English Online Test (Grade VIII)

English Practice Test

For Grade VIII Students

Reading Skill (Seen)

1. Read the following passage carefully:

Before going out the next day, he soaked in a bucket of water the acorns that he had so carefully chosen and counted. He carried an iron rod too, as a walking stick. He invited me to come along with him. Having arrived at the place he had been heading for, he began to pound his iron rod into the ground. This made a hole in which he placed an acorn, and covered the hole again. He was planting oak trees. In this way, he planted one hundred acorns with great care. He told me that for three years now, he had been planting trees in this solitary way. He had planted one hundred thousand. Of these he had lost ten thousand, twenty thousand had come up. It was at this moment that I began to know the age. He was clearly more than fifty. Fifty-five, he told me. His name was Elzéard Bouffier. He had owned a farm in the plains, where he lived most of his life. He had lost his only son, and then his wife. He had retired into this solitude, where he took pleasure in living slowly, with his flock of sheep and dog. He had concluded that his country was dying for lack of trees. He added that, having nothing more important to do, he had resolved to remedy the situation.

1. (A.i) The shepherd carried an axe to dig the ground for planting acorns.

2. (A.ii) The next morning the shepherd left his house all by himself.

3. (A.iii) The shepherd thought that the country was dying for lack of trees.

2. Read the extract of the poem:

But nought there was a stirring
In the still, dark night;
Only the busy beetle
Tap-tapping in the wall,
Only from the forest
The screech-owl’s call,
Only the cricket whistling
While the dewdrops fall,
So I know not who came knocking,
At all, at all, at all.

4. (A.i) The beetle was –

5. (A.ii) The poet heard the screech-owl’s call from the –

Reading Skill (Unseen)

3. Read the passage carefully:

The 2024 Summer Paralympics, also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympics Games, and branded as Paris 2024, were the 17th Summer Paralympics Games, an international multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympics Committee (IPC). The games were held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024 and featured 549 medal events across 22 sports. These games marked the first time for Paris hosting the Summer Paralympics and the second time for France hosting the Paralympic Games, previously hosting the 1992 Winter Paralympics in Tignes and Albertville. France also hosted the 2024 Summer Olympics.

China topped the medal table for the sixth consecutive paralympics, winning 94 golds and 221 total medals. Great Britain finished second for the fifth time, with 49 golds and 124 total medals. The United States finished third, with 36 golds and 105 total medals. Our beloved India finished at 18, with 7 golds, and 29 total medals. The host nation, France, finished 10th, ending with 19 golds and 75 total medals.

6. (A.i) The 2024 Summer Paralympics Games were held in –

7. (A.ii) Which country achieved the second place in the medal table? –

8. (A.iii) The host country achieved the __________ place in the medal table. –

9. (A.iv) The numbers of sports were –

10. (B.i) Complete the sentence: The Paralympics events were governed by...

11. (C.i) The 2024 Summer Paralympics were known as the France Olympics.

12. (C.ii) China occupied the first place in the medal table for the sixth time.

Grammar and Vocabulary

13. (4) Fill in the blanks: There was _______ illustration _______ page fifty, which threatened him _______ some unknown reason.

14. (5.i) Change the narration: The teacher said to the student, “Did you prepare your lesson?”

15. (6.iii) Change the voice: Who did it?

16. (7.iv) __________ (Literacy) is a curse to our society. (Fill in the blank by adding prefix or suffix)

17. (7.i) In "At this moment, it’s raining hard," what kind of phrase is 'At this moment'?

Writing Skill (For Practice)

Note: The following questions are for writing practice and are not graded in this online test. You can type your answers in the boxes below.

8. Write a letter to your friend about an excursion which you enjoyed along with your classmates recently.

[Hints: Mention the place visited – the time and date of your journey – vehicle used – food you enjoyed – your experience etc.]

9. Study the following hints and write how paper is prepared:

[Hints: Paper scrap, wood, bamboo, grass, rags cutting and cleaning – merged into water in tanks mixed with lime – pulp made is boiled – passed through wire-meshes – wet paper passed over hot roller – pressed and dried – sheets of paper wound up in rolls – sent to sale.]

9 (cont.). Write a paragraph (in about 80 words) on ‘Your Favourite Season’ using the following hints:

[Hints: Various seasons – your favourite season – specialities of the season.]

10. Develop the following hints into a story. Add a suitable title to it:

[Hints: King Robert Bruce defeated by enemies – hides in a cave – sees a spider weaving a web – spider falls again and again – finally succeeds – King inspired.]

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