Gap Filling Exercises for class 8 Exercise-87 & 88

Exercise-87

In each of the following passages, there are given some blanks each of which has been numbered. These are printed below the passage and against each, some words are given, one of which fits the blanks appropriately. Fill in the blank with an appropriate word-

One day an old lady was…… (1) ……alone in the first class compartment of a train. She was very well dressed. She was sitting …….. (2) …….. in a corner and was reading a book. A travelling ticket checker came into the compartment and asked for her ticket. The lady …….(3) ……her bag for the ticket but couldn’t find it. She then looked for it among her other things. She could not fond the ticket there also. So, she got very……. (4) …….She said to the ticket checker, “Will you please pull the chain and stop the train? I have …… (5) ……. my ticket.” The ticket checker said, “Please do not worry. I know you are an honest woman”. “You do not understand, ” said the old lady, “If I don’t find my ticket, how shall I know where I have to…….. (6)……………..?

1.(A) going                  (B) landing

 (C) travelling              (D) flying

2. (A) calmly                (B) slowly

(C) quietly                   (D) fastly

3. (A) looked in           (B) searched in

(C) saw in                    (D) put in

4. (A) happy                (B) pleased

(C) worried                 (D) anxious

5. (A) threw                (B) sold

(C) lost                        (D) tore

6. (A) get in                (B) got off

 (C) get off                 (D) got in

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Exercise-88

In each of the following passages, there are given some blanks each of which has been numbered. These are printed below the passage and against each, some words are given, one of which fits the blanks appropriately. Fill in the blank with an appropriate word-

Machines have, in fact, become the…… (1) …….of modern life. They do more and more work that human …….. (2)…….. not want to do. Think for a movement of the……..  (3)……… to which machines do work for you. You woke perhaps, to the hoot of a siren, emitted by a machine in a neighbouring factory. You glance …….. (4) ………. a machine has the right time. You spend your part of your day..….. (5) ……..a school cinema where a machine teaches you ………. (6)……… one of the most pleasant – methods, listen to lesson broadcast by one of the ……… (7)………. wonderful machines invented in modern times. So ………. (8)…….. have we become on machines that a foreign writer of prays, Kerel Capek, has in a play imagined a time …….. (9)…….. machines will have acquired a will of their own and become the masters ……..(10)……. men, doomed once more to slavery.

1.(A) servants            (B) slaves

(C) workers               (D) none of these

2. (A) dwellings        (B) winds

(C) beings                 (D) efforts

3. (A) extent              (B) quantity

 (C) quality                (D) limit

4. (A) on                     (B) upon

(C) of                          (D) at

5. (A) at                      (B) in

 (C) on                        (D) of

6. (A) from                 (B) with

(C) by                         (D) of

7. (A) most                (B) best

 (C) much                  (D) more

8. (A) supportive      (B) dependent

(C) expert                  (D) useful

9. (A) shall have       (B) would have

 (C) have                   (D) when

10. (A) of                  (B) at

(C) on                        (D) by

ANSWERS

1.(B)             2. (C)

3. (A)            4. (D)

5. (B)            6. (C)

7. (A)            8. (B)

9. (D)            10. (A)

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