Class-8 English First-Unit-Test Question

1. Read the text carefully and answer the following questions:

“Since you put me on your head like a hat to keep me safe, I shall give you a different kind of cap in return, the kind sailors most desire. A cap full of wind. But there’s one warning, no human hand will ever be able to take it off.”

Then with a blink, the fairy man disappeared leaving a striped cap behind. Young Jon put the cap on his head and ran home to tell his mother.

“No good will come of the wind cap,” she said. But the lad would have none of her cautions. The very next day, putting on the sailor’s cap, he ran off to the sea. On seeing a ship anchored near the shore, he requested the captain to take him along. Thus began his first ever sea voyage!

A. Answer the following questions:

(i) What kind of cap did the fairy man present to Jon?

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(ii) What was the warning about the cap?

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(iii) How did Jon’s mother react seeing the cap?

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(iv) How did Jon’s first sea voyage begin?

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2. Fill in the blanks with Future Continuous Tense or Future Perfect Tense:

(i) I ________________________________ (read) the novel by a week.

(ii) Simona _______________________ (cook) when her brother returns.

3. Write a story in about eighty words using the following hints:

two friends passing through a forest —– a bear came —– one friend climbed a tree —– the other friend could not climb the tree —– helpless —– lay down like a dead man —– bear came near the man —– thought he was dead —– went away.