CREST English Olympiad Class 10 Previous Year Paper

Q.1

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.

By the time the child becomes two years old, he/she can ___________________________________.

Q.2

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

Q.3

Choose the most suitable option to fill in the blank:

The book, including all the chapters in the first section, ______ boring.

Q.4

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.5

Choose a suitable option which expresses the same sentence in indirect/direct speech:

Johnny asked Wilson whether the latter was in his senses.

Q.6

Read the passage and answer the question:

We humans are used to thinking that our minds separate us from other animals. But new studies show that animals are quite intelligent and sensitive.
Animal intelligence isn't found only in mammals. It can be found in other animals, such as birds. Although we sometimes call people ''birdbrains'' as an insult, our feathered friends can be very smart. Some can solve puzzles. For example, ravens can untie knots. Some birds can use tools. Some crows, for example, use twigs as spears. Some birds can even use our language. An Africa Grey parrot named Alex does more than just imitate human sounds. This parrot can name dozens of objects. It also seems to understand the ideas of "same and different amount".
Animals are able to feel emotion, too. This ability can be as painful for them as it for humans. For example, some baboons live in groups where the leaders control through fear. Low-ranking baboons can live in a constant state of stress. This stress can cause health problems, just as it does in humans.
Some animals feel sadness when a family member dies. Elephants show interest even in decades-old elephant bones. Like humans, they are connected to each other in many ways.
How are birds similar to human beings?

Q.7

Choose the most suitable option to fill in the blank:

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

Q.8

Choose the most suitable word to replace the words given in bold:

George wants to consult a/an book that contains information on various subjects. What should he refer to?

Q.9

Choose the most suitable option to fill in the blank:

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

Q.10

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 _________________________.