Viii 1 st eng

VIVEKANANDA COACHING CENTRE

CLASS:- VIII, SUB:- ENGLISH

F. M:-40, TIME:- 1 HOUR 

NAME:- _________________________________________________________________

Section -A :- Reading Comprehension (Seen)

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: 

There was once a lad who wanted to be a sailor but his mother would not let him go to the sea. "Child what do you know of sailing?" she would say, "You're a farmer's son, you know the turn of the seasons and the smell of the soil but you do not know the sea."

Now the boy whose name was fon, had always obeyed his mother. So he went about his farm work with a heavy heart but did not again mention the sea.

One day, he had been walking behind the plough. He all but ran over a tiny green turtle on a clod of dirt. He picked the turtle up and set it on his head where he knew it would be safe. When he was done with ploughing, Jon plucked the turtle from his head. To his utter surprise he found that it had turned into a tiny green fairy man that stood upon his palm and bowed. 

A. Tick the correct alternatives:                                                                                                        1x4=4

(i) Jon is a(a) teacher's son (b) shop-keeper's son  (c) farmer's son (d) sailor's son.

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(ii) Mother told Jon that he knew  the smell of the (a) food (b) flower (c) soil (d) perfume.

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(iii) The turtle was -- (a) black (b) blue (c) brown (d) green.

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(iv) The green fairy man stood upon his -- (a) head (b) palm (c) nose (d) neck.

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B. Answer the following questions:                                                                                                  2x4=8

(i) What are the things Jon knew according to his mother?

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(ii) What did Jon run over while walking behind the plough?

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(iii) Why Jon put the turtle on his head? 

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(iv) What did Jon want to be?

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Section - B : Reading Comprehension (Unseen)

2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:

Once upon a time Vidyasagar was travelling in a train. When he got down from the train he found a young man shouting for a coolie as he was unable to carry his hand bag. Vidyasagar was standing nearby. "How much will you take?" asked the man taking Vidyasagar for a coolic. "Whatever you please," replied the pandit and taking the hand bag, went on. When he reached the house he handed over the bag to its owner and went away. He did not take anything when asked to do so. The young man soon found out who the carrier of the bag was. He was ashamed of his conduct and learnt a useful lesson of self-help.

A. Answer the following questions:                                                                                                  2×2=4

(i) Why was the young man shouting for a coolie? 

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(ii) What did the man find out soon?

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B. Complete the sentences with information from the above passage:                                   2×1=2

(i) The young man took Vidyasagar _____________________________________________

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(ii) The young man learnt ____________________________________________________

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C. Write "T" for True and 'F' for False statements in the given boxes:                                        2×1=2

(i) Vidyasagar met an old man on the platform.

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(ii) Vidyasagar taught the young man a good lesson. 

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Section - C : Grammar & Vocabulary 

3. Fill in the blanks with the given adjectives in their proper degree:                                        4×1=4

(i) No other mountain peak is so -------  (high) as Everest.

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(ii) Darjeeling is ----- (cool) than Lava.

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(iii) Samridhya is the -----  (tall) girl in the class.

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(iv) Very few Indian cities are as ----- (big) as Kolkata.

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4. Fill in the blanks with approprlate modals given in the list below:                                        2×1=2

(i)We ----  help the poor and the needy. 

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(ii) You ----  hurry up or you will be late.

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modals: may, should, can, must

5.  Choose the correct option and fill in the blanks:                                                                       4×1=4

(a) ------- are two coconut trees in ------  garden. (there/their)

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(b) Last Sunday, I ------ Munni at the bus-stop. She is my close -------.  (mate/met)

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(c) He is ----- weak ----  walk. (to/too)

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(d) The little ----- has  ------ this bouquet. (made/maid)

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Section - D : Writting Skill 

6. Write a paragraph in about seventy words on the famous Bengali writer Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay :-                                                                                                                                       10

Hints: born on 12th September 1894-father Mahananda Bandyopadhyay and mother Mrinalini Devi-early education at Bangaon High School-intermediate and graduation from Ripon College, now known as Surendranath College of Kolkata-worked as Headmaster at Jangipara High School and later at Harinavi Anglo-Sanskrit Institution-famous novels are Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Aranyak, Debjan, Icchamati, Chander Pahar etc.-died on 1st November, 1950

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