Олимпиада 2016
олимпиадные задания по английскому языку (11 класс) на тему

TASKS

1. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 1-15. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 1-15 после текста, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Выберите правильный ответ.

Invention of basketball

Basketball fans have come to expect the impossible from the fast, powerful giants who (1)___ the game today. The phenomenal feats of Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson would have (2)___ Dr James Naismith who invented the game more than 100 years ago when he (3)___ a peach basket on a gym wall. In devising the game of basketball, Naismith took (4)___ a unique task. Very few sports have actually been invented. Hockey (5)___ from lacrosse, baseball from British rounders, football from rugby. Now, and why, would one create a brand new game? Naismith (6)___ McGill University and Presbyterian Theological College. In 1891, he (7)___ teaching Psychology, Bible Study and Physical Education at the International Young Men’s Christian Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Fervently believing the old proverb that “a healthy body and a healthy mind go together”, Naismith saw no (8)___ between his theology and his love of sports. His beliefs, however, were put to the test by the most bored and rebellious gym class in the school. When winter came, and the usual outdoor sports were over, the teacher needed something (9)___ lazy pupils physically occupied. After some unsuccessful attempts to modify soccer, football and lacrosse for the confines of the gymnasium, Naismith decided to analyze the qualities he wanted in an indoor sport. He needed a ball large enough to be caught and thrown (10)___. Since he did not want tackling on the hard floor, he declared that players could not run with the ball. An elevated goal added a challenge that (11)___ skill rather than physical (12)___. One by one, Naismith thought out the elements of his new game. On December 21, 1891 Naismith posted 13 rules to the game on the school’s bulletin board and nailed two peach baskets on the gym balconies. The first game ended with (13)___ 1 – 0. But as classes played it, the game became more and more popular. Soon other schools and colleges were playing the game. But what were they going to call it? With his characteristic modesty, the inventor (14)___ the name of “Naismith Ball”, preferring the simple title of Basketball. Naismith succeeded in his aim of creating a sport for (15)___, the game that stresses skill over strength, speed over power. His invention has become one of the most popular games in the world.

    1. A dominate                         C overlap

    B overhead                          D dominant

2. A embarrassed                     C amazed

    B shy                                    D feared

3. A lay                                     C picked up

    B laid                                    D hung

4. A on                                      C with

    B about                                 D at

5. A included                            C evolved

    B  involved                           D began like

6. A finished                             C finished from

    B graduated from                 D graduated

7. A found himself                    C found

    B founded himself                D founded

8. Aa reason                              C conflict

    B reason                                D a conflict

9. A to punish                           C holding

    B to support                          D to keep

10.A easy                                  C highly

     B easily                                 D lightly

11.A emphasized                      C took

     B needed                              D threw

12.A strong                               C power

     B force                                 D strength

13. A a draw                              C a point

      B a score                             D a time

14. A agreed                              C declined

      B denoted                            D admitted

15. A some                                C everyone

      B someone                           D any

2. Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопросы 16-20. В каждом задании отметьте один из вариантов, соответствующих выбранному вами варианту ответа.

The sugar mouse ritual

What happened was, Chris Roberts bought a sugar mouse, bit its head off, dropped it in the Newmarket Road before he could get started on the body, and it got run over by a car. After that afternoon Cambridge United beat Orient 3 – 1, and a ritual was born.

Before each home game we all of us trooped into the sweet shop, purchased our mice, walked outside, bit the head off as though we were removing the pin from a hand grenade, and tossed the torsos under the wheels of oncoming cars. United, thus protected, remained unbeaten for months.

I know that I am particularly stupid about rituals, and have been ever since I started going to football matches, and I know also from the same program seller, and having to enter the stadium through the same turnstile.

There have been hundreds of similar bits of nonsense, all designed to guarantee victories for one or other of my two teams.

I have tried ‘smoking’ goals in (Arsenal once scored as three of us were lighting cigarettes), and eating cheese-and-onion crisps at a certain point in the first half; I have tried not setting the video for live games (the team seems to have suffered badly in the past when I have taped the matches in order to study the performances when I get home); I have tried lucky socks, lucky shirts, and lucky hats, and lucky friends, and have attempted to exclude others who I feel bring with them nothing but trouble for the team.

Nothing (apart from the sugar mice) has ever been any good.

16. Which of the following sentences best describes the writer’s attitude to football?

1. He’s interested in it.
2. He really likes it.
3. He’s very keen on it.
4. He’s absolutely mad about it.

17. How many rituals are mentioned in the text?

1. 10
2. 7
3. 3
4. 1

18. Which ritual has been the most successful?

1. lucky socks
2. ‘smoking’ goals
3. sugar mouse
4. not setting the video for live games

19. Where did the boys get mice?

1. butcher’s
2. confectioner’s
3. groceries’
4. toy shop

20. As a result of ritual Cambridge United

1. remained beaten
2. remained unconquered
3. gave up
4. remained defeated

3. Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Образуйте от слов, напечатанных заглавными буквами в скобках, обозначенных номерами 21-30 однокоренные слова, так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы.

Family values

In order to understand the American family we need to explore values concerning children, young adults, the elderly and family structure.

Child raising. (21)__________________(ACCULTURATE), which begins at birth, is the process of teaching new generations of children the customs and values of the parents’ culture. How people treat newborns, for example, can be (22)_____________(INDICATE) of cultural values. In the US is it not (23)______________(COMMON) for parents to put a new born in a separate room that belongs only to the child. This helps to preserve parents’ (24)_______________(PRIVATE) and allows the child to get used to having his or her own room, which is seen as a first step toward personal (25)_________________(DEPEND). Americans traditionally have held independence and a (26)_____________(CLOSE) related value, individualism, in high esteem.

The elderly. Societal and familial treatment of the elderly also reflects this independence and individualism. Their (27)_____________(FINANCE) support is often provided by social security or welfare systems which decrease dependence on their family. Additionally, older people may seek their own friends rather than become too emotionally dependent on their children. Senior citizens’ centres provide a means for peer-group association within one’s own age group. There are problems, however, with growing old in the US. (28)____________(GLORIFY) of youth and indifference to the aged have left many older people alienated and alone. Some families send their older relatives to nursing homes rather than integrate them into the homes of the children or grandchildren. This separation of the elderly from the young has contributed to the (29)_______________(ISOLATE) of an increasingly large segment of society. On the other hand, there are many older people who choose to live in retirement communities where they have the companionship of other older people and the convenience of many (30)_______________(RECREATION) and social activities close to home.

ФИО(полностью),      тел.________________________________________________

ФИО учителя (полностью)____________________________

Учебное заведение, класс______________________________

ФИО(полностью), тел.________________________________________________

ФИО учителя (полностью)____________________________

Учебное заведение, класс______________________________