শ্রেণি – অষ্টম | বিভাগ – English | (Lesson 8)
অষ্টম শ্রেণির English বিভাগের Lesson 2 – The Cloud থেকে রইল Activity প্রশ্নের উত্তর।
A. Rearrange the following sentences in the correct order.
Question
He saw a grass-cutter coming from the other direction. □
1. The grass cutter was surprised. □
2. He reached the old mud hut. □
3. He wandered in search of the clouds. □
4. He asked the grass-cutter if he had noticed the clouds. □
5. He turned onto the dirt track. □
Answer
1. He saw a grass-cutter coming from the other direction. (iv)
2. The grass cutter was surprised. (vi)
3. He reached the old mud hut. (ii)
4. He wandered in search of the clouds. (i)
5. He asked the grass-cutter if he had noticed the clouds. (v)
6. He turned onto the dirt track. (iii)
আরো পড়ো → The Wind Cap – Question Answer
B. Complete the following sentences with information from the text.
1. The grass-cutter had a bundle …..
Ans: The grass-cutter had a bundle of freshly cut grass balanced on his head.
2. He was disappointed to see …..
Ans: He was disappointed to see that the grass-cutter was still mystified.
3. The farmer cloud not …..
Ans: The farmer cloud not make sense of the boy’s question.
4. He was asking for the clouds like …..
Ans: He was asking for the clouds like a man who has lost his child and asks wayfarers if they have seen a child wandering.
C. Fill in the chart with information from the text.
What
1. The boy was open-mouthed.
2. The earth was damp underfoot.
3. The boy hurried home.
4. When he got home, he saw everything had changed.
Why
1. The old man told the boy that he had once lived in a place where it had not rained for ten years.
2. It had rained hard a while ago.
3. He wanted to see how fresh and clean the jamun tree in his courtyard looked.
4. There had been a good shower during his absence.
আরো পড়ো → বোঝাপড়া কবিতার প্রশ্ন উত্তর
D. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements. Give supporting statements for each of your answers.
1. In the morning, the boy asked the first question to his father.
Ans: In the morning, the boy asked the first question to his father. F
Supporting statement: His mother was the first he had asked in the morning, “Ammaji, where have the clouds gone?”
2. The boy’s mother asked him to go to school.
Ans: The boy’s mother asked him to go to school. T
Supporting statement: “Wash quickly, eat your breakfast and go to school.”
3. When the boy got up in the morning, he saw that the sky was cloudless.
Ans: When the boy got up in the morning, he saw that the sky was cloudless. T
Supporting statement: The sky was clear and empty!
4. The boy was happy to think that he had fallen asleep.
Ans: The boy was happy to think that he had fallen asleep. F
Supporting statement: And it saddened him to think that he had fallen asleep.
আরো পড়ো → আঞ্চলিক শক্তির উত্থান অধ্যায়ের প্রশ্ন উত্তর
E. Answer the following question.
1. “But no one could give him a satisfactory answer.”- Why do you think no one could give him a satisfactory answer?
Ans: None understood the boy’s question. Everyone misunderstood the clouds to be human beings because the boy was referring to the clouds as if he was looking for a lost child.
2. Which question haunted the boy?
Ans: The question that haunted the boy was where the clouds had gone.
3. What did the boy see in the middle of the night?
Ans: In the middle of the night, the boy saw dense, black clouds in the occasional flashes of lighting.
4. How did he feel as he walked between the fields?
Ans: The boy felt that his body was on fire and his throat was dry in the fierce heat of the sun.
5. What did he do after reaching the shelter of the tree?
Ans: The boy splashed the cool water from the Persian wheel on his dusty feet. He washed his hands and face, and drank to his satisfaction.
6. What did the old man say about the place where he once lived?
Ans: The old man told the boy that he had once lived in a place where it had not rained for ten years.
7. How did the boy feel as he reached the mud-hut?
Ans: The boy felt a chill in the air and the damp earth underfoot.
8. What did the boy do as he stood under the jamun tree?
Ans: The boy let the raindrops fall on his head and face when he stood under the jamun tree.
9. Why did the clouds shed rain in the absence of the boy?
Ans: The boy walked far from his village in search of the clouds. The clouds, in the meantime condensed and shed rain in the boy’s village. It happened naturally. But the author’s description suggests wish fulfilment of the boy.
আরো পড়ো → অদ্ভুত আতিথেয়তা গল্পের প্রশ্ন উত্তর
F. Underline the verbs that denote actions which will be in progress at a time in the future.
1. I shall be reading a book next week.
Ans: I shall be reading a book next week.
2. You will be going to school tomorrow.
Ans: You will be going to school tomorrow.
3. They will be visiting our house next month.
Ans: They will be visiting our house next month.
G. Underline the verbs that denote actions that will be completed in the future.
1. I shall have written the story by then.
Ans: I shall have written the story by then.
2. He will have left before you go to see the doctor.
Ans: He will have left before you go to see the doctor.
3. You shall have gone to the fair.
Ans: You shall have gone to the fair.
H. Write the antonyms of the underlined words by using the prefixes from the Help Box.
[Help Box: dis-, un-, im-, il-]
1. It is possible for him to lift the chair.
Ans: impossible
2. His handwriting is legible.
Ans: illegible
3. Their claim is not reasonable.
Ans: unreasonable
4. He believes his friend.
Ans: disbelieves
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