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Olympiad of
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English Language

QUESTION PAPER
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International Olympiad of
English Language F O U N D A T I O N
TEST PAPER TYPE

QUESTION PAPER AA
Duration : 40 Minutes Maximum Marks : 100
1
S. Parents spend very meagre time with chil-
Section–A (Comprehension And Composition)
dren.
6. As such, the society is going away from the
Direction for questions 1 and 2: 1st and the last value system.
sentences of the paragraph are numbered 1 and 6. A. SRPQ B. PQRS
C. SQRP D. SPQR
The rest of the paragraph is split into four parts and
named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given 3. Change the voice.
in their proper order. Read the sentences and find Help others but do not expect anything in return.
out which of the four combinations is correct. Then A. You are advised to help others and expect
anything in return.
find the correct answer.
B. Let others be helped and expect nothing in
1. return.
1. Education in India had a glorious beginning. C. You were advised to help others and expect
P. But after the British rule, it faced many chang- anything in return.
es. D. You are advised to help others but forbidden
Q. It went on for centuries with the same glory. to expect anything in return.
R. English as the medium of instruction had a 4. Change the direct sentence into an indirect one. I
very great response. said to watchman, “Did you buy the chair?”
S. One of the changes was the introduction of A. I said to watchman that did he buy the chair
English as the medium of instruction.
B. I told to watchman if he had bought the chair.
6. As the Britishers left we had a complexity of
C. I asked watchman if he had bought the chair.
opinions regarding English
D. I asked watchman if he has bought the chair.
A. PQRS
B. QPSR Direction for questions 5 to 8: Read the passage
C. PQSR carefully and answer the questions that follow:
D. SRPQ
At first sight, silence would seem to be the essence
2. of non communication. Yet we know that in some
1. It is the responsibility of parents to teach the circumstances silence can speak volumes. It is also
young moral values in life. a potent tool in the communication toolbox, for
P. Many children take advantage of their par- the speaker, as it adds emphasis to point, allowing
ents’ busy schedule. time for its full significance to sink in. Handled
Q. This results in children’s ignorance of social skillfully, it can build up anticipation for what is to
values. come – the pregnant pause. It gives opportunity
R. The reason behind it is that parents are quite to make eye contact with the audience and gauge
busy nowadays. their reactions. It is an essential component of the

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timing of one’s delivery. For the listener, silence can 11. Find the clause of the underlined part of the given
buy time, either to digest what has been said or to sentence.
consider a response, or both. Silence will often lure Don’t talk while the teacher is teaching.
the speaker into saying more than he or she may
A. Adverb Clause of Place
have intended.
B. Adverb Clause of Time
5. Silence seems to be the essence of : C. Adverb Clause of Purpose
A. communication D. Adverb Clause of Reason
B. volumes
12. Given below is an article in jumbled form. Arrange
C. communication tool-box
P, Q, R and S to make it sensible one.
D. non communication
P: Why? When bright students look around India
6. For the listener, silence can: for a place to study for an advanced degree,
A. emphasise a point they find few top-quality programmes. In the
B. be a potenmt tool social sciences and humanities, there are a
C. lure him to say small number of respectable departments,
D. buy time but absolutely none that are considered by in-
ternational experts as in the top class of aca-
7. According to the author, the pregnant pause:
demic programmes.
A. Breaks up communication
Q: Not only are overseas programmes and de-
B. Helps communication
partments more prestigious, they also have
C. Builds up anticipation far better facilities, laboratories and a more
D. Leads to confusion favourable culture of research. Top faculty
8. The opposite meaning of ‘Potent’ is: members are often more accessible and it is
A. Latent easier to become affiliated with a laboratory
B. Patent or institute.
C. Weak R: Post-graduate students from India are in-
D. Inherent creasingly choosing to study abroad. The
U.S. Council of Graduate Schools’ new statis-
Direction for questions 9 and 10: Select the most tics show that offers of admission to Indian
post-graduate students are up 25 per cent for
appropriate options to improve the underlined
2013-14 from the previous year, compared to
segment of the sentences given in the questions. If a 9 per cent increase for all countries.
no improvement is required, mark your answer as S: Thus, if a bright Indian wants to study for a
No improvement. doctorate or even a master’s degree at a top
department or university in most fields, he or
9. They were not used to get up early. she is forced to study overseas. Further, a de-
A. used to getting up gree from a top foreign university tends to be
B. used getting up valued more in the Indian job market than a
C. used to be up local degree — a perception based not only
D. No improvement on snobbery but also on facts.
10. We must endeavour to increase women’s access A. QRSP B. RPSQ
for education also employment. C. RPQS D. QPSR
A. excess to education but employment Section–B (Grammar & Vocabulary)
B. access in education also employment
C. access to education and employment 13. Fill in the blank with a correct preposition.
D. No improvement
Mr. Modi was sworn ________ as the Prime
Minister of India.
A. in B. off
C. about D. out

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14. Fill in the blank with the correct form of adjective. 21. Identify the usage of the word underlined in the
He is the ________ minister in the cabinet. sentence given below.
A. old B. oldest I’d like you to sing so loudly.
C. older D. most oldest A. Participle B. Preposition
15. Find the part of the following sentence which C. Infinitive D. Auxiliary
contains a grammatical error. If sentence is correct, 22. Fill in the blank as per the subject verb agreement.
mark your answer as no error: He is one of the best writers that _____ ever lived.
Beside, writing is my hobby, (1)/ I had ideas for a A. has B. have
couple of short stories (2) / that needed further C. is D. None of these
thought. (3)/ No error (4)
23. Find the incorrectly spelt word.
A. 4 B. 1 A. Entrepreneur B. Remuneration
C. 3 D. 2 C. Apprentice D. Soveriegnity
16. Fill in the blank with a correct determiner.
They were bored because there was _____ to do. Direction for questions 24 and 25: Find the synonym
A. a little B. little of the words given in the questions:
C. a few D. few 24. Cantankerous
17. Find the sentence with the incorrect use of an A. Humorous B. Quarrelsome
article. C. Easy D. Happy
A. He live in a small apartment. 25. Connoisseur
B. Last Saturday, his father took him to a good A. Foolish B. Ignoramus
restaurant. C. Specialist D. Narrow-minded
C. Remember the movie we watched last week.
D. There is the park near my school. There are Direction for questions 26 to 28: Choose the options
some beautiful flowers in a park. which best express the meaning of the idioms/phrases
18. The underlined word in the given sentence is a/ underlined in the following sentences:
an: 26. Mealy-mouthed
His long experience as a teacher has given him the A. Ill-tempered
ability to quickly understand a student’s needs. B. Hesitant or unwilling to state something
A. Adjective B. Adverb C. Enthusiastic
C. Verb D. Noun D. Depressed
19. Fill in the blank with an appropriate modal. 27. To play second fiddle
We _____ brush your teeth after every meal. A. To study at night
A. ought to B. To take a subordinate role
B. should C. To work without pay
C. can D. To be happy, cheerful and healthy
D. might
28. Set one’s teeth on edge
20. Find the sentence with the incorrect use of a A. To irritate and annoy someone
conjunction. B. To please someone
A. Do you like tea or coffee? C. To help someone
B. We can either go to the cinema or to the café. D. None of these
C. She goes to the tennis club because she likes
to play tennis. Direction for questions 29 and 30: Find the antonym
D. None of these of the words given in the questions:
29. Nugatory
A. Delusive B. Futile
C. Unreal D. Productive

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30. WARY 36. Based on the given statement and few conclusions,
A. Daring B. Thrifty choose the right statement which gives the correct
C. Rash D. Dreary conclusions.
Statements:
Direction for questions 31 and 32: Find one word
• Some belts are leathers.
substitution for the following: • All leathers are skins.
31. A place where astronomical observations are made • Some skins are white.
A. Laboratory B. Observatory Conclusions:
C. Astrolibrary D. Astrophysics I. Some belts are skins.
II. Some belts are white is a possibility.
32. Division of a group into opposing factions
A. If only conclusion I follows.
A. Bifurcate B. Schism
B. If only conclusion II follows.
C. Invulnerable D. Accord
C. If both conclusions I and II follow.
D. If neither conclusion I nor II follows.
Section–C (Brilliance Zone)
37. In a certain code language, ‘how can you go’ is
33. Arrange the given words in the sequence in which written as ‘ja da ka pa’. ‘can you come here’ is
they occur in the dictionary. written as ‘na ka sa ja’ and ‘come and go’ is written
1) Yangtze as ‘ra pa sa’. How is ‘here’ written in that code
2) Yakking language?
3) Yakuzas A. ja B. na
4) Yobbery C. pa D. ka
5) Yobbish 38. Select the option that is related to the third letter-
A. 24531 B. 23145
cluster in the same way as the second letter-cluster
C. 54231 D. 54321
is related to the first one.
Direction for questions 34 and 35: A sentence LENOVO : EKISSQ :: FINGER : ______?
with two blanks is given, each blank indicating that A. YOIJBT B. YOIKBT
something has been omitted. Choose the words that C. YNIKBT D. YOIKCT
best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole. 39. Find the part of the sentence given below which
34. The book will be distributed to schools to create contains a grammatical error.
Everyone is keen in knowing (1)/ the forecast for the
________ among children as a massive publicity
monsoon (2)/ this year as it has been the (3)/ major
drive hasn’t shaken up people’s ________ towards cause of inflation in Asia. (4)/ No error (5)
sanitation. A. (1) B. (2)
A. ignorance, stance C. (3) D. (4)
B. apathy, absence
40. Select the most appropriate idiom (in the context)
C. awareness, attitude
D. perception, manner to fill in the sentence.
The official found himself ______ when he could
35. He accepted his friend’s request because he was not explain his actions and all the members started
________ to ________ him again. attacking him with accusations of cheating.
A. bound, hurt A. in the eye of a storm
B. reluctant, disappoint B. on the same page
C. sure, displease C. wet behind the ears
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1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. D 6. D 7. C 8. C
9. A 10. C 11. B 12. B 13. A 14. B 15. B 16. B
17. D 18. D 19. B 20. D 21. C 22. B 23. D 24. B
25. C 26. B 27. B 28. A 29. D 30. C 31. B 32. B
33. B 34. C 35. B 36. C 37. B 38. B 39. A 40. A