CBSE Class 8 English Sample Paper Set 21

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Section – A

(Reading)

1. Read the following passage carefully.

In a country as vast as ours, keeping a tab on every child is a Herculean task. Many children are still employed in factories while their childhood goes unnoticed. They wash utensils when they should be playing with dolls and get married even before they reach adolescence. Most children don’t know they are entitled to certain rights-child rights.

To spread awareness, Child Relief and You (CRY) has organized its annual street theatre festival Bal Natya Utsav at Dilli Haat. The three-day festival will end on November 14, in the form of short skits and plays performed by children attached to CRY projects, schools, colleges and different NGO’s such as Kutumb and Manzil. The skits will focus on the different aspects of child rights, its importance and gross violation in the country.

A two-day theatre workshop for the children of CRY donors was also organized. The workshop that ended on Sunday saw the participation of about 50 children of all ages. The workshop was conducted by Walter Peter of Theatre in Education (TIE), India Trust. The trust works with school conducting workshop for teachers. “In these workshops, we stress on personality development. Children learn how to be more confident through exercise of the body and mind,’’ said Peter, who has had a long association with the National School of Drama.

CRY has also launched a new ‘CRY Child Rights Band’ priced at Rs.65. proceeds from the sale of the band will go towards supporting child rights. The band is available in all Archies galleries.

On the basis of your reading of the above passage, complete the following statements by choosing the correct option. 5m

(i) Children are found employed in factories and getting married before adolescence. It shows ______.

(a) The way, they are being treated (b) the plight of the children

( c) their exploitation (d) that the society doesn’t think for them

(ii) CRY is an organization that _______________.

(a) Wants to bring peace and prosperity in India (b) believes in child exploitation

( c) works for child relief (d) works for the welfare of underprivileged children

(ii) The purpose of CRY for organizing the annual street theatre festival is ____________.

(a) To spread awareness 

(b) to raise funds

(c) to spread awareness about the different aspects of child rights among people.

(d) None of these 

(iv) CRY launched _______________priced at Rs. 65 to support child rights.
 
   (a) CRY ribbons                (b) CRY belts
 
   ( c) CRY child rights bands  (d) CRY child rights paintings
 
(v) The antonym of ‘confident’ is____________.
 
    (a) Shy (b) introvert (c) extrovert (d) nervous
 
2. Read the following passage carefully.
 
A man-eating tiger is the one that has been compelled, through stress of circumstances beyond its control, to adopt a diet alien to it. The stress of circumstances is, in nine cases out of ten, wounds, and in the tenth case old age. The wound that has caused a particular tiger to take to man –eating might be the result of a carelessly fired shot and failure to follow up and recover the wounded animal, or be the result of the tiger having lost his temper while killing a porcupine. Human beings are not the natural prey of tigers, and it is only when tigers have been in capacitated through wounds or old age that, in order to live, they are compelled to take to a diet of human flesh.
A tiger when killing its natural prey, which it does either by stalking or lying in wait for it depends for the success of its attack on its speed and, to a lesser extent, on the condition of its teeth and claws. When a tiger is suffering from one or more painful wounds, or when its teeth are missing or are defective and its claws worn down, and it is unable to catch the animal it has been accustomed to eating, it is driven by necessity to kill human beings. The change-over from animals to human flesh is, I believe , in most cases accidental.
 
On the basis of your reading of the above passage, answer the questions that follows: 7m
(i) What is a man-eating tiger?
(ii) Define the word ‘diet alien’.
(iii) Pick out two reasons from the passage that compel a tiger to hunt humans.
(iv) The writer refers to two types of wounds, what are they?
(v) How does the tiger kill its natural prey?
(vi) Pick out the word which means the same as ‘deprived of strength’.
(vii) What are the two things in which the tiger’s success depend?
 
3. Read the following poem carefully.
 
One is amazed
By a water- lily bud
Unfolding
With each passing day
Taking on a richer colour
And new dimensions.
At a first glance,
By a poem, Which is as tight- closed
As a tiny bud.
Yet one is surprised
To see the poem
Gradually unfolding,
Revealing its rich feelings
As one reads it again
And over again.
 
On the basis of your reading of the above poem, answer the question that follows:

i. With what has the poet compared the water – lily bud and how it is able to arrest ones attention? 2m
ii. When does the poem reveal its rich feelings? 2m
iii. How is a poem similar to water-lily bud? 2m
iv. Give a suitable title for this poem. 1m
v. What is the antonym of ‘gradual’? 1m
 
 
Section – B (Writing – 25marks)

4. (a) You were part of your school team that planted trees in the ground next to your school. You have decided to take care of one of the trees. There is a sense of excitement as you are looking forward seeing this tree growing. Write your diary entry sharing your thoughts and feelings with it in about 50 words. 4m
/OR/
(b) You are Nitish/Asha. You have lost your watch in the school playground. Write a notice to be put up on your school notice board giving all necessary details in not more than 50 words. Put the notice in a box. 4m
( c) You have to make a presentation on Delhi in your class.You have collected the following information from the internet. Write a paragraph describing Delhi in not more than 80 words.
 
Features :         Historical and Morderncity
Importances :   capital all government offices
People :           Blend of cross cultural people.
Location :        North – Central India,Extreme climate
Highlights :      Historical monuments,huge garden and stadium,malls.
 
5. Avinash/Akriti comes across the following statements and many similar ones. He/She decides to write an article for his/her School Magazine, keeping the below ideas in mind . As Avinash/Akriti write the article, ‘benefits of Science’ with special emphasis on the advantage of internet and mobile phones in our daily life.(word limit - 120 words)
 
“ The entire world is accessible to us at the click of a button through the internet”. “ The advent of mobile phone has transcended the geographical boundaries and brought people closer, thereby creating a global village.”
“Communication is a potential tool and development in science has made it so easy for everybody to communicate.”
 
6. Your friend’s team stood first and won a prize in a debate. Write an email congratulating him on his success in about 120 – 150 words 8m

Section –C (Grammar – 20marks)

7. Rearrange the words and phrases to form meaningful sentence. 3m
 
1.One/ fell/ day/ a/ farmer’s/ well/ donkey/ into
2.The/ farmer/ know/ to/ didn’t/ do/ cried/ animal/ the/ and/ what
3.Invited/ he/ neighbours /all/ help /his/ to/ him
 
8. Given below is a set of instruction for making ‘Khubanii Ka Meetha’. On the basis of instructions, complete the following paragraphs 6m
 
1. Wash apricots and soak in 2 cups of water overnight.
2. Remove apricots, add sugar to water and cook to make a syrup.
3. Slit apricots, remove the seeds and keep them aside.
4. Add apricots to the syrup and cook until thick.
5. Add lemon juice – remove from fire.
6. Break the seeds gently and remove the almonds.
7. Boil them and peel the skin.
8. Serve with unsweetened whipped cream.
Apricots (a) ____________ and soaked in two cups of water overnight. The apricots (b) ____________ and sugar is added to water and (c)____________ to make a syrup. The apricots (d) ____________and seeds (e) ______________ . Apricots are added to the syrup and cooked until thick. Lemon juice (f) _____________ and removed from fire. The seeds are broken gently and the almonds are removed. They are served with unsweetened whipped cream.
 
9. Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with appropriate connectors. 2m.

Doctors praise adhesive bandages (a) __________ they keep wounds clean (b) __________ create a good environment for healing. They hold the skin together (c) ____________ keep it moist,(d) _________ they provide padding for the wound but the only problem is removing them.
 
10. Fill in the blanks with appropriate preposition. 2m

A little boy appeared (a) _________ the store owner’s signboards, “ Puppies (b) _________ Sale”. “How much are you going to sell fur puppies for ?” he asked. The store owner replied, “ Anywhere (c) _________ Rs. 300 to Rs.500”. “ I have Rs. 150,” the little boy said. “ Can I please look (d) __________Them.”
 
 
 

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