Junior English Olympiad

Sample Papers

English Class 8

1. Select the correct type of pronoun for the highlighted word given in the sentence:

I hurt myself badly in an accident.

a) Reflexive pronoun

b) Emphatic pronoun

c) Demonstrative pronoun

d) Indefinite pronoun

Answer: a

2. Choose the right word/phrase that completes the sentence:

I ______wait a little longer if I were you.

a) will

b) should

c) ought to

d) must

Answer: b

3. Choose the suitable phrase for each blank:

I am happy you are helping me with the assignment. This kind of work is not really my ________.

a) cup and sauce

b) cup of tea
c) cup of coffee

d) tea cup

Answer: b

4. Choose the suitable phrase for each blank:

The discussion was by no means __________. It went on for more than four hours!

a) cut and dried

b) chopped and dried

c) cut and shredded

d) dried and cut

Answer: a

5. Fill in the blank with the correct modal verb:

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it ______.

a) Can

b) Would

c) May

d) Should

Answer: a

6. Choose the right word/phrase that can complete the given sentence:

What are you laughing at? There is nothing ____ about it.

a) true

b) false

c) lame

d) funny
Answer: d

7. Choose the correct spelling of the word:

a) Believe

b) Beleive

c) Believ

d) Beleev

Answer: a

8. Fill in the blank with the correct word/phrase:

He will be back tomorrow; I’ll give him the message as soon as I ____ him.

a) watch

b) see

c) touch

d) play with

Answer: b

9. Choose the correct phrase:

a) Down and up

b) Down and out

c) Down and town

d) Out and down

Answer: b

10. Fill in the blank with the correct word/phrase:

Maria _______, but Johnny felt her disappointment.

b) did not complain

c) will not complain

d) did not complain

Answer: b

11. Choose the correct option to complete the dialogue:

Teacher to Student : I thought you had been doing your homework regularly. Why are you still so irregular

with your work?

a) I will let your parents know that you have failed this year.

b) I’m afraid, at this rate, I’ll have to give you a ‘D’ grade.

c) I’m expecting you to earn a ‘D’ grade.

d) I think you will do well this year.

Answer: b

12. Given below are sets of two sentences. Both sentences may be right or both wrong or one of the two

may be right. Select the correct option:

P: Tina and Karan are married and he has been married for 20 years

Q: Everyone forgot their notebook

a) Both P and Q are right

b) Both P and Q are wrong

c) Only P is right

d) Only Q is right

Answer: b

13. Choose the correct option to complete the dialogue:

Manasa : Vinu, it’s the maths class now! l forgot to bring my book.
a) Could you share your book with me today?

b) Look here! Give me that book of yours!

c) Can I buy a maths book?

d) Could I borrow your maths notebook, please?

Answer: a

14. The small city they live in is enough _________, but I’d find it a bit boring after a while.

a) satisfied

b) contented

c) winning

d) pleasant

Answer: b

15. Fill in the blank with the correct modal:

Genius does what it must and talent does what it______.

a) Can

b) Would

c) May

d) Should

Answer: a

16. When you were little, what time ________?

a) did you have to go to bed

b) have you to go to bed

c) did you must go to bed

d) must you go to bed

Answer: a
17. Choose the right word:

‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’ are the little courtesies by which we keep the _____ of life oiled and running

smoothly.

a) river

b) garden

c) path

d) machine

Answer: d

18. Choose the most suitable option to complete the dialogue:

Principal: Mr Mathew, the Annual Day’s coming up. I’ve been wondering whom to invite as our chief

guest this year. Do you have any suggestions?

Teacher:

a) Who? Me? I haven’t a clue. How would I know anybody important enough?

b) Well, I don’t really know anyone. But I can find out. I’ll ask Mrs Organza.

c) Why are you making such a fuss, sir? You’ll find someone. You know so many important people.

c) Oh, there must be lots of people simply dying to be asked. Should be no problem at all.

Answer: b

19. Choose the correct option:

Disaster management ____________ that the areas are mapped beforehand.

a) is requires

b) requires

c) required

d) is required

Answer: b
20. Give the synonym of the word underlined in the sentence below:

Weird noises came from the haunted house.

a) Beastly

b) Unpleasant

c) Unnatural

d) Frightening

Answer: c

21. Choose the correct option:

“I am happy to inspire so many people,

______________ women and mothers,” said Mary Kom.

a) and

b) special

c) especially

d) also

Answer: c

22. Fill in the blank:

My grandfather was 95 when he _______.

a) has died

b) Had died

c) Died

d) Was dying

Answer: c

23. Choose a suitable phrase for the blank:

a) cup and sauce

b) cup of tea

c) cup of coffee

d) tea cup

Answer: b

24. Identify the qualitative adjective in the given sentence:

John takes great pleasure in reading novels.

a) Novels

b) Great

c) Pleasure

d) Reading

Answer: b

25. Choose suitable phrase for each blank:

The discussion was by no means __________. It went on for more than four hours!

a) cut and dried

b) chopped and dried

c) cut and shredded

d) dried and cut

Answer: a

26. In which one of the following sentences an article is wrongly inserted?

a) She is one of the beautiful girls in the class.

b) An umbrella is a useful thing.

d) He was reputed as a honest person.

Answer: d

27. Fill in the blanks using the correct word.

A class full of very good students means ___________ failures for the teachers to worry about.

a) lesser

b) less

c) fewer

d) less than

Answer: c

28. Select most ‘suitable and correct’ options to fill in the blank.

The ________ water left in the well, had also dried up.

a) a little

b) few

c) a few

d) little

Answer: d

29. Choose the correct option.

Shiva: I think it’s really exciting to go to new places.

Teacher: What ____________ keep in mind if you are going to a new place?

a) do you have to

b) should you

c) have you to

d) must you have to

30. Fill in the blank with the correct word:

Can you find the ____ book in the world?

a) elder

b) oldest

c) eldest

d) older

Answer: b

31. Change the given direct sentence to indirect.

“Drive carefully!” Ram said to me.

a) Ram said to me drive carefully.

b) Ram ordered me drive carefully.

c) Ram told me to drive carefully.

d) None of the above.

Answer: c

32. Below given is a sentence in four parts. Find the part whichcontains a grammatical error:

1) Mona thought that

2) she would pass in the examination

3) although she didn’t answer

4) most of the questions correctly.

a) 1

b) 2

c) 3

d) 4
Answer: b

33. Choose the correct option to complete the dialogue:

Teacher to student: I thought you had been doing your homework regularly. Why are you still so irregular

with your work?

a) I will let your parents know that you have failed this year.

b) I’m afraid, at this rate, I’ll have to give you a ‘D’ grade.

c) I’m expecting you to earn a ‘D’ grade.

d) I think you will do well this year.

Answer: b

34. Fill in the blank:

My father went abroad when he ____ forty.

a) could

b) were

c) was

d) had

Answer: c

35. Choose the best word:

Disaster management ____________ that the areas are mapped beforehand.

a) is requires

b) requires

c) required

d) is required

Answer: b
36. The correct question tag of the following sentence will be:

Will you do this?

a) Will you?

b) Willn’t you?

c) Won’t you?

d) Shouldn’t you?

Answer: c

37. A _____ is a name given in common to every person or thing of the same class or kind.

a) collective noun

b) common noun

c) proper noun

d) abstract noun

Answer: b

38. Choose the verb from the sentence:

It has been raining all night

a) it has

b) has been raining

c) raining

d) none of these

Answer: b

39. Select most ‘suitable and correct’ options to fill the blank.

How __________ do you eat chocolate ?

a) rarely

b) frequently
c) often

d) easily

Answer: c

40. Find out the correctly spelt word:

a) Veteninary

b) Veterinary

c) Vetinary

d) Vetarinary

Answer: b

41. Select the correct article to fill in the blank:

________ Cholera has broken out in the village.

a) The

b) An

c) A

d) No article

Answer: d

42. Fill in the blank with correct word:

The only way we can get ___ this obstacle is to jump over it.

a) about

b) round

c) over

d) this

Answer: c
43. Select the most suitable phrasal verb to fill in the blank:

Never ___________. Try and try until you succeed.

a) give away

b) give up

c) give to

d) give for

Answer: b

44. Spot the error in the sentence:

a) Becoming a monitor

b) often means

c) to lose friend

d) No error

Answer: c

45. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank:

Stacy : Since her last blunder, Leela doesn’t look me in the_______.

Helen: I know. You make her pay _________ for it.

a) shop, very much

b) park, very well

c) eye, through nose

d) bus, to boss

Answer: c

46. Select most ‘suitable and correct’ options to fill the blank:

The lady was _________ angry _______ irritated.

b) both, for

c) both, at

d) both, or

Answer: a

47. Select the options with correct transition from ‘Direct’ to ‘Indirect’ speech:

He will say to me, “He is my best friend.”

a) He will tell me that he is my best friend.

b) He will tell to me that I am his best friend.

c) He will tell me that he will be my best friend.

d) He will tell me that he has been my best friend.

Answer: a

48. Choose the correct phrase:

a) Down and up

b) Down and out

c) Down and town

d) Out and down

Answer: b

49. Antonym of instant is ___________.

a) immediate

b) later

c) never

d) for ever

Answer: b