International Olympiad of English Language - iOEL’ 18

CLASS 6th SYLLABUS & SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Analogy, Comprehension, Classification, Correct Spelling, One word substitution, Jumbled words
and sentences, Types of sentences, Parts of speech, Tense, Error Finding, Voice, Direct and Indirect
speech, Subject-Verb Agreement, Modals, Determiners, Article, Antonyms/Synonyms, Story and
Paragraph writing, Notice writing, Letter writing, Message writing, Differentiating between facts
and opinion, Idioms and phrases, Functional English, Mental Aptitude.

The Actual Question Paper Contains 50 Questions. The Duration of the Test Paper is 60 Minutes.

1. Below given is a letter with four blanks. Fill P: At the beginning of the year, when she got
those blanks with the options provided in P, the job, we thought it might only be for
Q, R, S to make it a sensible one. one semester
Dear Steve Q: Are you still stuck in that old job?
It’s been a while since we wrote, so I thought R: With no idea of what it will lead to
I’d drop you a line to bring you up to date with S: And I think they are really happy that
what’s been happening here. we’ve moved back
I suppose the most important thing is that Choose your answer from the given options:
Jane’s job is more secure than we I II III IV
thought._________I_______, but we just found
(A) P Q R S (B) P S Q R
out that she has a permanent contract of sorts.
Obviously this is great, as it means we can (C) P S R Q (D) R Q S P
relax a little. I still don’t have what I really (E) None of these
want work wise, but it will happen soon. You 2. Give the usage of the word underlined in the
have to stay positive, don’t you? given sentence.
My parents are both fine, _______ II________. Wait till I return.
For us, it’s great to be so close to family again,
an extra sense of comfort and security. We (A) Adjective (B) Conjunction
see my sister quite often as she’s in London, (C) Determiners (D) Pronoun
although we’re not that bothered about going (E) None of these
into the city. 3. Identify the given sentence on the basis of its
So, what about you these days? _________ structure.
_____III_______Since I’ve been having so much
Rabindranath Tagore was both, a poet and a
trouble getting a job I understand your
reluctance to change. There’s nothing worse writer.
than filling in endless application (A) Simple (B) Complex
forms,_____________IV_______. (C) Compound (D) All of these
Yours Lovingly John (E) None of these

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4. Find the analogy. (D) All of these

If ‘House’ is to ‘Shelter’ then ‘Soap’:? (E) None of these
(A) Washerman Direction: For Q9-10: Read the given passage
(B) Cleanliness carefully and answer the questions that follow.
(C) Bathroom In Bengal, many poor farmers had been forced and
(D) Water compelled to take up indigo cultivation when the
(E) None of these British settlers were given the right to purchase and
cultivate land in India. Many whites, therefore, ei-
5. In which of the following sentences the verbs
used is/are transitive verb(s): ther acquired land or advanced loan to poor farm-
ers and pressured them to forsake the farming of
A: Jack eats.
food grains and other cash crops for indigo culti-
B: Ronaldo plays football.
vation. Within a few years, most of the fertile lands
C: Lata sings a song. had undergone forcible indigo cultivation, result-
(A) Only A (B) A and B ing in a famine situation in Bengal. When the farm-
(C) Only C (D) B and C ers declined to cultivate indigo, they were tortured,
(E) None of these jailed and even killed.
6. Fill in the blank with correct pronoun. 9. The poor farmers in Bengal took up indigo
Two sisters loved__________. cultivation because:
(A) One another (B) Each other (A) This was the only crop that would grow
(C) Neither (D) themselves in Bengal.
(E) None of these (B) It was a lucrative earning opportunity for
7. Arrange P,Q ,R,S to make a meaningful the farmers.
sentence. (C) Farmers were forced to do so.
He said that those who (D) The British government gave the farmers
P: would miss a very interesting game huge money for indigo cultivation.
Q: to be played (E) None of these
R: between two famous teams 10. Why indigo cultivation resulted in famine in
S: would not accompany him Bengal?
(A) QRPS (B) SPQR (A) Farmers were not interested in the
(C) SQRP (D) SRPQ cultivation of food grains.
(E) None of these (B) Most of the fertile lands had undergone
8. Change the direct sentence into indirect one. forcible indigo cultivation.
The boy said to me, “Don’t buy this toy”. (C) British settlers forcibly took away all the
(A) The boy asked me not to buy the toy. food grains out of Bengal.
(B) The boy told me not to buy the toy. (D) All foods were transported to Europe
(C) The boy forbade me to buy that toy. (E) None of these

ANSWERS
1. (B) 2. (B) 3. (C) 4. (B) 5. (D) 6. (B) 7. (B) 8. (C) 9. (C) 10. (B)

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