SilverZone iOEL Sample Paper Class 8

International Olympiad of English Language - iOEL’ 23 CLASS 8th SAMPLE QUESTIONS The Actual Question Paper Contains 35 Questions. The Duration of the Test Paper is 40 Minutes. 1. Below given is a notice with four blanks. Fill those blanks 5. Give the antonym of the word underlined in the given with the options provided to make it a sensible one. sentence. NOTICE He was a sulky disposition. ATTENTION! MUSIC LOVERS! (A) Mild The school is hosting the _______I________ on 28th April, (B) Cheerful 2016 at the Siri Fort Auditorium, Khel Gaon Marg, New (C) Loving Delhi, at 4:00 p.m. (D) Kind All the talented ______II____ to be conducted in the 6. Which one of the following is an example of gerund? presence of Sh. Sonu Nigam, ________III_______,on 15th April, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. in the school auditorium. (A) He saw a man sleep. _______IV_____. (B) The man has climbed the wall to reach the window. Sashi Kumar (C) She has little sense of honesty. Secretary, Music Club (D) Maria’s first love is singing. South Delhi Public School 7. A sentence that contains only one subject and one finite P: For further details contact the undersigned. verb, expressed or understood is a: Q: 6th Inter-School Musical carnival for classes VI – IX (A) Complex sentence R: well-known playback singer from Bollywood (B) Compound sentence S: students with gifted voices may appear for the (C) Simple sentence audition (D) Imperative sentence (A) QPRS (B) QSRP 8. Give the usage of the word underlined. (C) PRQS (D) SRQP Both the boys must be guilty. 2. Insert a verb in agreement with its subject. (A) Adjective I _____ him only once since last Monday in the classroom. (B) Pronoun (A) see (B) saw (C) Noun (C) had seen (D) have seen (D) Adverb 3. A sentence is given in four parts. One of the parts Direction: For Q9-10: Read the given passage carefully and contains a grammatical error. Find the part. answer the questions that follow. A leader is a group member which (P) / exerts profound India is the only country in the world to have the distinction of influence (Q) / on the behaviour and attitudes (R) / of having three main species of cats in its tally, which are the lions, other members of the group.(S) the tigers and the leopard along with many other smaller cat (A) P (B) Q (C) R (D) S species. Even though they differ from each other in appearance yet they all belong to one single family, the Felidae. The cat 4. Fill in the blanks with suitable modals. family includes many kinds of wild animals with similar body Rita: _______I go to visit my friend in Shimla? Father: characteristics. Most members of the cat family have many of No, you _______. the same habits. They are clever hunters and stalk their prey (A) Can, cannot (B) May, may not on padded feet. They use their sharp claws and teeth to tear (C) Might, might not (D) All of these their food. Some also use their claws to climb trees to seek food 10

International Olympiad of English Language - iOEL’ 23 or escape enemies. Several of the big cats can be man-eaters, cialized of all the meat-eating animals for hunting game. Cats including lions and leopards and tigers. Tigers are the largest are solitary animals and usually hunt alone. of the cats, they employ a ‘stalk and ambush’ strategy. Tigers 9. The family of cat includes: usually attack deer, but have been known to kill elephants and buffaloes. Humans, unable to run very fast, do fall prey to tiger (A) Lions and tigers although usually it is only old or injured tigers that become (B) Leopards and other cat species man-eaters. All cats move in the same way. They walk on the (C) Many wild animals tips of their toes, not on the soles of their feet as do humans (D) Wild animals with similar body characteristics and many other kinds of animals. All cats can swim, and many 10. The largest members of the cat family are: are excellent fishermen. The ancient Egyptians used cats not only as hunters of mice but as catchers of fish as well. Some (A) Tigers (B) Lions cats can and do swim for pleasure, and some, especially the (C) Leopards (D) Man-eaters tiger, can swim for long distances. Members of the cat family, including the domestic cat, are among the most highly spe- ANSWERS 1. (B) 2. (D) 3. (A) 4. (A) 5. (B) 6. (D) 7. (C) 8. (B) 9. (D) 10. (A) 11