G8 English T1 Sample Paper 2024
G8 English T1 Sample Paper 2024
G8 English T1 Sample Paper 2024
General Instructions:
• All the questions are compulsory.
• The question paper consists of 4 sections: A, B, C and D.
• Total number of questions is 16.
• Total number of printed pages is 6.
Q.2 Read the poem and answer the following questions: (8)
If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley—but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill,
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree
If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway happier honest human;
If you can’t be a singer then just be a bass
But be the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew,
There’s something for all of us here
There’s big work to do and there’s lesser to do,
And the task we must do is the near.
If you can’t be a highway then just be a trait
If you can’t be the sun, be a star,
It isn’t by size that you win or you fail
Be the best of whatever you are!
(a) (c)
(b) (d)
Q.10 Do as directed:
a) Mending the wall was always a good idea for the neighbor. (Present Perfect
Continuous)
b) The traveler had come from an antique land. (Future Continuous)
c) Ratan has been disappointed with the Postmaster. (Past Perfect)
d) Even a sage could not find the solution to his problem. (Simple Future)
Q.11 Read the instructions for making chapattis and complete the paragraph that follows: (8*2=4)
Steps:
Half a pound of coarse flour _________and a soft dough ________ using cold water. It is then ________
and _________ for an hour. After that ___________ and ____________. Each ball _________ to make a
flat cake. On slow fire ___________ and chapatti is placed on it. It is occasionally until slightly brown.
SECTION: D- LITERATURE (20Marks)
Q.13 Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow. Attempt any TWO questions.
(i) ‘But I know he will meet me here if he’s alive, for he always was the truest, staunchest old
chap in the world. He’ll never forget. I came a thousand miles to stand in this door tonight
and it’s worth it if my old partner turns up.’
(a) Who is the speaker of the above lines? Who is the speaker talking about?
(b) Which text is the above extract taken from?
(c) Why is the speaker sure that his chap would turn up?
(ii) ‘Not courage as much as hard- work and money. The officials don’t really interfere in
matters like this.’
(a) Who is the speaker of the above lines?
(b) What needs hard- work and money?
(c) The officials don’t interfere in what kind of matters?
(iii) ‘She ceased to be a little girl’
(a) Who is the ‘she’ being referred to here?
(b) Which event in the story does this sentence refer to?
(c) What brought about this change in her?
Q14. Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow. Attempt any ONE question. (1*3=3)
(a) Why was Kitty surprised looking at the children of Rashid’s school?
(b) How did the postmaster try to convince Ratan for leaving Ulapur without her?
(c) Which season is the tree happiest in, in the poem- ‘Tree in Season’?
(d) What was not understood by the poet even from the height of ten thousand miles?
Q.16 Answer the following questions in about 80-100 words. Attempt any ONE question. (1*5=5)
(a) What is the common theme of the poems- ‘Geography Lesson’ and ‘Mending Wall’. Explain its
importance.
(b) Write the character sketch of ‘The Postmaster’/ ‘Ratan’.