English | Unseen Passage for Class 8 with Answers 6-10 | PDF: This an important discussion on unseen passage with an answer sheet for class eight English subject so read the post carefully.
6. Read the following text carefully and answer questions 4 and 5 :
Every nation has its own parliament house. Like other nations of the world we also have a parliament house named Sangsad Bhaban. It is siutated at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka. It is a wonder of modern architecture and technology.
It is one of the largest and most beautiful parliament buildings in the world. It was designed by Louis I Kahn, the famous American architect. This 155 fee high nine storied building is surrounded by an artificial lake called Crescent Lake. The structure has 1605 doors, 335 window, 365 ventilators and corridors totaling to a bewildering length of 41.6 kilometres.
The house has 354 seats of MPs, 56 for guests, 40 for press people and 430 for spectators. It has three party rooms in each of which can sit 153 people. The whole place is air-conditioned and includes all modern facilities.
- Complete the following table with the information given in the passage :
| Information about our parliament house | |||
| Name of items | height | length | number |
| The Sangsad Bhaban | (i) ….. | ||
| The number of doors | (ii) …… | ||
| The length of corridors | (iii) ….. | ||
| (iv) …… | 880 | ||
| The number of party rooms | (v) …… | ||
- Read the passage again and write True or False beside the following statements. Give answers for the false statements :
- a) Our parliament house is located at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka.
- b) It is the largest and most spectacular parliament building in the world.
- c) It is surrounded by a natural lake.
- d) It is surrounded by a natural lake.
- e) The parliament house of Bangladesh contains all modern advantages.
7. Read the following text carefully and answer questions 4 and 5 :
The pioneer of Bangladeshi modern art, Zainul Abedin, was born in Kishoregonj on 29 December, 1914. He was a great artist of Bangladesh. He is widely acclaimed for his Bengal ‘Famine Sketches’.
Through a series of sketches he showed the harsh famine of 1940 and its similar face through the skeletal figures of the people destined to die from starvation. He depicted these extremely shocking pictures with human compassion.
He produces a series of brush and ink drawings which later became iconic images of human sufferings. He was graduated from the Government Art College and became first class first. He is considered the founding father of Bangladeshi art.
For his outstanding talent in art, he is referred to as ‘Shilpacharya’. He founded the Folk Art Museum in Sonargaon and Zainul Abedin Shangrahashala in Mymensingh.
- Complete the following table with the information given in the passage :
| Who/ What | Even/ Information | Where/ What | When/ How |
| Zainul Abedin | was born | Kishoregonj | (i) …… |
| The famine | broke out | (ii) …… | 1904’s. |
| (iii) …… | is called | Shilpacharya | |
| (iv) …… | was founded | in Sonargoan | in his life time. |
| Series of sketches | (v) …… | iconic images | now a days. |
- Read the passage again and write True or False beside the following statements. Give answers for the false statements :
- a) Zainul Abedin was born in Kishoregonj on 29 December, 1912.
- b) He was a great teacher of art.
- c) A harsh famine took place in Bengal in 1942.
- d) He founded Shangrahasala in Mymensingh.
- e) He was a meritorious student.
8. Read the following text carefully and answer questions 4 and 5 :
The Nobel Prize is the world’s most prestigious and important prize. It has been given since 1901. The prize is given to persons with outstanding contributions to physics, chemistry, literature, medicine peace and economics. Economics was added to the list in 1969 for the first time.
The Nobel Prize was instituted by a man who was the inventor of dynamite. This scientist was Alfred Bernard Nobel. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833 and he died in 1896. Tough he was a citizen of Sweden, he was educated in Russia.
He earned a huge sum of money by selling dynamite. At the time of his death in 1896, Nobel left behind a huge amount of money. He also left a will indicating that the interest on this money should be given as prizes to persons for their outstanding contributions to physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.
This prize was named as Nobel Prize. The first Nobel Prize was given to Roentgen on 10th December, 1901 for inventing X-ray.
- Complete the following table with the information given in the passage :
| Event | Place | Year/ time |
| Alfred Nobel was born | (i) ……. | 1833 |
| (ii) ……. | 1969 | |
| Nobel received education | (iii) …… | |
| (iv) …….. | at the time of his death | |
| (v) ……. | 1896 |
- Read the passage again and write True or False beside the following statements. Give answers for the false statements :
- a) The Nobel Prize is one of the most esteemed prizes of the world.
- b) From the very beginning Nobel Prize has been given in six fields.
- c) Alfred Bernard hails from Russia.
- d) He invented dynamite for the welfare of mankind.
- e) He left behind a small amount of money.
9. Read the following text carefully and answer questions 4 and 5 :
The moon is the earth’s nearest neighbour. When the moon is full, it looks very attractive. So, man has always dreamt of setting foot on it. The dream came true on July 20, 1969. Three American astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins, set out for the moon in a spaceship.
They travelled at a great speed. Just 76 hours later they were orbiting the moon. After a while two of the astronauts, Armstrong and Aldrin, left their spaceship in a lunar landing craft and prepared to land on the moon. Armstrong was the first to climb out and set down. As his left foot touched the rough surface of the moon, he said, “That’s a small step for a man, one great leap for mankind.”
Just after twenty minutes Aldrin followed Armstrong and stepped on the moon. Both astronauts explored the area surrounding the landing craft. Then they took pictures, set up scientific equipment and collected sixty pounds of rocks and moon soil. They also set up a television camera on the moon so that the whole world could watch.
While they were busy with these activities. Michael Collins was in the main ship moving around the moon. Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21 hours and 36 minutes on the moon. then they boarded the landing craft and lifted off. They returned safely to the spaceship.
- Complete the following table with the information given in the passage :
| Who/ What | Activities | When/ Time |
| The spaceship | set out | (i) …….. |
| (ii) …….. | followed Armstrong | just after 20 minutes |
| Both of them | (iii) ……. | on 20 July 1969 |
| (iv) …….. | was staying in the mainship | other two were busy with work |
| Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin | spent | (v) ……. |
- Read the passage again and write True or False beside the following statements. Give answers for the false statements :
- a) Edwin Aldrin was the first man who touched the rough surface of the moon.
- b) Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21 hours and 36 minutes on the moon.
- c) Michael Collins is the citizen of UK.
- d) The moon is very close to the earth.
- e) They set up television station on the moon.
10. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions 4 and 5 :
Rabindranath Tagore was one of the leading poets in the history of the world literature. He was at the same time a poet, a novelist, a dramatist, a philosopher and a musician.
He was born in the renowned Tagore family in March, 1861. After the completion of his house education, he was sent to school. But he did not like institutional education. So arrangements were made at house for his proper education.
In his thirteenth years, Rabindranath along with his father, went to visit the Himalayas. At the age of seventeen he was sent to London to study law. But he studied literature with Professor Henry Morely only for a few months and then returned home.
Only at the age of eight he started composing poems. He wrote his poetic novel “Banaphul” at the returning from England, he began to write tirelessly in all branches of literature.
In 1911 he translated his poems of “The Gitanjali” into English which brought him the highest honour in the form of the Nobel Prize in 1913.
One year after his awarding of the Nobel Prize, he was made a Knight by the British Government which he rejected as a protest against the atrocities of British Government at Jalianwalabagh.
The University of Oxford honoured him with D. Lit. in 1940. Earlier in 1921, he laid the foundation of Viswa Bharati. At the age of eighty, Rabindranath Tagore breathed his last.
- Complete the following table with the information given in the passage :
| Who/ what | Fevent/ activity | Where/ institute | When |
| Rabindranath Tagore | born | (i) …….. | 1861 |
| He | visited | Himalayas | (ii) ……. |
| He | (iii) …….. | London | 1878 |
| He | (iv) …….. | 1911 | |
| Poems and essays | publication | journals | (v) …….. |
- Read the passage again and write True or False beside the following statements. Give answers for the false statements :
- a) At the age of seventeen he was sent to the USA to study law.
- b) Banaphul is a drama written by Rabindranath Tagore.
- c) Rabindranath Tagore began to write in all branches of literature after coming back from America.
- d) He translated his poems of “The Gitanjali” into English in 1911.
- e) Tagore was awarded Nobel prize in 1913.
- অষ্টম শ্রেণি-JSC এর অনুধাবনমূলক প্রশ্ন ও উত্তর
- JSC : শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়‘র জীবনী ও জ্ঞানমূলক প্রশ্নগুলোর উত্তর
- JSC : শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়‘র জীবনী ও সৃজনশীল প্রশ্নগুলোর উত্তর
- JSC : শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়‘র জীবনী ও সৃজনশীল প্রশ্নোত্তর
- অষ্টম শ্রেণি: শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়‘র জীবনী ও সৃজনশীল প্রশ্নোত্তর
Answer: 6
4. (i) 155 feet; (ii) 1605; (iii) The number of seats; (v) 3.
5. (a) True.
(b)True.
(c)True.
(d)False. It is surrounded by an artificial lake called crescent lake.
(e)True.
Answer:7
4. (i) Kishoregonj; (ii) Bengal; (iii) Zainul Abedin; (iv) Folk Art Museum; (v) became.
5. (a) False. Zainul Abedin was born in Kishoregonj on 29 December, 1914.
(b)True.
(c)False. A harsh famine took place in Bengal in 1940.
(d)True.
(e)True.
Answer:8
4. (i) Stockholm, Sweden; (ii) Economics was added to the list of Nobel Prize; (iii) Russia; (iv) Nobel left behind a huge amount of money; (v) Alfred Nobel died.
5. (a) True.
(b)False. At the beginning Nobel prize was given in five field. The Economics prize was introduced later.
(c)False. Alfred Nobel hails from Stockholm, Sweden.
(d)False. He invented dynamite for money.
(e)False. He left behind a huge amount of money.
Answer: 9
4. (i) July, 1969; (ii) Edwin Aldrin; (iii) landed on the moon; (iv) Michael Collins; (v) 21 hours and 36 minutes.
5. (a) False: Neil Armstrong was the first man who touched the rough surface of the moon.
(b)True.
(c)False. Michael Collins is the citizen of USA.
(d)True.
(e)False. They set up a television camera on the moon.
Answer: 10
4. (i) in the Tagore family; (ii) 1874; (iii) was sent to; (iv) translated “The Gitanjali” into English; (v) 1877.
5. (a) False. At the age of seventeen he was sent to the UK to study law.
(b)False. Banaphul is a poetic novel written by Rabindranath.
(c)False. Rabindranath Tagore began to write in all branches of literature after coming back from England.
(d)True.
(e)True.
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