CBSE Sample Papers for Class 8 English Set 6 with Solutions

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CBSE Sample Papers for Class 8 Maths Set 6 with Solutions

Time Allowed: 2 1/2 hrs.
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General Instructions:

1. This question paper has been divided into four sections :
   • Section A : Reading (16 marks)
   • Section B : Writing (12 marks)
   • Section C : Grammar (12 marks)
   • Section D : Literature (20 marks)
2. All the questions are compulsory.
3. Marks are indicated against each question.

Section – A : Reading

Question 1.
Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow : 5
Sri Lanka is an island nation in Southeast Asia that is surrounded by the Indian Ocean from all sides. Located just on few kilometres away from the southern coast of Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka is separated from India by the Palk Strait.

Sri Lanka is a perfect little world unto itself, replete with rivers, mountains, a constellation of historical sites, Buddhist temples, forests teeming with wild life, endless beaches, cricket pitches, rice paddies, fruit orchards and plantation of tea, cardamom, cinnamon, etc.

In the primary Buddhist nation, poya days or full moon days are celebrated with an additional day-off each month. These are their festival holidays and often these holidays combine with the weekend. The Lankan folks avidly explore different parts of their country, admitting that they are “truly spoilt for choice”.

Colombo is famous for the lion sculptures at Independence Square, the colonial style Independence Arcade, wandering through the leafy suburbs with exiquisite homes, giant status of Buddha at Gangarama temple with palm trees.” It is a tea estate. It is swathed in green. It was a peaceful world with uncultured and silent with clear air, cooler temperatures and millions of camellia sinenses. There is a ceylon Tea Trails which leases rooms and bungalows surrounding Castlereagh lake. They prepare black, green and white tea from tea leaves. Foreigners and locals enjoy the sunset in Galle Fort. If you want to visit there, December to March is the best time.

(i) On all sides, Sri Lanka is surrounded by :
(a) Palk-Strait
(b) The Bay of Bengal
(c) Indian Ocean
(d) Coast of Tamil Nadu
Answer:
(d) Coast of Tamil Nadu

(ii) What separates Sri Lanka from Bharat?
(a) Palk strait
(b) Rameshwaram
(c) Sunda Strait
(d) Andhra Pradesh
Answer:
(b) Rameshwaram

(iii) Rooms and Bungalows at Ceylon can be obtained on laese in :
(a) Ceylon Tea Trails
(b) Synagogues
(c) Buddhist temples
(d) Gaik Fort
Answer:
(b) Synagogues

(iv) Write the correct meaning of the word ‘exquisite’
(a) respectful
(b) pleasing
(c) extremely beautiful
(d) excellent
Answer:
(c) extremely beautiful

(v) Fill in the blanks on the basis of reading the passage:
Colombo is famous for (a) ____ (b) ____
Answer:
(a) Lion Sculptures (b) Giant Statues-of Buddha.

Question 2.
Look at the poster carefully and answer the questions that follow : 1× 5 = 5

(i) Polio drops are given to the children of:
(a) two years
(b) three years
(c) four years
(d) five years
Answer:
(d) five years

(ii) World Polio Day is celebrated on
(a) 23 Oct
(b) 24 Oct
(c) 27 March
(d) 30 Dec
Answer:
(b) 24 Oct

(iii) The causative of the disease, Polio is :
(a) Fungus
(b) Virus
(c) Bacteria
(d) Toxin
Answer:
(b) Virus

(iv) In 1955, the person who invented the Polio vaccine was:
(a) Hiram Maxim
(b) Theodore Roosevelt
(c) Jonas Salk
(d) Joseph Stalin
Answer:
(c) Jonas Salk

(v) The poliovirus infection is spread through
(a) breastfeeding
(b) fecal-oral route
(c) placental route
(d) sexual route
Answer:
(b) fecal-oral route

Question 3.
Read the given, poem attentively and answer the questions that follow : (6)

Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast
World, you are beautifully drest.

The wonderful air is over me,
And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree,
It walks on the water, and whirls the mills,
And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.

You friendly Earth! how far do you go,
With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow,
With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles,
And people upon you for thousands of miles?

Ah, you are so great, and I am so small,
I tremble to think of you, World, at all;
And yet, when I said my prayers to-day, .
A whisper inside me seemed to say,
‘You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot:
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!”

Questions:
(i) The poet says that the world is :
(a) big
(b) great
(c) beautiful
(d) all of these
Answer:
(d) all of these

(ii) The poem is addressed to:
(a) a friend
(b) the poet
(c) the home
(d) the world
Answer:
(d) the world

(iii) The poet calls the earth as:
(a) Friendly earth
(b) Neat earth
(c) Wonderful earth
(d) None of these
Answer:
(a) Friendly earth

(iv) “The wonderful water round you curled” refers to ____
(a) the grass growing on the earth
(b) the oceans
(c) the wind blowing around the world
(d) the sea which surrounds the earth
Answer:
(d) the sea which surrounds the earth

(v) Which one of the following is an adjective?
(a) Water
(b) Grass
(c) Garden
(d) Round
Answer:
(d) Round

(vi) How are the activities of the air similar to what you do or can do?
(a) the air can shake
(b) the air can walk
(c) the air can talk as you do
(d) all of these
Answer:
(d) all of these

Section  – B : Writing

Question 3.
You are Reyansh Rattan, Administrative officer of Bharat Petroleum Gas Ltd. Draft a notice for a local newspaper informing the general public about the change of the company’s address. (4)
Answer:

Bharat Petroleum Gas Ltd.
Notice

January 21, 20

Change of Address

The general public is hereby informed about the shifting of company’s office from 29, Model Town Sonipat to NATURAL ENERGY BHAWAN, Main Geeta Bhawan Road near Railway Station , Sonipat. In future all correspondence should be directed to the new address. The office timings will be as usual. The inconvenience caused is regretted. For any other details, connected the undersigned.
Reyansh Rattan (Reyansh Rattan)
Administrative Officer
Or
Read these notes from the notepad of Dr. S.N. Chatterjee, Director of S.R.M.S. Group of institutions, Agra. He asks his assistant to draft a message on his behalf to Dr. A. Kumar, the Deputy Director of S.R.M.S. Group of Institutions. Using the information from the notepad, draft the massage. Put your message in a box.

Notes:
Attend the urgent meeting in Director’s office.
11:30 a.m today.

Agenda:
Celebration of Annual Day.
Review of preparations.

Inform:
All the coordinates and incharges.
Come with their practise status report.
Answer:

Message

September 8, 20

9.00 a.m

Dr. A. Kumar

Please attend an urgent meeting at Director’s office at 11:30 a.m today to review the preparations for the celebration of Annual Day. The coordinators and incharges should also attend the meeting along with their practise status report.
Dr. S.N. Chatterjee

Question 4.
You Rattan/Reeva studying in VIII. Request your school Principal to issue you a school leaving – cum. Date of Birth certificate as the family is proceeding to Raipur (M.P.) clue to transfer of my father. (4)
Answer:
June 10, 20xx
The Principal
Govt. School of Excellence
R.K. Puram, Sector-1,
New Delhi,

Subject: Issuance of school leaving – cum Date of Birth Certificate.
Due to sudden transfer of my father to Raipur (M.P.), The whole family is shifting there. Consequently I am in need of a school leaving -Cum Date of Birth Certificate from the school authorities. I am submit my particulars as under :-

I am deeply hurt to leave this prestigeous school, but circumstances have forced me to move with the family. Kindly issue the requisite certificates within two days since the family is leaving in the night of 13th June by plane.
Yours obediently
Reeva/Rattan
Or
You are Gautam/Garima of 77-New Ashok Vihar, Najafgarh Road, Delhi. You purchsed a washing machine from M/s Vishal Electronics, 29, Electronic Market, Tilak Nagar, New Delhi. Your washing machine worked well for a week but it is now creating trouble. Write a letter complaining about the automatic washing machine.
Answer:
77, New Ashok Vihar,
Najafgarh Road,
Delhi-7,
June 8, 20
M/s Vishal Electronics
29, Electronics Market,
Tilak Nagar,
New Delhi-17.
Subject: Complaint about an Automatic Washing Machine.
Sir,
I would like to complain against a Samsung Washing Machine purchased a week back from your firm vide Cash Memo No. 747 dated March 22, 20xx. From the last one week it is not functioning properly. It creates noise and stops all of a sudden. Our clothes do not get properly Washed and remains dirty. Certain manufacturing defect has impaired its working. Since this machine is within the guarantee period, I request you to replace it at the earliest. I have been your regular customer and purchase articles on your express recommendation. Hoping for immediate replacement of the washing machine. I think you will help in maintaining the goodwill of the firm.
Yours faithfully
Gautam/Garima

Question 5.
Write a long paragraph on “Morning Assembly in My School”. (4)

Morning Assembly in My School

Answer:
In every school, the morning assembly forms an important part and parcel e.g. school life. It it our age-old culture since ancient times. As per our traditions and rituals, we start every new work with prayers to our Gods. Same is true with the schools since it is the start of new work for the day in every school. Schools are our temples of learning and knowledge. They make us a true and useful citizen of a nation. In the morning assembly, all the students stand and rows along with the teachers before the rows. All say prayers for the best start of the day. The scene is very calm and peaceful.

In their specific school uniform, they look like blosomed flowers spreading their smel everywhere. In most of the schools, physical exercises are undertaken. Even the roll call of the students is taken and entered in the attendance register. Daily news are read by the students and one or the other teacher delivers a moral lecture for the upliftment of the students. The principal too imparts important formation to the school. He remains there and the tune on the loud speaker starts resounding when the students enter their classes. It creates a congenial atmosphere for study.
Or
Read the given story in cut lines. Develop them to prepese a with readable story Hints :
Proud Oak Tree in a dense forest ___ tall like a date free ___ small plant & herbs nearby tree felt pendy and boasted of his strength ___ herb advise ___ pride hath a fall ___ ignored its advice ___ one day a violent storm appeared___ school every thing ___ herb boned ___ leaves fell and place in the atmosphere ___ making feem of the herb & leaves ___ suddenly the storm become more violent ___ Oak Tree fell and bfoke in two parts ___ died ___ herb got strength.
Answer:

An Oak Tree and a Storm

Once these lived an strong Oak Tree in a dense forest. It was as tall as a date tree but it had become proudy of its talength and strungth. Source herbs, plaints & saplings had grover by its side. They were meal like a lamb. It used I am very strong None can defeat me. But the herb seplerd him very politely Dear ter. Don’t be proudy. It will harm your boasting. The Oak Tree always ignored its and vice.

In so happened our day that these appeared a violent storm in the Oky. It share everything that cause in its way. The husband other little plants banned before the form suddenly it grew more and more violent. The Oak Tree was happy & making their fun. In between a farious wiad come and the Oak Tree failed to bear its strongth. It fell down and broke into two parts. After sometime the storm west away. The herb & other small plants were happy but the Oak Tree had net its down.
Moral: Pride Hath a fall.

Section – C : Grammar

Question 6.
Fill in the blanks with the correct form of verb given in the brackets. (3) Yesterday as I (a) _____ (walk) down the road. I (b) _____ (meet) an old friend of mine. He (c) _____ (recognise) me at once, though I (d) _____ (wear) a scarf around my face as I (e) _____ (suffer) from a bad cold. We (f) _____ (talk) about our good old days.
Answer:
(a) walked
(b) met
(c) recognised
(d) wore
(e) was suffering
(f) had talked.

Question 7.
Write the appropriate words from the given options to complete the following passages. (3)
Sometimes the weathermen fail (a) _____ make accurate predictions. People crack jokes at (b) _____ but the meteorologists as they are (c) _____are helpless.

Answer:
(a) (i) to
(b) (iii) them
(c) (iv) called

Question 8.
Change the following sentences into passive voice. (3)
(i) Do you not play hockey?
(ii) She is buying apples.
(iii) We have not bought a car.
Answer:
(i) Is hockey not played by you?
(ii) Apples are being bought by her.
(iii) A car has not been bought by us.

Question 9.
Write the synonyms of the following words and make sentences with them. (3)
(i) keen :
(ii) difficult:
(iii) delight:
Answer:
(i) eager
(ii) hard
(iii) joy

Section – D: Literature

Question 10.
Read the given passages and a nswer the questions by choosing the correct option : (any three) (1 1/2)
This is the story of a meeting between two extraordinary people, both of them ‘disabled’, or ‘differently abled’ as we now say. Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest scientists of our time. He suffers from a form of paralysis that confines him to a wheelchair, and allows him to ‘speak’ only by punching buttons on a computer, which speaks for him in a machine-like voice. Firdaus Kanga is a writer and journalist who lives and works in Mumbai. Kanga was born with ‘brittle bones’ that tended to break easily when he was a child. Like Hawking, Kanga moves around in a wheelchair. The two great men exchange thoughts on what it means to live life in a wheelchair, and on how the so called ‘normal’ people react to the disabled.

Questions:
(i) Who is Firdaus Kanga?
(a) Writer
(b) Journalist
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) Both of these
Answer:
(c) Both (a) and (b)

(ii) Where does Firdaus Kanga work?
(a) Mumbai
(b) Bangalore
(c) Pune
(d) Karnataka
Answer:
(a) Mumbai

(iii) Firdaus Kanga was like Hawkings.
(a) optimist
(b) very brave
(c) poor
(d) disabled
Answer:
(d) disabled

(iv) Who is the author of the chapter from which this passage has been taken?
(a) Firdaus Kanga
(b) Stephen Hawking
(c) S.D. Sawant
(d) John Keats
Answer:
(a) Firdaus Kanga

Question 11.
Read the extract given below and answer the following questions: (any 3) 11/2

In the heat of the mid-day the houses stood with shut doors.
I wandered along the crooked lane.
An old man came out with his bag of gold.
He pondered and said, “I will hire you with my money.
He weighed his coins one by one, but I turned away.

Questions:
(i) Write a describing word for ‘lane’.
(a) a even road
(b) a flowery road
(c) a crooked lane
(d) a broad lane
Answer:
(c) a crooked lane

(ii) What did the old-man come with?
(a) The old man came out with a bag of gold
(b) The old man came with a bag of notes
(c) The old man came with a bag of silver
(d) The old man came with an empty bag
Answer:
(a) The old man came out with a bag of gold

(iii) What time of the day is it?
(a) Morning
(b) Mid night
(c) Mid day
(d) Evening
Answer:
(c) Mid day

(iv) Which word in this stanza means Thought deeply’ ?
(a) pondered
(b) wandered
(c) weighed
(d) crooked
Answer:
(a) pondered

Question 12.
Read the given passages and answer the questions by choosing the correct option : (any three)
In ancient India, both formal and informal ways of education system existed. Indigenous education was imparted at home, in temples, pathshalas, tols, chatuspadis and gurukuls. There were people in homes, villages and temples who guided young children in imbibing pious ways of life.

Temples were also the cerftres of learning and took interest in the promotion of knowledge of our ancient system. Students went to viharas and universities for higher knowledge. Teaching was largely oral an$ students remembered and meditated upon what was taught in the class. Gurukuls, also known as ashrams, were the residential places of learning. Many of these were named after the sages. Situated in forests, in serene and peaceful surroundings, hundreds of students used to learn together in gurukuls.

(i) Where did students go for higher knowledge?
(a) Viharas
(b) Universities
(c) Abroad
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Answer:
(d) Both (a) and (b)

(ii) What is Gurukul also known as?
(a) Ashrams
(b) Basemen
(c) Vidyala
(d) School
Answer:
(a) Ashrams

(iii) Which were the residential places of learning?
(a) Gurukuls
(b) Univerisities
(c) Near mountains
(d) Pathshalas
Answer:
(a) Gurukuls

(iv) Where is Gurukul situated?
(a) Cave
(b) Forests
(c) Near mountains
(d) Near rivers
Answer:
(b) Forests

Or
Read the given passages and answer the questions by choosing the correct option : (any three)
The Djinn rolled himself up in his dust-cloak, and took a walk across the Desert, and found the Camel looking at his own reflection in a pool of water. “My friend,” said the Djinn, “what’s this I hear of your doing no work?” The Djinn sat down, with his chin in his hand, while the Camel looked at his own reflection in the pool of water. “You’ve given the Three extra work ever since Monday morning, all on account of your idleness,” said the Djinn. And he went on thinking with his chin in his hand. “Humph!” said the Camel.

(i) What was the camel doing when the Djinn found him?
(a) He was sleeping near the pond
(b) He was crying
(c) He was looking at his own reflection in the water
(d) He was standing under the tree
Answer:
(c) He was looking at his own reflection in the water

(ii) How did the Djinn sit down?
(a) Helplessly
(b) With his chin in his hands
(c) With hand in hand
(d) None of these
Answer:
(b) With his chin in his hands

(iii) Where did the Djinn take a walk?
(a) Near the pond
(b) Across the desert
(c) Across the forest
(d) In the middle of the forest
Answer:
(b) Across the desert

(iv) The camel was looking at his own reflection in the pool. What does it suggest to you about the camel?
(a) The camel was hard working
(b) The camel was proud of his looks
(c) He was thirsty
(d) He was searching food
Answer:
(b) The camel was proud of his looks

Question 13.
Answer any two of the following questions in about 30-40 words : 2 × 3 = 6
(a) What was Bepin Choudhury’s ailment? Was it real or deliberate?
Answer:
Bepin Babu was a lonely map. His wife had died some 10 years ago. His ailment was the lapse of memory. He clearly forgot that he had be§n to Ranchi in ’58. Nothing could revive his memory. Finally, he hit against some rock in Ranchi and became unconscious. On returning home he received Chunilal’s letter. The letter had an electrifying effect. And Bepin Babu felt relaxed.

(b) What will happen if the tender plants are stripped of joy? How child happiness turn into sorrowness ?
Answer:
If the tender plants are stripped of joy, unhappiness spreads. As spring is the season of flowers, everything shall bloom to its best and not be succumbed to the elements to spread sorrow, fear and dismay.
The child rose in the fresh and delightful summer morning. He is very happy but his parents force him to go to the school where he spends his time in sorrowness.

(c) How did Jody feed the little fawn?
Answer:
Jody poured milk into a small gourd. He dipped his fingers in the milk and thrust them into the fawn’s soft wet mouth. It sucked greedily. When he withdrew them, it bleated frantically and butted him. He dipped his fingers again and as the fawn sucked, he lowered them slowly into the milk. The fawn blew and sucked and snorted. It stamped its small hoofs impatiently. As long as he held his fingers below the level of the milk, the fawn was content.

(d) Explain the phrase “I hire you with nothing”. Contrast the bargain made to a child with others that hire him. (The Last Bargain)
Answer:
At the very end of the poem the speaker is encountering with an innocent child. Unlike the previous power, money and lust, the child wants to hire the speaker with his due simplicity. This simplicity is not to be faded away with the due course of time. The child hires the man for nothing. Other people promised to hire him against power, money and changing emotions. So when he is offered a job against nothing, he is happy to do it for he feels he is a free man then.

Question 14.
Answer any two of the following questions in about 20-30 words : 2 × 2 = 4
(a) Depict in a word the Giant’s nursery.
Answer:
The Giant’s garden was very beautiful. It had soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars and there were twelve peach trees that in the spring time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in autumn bore rich fruit.

(b) How does Hafeez provide for his customer the sort of structure he needs?
Answer:
Hafeez is good at drawing the design of a house on the spot. He looks at the client’s
face and the way he talks to know what his taste would be like. Then he sketches on the spot and gives it to his client in the office.

(c) What befell Princess September’s parrot one day? How did the princess respond to it?
Answer:
One day, Princess September found her parrot lying dead at the bottom of its golden cage. She burst into tears suddenly. She cried so much that the Queen got angry and told her to go to bed without any supper.

Question 15.
Answer any one of the following questions in al)out 40-50 words : 1 × 4 = 4
(a) How did the guide introduce Stephen Hawking to the writer ? Why does the writer refer to guitar incident ? What idea does it support?
Answer:
The guide told the writer that though Stephen Hawking was a worthy successor to Issue Newton. However, he was quite disabled. The writer spent many years trying to play a Spanish guitar considerably larger than he was. One night, he unstringed it very joyfully. It supports the idea that things like the disabled Olympics are a waste of time. One should practice what one is good at.

(b) Who are the seasonal visitors? How does the author describe them?
Answer:
The seasonal visitors are a leopard, several thousand leeches and different kinds of birds. The leopard created nuisance. It lifted a dog from near the servants’ quarter below the school. In the evening, it attacked one of Bijju’s cows. The scarlet minivets flitted silently among the leaves like brilliant jewels. No matter how leafy the trees, these brightly coloured birds could not conceal themselves. There was also a pair of drongos. They looked aggressive and chased the minivets away. A tree creeper moved rapidly up the trunk of the oak tree, snapping up insects, all the way.

(c) What is the lesson given by the poem to the mankind? (The Ant and The Cricket)
Answer:
Through the poem the lesson what has been delivered to the mankind is that we should lead happy moments but not by ignoring our future. Careful planning is essential for everyone and it ensures a secure future. And by the help of this poem one should always be on the path of hard work and don’t opt for shortcut way as shortcuts never leads a person towards success.
On the other hand, hard work makes a person stronger and help in enhancing his/her capabilities. Again, the ant has taught a very god lesson to the cricket.

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