Задания
школьного
этапа
Всероссийской олимпиады школьников по английскому языку
в
2015-2016 уч.г.
9-11 класс
Общее
время выполнения заданий письменного тура - 60 минут
Максимальный
балл за выполнение всех заданий письменного тура - 80
Конкурс
понимания письменной речи (Reading)
Время
выполнения конкурса Reading (3 части) – 20 мин.
Максимальное
количество баллов за выполнение конкурса
Reading task 1 – 5
Task
1.
Read
the text and questions 1‐5 below. For each question, mark the correct letter A,
B, C or D.
My
home is a windmill
by
Josh Summers, aged 14
My
home’s different from where my friends live because I live in a19th century
windmill! My parents saw it one day, and bought it. It was in poor condition,
but it was repaired and now it’s fantastic! The windmill was once used to make
flour from corn. The corn store used to be downstairs, where our kitchen is
now, and horses came there to deliver the corn. The enormous 20‐metre sails are
still on the front, but they don’t turn in the wind like they used to because
it’s too dangerous, so birds live in them instead. There’s always a ladder up
the side of the windmill so that dad can paint it and keep it a nice cream
colour. He also cleans the windows, although a company comes to do the top ones
as the ladder’s too short. Inside it’s like a tent with six sides, and it
becomes more pointed towards the top, so the rooms get smaller. My room’s under
the roof and I get a fantastic view – it’s like looking out of an airplane window.
There are some other houses around now, and a new main road, but I can relax
and make a noise when I play my guitar up there and no one can hear me! I can
hear everything, though, like the birds when it’s quiet, which is really
calming, or the very loud storms, which I can see coming towards us. And I
actually find it easier to concentrate on my school work up there, as my brothers
and sisters don’t want to climb up all the stairs, so they don’t disturb me! I
can’t imagine living anywhere else!
1.
What is Josh trying to do in the text?
A
compare his home with his friends’ homes
B
explain why his family chose to live in their current home
C tell
readers about advantages of living where he does
D
suggest how his home could be improved
2.
What does Josh say about the outside of the windmill?
A Wild
creatures have made their homes there.
B It’s
covered in dark paint.
C
There’s a ladder that goes right to the top.
D The
windows frequently need cleaning.
3.
Josh says that his room
A is a
bit like an airplane inside.
B is a
good place for practicing a musical instrument.
C is
the largest one in the windmill.
D is
better for relaxing in than doing school work.
4.
What does Josh say about the different sounds he hears in the windmill?
A He
dislikes the noise of the sails in the wind.
B He
enjoys listening to all the birds.
C He
feels nervous when a loud storm comes along.
D He’s
pleased that he’s not disturbed by any noise.
5.
What would a visitor from the 19th century say if they saw the windmill now?
A It’s
great that they’ve kept the corn store as it was. The horses used to love
coming there.
B The
sails are a lot smaller than they used to be. I suppose that’s for safety
reasons.
C It’s
still in the same condition as before. The owners never looked after it then,
either.
D You
can still see the windmill from miles away. Of course, there weren’t all these buildings
around it then, as a busy road going past.
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Reading task 2 – 7
Task
2.
Read
the text and mark statements 6‐12 below as T (true) or F (false).
On 2
November 1982, the British public turned on their television sets for the
arrival of the nation’s fourth TV station, called Channel 4. They were greeted
by the smiling face of local TV news presenter Richard Whiteley, who welcomed
them with the words: ‘As the countdown to a new channel ends, a brand new
countdown begins.’ And with this sentence, the words and numbers game show ‘Countdown’
was launched.
The rules
of this new game show were as follows: two contestants faced each other over
several
rounds
of games with letters and with numbers. Finally, there was the Conundrum round,
where
contestants
had to work out the nine‐letter anagram. At
the end of the show, the contestant with the highest score won and was invited
back the next day to face a new challenger. However, despite the simplicity of
the rules, those who watched the early editions of the 30‐minute show, which
was on five days a week, could hardly have imagined that it would last any
longer than the original seven weeks that had been planned for it. The first contestants
and guests were not exactly the most exciting people on television. But luckily
for ‘Countdown’, there were enough old people, university students and other
people with nothing much to do each afternoon to keep the show alive. When the
show began, Carol Vorderman won over fans with her amazing mathematical
abilities. ’Countdown’ made a celebrity out of Carol, and these days she’s a
familiar face on British TV. Despite her fame, Carol still loyally turned up on
‘Countdown’ each day to turn over the letters and show the contestants how to
solve the numbers game until she retired in 2008. Yes, that is correct – nearly
30 years since it began, ‘Countdown’ continues to keep its audience’s brains
working every afternoon. In fact, on 3 January 2006, it celebrated its 4,000th show.
Other signs of its success include the increase in the length of each program
to 45 minutes, the addition of a show on Saturdays and the number of British
celebrities who have made an appearance.
6. ‘Countdown’
was the first program ever shown on Channel 4. ……………
7.
Every day two new contestants compete to become ‘Countdown’ champion. …………..
8.
Originally only 35 program of ‘Countdown’ were planned. ……………
9. The
early shows were popular with working people. ……………
10.
Carol Vorderman is no longer involved with the show. ……………
11.
These days ‘Countdown’ is on for four and a half hours every week. ……………
12.
More and more famous people like turning up on the program. ……………
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Reading task 3 – 8
Task
3.
Read
the text and match sentences 13‐20 below with paragraphs A‐F of the text.
The
History of BMX Biking
A. BMX biking began
in the late 1960s in southern California. It’s based on the sport of motocross,
which
dates back to 1924 and involves racing motorbikes across rough tracks. It
started when children began to copy motocross riders by racing their bikes on
tracks which they built themselves. This new form of bike racing was named
bicycle motocross, or BMX.
B. In July 1971, a
movie about motocross called ‘On Any Sunday’ came out. At the start of the film
a group of kids from California are shown riding their bicycles as if they were
riding motorbikes. This helped to make BMX biking more popular. Soon BMX races
attracted hundreds of riders.
C. In the late 1960s
and early 1970s, the most famous BMX bike was the Schwinn Sting‐Ray; this was the
bike every young rider wanted to own. At this time 70 per cent of all bicycle
sales in the USA were either the Sting‐Ray or similar models. By the mid 1970s
BMX design had improved a lot and there were many new models to choose from.
But the bikes all had the same sized wheels and usually only one brake.
D. In 1977, the
American Bicycle Association was formed to organize the competitions and to
make the rules. The sport was also becoming popular in other parts of the world,
particularly in Europe. The first BMX world championship was held in
Indianapolis, USA, in 1978. Most of the 165 competitors were teenagers, but
there were also children competing in special races for the under 8s and under 12s.
There were separate races for boys and girls. There weren’t many nationalities
present at this competition; apart from Americans there were only a few riders
from Australia, Japan and Venezuela.
E. Since that time
the number of races for adults has grown very quickly, but BMX racing didn’t
become
a full Olympic sport until the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Maris Stromberg
from Latvia won the first ever Olympic men’s gold medal for BMX racing and Anne‐Caroline Chausson
from France became the first women’s champion.
F. As the popularity
of BMX grew, riders were constantly testing the limits of their bikes. BMX
wasn’t just about racing any more. Riders began to take their bikes to
skateboard parks and started performing tricks and jumps. This became known as
‘freestyle’ and riders soon began to practice this as much as racing.
13.
There were races for different age groups at the first BMX world championships.
____
14.
BMX freestyle started because BMX riders wanted new challenges. ____
15.
BMX biking was invented by children. ____
16.
The Schwinn Sting‐Ray was the
favourite model of BMX riders to begin with. ____
17.
More BMX bikes were sold than any other type of bike in the USA in the early
1970s.____
18.
Many people learned about BMX biking from a film. ____
19.
BMX biking appeared more than 40 years after its prototype – motocross. ____
20.
Some riders from Asia and Latin America took part in the first BMX world
championship.____
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