KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA, NAD KARANJA HOLIDAY HOMEWORK WINTER BREAK 2018-19 CLASS :VIII(A,B,C) ENGLISH GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS 1) Attempt all questions 2) Read the instructions and questions carefully 3) Number your answers correctly 1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it. Students tend to lose their pencils, break them without thinking, and find all sorts of non-writing uses for them. The pencil in your hand is one of the most remarkable and useful tools in the world. A man named Friedrich Staedtler invented the modern lead pencil in about 1622 in Germany. He was the first person to massproduce them. Staedtler did not use lead, and there is no lead in your pencil. However, some pencils did use lead until the early twentieth century. Lead will make a mark, but it is toxic and not safe to use either in the hands or around the face and mouth where many pencils sometimes stray. Staedtler used black graphite, a soft form of carbon. Graphite is still used today. It is mixed with clay and wax and heated to high temperatures. The modern pencil is a superb piece of technology. The pencil is less messy than ink, can be easily erased, and makes clear, dark, smooth, and smudgefree lines. The modern pencil can produce a continuous line twenty-two miles long. That s a distance of 116,160 foot-long rulers laid end to end. Enjoy your pencil. For a few cents each, it is a remarkable bargain. a) Mention three improper ways in which students make use of pencils. b) Lead is rarely used to make pencils. Why so? c) Of what material are pencils made of? d) Why can we consider the modern pencil to be a superb piece of technology? e) The modern pencil can produce something fantastic. What is it? f) Find words in the passage that mean the following:- i) Poisonous= ii) Removed something completely= 2 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it. Have you heard people saying that the 'rupiah makes the world go round? Do you know the story of the rupee? The word rupee comes from the Sanskrit term Rupya or Rupa which means silver. The very early coins before the second century BC, were all made of silver but the coins were neither of any standard weight nor had any face or value printed on them. It was Sher Shah Suri who first
gave the name rupia to the silver coins. The last silver coins were minted in 1940 with the face of King George VI on them. In 1942 the silver coin was replaced by a cupro-nickel coin for the first time. Money was invented by man to get power but now money has become more powerful than man. All over the world, money and power go together. The more money a person has, the more successful he is judged to be. A rich man is accepted by society even if he is corrupt or evil. Man works hard to earn more and more money and saves a lot of it. He thinks that money will give him more freedom to enjoy himself and to have lots of fun. He thinks he will not be anyone's slave but be his own master. But soon he becomes the slave of money. The more he has, the more he wants. He is never satisfied with what he has got but always wants something more even though he knows that in the end, he cannot carry anything with him. Money can buy everything but it cannot buy peace or happiness or a ticket to heaven. a) The early coins were made of. (i) copper (ii) gold (iii) silver (iv) lead b) The cupro-nickel coins came into existence in the year (i) 1924 (ii) 1942 (iii) 1429 (iv) 1294 c) Today money is.. (i) less powerful than man (ii) equal to man (iii) more powerful than man (iv) none of the above d) Society willingly accepts... from a rich man (i) honesty (ii) corruption (iii) bribery (iv) none of the above e) The word satisfied can be replaced by (i) contended (ii) bright (iii) eager (iv) thrilled f) Choose a suitable title for the passage a) Importance of money b) History of silver coins c) Man and money d) All the above SECTION ( GRAMMAR) 3.Rearrange the following jumbled words to make meaningful sentences and write the same in the answer sheet. a) in/other animals/elephant/an/excels/ intelligence b) displays/ he/ his intelligence/little actions/in his c) with a difficulty/a way out/whenever/with/his intelligence/faced/he finds d) is/one/the/of/loved/most/animals/world/in/the/he
4. Complete the following passage by choosing the most appropriate option from the one s given. Sometimes the weathermen fail (a)... (for, in, at, to) make accurate predictions. People crack jokes at them, (b)... (yet, but, as, despite) the meteorologists (c)... (were, are, was, is) also humans. They are helpless. There is nothing (d)... (more, much, as, so) unpredictable as the weather A reporter is interviewing Harish, a witness to a robbery. Complete the dialogue by choosing the most appropriate option. Reporter: So, Harish, you saw the robber snatch the bag from the old lady (a)...? Harish : He ran towards the railway line. I saw him jumping into the carriage. Reporter: (b)...? Harish : No, it was not moving. I also jumped into it. Reporter: (c)...? Harish : No, I was not afraid. I have seen it happening in films many times. Reporter: (d)...? He could have hurt you. a) i. What was the robber gone? ii. Which way did the robber go? iii. Which way the robber went? iv Where had the robber run? b) i. Was the carriage moving? ii. Did the carriage move? iii. Was the carriage not moving? iv. Was the carriage move? c) i. Was you afraid to jump into the carriage? ii. Were you afraid to jump into the carriage? iii. Did you afraid to jump into the carriage? iv You should be afraid to jump into the carriage? d) i. Why you taken such a risk? ii. Why you take such a risk? iii. Why you taking such a risk? iv Why did you take such a risk? SECTION (LITERATURE ) 5. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow it. But to go to school in a summer morn O! it drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day, In sighing and dismay a). What drives all the joy away of the poet? i) Going to school on a summer morn
ii) Rising on a summer morn iii) Playing with birds iv) Singing with birds b) How do the little ones spend the day? i) Reading books ii) In sighing and dismay iii) Enjoying the company of his friends iv) All the above 6. Answer any THREE of the following questions briefly a) What are the three qualities that helped the author in climbing the mighty Everest? b) What had happened to Jody s father? How did the fawn save his life? c) What is the scientist s message for the disabled? (A visit to Cambridge) d) What was the story attributed to the Stone Face? e) What did the author receive in the mail? (A Short Monsoon Diary) 7. Answer any TWO of the following questions briefly a) Who was the better swimmer? How do you know it? (The Fight) b) What had happened to the Sappleton s family as narrated by the niece? c) What did the oldest coin tell the little writer? Why did he not follow the advice? 8.Imagine you are the poet. Write a diary entry describing how you realised that Ernest had a face similar to that of the stone face. ( 80 words ) HINDI 1- आ,क र, व ल,त प रत यय स द - द शब द बन इए 2 - क ष ण,प ष प,स यय त न-त न पय यव च लख ए 3 अन छ द ललख ए ववद य लय क व वषयक उत सव 4 च र प ज स ल ललख ए 5. श ल क म क तत ह त अपन प र च यय क एक आव दन पत र ललख ए SANSKRIT
S SCIENCE 1 Prepare an assignment on history, geography and political science subjects and syllabus from 1 st August to 31 st December, you have to prepare some important questions from each lesson, on the basis of this following pattern, for best preparation of upcoming examination. A-Five questions for one-one marks (answer should be in one word or sentence) B-Three questions for three marks (up to 50 or 60 words) C-Two questions for five marks (up to 100 or 120) 1. Solve: 6x-9=15 2. Find the square root of 169 3. Find the cube of 10 MATHS 4. Write the multiplicative inverse of -3 5. In quadrilateral ABCD <A =90 o, <B=65 o, <C=65 o, <D=x o. Find x. 6. A Football team won 10 matches out of the total number of matches they played. If their win percentage was 40, then how many matches did they play in all? 7. Find cube root of 13824 by prime factorization. 8. Find the measure of each exterior angle of a regular polygon of 9 sides. 9. Find 3 rational numbers between 0 & 1 10. The cost of a pair of roller skates at a shop was Rs 2000/-. The sales tax charged was 5%. Find the bill amount. 11. A bag worth Rs 1500/- is offered for sale at Rs 1200/-. What % discount was available during sale? 12. a) Find the probability of getting a prime number when a dice is thrown. b) Find the probability of getting head when a coin is tossed. 13. Represent the following on the number line 14. Find the smallest number by which 252 must be multiplied to make it a perfect square. Also, find the square root of perfect square obtained. 15. Find the compound interest on Rs 15000/- for 2 years at 8% per annum compounded annually. 16. Solve: 2(x+3)-5x = 7x-3 17. Construct a rhombus whose diagonals are of length 5.2cm and 6.4cm 18. Find the smallest square number i.e. divisible by each of the numbers 8, 15 & 20.
19. The measure of two adjacent angle are in the ration 3:2. Find the measure of each angle. 20. In a right triangle ABC <B=90 o, AB=6cm, BC=8cm. Find AC. 21. Draw histogram for the neighbouring data: Marks obtained by sixty students in test: 22. Solve for x : Class Interval Frequency 0-10 2 10-20 10 20-30 21 30-40 15 40-50 7 50-60 5 Maths Total 60 23. Find the square root by division method a) 1369 b) 625 24. The ages of Hari and Harry are in the ratio 5:7. Four years from now the ration of their ages will be 3:4. Find their present ages. 25. A Find the smallest number by which 704 must be multiplied to make it a perfect cube. B Find cube root of 216 26. Draw a quadrilateral LIFT LI = 4cm, IF = 3cm, TL = 2.5cm, LF = 4.5cm, IT = 4cm. 27. The cost of an article was Rs 15500/- and Rs 400 were spent on its repairs. If it is sold for a profit of 15%, find the selling price of the article. 28. RUNS is a parallelogram. Find x & y using neighbouring 29. A) Write 2 rational numbers greater than -3 B) Write 2 rational numbers less than -4 C) Write additive identity and multiplicative identity for rational numbers 30. Draw Pie chart for the following: The table shows colours preferred by group of people Colour Number of People Blue 18 Green 6 Red 9
Yellow 3 Total 36 SCIENCE Prepare a model of Kaleidoscope. Explain lighting and safety precautions. Chemical effects of electric current explain with activity. Explain why objects moving in fluids must have special shape. Explain male and female reproductive systems. COMPUTER Prepare a Seminar on any latest computer technology in PowerPoint and prepare a detail report in A4 size paper with proper format. Submit the completed homework to respective subject teacher on first day of reopening of Vidyalaya Wish you a very Happy Winter Break