CREST English Olympiad Class 10 Sample Paper

Q.1

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

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

Q.2

Choose the most suitable option to fill in the blank:

If your company is such as a good employer, why ________________ for your computer training?

Q.3

Combine the sentences by changing the adjective to a noun. Choose from the following:

"Josephine is a stupid girl. She gets into trouble often."

Q.4

Identify the type of adjective:

These materials are of better quality than those of the last dispatch.

Q.5

Choose the most suitable option to fill in the blank:

Snapchat is an American multimedia instant messaging app and service developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. One of the principal features of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are usually only available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients. Snapchat lets you easily talk with friends, view Stories from around the world, and explore news in Discover. Life's more fun when you live in the moment!
What can be done through snapchat?

Q.6

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.7

Read the passage and answer the question:

Tom Hamilton liked his Aunt Prudence. She taught at the university. Her name was Dr. Prudence Hamilton. When she came to Tom's father's farm in the Cowichn Valley on Vancouver stand, which is part of the province of British Columbia, she always brought presents. Tom liked her.
He didn’t like her constant companion, Genevieve Trueheart, a dog.
Tom Hamilton was fond of other dogs. He had a dog, a bull terrier called Rusty, a fighter right from the word go. Rusty kept the pheasants out of the garden and young grain. He worked for a living. Tom couldn't like Genevieve Trueheart. She was good for nothing. She never even looked like a dog. She was a great big soft wheezing lazy wagging monster, a great big useless jump.
Which of the following DOES NOT describe Genevieve Trueheart?

Q.8

Read the given sentence and fill the blank with suitable option:

We ________ some problems with our computer systems recently.

Q.9

Choose the most suitable option to fill in the blank:

We met a lot of interesting people ________ our holiday.

Q.10

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

1 : One of the greatest curses of the world is the belief in the necessity of poverty.
P : There need not be a 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 own blighting limit thought.