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Nagaland Board (NBSE) Class 8 Question Papers – English Subject
Section – A (Prose)
(1) Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given:
(i) Where was Mrs. Macpherson when the author met her?
(a) Hospital
(b) Nursing Home
(c) Old age home
(d) Bridport
(ii) Ignesious was the manager of a Co-operative Society in
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Andaman
(c) Katchall
(d) Sri Lanka
(iii) In which year did the British conquer the whole of India?
(a) 1855
(b) 1856
(c) 1956
(d) 1865
Answer the following questions in about 15-20 words:
(2) Who had written the letter to Connie and when? (The Best Christmas Present in the World)
(3) What were the warning signs that both Tilly and her mother saw? (The Tsunami)
(4) Why did the man stare at Bepin Babu in disbelief? (Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory)
Answer any one of the following questions in about 30-40 words:
(5) (a) In what ways did the British officers exploit the Indians?(Glimpses of the Past)
Or
(b) Why do Jim and Hans think that games or sports are good ways of resolving conflicts? Do you agree? (The Best Christmas Present in the World)
Answer the following questions in about 50-60 words:
(6) How did the East India Company subdue the Indian Princes? (Glimpses of the Past)
(7) Why was Dr. Chanda puzzled? What was unusual about Bepin Babu’s loss of memory?
Answer any one of the following questions in about 70-80 words:
(8) a Mention the various ways in which the British and German soldiers become friends and find things in common at Christmas. (The Best Christmas Present in the World)
Or
(b) What are the different ways in which Tilly’s parents could have reacted to her behaviour? What would you have done if you were in their place? (The Tsunami)
(9) Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given:
(i) When did the Cricket begin to complain?
(a) During Summer season
(b) When he was drenched in the rain
(c) When he found his cupboard empty
(d) None of the above
(ii) The Earth has more __________ than ___________.
(a) land, sea
(b) water, forest
(c) life, land
(d) sea, land
Answer the following questions in about 15-20 words:
(10) What is your opinion of the Ant’s principles? (The Ant and the Cricket)
(11) Mention two things that are clear from the height. (Geography Lesson)
Answer the following question in about 50 – 60 words:
(12) What message is the poet trying to convey about human beings and the earth in the Poem, “Geography Lesson”?
Answer any one of the following questions in about 70-80 words:
(13) (a) “At last, by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold,
Away he set off to a miserly ant,
To see if, to keep him alive, he would grant
Him shelter from rain and a mouthful of grain”
(i) Who was suffering from starvation and famine?
(ii) Why was he dripping with wet?
(iii) Why did he set off to a miserly ant?
Or
(b) What Geography lesson did the poet learn when he flew above the city? (Geography Lesson)
Grammar And Composition
Section-A (Grammar)
(1) Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given:
(a) A is a group of words that makes sense but not complete sense. It has no subject and no predicate.
(i) Clause
(ii) Phrase
(iii) Adverb clause
(iv) Adverb phrase
(b) A sentence is one that is made up of two or more co-ordinate clauses.
(i) compound
(ii) simple
(iii) complex
(iv) co-ordinate
(c) I cannot rely on _______ she says.
(i) it
(ii) what
(iii) that
(iv) who
(d) The first of July was the day _______ the college was opened.
(i) who
(ii) when
(iii) what
(iv) Where
(e) The boys_______learning their lessons.
(i) Had
(ii) is
(iii) have
(iv) are
(2) Rewrite the following sentences as directed:
(a) He knows how he could do it. (Underline the Clause)
(b) I cannot express _______.(Complete the sentence by adding a suitable Noun Clause)
(c) He laughs best who laughs last. (Pick out the Adjective Clause and state which noun or pronoun in the Principal Clause it qualifies)
(d) Will you wait till I return? ( Pick out the Adverb Clause and state its kind)
(e) Do you obey your parents? (State whether the sentence is in Active or Passive Voice)
(3) State whether the given sentences are Simple, Compound or Complex sentences:
(a) She stood first in the class.
(b) I engaged a tutor because I was weak in Mathematics.
(4) Underline the Noun Clause in the following sentences:
(a) I want to know how far it is from here.
(b) Pay careful attention to what I am going to say
(5) Add suitable Adjective Clauses in the following sentences:
(a) This is the watch_________.
(b) Do you know someone_________?
(6) Underline the Adverb Clauses and state its kind:
(a) Though he is rich he is not happy.
(b) I shall remain where I am
(7) Change the following sentences from Active to Passive Voice:
(a) The boys are making much noise.
(b) The wind was blowing the clouds away.
Section- B (Composition)
(8) Read the passage and answer the questions given below:
Water is essential for the survival of man. We can go without food for a long time but wecannot live without water even for a few days. The human body is 60 to 70 Percent water.Without water, we would be poisoned to death by the waste products of air. Kidneys flush outuric acid and urea with the help of water. Water is vital for the chemical reaction in thedigestion metabolism. It carries nutrients and oxygen to the cells through blood and helps cool the body through perspiration.
By not drinking enough water, people may gain weight. Lack of water decreases the efficiencyof the digestive and slackens the functioning of various organs. Proper water intake is the keyto weight loss. If people who are trying to lose weight do not drink enough water, their bodies cannot metabolise fat.
The minimum water intake for a healthy person in a day is 30ml per kg of the body weight.More water is needed if you exercise a lot in hot climate. When a person increases his waterintake, in the beginning, he may have to visit the bathroom frequently. But with passage oftime, his bladder adjusts itself and he urinates less frequently but in larger amounts. So, from today, start drinking more water than you usually consume.
On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following questions:
(a) How does water cool the body?
(b) What would happen to the human body without water?
(c) What happens to a person when he increases his water intake?
(9) Read the poem and answer the questions that follow:
My Shadow
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow.
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For sometimes he shoots up taller like an India-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there’s none of him at all.
Fill in the blanks and complete the summary of the poem:
The poet says that he has a little ______ that keeps following him wherever he goes. Theshadow’s appearance is just like the poet from the toes to the ______. The poet says that hisshadow does not grow like______. He says that his shadow grows like an______ and sometimes he gets so ______ that there is none of him at all.
(10) Write an essay in about 100-150 words on any one of the given topics:
(a) Importance of organizing exposure/field trips in school.
(b) My aim in life.
(c) My favorite teacher.