Anand Bal Vidhya Mandir

Annual Examination

Subject-English-I

Time- 2 Hours Class-VIII MM-80

Q1-Answer the following questions- (30)

a) What is an e-book?
b) Why are electronic books are difficult to read?
c) What was the policeman doing? What was he looking for?
d) How did the man in the doorway try to re-assure the policeman?What was he doing
there?
e) Who Helen Keller? Write about her childhood?
f) How did Anne teach Helen Keller to read and well behaved?

Q2-Give the meanings of- (10)

Device, retail prices, crimson, pedlars, frail, girdles, staunchest, plodder, insisted,
unreasonable.

Q3-Write down the central Idea of the poem ‘In the Bazaars of Hyderabad’. (10)

Q4-Who said to whom- (10)

a) “It is all right officer.”

b) “Until five years ago”.
c) “It sounds pretty interesting.”
d) “It has given me everything I asked for”.

Q5-Explain these lines with reference and context- (10)

What do you sell----------- Jade.

Q6-Write true or false- (10)

a) The policeman met Bob in a restaurant.( )

b) Bob was a richperson.( )
c) Bob and Jimmy were fast friends.( )
d) Helen graduated from Radcliffe college.( )