Jharkhand Board Class 8 English Chapter 1A The Naive Friends Solution
Jharkhand State Board (JCERT) Class 8 English Chapter 1A The Naive Friends Question Answer Solution by expert teacher staff. Here we have given whole exercise question answer.
- Board – JCERT
- Class – VIII (8)
- Subject – English
- Unit – 1A
Comprehension check – I
(1) The birds laid their eggs above the cornice in Keshav’s house.
(2) The happiness of watching the birds and their activities made Keshav and his sister forget about the joys of milk and jalebi.
(3) The thought that what the chicks would eat after coming out of the eggs, left the siblings very anxious.
Comprehension check – II
(1) Keshav brought two stools and made one stand on another and his sister Shyama held the stool with both hands. Thus he managed to reach the cornice.
(2) Shyama begged of Keshav for giving her chance to see the eggs.
(3) Shyama kept quiet in front of her mother because of either she was trying to safeguard his brother or because she was party to the crime.
Comprehension check – III
(1) When Keshav came to the cornice he saw the three eggs lay broken on the floor. This made Keshav pale and gloomy.
(2) Shyama felt that Keshav should be punished because she thought that he must not have put the eggs back carefully enough so they had rolled off.
(3) Ma mentioned about the bird’s eggs that as Keshav had touched them so that they became tainted and the birds dropped the eggs themselves.
(A) Explore the text
Answer the following questions:
(1) The questions that how big were the eggs?, what colour were they?, how many eggs were there?, what did they eat?, how would the chicks come out of them?, what is the nest like? etc made Keshav and Shyama curious about the eggs.
(2) The three things that the children did to protect the eggs were –
(i) they made a cushion and placed it under the eggs.
(ii) they placed a basket to protect them from the heat of sun.
(iii) they placed a bowl of water and some grains near the eggs.
(3) Keshav noticed that the eggs were lying on twigs and straws which was unsafe for them. So he decided to make a cushion for their safety and comfort.
(4) Keshav told Shyama that it would be terrible for her to climb up because she would fall down and broke her head. It was the reason that Keshav gave for not showing the eggs to Shyama.
(5) At the beginning, Keshav was very much curious about the eggs. He was full with courage and enthusiasm. He was worried about the safety and comfort of the eggs and he with the help of his sister provided enough facilities to the eggs. But at the end, he was fully disappointed. He went pale and stared at the broken eggs with gloomy eyes. The naive boy felt guilty for his unwilling mistake.
State whether the following statements are ‘true’ or ‘false’:
(a) False
(b) False
(c) True
(d) False
(e) True
Answer the following questions with reference to context:
“What are you two doing out here in the sun?” she asked
(i) The speaker here is the mother of Keshav and Shyama.
(ii) The two mentioned here are Keshav and Shyama.
(iii) The speaker was annoyed with the two at that moment.
“You must have fiddled with them,” said Ma angrily.
(i) Here ‘you’ refers to Keshav and Shyama.
(ii) Ma is talking about the three eggs that lay broken on the floor in this line.
(iii) Yes, Ma was right in her guess because Keshav had touched the eggs.
Fill in the blanks by choosing words from the box to complete the summary.
children, cornice, eggs, broken, knowledge, birds, safer, breaking.
(B) Word power
Fill in the blanks with the correct word:
(1) whole, hole.
(2) right, write.
(3) piece, peace.
(4) son, sun.
(5) see, sea.
Find the collective nouns used with the following nouns:
(1) litter
(2) pride
(3) school
(4) brood
(5) pack
Use the following words in sentences of your own:
(a) The stars are scattered in the sky.
(b) Feed the baby or she will not stop crying.
(c) An umbrella gives us comfort from the scorching heat of the sun.
(d) The man is accused of stealing the necklace from the jewellery shop.
(e) Right approach can make everybody successful.
(C) Language in use
Fill in the blanks with simple past tense form of the verb given in bracket:
(a) built
(b) ate
(c) laughed
(d) wrote
(e) hit
Now change the given sentences from present tense to past tense as shown:
(a) They visited Dasham Falls in winter.
(b) The lady bought a dozen eggs.
(c) Ali went with Rahim to the cinema.
(d) The dog ran after the cat.
(e) We drove the bus into the garage.
(E) Think and write
A dog can be the most trusted best friend. If a puppy enters into my house, searching for its mother, I would immediately go closer to the puppy and try to indicate that I am its friend. I would approach the puppy slowly and check if the puppy is injured or not. Then I would provide the puppy some water and food. After that I would take it out and locate its mother in nearby places. If I could find its mother then I would leave the puppy with its mother and bade him goodbye. I would meet the puppy whenever I get chance. But if I fail to find its mother at that time then I would provide shelter to the puppy until it gets united with its mother. I would make the puppy feel loved and safe. Every animal being should be treated well.