English Olympiad Class 10 - Sample question paper 12

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Choose the option with correct spelling

Q) Identify the correct spelling for the word that means 'characterized by excessive admiration of oneself.'

A. Narcicistic

B. Narcissistic

C. Narssistic

D. Narcisistic

Answer: B. Narcissistic

Q) Choose the correct spelling for the term that means 'the state of being unwilling to spend money.'

A. Frugality

B. Frugallity

C. Frugalitye

D. Frugolity

Answer: A. Frugality

Q) Find the correct spelling for the word that means 'the use of many words where fewer would do.'

A. Circumlocution

B. Circumlocutione

C. Circumloquation

D. Circumlocatyon

Answer: A. Circumlocution

Q) Choose the correct spelling for the word that means 'a situation in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions.'

A. Equilibrium

B. Equillibrium

C. Equilibriam

D. Equillibriam

Answer: A. Equilibrium

Q) Identify the correct spelling for the word that means 'a state of being madly in love.'

A. Infatuation

B. Infattuation

C. Infatuatyon

D. Inphatuation

Answer: A. Infatuation

Q) How do you spell the word that means 'to look for something'?

A. Reconnesence

B. Recconissence

C. Reconessence

D. Reconnaissance

Answer: D. Reconnaissance

Q) How do you spell the word that means 'to be confined'?

A. Incarcerated

B. Incersarated

C. Incarserated

D. Incarscareted

Answer: A. Incarcerated

Choose the most suitable option to complete each sentence

Q) He kept _______ about how well he did in last night’s match.

A. carrying on

B. making at

C. selling out

D. seeing off

Answer: A. carrying on

Q) I hate it when people _______ when I’m in a queue.

A. set up

B. run over

C. look out

D. cut in

Answer: D. cut in

Q) It is interesting to note that although there has not been a marked _______ in results this year, students seem to be doing better than previous years.

A. sideways

B. rewind

C. roundabout

D. upturn

Answer: D. upturn

Q) Will you stop _______, please? It is really difficult to understand what you want.

A. muttering

B. ambushing

C. crouching

D. pouncing

Answer: A. muttering

Q) The water comes from the north in the _______, which you can see coming over the valley.

A. aqueduct

B. caliduct

C. circumduct

D. viaduct

Answer: A. aqueduct

Q) I think we need a/an _______, and doing it in this way gives us more options.

A. edifice

B. anchor

C. change

D. drought

Answer: C. change

Q) The clouds in the sky looked _______ all day yesterday, and it wasn’t a surprise when it poured down.

A. ominous

B. fascinating

C. resilient

D. savaged

Answer: A. ominous

Q) The new rules for homework and study times will be really _______ on my free time this term.

A. effluent

B. effort

C. crammed

D. intrusive

Answer: D. intrusive

Q) I am not sure I can have any more; I find fish quite _______ when it has been boiled.

A. minor

B. grotesque

C. revealing

D. diminutive

Answer: B. grotesque

Q) This new film makes it difficult to _______ apart fact from fiction in what happened during that period.

A. comb

B. raise

C. prise

D. show

Answer: C. prise

Q) I don’t think the truth was _______ in the director’s mind when putting this new film together.

A. uppermost

B. downsize

C. upbeat

D. rewind

Answer: A. uppermost

Q) The bridge was made elsewhere, but because of the shipping costs, _______ here.

A. assembled

B. assemble

C. has assembled

D. assembles

Answer: A. assembled

Q) The box _______ the top of the stairs is full of rubbish.

A. in

B. at

C. on

D. with

Answer: B. at

Q) _______ curator, when we talk about _______ beauty, always finds it hard to define it neatly.

A. The, no article

B. A, the

C. No article, no article

D. No article, a

Answer: A. The, no article

Q) I wish I was going to the park later because I _______ some fresh air.

A. was needing

B. am needing

C. need

D. have needed

Answer: C. need

Q) The school was _______ that it needed to perform better next year.

A. will inform

B. informed

C. informing

D. inform

Answer: B. informed

Q) If he _______ for help, would you be able to?

A. asked

B. is asking

C. would ask

D. ask

Answer: A. asked

Q) We would _______ a few more runs if we’d played better.

A. be getting

B. have been getting

C. had been able to get

D. have been able to get

Answer: D. have been able to get

Q) Before seeing this one, I had _______ looked at a van Gogh painting before.

A. generally

B. continually

C. always

D. never

Answer: D. never

Q) There are a ________ of new computers available this year.

A. dozens

B. load

C. some

D. many

Answer: B. load

Q) We had decided to go the long route before we _______ home.

A. are leaving

B. are left

C. left

D. have left

Answer: C. left

Q) I can’t stand rushing around, so we need to _______ early or we’ll get stuck in traffic.

A. run out

B. get in

C. set off

D. move on

Answer: C. set off

Q) I should _______ number one last year.

A. to have been

B. had to be

C. had be

D. have been

Answer: D. have been

Q) The team will _______ for 90 minutes soon.

A. having been played

B. be played

C. have been playing

D. playing

Answer: C. have been playing


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