d 2-c 3-d 4-e
20. Match the correct articles and choose the correct code given below.
A B
1. ….. excellent boy a. the
2. ….. Mt. Everest b. an
3. ….. sun c. a
4. …... rose d. the
e. an
a) 1-a 2-c 3-b 4-d b) 1-b 2-a 3-d 4-c c) 1-a 2-d 3-b 4-c d) 1-d 2-c 3-d 4-e
21. The things of beauty which can be heard in the night are
a) wind sighing, rain falling b)in the sunlight, in the trees c) singer chanting, in earnest d) in good deeds, in happy thoughts
a) a & b b) b & c c) c &d d) a & c
22. The things that proves Raman, as a boy had great interest in science………..
a) made dynamo and borrowed science books from the college students b) he was very intelligent boy and studied hard
c) he passed Matriculation at the age of twelve.
d) h was appointed as Deputy Accountant General at early age.
23. Match the correct phrases from the column A & B and choose the correct option. A B
1. boyhood a. forget
2. not remember b. pity
3. sympathy c. chance
4. opportunity d. early days e. gladly
a) 1-a 2-c 3-b 4-d b) 1-b 2-a 3-d 4-c c) 1-d 2-a 3-b 4-c d) d) 1-d 2-c 3-d 4-e
24. The helping verbs of Present tense are…………..
a) was, were, did+V1, had+V3, had been b) will, shall, will be, shall be, will have , shall have
c) am, is, are, do, does, have, has+V3, have been, has been d) may-might, shall-should, can-could, must
