NAVA NATANDA HIGH SCHOOL Annual Examination — 2022 Class - VIII ENGLISH, Paper -I Full Marks - 100 Group -A Choose the correct alternatives to complete the following sentences :1*5=5 a) _InChateau d' If Edmond Dantes befriends — i) adoctor ii) apriest iii) an officer iv) ajailor b) Farias dying voice sounded .. . to Dantes’ ears — i) polite jovial iii) harsh ' iv) weak c) Todd had sent the narrator a note from............... in Bermuda — i) St. George's ji) Somerset iii) Hamilton ivy) Devonshire d) The ship in the poem 'O Captain! My Captain’ represents i) United Kingdom ii) Ukraine iii) Uruguay iv) United States of America e) The narrator wrapped up the rabbit in a piece of — i) linen ji) flannel iii) cotton iv) silk Answer the following in a single sentence each : 1x10=10 a) Whywas it impossible to arrange a mass for Father Faria? b) What had happened to the corpse of the prisoner who died before Father Faria? c) What did the governor order the soldiers to do? d) Mention the date on which Teddhad borrowed a dollar from the narrator. e) Whathad the neretor ought with the thirty cents that was lent to him by aman? P.T.O.(2) What were the author and his friend Todd talking about, over dinner, one night? What does 'weather'd every rack’ mean? Which war brought an end to slavery in America? What kind of tragedy was hated by the mother of the narrator of Adolf? What made the narrator happy when he opened the scullery door the next morning? Briefly explain the following sentences in your own words : 2x5=10 a) b) c) a) e) "Youre the child of my captivity.” "God is doing something good for you at last, and it's high time for me to die.” "The figure misled me for a moment.” "From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won.” “It was like a tiny obscure cloud.” Answer the following questions in your own words as far as possible = a) b) 5x6=30 "This piece of paper my friend .... . is my treasure half of which belongs to you from this day on." i) Whois the speaker? ii) Who has been referred to as 'my friend’ in the above quoted lines? iii) Why did the speaker want to share half of his treasure with his ‘friend’? iv) What did the person referred to as 'my friend’ observe about the piece of paper? Yat Vat2+2=5 "Good God!" murmured Dantes. -coufit be that .. eo i) When did Dantes say this? ii) What did Dantes mean by the above statement? ii) What did Dantes decide to do? VAtt +255ce) a) (3) “Itwill make no difference | trust, to our friendship, But! shall never be able to forget it." i) Whois the speaker? ii) Whatdoes our friendship’ refer to? iii) According to the speaker, what will make no difference to their friendship? iv) Whatwill the speaker never be able to forget? 1414241=5 ".... [do particularly ask that no reader of this story will be careless enought to leave the copy around where it might be seen by Major Todd of the University Club of Montreal." i) What story is being referred to here by the speaker? ii) What does the narrator say towards the end of the story about the movement he wants to start? iii) Why does the speaker urge his readers to be careful? Does he mean what he says? 414+2+2=5 "Why did you bring it? You know what it will be like." i) Who said these words to whom? ii) What does it refer to? iii) What was the reason behind the accusations? 2414225 "Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head!" i) Whois the 'Captain'? ii) Why does the speaker address the Captain as ‘dear father’? iii) Whatwas the condition of the Captain? iv) Whyis the speaker trying to support the Captain's head? ite THI At1=5 ProvéllSxtual synonyms for the words and expressions given :1*4=4 i) aprayer ceremony held in church for the dead — ii) to want something very much — NN FH Eng-t P.O.(4) ili) celebrate with great energy — i) the area of land that separates two countries — b) Doas directed : 4+2+2+24+24141=11 i) He did not like going to bed in the spring morning sunshine. (Change to affirmative) ii) "Look, the old lunatic's gone off to find his treasure. Bon Voyage”, said a solder. (Change the mode of narration) ili) You are the child of my captivity. (Pick out the nouns and state their kinds) 'v) Everyone else in the prison thought Faria to be mad because he seemed obsessed with his treasure. (Pick out the subordinate clause and state its kind) vy) Aviolent shiver interrupted the old man's words. (Pick out the verb, state whether it is Transitive or Intransitive, in case of transitive verb mention the object) vi) Dantes heard the bed . (creek, creak) as they tried to rouse the dead man. (Fill in the blank with the correct word) vil) Asmall rabbit’ SiMing the bread, as still as ifit were a made thing. “ (Fill in the blank with the correct preposition) Group -B 6. Read the following passage and answer the questions given : It was bitterly cold. Snow was falling and darkness was gathering, for it was the last evening of the old year. It was New Year's Eve. In the cold and gloom, a poor little girl walked bareheaded and barefoot, through the streets. She had been wearing slippers, itis true, when she left home, but what good were they? They had been her mother's, so you can imagine how big they were. The little girl had lost them as she ran across the street to escape from two carriages, that were being driven terribly fast.(5) One slipper could not be found, and a boy had run off with the other, saying that it would come in very handy as a cradle someday when he had children of his own. So the little girl walked about the streets on her naked feet, which were red and blue with the cold. In her old apron she carried a great many matches, and she had a packet of them in her hand also. Nobody had bought any from her and no one had given her a single penny all day. She crept along, shivering and hungry, the picture of misery, poor little thing! She did not think of her appearance now. Lights were shining in every window,and there was a glorious smell of roast goose in the street, for this was New Year's Eve, and she could not think of anything else. She huddled down in a heap in a corner formed by two houses, one of which projected further out into the street than the other, but though she tucked her little legs up her, she felt colder and colder. she did not dare to go home, for she had sold no matches and earned nota single penny. Her father would be sure to beat her, and besides, it was cold at home too, for they had nothing but the roof above them. The wind whistled through that, even though the largest cracks were stuffed with straw and rags. Her thin hands were almost numb with cold. If only she dared pull just one small match from the packet, strike it on the wall and warm her fingers! A. Fillup the chart with information from the passage : 2+2=4 STATEMENT REASON i) The little girl lost her slippers. ji) The little girl did not dare to go home. B. Complete the following sentences with information from the passage : 1x3=3 i) The little girl walked about the streets .. ii) Lights were shining in every window and there was a glorious ii) The little girl huddled up ina... NW VU Eng-t P.T.O.