Grade 8

Summative assessment.
Reading (Criterion B)

Read the text “STORIES ABOUT OVERCOMING CHALLENGES AND

OBSTACLES” and answer the questions in detail.

N1 Question: From time to time we face smaller or bigger obstacles in our

life. What makes the person stronger or weaker after having a
challenging experience? In what way?

2 Answer: Person gets stronger after overcoming obstacles that life

gives us, after all our lost’s and failure’s, we must go on, because if
we will surrender, than there is no reasons to exist

Question: Identify the difference between a problem, an obstacle, a

challenge and an adversity

Answer: Whereas problems can have deep, long-lasting impacts,

obstacles are temporary hurdles, challenges don’t have any impacts and
adversity can’t be stopped or overcomed.

3 Question: Give a summary of the 1st story (3-4 sentences).

Answer: One day a small gap appeared in the cocoon, through which
the butterfly had to appear. A boy passed by and saw that. He tried to
help and cutted the cocoon, but the butterfly became weak, because
cutting the cocoon by herself is very important, so the butterfly could
make her wings stronger, and so she could fly.

4 Question: Why shouldn’t the boy have helped the butterfly?

What is the morale of the story?
Give evidence from the text.

Answer: Boy shouldn’t help butterfly, because butterfly could make

it herself. I understood the morale of the story, but story had 2
sentences that breaked all the moral of the story, the moment when
butterfly tired and barely stayed in the cocoon must be deleted,
because someone can understand the moral like “Don’t help
anyone”, but the real moral is “Don’t help people that don’t need
help”.
5 Question: Comment on the quote:
“Life gives us challenges to make us stronger,
To make us grow and develop so that
One day we could spread our wings and fly.”

Answer: I believe in that, but not every person can overcome

problems. Problems kill people, but not instantly, it kills slowly. Even
if you overcome problems, they still gave you a scar, so in the end
we couldn’t find something that will make us happy. But when we
become older, most of us understand that we need to find
happiness in something little, like drinking coffee or buying new
clothes

6 Question: Give a short summary(3-4 sentences) of the 2nd story.

Answer: I have a friend Jerry, who is always in a good mood. I

asked him how he is doing this, and he replied that everytime
something bad happens he has a choice, be angry or sad all the
day, or teach from this, and he always chooses the second one.
One day, robbers came to the restaurant where he worked, and
shot him, and he gave him a choice “I will live, or I don’t? I choose
to live” and he lived.

7 Question: Why did Jerry survive?

What personal qualities helped him?
Based on the text, give the morale of the story.

Answer: He always gave him a choice that helped him to survive,

and even in the worst situation ever, he was in a good mood and
could make a joke. The moral of the story is always teach from your
mistakes and never lose your good mood

8 Question: Comment on the quote:

“Challenges are what makes life interesting.
Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” J.J. Marine

Answer: I agree on that, because without bad and hard moments

in your life, you can’t really feel the good moments in your life

9 Question: Give a summary of the 3rd story (3-4 sentences).

Answer: One peasant came to a wise man and started

complaining how it’s unfair and bad to live. Wise man told him that
 instead of complaining, try to change your life.

10 Question: Why was a peasant complaining?What was the lake a

symbol of?
Why did the wiseman recommend the peasant to be like flying fish?
Based on the text, give the morale of the story.

Answer: He complained about his life, and how he tried to blame

all his relatives. The lake is a symbol of our lives, so when the lake
will be polluted normal fish will be blinded, and fishes with wings
could fly and see everything. Being a flying fish is a metaphor as
being a person who will try change his life

11 Question: According to the 4th story, what does it mean to fly for the
Snake?

Answer: I think it shows how disabled people can still live a full life
even without limbs or something like that. So fly is a metaphor to
live

12 Question: Why does the Snake say that she will be stronger and
freer than the Eagle?

Answer: Because Eagle only knows how to fly and can’t crawl,
except Snake that is already know how to fly and know how to
crawl

13 Question:Why do you think people strive to take challenges?

What, in your opinion, can help people successfully overcome
challenges?

Answer: Because they want to prove for someone or even for

themselves that they are strong, and they are improving
themselves with overcoming challenges

14 Question: What is your attitude towards difficulties/challenges?

Answer: I think that they make us stronger. Without difficulties, a

person's life will be boring and grim. Real happiness is when you
overcome difficulties, because after a hard test, you can rejoice in a
good grade.

15 Question: Give an example when a person you know/read about

overcame a serious challenge.
Answer: I watched the anime Berserk, it's a dark fantasy about the
Guts, a man whose whole life is a hell. He hundred or even
thousand times saw how his friends were killed by monsters or
other people, his wife was killed by his best friend, and he lost
every hope in humanity, but he was still alive. He fights for his life
and seeks his former best friend for revenge.