Mock IEO - 6 (Class - IX)

International English Olympiad - Mock Test 6 for Class IX

50 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which can be used to replace the underlined word/phrase in the given sentence.

The dispute threatened to smash the nascent government to fragments.

  1. Current
  2. Young
  3. Perfect
  4. Developed
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which can be used to replace the underlined word/phrase in the given sentence.

He is a strict and domineering lieutenant.

  1. Authoritative
  2. Fun-loving
  3. Crazy
  4. Quick
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which can be used to replace the underlined word/phrase in the given sentence.

Rahul did his work in a tardy manner.

  1. Sharp
  2. Lame
  3. Slow
  4. Quick
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which can be used to replace the underlined word/phrase in the given sentence.

She became uncomfortable with the compliments that she received.

  1. Amazed
  2. Surprised
  3. Dazed
  4. Embarrassed
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which can be used to replace the underlined word/phrase in the given sentence.

Radha became conscious of her manager looking at her.

  1. Respectful
  2. Aware
  3. Sleepy
  4. Groggy
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

Taran never ___ to turn the lights off whenever he went out.

  1. forget
  2. forgot
  3. forgets
  4. forgotten
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

The plane is about to take _____.

  1. of
  2. off
  3. on
  4. out
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

I am a good worker, ___?

  1. aren’t I
  2. don't I
  3. am I
  4. doesn't I
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

Riya __ Bengali, but she can communicate well.

  1. hadn’t mastered
  2. hasn’t mastered
  3. haven’t mastered
  4. didn't mastered
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

Let us get the shopping over and ____ with.

  1. start
  2. bill
  3. into
  4. done
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

You and I are free right now, _____?

  1. aren’t I
  2. aren’t you
  3. aren’t us
  4. aren’t we
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

There is too ___ water in the bathtub.

  1. much
  2. many
  3. more
  4. few
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

I lost the key that she ___ me.

  1. had gave
  2. had given
  3. did give
  4. has give
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

Carmen _______ to her mother about it, but nothing came out of it.

  1. was already spoken
  2. already spoken
  3. have already spoken
  4. had already spoken
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

Before his wife’s death, they had ___ in Greece.

  1. unsettled
  2. settled
  3. moved out
  4. surfed
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank 1.

You need a total of 60 to 90 minutes of physical activity (1) day. But, this does not have (2) done in one go. Five or seven sessions of (3) activity throughout the day are just (4) good for you. These (5) include walking, jogging, running and riding a bike.

  1. the
  2. in the
  3. a
  4. on
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank 2.

You need a total of 60 to 90 minutes of physical activity (1) day. But, this does not have (2) done in one go. Five or seven sessions of (3) activity throughout the day are just (4) good for you. These (5) include walking, jogging, running and riding a bike.

  1. been
  2. to be
  3. to been
  4. being
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank 3.

You need a total of 60 to 90 minutes of physical activity (1) day. But, this does not have (2) done in one go. Five or seven sessions of (3) activity throughout the day are just (4) good for you. These (5) include walking, jogging, running and riding a bike.

  1. relaxing
  2. meditating
  3. sleeping
  4. physical
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank 4.

You need a total of 60 to 90 minutes of physical activity (1) day. But, this does not have (2) done in one go. Five or seven sessions of (3) activity throughout the day are just (4) good for you. These (5) include walking, jogging, running and riding a bike.

  1. so
  2. as
  3. do
  4. of
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank 5.

You need a total of 60 to 90 minutes of physical activity (1) day. But, this does not have (2) done in one go. Five or seven sessions of (3) activity throughout the day are just (4) good for you. These (5) include walking, jogging, running and riding a bike.

  1. must
  2. will
  3. are
  4. may
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.

She became successful in her life. She went from _____.

  1. riches to rags
  2. happiness to sorrow
  3. rags to riches
  4. downs to ups
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.

Did you not know he _____? He had blood cancer, I think.

  1. kicked the bucket
  2. crossed his fingers
  3. was beating around the bush
  4. went from rags to riches
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate idiom/phrase from the options given below.

They had a dispute yesterday. That’s why he gave him ____.

  1. a bitter pill
  2. the cold shoulder
  3. the benefit of doubt
  4. last straw
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

She ____ herself in a book.

  1. buried
  2. opened
  3. demolished
  4. consumed
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

I should not have put my laptop so ___ to the edge of the table.

  1. near
  2. close
  3. around
  4. beside
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

The new minister promised to ___ illiteracy from his constituency.

  1. bury
  2. open
  3. demolish
  4. abolish
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.

She found him standing ___ the entrance.

  1. near
  2. close
  3. next
  4. adjacent
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank 1.

Some of the classrooms in the building (1) dormant, as their ceilings have collapsed, while the rest of the classrooms are on the (2) of falling down. The rickety chairs and tables in the classrooms are also in need of replacement. The school has 150 students and 22 contract teachers whose lives are in danger from the (3) condition of the building.

  1. are left
  2. left
  3. has left
  4. are going
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank 2.

Some of the classrooms in the building (1) dormant, as their ceilings have collapsed, while the rest of the classrooms are on the (2) of falling down. The rickety chairs and tables in the classrooms are also in need of replacement. The school has 150 students and 22 contract teachers whose lives are in danger from the (3) condition of the building.

  1. edge
  2. corner
  3. verge
  4. point
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank 3.

Some of the classrooms in the building (1) dormant, as their ceilings have collapsed, while the rest of the classrooms are on the (2) of falling down. The rickety chairs and tables in the classrooms are also in need of replacement. The school has 150 students and 22 contract teachers whose lives are in danger from the (3) condition of the building.

  1. battered
  2. sordid
  3. contemptible
  4. untidy
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank 1.

Doctor: Hello, I am Dr. Smith. I will be the 1 taking care of you today. What seems to be the problem?
Patient: I am having trouble breathing and I am also running a fever.
Doctor: Okay. For 2 you been feeling this way?
Patient: I would say for about three days now. I felt so bad last night that I came into the emergency. I wish 3 because I have a horrible insurance; hardly anything is covered.

  1. teacher
  2. physician
  3. trainer
  4. helper
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank 2.

Doctor: Hello, I am Dr. Smith. I will be the 1 taking care of you today. What seems to be the problem?
Patient: I am having trouble breathing and I am also running a fever.
Doctor: Okay. For 2 you been feeling this way?
Patient: I would say for about three days now. I felt so bad last night that I came into the emergency. I wish 3 because I have a horrible insurance; hardly anything is covered.

  1. so long have
  2. how far
  3. how long has
  4. how long have
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill blank 3.

Doctor: Hello, I am Dr. Smith. I will be the 1 taking care of you today. What seems to be the problem?
Patient: I am having trouble breathing and I am also running a fever.
Doctor: Okay. For 2 you been feeling this way?
Patient: I would say for about three days now. I felt so bad last night that I came into the emergency. I wish 3 because I have a horrible insurance; hardly anything is covered.

  1. I did not
  2. I would not
  3. I had not
  4. I must not
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill blank 3.

Directions: Read the following letter and answer the question that follows:

To
__1__
Guru Nanak Public School
Sarabha Nagar
Ludhiana
May 22, 2015
Sir
With due respect, I beg to __2__ I, Riya, a class 9 student studying in your school, am not in a position to attend the school as I am down with __3__. Since it is a contagious disease, I have been __4__ complete rest for a few days. Therefore, __5__ me leave for ten days from May 23 to June 3.
Thanking you,
__6__
Riya
__7__

  1. myself
  2. fun
  3. some work
  4. chicken pox
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill blank 5.

Directions: Read the following letter and answer the question that follows:

To
__1__
Guru Nanak Public School
Sarabha Nagar
Ludhiana
May 22, 2015
Sir
With due respect, I beg to __2__ I, Riya, a class 9 student studying in your school, am not in a position to attend the school as I am down with __3__. Since it is a contagious disease, I have been __4__ complete rest for a few days. Therefore, __5__ me leave for ten days from May 23 to June 3.
Thanking you,
__6__
Riya
__7__

  1. please give
  2. kindly grant
  3. please assign
  4. None of these
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which word in the passage means the same as 'overstatement'?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

The year 842 BC may be considered the first accurate date in Chinese history, and in this year the Emperor had to flee from his capital on account of popular dissatisfaction with his tyrannical ways: he betook himself northward to an outlying settlement on the Tartar frontier, and the charge of imperial affairs was taken over by a regency or duumvirate.

At this time, the confederation of cultured princes called China — or, to use their own term, the Central Kingdom — was a very different region from the huge mass of territory familiar to us under those names at the present day. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that civilised China, even at that comparatively advanced period, consisted of little more than the modern province of Ho Nan. All outside this flat and comparatively riverless region inhabited by the "orthodox" was more or less barbaric, and such civilisation as it possessed was entirely the work of Chinese colonists, adventurers, or grantees of fiefs in partibus infidelium (so to speak). Into matters of still earlier ancient history, we may enter more deeply in another chapter, but for the present, we simply take China as it was when definite chronology begins.

The third of the great dynasties which had ruled over this limited China had, in 842 BC, already been on the imperial throne for practically three hundred years, and, following the custom of its predecessors, it had parcelled out all the land under its sway to vassal princes who were, subject to the general imperial law and custom, or ritual, together with the homage and tribute duty prescribed there under, all practically absolute in their own domains. Roughly speaking, those smaller fiefs may be said to have corresponded in size with the walled-city and surrounding district of our own times, so well known under the name of Hien. About a dozen of the larger fiefs had been originally granted to the blood relations of the dynastic founder in or after 1122 BC; but not exclusively so, for it seems to have been a point of honour, or of religious scruple, not to "cut off the sacrifices" from ruined or disgraced reigning families, unless the attendant circumstances were very gross; and so it came to pass that successive dynasties would strain a point in order to keep up the spiritual memory of decayed or rival houses.
  1. Possessed
  2. Exaggeration
  3. Exclusively
  4. None of these
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In the passage, China has been referered to as

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

The year 842 BC may be considered the first accurate date in Chinese history, and in this year the Emperor had to flee from his capital on account of popular dissatisfaction with his tyrannical ways: he betook himself northward to an outlying settlement on the Tartar frontier, and the charge of imperial affairs was taken over by a regency or duumvirate.

At this time, the confederation of cultured princes called China — or, to use their own term, the Central Kingdom — was a very different region from the huge mass of territory familiar to us under those names at the present day. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that civilised China, even at that comparatively advanced period, consisted of little more than the modern province of Ho Nan. All outside this flat and comparatively riverless region inhabited by the "orthodox" was more or less barbaric, and such civilisation as it possessed was entirely the work of Chinese colonists, adventurers, or grantees of fiefs in partibus infidelium (so to speak). Into matters of still earlier ancient history, we may enter more deeply in another chapter, but for the present, we simply take China as it was when definite chronology begins.

The third of the great dynasties which had ruled over this limited China had, in 842 BC, already been on the imperial throne for practically three hundred years, and, following the custom of its predecessors, it had parcelled out all the land under its sway to vassal princes who were, subject to the general imperial law and custom, or ritual, together with the homage and tribute duty prescribed there under, all practically absolute in their own domains. Roughly speaking, those smaller fiefs may be said to have corresponded in size with the walled-city and surrounding district of our own times, so well known under the name of Hien. About a dozen of the larger fiefs had been originally granted to the blood relations of the dynastic founder in or after 1122 BC; but not exclusively so, for it seems to have been a point of honour, or of religious scruple, not to "cut off the sacrifices" from ruined or disgraced reigning families, unless the attendant circumstances were very gross; and so it came to pass that successive dynasties would strain a point in order to keep up the spiritual memory of decayed or rival houses.
  1. the Central Kingdom
  2. Modern province of Ho Nan
  3. the Great Landmass
  4. None of these
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill blank 2.

Directions: Read the following letter and answer the question that follows:

To
__1__
Guru Nanak Public School
Sarabha Nagar
Ludhiana
May 22, 2015
Sir
With due respect, I beg to __2__ I, Riya, a class 9 student studying in your school, am not in a position to attend the school as I am down with __3__. Since it is a contagious disease, I have been __4__ complete rest for a few days. Therefore, __5__ me leave for ten days from May 23 to June 3.
Thanking you,
__6__
Riya
__7__

  1. tell that
  2. say that
  3. give that
  4. inform that
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill blank 1.

Directions: Read the following letter and answer the question that follows:

To
__1__
Guru Nanak Public School
Sarabha Nagar
Ludhiana
May 22, 2015
Sir
With due respect, I beg to __2__ I, Riya, a class 9 student studying in your school, am not in a position to attend the school as I am down with __3__. Since it is a contagious disease, I have been __4__ complete rest for a few days. Therefore, __5__ me leave for ten days from May 23 to June 3.
Thanking you,
__6__
Riya
__7__

  1. The Doctor
  2. The Master
  3. The Principal
  4. The Teacher
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill blank 6.

Directions: Read the following letter and answer the question that follows:

To
__1__
Guru Nanak Public School
Sarabha Nagar
Ludhiana
May 22, 2015
Sir
With due respect, I beg to __2__ I, Riya, a class 9 student studying in your school, am not in a position to attend the school as I am down with __3__. Since it is a contagious disease, I have been __4__ complete rest for a few days. Therefore, __5__ me leave for ten days from May 23 to June 3.
Thanking you,
__6__
Riya
__7__

  1. Yours obediently
  2. Yours truly
  3. Yours affectionately
  4. Yours lovingly
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When did the third dynasty complete its 300 year rule over China?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

The year 842 BC may be considered the first accurate date in Chinese history, and in this year the Emperor had to flee from his capital on account of popular dissatisfaction with his tyrannical ways: he betook himself northward to an outlying settlement on the Tartar frontier, and the charge of imperial affairs was taken over by a regency or duumvirate.

At this time, the confederation of cultured princes called China — or, to use their own term, the Central Kingdom — was a very different region from the huge mass of territory familiar to us under those names at the present day. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that civilised China, even at that comparatively advanced period, consisted of little more than the modern province of Ho Nan. All outside this flat and comparatively riverless region inhabited by the "orthodox" was more or less barbaric, and such civilisation as it possessed was entirely the work of Chinese colonists, adventurers, or grantees of fiefs in partibus infidelium (so to speak). Into matters of still earlier ancient history, we may enter more deeply in another chapter, but for the present, we simply take China as it was when definite chronology begins.

The third of the great dynasties which had ruled over this limited China had, in 842 BC, already been on the imperial throne for practically three hundred years, and, following the custom of its predecessors, it had parcelled out all the land under its sway to vassal princes who were, subject to the general imperial law and custom, or ritual, together with the homage and tribute duty prescribed there under, all practically absolute in their own domains. Roughly speaking, those smaller fiefs may be said to have corresponded in size with the walled-city and surrounding district of our own times, so well known under the name of Hien. About a dozen of the larger fiefs had been originally granted to the blood relations of the dynastic founder in or after 1122 BC; but not exclusively so, for it seems to have been a point of honour, or of religious scruple, not to "cut off the sacrifices" from ruined or disgraced reigning families, unless the attendant circumstances were very gross; and so it came to pass that successive dynasties would strain a point in order to keep up the spiritual memory of decayed or rival houses.
  1. 1100 BC
  2. 1122 BC
  3. 750 BC
  4. 842 BC
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which word in the passage means the opposite of 'ease'?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

The year 842 BC may be considered the first accurate date in Chinese history, and in this year the Emperor had to flee from his capital on account of popular dissatisfaction with his tyrannical ways: he betook himself northward to an outlying settlement on the Tartar frontier, and the charge of imperial affairs was taken over by a regency or duumvirate.

At this time, the confederation of cultured princes called China — or, to use their own term, the Central Kingdom — was a very different region from the huge mass of territory familiar to us under those names at the present day. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that civilised China, even at that comparatively advanced period, consisted of little more than the modern province of Ho Nan. All outside this flat and comparatively riverless region inhabited by the "orthodox" was more or less barbaric, and such civilisation as it possessed was entirely the work of Chinese colonists, adventurers, or grantees of fiefs in partibus infidelium (so to speak). Into matters of still earlier ancient history, we may enter more deeply in another chapter, but for the present, we simply take China as it was when definite chronology begins.

The third of the great dynasties which had ruled over this limited China had, in 842 BC, already been on the imperial throne for practically three hundred years, and, following the custom of its predecessors, it had parcelled out all the land under its sway to vassal princes who were, subject to the general imperial law and custom, or ritual, together with the homage and tribute duty prescribed there under, all practically absolute in their own domains. Roughly speaking, those smaller fiefs may be said to have corresponded in size with the walled-city and surrounding district of our own times, so well known under the name of Hien. About a dozen of the larger fiefs had been originally granted to the blood relations of the dynastic founder in or after 1122 BC; but not exclusively so, for it seems to have been a point of honour, or of religious scruple, not to "cut off the sacrifices" from ruined or disgraced reigning families, unless the attendant circumstances were very gross; and so it came to pass that successive dynasties would strain a point in order to keep up the spiritual memory of decayed or rival houses.
  1. Strain
  2. Religious
  3. Granted
  4. Spiritual
Question 43 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

According to the passage, which of the following has been referred to as a 'modern province'?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

The year 842 BC may be considered the first accurate date in Chinese history, and in this year the Emperor had to flee from his capital on account of popular dissatisfaction with his tyrannical ways: he betook himself northward to an outlying settlement on the Tartar frontier, and the charge of imperial affairs was taken over by a regency or duumvirate.

At this time, the confederation of cultured princes called China — or, to use their own term, the Central Kingdom — was a very different region from the huge mass of territory familiar to us under those names at the present day. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that civilised China, even at that comparatively advanced period, consisted of little more than the modern province of Ho Nan. All outside this flat and comparatively riverless region inhabited by the "orthodox" was more or less barbaric, and such civilisation as it possessed was entirely the work of Chinese colonists, adventurers, or grantees of fiefs in partibus infidelium (so to speak). Into matters of still earlier ancient history, we may enter more deeply in another chapter, but for the present, we simply take China as it was when definite chronology begins.

The third of the great dynasties which had ruled over this limited China had, in 842 BC, already been on the imperial throne for practically three hundred years, and, following the custom of its predecessors, it had parcelled out all the land under its sway to vassal princes who were, subject to the general imperial law and custom, or ritual, together with the homage and tribute duty prescribed there under, all practically absolute in their own domains. Roughly speaking, those smaller fiefs may be said to have corresponded in size with the walled-city and surrounding district of our own times, so well known under the name of Hien. About a dozen of the larger fiefs had been originally granted to the blood relations of the dynastic founder in or after 1122 BC; but not exclusively so, for it seems to have been a point of honour, or of religious scruple, not to "cut off the sacrifices" from ruined or disgraced reigning families, unless the attendant circumstances were very gross; and so it came to pass that successive dynasties would strain a point in order to keep up the spiritual memory of decayed or rival houses.
  1. China
  2. Ho Nan
  3. Province outside of China
  4. None of these
Question 44 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which word in the passage means the same as 'empires'?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

The year 842 BC may be considered the first accurate date in Chinese history, and in this year the Emperor had to flee from his capital on account of popular dissatisfaction with his tyrannical ways: he betook himself northward to an outlying settlement on the Tartar frontier, and the charge of imperial affairs was taken over by a regency or duumvirate.

At this time, the confederation of cultured princes called China — or, to use their own term, the Central Kingdom — was a very different region from the huge mass of territory familiar to us under those names at the present day. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that civilised China, even at that comparatively advanced period, consisted of little more than the modern province of Ho Nan. All outside this flat and comparatively riverless region inhabited by the "orthodox" was more or less barbaric, and such civilisation as it possessed was entirely the work of Chinese colonists, adventurers, or grantees of fiefs in partibus infidelium (so to speak). Into matters of still earlier ancient history, we may enter more deeply in another chapter, but for the present, we simply take China as it was when definite chronology begins.

The third of the great dynasties which had ruled over this limited China had, in 842 BC, already been on the imperial throne for practically three hundred years, and, following the custom of its predecessors, it had parcelled out all the land under its sway to vassal princes who were, subject to the general imperial law and custom, or ritual, together with the homage and tribute duty prescribed there under, all practically absolute in their own domains. Roughly speaking, those smaller fiefs may be said to have corresponded in size with the walled-city and surrounding district of our own times, so well known under the name of Hien. About a dozen of the larger fiefs had been originally granted to the blood relations of the dynastic founder in or after 1122 BC; but not exclusively so, for it seems to have been a point of honour, or of religious scruple, not to "cut off the sacrifices" from ruined or disgraced reigning families, unless the attendant circumstances were very gross; and so it came to pass that successive dynasties would strain a point in order to keep up the spiritual memory of decayed or rival houses.
  1. Hien
  2. Dynasties
  3. Customs
  4. Domains
Question 45 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Why did the Emperor flee from the capital?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

The year 842 BC may be considered the first accurate date in Chinese history, and in this year the Emperor had to flee from his capital on account of popular dissatisfaction with his tyrannical ways: he betook himself northward to an outlying settlement on the Tartar frontier, and the charge of imperial affairs was taken over by a regency or duumvirate.

At this time, the confederation of cultured princes called China — or, to use their own term, the Central Kingdom — was a very different region from the huge mass of territory familiar to us under those names at the present day. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that civilised China, even at that comparatively advanced period, consisted of little more than the modern province of Ho Nan. All outside this flat and comparatively riverless region inhabited by the "orthodox" was more or less barbaric, and such civilisation as it possessed was entirely the work of Chinese colonists, adventurers, or grantees of fiefs in partibus infidelium (so to speak). Into matters of still earlier ancient history, we may enter more deeply in another chapter, but for the present, we simply take China as it was when definite chronology begins.

The third of the great dynasties which had ruled over this limited China had, in 842 BC, already been on the imperial throne for practically three hundred years, and, following the custom of its predecessors, it had parcelled out all the land under its sway to vassal princes who were, subject to the general imperial law and custom, or ritual, together with the homage and tribute duty prescribed there under, all practically absolute in their own domains. Roughly speaking, those smaller fiefs may be said to have corresponded in size with the walled-city and surrounding district of our own times, so well known under the name of Hien. About a dozen of the larger fiefs had been originally granted to the blood relations of the dynastic founder in or after 1122 BC; but not exclusively so, for it seems to have been a point of honour, or of religious scruple, not to "cut off the sacrifices" from ruined or disgraced reigning families, unless the attendant circumstances were very gross; and so it came to pass that successive dynasties would strain a point in order to keep up the spiritual memory of decayed or rival houses.
  1. Discontent of the people with his reign
  2. Invasion by the barbarians
  3. Inability to manage the affairs of the province
  4. Fear of assassination
Question 46 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Why would successive dynasties "strain a point"?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

The year 842 BC may be considered the first accurate date in Chinese history, and in this year the Emperor had to flee from his capital on account of popular dissatisfaction with his tyrannical ways: he betook himself northward to an outlying settlement on the Tartar frontier, and the charge of imperial affairs was taken over by a regency or duumvirate.

At this time, the confederation of cultured princes called China — or, to use their own term, the Central Kingdom — was a very different region from the huge mass of territory familiar to us under those names at the present day. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that civilised China, even at that comparatively advanced period, consisted of little more than the modern province of Ho Nan. All outside this flat and comparatively riverless region inhabited by the "orthodox" was more or less barbaric, and such civilisation as it possessed was entirely the work of Chinese colonists, adventurers, or grantees of fiefs in partibus infidelium (so to speak). Into matters of still earlier ancient history, we may enter more deeply in another chapter, but for the present, we simply take China as it was when definite chronology begins.

The third of the great dynasties which had ruled over this limited China had, in 842 BC, already been on the imperial throne for practically three hundred years, and, following the custom of its predecessors, it had parcelled out all the land under its sway to vassal princes who were, subject to the general imperial law and custom, or ritual, together with the homage and tribute duty prescribed there under, all practically absolute in their own domains. Roughly speaking, those smaller fiefs may be said to have corresponded in size with the walled-city and surrounding district of our own times, so well known under the name of Hien. About a dozen of the larger fiefs had been originally granted to the blood relations of the dynastic founder in or after 1122 BC; but not exclusively so, for it seems to have been a point of honour, or of religious scruple, not to "cut off the sacrifices" from ruined or disgraced reigning families, unless the attendant circumstances were very gross; and so it came to pass that successive dynasties would strain a point in order to keep up the spiritual memory of decayed or rival houses.
  1. To make the circumstances gross
  2. To keep up the spiritual memory of decayed or rival houses
  3. To parcel land to vassal princes
  4. None of these
Question 47 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The third great dynasty gave all the land to _______, following the customs of predecessors.

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

The year 842 BC may be considered the first accurate date in Chinese history, and in this year the Emperor had to flee from his capital on account of popular dissatisfaction with his tyrannical ways: he betook himself northward to an outlying settlement on the Tartar frontier, and the charge of imperial affairs was taken over by a regency or duumvirate.

At this time, the confederation of cultured princes called China — or, to use their own term, the Central Kingdom — was a very different region from the huge mass of territory familiar to us under those names at the present day. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that civilised China, even at that comparatively advanced period, consisted of little more than the modern province of Ho Nan. All outside this flat and comparatively riverless region inhabited by the "orthodox" was more or less barbaric, and such civilisation as it possessed was entirely the work of Chinese colonists, adventurers, or grantees of fiefs in partibus infidelium (so to speak). Into matters of still earlier ancient history, we may enter more deeply in another chapter, but for the present, we simply take China as it was when definite chronology begins.

The third of the great dynasties which had ruled over this limited China had, in 842 BC, already been on the imperial throne for practically three hundred years, and, following the custom of its predecessors, it had parcelled out all the land under its sway to vassal princes who were, subject to the general imperial law and custom, or ritual, together with the homage and tribute duty prescribed there under, all practically absolute in their own domains. Roughly speaking, those smaller fiefs may be said to have corresponded in size with the walled-city and surrounding district of our own times, so well known under the name of Hien. About a dozen of the larger fiefs had been originally granted to the blood relations of the dynastic founder in or after 1122 BC; but not exclusively so, for it seems to have been a point of honour, or of religious scruple, not to "cut off the sacrifices" from ruined or disgraced reigning families, unless the attendant circumstances were very gross; and so it came to pass that successive dynasties would strain a point in order to keep up the spiritual memory of decayed or rival houses.
  1. vassal kings
  2. vassal princes
  3. China
  4. None of these
Question 48 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Whatever civilisation existed outside Ho Nan was the work of Chinese

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

The year 842 BC may be considered the first accurate date in Chinese history, and in this year the Emperor had to flee from his capital on account of popular dissatisfaction with his tyrannical ways: he betook himself northward to an outlying settlement on the Tartar frontier, and the charge of imperial affairs was taken over by a regency or duumvirate.

At this time, the confederation of cultured princes called China — or, to use their own term, the Central Kingdom — was a very different region from the huge mass of territory familiar to us under those names at the present day. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that civilised China, even at that comparatively advanced period, consisted of little more than the modern province of Ho Nan. All outside this flat and comparatively riverless region inhabited by the "orthodox" was more or less barbaric, and such civilisation as it possessed was entirely the work of Chinese colonists, adventurers, or grantees of fiefs in partibus infidelium (so to speak). Into matters of still earlier ancient history, we may enter more deeply in another chapter, but for the present, we simply take China as it was when definite chronology begins.

The third of the great dynasties which had ruled over this limited China had, in 842 BC, already been on the imperial throne for practically three hundred years, and, following the custom of its predecessors, it had parcelled out all the land under its sway to vassal princes who were, subject to the general imperial law and custom, or ritual, together with the homage and tribute duty prescribed there under, all practically absolute in their own domains. Roughly speaking, those smaller fiefs may be said to have corresponded in size with the walled-city and surrounding district of our own times, so well known under the name of Hien. About a dozen of the larger fiefs had been originally granted to the blood relations of the dynastic founder in or after 1122 BC; but not exclusively so, for it seems to have been a point of honour, or of religious scruple, not to "cut off the sacrifices" from ruined or disgraced reigning families, unless the attendant circumstances were very gross; and so it came to pass that successive dynasties would strain a point in order to keep up the spiritual memory of decayed or rival houses.
  1. artists alone
  2. masons alone
  3. colonists alone
  4. None of these
Question 49 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill blank 4.

Directions: Read the following letter and answer the question that follows:

To
__1__
Guru Nanak Public School
Sarabha Nagar
Ludhiana
May 22, 2015
Sir
With due respect, I beg to __2__ I, Riya, a class 9 student studying in your school, am not in a position to attend the school as I am down with __3__. Since it is a contagious disease, I have been __4__ complete rest for a few days. Therefore, __5__ me leave for ten days from May 23 to June 3.
Thanking you,
__6__
Riya
__7__

  1. told
  2. advised
  3. suggested
  4. ordered
Question 50 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill blank 7.

Directions: Read the following letter and answer the question that follows:

To
__1__
Guru Nanak Public School
Sarabha Nagar
Ludhiana
May 22, 2015
Sir
With due respect, I beg to __2__ I, Riya, a class 9 student studying in your school, am not in a position to attend the school as I am down with __3__. Since it is a contagious disease, I have been __4__ complete rest for a few days. Therefore, __5__ me leave for ten days from May 23 to June 3.
Thanking you,
__6__
Riya
__7__

  1. Principal's name
  2. Parent's name
  3. School's name
  4. Class section