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Школьный этап Всероссийской олимпиады школьников по английскому языку 8класc

I.USE OF ENGLISH

Choose one of the variants (a, b, c) and write in your Answer Sheet.

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II.Read the text and answer the questions choosing one of the variants (a, b, c)

Stonehenge

Stonehenge is the oldest of Britain's famous monuments. It has stood in the middle of southern England for over 3,500 years. We don't know who built it, but it must have taken them a very long time. They had to bring the biggest stones, which weigh thirty tonnes, from hills twenty miles away, and they brought the smaller four-tonne stones 200 miles from Wales. Even today this would be extremely difficult to do.

Archaeologists used to think that Stonehenge was just a temple for religious ceremonies. Now they think it was also a kind of calendar, which showed the movements of the sun and the moon. These were probably very important to the builders of Stonehenge for religious reasons, and because they were farmers who needed to know exactly when they had to plant and harvest the crops.

If Stonehenge and the many smaller stone circles in Britain and France really are calendars, we have to change our ideas about people long ago. They weren't primitive or ignorant people because it must have taken years of careful study to learn where to put the huge stones. They must also have thought very carefully about how to move the stones over long distances. Though it is interesting to see Stonehenge today, the early Britons who built it are far more fascinating.

Choose the right answers.

  1)       Where is Stonehenge situated?

   a)  in the middle of Northern England

2.         in the western England
3. in the middle of southern England

2)        How much do the biggest stones weigh?

1. thirty one tonnes
2. thirty tonnes
3. fifty tonnes

3)        Where did the builders bring the smaller four-tonne stones
from?

1. from Wales      
2. from Scotland
3. from Ireland

4)        What was Stonehenge used for?

1. for religious ceremonies
2. for living
3. for hunting

5)        What did the calendar show?

1. the movement of the Jupiter
2. the movement of the Sun and the Moon
3. the movement of the Pluto

6)        What were the early Britons?

1. the sailors
2. the travellers
3. the farmers

7)        Why can we say that people long ago were not ignorant?

1. Because they could speak.
2. Because they could dance.
3. Because they had to study carefully to learn where to put the huge stones.

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IV. Choose one of the variants (a, b, c) and write in your Answer Sheet.

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V. Tell everything you can about English holidays.

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