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MCQ Practice Test & Solutions: Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations (15 Questions)

You can prepare effectively for Class 8 English Olympiad for Class 8 with this dedicated MCQ Practice Test (available with solutions) on the important topic of "Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations". These 15 questions have been designed by the experts with the latest curriculum of Class 8 2026, to help you master the concept.

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  • - Format: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)
  • - Duration: 30 minutes
  • - Number of Questions: 15

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Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 1
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Q. He burst _______ laughter when he realised his mistake.

Detailed Solution: Question 1

Verbs collocated before ‘laughter’ are burst into, dissolve into/with, explode with, bellow with, cackle with, hoot with howl with, roar with, scream with, shriek with, snort with, whoop with, yell with, rock with shake with.

Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 2
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Q. Do you know where we are? If you ask me, we are _______ lost.

Detailed Solution: Question 2

Adverbs collocated with ‘lost’ are completely, completely, totally, very, a bit, a little, rather.
In this sentence the collocations means the speaker has no idea about his where about.

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Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 3
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Q. We didn 't arr ange to meet. It was _______ coincidence that I saw him.

Detailed Solution: Question 3

Adjectives collocated with ‘coincidence’: complete, pure, sheer, mere, happy, unfortunate, unhappy, amazing, curious, extraordinary, funny incredible, odd, remarkable, strange, wonderful.

Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 4
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Q. He had to go to the hospital because it was a very _______ cut.

Detailed Solution: Question 4

Here in the adjective form deep properly collocates with noun cut.

Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 5
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Q. We managed to get up the steep hill only because our car is very _______.

Detailed Solution: Question 5

Common collocations before ‘powerful’ are used: most, very, man, even, how, such, something, has, rich, big, only, will, make, look, much Here, we managed to get up the steep hill implies a powerful car.

Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 6
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Q. I'm an honest and _______  citizen.

Detailed Solution: Question 6

Law-abiding in its adj. form means obeyin or keeping the law; obedient to law i.e., law- abiding citizens.

Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 7
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Q. He assured me he was _______  sure where the house was.

Detailed Solution: Question 7

Collocation pattern: adverb + adjective, Meaning: completely sure
For example:

  1. Are you quite sure you don’t want to come?
  2. I m quite sure she’ll be late. She’s never on time.

Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 8
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Q. Please! I'm trying to work here. Don't _______ my time with stupid questions!

Detailed Solution: Question 8

You can spend time doing something which is positive, but if you feel that the time passes in a negative, unproductive manner, then you’re wasting you time. The first sentence fives the idea of wasting time better collocates.

Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 9
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Q. Our neighbour is a very _______ smoker and smokes two packets a day.

Detailed Solution: Question 9

Common collocations with heavy: heavy smoker, heavy schedule, heavy losses etc., are used as a rule.

Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 10
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Q. I don't know him that well. He's only a _______ acquaintance.

Detailed Solution: Question 10

When the two persons are well known the word casual collocates with acquaintance which means occasional.

Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 11
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Each sentence given below contains an incomplete collocation. Complete the collocation by supplying a suitable word. Choose your answers from the options given below.

Q. She was a/an _______ wife who loved her husband more than anything else in the whole universe.

Detailed Solution: Question 11

The wife who loved her husband more than anything else in the whole universe collocates properly with devoted.

Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 12
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Each sentence given below contains an incomplete collocation. Complete the collocation by supplying a suitable word. Choose your answers from the options given below.

Q. It is a golden _______. If you miss it, you will regret it.

Detailed Solution: Question 12

According to conventional word combination we collocate a golden opportunity.

Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 13
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Each sentence given below contains an incomplete collocation. Complete the collocation by supplying a suitable word. Choose your answers from the options given below.

Q. Mary Kom is a five time World Amateur Boxing Champion and the only women boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six______ Championships.

Detailed Solution: Question 13

Its a noun + noun collocation.

Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 14
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Each sentence given below contains an incomplete collocation. Complete the collocation by supplying a suitable word. Choose your answers from the options given below.

Q. I always avoid his company because he is a crashing _______.

Detailed Solution: Question 14

Crashing gives a kind of exaggeration to the word bore, in this case. So it means like an idiot a really boring person, which one has nothing to say.

Olympiad Test Level 2: Collocations - Question 15
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Each sentence given below contains an incomplete collocation. Complete the collocation by supplying a suitable word. Choose your answers from the options given below.

Q. She seemed quite interested in buying that house, but at the last moment, she changed her ______.

Detailed Solution: Question 15

Change one’s mind (but not change one’s thoughts) is the right collocation.

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