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Section 1: Synonyms, Antonyms, Analogies and Spellings, Collocations, Phrasal Verbs, Idioms, Proverbs, Homonyms and Homophones, One Word, Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Articles, Prepositions, Prepositional Phrases, Participle Phrases, Conjunctions, Determiners, Jumbled Words, Punctuations, Tenses, Voices and Narrations, Question Tags, Words (Related to Leisure, Household Items/Issues, Social Causes, Outdoor Locations, Activities, etc.), Information Retrieval from Texts (News Reports, Blurb, Dictionaries, Instruction Manual Format, Messages, Editorials, Essays, etc.), Spoken and Written Expressions (Requesting, Giving Information, Expressing Surprise, Pronunciation, etc.)
Achievers Section: Higher Order Thinking Questions - Syllabus as per Section 1
Please note that the dictionary which will be used for reference is Oxford Learner's Dictionary. This will be w.r.t. spellings & meanings. In case, if the word is not found in this dictionary, then it is assumed that this word does not exist.
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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. |
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Identify the type of noun for the quoted word: I bought three 'packets of biscuits' for all of us to eat from the superstore. |
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Q.3 |
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! |
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Select the appropriate conjunction to complete the sentence: _____ children get older, they get smarter and bolder. |
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Q.5 |
Choose the most appropriate option to replace the quoted words: There is an ATM near the entrance. The store is on Main Street. "All most " in town shops at Dave’s. |
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Q.6 |
Choose the most appropriate option: The Cottage cheese had an 'exotic' flavour; it was delicious, but it was like nothing I’d ever tasted before. |
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Q.7 |
Choose the option with the same meaning as the idiom: My boss told me 'to have a free hand'. |
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Q.8 |
Find the correct option: Unless you stop smoking and drinking, ___________. |
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Q.9 |
Read the passage and answer the question: I am going to put music in your pocket" her father shouted. |
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Q.10 |
Identify the part of the sentence that contains grammatical error: Hardly the inspector had (A)/ arrived there to investigate (B)/ the crime when the (C)/ house alarm rang. (D) |
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Answers to Previous Year Questions from CREST Olympiads:
Q.1 : a | Q.2 : a | Q.3 : b | Q.4 : a | Q.5 : c | Q.6 : c | Q.7 : d | Q.8 : b | Q.9 : d | Q.10 : a