Mock IEO - 10 (Class - X)

Mock IEO (International English Olympiad) Practice Test for Class X - Comprehensive English language assessment covering grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and reading comprehension

50 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the numbered blank (v).

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

Yawning is an involuntary ______(i)______ in which your mouth opens up wide and you inhale deeply, followed by _____(ii)_____. When you say involuntary, this means that you have no _____(iii)_____ over this action much like other reflexes such as blinking or sneezing. Yawns are not _____(iv)______ only to human beings as all other animals do this. Despite a lot of _____(v)_____, we still know little about the causes of yawning.

  1. study
  2. knowledge
  3. research
  4. experiments
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the numbered blank (i).

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

Yawning is an involuntary ______(i)______ in which your mouth opens up wide and you inhale deeply, followed by _____(ii)_____. When you say involuntary, this means that you have no _____(iii)_____ over this action much like other reflexes such as blinking or sneezing. Yawns are not _____(iv)______ only to human beings as all other animals do this. Despite a lot of _____(v)_____, we still know little about the causes of yawning.

  1. position
  2. behaviour
  3. exercise
  4. disease
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the numbered blank (iii).

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

Yawning is an involuntary ______(i)______ in which your mouth opens up wide and you inhale deeply, followed by _____(ii)_____. When you say involuntary, this means that you have no _____(iii)_____ over this action much like other reflexes such as blinking or sneezing. Yawns are not _____(iv)______ only to human beings as all other animals do this. Despite a lot of _____(v)_____, we still know little about the causes of yawning.

  1. trust
  2. freedom
  3. restriction
  4. control
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the numbered blank (iv).

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

Yawning is an involuntary ______(i)______ in which your mouth opens up wide and you inhale deeply, followed by _____(ii)_____. When you say involuntary, this means that you have no _____(iii)_____ over this action much like other reflexes such as blinking or sneezing. Yawns are not _____(iv)______ only to human beings as all other animals do this. Despite a lot of _____(v)_____, we still know little about the causes of yawning.

  1. effected
  2. joined
  3. exclusive
  4. rare
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the numbered blank (ii).

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

Yawning is an involuntary ______(i)______ in which your mouth opens up wide and you inhale deeply, followed by _____(ii)_____. When you say involuntary, this means that you have no _____(iii)_____ over this action much like other reflexes such as blinking or sneezing. Yawns are not _____(iv)______ only to human beings as all other animals do this. Despite a lot of _____(v)_____, we still know little about the causes of yawning.

  1. breathing
  2. exhaling
  3. resting
  4. closing
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

There’s hardly any coffee _________ the pot.

  1. left in
  2. left at
  3. left up
  4. left on
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

I’d appreciate it if you would _________ the lights.

  1. stop
  2. cut off
  3. turn off
  4. push button of
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

When Sania reached the bus stop, the last bus ___________.

  1. has left
  2. already left
  3. has leave
  4. had already left
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

She persuaded him to do it _______ she knew it was not a good idea.

  1. while
  2. apart
  3. still
  4. even though
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

I wish I ___________ to the concert.

  1. would go
  2. could go
  3. should go
  4. can went
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

My family will be _______ for a week.

  1. closed
  2. off
  3. away
  4. down
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

She advised him that he _______ at home.

  1. should stay
  2. would stayed
  3. should be stayed
  4. staying
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

It’s my business to _______ such things.

  1. excuse
  2. look
  3. investigate
  4. fancy
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

He failed in his _______ to swim across the river.

  1. attempt
  2. mean
  3. go
  4. trial
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

Tom ________ a good soccer player some day.

  1. would
  2. will be
  3. will become
  4. would be
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

A stranger _________ in the crowded bus.

  1. talked me
  2. spoke to me
  3. speak to me
  4. talked by me
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

Please tell me how to ________ the airport.

  1. went for
  2. go through
  3. went to
  4. go to
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

I want to _______ time doing things that matter.

  1. spend more
  2. give more
  3. spent more
  4. spend less
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

He is ________ to travel alone.

  1. short enough
  2. old enough
  3. advance enough
  4. bad enough
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

I cannot figure out how to _______ this suitcase.

  1. opening
  2. open
  3. opened
  4. opens
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option to complete the sentence.

She accompanied me ________ the piano.

  1. with
  2. in
  3. of
  4. on
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

She tried to persuade him _______ the meeting.

  1. to watch
  2. to patch up
  3. to attend
  4. to went
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

Mary was able to swim _____ the river.

  1. on
  2. to
  3. over
  4. across
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that is closest to the meaning of the underlined word.

His jabber is unintelligible to me.

  1. Decipherable
  2. Difficult
  3. Vague
  4. Comprehensible
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the only word which is misspelt in the group.

  1. Modast
  2. Dictator
  3. Empathy
  4. Sensitivity
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that is closest to the meaning of the underlined word.

In the meeting, he was not able to project his views.

  1. Present
  2. Accept
  3. Predict
  4. Resist
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that is closest to the meaning of the underlined word.

We live in an extremely paranoid society.

  1. Suspicious
  2. Careful
  3. Fearless
  4. Cooperative
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the only word which is misspelt in the group.

  1. Excessive
  2. Hypocrisy
  3. Inhibit
  4. Penacea
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that is closest to the meaning of the underlined word.

You can see a nice blend of different colours on the walls of her house.

  1. Combination
  2. Creative
  3. Development
  4. Deterioration
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word that is closest to the meaning of the underlined word.

I did not insult her in front of everyone.

  1. Delight
  2. Offend
  3. Appease
  4. Calm
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the only word which is misspelt in the group.

  1. Adverse
  2. Aptitude
  3. Ambiguos
  4. Apprehensive
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Match the first part of the sentence with the correct collocation from the choices given.

Make up ________.

  1. a profit
  2. an exercise
  3. your mind
  4. lunch
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Match the first part of the sentence with the correct collocation from the choices given.

Keep ________.

  1. exercise
  2. eating
  3. calm
  4. cheer
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Match the first part of the sentence with the correct collocation from the choices given.

Have ______.

  1. a lecture
  2. a good day
  3. a threat
  4. a play
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Match the first part of the sentence with the correct collocation from the choices given.

Please _______.

  1. travel
  2. leave
  3. shop
  4. fly
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Match the first part of the sentence with the correct collocation from the choices given.

Keep it ______.

  1. fit
  2. play
  3. long
  4. up
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Match the first part of the sentence with the correct collocation from the choices given.

Mind ______.

  1. business
  2. a gesture
  3. a mistake
  4. your steps
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Match the first part of the sentence with the correct collocation from the choices given.

What’s _____?

  1. there
  2. behind
  3. day
  4. up
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

The captain ordered his men to _______ at once.

  1. get
  2. around
  3. came
  4. gather
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the situation where you would most expect to hear the given phrase.

Call your next witness.

  1. At gym
  2. At school
  3. At court
  4. At hospital
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

Most car accidents _______ because drivers are not paying attention.

  1. occurring
  2. happen
  3. are
  4. take
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

I had some time, so I wandered ______ the town.

  1. around
  2. round
  3. roamed
  4. walked
Question 43 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the situation where you would most expect to hear the given phrase.

Is there Wi-Fi service available?

  1. In a park
  2. In a hotel
  3. In a plane
  4. None of these
Question 44 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the situation where you would most expect to hear the given phrase.

I will phone you in the interval.

  1. In a shop
  2. At the cinema
  3. In a meeting
  4. In a taxi
Question 45 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the situation where you would most expect to hear the given phrase.

Take a deep breath.

  1. At a clinic
  2. At the cinema
  3. At a school
  4. At a shop
Question 46 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the situation where you would most expect to hear the given phrase.

What’s the agenda?

  1. At home
  2. In a meeting
  3. At a party
  4. At the Taj Mahal
Question 47 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

I don’t know, do you want to _______ or something?

  1. know
  2. get together
  3. have
  4. drive to
Question 48 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which word means similar to “imagination” in the given paragraph?

Directions: Read the passage and answer the following question.

Although Greece (or Hel´las) is only half as large as the State of New York, it holds a very important place in the history of the world. It is situated in the southern part of Europe, cut off from the rest of the continent by a chain of high mountains which form a great wall on the north. It is surrounded on nearly all sides by the blue waters of the Med-it-er-ra´ne-an Sea, which stretch so far inland that it is said no part of the country is forty miles from the sea, or ten miles from the hills. Thus shut in by sea and mountains, it forms a little territory by itself, and it was the home of many a noted people.
The history of Greece goes back to the time when people did not know how to write, and kept no record of what was happening around them. For a long while the stories told by parents to their children were the only information which could be had about the country and its former inhabitants; and these stories, slightly changed with every new teller, grew more and more extraordinary as time passed. At last they were so changed that no one could tell where the truth ended and fancy began.
The beginning of Greek history is therefore like a fairy tale; and while much of it cannot, of course, be true, it is the only information we have about the early Greeks. It is these strange fireside stories, which used to amuse Greek children so many years ago, that you are first going to hear.
About two thousand years before the birth of Christ, in the days when Isaac wanted to go down into Egypt, Greece was inhabited by a savage race of men called the Pe-las´gi-ans. They lived in the forests, or in caves hollowed out of the mountain side, and hunted wild beasts with great clubs and stone-tipped arrows and spears. They were so rude and wild that they ate nothing but raw meat, berries, and the roots which they dug up with sharp stones or even with their hands.
For clothing, the Pelasgians used the skins of the beasts they had killed; and to protect themselves against other savages, they gathered together in families or tribes, each having a chief who led in the war and in the chase.

  1. Fancy
  2. Fairy
  3. Amuse
  4. Stories
Question 49 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How is Greece cut off from the rest of the continent?

Directions: Read the passage and answer the following question.

Although Greece (or Hel´las) is only half as large as the State of New York, it holds a very important place in the history of the world. It is situated in the southern part of Europe, cut off from the rest of the continent by a chain of high mountains which form a great wall on the north. It is surrounded on nearly all sides by the blue waters of the Med-it-er-ra´ne-an Sea, which stretch so far inland that it is said no part of the country is forty miles from the sea, or ten miles from the hills. Thus shut in by sea and mountains, it forms a little territory by itself, and it was the home of many a noted people.
The history of Greece goes back to the time when people did not know how to write, and kept no record of what was happening around them. For a long while the stories told by parents to their children were the only information which could be had about the country and its former inhabitants; and these stories, slightly changed with every new teller, grew more and more extraordinary as time passed. At last they were so changed that no one could tell where the truth ended and fancy began.
The beginning of Greek history is therefore like a fairy tale; and while much of it cannot, of course, be true, it is the only information we have about the early Greeks. It is these strange fireside stories, which used to amuse Greek children so many years ago, that you are first going to hear.
About two thousand years before the birth of Christ, in the days when Isaac wanted to go down into Egypt, Greece was inhabited by a savage race of men called the Pe-las´gi-ans. They lived in the forests, or in caves hollowed out of the mountain side, and hunted wild beasts with great clubs and stone-tipped arrows and spears. They were so rude and wild that they ate nothing but raw meat, berries, and the roots which they dug up with sharp stones or even with their hands.
For clothing, the Pelasgians used the skins of the beasts they had killed; and to protect themselves against other savages, they gathered together in families or tribes, each having a chief who led in the war and in the chase.

  1. By a sea
  2. By a chain of high mountains
  3. By sailors
  4. None of these
Question 50 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What was used by Pelasgians to make their clothing?

Directions: Read the passage and answer the following question.

Although Greece (or Hel´las) is only half as large as the State of New York, it holds a very important place in the history of the world. It is situated in the southern part of Europe, cut off from the rest of the continent by a chain of high mountains which form a great wall on the north. It is surrounded on nearly all sides by the blue waters of the Med-it-er-ra´ne-an Sea, which stretch so far inland that it is said no part of the country is forty miles from the sea, or ten miles from the hills. Thus shut in by sea and mountains, it forms a little territory by itself, and it was the home of many a noted people.
The history of Greece goes back to the time when people did not know how to write, and kept no record of what was happening around them. For a long while the stories told by parents to their children were the only information which could be had about the country and its former inhabitants; and these stories, slightly changed with every new teller, grew more and more extraordinary as time passed. At last they were so changed that no one could tell where the truth ended and fancy began.
The beginning of Greek history is therefore like a fairy tale; and while much of it cannot, of course, be true, it is the only information we have about the early Greeks. It is these strange fireside stories, which used to amuse Greek children so many years ago, that you are first going to hear.
About two thousand years before the birth of Christ, in the days when Isaac wanted to go down into Egypt, Greece was inhabited by a savage race of men called the Pe-las´gi-ans. They lived in the forests, or in caves hollowed out of the mountain side, and hunted wild beasts with great clubs and stone-tipped arrows and spears. They were so rude and wild that they ate nothing but raw meat, berries, and the roots which they dug up with sharp stones or even with their hands.
For clothing, the Pelasgians used the skins of the beasts they had killed; and to protect themselves against other savages, they gathered together in families or tribes, each having a chief who led in the war and in the chase.

  1. Skin of the beasts
  2. Skin of the bulls
  3. Skin of the bears
  4. None of these