Олимпиадные
задания школьного этапа Всероссийской олимпиады школьников
по английскому языку для 9-11 классов (2015-2016 учебный
год)
Reading Comprehension
Time: 45 minutes
Part 1
Read
this article about forks and decide whether statements 1-10 are true or false
according to the text. Write T or F in each box.
In 1608 an
Englishman whose name was Thomas Coryate visited Italy. He liked the country
and noted down every interesting thing he found. But there was one thing which
he found more interesting than the others. In his diary Thomas wrote, ‘When the
Italians eat meat, they use small forks. They do not eat with hands because, as
they say, people do not always have clean hands.’
Before leaving for
England, Thomas Coryate bought a few forks.
At home Thomas
gave a dinner party to show the invention to his friends. When the servant
brought the steak, he took out a fork and began to eat like they did in Italy.
Everybody looked
at him in surprise. When he told his friends what it was, they all wanted to
take a good look at the strange thing. All his friends said that the Italians
were very strange people because the fork was very inconvenient.
Thomas Coryate
tried to prove the opposite. He said it was not nice to eat meat
with one’s
fingers because they were not always clean.
Everybody got angry
at
that. Did Mr Coryate think that people in England always had dirty hands? And weren’t
the
ten fingers they had enough for them?
Thomas
Coryate wanted
to show
that
it was
very easy to use the
fork. But the first piece of meat he took
with
the fork fell to the floor. His friends began to laugh and
he had to take the fork away.
Only fifty years later did people in England begin to use ' forks.
1. Thomas Coryate brought forks to England
because he believed it was not nice to eat meat with fingers.
2.
Thomas
Coryate wanted to make his friends surprised so he brought forks.
3. Thomas Coryate
wanted to make business selling forks.
4.
Eeverybody
looked at Thomas when he began to eat like the Italians because nobody had seen
a fork before.
5.
Nobody
ate meat with hands in England.
6.
Coryate’s friends didn’t
pay any attention to the forks
7.
The first piece of meat
fell to the floor when Thomas took it with the fork because he
had not used to eating with a fork.
8.
The steak was too tough
so it fell down.
9. People
in England began to use forks in
1658
10. People in England
don’t use forks nowdays.
Part 2
Read the following text. For Questions
1-5, choose the answer (A, B, C)
Safari Parks
A safari park is
like a large zoo, where the animals live in natural conditions. There are
several safari parks in Britain and they are very popular places for visit. One
of the most famous is at Windsor, which is close to London airport.
You can visit some
parts of the safari park on foot. Here you can see the animals that are not
dangerous, like giraffes, zebras, camels and antelopes. The animals walk around
as if they were in Africa.
But safari parks also have lions, tigers, leopards
and other dangerous animals. These cannot be kept with the other animals,
because they would eat them. They would
also eat the visitors, so they have to drive through the parts where these animals
live. You
have
to keep
your
windows closed
and
you must not get out of the car. It is not
a good idea to take a new car into this part of the park, because the monkeys climb on
the cars.
Safari parks are much better than ordinary zoos, because
the animals do not have to live in small cages.
1. How do the animals
live in safari park?
A in natural
conditions
B in small cages
C in comfortable
rooms
2. You can visit some
parts of the safari park with non-dangerous animals .
A by little
locomotive
B by special bus
C on foot
3. How do the
visitors have to behave in safari park?
A They must not
get out of the car
B They must keep
windows closed
C All variants are
correct.
4. The
dangerous animals_____________________________ .
A can eat
non-dangerous animals
B live with
non-dangerous together
C live apart in
small cages
5. What is the one of
the most famous safari park in Britain?
A Blackpool safari
park
B Windsor
C Manchester
safari park
Part 3
Put
the scrambled paragraphs in the right order (from A to E)
A I decided to call
the police. On tiptoes I went downstairs and dialed 999. The police answered
and I explained what had happened. They promised to come at once.
B One night I was
alone at home with my little daughter Pat. My husband had gone on a business trip.
Pat woke me
up in the middle of
the night: ‘Mummy,
there’s a man outside the house. He was watching me through the
window.’
C
Soon
a police car pulled up in front of the house. I opened the door and let in a
young police officer. After listening to my story he went out. Five minutes
later he returned. ‘It’s all right,’ he said, ‘the man was only walking his
dog, and it ran into your garden.’
D ‘And why was he
looking at our window?’ I asked the officer. ‘Probably out of curiosity,’ he
said. ‘There’s nothing we can do, Madam. It isn’t a crime to walk a dog at
night.’
E I went quickly
into my daughter’s room and looked out of the window. I could see the dark
figure of a man in our garden. Who was he and what was he up to? Why was he
looking at our window? Was he going to break in?
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Олимпиадные
задания школьного этапа Всероссийской олимпиады школьников
по английскому языку для 9-11 классов (2015-2016 учебный
год)
Use of English
Time: 45 minutes
Task 1
Decide
which answer (A, B, C ) best fits each space.
1. Most people
prefer to have their holidays in___________ summer.
2. It’s ______
delicious lunch!
3. I want to enter
______ Moscow State University.
4. Alaska is one
of the states in _____USA.
5. Where does
____Volga flow into?
6. We have ______
new friends. Have you ____?
7.Can you help us?
____ problem!
8. ______advises
me to stay at home.
9. _____ road
shall we take? There are two of them.
10. There are a
lot of books on the shelves,______?
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Task 2
Express
the meaning of each phrase in one word.
0.
Full
of fear – a f r a i d
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to
take the first step — b_ _ _n
2.
a
town where a seat of government is — c_ _ _ _ _l
3.
very
well known — f_ _ _ _s
4.
the
dark part of each day — n_ _ _t
5.
not
shut — о_
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Task
3
Match
the idioms with their definitions
1. be in a good
mood a) check
2. be
broke b) feel happy
3. get rid
of c) have no money at
all
4. give smb one’s
word d)make a promise
5. make
sure e)remove or
dispose of
1) - ___
2) - ___
3) - ___
4) - ___
5) - ___
Task
4
Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the
verbs in brackets.
There
was once a wild man who lived on a hill which was far in a forest. He was a
simple man and seldom 1. ______(speak) to other people. One day he
noticed a man who 2. _____(walk) along a path in the forest below the
hill. He ran down to him and said:
‘I want to talk to
you. 3. ______ you ______(come
up) to my home and have a talk with me?’
The man agreed.
They climbed the hill together. As it was a cold day, the stranger 4._____(breathe)
on his hands.
‘What 5._____you
(do)?’ asked the wild man.
‘I’m blowing on my
hands.’
‘Why are you
doing it?’
‘My hands 6.
____ (be) cold. I want them become warm.’
‘I understand’
said the wild man.
When
they came to the house on the hill, the wild man made the stranger drink a cup
of boiling milk.
As the milk was very hot, the stranger began blowing on it.
‘What are you
doing now?’ asked the wild man.
‘I am blowing on
my milk.’
‘Why are you
doing it?’
‘The milk is hot.
I am blowing on it 7_______(make) it cold.’
‘What!’ shouted
the wild man. ‘But before you blew on your hands to make them hot. 8.
_____ (Get out) of my house! I 9. _____(not want) men like you in my home.
You are not an honest man, if you 10. _____(blow) hot and cold with the
same breath.’
1.
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2.
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3.
_______________
4.
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5.
_______________
6.
_______________
7.
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8.
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9.
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10.
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TRANSFER ALL YOUR ANSWERS TO YOUR
ANSWER SHEET
Participant’s ID number
Use of English
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You have received a letter from your English-speaking
pen friend Ben.
…I tried my luck
and won a really nice prize last week. Do you like to take part in different
competitions? What kind of? Are you fond of sport? What is your hobby? Are you
and your friends won any prizes?
You should write
80 - 100 words. Answer his questions. Remember the rules of letter writing.
Time: 30
minutes
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1)
Reading (чтение)
Всего – 20 баллов
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2) Use
of English (лексико-грамматические задания)
Всего – 30 баллов
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