BANGLADESH INTERNATIONAL TUTORIAL

FINAL EXAMINATION, 2016-17

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CLASS: VIII (EIGHT)
TIME: 3 HOURS
FULL MARKS: 100

[Important Instructions: You are reminded of the necessity of good English. Avoid writing
with smudge, scribble or shade and keep your copy legible. Complete your exam with time
to revise before the submission of your answer book.]

Composition (35 marks)

Q.1 Write approximately 350 words on one of the following:

a. Describe the recess hour in school.

b. ‘The wind suddenly rose........’Continue.

c. “The computer is more of a menace than blessing.” What are your views?

Letter (15 marks)

(within 150 words)

Q.2 Write a letter to the principal seeking to open a debate club in your school.
Or
Write a letter to your friend describing a football match you witnessed.

Comprehension (20 marks)

Q.3 Read the extraction below and attempt the questions followed by.

Down the centre of the factory floor there were twenty talcum- powder top perforating machines.
Behind each sat a man on a stool, his hand on the handle. To one side of each man there was a huge
tea-chest full of imperforated talcum-powder-tops, and to the other, a second tea-chest in which to
deposit the talcum-powder tops once they had been perforated.

It was work that could have been done by a child of five with huge muscles in his right arm-
strength was needed, but no brainpower. The perforating operation was carried out as follows: Take
imperforated top from box, place on press, pull handle towards operator, let go handle, which
automatically returns to neutral position, take the now-perforated top from press, place in second tea
– chest .Repeat operation. An expert operator was able to perforate about twenty-five tops per
minute, though at this speed, care had to be taken not to accidentally perforate the back of the hand.

Though I became quite fast, I never reached Olympic standard. My mind was far too busy with
thoughts of the exotic bathrooms where my finished products would be used, and of the beautiful
women who would sprinkle their bodies with its sweet-smelling contents. Sometimes I would
mentally name the girl whom I would most like to have each of my completed tops. It passed the
time, and seemed to fit into the rhythm of the work. Christian name (put the top on the press),
surname (pull the handle, let it go and dispose of the finished product). Jane Russell, Rita Hayrorth ,
Dorothy Lamour, Jan Sterling, Veronica Lake, Betty Grable, Anna Stern, Ginger Rogers, Katherine
Hepburn, Margaret Lockwood ,Madeleine Carroll, and always- Loretta Young; for her I would have
liked to have been working in a soap factory. Or better still, been a sponge diver in the South Seas.
a. What does the phrase “to the other” refer to? (2 marks)

b. What does the writer mean when he says,”it….. could have been done by a child of five with huge
muscles in his right arm” (3 marks)

c. How many separate actions did the machine operators have to make? (2 marks)

d. What does the phrase “Olympic standard” refer to? (2 marks)

e. What was the danger of reaching that standard? (2 marks)

f. What do you imagine the “exotic bathrooms” were like? (2marks)

g. What does the phrase “mentally name” mean? (2 marks)

h. What according to the writer, did all the women named have in common? How do you think he
knew them? (3 marks)

i. Rewrite following in your own wards (2 marks)

‘An expert operator was able to perforate about twenty-five tops per minute, though at this speed,
care had to be taken not to accidentally perforate the back of the hand.’

Grammar (15marks)

Q.4 Attempt the following

a. Define phrase with example. 2

b. Write three sentences containing three different phrases. 3

3. Name the subordinate clauses in following sentences. 3.

i. He knows  that he will pass the test

ii. She drove wherever she wanted.  

iii. I do not like people  who are mean to animals.

4. Change the following into indirect speech.5

i. He said, ‘I have won.’

ii. He said to me, ‘Where are you going?’

 
iii. Bob said, 'I'm going to see my mother tomorrow. ‘

iv. He said to her, ‘Stop that noise.’

v. He said to her, ‘Stop that noise.’

5. Use ‘who’ and ‘whom’ in two sentences. 2

Vocabulary/spelling (15marks)
O.5 Do the following.

a. What do prefix and suffix mean? 3

b. Use ‘affect’ and ‘effect’ in sentences. 2

c. What part of speech is ‘fast’ in this sentence? 2

We keep fast in the month of Ramadan.

d. Write four letter beginning with ‘k’. 4

e. Write four letter ending with ‘-eur’. 4