JKBOSE Class 8th English Paper 2017
CLASS-VIII
ENGLISH – T2
Time Allowed: 2:30 Hrs. Maximum Marks: 50
JKBOSE Class 8th English Paper 2017
Q.1. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end:
Rabbi Simeon Ben Gamaliel once said to his servant, “Go to the market and buy me something good to eat.” The servant went and bought a tongue.
On another occasion, the Rabbi said. “Go to the market and buy me something that is not good.” The servant went and bought a tongue once again. This time the Rabbi said to him angrily, “What does this mean? When I told you to buy something that was good, you bought a tongue; now when told to buy something bad you bought a tongue again.” The servant replied, “From the tongue issues the good and also the bad.”
(a) Answer the following questions: – 1×2=2 marks
(i) What did the Rabbi ask his servant to bring from the market?
(ii) What did the servant bring for the first time?
(b) Choose the most appropriate option: 1×2=2 marks
(i) The word ‘buy’ is
(a) a verb
(b) a noun
(c) an adjective
(d) an adverb.
(ii) From the tongue issues……
(a) only good
(b) only bad
(c) both good and bad
(d) None of these.
Q.2. Read the following poetry stanza and answer the questions given at the end:
You were the light to reason but you chose to be fire, O Man!
You put humanity to disgrace, how callous of you, O Man!
Nature has fashioned you to apportion love and affection!
But you took to buying and selling religion and faith instead!
(a) Answer the following questions: 1×2=2 marks
(i) What is man buying and selling?
(ii) Why has man been described as callous?
(b) Choose the most appropriate option: 1×2=2 marks
(i) ‘Stars Speak to Man’ is composed by
(a) Shivanath
(b) Shakespeare
(c) P.B. Shelley
(d) None of these.
(ii) The word ‘callous’ has been used as
(a) a noun
(b) a verb
(c) an adjective
(d) none of these.
Q.3. Read the following passage (S.Story) and answer the questions given at the end:*
At dawn the next day Sohrab met his challenger at the place of the combat and announced, “I
am Sohrab, son of Rustum, the Shield of Persia. I accept your challenge. Are you ready to
fight?” At the very sound of Rustam’s name, Sohrab’s opponent lost courage. He hastily
withdrew his challenge. Such was the fear that Rustum’s name inspired.
(i) What was the name of Sohrab’s father? 1×2=2 marks
(ii) Write the opposite of ‘dawn’.
(a) Kaikoos
(b) Rustum
(c) Tanimeh
(iii) Where did Sohrab meet his challenger?
(a) Dusk
(b) morning
(c) first light
(iv) What happened to Sohrab’s opponent on hearing the truth?
Q.4. Answer the following questions briefly: (Any three) 2×3=6 marks
(i) Why did Calpurnia beg Caesar not to go to the Capitol? (Julius Caesar)
(ii) How many wrinkles does the poet find on the mother’s face? (Wrinkles)
(iii) What secret did Sohrab learn from his mother? (Rustum and Sohrab)
(iv) Why, according to the Gryphon were the Jurymen putting down their names? (A Strange
Trial)
Q.5. (a) Match each clause from column ‘A’ with a clause from column ‘B’ to make meaningful sentences: 1×3=3 marks
| Column A | Column B |
|---|---|
| (i) If the driver had not stopped so suddenly | (a) I would have got good marks |
| (ii) If you had arrived earlier | (b) the accident would not have happened. |
| (iii) If I had worked hard | (c) you could have met Sachin. |
(b) Choose the correct word given in the brackets: 1×2=2 marks
(i) Don’t go up that ladder. It doesn’t look. (safe, safely)
(ii) We did not go out because it was raining. (heavily, heavy)
(c) Complete the following binomials: 1×2=2 marks
(i) Slow and …….
(ii) Law and ……
(d) Put a question tag for the following statement:
The story isn’t very interesting, ………………………..? 1 marks
Section B (20 marks)
Q.6. Write an essay (200 words) on any one of the following topics: 5 marks
(i) The Independence Day
(iii) Uses and Abuses of T.V.
(ii) Morning Walk
Q.7. Write a letter to the Health Officer regarding the unsanitary conditions of your area. 3 marks
OR
Write an application to the headmaster of your school requesting him/her to issue a school leaving certificate.
Q.8. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end: 1×3=3 marks
Another five-year-old, named Nora taught me more about the things, children do while teaching themselves to read, the problems they meet and the ways they solve or try to solve them. I was visiting her family over the weekend. Though I had not seen Nora since she was a small baby, we were soon friends Sometimes, during the day, when I seemed to have nothing to do, she came up to me with a book in her hand and asked me if I would help her to read it. So we sat on the sofa and went to work.
(i) When did Nora come to the narrator?
(ii) What did Nora ask the narrator to do?
(iii) How old was Nora?
Q.9. (a) Report the following statements in the indirect form: 1×2=2 marks
(i) The teacher said to me, “Babar won the First Battle of Panipat.”
(ii) She said, “My father will return from Delhi tomorrow.”
(b) Fill in the blanks with the correct prepositions: 1×2=2 marks
(i) We go to bed…..11 p.m. (at, on)
(ii) She is leaving…………… Delhi tomorrow. (to, for)
(c) Match the words in column ‘A’ with the words in column ‘B’ to form common collocations: 2 marks
Column A
vitally
great
wide
work
Column B
open
success
important
ethics
(d) Make words using the following prefixes/suffixes: 1/2×4=2 marks
(i) ir
(ii) un
(iii) – ish
(iv) -less
(e) Write the short form for the following words: 1 mark
I would
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