CREST English Olympiad Class 10 Sample Paper

Q.1

Read the passage and answer the question:

Sails are usually found on boats. But even without a boat, a sail can be useful. In winter, you can use a sail when you are on ice skates. If the ice is smooth and there is a good wind, you can have lots of fun. The sail will propel you across the ice at great speeds. You can use it at other times of the year, too. Try using one when you're on roller skates or on a skateboard. If you have a surfboard or a small rowboat, you can also have fun with a sail.
To make a sail, you need a double bed sheet and a T-shaped frame. Put the frame together from two light sticks. Sew your bed sheet to the frame. It will look like a triangle when it is finished. As a rule, the sail should be as tall as you. Quite a lot of sewing is needed. You may need someone to help you with the sewing.
How long you hold the sail is up to you. Put handholds where you want them or just hold on to the frame. To use it with a boat or surfboard, rig up a kind of mast and attach your sail to it.

To make a sail, you must sew the bed sheet to the _________.

Q.2

Choose the correct meaning of the idiom given in quotes in the sentence:

Kelly was left 'high and dry' by her friends when she lost all her money.

Q.3

Choose a synonym for the word in quotes:

She 'upbraided' the little girl who got frightened.

Q.4

Choose the most suitable option to fill in the blanks:

I would like to _______ your attention to the first paragraph of my letter ________ to the terms of sale of the machinery.

Q.5

Find the proper order for the four sentences and mark accordingly:

1 : One of the greatest curses in the world is the belief in the necessity of poverty.
P : There need not be a single poor person on the planet.
Q : But there was no poverty, no want, no lack, in the Creator's plan for man.
R : Most people have a strong conviction that some must necessarily be poor, that they were made to be poor.
S : The Earth is full of resources which we have scarcely yet touched.
6 : We have been poor in the very midst of abundance, simply because of our own blighting, limiting thoughts.

Q.6

Read the passage and answer the question:

Iron is only one chemical element. Steel, on the other hand, is a mixture of at least two elements-iron and carbon. Steel may have as much as 1.5 percent carbon in it. But the steel we use most often has only 0.2 percent carbon in it. Besides carbon, steel may have small amounts of other metals that have been put into the 'melt' on purpose.
Metals like manganese, found in some forms of iron, can improve the quality of steel. But there are also some elements found in steel which do not belong. An element such as sulfur can ruin steel. Steel makers try their best to get rid of it.
Without the use of steel, the face of the world today would look a lot like the way it did in the middle of the 1800s. We would not have tall skyscrapers, huge steamships, cars, planes and large machines to make life easier.

The manganese found in iron is_________.

Q.7

Choose the correct option to fill in the blank:

I was so surprised. His new apartment was _____________ decorated.

Q.8

Choose the correct preposition to complete the sentence:

George told ___ me about the changes in the company.

Q.9

Check the prefix and fill in the blank using the correct option:

We got late for the airport and missed our flight. He ____________ the time.

Q.10

Complete the sentence using the most appropriate option:

I don't know ________________________.