English Olympiad Practice Test 1 — IEO-style (Class 7)
A free Maths, Science, English and Reasoning Olympiads (IMO, NSO, IEO style) practice paper for Grade 7 in the format of the real test: 50 questions in 60 minutes, covering Word and Structure Knowledge; Reading; Spoken and Written Expression; Achievers' Section. 50 questions in four sections: Word and Structure Knowledge, Reading, and Spoken and Written Expression questions carry 1 mark each, and Achievers' Section questions carry 3 marks each (60 marks in all). On this portal each answer is counted once. There is no negative marking, so answer every question. Attempt it online — every question is marked instantly and the correct answers are shown at the end.
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Q1. Choose the correctly spelt word.
Q2. Which word is spelt incorrectly?
Q3. Choose the correctly spelt word.
Q4. Choose the word closest in meaning to the word in capitals.
The old fort stood alone on a DESOLATE hill.
Q5. Choose the word or phrase closest in meaning to the word in capitals.
The jeweller was METICULOUS in his work.
Q6. Choose the word most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to ABUNDANT.
Q7. Choose the word most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the word in capitals.
The minister's reply to the question was VAGUE.
Q8. Fill in the blank with the correct word.
The bride walked slowly down the ______ of the hall.
Q9. Which sentence uses the correct word?
Q10. Choose the meaning of the idiom in bold.
Aman let the cat out of the bag about the surprise party.
Q11. Choose the meaning of the idiom in bold.
At eighty, my grandmother is still as fit as a fiddle.
Q12. Choose the one word for: a person who eats no food that comes from animals, not even milk or eggs.
Q13. What part of speech is the word in bold?
Kiran ran fast to catch the school bus.
Q14. What part of speech is the word in bold?
The round of applause lasted for a full minute.
Q15. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb.
By the time we reached the station, the train ______.
Q16. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb.
Meera ______ in Pune since 2019.
Q17. Fill in the blanks with the correct articles.
He is ___ honest man, and he teaches at ___ university in Delhi.
Q18. Fill in the blanks with the correct articles.
___ sun rises in ___ east.
Q19. Fill in the blank with the correct preposition.
Aditi has been ill ______ Monday.
Q20. Fill in the blank with the correct preposition.
My uncle insisted ______ paying for everyone's lunch.
Q21. Fill in the blank.
Neither the teacher nor the students ______ aware of the change in the timetable.
Q22. Fill in the blank.
Each of the boys ______ given a prize at the sports day.
Q23. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Q24. All the girls in the team left their bags in one room. Fill in the blank.
The ______ bags were piled up near the door.
Q25. Choose the correct passive form of the sentence.
The chef cooked a delicious meal.
Q26. Choose the correct passive form of the question.
Who wrote this letter?
Q27. Choose the correct reported speech.
Rina said, "I am tired."
Q28. Choose the correct reported speech.
The teacher said to us, "Do not make a noise."
Q29. What kind of clause is the part in bold?
I know where he lives.
Q30. What kind of clause is the part in bold?
The book that you lent me is very interesting.
Every morning at seven, before she had even brushed her teeth, Tanvi Rawat climbed the stone steps to the roof of her family's house in the hill village of Kolidhar. There, tied to the iron railing, stood a plastic bottle with its top cut off and a ruler taped to its side. Her grandfather called it "Tanvi's temple", because she visited it more faithfully than anyone visited the real temple at the end of the lane.
The idea had come from her science teacher, Mr Negi, who had asked the Class 7 students to design a project that "answered a question nobody in the village had asked". Tanvi had wondered why the spring below the village, the one her grandmother called the mother of Kolidhar, now ran thin by April when it had once flowed until the monsoon. She decided to begin by measuring how much rain actually fell.
For four months she wrote the reading in a notebook covered in brown paper. Some days the bottle held nothing but a dead moth. On one wild night in July it collected 62 millimetres, and she had to empty it twice. By October her notebook showed something that surprised her: the rainfall was almost the same as the figure her grandfather remembered from his youth. The rain had not gone anywhere.
"Then where has the water gone?" she asked Mr Negi. He did not answer. Instead, he handed her an old map of the hillside from the panchayat office. On it, the slopes above the spring were shaded green for forest. Tanvi walked up the path the next Sunday. Where the map showed oak trees, she found a new road, a row of cement houses and a hillside of bare, cracked earth.
Slowly she understood. The oak forest had worked like a sponge, holding rainwater in its thick bed of fallen leaves and letting it sink gently into the ground, where it fed the spring for months. Now the rain rushed straight down the bare slope and into the river within hours.
Tanvi presented her findings at the village meeting in November. Her voice shook at first, but she held up her notebook and the old map side by side, and the room fell silent. An elderly farmer, who had grumbled at the start that children should not waste the meeting's time, was the first to offer a piece of his land for planting. By the following July, the villagers had planted four hundred oak saplings and dug small pits across the slope to catch the running water. Each family gave ₹50 towards a fence to keep goats away from the young trees.
The spring did not recover that year, or the next. Oaks grow slowly, Mr Negi reminded her, and a forest is not a tap you can turn on. But every morning at seven, Tanvi still climbs to the roof. She has a second notebook now, and a younger cousin who carries the ruler.
Q31. Why did Tanvi's grandfather call the bottle "Tanvi's temple"?
Q32. What question did Tanvi first want to answer?
Q33. What did Tanvi's notebook show by October?
Q34. "The rain had not gone anywhere." What does this sentence tell us?
Q35. Why did Mr Negi most likely hand Tanvi the map instead of answering her question?
Q36. According to the passage, how did the oak forest help the spring?
Q37. In paragraph 1, the word faithfully is closest in meaning to
Q38. What do the elderly farmer's actions show?
Q39. What did Mr Negi mean when he said that "a forest is not a tap you can turn on"?
Q40. Which of these statements is TRUE according to the passage?
Q41. Choose the most suitable reply.
Riya: I'm so sorry, I broke your pencil box.
Kabir: ______
Q42. Choose the most suitable line for Mr Rao.
Receptionist: Good morning. How may I help you?
Mr Rao: ______
Receptionist: Certainly. Dr Iyer can see you at 11 o'clock.
Q43. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to make a meaningful paragraph.
P: She poured the batter into a greased tin.
Q: First, Neha mixed flour, sugar and butter in a bowl.
R: After forty minutes, a delicious smell filled the kitchen.
S: Then she added two eggs and beat the mixture well.
T: Finally, she placed the tin in the hot oven.
Q44. Which sentence is the most suitable for a formal leave application to a principal?
Q45. Which is the most polite way to ask a stranger for directions?
Q46. Choose the grammatically correct sentence.
Q47. Choose the word that best completes the sentence.
The detective's ______ questioning finally made the suspect confess.
Q48. Which sentence uses the word in it correctly?
Q49. Choose the correct question tag.
I am your best friend, ______?
Q50. Choose the word most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to EPHEMERAL.
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