Олимпиадные задания школьного этапа Всероссийской олимпиады школьников
по английскому языку для 11 класса (20162017 учебный год)
1.You are going to hear three different people talking about how different people
behave in some situations. Listen and match each speaker (Laura, Gordon and
John) to the statement, choosing from the list (ad). There is one extra statement
which does not refer to any of them.
a) We seldom sympathise with people who find themselves in awkward situations.
b) Being physically handicapped is no laughing matter.
c)Some people do strange things to relax.
d)People sometimes laugh at things which they wouldn't dare do themselves.
2.Underline the correct answers using the right form of the verb
1.The children are tired. They played/have been playing in the yard all day long.
2.Tom lost/has lost his wallet last week. Since then he looked/has been looking for a new
one exactly the same style, but he didn't find/hasn't found any yet.
3.When we finally got/had got to the airport, the plane already landed/had already landed.
4.Yesterday, I met/had met an old school friend who I didn't see/hadn't seen for years.
5.She was completing/had completed her studies by 2009 and she started/had started her
work at the company. Since then, she is working/has been working for the same company.
6.The thieves broke/had been breaking into houses for two years before they
were/had been finally caught.
7.In this story, a young man finds/is finding a time machine and travels/ is
travelling through time.
8..I think/am thinking about my grandparents. We hardly ever visit/are visiting
9.Apparently, he has known/has been knowing them since he was/has been a child.
them. Let's visit them this weekend.
10.I think/am thinking you should buy him a tie. He likes/is liking to dress formally.
11.Here comes/is coming Paul. Let's tell him the news.
12You turn/are turning right at the traffic lights and go/are going up Oxford Street. 3.Read the text which is followed by a number of questions.You must choose the
answer (a, b, с or d) which you think fits best
Use Both Your Heads
In most people the left side of the brain deals with such things as logic, language,
reasoning, numbers, linearity and analysis, the socalled "academic" activities. While the
left side is engaged in these activities, the right side is in the "alpha wave" or resting
state. The right side of the brain deals with rhythm, music, images and imagination,
colour, parallel processing, daydreaming, face recognition, and pattern or map
recognition.
Researchers showed that when people were encouraged to develop a mental area they had
previously considered weak, this development, rather than detracting from other areas,
seemed to produce an effect in which all areas"*of mental performance improved.
At first glance history seemed to deny this finding, for most of the "great brains"
appeared very lopsided in mental terms: Einstein and other scientists seemed to be
mostly "leftbrain" dominant, while Picasso, Cezanne and other artists and musicians .
appeared to be "rightbrain" dominant.
A more thorough investigation, however, unearthed some fascinating facts: Einstein
failed mathematics at school, but numbered, among his other activities, violin playing,
art, sailing, and imagination games.
To his imagination games Einstein gave credit for many of his more significant
scientific insights. While daydreaming on a hill on a summer day, he imagined
riding sunbeams to the far extremities of the universe, and upon finding himself
returned, "illogically", to the surface of the sun, he realised that the universe must
indeed be curved, and that his previous "logical" training was incomplete. The
numbers, formulas, equations and words he wrapped around this new image gave us
the theory of relativity — a left and right brain synthesis.
Similarly the great artists turned out to be "bothbrained". Rather than notebooks
filled with stories of drunken parties, and paint slapped on haphazardly to produce
masterpieces, entries similar to the following were found:
"Up at 6 a.m. Spent seventeenth day on painting six of the latest series. Mixed four parts
orange with two parts yellow to produce colour combination which I placed in upper lefthand
corner of canvas, to act in visual opposition to spiral structures in lower right hand corner,
producing desired balance in eye of the perceiver." A telling example of just how an artist
works.
1.With which type of activity is the right side of the brain concerned?
a) linguistic b) social c) visual d) mathematical
2.At school, Einstein seems to have been
a) leftbrain dominant
b) very lopsided in mental terms
c) very wellbalanced in mental terms d) rightbrain dominant
3.What does a careful study of history show?
a)Great scientists have a dominant left side of the brain.
b)Great artists have one dominant side of the brain.
c)Some famous scientists reveal strong rightbrain characteristics.
e) There is no evidence for the leftright brain distinction.
4.According to the writer, Einstein's theory of relativity was the result of ....
a)a dream
b)reason and imagination combined
c)further logical training
d)pure imagination
5.The purpose of the extract from an artist's notebook is to show that
a)it is important to plan a painting in detail
b)a lot of leftbrain activity goes into a work of art
c)artists are dominantly rightbrained
d)artists are dominantly leftbrained
4.Read the letter below and write an answer to it (100130 words).
Frensham, Mittagong ' NSW 2575 Australia
23 December 2015
Dear Alex,
for you and your family.
I send you greetings for the New Year 2015, and hope it will be a very happy year
At present I am on holiday, again with my friend, Barbara. We are spending 2
weeks in the Fiji Islands, where it is warm and tropical. The sea is crystal clear, and we
swim about three times each day; in between we sit on the beach in the shade of a palm
tree and read our books.
Олимпиадные задания по английскому языку для 5 класса
Олимпиадные задания по английскому языку для 5 класса
Олимпиадные задания по английскому языку для 5 класса
Олимпиадные задания по английскому языку для 5 класса
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