Class-8 English Chapter-6 How mowgli joined the pack

CHAPTER-6

HOW MOWGLI JOINED THE PACK

(A) Fill in the blanks with correct words given below :

1. He stretched and yawned lazily.
2. The dog snarled at us.
3. We scoured  the area for somewhere to pitch our tent.
4. She put her foot down and the car roared  away.
5. The old woman wanted to handover. the documents to the police.

(B) Answer the following questions.

Question 1.Where did the pair of wolves live?
Answer:The pair of wolves lived in a cave in the Seeonee Hills.

Question 2.Father wolf says,” It is time to hunt again.” What time was it actually ?
Answer:It was evening.

Question 3.What did the ‘Law of the Jungle’ forbid ? Why?
Answer:The ‘Law of the Jungle’ forbade the animals to change their quarters without due warning

Question 4.What news did Tabaqui bring ?
Ans.Tabaqui, the jackal, brought the news that. Shere Khan, the tiger, had shifted his hunting grounds to the hills.

Question 5.Why was Father wolf annoyed ?
Ans.Father wolf was annoyed because Shere Khan, the tiger, had broken the ‘Law of the Jungle.’

Question 6.Where was the Pack Council meeting held ?
Answer:The Pack Council meeting was held on a hilltop.

Question 7.What was the price at which the cub was bought to the Wolves Pack ?
Answer:The cub was bought to the Wolves Pack for the price of a newly killed bull.

(C) Who says to whom?

(i) Good luck be with you !
Answer:Tabaqui, the jackal, to Father wolf.

(ii) The fool ! To begin a night’s work with that noise !
Answer:Father wolf to mother wolf.

(iii) have never seen one, bring it here.
Answer:Mother wolf to father wolf.

(iv) He may be a help in time.
Answer:Akela, the lone wolf, to Bagheera.

(v) The cub is mine and to my teeth he will come in the end.
Answer:Shere Khan, the tiger, to mother wolf.

(D) Say true of false.

1. The couple of wolves have three cubs.                               (False)    
2. Tabaqui teases mother and father wolves.                          (False)
3. Mother wolf was not delighted to see the man’s cub.          (False)
4. Shere Khan was a lame tiger.                                              (True )
5. Mother and father wolves were attracted to Mowgli.            (True )

(E)Read the short story and learn the use of articles.

(A) Once there was a doctor. He was a greedy man. One day an ailing old man came to him. The doctor treated him carelessly. After some days the old man died. The sons of the man seized the doctor. They put him in a dark room and tied him with a long rope. In the night the doctor got loose from the rope. He escaped from the room. On the way he swam across the river also. When he reached home he found his son studying some medical books. He said “Listen my son, the first and the most important thing for a doctor to do is to learn to swim.”:

Now insert suitable articles in the following story and complete it.

A man decided to rob a bank in another town. He went to the Town and walked into a bank. He handed the note to one of cashiers
a cashier read the note, which told him to give the man five lakh rupees.

Afraid that he might have the gun, he did as he was told the man then walked out of a bank. How the ever, he had no time to spend the money because he was arrested the same day. He had made the mistake. He had written a note on the  back of the envelope. And on an other side of the envelope was his name and address. The clue was quite enough for the police.