Annual Examination 2024

Subject- English
Time: 2.30 Hrs. Class-8. M.M: 80
Note:-Attempt all questions. Marks are Indicated against each question.

SECTION A (READING )
1. Read the following passage carefully answer the following questions. 7
In the jungle there are many different animals. Some animals live in trees, while
others live on the ground. Monkeys love to swing from tree to tree and eat fruits.
They have long tails that helps them balance. Elephants are the largest land
animals and they use their long trunks to drink water and spray themselves to
keep cool Tigers are big cats with beautiful stripes on their fur. They are excellent
hunters and can run very silently and be very dangerous. Lastly, there are many
colourful birds in the wildness. They fly high up in the trees and sing beautiful
songs.
a) What animals live in the jungle ?
b) How do monkeys move around in the trees?
c) What do elephants use their trunks for?
d) What are tigers known for?
e) Make sentences with-jungle, fly, beautiful.
f) Find out three adjectives from the above passage.
Fill in the blanks-
g) Snakes in the............... and slim.
SECTION-B (WRITING)
2. Write a short paragraph on any one of the following topics. 4
(a) Pollution (b) My Hobby (c) My Favourite Teacher
3. Write an application to the principal for arrangement of sports game in
school. 5
4. Write eight lines of any poem from your textbook. 4
 SECTION-C ( GRAMMAR)
5. Fill in the blanks with correct form of non-finites given in the brackets: 4
a) We ….. a bird in the garden. (see)
b) ……….. is a good exercise. (Dance)
c) ……… (cook) is my hobby.
d) I want ………..Football. (play)
6. Transform these sentences into the passive voice: 4
a) She sing a song.
b) She stole my book.
c) My mother cooked food.
d) A Gardener is watering plants.
7. Fill in the blanks with suitable modal verb; 4
a) I……… beat you.
b) ……… you lend me ₹100 please.
c) …….. God bless you.
d) It ……. Rain today.
8. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions. 4
a) The cat is …….. the table.
b) The fan is ……. The head.
c) The Bridge is ……… the Ganga.
d) A pen is ……. Table.
9. Fill in the blanks in the sentence below the verbs given in the brackets will
give you a clue. 4
a) He is………… to Delhi to meet his friend . (Go)
b) The patient had ……….. before the doctor …….. (died / come)
c) I have been ………. Here since 2000. ( Teach)
d) He does not ……… a letter. (Wrote )
10. Rearrange the following jumbled words to form meaningful sentence: 2
a) Diwali /festival /is /of/ lights /the
 b) Watered/ gardener /the /plants/ the
c) Name /is /what/ your?
d) The /of /Dehradun /Uttarakhand/ capital/ is
e) Small /is/ family/ called/ family/ happy /a
11. Fill in the blanks with a, an, the . 2
a) On the way, I saw ………… elephant.
b) are you attending…………Dinner tonight
c) I am……………Indian whereas you are ……….Chinese.
d) ………… Table was made of wood.
SECTION -D ( LITERATURE)
12. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. 3
many people believe that animals possess a sixth sense and know when the earth
is going to shake. some experts believe that animals ‘more acute hearing helps
them to hear or feel the earths vibrations. they can sense and an approaching
disaster long after humans realise what's going on.
a) Name the lesson.
b) How do the animals come to know about the earth's vibration.
c) Name any two natural disasters.
13. Read the given extracts answer the following questions. 3
The silly young cricket accustomed to sing
through the warm sunny month of gay
summer and spring.
Begin to complain when he found that at home
his cupboard was empty and winter was come.
a) Name the poem and poet?
b) Who begins to complain?
c) He is refers to whom ?
14. Answer the following question. 30
a) what did the author find in the junk shop?
b) Who was Chunnilal? what did he want from Bipin Babu?
c) what had happened to Jodi’s father?
d) What was Duttada’s secret ambition
e) How many daughters did royal couple have ?
f) Why is the Giant called selfish?
g) Why did the Camel live in the middle of the desert?
h) What is scientist message for disabled?
i) What was greatest on face?
j) why had Frampton nuttel came to the ‘ rural retreat’