Интеллектуальный марафон, английский язык, 10 класс, вариант 1

Английский язык

10 класс

Первая часть. Задания, оцениваемые в 2 балла.

1. What does “LET YOUR HAIR DOWN” mean?

1) Relax and enjoy yourself;

2) Change the way you look;

3) Try doing something new.

2. Thousands of …… are living in emergency camps.

1)      refuses            2) refugees       3) rescuees

3. Which word is the odd one out in the set?

1)      extract

2)      ex-wife

3)      ex-communicate

4)      exhale

4.      Какую из этих фраз можно использовать для описания влиятельного и важного человека?

1)      A big cheese

2)      A big orange

3)      A big nut

Вторая часть. Задания, оцениваемые в 3 балла.

5.      Choose three idioms connected with criticism.

1)      Someone knocks spots off the rest.

2)      Something is out of this world.

3)      Someone wants to have their cake and eat it.

4)      Someone thinks they’re the cat’s whiskers.

5)      Someone is head and shoulders above the rest.

6)      Something is a dog’s breakfast.

6. Choose three sentences with mistakes.

1) The problems that were discovered after the professor’s death had not been discussed by his pupils until recently.

2) I wish the weather is not rainy and cold so that the children could go to play in yhe garden for a little while.

3) The pupils will divide into two groups, one group will write the test in the morning, the other in the afternoon.

4) She would stay in the rain and feel the drops falling slowly on her face.

5) You are a bit early, this evening the concert is starting at 19.30.

6) Ron went skiing after he had passed the last exam.

7.Find three sentences with mistakes.

1)      Before meeting Harriet, I never knew what real love was.

2)      I’m sure that after passed your exam, you’ll feel a lot better.

3)      Having finished the letter, Peter printed it out.

4)      Looking  through the window, I saw a strange man at the door.

5)      I cooked dinner and, doing that, I sat down to watch TV.

6)      Heard a noise outside, Janice went to investigate.

8.  Choose three nouns which are always used only in the plural form.

1) athletics

2) cattle

3) electronics

4) delays

5) scissors

6) outskirts

Третья часть. Задания, оцениваемые в 6 баллов.

9. Match the definitions of the crimes on the left with their names on the right.

10. Match the English idioms with their Russian equivalents.

11.  Match the compound noun on the left with its meaning on the right.

12.  Match these holiday brochure words on the left with their synonyms on the right.

13.  Match the program name on the left with its most likely program type on the right.

14. Put the paragraphs 1-6 in the logical order.

1) One evening after school, about three weeks ago, my husband and daughter were on the curb in the too-early dark with the usual group of kids and parents, when my 5- year-old informed another mom that an older boy had come up to her son on the bus and said, “I wish I had a pair of scissors, so I could cut out your tongue.” To underscore his intention, the boy asked around to see if anyone had any scissors. The mom was dumbfounded. Her son nodded; it was true.

2) In March, she gave up and pulled her son off the bus. Parents go to great lengths to get their children into the best schools. For many — myself included — a longer commute seems a fair trade for a better education. But we should spare some thought for making sure that journey is safe.

3) And if a fight breaks out? Drivers should pull over and call 911. I think of myself as about average on the parental neurosis scale but I was worried about the bus before my daughter even started elementary school. We managed to get a spot at our first choice school; then the problem was getting there.

4) At a time of intense parenting and wearable GPS trackers for kids, the school bus remains one of the black boxes of childhood. In what other situation would parents allow dozens of kids, ranging from 4 to 13, to look after themselves, with the only adult in earshot focused on navigating a sixwheeler through rush hour traffic? Most parents assume that bus drivers are responsible for maintaining discipline and preventing abuse. But in places like New York City, that's just not true. Drivers aren't school employees; they work for private companies. Drivers are supposed to “caution” children only if a problem arises, and then report any incidents of bullying.

5) She alerted the school, and was told that the bully's parents had been contacted. Still, the bullying continued. She then asked if she could ride on the bus with her son. There were dozens of volunteer roles for parents at our school but the district forbids parents to actually set foot on it. She then offered to hire a bus monitor with her own money, only to be told: “That's not how it usually works.”

6) The commute required two subway trains and a mile-long walk: a round trip that would take us, her parental escorts, about two and a half hours a day. Luckily, we qualified for the school bus. When I mentioned this to an acquaintance whose children attend my daughter's school, she turned pale. Last year, she said, her 5-year-old son started getting hassled on the bus. The bullying escalated from name-calling to hitting.

15.  Put the paragraphs 1-6 in the logical order.

1) This week for me has been the usual half-term whirl of dentist, hairdresser, hygienist, car service and a cracking migraine. My best friend is moving away on Monday and I have yet to touch my marking because, after four years of all-consuming work, I was determined to spend a decent amount of time with her. I am seeing my husband and my parents for lunch tomorrow and cannot help but feel that slight panic about when I will do my work, simply because I have spent five days doing normal things that people do on annual leave.

2) Ask any partner or child of a teacher how many of us actually spend our holiday sitting on the sofa watching TV or lazing in bed doing nothing and the answer may be surprising. Take half-terms, for example, you have five days off. Two days in bed finally giving into and recovering from the various illnesses that it's been easier to battle through than take time off for during the term. Two days of not really feeling well enough to do anything but needing to mark a class set (or three) of controlled assessments. One day to squeeze in six weeks' worth of neglected friends and family.

 3) Many people misunderstand school holidays. Far from a half-term of duvet days in front of the TV, I'm panicking about all the work I didn't have time to do.

4) A couple of weeks before the autumn half-term in my newly-qualified teacher year, I put a status on Facebook: “14 more sleeps #thankgoodness”. The speed with which my teacher friends liked and commented on it made me laugh, but one comment brought me up short. A friend remarked that five weeks into the job was a bit soon to be feeling like this, and asked whether I was sure I was in the right career. This lack of understanding seems to be typical of people's feelings about teachers' holidays.

5) Don't get me wrong, I realise that lots of jobs involve 12 hour days, tough clients and lots of pressure, so I'm not claiming we do the world's hardest job. But when I say “hooray, only two weeks until half-term,” it's not so much celebration as it is relief.

6) It means I only have another two weeks to survive, living life at 200mph, before I can pause and regroup. Only another two weeks of trying not to do or say the wrong thing during lessons and meetings, before I get a chance to sleep for more than five hours and regain some sanity.

16.  Put the words into the right order to make up a true interrogative (?) sentence.

1)      common

2)      a waiter

3)      it

4)      is

5)      a tip

6)      to give

Четвертая часть. Задания, оцениваемые в 8 баллов. В заданиях 17-20 ответ записывается в таблицу ответов, начиная с первой клеточки. Каждую букву, цифру или символ пишите в отдельной клеточке, буквы должны быть печатными, строчными, с диакритическими знаками. Пропуски между словами не делайте.

17. What is the British variant of the word “eggplant”? (9 letters)

18. How would you express this written abbreviation in spoken English?

e.g. = (2 words, 10 letters)

19. To kill a famous person, often for a political reason, is to _ _ _ him. (11 letters)

20. A _ _ _ _ _ _ _  is a person who sees a crime, and often appears in court to explain what they saw. (7 letters)