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