E 07 Diagnostic Test Specimen

                                                  MARTHOMA G H S, KOTTARAKKARA            July 2015        Std : VIII

                                                            DIAGNOSTIC TEST                                                  Time : 20mts                                                                                                                                                    Score  : 20

                                                                                                                                    

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ONE  FROM THE BRACKET                                                       ½  x 6= 3

1. Give one word for ‘to disappear suddenly’. (smear, relieve, loath, vanish)

2. The word reluctant means ........  (very surprised, very strong, unwilling, weak)

3. Choose the correct phrasal verb meaning ‘to stop doing something’. ( give in, give up, give awy, give out)

4. Choose the correct phrasal verb meaning ‘to postpone’. ( put off, put on, put up, put out)

5. Identify the abstract noun. (love, trees, student, boy)

6. -----------him, his friend also came for the party. (besides, beside)

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING USING this, these, that, those                                             ½ x 7=3½

            Isn’t ---------- (7) Navya, sitting there on bench? Can you see others? ----------(8) are the disturbances in that class. Here I’m studying with --------- (9) girl. There you can study with  ----------(10) boy. Here is my house in --------(11) beautiful valley and there is my plantation beyond ---------(12) stream. Lock here, ----------(13) girls are very mischievous.

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER AND FILL IN THE BLANKS                           ½ x 5=2 ½

14.  Harikrishnan is ----------principal of this school. [a, an ,the]

15.  You can easily travel ----a car. [by, on, in]

16.  He ----to school. [go, goes]

17.  They -----the cricket. [ play, plays]

ADD APPROPRIATE QUESTION TAGS                                                                   1 x 2 = 2

18.  Let’s take a break, --------------?

19.  I am a doctor, ------------------?                

REARRANGE TO MAKE A MEANINGFUL SENTENCE.                                         1 x 2 =2

20.  him/ waited/ she / for/ has.

21.  Children/ the/ story/ a/ teacher/ told.

IDENTIFY THE STATEMENTS TRUE/ FALSE                                                           ½ x 6=3

22.  Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel prize for literature in 1931 (False, True)                                                                                                                  

23.  Sushil means gentle and quite.              (False, True)

24.  One of the witches addressed Macbeth as Thane of Glamis. (False, True)

25.  Lady Macbeth was a strong and ambitious woman. (False, True)        

26.  Macbeth thought that his end was near . (False, True)     

27.  Sarojini Naidu is the speaker of the poem ‘Coromandal Fishers’.                                                                                                            

 SPELL CORRECTLY TO GET THE MEANING GIVEN                                           1 x 4 = 4

28.  Ast-un-ed ( greatly surprised)

29.  C- -am-r--s  (logs of wood tied together)

30.  Des-e-da-t (an offspring from an ancestor)

31.  Gl--m ( to shine softly).                                                    

                                                                                                           

                                                   GOVT. HSS, PUNALUR, July 2015                                    Std : VIII

                                                            PRE-DIAGNOSTIC TEST                                          Time : 20mts                                                                                                                                                                 Score  : 15

                                                                                                                                     

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER FROM THE BRACKET  (1x4=4)

1.     ----------- means to make someone suddenly surprised or shocked.

(stare, startle, torture, mourning)

2.     The plane ------------ shortly after the takeoff.

(collapsed, crashed, damaged, clutch)

3.     Opposite of the word humble is ----------.

(soft, light, proud, kind)

4.     To pass by means ------------ .

(to come, to move, to pay no attention to, to hide)

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING WITH the or a/ an             (1/2 x 10=5)

   Calcutta is one of………..  (5) biggest city in India. I have lived here for two years.  ……….. (6) city is always crowded. I go to …..….. (7) office by bus.  I have to wait ………(8)  long time at ……... (9) Bus stop. I have ……. (10) Son and ……… (11) Daughter. My son goes to ……….(12)  College by bus and my daughter goes to ……….(13)  School on …… (14) foot.

PUNCTUATE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING CAPITALS WHERE NECESSARY         (1x4=4)

15.at the supermarket  I  bought bread butter sugar chocolate and  biscuits

16.suresh where have you been

17.rekha said I hate seeing films

18.what a lovely garden she exclaimed

FORM ADJECTIVES FROM THE FOLLOWING VERBS     (1/2x4=2)

19.Express   ---------

20.Attract     ---------

21.Inform      --------

22.Compare   --------

ST STEPHEN’S H S, PATHANAPURAM

DIAGONOSTIC TEST-JULY 2015

Time:25min                                                                                       Max.score:20

(1x5=5)

Fill in the blanks.

1.     __________ means to receive from one’s parents or grand-parents. (inherit/inhabit)

2.     He said,”___________ be with you”(Peace/Piece)

3.     Jews sing their prayers at _________(Synagogue/synaggoge)

4.     The word ‘barely’ means ________

5.    

(1x5=5)

The opposite of ‘dusk’ _________

Choose the correct answer from the bracket.

6.     Sometimes her memory is _______(quit/quiet/quite)

7.     My house is __________ (beside/besides) the river.

8.     Ramya has no ___________(patience/patients).

9.     He became h--it-t-d. (seae/esae)

10.                    

(1x3=3)

Meera is my c-m--ni--.(opaon/onoap)

Choose the correct words from the bracket.

11.                     _______ the huts, there were fields.(between/among)

12.                     The girl _______met you yesterday is my sister.(which/who)

13.                     Kannan is _________a  student  nor a teacher. (either/neither)

(1x2=2)

Write the noun form of;

14.                     Agree

15.                     disappoint

(1x5=5)

State whether the following sentences are  True/False.

16.                     The ‘Son From America’is written by Robert Hayden.

17.                     The money sent by Samuel was the only income of their family.

18.                     Gopi was in Delhi, for years.

19.                     The father in the poem ‘Those Winter Sundays’ was a lazy and cruel man.

20.                     The grandmother/nanny always gave care to the poet at his childhood.