Class VIII
English
Revision Assignment -II
1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions:
(1) Sleep disorders have become a common occurrence in India. Forty year old Marketing Executive
Aviral early one morning returned to Delhi from New York. He was trying to recover from jet lag and was
dead tired. To cure himself of this sleep problem, he forced himself to remain awake one whole day, as
he thought that he might be able to sleep at night. But this did not happen. "I hardly managed any sleep
that night", Aviral recalled.
(2) Next day he felt very uneasy at the office and had difficulty in concentrating on work. On his way back
home, he stopped at one of the busy signals on Delhi roads, but due to excessive tiredness, fell asleep.
He woke up suddenly after the motorist behind him honked. Aviral realised that he couldn't drive any
longer and decided to park his car in a quiet place. He took a nap for 2 hours in his car and only then
could manage to drive back home safely.
(3) Sleep disorder experts have pointed out, that lack of sleep is the reason for many ailments. Dr Kumar
Menon and his colleagues presented a paper on sleep disorders in Mumbai, in which they stressed that
early detection of the problem is necessary and physicians need to seriously view it as a disorder. They
need to evaluate their patients on the basis of sleep history too. Adequate sleep is important to one's
lifestyle, just like diet and exercise. According to Canadian expert on sleep disorders, Dr Jeffrey Lipsitz, on
an average a healthy adult requires just over 8 hours of sleep at night. However, the amount varies
between individuals.
(4) Swarup Chatterjee, a 28 year old IIM graduate and Assistant Manager at a BPO in Hyderabad, is
deprived of good sleep. Swarup is completely stressed out due to overburden of work in his professional
and personal life and often feels tired. He also knows that it is bad for his health. In a study conducted by
sleep disorder experts, it was found that one-third of adults have been experiencing sleep disorders.
They get less than 7 hours of sleep every night. Another study shows that 29% of Indians went to sleep
only after midnight. The survey further mentioned that Indians were among the world's earliest risers.
We should understand that 'early to rise' is good, provided that 'early to bed' principle is also followed.
a) What has become a common problem in our country?
b) What happened when Aviral could not sleep at the night?
c) What is the view of Dr. Jeffrey Lipsitz on sleep disorder?
d) What was the result of a study conducted by sleep disorder experts?
e) What should Indians understand about being early risers?
f) Just like...... and........ adequate sleep is important to one's lifestyle.
g) Find a word in paragraph 3 which means 'assess'.
2 .Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
a). He...... (used to import/will import/ imported) cotton for his textile mill until recently.
b)By the end of twentieth century every home in Europe.......... (has/had/had been having) a computer.
(III) You are Rita. Your mother had recently gone for a health checkup. You received a call from the
assistant doctor regarding the result of her reports. Since you have to go out, you leave a message for
her. Draft a message regarding the same in not more than 50 words.
IV.You are Karan/Kavita, the cleanliness in charge of English Public School, Madhurai. Draft a notice for
class monitors to ensure cleanliness in their classes and also inform them about the surprise checking
and cleanliness award for the best class. Write a notice in about 50 words.
(IV) Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
And that growing old should be gone about gracefully-
She'd laugh and say,' Well, I'll grow old disgracefully.
I can do it better.' And we had to agree;
For in all the garden there wasn't a tree
She hadn't been up, at one time or another.
(a) What did the family suggest Granny? Why did she laugh the suggestion off?
(b) What could the grandmother do better and how?
(c) Who are 'we'? What had 'we' to agree to?
