CBSE Class 8 English Question Paper Set 29

CBSE Class 8 English Question Paper Set C.You can download the past year question papers in pdf format with solutions from the links below. The students should practice the question papers of last year which will help them to understand the pattern on the papers and will help them to practice for the exams. You can download the question papers for last 10 years free by clicking links below. Refer to the extract below and download the full pdf file of question papers below.

SECTION A: READING

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

In our families there are the heads ; some of them are successful, others are not. Why ? We complain of others in our failures. The moment I am unsuccessful, I say, so-and-so is the cause of the failure. In failures, one does not like to confess one’s own faults and weaknesses. Each person tries to hold himself faultless and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck. When heads of families fail, they should ask themselves, why is that some persons manage a family so well and others do not. Then, you will find that the difference is owing to the man – his presence, his personality.

Coming to great leaders of mankind, we always find, that it was the personality of the man that counted. Now, take all the great authors of the past, the great thinkers. Really speaking, how many thoughts have they thought ? Take all the writings that have been left to us by the past leaders of mankind ; take each one of their books and appraise them. The real thoughts new and genuine that have been thought in this world up to this time, amount to only a handful. Read in their books the thoughts they have left to us. The authors do not appear to be giants to us, and yet we know that they were great giants in their days. What made them so ? Not simply the thoughts they thought, neither the books they wrote, nor the speeches they made – it was something else that is now gone, that is their personality.

As I have already remarked , the personality of the man is two-thirds, and his intellect, his words, are but one-third. It is the real man, the personality of the man, that runs through us. Our actions are but effects ; actions must come when the man is there ; the effect is bound to follow the cause. The idea of all education, all training, should be this man-making. But instead of that, we are always trying to polish up the outside. What is in polishing up the outside when there is no inside ? The end and aim of all training is to make the man grow. The man who influences, who throws his magic, as it were, upon his fellow-beings, is a dynamo of power, and when that man is ready, he

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