Tasks form 9
Задания школьного этапа Всероссийской олимпиады
по английскому языку - 2016
9 класс
1. Чтение (Reading Comprehension) 10 баллов
Time: 20 minutes
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 nowаdays.
2. Лексика и грамматика
(Use of English)
20 баллов
Time:
30 minutes
А). Измените слова
на полях справа так, чтобы они подходили к предложениям.
1. There
was a … to find the best book. (COMPETE) __________
2. Flowers
… bees. (ATTRACTIVE) __________
3. That …
is by Picasso. (PAINT) __________
4. We must
make a … about where to go. (DECIDE) ___________
5. How
many … holidays do you have? (NATION) _________
6. The
film was … and he became rich. (SUCCESS) __________
7. He
lives in a … house by the sea. (WOOD)
__________
8. Could
you repeat that … ? (EXPLAIN)
__________
9. We are … of our
district. (PRIDE) __________
10. I don’t have much … of European history. (EDUCATE) ____________
B). Выберите правильный ответ из предложенных (запиши
буквы)
1. I... glasses since I was a child,
a) wear, b) wore, c) am wearing, d) have been wearing.
2. When the phone rang, I... dinner.
a) cook, b) was cooking, c) had been cooking, d) have been cooking.
3. He usually had dinner at 4 p.m., ... ?
a) had he, b) hadn't he, c) did he, d) didn't he.
4. He works ... and makes good progress.
a) hard, b) hardly, c) good, d) badly.
5. He reminds me ... someone I knew in the army.
a) of, b) to, c) from, d) about.
6. Mary is here. Where are ... ?
a) other, b) others, c) the others, d) another.
7. What ... bad weather we are having today!
a) the, b) a, c) an, d) — .
8. Did you read ... English books at school?
a) some, b) many, c) much, d) none.
9. I want to know what ...,
a) are you doing, b) were you doing, c) will you do, d) you are doing.
10. I've made ... mistakes now than I made last time.
a) few, b) a few, c) fewer, d) less.
3. Writing. Time:
40 minutes
You have 40 minutes to do this task.
Comment
on the following statement.
Some
people think that learning foreign languages is a waste of time and money.
What
is your opinion? Do you agree with this statement?
Write 140 – 200 words.
Use
the following plan:
− make an introduction (state the problem)
− express your personal opinion and give 2–3 reasons for your
opinion
− express an opposing opinion and give 1–2 reasons for this
opposing opinion
− explain why you don’t agree with the opposing opinion
− make a conclusion restating your position
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