DATE: 15-03-24

3G CLASSES
8 (English)
TIME: 2 hrs

English-
MARKS: 50

SEAT NO:

Q.1 Rewrite the sentence in Indirect speech. 2

1 "Which is your house ?" he asked

Ans He asked which house mine was.

2 "Don't touch the glass," she said.

Ans She warned me not to touch the glass.

Q.2 Frame sentences 2

1 to voice something

Ans They wanted to voice their concerns to the officer.

2 Use both the words in one meaningful sentence.

interesting, surgeon

Ans It is interesting to know that Shushruta was the first surgeon.

Q.3 Write homographs / homophones for the following word. 2

1 tail - ..........

Ans tail - tale

2 pair - ..........

Ans pair - pare

Q.4 Spot the error and correct the sentence 1

1 They is falling faster now.

Ans They are falling faster now.

Q.5 Write two sensible words using the letters from the given words (having at least 4 alphabets) 1

1 wonderful

Ans won, wonder, one, den, red, found, fun, low, lone, loud

Q.6 Complete the word chain of noun, verb, adjective, adverbs. 2

1 nurture - e..............., ................, .............., ..............

Ans nurture - engage, earn, nab, bring

2 smiles, s..............., ..............., ............... ...............

Ans stand, drink, kneel, leap

Q.7 Identify the type of sentences 2

1 Give her what she wants.

Ans Imperative sentence

2 The surgeon controls these instruments from a console.

Ans Assertive sentences (Affirmative)

Q.8 Punctuate the following sentences 1

 1 daniel hale williams a young african american surgeon attempted a new medical technique.

Ans Daniel Hale Williams, a young African American surgeon attempted a new medical technique.

Q.9 Write Direct / Indirect narration 2

1 Mantriji : Your Royal Highness, I have some urgent news to convey.

Ans Matriji told His Royal Highness that he had some urgent news to convey.

Q.10 Read the following passage and do the activities: (prose) 10

1 A1) Write whether the statements are True or False 2

1) England honowred Ramanujan.
Ans England honowred Ramanujan - True

2) Ramanujan became a fellow of the Royal society at the age of 33.

Ans False

3) Ramanujan fell ill with pneumonia.

Ans False

4) Ramanujan went to England during first world war.

Ans True

It is good to remember that England gave Ramanujan such honours as were possible. The Royal
Society elected him a Fellow at the age of thirty (which, even for a mathematician, is very young). Trinity
also elected him a Fellow in the same year. He was the first Indian to be given either of these distinctions.
He was amiably grateful. But he soon became ill.
Hardy used to visit him, as he lay dying in hospital at Putney. It was on one of those visits that there
happened the incident of the taxi - cab number. Hardy had gone out to Putney by taxi as usual, his chosen
mehod of conveyance. He went into the room where Ramanujan was lying. Hardy, always clumsy about
introducing a conversation, said, probably without a greeting and certainly as his first remark : “The
number of my taxi cab was 1729. It seemed to me rather a dull number.” To which Ramanujan replied :
“No, Hardy!
It is a very interesting number : It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two
different ways”.
It was difficult, in war - time, to move Ramanujan to a kinder climate. He died of tuberculosis, back
in Madras (Chennai), two years after the war. As Hardy wrote in the Apology, his roll - call of
mathematicians : ‘Galois died at twenty - one. Abel at twenty - seven, Ramanujan at thirty - three, Riemann
at forty. I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty’.

Ans

A2) Answer in one sentence : 2

1) Why is 1729 an interesting number?
Ans It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

2) Can you work out the sum of cubes in two different ways which equals 1729?
Ans 1729 is indeed an interesting number. It is the sum of two pairs of cubed numbers. One pair is 12 and 1
and the other pair is 10 and 9. The cubes of these pairs add up to 1729.
A3) Vocabulary Based Questions 2
1) Make 2 sentence using 'distinction' to show the difference in meaning.
Ans
 There is a
sharp
distinction
between
i.
domestic
and
international
trade.
He is a
ii. doctor of
distinction.

2) Make 2 sentences using 'honour' as a noun and as a verb.

Ans
He
received
the
i. honour,
very
early in
life.
It is the
country's
duty to
ii. honour
the
brave
hearts.
A4) Grammar based questions : 2
1) The Royal Society elected him a fellow at the age of thirty.
Ans Simple Sentence.

2) Ramanujan was the first Indian to receive either of these distinctions.

(Make it into a negative sentence.)
Ans No other Indian had received either of these distinctions before Ramanujan.

A5) Personal Response 2

Why was Ramanujan hospitalized?
Ans Ramanujan had to be hospitalized as he was ill. He was in quite a serious condition. He lay dying in
hospital at Pitney. He later died of Tuberculosis.
Q.11 Read the following Extract and complete the activities: (poem) 5

1 A1) Choose the correct Alternative 2

1) Human beings can learn from honey bees …………...
[how to make food / how to live joyfully / how to lead an organised nation]
Ans Human beings can learn from honey bees - How to lead an organised nation

2) The soldier bees carry home …………...

[the velvet buds / nectar looted from the flowers / their weapons]
Ans The soldier bees carry home - nectar looted from flowers.

3) The drone is given a death sentences because he …………...

[attached the emperor / killed other bees / does not do any work]
Ans The drone is given a death sentences because he does not do any work.

4) The ………...… bees make hency from nector.

[officers / civilian citizens / magistrate]
 Ans The Civilian citizens bees make hency from nector.

So work the honey- bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach

The art of order to a peopled kingdom,
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings;
Make boot upon the summer’s velvet buds;
Which pillage they with merry march bring home
To the tent royal of their emperor ;
Who, busied in his magesty, surveys,
The singing masons building roofs of gold,
The civil citizens kneading up the honey,
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrowgate,
The sad eyed Justice, with his surly hum,
Delivering over to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone

Ans

A2) Answer the following : 2

What should we learn from the bees ?
Ans Bees are small insects but they are very organised. They divide the work among themselves and
everyone does their allotted work. The one who doesn’t do any work is sentences. We should learn to work
hard in a disciplined, organised way from the bees.
A3) Poetic Device 1
Find an example of alliteration.
Ans ‘Which pillage they with merry march bring home’. The sound of ‘m’ is repeated.

Q.12 Read the following poem and write its appreciation in a paragraph format with the help of the given points: 5

1
The poem ‘The Bees’ is written by the famous writer-poet William Shakespeare. The theme of the
poem is organized structure among the bees. The shirkers are given death penalty. The tone of the poem
is serious and reflective. The poem is written together without any stanzas. It’s a free verse without any
rhyming words. I like the opening lines ---- ‘so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach’
----- truly it’s a teaching to the human beings by the humble insects. Figures of speech used are inversion,
alliteration and onomatopoeia. Lots of imagery too is used.
•Tital
•Poet
•Theme/Central Idea
•Rhyme scheme
•Figure of speech
•Special Features
•Favourite line / lines
•Why I like / don't like the poem
Ans .

Q.13 Formal Letter Writing 5

1 Write a letter to your friend, who lives abroad describing the Kite festival you enjoyed in Ahmedabad.

Ans .

Q.14 Expansion of Idea 5

1 Mother Nature

Ans .
Q.15 Story Writing 5

1 A poor farmer ____ gets a wonderful _______ hen ____ lays a golden egg daily _______ farmer becomes rich ____
richer _______ wants to be richest ___ cuts it ____ finds no gold _____

Ans The Greedy Farmer

Once there lived a farmer in a village. He was very poor. A saint visited the village. He took pity on the farmer.
He gave the farmer a wonderful hen that gave one golden egg every day.
The farmer grew rich. But he was greedy. He wanted to get all the eggs for once. So he took a knife and cut
the hen's stomach to extract all the golden eggs once for all. But he could find nothing. He was sad and
disappointed. But it was no use repenting. The farmer could get no more gold. He grew poor again.
Moral: Greed is a Curse.