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CLASS-8 MODEL TEST EXAMINATION
Part A :
Grammar (40 Marks) [Answer any 8 questions out of 9]
1.
Complete the
following passage with suitable verbs from the list. Put them in the correct
tense. Use the negatives where necessary.
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go
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show
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do
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ask
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punish
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make
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throw
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Once a person (a) _____ to a saint and
asked him (b) _____ God as he finds Him nowhere. He further (c) _____ him why
man (d) _____ for his crime since he (e) _____ to do only as God wishes.
2.
Fill in the
blanks with appropriate prepositions.
Dear Laura,
You kn0ow, the world we live (a) _____
full (b) _____ different things. There
are many things (c) _____ us. All these things make (d) _____ the environment.
We should not turn a good, clean environment (e) _____ a bad polluted one.
George Bush,
Washington DC.
3.
Use articles
where necessary. Put a cross (x) where an article is not needed.
We know (a) _____ man is (b) _____
rational creature. It is (c) _____ rationality in him makes him (d) _____
different species. He can differentiate between (e) _____ right and (f) _____
wrong. This is why (g) _____ man is considered (h) _____ the best creation of
(i) _____ Creator of (j) _____ universe.
4.
Fill in the
blanks with suitable linking words from the list.
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with
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and
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Notwithstanding
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concerning
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that
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during
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since
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17th SAARC Summit ended (a)
_____ the 20 points Addu Declation in Maldives. (b) _____ The Summit started
with theme “Building bridges” . Now steps are taken to implement SAARC visa (c)
_____ Asian currency for this region like The European Union. One of the basic
issues SAARC Seed Bank Establishment, signed in the Summit, can meet any
shortage of food (d)_____ times of adversity. (e) _____ we hope the bilateral
meeting between the Premiers of Bangladesh and India will melt the ice of the
deadlock on the Tista sharing.
5.
Make
meaningful sentences with the following idioms.
Fall on deaf ears, month to feed, move
heaven and earth, pull someone’s leg, light at the end of the tunnel, see aye
to eye with, feel a cold shiver on someone’s spine.
6.
Rewrite the
following in the reported speech.
Sentry A : Better ask him. (Calls to
sergeant) Will this be a good place for a placard? (No answer)”
Sentry B : Will we put a notice here?
(No answer)
7.
Read the
following passage and transform the underlined sentences as directed in
brackets :
(a)Wherever you go: I shall follow
you (Simple). (b) Come anytime (Complex). (c) People say that it
takes two to make a quarrel (Passive). (d) She loves you (Negative
without changing the meaning). (e) Only ph D holders are eligible to apply
for the post (Complex).
8.
Fill in the
blanks with tag questions :
a) What a pity!
____?
b) You may fall
unless you study, _____?
c) Let me come
in, _____?
d) It hardly
rains in the winter, _____?
e) He dare not
come, _____?
9.
Complete the
following sentences:
a) In Bangladesh
14 December is a day _____.
b) I wish _____.
c) What is
Jotted, _____.
d) Dream is a
psychological process which _____.
e) It is high
time for him _____.
ANSWER
Part
A : Grammar
1.
Right form of
verbs
(a) went; (b) to show; (c) asked; (d)
is punished; (e) is made.
2.
Appropriate
prepositions
(a) in; (b) of; (c) around;(d) up; (e)
into.
3.
Use of
articles
(a) x; (b) a; (c) the; (d) a; (e) x;
(f) x; (g) x; (h) x; (i) the; (j) the.
4.
Use of linking
words
(a) with; (b) Since; (c) and; (d)
during; (e) Not with standing.
5.
Making
sentences with phrases & idioms
Fall
on deaf ears : Her advice to her younger brother fell on deaf ears.
Mouth
to feed : Our country is not in a position to have more mouth to feed.
Move
heaven and earth : The businessman moved heaven and earth to fulfill his mission.
Pull
someone’s leg : The joker pulled my leg by telling me a false story.
Light
at the end of the tunnel : After undergoing much sufferings, we could at last find
the light at the end of the tunnel.
See
eye to eye with: The Principal is not willing to see eye to eye with the
students over the issue of the examination schedule.
Feel
a cold shiver on someone’s spine : Seeing the police the old woman felt
a cold shiver on her spine.
6.
Changing the
form of speech
Sentry A told sentry B that it was
better to ask him (sergent). He called the sergeant and asked him whether that
would be a good place for a placard. But the sergeant was silent. Then sentry B
asked the sergeant whether they would put a notice there. The sergeant remained
silent then too.
7.
Transformation
of sentences
a) I Shall follow
you everywhere.
b) Come when you
like.
c) It is said
that it takes two to make a quarrel.
d) She does not
hate you.
e) Those who are
only ph.D holders are eligible to apply for the post.
8.
Tag questions
a) What a pity! Isn’t
it?
b) You may fail
unless you study, mayn’t you?
c) Let me come
in, won’t you?
d) It hardly
rains in the winter, does it?
e) He dare not
come, dare he?
9.
Completing
sentences
a) Inn Bangladesh
14 December is a day on which a good number of intellectuals were
killed.
b) I wish I
were the king of our country.
c) What is
lotted, cannot be blotted.
d) Dream is a
psychological process which seems to be a reality in sleep.
e) It is high
time for him that he took a decision regarding his marriage.
class-8
Part
A : Grammar (40 Marks)
1.
Complete the
passage with suitable verbs from the list. Put them in the correct tenses. Use
negative where necessary.
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call
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write
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provide
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relate
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reading
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understand
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be
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Although
language usage (a) _____ a teacher with the information about a child’s
development and (b) _____ a means for socialization, previous experience with
language is probably most important as it (c) _____ to the specific task (d)
____ reading. Reading is a language process requiring the (e) ____ of written
language.
2.
Fill in the
gaps with appropriate prepositions.
Population
growth belongs (a) ____ one of the major causes responsible (b) _____ the
environmental degradation. Although the growth rate in the world has (c) _____
some extent slowed (d) _____ still it adds 77 million human beings (e) _____
the world population.
3.
Use articles
where necessary and put a cross (x) where article is not needed.
Patriotism
means (a) ____ love for one’s (b) ____ country. It’s (c) ____ noble virtue. It
removes (d _____ mean-mindedness of (e) ____man. It also inspires (f) ____ man
to shed (g) _____ last drop of blood from the body to defend (h) ____ freedom
of (i) _____ country. A man devoid of patriotic feelings is inferior to (j)
_____ beast.
4.
Make sentences
with any five of the following idioms.
Die out, white
elephant, play truant, red tape, make good, beggar description, fall flat.
5.
Change the
speech in the following passage.
“Prince of the
Faithful”, replied the vizier, “they are doubtless a company of drunkard. If we
go in, I fear that some hard may befall you.” “We must go in”, insisted the
Caliph. “You shall invent some pretext for entrance.”
6.
Change the
underlined sentences as directed.
(a) Plato is the
most celebrated. Honored and revered of all philosophers of the western world
(Positive). (b) He Athens twenty-four years ago (Complex). (c) He is said to be
the greatest of all philosophers (Active). (d) The praise of plato has been
expressed in figures of speech, which compete with one another in their
eloquence (Simple). (e) He is the father of western philosophy (Negative).
7.
Fill in the
blanks with question tags.
a)
I’m pleased with his conduct, ______?
b) Neither of
them complained, ______?
c)
We ought to love our country, ______?
d) Everybody is
liable to error, ______?
e)
Do study attentively, ______?
8.
Complete the
incomplete sentences below.
a)
If we drink arsenic polluted water _____.
b) Surface water
is safe when _____.
c)
Pond water is not safe as _____.
d) ______ because
they are not conscious.
e)
Since there is scarcity of pure water _____.
ANSWER
Part
A : Grammar
1.
Right form of
verbs
(a) provides;
(b) is; (c) Is related; (d) called; (e) understanding.
2.
Appropriate
prepositions
(a) to; (b)
for; (c) to; (d) down; (e) to.
3.
Use of
articles
(a) x; (b) x;
(c) a; (d) the; (e) a; (f) a; (g) the; (h) the; (i) the; (j) a.
4.
Making
sentences with phrases & idioms
Die out : Many old customs are gradually dying
out.
A whiter elephant : Setting up a nuclear project
will become a white elephant in out county.
Play truant : He was punished for plying truant
from school.
Red tape : Many people cannot set up industries
in the country because of red tape formalities.
Make good : You will have to make good the loss
if your construction work damages my house.
Beggar description : The sufferings of the flood-
affected people beggar description.
Fall flat : My advice fell flat upon him.
5.
Changing the
form of speech
Addressing the
Caliph as the prince of the Faithful, the vizier replied that they were
undoubtedly a company of drunkards. He also warned the Caliph that if they went
in, he feared that some harm might befall him. But the Caliph insisted that
they must go in and told the vizier that he (v) would invent for entrance.
Jafar said that he heard and obeyed.
6.
Transformation
of sentences
a)
No other philosopher of the western world is so
celebrated, honoured and revered as Plato.
b) It was twenty
four years ago that he lived in Athens.
c)
People call him the greatest of all philosophy?
d) The praise of
Plato has been expressed in figures of speech to compete with one another in
their eloquence.
e)
Isn’t the father of western philosophy?
7.
Tag questions
a)
I’m pleased with his conduct, ain’t/aren’t I?
b) Neither of
them complained, did they?
c)
We ought to love our country, oughtn’t we?
d) Everybody is
liable to error, aren’t they?
e)
Do study attentively, won’t you?
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Completing
sentences
a)
If we drink arsenic- polluted water, we are sure to
fall sick.
b) Surface water
is safe when it is boiled.
c)
Pond water is not safe as different types of filthy
things are mixed with it.
d) The illiterate
people of our country fall a prey to various diseases because they
are not conscious of their health.
e)
Since there is scarcity of pure water, everybody
living there fetches drinking water from the tube well of the neighbouring
village.
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