Maharashtra Board Class 8 English Solution Chapter 1.2 – Dick Whittington and his Cat
Balbharati Maharashtra Board Class 8 English Solution Chapter 1.2: Dick Whittington and his Cat. Marathi or English Medium Students of Class 8 get here Dick Whittington and his Cat full Exercise Solution.
Std | Maharashtra Class 8 |
Subject | English Solution |
Chapter | Dick Whittington and his Cat |
(1.) (a) Arrange the following set of word in the alphabetical order in your note book.
Ship, small, successful, scolding’s, stone, saring, someone, stood, streets, still, screamed, sat, seemed, saint, share.
Ans: Saint , sat , saving, scolding, screamed, seemed, share, ship, small, someone, still, stood, street, successful.
B) Remove the affixes (prefix and suffix) and write the root-word.
1) Successful – success
2) Immediately – immediate
3) Retrace – trace
4) mouser – mouse
5) unfriendly – friend
6) unkind – kind
7) fallen – fall
8) wooden – wood
9) Luckily – lucky
10) Belonging – belong
(2.) A) Find from the story one word for the following .
a) A small room just below a sloping roof – attic
b) a very narrow passage buildings – alley
c) The highest – ranking officer in the municipality of a city/town – mayor
d) The highest ranking official who commands a ship – captain
e) Any animal that catches mice – cat/mouser
f) A low constant sound made by cats – purr
(B) Make sentences of your own using the following expressions.
(1.) Over come – We must learn to overcome from any problems or difficulty
(2.) put up with – I can put up with some teasing of my older sister.
(3.) bargain – Don’t bargain with the poor sellers . OR The old lady bargain with the shopkeeper.
(3) Rearrange the following events as they occur in the story, put correct number in the boxes.
a) Mr. Fitzwarren provided shelter to dick – 4
b) A carter gave dick a lift to London – 2
c) a cat sailed to the African coast – 6
d) the captain sold the cat for a very high amount of money. – 8
e) Dick left his village on foot, to go to London – 1
f) Dick become rich and later, the mayor of London – 9
g) Dick was homeless, helpless, cold and hungry – 3
h) Dick bought a cat to get rid of the mice – 5
i) The rat and mice eat up all the dinner, laid for the king and queen – 7
(4.) Think and answer.
a) What decision taken by dick changed his fortune?
Ans: The first decision is dick will going to London and change his fortune. after that he listen the ringing bell and go back to Mr. Fitzwarren house instead of running away . last one is he give his cat to the captain of the ship to sold them in African coast .
b) What message does this story bring out for youngsters?
Ans: the message that this story bring out for youngster is that we must not run away from difficulties but face them bravely, never think we are alone. If you lost anything one day you may get more things that you are lost.
(5) (A) Break the words bellow into syllables as shown in the first one.
Ans:
a) Belonging – be – long – ing
b) Unfriendly – Un – friend – ly
c) Anything – any – thing
d) Difficulty – di – ffi – cul – ty
e) captain – cap –tain
f) Morning – mor – ning
g) citizen – ci – ti – zen
h) message – mess – age
i) mayor – ma –yor
j) elected – elect – ed
(B) Complete the table of degrees of comparison.
Positive |
Comparative |
Superlative |
1) great |
greater | Greatest |
2) famous | More famous |
Most famous |
3) easy |
easier | Easiest |
4) bad | worse |
Worst |
5) poor |
poorer | Poorest |
6) lazy | lazier |
Laziest |
7) little |
More little | Most little |
8) worthy | Worthier |
Worthiest |
9) popular |
More popular |
Most popular |
Very bad