2020-21 St.Margaret Sr Sec School Prashant Vihar,Delhi-110085 1 www.stmargaretsrsecschool.com Sample Paper 1– Annual Examination Class - VIII Subject- English M.M-60 This paper is divided into 4 sections : Section A : Reading – 16 marks Section B : Writing – 6 marks Section C : Grammar – 20 marks Section D : Literature – 18 marks General Instructions: - Answer all questions. - All questions must be correctly numbered as in the question paper. - Attempt all questions in each section before going on to the next section. - Internal choice has been given in a few questions, answer accordingly. ................................................................................................................................................. SECTION A: READING A.1. Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow: (8 marks) Education is must for both men and women equally as both together make a healthy and educated society. It is an essential tool for getting bright future as well as plays a most important role in the development and progress of the country. Citizens of the country become responsible for the better future and development of the country. Highly educated people become the base of the developed country. So, proper education makes the bright future of both, the individual and the country. It is only educated leaders who build the nation and lead it to the height of success and progress. Education makes people as perfect and noble as possible. Good education gives many purposes to the life such as enhancement of the personal advancement, increase social status, increase social health, economical progress, success to the nation, set goals of life, make us aware towards many social issues and gives solutions to solve environmental problems and other related issues. Now-a-days, education has become very simple and easy because of the implementation of distance learning programmes. Modern education system is fully capable to remove the social issues of illiteracy and inequality among people of different race, religion and caste. Education develops the people’s minds to a great level and helps in removing all the differences in the society. It makes us able to become a good learner and understand every
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Sample Paper 1– Annual Examination
Class - VIII
Subject- English
M.M-60 This paper is divided into 4 sections : Section A : Reading – 16 marks Section B : Writing – 6 marks Section C : Grammar – 20 marks Section D : Literature – 18 marks General Instructions: - Answer all questions. - All questions must be correctly numbered as in the question paper. - Attempt all questions in each section before going on to the next section. - Internal choice has been given in a few questions, answer accordingly. .................................................................................................................................................
SECTION A: READING
A.1. Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow: (8 marks)
Education is must for both men and women equally as both together make a healthy and
educated society. It is an essential tool for getting bright future as well as plays a most
important role in the development and progress of the country. Citizens of the country
become responsible for the better future and development of the country. Highly educated
people become the base of the developed country. So, proper education makes the bright
future of both, the individual and the country. It is only educated leaders who build the nation
and lead it to the height of success and progress. Education makes people as perfect and
noble as possible.
Good education gives many purposes to the life such as enhancement of the personal
advancement, increase social status, increase social health, economical progress, success to
the nation, set goals of life, make us aware towards many social issues and gives solutions to
solve environmental problems and other related issues. Now-a-days, education has become
very simple and easy because of the implementation of distance learning programmes.
Modern education system is fully capable to remove the social issues of illiteracy and
inequality among people of different race, religion and caste.
Education develops the people’s minds to a great level and helps in removing all the
differences in the society. It makes us able to become a good learner and understand every
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aspect on life. It provides ability to understand all the human rights, social rights, duties and
responsibilities towards country.
Answer the following questions: (1*8=8) A.1.1 Why education has become very simple and easy nowadays? A.1.2 What is modern education system capable of? A.1.3 Give a suitable title for the passage. Complete the given sentences: A.1.4 Education is must for both men and women equally as ........................................... A.1.5 It is only educated leaders who ............................................ A.1.6 Good education gives many purposes to the life as ................................. Find the words from the passage which means the same as: A.1.7 important - ...................... A.1.8 advancement - .........................
A.2. Read the given poem carefully and answer the questions that follow: (8 marks)
Fred is a very lazy frog Who lolls all day upon a log. He always manages to shirk Doing a single stroke of work. His poor old mother calls in vain “Come in and help!” he does not bother To move two inches, much preferring To be extremely hard-of-hearing. He lies there in a silent heap, And stays conveniently asleep If a lady frog hops past You’d think he would get up at last To bow, and help her on her way? But no, I am ashamed to say That when a lady frog comes by He does not open up one eye!
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Answer the following questions: (1*4=4)
A.2.1 What does Fred do when a lady frog hops by?
A.2.2 What does Fred manage to shirk from?
A.2.3 What does Fred do when his mother calls him?
A.2.4 Do you think you like Fred? Give one word to describe him.
Find rhyming words from the poem for : (0.5*4=2)
A.2.5 log - ............................
A.2.6 by - .......................
Pick the words from the poem which means the same : (1*2=2)
A.2.7 sit, lie or stand in a lazy relaxed way - ....................
A.2.8 avoid or neglect - ..................
SECTION B: WRITING
B.1. You are Vineet Kapoor/ Vidhi Roy, Sports Head, City Public School, Delhi. Your school has just started a sports department. Write an email to the Manager of Sports House, Delhi, wholesale suppliers of sports costumes, placing an order for sports uniform for the school students. Ask for the discount too.
OR Create an advertisement for the sale of a motorbike in good working condition. Mention the model, colour, date of manufacture, kilometres run, contact details, reason for sale, features, expected price, and other essential dates for the sale. (6*1=6)
SECTION C: GRAMMAR
C.1. Tick the correct option: (1*20=20)
a. Identify the direct object of the transitive verb:
We offered money to the greedy contractor.
i) money is the direct object
ii) the greedy contractor is the direct object
iii) both money and the greedy contractor are the direct objects
iv) no direct object
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b. To mark off the words of the speaker from the rest of the sentence in direct speech,
......................... are used.
i) exclamatory mark
ii) colon
iii) semi colon
iv) none of the above
c. The Maths test was .................. .
i) a piece of cake
ii) the best of both worlds
iii) break a leg
iv) to hit the nail on the head
d. Peter recently bought an attractive wall clock, and it stopped after few weeks. It is truly
said that ........................... .
i) Absence makes the heart grow fonder
ii) A cat has nine lives
iii) All that gliitters is not gold
iv) Actions speak louder than words
e. He said to me, “Not to smole.”
Convert the sentence into indirect speech:
i) He forbade me not to smoke.
ii) He warned me to smoke.
iii) He forbade me to smoke.
iv) None of the above
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f. Change the voice:
1. The proprietor will give the specifications.
2. The copywriter edits the article.
3. The committee members elected a new President.
g. Use appropriate punctuation marks in the following sentences.
1. We had a great time in France the kids really enjoyed it
2. Some people work best in the mornings others do better in the evenings
3. What are you doing next weekend
h. Underline the verb and write transitive or intransitive. If it is transitive, circle the object.
1. The math professor explains the lesson.
2. I drive my car to work every day.
3. Many students sleep late on the weekends.
i. Change the speech:
1. The boy said, ‘Hurrah! We have won the match.’
2. The old man said, ‘Alas! I have lost my purse.’
3. The child said, ‘What a beautiful sight!’
j. Change the speech:
1. The old woman said to the boy, ‘Please help me.’ 2. I said to him, ‘Love and obey your parents.’
3. The teacher said to the students, ‘Work hard.’
SECTION D: LITERATURE
D.1. Answer the following in reference to context: (1*5=5)
D.1.1 And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow- ‘Shadow’, said he, ‘Where can it be- This land of Eldorado?’
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a. Name the poem and the poet. (1)
b. Who is the ‘pilgrim shadow’ in the poem? (1)
c. How the knight is depicted in this stanza? (1)
d. What does ‘Eldorado’ represent in this stanza? (1)
e. What does the knight ask the shadow?
OR
Up beyond the curtain is he slumped at the controls, Sleeping like a baby with an aircraft full of souls, Are we in his Jumbo, DC-10 or one eleven On a way ticket not to Sydney but to Heaven?
a. Name the poem and the poet. (1)
b. How do you think the poet feels about flying? (1)
c. Write two pairs of rhyming words from the given stanza. (1)
d. Find a simile in this stanza. (1)
e. Someone who is ………….. in their chair is in a very relaxed position because they are
asleep in it. (1)
D.2. Answer the following: (4*2=8)
a. What was the squadron of the five US Navy torpedo bombers doing in 1945 when it was
disappeared? Why finding aeroplanes and ships that have sunk in the Bermuda Triangle is
particularly difficult?
b. Why do you not have to use a towel when lying on the fjord’s granite rocks? Why did
Dahl’s family always row to the ‘secret tiny island’?
D.3. Answer the following in detail: (5*1=5)
Do you sympathize with Chris over his dilemma? Why/ Why not? OR
‘The Mongolian outlaws’ method for sleeping rough in the Gobi in winter was a truly bizarre experience.’ Do you agree with the author when he says the above lines? Give your reasons.
