Model Test Paper

Subject : English
Class :8th
Session:2024-25
Time :3 Hours Maximum Marks 100

Section-A (20 marks)

1. Write the correct option of each of the Multiple Choice
Questions (MCQs) as given below:- 20×1=20

i) Who tried to end superstitions in india ?

(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Subhash Chandra Bose
(c) Indira Gandhi
(d) None of the above

ii) Which word is closest to the meaning ‘scarcity of food’

(a) Hunger
(b) Thirsty
(c) Drought
(d) Femine

iii)How many times did Meghna see the relief helicopters?

(a) Two
(b) Three
(c) Twelve
(d) Eleven

(iv)Who is the poet of the poem “Geography Lesson' ?

(a) Mohan lal
(b) Zulfikar ghose
(c) Ruskin
(d) Prem Chand

(v)Stephen Hawking was a…………..?

(a) Psychologist
(b) Astrophysicist
(c) Neurobiologist
(d) dermatologist
 (vi)Who sings along with the school boy?
(a) Parents
(b) Friends
(c) Skylark
(d) teachers
(vii)What is the colour of female scarlet minivets?
(a) Pink
(b) Yellow
(c) Red
(d) green
(viii)The duck was feeling bored…………..
(a) On the perched land
(b) In her dirty pond
(c) In water
(d) In the company of Kangaroo
(ix)What did Velu feel when he was on the platform?
(a) Good and relaxed
(b) Refreshed and active
(C) Miserable but active
(d) Miserable and exhausted
(x)When did the children go to the Giant’s garden?
a. Morning
b. Afternoon
c. Evening
d. Night
( xi).What do you mean by the word ‘hostility’?

a. Ill will
b. Friendly
c. Cursingly
d. Sweetly
( xii)Who claimed himself to be a Warrior?
a. Ranji
b. Suraj
c. Both of them
d. None of them
(xiii).Which of the following word is a common noun.
(a) Ram
(b) Student
(c) Shimla
(d) None of the above
(xiv)Which of the following word is a material noun.
(a) Mohan
(b) Honesty
(c) Boy
(d) Gold
(xv) The antonym of the word ‘Night’ is :
(a) Light
(b) Morning
(c) Day
(d) None of the above
(xvi) Are you going to school ? The sentence given above is :
(a) Affirmative
(b) Negative
(c) Interrogative
(d) imperative
(xvii ) I……….buy a computer tomorrow.
(a) was
(b) is
(c) shall
(d) am
(xviii) Are they ………… to Bilaspur?
(a) going
(b) gone
(c) went
(d) go
(xix) My pen is ……….my pocket
(a) At
(b) on
(c) In
(d) up
(xx) He did not ……hockey.
(a) played
(b) pay
(c) playing
(d) plays
 Section-B (15 Marks)
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below
each: 5×1=5
When he woke up in the morning, he found that the cover of the book was
wet with snow. He felt very sad. How could he return the book with a bad
cover? He wanted to buy a new copy of the book and give it to the owner
but he had no money. What could poor Atul do? He took the book to the
owner and said that he wanted to give him a new copy of it. But because
he had no money, he wanted to pay for the book with his work. The owner
asked Atul to work for three days in his field.

a. What did Atul feel when he found the book wet with snow ?
b. Why was Atul unable to give a new copy of the book to its owner ?
c. Where did he take the book?
d. What did he say to the owner of the book ?
e. For how many days did Atul work in the owner's field ?
3.Read the following passage and answer the questions given below
each: 10×1= 10
Books are very useful to us. They are the best companion of man.
They never cheat the reader. Books are a good source of knowledge.
We get knowledge on different subjects. We can read books. We can
read books of our taste. They enlighten our hearts and make us bold
to face the realities and difficulties of life. We can find everything in
books. By reading books, we can be in the company of great writers
of the past. We can make this world a better place to live in. Books
are the life-blood of great master-minds. We can never deny their
utility.

A. What is useful to us?

B. Whom do they never cheat?
C. Whose best companions are books?
D. What are the books a source of?
E. On which subject can we get knowledge?
F. How do the books help us?
G. How can we make this world a better place to live in?
H. What can we find in the books?
I. How can we be in the company of great writers of the past?
J. Can we deny their utility?
 Section - C
Writing (20 Marks)
4. Write a Paragraph of 60-80 words on any one of the following: 7
(a) The person I like most
(b) Diwali
(c) Morning walk
(d) My School
(e) My Classroom
5. Write an application to the principal of your school to grant your full fee
concession. 7
Or
Write an application to the principal of your school for marriage leave.
Or
Write a letter congratulating your father, requesting him to send you some
money.
6. Write a story on any one of the following : 6
a. The thirsty crow
b. The fox and the grapes
c. The greedy dog
d. The lion and the mouse
e. Union is strength
Section -D
Grammar (12 Marks)
7. Do as directed: ( any twelve) 12×1=12
(a) Is he taking tea ? (Change into affirmative)
(b) They play football .(Change into negative)
(c) Shiv is………(tall) than Mahesh.
(Fill in the proper degree of adjective )
(d) The horse cleared the hurdle easily.(Change the gender)
(e) speak before you think.(Rearrange the jumbled words)
(f) They sing a song. ( Change the voice)
(g) Open the door . (Change the voice)
(h)You say, “Ram is a good boy”. (Change the Narration)
(i) The teacher said, “ The sun rises in the east”.(Change the Narration)
(j) We write a letter. (Change into Past Continuous Tense)
(k) He was going to the market. (Change into Present Continuous Tense)
(l) The ramayana is a holy book. (Punctuate it)
(m) Honesty is ….. best policy (Fill in blank with appropriate article )
(n) Please wait …..me (Fill in the blank appropriate Preposition)
 Section - E
Literature (33 Marks)
8. Read the following passage and answer the question :- 5
Inside the box, there was an envelope. The address read: "Mrs. Jim
Macpherson, twelve copper Beeches, Bridport Dorset." I took out the letter
and unfolded it. It was written in pencil and dated at the
top - "December 26, 1914”
(a) Write the name of the chapter.
(b) What was there inside the box ?
(c) Who was it addressed to ?
(d) When was the letter written?
(e) Write the opposites of following words:
(i) Inside
(ii) Folded
9. Answer any five question from the following: 2x5=10
(a) Why did the author go to Bridport?
(b) How many people and animals died in the yala national park ?
(c) Who was chunilal? What did he want from Bepinbabu?
(d) What happened to Jody's father ?
(e) What is the scientist's message for the disabled ?
(f) Why is the author not able to see Bijju?
(g) Which hill station does the author describe in this diary ?
10. Read the stanza given below and answer any four questions that
follow : 4
I love to rise in summer morn,
When the birds sing on every tree;
The distant huntsman wind his horn,
And the skylark sings with me,
O! What sweet Company.
(a) Name the poem and the poet.
(b) What does the poet love to do?
(c) When do birds sing on every tree ?
(d) Write the rhyming words.
(e) Write opposites:
(i) Summer
(ii) Morning
11. Answer any two questions from the following: 2x2=4
(a) How did the cricket pass his summer and spring?
(b) Who sings the poetry of earth in summer?
(C ) How did the poet go into the sky?

12. Answer any five question from the following: 5×2 =10
(a) What made the dog the horse and the ox very angry?
(b) Where did the girl lead vellu to?
(c) Why the Giant called selfish ?
(d) What did Hafeez contractor have night-mares about?
(e) What was Princess september's reaction to the loss of her parrot?
(f) Who was the better swimmer?
(g) How many daughters did the royal couple have?
(h)How did the author plan to pay the fee the next day?
 Class 8th
English Syllabus 2024-25
Honeydew: A Textbook for 8th Class Students
Chapter 1: The Best Christmas Present in the World
Poem: The Ant and the Cricket
Chapter 2: The Tsunami
Poem: Geography Lesson
Chapter 3: Glimpses of the Past
Chapter 4: Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
Poem: The Last Bargain
Chapter 5: The Summit Within
Poem: The School Boy
Chapter 6: ‘This is Jody’s Fawn
Chapter 7: A Visit to Cambridge
Chapter 8: A Short Monsoon Diary
Poem: On the Grasshopper and Cricket
It So Happened: A Supplementary Reader
Chapter 1: How the Camel got his Hump
Chapter 2: Children at work
Chapter 3: The Selfish Giant
Chapter 4: The Treasure within
Chapter 5: Princess September
Chapter 6: The Fight
Chapter 7: Jalebis
Chapter 8: Ancient Education System of India
Grammar Topics
1. The Sentence: Its Types and Parts 12. Present Perfect Tense.
2. Part of Speech 13. Simple Past Tense
3. Noun-1 14. Past Continuous Tense
4. Noun-II 15. Simple Future Tense
5. Pronoun 16. Change of Voice
6. Adjective 17. Direct and Indirect Speech
7. Verb 18. Punctuation Marks and Capital Letters
8. Adverb 19. Letter Writing
9. Prepositions 20. Short-composition
10. Simple Present Tense 21. Short Composition-II
11. Present Continuous Tense
 Division of Marks

Sr.No. Type of Marks No. of Total Marks

Questions Awarded Questions
1. MCQ 1 20 20
2. Very Short 1 36 36
Answers
3. Short Answers 2 12 24
4. Long Answers 6 1 6
7 2 14
Total 71 100

Distribution of Marks

Courses of Study Marks Remarks

Honeydew (Text Book) 31 MCQ 8×1=8
VSA 9×1=9
SA 7×2=14
It So Happened 14 MCQ 4×1=4
(Supplementary SA 5×2=10
Reader)
Writing 20 LA 6×1 =6
(Application/Letter, 7×2=14
Paragraph ,Story)
Grammar 20 MCQ 8×1=8
VSA 12×1=12
Comprehension 15 VSA 15×1 =15
Reading of Unseen
Passages
Total 100