English | Unseen Passage for Class 8 with Answers 56-60 | PDF

English | Unseen Passage for Class 8 with Answers 56-60 | PDF: This an important discussion on unseen passage with an answer sheet for class eight English subject so read the post carefully.

56. Rajbari Govt. High School, Rajbari 

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions following it.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris was named after Gustave Eiffel, a Frenchman who built the Tower. He was born in a prosperous family in 1832. He graduated from the Central School of Engineering in Paris and went to work for a railway construction company.

For years Gustave made plan after plan of dams, factories, stations and structures of great size. All over Europe engineers copied them. In the middle of 1880, a group of French industrialists persuaded the government to organize a World Fair in Paris.

Gustave Eiffel proposed a 989 feet tower of iron as a symbol of the exhibition. The construction of Tower began in January 1887. Forty engineers and designers under Eiffel’s direction worked for two years. The tower was completed in March, 1889. It was the highest structure yet made by men.

No such building had ever been constructed before. It is still regarded as one of the wonders of the world. About a million of people visit the Tower annually. The Empire State Building of New York, Buckingham Palace of London are such magnificent buildings.

4. Complete the following table with the information given in the passage.

5. Read the passage again and write true or false beside the following statements. Give answers for the false statements.

(a)  Eiffel worked for a railway construction company.
(b)  Engineers all over the world copied Eiffel’s constructions.
(c)  Some French industrialists persuaded the govt. to hold a World Fair in Paris.
(d) The construction of Eiffel Tower began in January 1987.
(e)  The tower is still one of the wonders of the world.

57. Bindubasini Govt. Boys’ High School, Tangail 

Read the following text carefully and answer the questions 4 & 5.

A recent data indicates the choice of professions among a group of students. At a glimps, we notice the highest percentage of choice to be a physician. 35% of the students showed their interest in this profession.

The next in the list in the choice of becoming a computer programmer, 20% of the students chose this profession. 15% of them chose teaching as the future profession.

The number of students that chose practising law was only 12%. Among all the choices, the most intriguing and interesting choice was to be an entrepreneur. 18% of the students wanted to be future entrepreneurs. This indicates how the youth perceive the possibilities in future.

4. Complete the following table with the information from given in the passage.

5. Read the passage again and write true or false beside the following statements. Give answers for the false statements.

(a)  Most of the students want to be a teacher.

(b)  Less than 20% students want to be a computer programmer.

(c)  Teaching is preferable to practising law.

(d) 15% of the students want to be a teacher.

(e)  The students are careless about their possibilities in future.

 58. Bidnubasini Govt. Girls’ High School, Tangail 

Read the following text carefully and answer the questions 4 & 5.

Begum Rokeya was born in 1880 at Pairabond, a village in the district of Rangpur. Her family was very conservative. Yet she received her education in English and Bengali from her elder brother, Ibrahim Sabir.

In 1896, at the age of sixteen, Rokeya was married to Shakhawat Hossain. Shakhwat was pleased to see the eagerness of his wife for education. In 1909, Shakhawat Hossain died. After the death of her husband Rokeya started the Shakhawat Memorial Girls’ School at Bhagalpur.

But the local people opposed it. She therefore, left Bhagalpur for Calcutta and in 1911, she started the Shakhwat Memorial Girls’ School in Calcutta with only 8 female students. In 1917 lady Chamsford, wife of the then Viceroy of India, visited the school.

It was then upgraded to a High English School. In 1931, three girl students appeared at the Entrance Examination under the Calcutta University.

The school still stands at the heart of the city of Calcutta. In 1916, Begum Rokeya established the Muslim Mahila Samity. Begum Rokeya was a writer also.

Through her pen she tried to awaken the Muslim women of the Indian subcontinent. In 1932, on the 9th December, Begum Rokeya died at the age of 52. At her death the country plunged into a deep grief.

4. Complete the following table with the information from the given passage.

5. Read the passage again and write true or false beside the following statements. Give answers for the following statements.

(a)  Rokeya received her education from a well-known school.
(b)  Shakhawat was very pleased to see the eagerness of his wife for education.
(c)  With the help of her husband, Rokeya started the Shakhwat Memorial Girls’ School at Bhagalpur.
(d) Local people supported Rokeya to establish the school.
(e)  Shakhwat Memorial Girls’ School still stand at the heart of the town of Bhagalpur.

59. Jamalpur Zilla School, Jamalpur 

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions following it 4 & 5.

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4. Complete the following table with the information given in the passage.

5. Read the passage again and write true or false beside the following statements. Give correct answers for the false statements.

(a)  Shakhawat was very pleased to see the interest of his wife for education.
(b)  Rokeya’s husband died in 1909.
(c)  With the help of her husband, Rokeya started the Shakhawat Memorial Girls’ School at Bhagalpur.
(d) Local people co-operated Rokeya to establish the school.
(e)  She was a poetess.

60. Vidyamoyee Govt. Girls’ High School, Mymensingh 

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions 4 & 5.

Jibanananda Das was born in a small town of Barisal in 1899. He took his master’s Degree in English at the age of 22. The next year he started his teaching career as a Professor of English at the Calcutta City College. He lost the job in 1928 on the charge of publishing a poem in the Parichaya Patrika.

But two years after he joined the Ramjash College, Delhi but returned to his place of birth the next year. He got an appointment in Brajamohan College, Barisal in 1935. In 1947 when the partition was made, Jibanananda Das left Bangladesh for India. In West Bengal he started editing the Swaraj Patrika.

In 1951 he joined the Kharagpur College. He was awarded Rabindra Purashkar in 1953. He met with a tram accident on the 14th October, 1954. He was hospitalized. After a few days he passed away on October 22, 1954.

4. Complete the following table with the information given in the passage.

5. Read the passage again and write true or false. Give answers for the false statements.

(a)  Jibanananda Das got an appointment at Dhaka college in 1935.
(b)  Jibanananda Das left Bangladesh before partition in 1947.
(c)  Jibanananda Das started editing the Swaraj Patrika in New Delhi.
(d) Jibanananda Das Joined the Kharagpur College in 1951.
(e)  Rabindra Purashkar was awarded to Jibanananda Das in 1953.

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