CREST English Olympiad Class 8 Previous Year Papers

Q.1

Read the text and fill in the blank:

Family Dollar was established in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1959 by a 21 year old entrepreneur named Leon Levine. He was interested in operating a low-overhead, self-service retail store. Levine’s main goal was to offer a variety of high quality merchandise to customers for under $2.00 (Family Dollar: History). If everything in the store wasn’t a dollar to begin with why did he name the store Family DOLLAR? The fact is that any person can be influenced in a different way just by the way someone words a sentence or phrase. A prime example of this is a Family Dollar store. The problem is that Family Dollar doesn’t sale everything in their store for a dollar, like a Dollar Tree does. Dollar Tree is seen to be one of the very few true dollar stores there is that sales everything for a dollar. The name of the store Family Dollar just catches everyone’s eye and makes them think that they are getting a better deal on the items they purchase there. The fact is that everyone who goes into the store is thinking that generally everything in the store is going to be a dollar, but it’s not. That is the purpose of the usage of words in the title of the store. Dollar General is also another store that has the same usage of words in their store name to make their customers think the same way. Every customer is baited into thinking that everything in the store is going to be a dollar but in the end their thoughts will be different.

This kind of word usage is a part of businesses everywhere around the world. It is known as cognitive grammar. Cognitive grammar is known to influence people by making them think something you want them to think.
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The names Family Dollar and Dollar General are ____________.

Q.2

Read the extract and answer the question:

Carly has a large family. She lives with four people. Carly also has two pets. Carly’s mom is a doctor. Carly’s mom works at the hospital. Carly’s mom helps people who are sick. Carly’s dad works at home. Carly’s dad cooks for the family. Carly’s dad drives the kids to soccer practice. Carly has two brothers. James is ten years old. Scott is fourteen years old. Carly has two pets. Jinx is a small, black cat. Diego is a large, brown dog. Carly loves her family!

How many people are in Carly's family?

Q.3

Read the given sentence and spot the common noun:

Carlos bought a new collar for his dog, Chief so that the dog can be taken for walking along.

Q.4

Find the correct option:

Unless you stop smoking and drinking, ___________.

Q.5

Read the passage and answer the question:

I am going to put music in your pocket" her father shouted.
"What?" Lisa was confused about what she just heard of.
"Hundred songs. A thousand songs. 500 songs. Somewhere between 500 and a thousand songs right in your pocket. Because I can't stand looking at that walkman you're carrying around a brick playing cassette tape. We are not savages. So I am going to put a thousand songs in your pocket." He clarified.
"You can do that?" Lisa still not believed in her father's words.

Of course, not only his daughter about the music system in her pocket, even the world had not believed his words about placing a computer in the hands of everyone in the world.
Steven Paul Jobs, recognized by this world as Steve Jobs was an American inventor, designer, and entrepreneur who were the co-founder, chief executive, and chairman of Apple Computer, headquartered in Cupertino, California. He was the mind behind Apple's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, are now seen as changing the growth of modern technology.

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. As a boy, Jobs and his father worked on electronics in the family garage. Paul showed his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby that filled confidence, determination, and mechanical artistry in young Jobs. In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer in the Jobs' family garage. They funded their entrepreneurial venture by Jobs selling his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak selling his beloved scientific calculator.
Jobs and Wozniak are credited with changing the computer industry with Apple by controlling the technology and making machines smaller, cheaper, automatic, and accessible to everyday consumers. With a new management team and an annual salary of $1 a year, Jobs put Apple back on track. Jobs’ creative products (like the iMac) effective branding campaigns and stylish designs caught the attention of consumers once again. In the following years, Apple introduced such big products as the Mac book Air, iPod and iPhone, all of which controlled the evolution of technology.

In 2008, Apple became the second-biggest music retailer (seller) in America powered by iTunes and iPod sales. Apple has also been ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine's list of "America's Most Admired Companies," as well as No. 1 among Fortune 500 companies. In August 2011, he resigned as CEO of Apple. And from 2011, Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple. Steve Jobs died in Palo Alto on October 5, 2011. He was also the Chairman of Pixar & NeXT companies. Steve Jobs inspired many young minds of this world with his innovative ideas. He was the mind behind the most tectonic shift in the status quo of technology.


In which year Apple became the second-biggest music retailer in U.S?

Q.6

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option:

They _____ fighting yesterday and all of a sudden they became close again. I think they _____ advised by their parents.

Q.7

Replace the quoted words with the correct option:

There aren’t many parking spaces near the post office. There are a lot of cars in front
of the post 'office, the' drivers are waiting for parking places and honking their horns.

Q.8

Fill in the blanks using the suitable set of prepositions:

Ronald Read was born ____ rural Vermont. He was the first person ____ his family ____ graduate high school, made all the more impressive ____ the fact that he hitchhiked ____ campus each day.

Q.9

Read the given sentence and spot the common noun:

I know it is hard to walk outside, but if you try to look through the gap you can see my car which is parked there.

Q.10

Read the given sentence and choose the antonym for the word given in quotes:

You have to "meld" the stamps.