CBSE Class 9 English IEO Olympiad MCQs with Answers Set B

WORD AND STRUCTURE KNOWLEDGE

FOR QUESTIONS 1 TO 19, CHOOSE THE BEST WORD OR PHRASE TO COMPLETE EACH SENTENCE.

1. The flood waters have begun to recede from parts of Srinagar, _______?
A. have they
B. haven’t they
C. isn’t it
D. is it
Answer : B

2. Both mother and baby _______ safe.
A. are
B. is
C. was
D. is being
Answer : A

3. As night _______, rumours spread.
A. is progressing.
B. progressed
C. progresses
D. is progressed
Answer : B

4. They _______ been given satellite phones for use.
A. have also
B. are also
C. has also
D. also
Answer : A

5. I was lost. Two roads diverged in the forest _______ it was difficult to choose one of them.
A. and
B. but
C. then
D. also
Answer : A

6. The sand was comfortable to sleep _______
A. with
B. in
C. under
D. on
Answer : D

7. My plane was delayed, _______ I was stuck at the airport.
A. moreover
B. however
C. when
D. so
Answer : D

8. _______ I have only one option and that is to take recourse to legal action.
A. Lastly
B. Definitely
C. Finally
D. Initially
Answer : C

9. I filled in my application, ___________ , there is a problem.
A. only
B. however
C. also
D. whenever
Answer : B

10. We have known each other _______ a long time.
A. for
B. from
C. in
D. at
Answer : A

11. The government _______ encouraging farmers to grow millets.
A. is being
B. has been
C. was being
D. have been
Answer : B

12. _______ be the case, my friends always stood by me.
A. Whatever
B. Wherever
C. However
D. Whenever 
Answer : A

13. If you follow these instructions, you get _______ lost.
A. can never
B. must never
C. not ever
D. won’t never
Answer : A

14. A snake was slithering _______ the tree.
A. on
B. into
C. lower
D. down
Answer : D

15. The bread maker is a very useful _______.
A. invention
B. process
C. discovery
D. design
Answer : A

16. The best thing _______ my country is the variety in culture, traditions and languages.
A. about
B. on
C. at
D. like
Answer : A

17. How they won the elections is _______ ?
A. doubt
B. regretful
C. debatable
D. countable
Answer : C

18. Bengaluru is pleasant _______ and importantly, it is not humid.
A. however
B. also
C. more
D. even
Answer : C

19. She said, ‘We want food and water urgently.’
Indirect speech _______ : .
A. She said she wanted food and water urgently
B. She wanted food and water urgently
C. She said they want food and water urgently
D. She said that they wanted food and water urgently
Answer : D

FOR QUESTIONS 20 AND 21, CHOOSE THE ODD WORD OUT.

20.
A. Recycle
B. Save
C. Useful
D. Convert
Answer : C

21.
A. Scam
B. Fraud
C. Trick
D. Rob
Answer : D

READING

FOR QUESTIONS 22 TO 26, READ THE PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW.

On September 9, 2014, Google commemorated the 186th birth anniversary of Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) the Russian author and philosopher, with a slide show showcasing his greatest works. One of the giants of Russian literature, he wrote his first great novel, War and Peace in the 1860s. Generally, thought to be one of the greatest novels ever written, remarkable for its dramatic breadth and unity, its vast canvas includes 580 characters, many historical, others fictional. In 1873, Tolstoy set to work on the second of his best known novels, Anna Karenina. He continued to write fiction throughout the 1880s and 1890s. 
His fiction consistently attempts to convey realistically the Russian society in which he lived. Anna Karenina (1877) tells parallel stories of an adulterous woman trapped by the conventions and falsities of society and of a philosophical landowner, who works alongside the peasants in the fields and seeks to reform their lives. Tolstoy not only drew from his life experiences, but also created characters in his own image, such as Pierre and Prince Andrei in War and Peace, and Levin in Anna Karenina.
Tolstoy served as a second lieutenant in an artillery regiment during the Crimean war. His experiences in battle helped stir his subsequent pacifism, and gave him material for a realistic depiction of the horrors of war, in his later work. His contemporaries paid him lofty tributes. Dostoevsky thought him the greatest of all living novelists. Gustave Flaubert, on reading a translation of War and Peace, exclaimed, “What an artist and what a psychologist”.
Later critics and novelists continue to bear testament to Tolstoy’s art. Virginia Woolf declared him to be the greatest of all novelists. James Joyce noted that “He is never dull, never stupid, never pedantic, never theatrical!” Thomas Mann wrote of Tolstoy’s seemingly guileless artistry. “Seldom did art work so much like nature.”
Such sentiments were shared by Proust, Faulkner and Nabokov. The latter heaped superlatives upon Anna Karenina; he questioned, however, the reputation of “War and Peace”.
In 1908, Tolstoy wrote ‘A Letter to a Hindu,’ outlining his belief in non-violence, as a means for India to gain independence from British colonial rule. In 1909, Gandhi wrote to the famous writer, and in his autobiography, acknowledged Tolstoy as “the greatest apostle of non-violence that the present age has produced.”

22. ....showcasing his greatest works. This means _______ .
A. displaying the best scenes from his novels
B. presenting characters from his novels
C. showing pictures of his greatest novels
D. exhibiting passages from his greatest works
Answer : A

23. War and Peace is considered to be _______ ever written.
A. greater than all other novels
B. one of the great novels
C. one of the greatest novels
D. the greatest novel
Answer : C

24. Anna Karenina is a story of _______ .
A. landowners and peasants
B. 580 characters
C. a woman confined by traditions
D. the problems of women
Answer : C

25. Tolstoy’s writing is neither scholarly nor exaggerated, according to _______ .
A. Thomas Mann.
B. William Faulkner
C. Marcel Proust.
D. James Joyce
Answer : D

26. Characters like Pierre, Prince Andrei and Levin in his novels _______ .
A. are near to Tolstoy
B. are extensions of Tolstoy
C. are pictures of Tolstoy
D. closely resemble Tolstoy
Answer : D

FOR QUESTIONS 27 TO 31, READ THE PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW.

Lady boss assigns stringent deadlines to her team. Then she goes home, cooks several dishes for dinner and phones the husband asking him to come home soon. The husband has a lot of work to finish because he happens to be in a team where the boss has cracked the whip. Of course, his boss is the wife and this is the new India where women are smart, powerful and accomplished and husbands don’t have to tussle with their egos to report to their wives, at work. The Airtel ad, whose plot line is described above, should have warmed our hearts, but it has not.
Feminists are frothing at the mouth because the Ad depicts that even successful career women have to eventually conform to traditional roles. To my mind, this is a truly blinkered view. Liberal attitudes towards women imply that they should be free to do whatever they like. In this case, here was a successful and smart woman who likes to cook. And when she’s finished the cooking, she would like her husband to be home so they could eat together. What is regressive about that?
A lot has changed for the urban Indian women in the last year-and-a-half. Safety and equality have come to the forefront of discussions. While a lot remains to be done, it is not just the glass half –full view that things are changing for the better. Yet, these knee-jerk reactions to what constitutes women’s roles are mindless hysteria, not measured analysis.
It isn’t feminism to demand that women only do what they haven’t traditionally done. It is feminism to demand that women be able to choose what they want to do- whether it is pulling an all-nighter at work, heading out for a drink and a dance, tending to a sick child at home or cooking a meal for the family. Sometimes this requires superhuman skills in juggling schedules and planning ahead. Often, some of it is near impossible. Yet, the sheer fact that the woman is doing something because she chooses to is all the evidence of liberation one needs. It’s cutting the nose to spite the face to suggest that a successful career woman should not be allowed to go home and indulge in an activity she enjoys.
Even if it happens to be playing the role of a ‘traditional’ wife.

27. The events described in the passage relate to _______ .
A. women
B. traditional women
C. an attitude
D. an advertisement
Answer : D

28. The tone of the writer is _______ .
A. exciting
B. humorous
C. serious
D. gentle
Answer : C

29. Feminists are _______ .
A. very conventional
B. very excited
C. extremely progressive
D. extremely angry
Answer : D

30. The writer _______ the advertisement.
A. supports
B. opposes
C. blames
D. ridicules
Answer : A

31. A blinkered view is _______ .
A. seeing through blinkers
B. an impartial view
C. seeing through one eye
D. a limited view
Answer : D

SPOKEN AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION

FOR QUESTIONS 32 TO 35, CHOOSE THE BEST REPLY TO COMPLETE EACH CONVERSATION.

32. CEO : ‘Your delay in submitting the project has put me in a fix.’
GM : _______ .’
A. I can see that
B. I had other things to do
C. Such things happen
D. I’m sorry
Answer : D

33. Mother : ‘You need a haircut.’
Son :_______ ’
A. Don’t irritate me.
B. So what?
C. Stop telling me.
D. I think so, too.
Answer : D

34. Wife : ‘You are not listening.’
Husband :_______ ’
A. Hmm ……
B. Don’t order me.
C. You said something?
D. What’s your problem?
Answer : C

35. Mary : ‘You are wearing a lovely sari.’
Geeta : _______ .’
A. Don’t cast an evil eye
B. I don’t like it. You take it
C. It looks very cheap
D. You like it? Thank you
Answer : D

FOR QUESTIONS 36 TO 38, CHOOSE THE BEST OPTION TO FILL IN THE BLANKS.

Janet : “Serena is the world number one and the US Open champion.”
Suzie : “The _____(36)_____ Williams again proved she remains on top of women’s tennis at the age of 33.”
Janet : “She’s the first player to win the season finale, three times in a _____(37)_____.”
Suzie : “_____(38)_____ Monica Seles. She won it in 1992.”

36.
A. surpassing
B. surmountable
C. peerless
D. comparable
Answer : C

37.
A. line
B. row
C. rank
D. file
Answer : B

38.
A. But only
B Only after
C. Since only
D. When
Answer : B

FOR QUESTIONS 39 TO 45, READ THE LETTER AND CHOOSE THE APPROPRIATE OPTION TO

FILL IN THE BLANKS.

Dear Mr. Behra,
The present work, which is being carried out is not (39) in the tender to the contractor.
Why don’t you call a meeting of the members of the society to (40) them about this (41) work?
I wish to state that the problem, which you are trying to (42) is a (43) problem. You cannot (44) some flat owners and expect others to share the cost.
You must be concerned about the well-being of the society and not just cater to the demands of a (45) few.
Yours sincerely,
Pushpa Kamble

39.
A. included
B. within
C. found
D. being
Answer : A

40.
A. tell
B. know
C. show
D. inform
Answer : D

41.
A. more
B. extra
C. increasing
D. newer
Answer : B

42.
A. finish
B. end
C. solve
D. unlock
Answer : C

43.
A. same
B. similar
C. identical
D. common
Answer : D

44.
A. like
B. favour
C. support
D. recognize
Answer : B

45.
A. selected
B. selective
C. selecting
D. select
Answer : D

ACHIEVERS SECTION

FOR QUESTIONS 46 TO 48, READ THE TEXT AND CHOOSE THE RIGHT OPTION TO FILL IN THE BLANKS.

Athletes may now rely on a more organic drink to _____(46)_____ their performance – Beetroot juice. In _____(47)_____ improving athletic performance, research has also found that beetroot can improve the quality of life for heart patients. The _____(48)_____ of beetroot come from the nitrate found within it, which increases the blood flow to the muscles, during exercise.

46.
A. increase
B. raise
C. enhance
D. lift
Answer : C

47.
A. above all
B. top of
C. more than
D. addition to
Answer : D

48.
A. benefits
B. goodness
C. comforts
D. enjoyments
Answer : A

49. CHOOSE THE BEST WORD TO COMPLETE THE SENTENCE.
This was his last sari, his parting gift to some lucky bride. ‘This’ refers to the .
A. sari
B. gift
C. bride
D. man
Answer : A

50. CHOOSE THE ODD WORD OUT.
A. Expedition
B. Procrastination
C. Postponement
D. Temporization
Answer : A