CLASS 8 GK Syllabus Half Yearly Exama-2022-22

Syllabus for Half yearly Examination

GK:

                    Unit 1- chapter 1,2,3(part A), 4 (only full form), 5, 6

                    Unit 2- chapter 8(help box),9,10, revision test paper1

                    Unit 3- chapter 17(part B)

                    Unit 4- chapter 18,19,20(partA)

MSC:                 chapter 1 to 6

                            1. School Pledge from School Diary

                            2. Any prayer from school Diary

 

MSC PORTION

Chapter-1

All Religions Preach Mercy

A. Oral

Ans1. Mercy means being kind or forgiving towards someone.

Ans2. Mercy is associated with compassion and empathy.

B. Tick the correct

1. (c)      2.(b)      3.(b)

C.  Fill the blanks

1. Mercy     2.  Suffering     3.Comforted, carry     4. Sacrificing

5. Appease

D. Answer the question.

Ans1. Prince Siddhartha left home because he wished to find a way to remove suffering from the world.

Ans2. The Shepherd was taking the sheep to King Bimbisara.

Ans3. The king was performing the sacrifice to appease God and he wants to enter heaven.

Ans4. The sage said to the king the man who sacrifices a hundred sheep to God will enter heaven.

Ans5. Its means that God never be happy with this type of sacrifice because we all are the children of God and God never pleased if some children killed by a stronger one.

Ans6. Yes, Gautama Buddha succeeds to stop the sacrifice.

Chapter 2

Always be Respectful

A.Oral

Ans1. Respect means honoring the worth or dignity of a person.

Ans2. We can respect our elder by following their knowledge, insight, and wisdom

B Tick the correct

1. C      2. B      3. A

C Write true and false .

1.T          2.T          3.T          4.T          5.T          6.T          7.F

D.  Answer the following question.

1. We should take care and be polite towards the old people.

2. Robertino’s mother used to behave angrily and speak harshly to the grandfather.

3. The grandfather looked at Robertino’s mother with pain in his eyes because the grandfather was not happy with the behavior of Robertino’s mother.

4. No, the bowl is broken because the grandfather was not able to hold the bowl with shaking hands.

5. Robertino starts making a wooden bowl for his parents because his mother given the wooden bowl to his grandfather.

6. The change came over to Robertino’s parents, they looked after the grandfather with love and always help him in the dining.

Chapter 3

Compassion -A Mysterious Capacity

A. Oral

Anss1.  Compassion is a strong feeling of sympathy for people.

Ans2. Compassion is a true action and it is a knot that binds every human being to each other and to the entire creation of God.

B. Tick the correct.

1. a          2. b              3. b

C. Write the ‘G’ for Good and ‘B’ for Bad.

1. G          2.B         3.B                  4.B

D. Answer the following questions:

Ans1. The person should motivate others, do the act of kindness, and allocate time for family and friends.

Ans2. Yes, it is good to help the person in need because it is an act of kindness, and will return to you in your need.

Ans3. The pigeon was happy to help the ant.

Ans4. No, it was not necessary for the ant to repay the goodness of the pigeon, the ant has the quality of never forget of debt.

 

 

Chapter 4 

BeingFaithul

A. Oral

Ans 1.  faith is the essence of things hoped.

Ans 2.  Yes, because faith in God gives us strength.

B Tick the correct

1.a              2.c                  3.c

C . Fill in the blanks.

1.Destiny                          2.“Why don’t you all pray to God”

3.God                              4.Faith, Prayers              5.Answered

6.Pray

 

D. Answer the following question

Ans1. The people of the village give up hope because from many months, it had not rained and the land was absolutely dry and people were starving.

Ans2. The saint asked the people  “ why don’t you all pray to God?”.

Ans3. The people answered  “Even God can not help us now”  

Ans4.  The saint assembles the people under an old banyan tree to pray to God.

Ans5. The little girl brought an umbrella because she did not want to get wet while returning.

Ans6. The saint had tears of happiness in his eyes because the little girl believed in God and had absolute faith, but the elders had not the faith in God.

Ans7. As the little girl started to pray, amazingly soon as thunderous clouds started blanketing the sky and at last, the rain heavily poured down on the Earth.

Chapter 5

The Call for Change

B. Tick the correct.

1.b         2.b         3.d

C. Write the meaning of the followings

Adapt- to change something in order to make it suitable for new.

Dignitaries-  Most important persons for official position.

Buffet- A meal contain many dishes.

Rationing – To store daily needs items.

Contemporary-  Something or someone belongs to same time.

Predecessor-  Someone or something just before.

D. Fill in the Blanks.

1. Time                 2.Stress               3.Predecessor    4. Monday and Tuesday 5. Second

E. True or false

1.F          2.T         3.F          4.T         5.F

F. Answer the following question

Ans1.     The soft drink company decided to install a new canning line because the company wanted to                launch its products to the supermarket sector.

Ans2.     The three men involved in the discussion were represent three generations of people who had                worked in the company over a span of fifteen years.

Ans3.     The issue of stress was the distribution policy of the company, it was difficult to schedule  things efficiently with the distribution policy.

Ans4.     The third manager gave the reason for the company’s policy that “during the second world                war, fuel rationing was introduced, so we stopped using the trucks and went on to use                        horses”.

Ans5.     The company had changed its delivery policy after the opening of a new canning line.

Chapter -6

Caring for Things

Exercise

B. Tick the correct option:

1. c  Pollution              2.b  Trees                3.a Forests

C. Say 'YES' or 'NO':

1. YES            2. YES            3.YES        4.YES              5.NO

D. Fill in the blanks:

1.Preserve                2. Environmental         3.Ecological         4.  Gold

5. Revenge                6.The awareness

E. Answer the following questions:

Ans1:-    It is our duty to grow more and more trees and protect the trees already planted.

Ans2:-    By cutting down millions of trees for his selfish petty objectives the man destroying his own world himself and misusing these wonderful gifts of God.

Ans3:-    The trees are said to be the greatest gift of God because trees keep our air purified and give us a lot of oxygen and give wood for furniture and many more things to us.

Ans4:-     The main causes of air pollution are smoke comes from factories, increasing in petrol and diesel vehicles and cause of water pollution are industries water waste comes from these industries into the rivers, people are throwing garbage in the river, etc.

Ans5:-    The two ways to use unused pages of your notebooks

                1. we can make a rough notebook from unused paper.

                 2. we can give these pages to needy people.

Ans6:-    Sunder Lal Bahuguna was a prominent Leader of the Chipko movement.

Ans7:-    We will inform the police if someone cutting a tree.