English Olympiad
Class-X
Q1 Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Once, on being asked whether the work had not
been overextended, Mother Teresa laughed, ‘If there are poor on the moon, we
shall go there too.’ Born an Albanian, Mother Teresa came to Kolkata at the age
of 18, and in the course of her life’s mission of caring for the poorest of the
poor, dominated the Indian century. In the process she was respected almost
everywhere. In the eyes of much of the world she was considered the Saint of
the Gutters in her lifetime. Neither the highest honours nor the barbs flung at
her could distract her from her chosen path. In spite of her early difficulties
and, much later in life, her many near brushes with serious illness and death,
she lived to complete much of her agenda. The major achievements in Mother
Teresa’s life are well-documented. After almost two decades in Kolkata’s Loreto
Convent, where she taught geogra- phy and catechism, Mother Teresa was
permitted to step into the world that lay beyond the security of convent wall,
to begin her mission which she said was an answer to a ‘call’ that she received
on a train journey to Darjeeling. She started with three sarees and a
five-rupee note. From a single school which she started in a Kolkata slum in
1948, the Order grew into a multinational that continued to be run from a small
office in Kolkata. In the year before her death, her Order ran 755 homes in 125 countries. During that
year the Missionaries of Charity fed
half a million hungry mouths in five conti- nents, treated a quarter of a
million sick, taught over 20,000 slum children and ran homes for the mentally
retarded, the leprosy-afflicted, AIDS patients
the crippled and alcoholics and drug addicts. They ran day-crèches,
night-shelters, soup-kitchens and TB hospitals.
1. Neither the highest honours nor the barbs flung at her could
distract her from her ‘chosen path.’ What does the ‘chosen path’ mean?
(a) Help the poor
(b) Lead a life for helping the poor
(c) Compassionate towards poor of the poorest d) Caring for the
poorest of the poor
2. Which one of the following statements is false in context to the
Missionaries of Charity?
(a) It looked after the
pupils of Kolkata’s Loreto Convent.
(b) It provided education to the slum children.
(c) It ran day-crèches,
hospitals and night- shelters.
(d) It treated a quarter of a million sick people.
Q3. Leave me alone. The following sentence is______.
a) Assertive
b) Imperative
c) Interrogative
d) Exclamatory
Q4. _____ How unworthy of you.
a) Lo!
b) Ha!
c) Fie!
d) Hush!
Q5. Everybody ______to come forward to help the needy in times of
distress.
a) need
b) dare
c) ought
d) used
Q6. Tick the correct passive form of “Do you know my father”?
a) Is my father known
to you? b) Was my
father known to you?
c) Has my father
known to you? d) My
father is known by you.
Q7. Tick the correct active form of “The light was switched off”.
a) Somebody has
switched off the light. b)
Somebody switched off the light.
c) Somebody had
switched off the light. d)
Somebody switches off the light.
Q8. Choose the correct indirect sentence.
He said to us,”Let us
return”.
a) He said to us that
let us return. b)
He proposed us that we should return
c) He proposed to us
that they should return d) He
proposed to us that let us return
Q9. Spot the correct spelling
a) Amateur b) amateur
c) Amteur d) amateur
Q10. Choose the word closest in meaning to ‘Admonish’.
a) Warn b)
reproof
c) Ask d) advise
Q11.Choose the correct antonym of ‘Knave’.
a) Harsh b)
gentleman
c) stranger
d) honest
Q12. He is self_______.
a) Effacing
b) defacing
c) rightful
d) righteous
Q13. ‘Bone of contention’ means ______.
a) Act of gratitude b) to be contented
c) Subject of
dispute
d) great happiness
Q14. Flash in the pan means_________.
a) A slow start
b) blaze with bright
flame
c) a flashy pan d) promising
start followed by a failure
Q15.Complete the sentence with correct option.
The High Court________the death
sentence of the prisoner.
(a) set down (b) set upon
(c) set about
(d) set aside
Q16. Below given is a
sentence in four parts. One of the parts contains a grammatical error. Find the
part.
As though this were not bad
enough (1)/nuclear power in India is vastly (2)/more expensive than it was (3)/
assumed to be. (4)
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3 (d)
4
Q17.Give the synonym of the
word underlined in the given sentence.
The intrepid mountaineer
who scaled the peak in winter should be specially congratulated.
(a) Bold (b) Courageous (c) Vigorous (d) Brave
Q18. Which one of the following sentences is grammatically correct?
(a) He was extremely unhappy
because of inordinately delay.
(b) He was extremely unhappy because of inordinately delaying.
(c) He was extremely unhappy
because of inordinate delay.
(d) He was extremely unhappy because of inordinate delaying.
Q19. Give the one word
substitution of the sentence given below.
A long wandering journey
(a) Trip (b)
Odyssey
(c) Stroller
(d) Excursion
Q20. Use the verb form of ‘success’ in the following sentence.
He is sure of success.
(a) Success is sure to him.
(b) He knows of his success.
(c) That he will succeed is
known to him.
(d) He is sure that he will succeed.
Q21. Fill in the blank as per subject verb agreement.
_____I in your place, I would
keep quiet.
(a) Am
(b) Were
(c) Would
(d) Was
Q22. Give the usage of the word underlined.
I was about to go to
bed when there was a knock at the door.
(a) Adjective (b)
Adverb
(c) Preposition
(d) Pronoun
Q23. Identify the sentence with wrong use of pronoun.
(a) Everyone who went to
field trip was supposed to bring their permission form.
(b) Students lost their
privileges.
(c) A dog or a cat can find
its way home.
(d) Each of the boys has his
own savings account.
Q24.Change the voice.
You will have finished this
work by tomorrow.
(a) This work will have been
finished tomorrow.
(b) This work will be
finished by tomorrow.
(c) This work will finish
tomorrow.
(d) This work will have been finished by tomorrow.
Q25.Arrange P,Q,R,S between 1 & 6 to make a correct sentence.
1. If we study the lives of
great man P : achieve greatness and, Q: footmarks to guide others R: we are
reminded that we too can S: when we die, leave behind us 6. and infuse them
with new life.
(a) PSRQ
(b) RPSQ
(c) RQPS (d)
SQPR
Q26.Change the narration.
Raja said, “O that I were a
child again!”
(a) Raja exclaimed with
wonder that he was a child again.
(b) Raja wondered that were
he a child again.
(c) Raja strongly wished that
he had been a child again.
(d) Raja prayed that he were
a child again.
Q27.Direction: For Q 27-28: Give the exact meaning of the phrases
and idioms given below:
27. To look down one’s nose at
(a) To backbite
(b) To show anger
(c) To insult in the presence
of others
(d) To regard with half hidden displeasure
Or
contempt
28. To run amuck
(a) To run a race
(b) To run about in frenzy
(c) To feel exhausted
(d) To run to somebody’s help
Q29. Which of the following words has been wrongly spelt?
(a) Adhesive
(b) Abusive
(c) Applauce
(d) Accomplice
Q30. . Select the combination of number to form a correct word.
R T
A O U H
1 2 3
4 5 6
(a) 13456 (b)
236451
(c) 632451 (d) 352641
Q31. . Fill in the blanks with correct conjunction.
Our hoard is little,_____our
hearts are great.
(a) and (b) but
(c) for (d) so
Q32. Find the analogy. Car: Garage:: Aeroplane:
(a) Airport (b) Depot
(c) Hanger (d) Harbour
Q33. Choose the appropriate filler.
When I met her last
year,__________.
(a) she had married since
five years (b)
she had been married for five years
(c) she was married for five
years (d)
she had been married since five years
Q34. Give one word substitution for the following.
To examine one’s own thoughts
and feelings
(a) Meditation
(b)Retrospection
(c) Reflection
(d) Introspection
Q35. Fill in the blank with
correct determiner.
I have to go to the bank
because I have __________checks I need to deposit.
(a) some
(b) few
(c) a few
(d) little
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