Practice testClasses 3 to 5
English Olympiad Practice Test for Classes 3 to 5
Twenty-five questions in the style of the SOF International English Olympiad: word and structure knowledge, a reading passage, spoken and written expression, and the achievers section.
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01Before you start
- Time 30 minutes, with a clock in view
- Marks 1 mark for each question in Sections 1 to 3 and 2 marks in the Achievers section: 29 marks in all
- Wrong answers no marks are taken off, so answer every question
- The real paper the SOF IEO has 35 questions for 40 marks for Classes 3 and 4, and 50 questions for 60 marks from Class 5, in 60 minutes
02Word and structure knowledge1 mark each
1Choose the correct plural of child.
2Which word means the same as huge?
3Which word is the opposite of ancient?
4She ___ to school every day.
5Which word is spelt correctly?
6He ate ___ apple.
7Yesterday we ___ a kite.
8Which word in this sentence is a noun? 'The happy dog ran quickly.'
9The cat is hiding ___ the bed.
10Which word rhymes with light?
11This is the ___ cake I have ever eaten.
12Which sentence is correct?
03Reading1 mark each
Mira's grandfather grows tomatoes on the roof of their house in Chandigarh. Every morning, before school, Mira helps him water the plants. Last summer the weather was very hot, so they covered the plants with a green net to protect them from the sun. In July, the first red tomatoes appeared. Mira picked the biggest one and gave it to her teacher, who said it was the sweetest tomato she had ever tasted.
13Where does Mira's grandfather grow tomatoes?
14When does Mira water the plants?
15Why did they cover the plants with a green net?
16When did the first red tomatoes appear?
17In the passage, the word protect means:
04Spoken and written expression1 mark each
18You bump into someone by mistake. What do you say?
19Put the words in order to make a sentence: (a) every (b) I (c) read (d) day
20A friend says, 'I won the drawing competition!' What is the best reply?
21Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
05Achievers section2 marks each
22Which word can go before all three: ___ball, ___print, ___path?
23Which of these is a compound word?
24Which sentence is about the future?
25Find the odd one out.
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Answers and explanations
- 1BChild has an irregular plural: children.
- 2AHuge and enormous both mean very big.
- 3CAncient means very old; modern means new or of today.
- 4DWith she, he or it, a present-tense verb takes -s or -es: she goes.
- 5CBeautiful: b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l, with one l at the end.
- 6AUse an before a vowel sound: an apple.
- 7CThe past tense of fly is flew.
- 8BDog names a thing. Happy is an adjective, ran a verb and quickly an adverb.
- 9AUnder tells us where the cat is.
- 10DLight and night end with the same sound.
- 11BComparing with all the cakes ever eaten needs the superlative: best.
- 12DShe and I are the subject of the sentence, and two people take are.
- 13BThe first sentence says he grows them on the roof of their house.
- 14AThe passage says: every morning, before school.
- 15CThe weather was very hot, so the net protected the plants from the sun.
- 16DThe passage says: in July, the first red tomatoes appeared.
- 17BTo protect something is to keep it safe from harm.
- 18AWe apologise when we bump into someone.
- 19CI read every day: b, c, a, d.
- 20DWe congratulate a friend on good news.
- 21BThe question goes inside speech marks, starts with a capital letter and ends with a question mark.
- 22CFootball, footprint and footpath. (There is no word handpath.)
- 23AToothbrush is made of two words: tooth and brush.
- 24DWill visit and next week point to the future.
- 25BQuickly is an adverb; brave, kind and tall are adjectives.
How to use this test
- Read for 20 minutes every day and note new words with their meanings.
- Learn irregular plurals and past tenses: they come up in every IEO paper.
- In the reading section, find the line in the passage that gives the answer.
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