Bongaon High School (HS)
ENGLISH (Class VIII)
1. Read the following text and answer the questions given below:
Looking pale and thin, with a bushy half-grown beard, Subhas was reclining on his pillows when Sisir, his nephew, entered Subhas's bedroom that December afternoon. Subhas made him sit to his right on the bed. Looking intensely at Sisir, he said, "Can you do some work for me?"
Sisir nodded.
The task, as it turned out, was to help plan and carry out Subhas's escape from India. Sisir would have to drive his uncle, in the dead of the night, to a railway station far away from Calcutta.
A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:
(i) In his bedroom Subhas took rest — (a) putting his head on his pillows, (b) sitting straight on his bed, (c) leaning back on his pillows, (d) lying asleep on his bed.
(ii) Subhas planned to escape from his — (a) country, (b) residence, (c) town, (d) state.
(iii) The meeting between Subhas and Sisir took place in — (a) autumn, (b) late autumn, (c) spring, (d) winter.
B. Complete the following sentences with information from the above text:
(i) Subhas looked not only pale and thin, but also he had
(ii) Sisir was given the duty of
C. Write 'T' for true or 'F' for false statement in the given box. Give supporting statement for your answer:
Sisir agreed to the proposal of Subhas.
Supporting statement:
2. Read the following lines of the poem and answer the questions given below:
From the earth's loosened mould
The sapling draws its sustenance, and thrives;
Though stricken to the heart with winter's cold,
The drooping tree revives.
A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:
(i) The sapling draws its sustenance from the — (a) sky, (b) rain, (c) air, (d) earth's loosened mould.
(ii) The tree is seriously affected by the — (a) heat of summer, (b) cold in winter, (c) rain in monsoon, (d) dews that fall in autumn.
B. Complete the following sentence with information from the above poem:
The drooping tree revives in
3. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:
One day Clare and Simon saw two birds flying to the apple tree at the end of the garden. Next day they saw the birds flying to the tree with bits of dead grass in their beaks. Soon the birds built a nest in the branches. The hen bird laid four eggs in the nest. Then she sat on the eggs for fifteen days. At the end of that time a baby bird came out of each egg. The mother and the father bird fed them all day long.
A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:
(i) The birds built their nest in a — (a) tree full of flowers, (b) tree full of fruits, (c) bush, (d) chimney.
(ii) The 'hen bird' here refers to the — (a) mother bird, (b) father bird, (c) female chicken, (d) male chicken.
B. Complete the following sentences with information from the given passage:
(i) The birds built their nest using
(ii) The baby birds were fed by
C. Answer the following question:
How many days did the baby birds take to come out of the eggs?
4. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs given in the brackets:
(i) My mother (does/is doing/has been doing) her kitchen-work since morning.
(ii) This book is not fat, I (read/shall read/shall have read) it by lunch time.
5. Add suitable prefix or suffix to the words given in the brackets and fill in the blanks:
(i) Your (polite) behaviour can make you friendless.
(ii) On the cool winter night of January 16, the policemen preferred to be (comfort) under warm blankets on the charpoi.
6. Join the following sentences using infinitive:
I take rest. I store energy for further work.
Ans:
7. Write a letter (within 100 words) to your best friend telling him about the changes that you see in nature when rain comes after hot summer.
ANSWER KEY: English Class VIII
(i) (c) leaning back on his pillows
(ii) (a) country
(iii) (d) winter
(i) ...but also he had a bushy half-grown beard.
(ii) Sisir was given the duty of helping plan and carry out Subhas's escape from India.
Statement: T
Supporting Statement: "Sisir nodded."/ (Looking intensely at Sisir, he said, "Can you do some work for me?" Sisir nodded.)
(i) (d) earth's loosened mould.
(ii) (b) cold in winter.
The drooping tree revives in the earth's loosened mould.Correct -The drooping tree revives in spite of being stricken to the heart with winter's cold
(i) (b) tree full of fruits (Apple tree)
(ii) (a) mother bird.
(i) The birds built their nest using bits of dead grass.
(ii) The baby birds were fed by the mother and the father bird.
The baby birds took fifteen days to come out of the eggs.
(i) My mother has been doing her kitchen-work since morning.
(ii) ...I shall have read it by lunch time.
(i) Your impolite behaviour...
(ii) ...preferred to be comfortable...
Ans: I take rest to store energy for further work.
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