Олимпиада (школьный этап)
Общее время выполнения работы – 1 час 28 мин.
Максимальное количество баллов – 51
Reading
Task 1 (7 баллов)
Время выполнения задания: 20 мин.
Read the article and match the paragraph summaries (A-G) from the box below with each paragraph (1-7).
A A language Ken helped save
B Ken’s ability to learn languages quickly
C How Ken learnt languages
D Ken’s origins
E Reasons for protecting languages under threat
F Ken’s involvement in language theory
G The biological basis of language
Kenneth Hale, Master Linguist
SOMETIMES Kenneth Hale was asked how long it would take him to learn a new language. He thought ten or fifteen minutes would be enough to pick up essentials if he were listening to a native speaker. After that he could probably converse; obviously not fluently, but enough to make himself understood. To those whose education, however admirable in other respects, had provided only rudimentary language skills, he seemed a marvel.
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As many of these languages had no written grammar or vocabulary, and indeed were spoken by few people, Kenneth picked them up orally. His tip for anyone who pressed him for advice on learning a language was to talk to a native speaker. Start with parts of the body, he said, then common objects. After learning the nouns, you can start to make sentences and get attuned to the sounds.
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This is all the more confusing as language is much more complex than, say, simple arithmetic, which often takes years to master. It is often hypothesised that language is an innate human faculty, with its own specialised system in our brain.
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He spent his childhood on a ranch in Arizona and started his education in a one-roomed school in the desert. Many years later, lecturing at MIT, he still felt most comfortable in cowboy boots. On his belt was a buckle he had won at a rodeo by riding bulls, and he had the slightly bowed legs of a horseman. His students were impressed that he could light a match with his thumbnail.
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One Indian language at its last gasp was spoken by the Wopanaak, the tribe that greeted the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620. It is now spoken again by several thousand people around Cape Cod. A Wopanaak who studied under Kenneth is preparing a dictionary of her language. ‘Ken was a voice for the voiceless,’ said Noam Chomsky. And he worked tirelessly to learn endangered languages.
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Despite these setbacks, Ken did contribute to an understanding of the apparently innate human capacity for speech. He made a number of what he called ‘neat’ discoveries about the structure of language, and had an instinctive sense of what all languages had in common. After his retirement from MIT, he said he would ‘really get down to work’, an ambition he was unable to achieve, though his other achievements were considerable.
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And these people are often particularly upset by a scholarly argument which surfaces from time to time about the desirability of keeping alive languages that have little chance of survival. Occasionally the argument turns nationalistic. For example, is what Kenneth called the ‘revitalisation’ of Welsh merely a nuisance in Britain where, obviously, English is the working language? Kenneth Hale had an indignant answer to that question. ‘When you lose a language’, he told a reporter, ‘you lose a culture, intellectual wealth, a work of art. The damage that’s done is irreparable. It’s like dropping a bomb on a museum, the Louvre.’
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Use of English
Task 2 (10 баллов)
Время выполнения задания: 15 мин.
For questions 1-10 read the text below and decide which word (A, B, C or В) fits the space best.
Example: (0) just
On the other hand?
We left-handed people lack collective pride. We (0) just try to get by, in our clumsy way. We make (1)______ demands and we avoid a fuss. I used to say whenever someone watched me sign my name and remarked that he or she was also left-handed: “You and me and Leonardo da Vinci!” That was a weak joke, (2)________ it contained my often unconscious desire to belong to Left Pride, a social movement that (3) _____ far doesn’t exist but I hope may one day come. There are many false stories about the left-handed (4)______ circulation: for example, a few decades ago someone wrote that Picasso was left-handed, and others kept repeating it, but the proof is all (5)______ the contrary. The great genius Einstein is often still claimed as one of ours, also (6)____ proof. And sadly there is also no truth in the myth that the left-handed tend to be smarter and more creative.
(7)_____ the amount of research that has been carried out, researchers in the field still find it hard to decide precisely what we mean by left-handed. Apparently a third of those who write with their left hand throw a ball with their right. (8)____, those using their right hand for writing rarely throw with their left. A difficult skill that becomes crucial at a most impressionable age, writing defines (9)_____ you will call yourself. I have never used scissors, baseball bat, hockey stick or computer mouse with anything but my right; (10)_____ so, I think I’m left-handed as does everyone else.
1
A
some
B
few
C
little
D
any
2
A
yet
B
while
C
still
D
even
3
A
so
B
as
C
this
D
by
4
A
on
B
by
C
in
D
under
5
A
for
B
at
C
to
D
on
6
A
despite
B
without
C
lacking
D
beyond
7
A
Although
B
However
C
Nevertheless
D
Despite
8
A
However
B
Whereas
C
Despite
D
Unlike
9
A
what
B
how
C
this
D
which
10
A
more
B
yet
C
even
D
and
Task 3 (10 баллов)
Время выполнения задания: 15 мин.
For questions 1-10 match two parts of 10 idioms. There is one extra part in the second column.
1
To be as alike as
A
chalk and cheese
2
To be as different as
B
daughter
3
To be the apple of
C
the family
4
To be the black sheep of
D
the mice will play
5
To be tied to
E
thicker than water
6
To be your mother’s
F
two peas in a pod
7
Blood is
G
two sisters
8
Follow in
H
your father’s eye
9
Twist someone round
I
your father’s footsteps
10
While the cat’s away
J
your little finger
K
your mother’s apron strings
Speaking
Task 4 (4 балла)
Время выполнения задания: 1,5-2 мин.
(Monologue)
In a minute you will have to speak about friendship. What is your idea of a real friend?
Socio-cultural competence
Task 5 (10 баллов)
Время выполнения задания: 15 мин.
For Questions 1-10, give Russian equivalents to:
Cinderella
The Mediterranean sea
CIA
The North Pole
The Strait of Dover
Lebanon
Pinocchio
Munich
Carthage (an ancient city)
The Hague
Writing
Task 6 (10 баллов)
Время выполнения задания: 20 мин.
Personal letter
You have received a letter from your English pen-friend Jane who writes:
...I want to arrange an end-of-term entertainment for my class. Have you got any ideas how to do it? Is it expensive to arrange such a special event in your town? Can they provide whatever you want: hold your disco in your gym or use your tennis courts, which are lit up at night? Do they offer special rates for students and young people?
Write back soon.
Best wishes,
Jane
Write a letter to Jane. Answer her questions.
Write 100-140 words.
Remember the rules of letter-writing.
Answer sheet
Фамилия______________________________________________
Имя __________________________________________________
Отчество______________________________________________
Класс (№ и буква)______________________________________
Образовательное учреждение ___________________________
Название предмета ____________________________________
Task1 Reading
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Task 2 Use of English
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Task 3 Use of English
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Task 5 Socio-cultural competence
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Task 6 Writing
Методические рекомендации:
Общее время выполнения работы – 1 час 28 мин.
Максимальное количество баллов – 51
Критерии оценивания: за каждый правильный ответ дается 1 балл.
Максимальное количество баллов за конкурс Reading: 7.
Максимальное количество баллов за конкурс Use of English: 20.
Максимальное количество баллов за конкурс Speaking: 4. (4 – вопрос раскрыт полностью, 2 – вопрос раскрыт частично, 0 – вопрос не раскрыт)
Максимальное количество баллов за конкурс Socio-cultural competence: 10.
Максимальное количество баллов за конкурс Writing: 10. (организация текста – 2 балла, лексика – 3 балла, грамматика – 3 балла, орфография и пунктуация – 2 балла)
Keys:
Task1 Reading
1
B
2
C
3
G
4
D
5
A
6
F
7
E
Task 2 Use of English
1
B
2
A
3
A
4
C
5
D
6
B
7
D
8
A
9
A
10
C
Task 3 Use of English
1
F
2
A
3
H
4
C
5
K
6
B
7
E
8
I
9
J
10
D
Task 5 Socio-cultural competence
1
Золушка
2
Средиземное море
3
ЦРУ
4
Северный полюс
5
Па-де-Кале
6
Ливан
7
Буратино
8
Мюнхен
9
ист. Карфаген
10
г. Гаага
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