Школьный этап олимпиады по английскому языку (7-8 класссы)

The 7th – 8th Forms
Listening (18 рoints)
1. Listen to the dialogue and say if the sentences given below are: «TRUE», «FALSE», «NOT STATED». Послушай диалог и отметь верно, не верно, в тексе не сказано.
1) Liam first met his wife 2 years ago.
2) Jenny broke up with Ben at his birthday party.
3) Jenny was so upset!
4) Liam dated Jenny the next weekend after Ben’s birthday.
5) Their first date was excellent.
6) Jenny was poisoned with sea food.
7) They started going out in spring.
8) They were engaged that very day, when Liam asked Jenny to marry him.
9) They got married about a year and four months after their first dating.
10) The former Jenny’s sweetheart was at the wedding.

2.Listen to the text about a famous person, Jamie Oliver and choose only one possible variant of those given below. Послушай текст и выбери правильный ответ.

1) Jamie Oliver is a …

a) food stylist    b) cook     c) TV presenter of food recipes

2) He was born in…

a) 1975     b) 7957    c) 1999

3) a) His parents have never run a restaurant.

b) He hated helping his parents in a restaurant.  

c) He helped his parents in a restaurant in the past.

4) Jamie Oliver became famous because …

a) he prepared lunch for the Prime Minister.   b) he had fifteen wonderful restaurants.  

c) of his skills.

5) a) He hires very successful and experienced people for work.

b) He hires unknown young people without experience.

c) He never hires unemployed people.

6) He is rich because …

a) he married successfully.   b) he has written a book of recipes.   c) of his professional skills.

7) In 2003 he earned …

a) 3,8 mln     b) 38 mln     c) 308 mln

8) a) Now he is not so busy. That’s why he spends a lot of time on riding on a scooter, playing the drums in a rock band.

b) He has little free time; however, he spends it on riding on a scooter, playing the drums in a rock band.

c) He doesn’t work, so he spends most of his time on riding on a scooter, playing the drums in a rock band.

Reading (15рoints)

Part 1. Read the text and choose the best possible answer to the questions given below

In the 1400s, merchants and traders from Europe travelled long distances to the east by land and by sea. They exchanged, bought, and sold things to people in Asia. Merchants from Italy, Spain, and Portugal travelled to Asia to buy such things as jewels, gold, tea, and silk. They also bought salt and spices that were necessary to preserve food. The trade route back and forth to Asia by land was very long and difficult. On the sea, ships had to travel all the way around Africa. It was a long and dangerous trip.

An Italian sea captain and mapmaker named Christopher Columbus believed that there was an easier way to travel to Asia from Europe. In the 1400s, many people believed that the world was flat! They believed that ships would fall off the earth if they travelled too far west. Columbus believed that he could travel west across the Atlantic Ocean and arrive in Asia. He believed the world was round. Many people laughed at Columbus, but the queen of Spain believed Columbus was correct. She gave him money, ships, and men. He went to look for a faster trade route to Asia.

In 1492, Columbus travelled across the Atlantic Ocean with three ships. After about 30 days, he reached a land. He thought he had arrived in India. In fact, he had really found Islands of North America. Columbus showed the world's people that the Earth was not flat! He opened up a «New World» for exploration, for trade, and for settlement.

When Columbus reached the islands of North America, he thought he was in India. He called the people on island Indians. Of course, they were not Indians.

They were Native Americans whose ancestors had migrated from Asia thousands of years ago. Millions of Native Americans lived in the Americas. They lived in many beautiful cities in over 2,000 separate and advanced societies. Many of these societies were attacked and totally destroyed by the Spanish and Portuguese who came after Columbus in the 1500s. These explorers came to find gold and other riches. They came to take new land for their countries. They killed the Native Americans, stole their women, their gold, their land, and their possessions. These explorers became rich and powerful. Spain and Portugal controlled all of the people and land in what are now the southern and western parts of the United States and all of Mexico, Central America, and South America. France and England also controlled land in North America.

1. Merchants and traders from Europe travelled long distances:

a) to the west by sea and by land;   b) to the west by air and by see;   c) to the east by sea and by land;   d) to the east by land and by air.

2. The trade route to Asia by land was:

a) very time-consuming and hard;   b) very short but intricate;   c) very expensive but easy;

d) very extensive and wide.

3. In the 1400s, many people believed that:

a) the earth was flat;   b) the globe was unexciting;   c) the planet was smooth;   d) the world was routine.

4. It can be clear from the passage that Columbus believed that:

a) the moon was round;   b) the earth was rotating;   c) the humanity was ill;  d) the planet was round.

5. Among the people who didn't laugh at Columbus was:

a) the queen of Britain;   b) the principal of Spain;   c) the sovereign of Spain;  d) the king of France.

6. The passage implies that Columbus travelled across:

a) the Atlantic Ocean with three vessels;   b) the Athlantic Ocean with three ships;   c) the Pacific Ocean with three boats;   d) the Atlantic Ocean with three dispatches.

7. Columbus thought he was:

a) in America;   b) in Asia;    c) in China;   d) in India.

8. The word «ancestors» in line 33 may best stand for:

a) успешные люди;   b) потомки;   c) предшественники;   d) наследники.

9. The explorers killed the Native Americans:

a) stole their woman, their gold, their land, and their wealth;   b) stole their women, their gold, their territory, and their things;   c) stole their men, their gold bars, their land, and their possessions;   d) stole their women, their gold, their terrain, and their gods.

10. Spain and Portugal controlled what are now:

a) the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba and South America;   b) the United States, South America, Mexico, and Central America;   c) the United States, Panama, Central America, and South America;   d) the United States, Central Africa, Mexico, and South America.

Part 2.Read the text and number paragraphs A-E in the correct order.

The teenager who changed world history

A. Franz Ferdinand was the direct cause of the First World War, which started the same year, and which resulted in the deaths of nine million soldiers. The war ended in 1918 with the Treaty of Versailles, which was very unfavourable to Germany. This, in turn, resulted in Germany going to war again in 1939, a war in which approximately 60,000,000 people around the world lost their lives.

B. For example, do you know who Gavrilo Princip was? Probably not. He was a Serb, born in Bosnia in 1894 and was one of nine children, six of whom died when they were very young. Gavrilo's health was also very bad and he suffered from tuberculosis. He studied in Belgrade where he spent most of his time with nationalists who wanted a union between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. He died when he was just 24 years old.

C. The Second World War ended with the Treaty of Yalta in 1945 which led to the division of Eastern Europe, which eventually led to the conflict in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Possibly no other person has had so much impact on world history over the last century than the sickly teenager, Gavrilo Princip.

D. History tells us about famous leaders, Kings and Queens, but what about the great changes which have been caused by one small act carried out by a relatively unknown person?

E. So why is he so important? Well, Gavrilo Princip is the boy who, at the age of 19, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914. Franz Ferdinand was going to be the next Austro-Hungarian emperor and the nationalists wanted their country to be independent from the empire. After shooting and killing the Archduke in his car, Gavrilo was captured by the police and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. But he died in prison of tuberculosis in 1918.

Use of English (21рoints)

Part 1. For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first. Use no more than three words. Write only the missing words on your answer sheet. Переделай каждое предложение в соответствии со смыслом. Используй не менее трех слов. В answer sheet пиши только пропущенные слова.

Example:

0 the group is called Fireworks.

The name of ………. Fireworks.

Answer: 0 the group is

1.My family has lived in this house for two months.

My family …………………. to this house two months ago.

2. They said they didn’t need so much space.

They said, “…………………. need so much space.”

3. I live in this house.

This is the house …………………. I live.

4. I prefer doing sport to watching it on TV.

I like doing sport ………………… watching it on TV.

5. A famous tennis player opened the new sports center.

The new sports center …………………… a famous tennis player.

Part 2. Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, mark the correct letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet. Прочитай текст и выбери правильный вариант, в answer sheet запиши букву.

Example:

0 A won B took C beat D held

OLYMPIC HOPES

Yesterday Eleanor Preston (0) ….. an international swimming competition for girls (6) ….. under sixteen. She swam faster (7) ….. girls from ten other countries. This (8) ….. even better when you learn that Eleanor is only thirteen. She had to have special (9) ….. to enter, because normally competitors are fourteen or older. Eleanor has been (10) ….. on swimming for a long time – (11) ….. she was three in fact. I wondered whether she found it hard to (12) ….. several hours a day training. She (13) ….. me that sometimes she has problems finding time for homework, but that’s all. ‘my parents have given up so (14) ….. time driving me to local competitions, I think it’s been harder for them, actually.’ Her aim is to swim at the Olympics. After yesterday’s performance, I think she may (15) ….. there.

Part 3. Try to guess who these quotations belong to. Попытайся догадаться, кто мог так сказать:

1) I came, I saw, I conquered.

2) He laughs best that laughs last.

3) To be or not to be that is the question.

4) I woke one morning and found myself famous.

5) Children should be seen but not heard.

6) That’s elementary, Watson.

a) George Gordon Byron

b) John Vanbrugh

c) Queen Victoria

d) Arthur Conan Doyle

e) Julius Caesar

f) William Shakespeare

WRITING (20рoints)

You have received a letter from your friend Jack, who writes:

…We moved our house a couple of weeks ago and I had to change school. It's very difficult for me to get used to new classmates and the teachers. I don't have friends here and I feel very lonely. Where did you meet your best friend? What is he/she like? Do you often spend your free time together, what do you do?...

Write him a letter and answer his 3 questions.

Write 80 - 100 words. Remember the rules of letter writing.

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Keys

Listening (18 рoints)

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Reading (15 рoints) Part 1.

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Use of English (21 рoints)  Part 1.

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