KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA GPRA CAMPUS GACHIBOWLI - 500032

PERIODIC TEST - 1 (2023-2024)

Class : VIII Max Marks: 40

Sub : English Duration: 90 Mins

SECTION A (READING) 5 MARKS

I. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
The world's potential supply of fresh water has been affected by pollution and irregular rainfall patterns.
Water use has increased twice as fast as the population. In the future global warming is expected to have
a significant impact on water supplies with increased floods in some areas and droughts in others.
Most people in underdeveloped countries get their water from streams, rivers or storage ponds. This
water is likely to be polluted. The only clean water available comes from underground, called
groundwater, and is accessed through wells and hand pumps. One pump or well is often shared by the
whole village.
Imagine life in your home with no taps for fresh water and no toilets. This is how more than two billion
people in the world have to live. About three billion people in the world are not able to wash their hands
in clean water after going to the toilet – in fact they have got no toilets!
Such conditions bring severe health hazards. Raw sewage constantly pollutes their water supply and
spreads diseases. Water pollution is responsible for 25 million deaths a year and half of all the world’s
diseases are spread through water.

1.What affects the fresh water supply?

a) pollution b) irregular rainfall patterns c) both a and b d) None of these
2.What will be the impact of global warming on the future?
a) floods and drought b) no water on taps c) pollution d) all of these
3.From where do the people of underdeveloped countries draw water?
a) rivers b) streams c) storage ponds d) all of these
4.How do diseases spread?
5.Identify the word which means ‘dangers’ or ‘problems’.

Section B- Writing & Grammar

II. Develop a story on the following outlines. Give a suitable title. 5M
Once a fox fell into a well - tried hard to come out – could not come out – by chance a goat came – the
goat was thirsty – looked into the well for water – saw the fox – fox was clever – invited the goat to drink
cool, sweet water – goat was foolish – jumped into the well – fox jumped on its back and came out –
foolish goat realised her folly.
III. 5M
A. Diary entry
It was Sunday and you enjoyed a lot with your family at a picnic. Describe the day’s events and your
feelings too, in the form of a diary entry. (Word limit : 60-80 words)
OR
B. Notice writing
You are the head girl/head boy of your school and you need to inform the students about the painting
competition to be held in school. Draft a notice in about 50 words.
IV. Fill in the blanks using the correct form of the verbs in brackets. 1/2x12=6M
My little sister is very naughty. When she 1)__________ (come) back from school yesterday, she had
2)__________ (tear) her dress. We3) __________ (ask) her how it had 4)__________ (happen). She5)
__________(say) she 6) __________ __________ (have, quarrel) with a boy. She 7)__________
__________ (have, beat) him in a race and he 8) _________ __________ (have, try) to push her. She
9)__________ __________ (have,tell) the teacher and so he 10)__________ __________ (have, chase)
her, and she 11)__________ __________ (have, fall) down and 12) __________ __________ (have, tear)
her dress.

V. Rearrange the following words and phrases to make meaningful sentences:(Any 4) 1x4=4M
1. are not/citizens/respected/senior/or cared for
2. ill-equipped/are not only/insufficient/old age homes/also/but
3. must/anyone else's/place them/the society/before/interest
4. giving them/very much needed/is important/they are/an impression/that
5. Mary/brother/and/have/gone/her/to visit/aunt/their

SECTION D (LITERATURE) 15 MARKS

VI. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. 1x5=5M
My heart was so light
That I sang day and night,
For all nature looked gay.
“You sang, Sir, you say?
Go then,” says the ant, “and dance the winter away.”

1. Whose heart was light?

2. What did he do?
3. How was the weather?
4. Write two pairs of rhyming words from the given stanza.
5. Identify the word from the stanza which means ‘happy’.

VII. Answer any 5 of the following in 25-30 words. 2x5=10M

1. What jobs did Hans Wolf and Jim Macpherson have when they were not soldiers?
2. Why do Jim and Hans think that games or sports are good ways of resolving conflicts?
3. What is Connie’s Christmas present? Why is it “the best Christmas present in the world”?
4. What did the cricket do when he began to starve?
5. What did the cricket do during summer and spring? Why?
6. What tasks, do you think, were assigned to the dog and the ox?
7. Why did the camel live in the middle of the desert?
8. What made the dog, the horse and the ox very angry?