ENGLISH TEST CLASS 8

1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions:

If a country should have a message for its people, it should be a message of human dignity. The
ideals of a nation should be freedom of thought, speech, press, right of assembly and right of
worship. A country should boldly declare to a world dominated by tyrants that “all men are
created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights” and “among them
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. It should be the source of strength and power for a
nation. If people have the freedom to live their lives with dignity, they can function with a sound
mind and physical health.
A country’s moral, political and economic status lies in the strength of its people. A nation should
strive to become a more perfect, perfect country where people are given a commitment and
hope in their hearts to work and cherish freedom, justice and opportunity. We don’t always get
what we want when we want it, but it’s always good to believe that someday, somehow, we will
get what we want.

a) What message should a country have for its people?

b) What are the ideals of a nation, according to the passage?
c) What should a country declare to a world dominated by tyrants?
d) Where should a country’s strength and power come from?
e) What lies in a country’s moral, political, and economic status, according to the passage?
f) What should a nation strive to become, according to the passage?
g) What does the passage say about getting what we want?
h) What are the three unalienable rights mentioned in the passage?

2. Find the errors in the following paragraph.

Smoking is a bad habit. It spoils not only the

lungs but also the liver of the smokers. In a (a) ……… ………

beginning it is just a casual try and by and by (b) ……… ………

one get gripped in it and it becomes a (c) ……… ………

compulsive habits, which a person is not able to get (d) ……… ………

free from.

3. Use suitable modals.

Computers (a) _____ (must/can/should/would) provide information on any topic with the click of
the mouse. Some people (b) _____ (should/must/may/dare) think that they (c) _____
(will/would/dare/need) replace the teachers in future. It (d) _____ (shall/will/would/must) never
happen. All that (e) _____ (would/may/dare/need) be possible is that the teacher’s burden (f)
_____ (shall/will/could/should) be lightened.

4. Mahesh wrote only a few lines and couldn’t complete the story he wanted to write.
Taking help from the given input, and basing it on the beginning Mahesh made, write a
complete story.
A woodcutter was chopping down trees on the bank of a river. His hands were so much wet with
his sweat that he lost his grip………..
5. Answer the following questions in atleast 30 to 40 words. (any three)
a) How did Sanne help Anne Frank in writing the third essay?
b) Why does Anne want to keep a diary? Why does she feel she can trust a diary more than
the people?
c) Give a brief life-sketch of Anne Frank.
d) Why is it hard to be self-possessed while sitting in a dentist’s chair?
e) What does the poet feel when he walks out of the dentist’s clinic?
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