English Olympiad Practice Test 1 — IEO-style (Class 4)
A free Maths, Science, English and Reasoning Olympiads (IMO, NSO, IEO style) practice paper for Grade 4 in the format of the real test: 35 questions in 60 minutes, covering Word and Structure Knowledge; Reading; Spoken and Written Expression; Achievers' Section. Choose one answer for each question. Questions in the Word and Structure Knowledge, Reading and Spoken and Written Expression sections carry 1 mark each; questions in the Achievers' Section carry 2 marks each (40 marks in all). There is no negative marking, so answer every question. On this portal each correct answer counts once. Attempt it online — every question is marked instantly and the correct answers are shown at the end.
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Q1. Which word is spelt correctly?
Q2. Which word is spelt incorrectly?
Q3. Choose the word closest in meaning to the word in bold.
The old clay pot was so fragile that Mum wrapped it in cloth before the journey.
Q4. Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the word in bold.
Mr Sharma is very generous; he often shares his books with the children in his lane.
Q5. Choose the pair of words that correctly fills the blanks.
'Come and sit ______,' said Grandpa, 'so that you can ______ the story better.'
Q6. What does the phrase in bold mean?
For Aditi, the maths quiz was a piece of cake.
Q7. Choose the correct collective noun.
A ______ of cattle was grazing near the river.
Q8. Which word in this sentence is an adverb?
The little girl sang sweetly at the concert.
Q9. Which of these is an abstract noun?
Q10. In which pair is the plural formed wrongly?
Q11. Choose the correct verb form.
Look! The children ______ football in the park.
Q12. Choose the correct word.
The glass slipped from my hand and ______ into pieces.
Q13. Choose the correct articles.
Tara is ______ honest girl and ______ best player in our team.
Q14. Choose the correct preposition.
We have lived in this town ______ 2019.
Q15. Choose the correct verb.
Each of the boys ______ a cricket bat.
Q16. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Q17. Choose the correct form of the adjective.
This is the ______ story I have ever read.
Q18. Choose the correct pronoun.
Rohan and ______ went to the market to buy fruit.
Q19. Choose the best word to begin the sentence.
______ it was raining, the match carried on.
Q20. Which word does NOT belong with the others?
Kabir lived with his parents and his grandmother, Dadi, in a small flat on the fourth floor of a busy building in Pune. There was no garden, only a flat, empty roof where the neighbours dried their clothes.
One morning in June, Dadi came home with a cloth bag full of old paint tins, a sack of soil and six tiny packets of seeds. ‘The rains will come soon,’ she said. ‘This year, the roof is going to be green.’
Kabir was not sure. The roof was hot and dusty, and he could not imagine anything growing there. Still, he helped Dadi make holes in the bottoms of the tins so that extra water could drain out. Together they filled each tin with soil and pressed in the seeds: tomatoes, chillies, spinach, beans, marigolds and tulsi.
For ten days nothing happened. Kabir checked the tins every evening after school and came back looking gloomy. ‘Seeds are like people,’ Dadi told him. ‘Some wake up early and some like to sleep late. Be patient.’
On the eleventh day, the first dark clouds rolled across the sky and rain poured down on the city. The next morning Kabir raced up the stairs. Tiny green shoots had pushed through the soil in almost every tin. Only the bean tin was still bare, and three days later even the beans had woken up.
By August the roof looked completely different. Bean vines curled around a bamboo frame, orange marigolds glowed in the corner, and the neighbours began to bring their own tins and seeds. Mrs Fernandes from the second floor even put up a bench so that people could sit and enjoy the evening breeze.
When the first red tomato was ready, Kabir picked it carefully and gave it to Dadi. ‘You were right,’ he said. ‘The roof is green.’ Dadi smiled. ‘We were right,’ she said. ‘I only brought the seeds. You looked after them.’
Q21. Why did Kabir and Dadi make holes in the bottoms of the tins?
Q22. Kabir 'came back looking gloomy'. What does gloomy mean here?
Q23. What did Dadi mean when she said, ‘Seeds are like people’?
Q24. Which of these happened first in the story?
Q25. Why did Dadi say, ‘We were right’?
Q26. Complete the conversation.
Shopkeeper: Good morning! How can I help you?
Riya: ____________
Shopkeeper: Here you are. That will be ₹45.
Q27. Choose the best reply.
Aarav: I'm sorry, I broke your pencil by mistake.
Ishaan: ____________
Q28. Arrange the parts in the correct order to make a sentence.
P: she put on her raincoat
Q: Seeing the dark clouds,
R: and took her umbrella
S: before leaving for school.
Q29. Which is the most polite way to ask your teacher for help?
Q30. Which sentence is written correctly?
Q31. Choose the correct verb.
Neither the players nor the coach ______ ready for the match yesterday.
Q32. Choose the pair that correctly completes the sentence.
The cold weather did not ______ the farmers' crops, but the heavy rain had a bad ______ on them.
Q33. Choose the correct reported (indirect) form.
Meena said, “I am reading a book.”
Q34. Which part of the sentence has an error?
One of my friends / live in Chennai / and visits us / every summer.
Q35. Choose the word that best completes the sentence.
Grandpa's handwriting is so untidy that his notes are almost ______; nobody can read them.
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