Bihar Board Class 8 English Part III Chapter 16. Harvesting Rain Text Book Questions and Answers
16. Harvesting Rain
TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS AND THEIR ANSWERS
B. LET’S COMPREHEND :
B.1. THINK AND TELL:
B.1.1. Answer the following questions orally.
Q. 1. When is collecting water a very thrilling experience?
Ans. When there is severe water shortage all summer, collecting water during the June showers is thrilling experience.
Q. 2. When does the rainwater harvesting become useful and necessary?
Ans. When there is no availability of freshwater, rainwater harvesting becomes useful and necessary.
Q. 3. What is necessary step before collecting rainwater?
Ans. To let the rainwater flow waste to clean the roof and tank is a necessary step before collecting rainwater.
B.1.2. State whether the following statements are true or false.
1. The islands of Maldives received rainfall from North West monsoon.
2. The people in Maldives depend entirely on rainwater harvesting for their needs for water.
3. All houses in Maldives have the sloping roofs made of corrugated iron.
4. The author’s school had water round the year.
5. Rainwater is highly dependable.
Ans. 1. False, 2. False, 3. True, 4. True, 5. True.
B.2. THINK AND WRITE:
B. 2.1. Given below are the steps for harvesting rain in Maldives. But they are not in proper order. Put them in proper order.
1. The tank has a tap at its base.
2. Each newly built house is fitted with slopping roofs made of corrugated iron.
3. Some houses have a system for locking the tap.
4. This is ideal for collecting rainwater.
5. The pipe is extended in such a way as to deliver the water into tank.
6. Gutters are nailed to the base of the roof and sealed off at one end.
7. The other end of gutter has a pipe that leads to a huge tank made of cement.
Ans. The proper order of the given information:
1. Each newly built house is fitted with slopping roofs made of corrugated iron.
2. This is ideal for collecting rainwater.
3. Gutters are nailed to the base of the roof and sealed off at one end.
4. The other end of gutter has a pipe that leads to a huge tank made of cement.
5. The pipe is extended in such a way as to deliver the water into tank.
6. The tank has a tap at its base.
7. Some houses have a system for locking the tap.
B.2.2. Answer the following questions in about 30 words.
Q. 1. Ground water is becoming scarce and still its uses are many in our daily life. How can we gather and save water?
Ans. We can gather water in many ways:
We can gather water harvesting rainwater, collecting water from spring, lake, river, rains, etc.
We can save water as follows:
Misuse of water should be prevented. Water used for bathing should be saved for other rough use. Rainwater should be saved for domestic use.
Q. 2. All of us enjoy rain. We get drenched in it. We play with the paper boats. What was the author’s experience of collecting rainwater?
Ans. The author was habituated of collecting rainwater. He used collect rainwater with his family in buckets. He also learnt the method of harvesting rainwater in Maldives.
Q. 3. Our parents and teachers instruct us not to drench oursek in the first rain shower. Why according to the author the early rainwater in the season should be allowed to go a waste?
Ans. According to the author, the early rainwater in the season should be allowed to go a waste, so that the dirt of the year on the roofs and in the tanks may be cleaned.
Q. 4. Huge amount of rainwater is lost in our country. It is the wastage of natural resource. Do you agree with this view ? Give reasons.
Ans. Yes, water is a natural resource. So, wastage of rainwater is loss of natural resource.
C. WORD STUDY :
C.1. Correct the following words to make them meaningful.
Experiance, corragated, dilighted, incouraged, abudent
Ans. experience, corrugated, delighted, encouraged, abundant.
C.2. Match the words in A with their meaning in B.
A B
huge to establish
hailed abundant
set up very big
sealed up praised
plenty completely closed from all sides
Ans.
A B
huge very big
hailed praised
set up to establish
sealed up completely closed from all sides
plenty abundant
Q. 3. Pick out the words which are opposite in meaning from the text.
Plenty wet empty always lost
Ans.
Plenty Shortage
Wet Dry
Empty Filled
Always Never
Lost Received
C. 4. Find out the sentences in which the following words have been used in the lesson. Then use these words in your own sentences.
shortage, thrilling, experience, groundwater
Ans. Shortage–There is shortage of milk in our town.
Thrilling–The last moment of the play was thrilling.
Experience–I have no experience of playing football.
Groundwater–We use groundwater for drinking.
D. GRAMMAR :
D.1. Participles used as adjectives
Look at the following sentence:
collecting water during the June showers, especially after facing severe water shortage all summer was a thrilling experience.
Here, ‘thrilling’ is a present participle (verb + -ing) used as an adjective. The past participle (verb + ed or -en) is also used as an adjective; e.g., ‘broken leg’. Look at some more examples:
In some cases, both the present participle and the past participle of the same verb can be used as adjectives. For example:
Past participles, when used as adjective, can be found in phrases such as the following :
a broken leg a known fact
a closed door a locked door
a crowded bus an injured soldier
an air-conditioned building a broken promise
a married woman an educated person
a used car a sealed envelope
An adverb can be placed before past participle adjectives.
a well known fact a well-educated person
a well behaved child a slightly used book
a closely watched experiment closely related languages
a well-dressed woman a highly paid actor
Difference between almost and nearly.
Almost and nearly have similar meanings. They are both used to express ideas connected with progress, measurement or counting.
He slipped and almost fell to the ground.
OR
He slipped and nearly fell to the ground.
Dinner is almost/nearly ready. (= Dinner will soon be ready.)
Sometimes almost shows more ‘nearness’ than nearly.
Compare:
It is nearly 12 o’clock (= perhaps 11.45)
It is almost 12 o’clock (= perhaps 11.55)
Nearly can be used with very and pretty. Almost cannot be used wit very and pretty.
I have pretty nearly finished. (NOT I have pretty almost finished.)
Nearly suggests progress towards a goal. Almost suggests ideas such as similarity.
He is almost like a father to me. (NOT He is nearly like a father to me.)
She has got a good accent. She almost sounds American.
Almost is never used with a negative; you could say “A is almost as good as B” or “A is nearly as good as B”, but you can’t say “A is almost not as good as B”.
Nearly is not normally used before negative words like never, nobody, nothing, any etc. Instead we use almost or hardly with ever, anybody, anything etc.
The speaker said almost nothing.
OR
The speaker said hardly anything. (= The speaker said only a few words of little importance.) [NOT The speaker said nearly nothing.]
Amost nobody came.
OR
Hardly anybody came. (NOT Nearly nobody came.)
D.1.1. Fill in the blanks with the correct participle (present or past) of the verb given in brackets. One has been done for you.
Ex: I was bored (bore) during the movie and fell asleep.
1. After washing clothes for two hours, I felt ……. (tire).
2. Last night I saw an ……. (interest) movie.
3. I didn’t enjoy watching Godzilla. It was a …… (frighten) movie.
4. My friend was …… (surprise) when he saw people wearing sweaters in June in Shimla.
5. Learning a new language is sometimes very …….. (frustrate).
6. The children were ……… (excite) to see the tigers at the circus.
Ans. 1. tired, 2. interesting, 3. frightening, 4. surprised, 5. frustrating, 6. excited.
D.1.2. Fill in the blanks with an appropriate past participle. One has been done for you.
Ex : I can’t go to the library because the door is locked.
1. Where is the Golghar ……… ?
2. Last night I slept only for five hours. I’m so …….. today.
3. My room isn’t ……. so it’s hot in the summer.
4. I have two sisters. One is single. The other is …….
5. Anuj wasn’t……. in Patna. He came here when he was six years old.
6. Many movies are ……. in Bollywood.
7. Which director was ……. in making the movie?
8. Our school bus is always ……
9. Children shouldn’t be ……. to watch movies late at night.
10. Manoj Bajpai is a well …… actor.
Ans. 1. situated, 2. tired, 3. ventilated, 4. married, 5. educated, 6. exhibited, 7. interested, 8. maintained, 9. encouraged, 10. trained.
D.2. Sequence of tenses
If one clause follows another, its verb takes form according to certain rules. This is what we call sequence of tenses. The term sequence of tenses refers to the systematic way in which we alter the speaker’s verb tenses to make clear that all events, past or future, are not simultaneous.
The speaker says, “I am tired of hearing that song.”
We correctly report it: He said he was tired of hearing the song.
Here, changing the tense of the speaker from present to simple past constitutes about most of the process we call sequence of tenses.
We do not say He says he is tired of hearing the song.
The source says: “The weather is bad.”
We then would say/write: He said the weather was bad. Some rules regarding the sequence of tenses are:
1. If the main clause of a complex sentence is in the present tense or future tense, the verb of the dependent clause may take any form any tense. For example:
(i) I know that he is a good singer. (present tense after a present tense)
(ii) I know that Anshu will help me. (future tense after a present tense)
(iii) I will see whether Sabiha finished her homework or not. (past tense after a future tense)
2. When the independent clause is in the past tense, the dependent clause must also be in the past tense.
For example:
(i) Anu asked me why I was late. (past tense after a past tense)
(ii) Aslam told me that he was very tired. (past after a past tense)
(iii) Ayesha replied that she had missed her train. (past tense after a past tense)
3. If the main clause is in the past tense, the dependent clause can be in the present tense only if it states a universal truth. For example :
(i) My mother taught me that honesty is the best policy.
(ii) We learnt in school that the earth is round in shape.
1. Fill up the blanks with the correct tense of the verb given in brackets.
(a) Anil ran as fast as he …….. (can, could)
(b) Just as we……..the station, the train came. (reach, reached no
(c) You will pass the exam if you…….. (try, tried).
(d) He waited for his sister until she ……. (come, came).
(e) The teacher taught us that green leaves……. chlorophyll
(contain, contains, contained)
(f) Peter said that it ……. him an hour to reach the station. (take, took)
Ans. (a) could, (b) reached, (c) try, (d) came, (e) contain, (f) took.
II. Fill in the blanks with the correct auxiliary verbs.
(a) Paras said that he ……. write the essay.
(b) Sabiha told me that she … come.
(c) Parvez says that he…….. sing a Hindi song.
(d) I wished that I …… buy a new bicycle.
Ans. (a) will, (b) has, (c) will, (d) might.
E. LET’S TALK :
Q. Discuss the following in groups of pairs.
No Water, No Life
Ans. Water is an essential need for life. Everything of the earth has some quantity of water. Loss of water causes many deficiencies. We use water in different ways. We make our food with water, water is essential for drinking, washing, bathing and other such work. We can live without food for a few days but cannot live without water for one or two days. Everywhere there is need of water in life. Without water life cannot exist on the earth.
F. FCOMPOSITION:
Write a letter to your friend describing how water can be saved through rain harvesting.
Ans.
My Dear Sonam, Auranga
10th April 2012
I am well and want your welfare. I have learnt a good and new idea of collecting water from nature, which I want to share with you. The idea may be helpeful to you in solving water problem.
In our life, sometimes I face problem of shortage of water. We can get rid of this problem if we know how to harveste. If we store this water in tanks, fonus, wells, etc, we will be rich with water.
I have started harvesting rainwater and hope you, too, will take advantage of my advice.
Address :
Yours loving
ABC
G. TRANSLATION:
Q. Translate the first two paragraphs of the lesson in Hindi or your mother tongue.
Hint : See Hindi of the first two paragraphs on pages 169-170.
SOME OTHER IMPORTANT QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
Q. 1. Why does the writer suggest to harvest rainwater?
Ans. The writer suggest to harvest rainwater so that we can face water shortage.
Q. 2. Why do people in Maldives harvest rainwater ?
Ans. There is lack of drinking water in Maldives. So, people store rainwater for drinking.
Q. 3. What is rainwater harvesting?
Ans. Rainwater harvesting is a method of collecting rainwater for domestic purposes.
Q. 4. When does Maldives receive rain?
Ans. Maldives receives rain during North-East and South–West Monsoon.
Q. 5. What is meant by Monsoon?
Ans. Monsoon is the seasonal weather of rain.
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