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English pt 2 class 8

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SUBJECT: ENGLISH

CLASS-VIII

M.M.40 MARKS

TIME: 90 min.

Read the passage given below and answer the questions from the options given below:

Tourists to Jammu and Kashmir have another attraction – a floating post office on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, the first in the country. ‘Floating Post Office, Dal Lake’ – claimed to be the only one such post office in the world – is built on an intricately carved maroon houseboat, fastened on the western edge of the Dal Lake.

This post office lets you avail of all the regular postal services available in the country while being afloat. The seal used on everything posted from Floating Post Office is unique – along with the date and address, it bears the design of a boatman rowing a shikara on the Dal Lake. The special feature of this post office is that letters posted from here carry a special design which has the picturesque scenery of Dal Lake and Srinagar city. These pictures reach wherever these letters are posted to and hence promote Kashmir as a tourist destination across the world.
This is actually a heritage post office that has existed since British times. It was called SECTION Nehru Park Post Office before 2011. But then the chief postmaster John Samuel renamed it as ‘Floating Post Office’.

The post office’s houseboat has two small rooms – one serves as the office and the other a small museum that traces the philatelic history of the state postal department. It has a shop that sells postage stamps and other products.

But for the locals, Floating Post office is more than an object of fascination. 1-2 crore is deposited per month in Floating Post Office by communities living in and around the Dal Lake. The lake has several islets that are home to more than 50,000 people.

The greatest fear is the recurrence of 2014 like floods in which the houseboat had gone for a toss uncontrollably pushed by the flood. Rescue teams had to anchor it using special mechanism in a nearby highland. Then it was brought back on the Dal after the water receded. The biggest boon is that at no time of the year do you need a fan in this post-office!
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What is the location of the Floating Post Office in Srinagar?

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What is special about the seal used in the post office?

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The post office is helpful in promoting tourism _____________.

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Who renamed the post office as ‘Floating Post Office’?

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10. The two rooms of the post office are used for_____.

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The post office is beneficial to the locals _______.

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What is the greatest fear that the post office has ?

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How is the post office a big boon to the people?

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The flood came in the year ______ in Kashmir valley

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find the synonym of' trait’ from the passage.

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This haritage post office has existed since-

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what did the child offer to hire him

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Who is the poet of the poem the last bargain

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what was the child doing in the poem "last bargain"

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According to Ahluwalia the man who returns after climbing the mountains is a

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Name the mountain where the writer had climbed

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what are the three necessary qualities to reach the summit

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why is the person who has been to mountains never the same again?

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contractor had nightmares about

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How did hafiz contractor help students who lost their button?

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why did students book his textbook in advance?

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I am going to an architect's office to learn

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what drives all the joy away?

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Who wrote the poem the school boy?

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I______- to rise on a sunday morn

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The summit of the mind refers to

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what is the mood of the school boy?

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Standing on everest,the writer was-

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what is the noun form of endure?

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The king sword in hand suggests-

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reorder the following
dog/rahul/with his/pet/playing/enjoys

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change in to indirect speech
ram said to me,"what is your name"?

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fill in the blanks
Go to the principal----------and submit your explanation

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Meaning of "remote'

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PEOPLE CLIMB MOUNTAINS BECAUSE THEY

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An old man came out withhis bag of --------

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An informal letter is written in a

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what is the full form of HC IN TREASURE WITHIN

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'I hire you with nothing' who is I here

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contractor passed most of his school examination by