CREST English Olympiad Class 10 Previous Year Paper

Q.1

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.2

Choose the correct option to fill in the blank:

When I go to a stranger's library, I glance around the bookshelves. That reveals the kind of person he is. I feel that I have an _______ into his mind.

Q.3

Find the correctly spelt word:

Q.4

Punctuate the following sentence:

the words the prohibited area were written on the wall.

Q.5

Choose the most suitable option to fill in the blank:

Robert suddenly began to feel ill _______ he was taking the exam.

Q.6

Choose the most suitable option that can replace the words given in bold:

The handwriting on the ancient manuscript was such that could not be read. 

Q.7

Choose the most suitable option to fill in the blank:

National college is _____________________________ the University of Rossetto.

Q.8

Read the passage and fill in the blank:

In front of the house lay a small beach. Peter liked to stretch out on the sand when it was warmed by the sun. From the back door, he would walk along a path to the water's edge and gaze at the sea.

When nothing interesting was happening on the water, he would kneel and scoop up a handful of sand. He let it run through his fingers until only small stones and shells remained. Then, with a large sweep of his arm and all the strength he could muster, Peter would hurl the shells as far as he could into the water.

At other times, he would lie on his back and gaze up at the clouds, his hands idly sifting through the sand at his sides. He never stopped playing with the sand, letting it run through his fingers, even while being absorbed by the changing clouds.

Occasionally, fishing boats came close enough to the shore for Peter to see what the fishermen were doing. Then, with his hands clasped, he would watch intently, his whole body swaying with the boat from side to side. When the fishermen drew in their nets or cast them, 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 mainly tells us about _________________________.

Q.9

Read the passage and fill in the blank:

Stammering is a habit disorder linked with a 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 recognises the written alphabet. In 80% of children, while the third and fourth stages 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 anyone would have suffered from stammering'. Fluency can be incorporated in the speech of such patients through hypnosis.

_________________ are the reason that fear develops in the child's mind.

Q.10

Choose the most suitable option to fill in the blank:

He was called ______ to prove the correctness of the press reports.