CREST English Olympiad Class 10 Previous Year Paper

Q.1

Choose the most suitable alternative in accordance with the correct use of tense:

Q.2

Find the correctly spelt word:

Q.3

Choose the most suitable option to fill in the blank:

Whenever I visit her, she always makes _____ mention of her mother.

Q.4

Choose the correct prepositions to complete the sentence:

Sleep is defined as a natural and reversible state ___ reduced responsiveness ____ external stimuli and relative inactivity, accompanied ____ a loss of consciousness.

Q.5

Choose the correct option to fill in the blank:

Although she speaks five languages, she did not do ___________ on the translation exam.

Q.6

Read the passage and fill in the blank:

In front of the house, there was a beach. Peter liked to stretch on the sand when the sun was warming it. From the back door of the house, he would walk along a path as far as the sand, and stand at the water's edge looking at the sea. When nothing very interesting was happening on the water, he would go down on his knees and take a handful of sand. Through his fingers ran the sand until only small stones and shells were left. Then, with a large sweep of his arm and with as much strength as he could muster, Peter would throw the shells away as far as he could.
At other times, he would go on his back and gaze up at the clouds, his hands idly searching the sand at his sides. He never stopped playing with the sand and feeling it run through his fingers, however much he was absorbed by the changes in the clouds.
Occasionally, some fishing boats came close enough to the beach for Peter to see what the fishermen were doing. Then with his hands clasped, he would look and look, while his whole body moved with the boat from side to side. When the fisherman drew in their nets or cast them into the water, Peter would do the same with an imaginary net of his own from his place on the beach.
On this small beach, Peter had a world of his own.
This passage tells mainly about _________________________.

Q.7

Read the passage and fill in the blank:
Stammering is a habit disorder linked with lack of self-confidence. Basically, for a child to understand a language, there are four stages. The first is learning to understand the spoken language and the second is speaking. Both of these usually develop around the age of two.
The third stage is speaking complex sentences, which develops at around three and the fourth is when the child recognizes the written alphabet. In 80% of children while the third and fourth stage are at play, the first two get disturbed because something new is being incorporated in the mind.
This is absolutely normal. But what over cautious mothers do is fret a lot and the child develops a fear which later manifests itself as stammering. In fact, most textbooks on stammering state in bold that “Had there not been any over cautious mothers, hardly any one would have suffered from stammering”. Fluency can be incorporated in the speech of such patients through hypnosis.

The second stage of a child's understanding the language is ______________.

Q.8

Find the correctly spelt word:

Q.9

Choose the correct option to fill in the blank:

Men, like women, should try to patiently _________. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to other men.

Q.10

Choose the most suitable option to fill in the blank:

The Chairman and ________ CEO of our hotel is a very energetic person.