Олимпиада для 7-8 класса по английскому языку
олимпиадные задания по английскому языку (7, 8 класс) на тему

Listening (6 points)

You will hear a news reporter called Angela Bond, talking on the radio about her job. For each question, put a right variant  in the box.

              Questions:

8. Where is Angela working at the moment?

A  Britain

 В the USA

 С  Asia

9. Angela likes her job because she

A   loves being in dangerous situations.

 B   never knows where she’ll go next.

 C  enjoys watching important events happen.

10. What did Angela bring home from Hong Kong?

A  pictures

 B  carpets

 C  furniture

11. What time does Angela’s working day begin?

A  8.30 am

 B  6.30 pm

 C  10.00 am

12. Where did Angela meet her boyfriend?

A  at her sister’s house

 B  at university

 C  in Hong Kong

13. What does Angela do to relax?

A  She cooks a meal.

 B  She goes sailing.

 C  She goes shopping.

Writing

This is a part of a letter you have received from your Australian friend, Ben:

I watched my older sister take part in a singing competition last week. She won the first prize and it was wonderful! Tell me about a competition you have taken part in. What kind of competition would you not like to enter and why?

Write a letter answering your friend’s questions.

Do not forget to:

• greet your friend;
• congratulate him on his sister’s success;
• tell him about a competition you’ve taken part in;
• tell him about a competition you wouldn’t like to enter;
• say why you wouldn’t like to enter that competition;
• remember the rules of letter writing.

You should write about 100-120 words.

Vocabulary and grammar  (20 points)

1 (10 points)

Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. Fill in the space with an appropriate word.

English is the first language of many people in countries outside the United Kingdom. When you 1________speakers of English from around the world, you 2_________notice that they do not all speak in the same way. There are also some 3_________ in the words they use, including the names of 4________ objects that are part of everyone’s daily life. But although pronunciation and 5 ________ are not the same everywhere, it is interesting that English speakers 6 __________ opposite sides of the world can understand 7 _________  other easily. It does not seem to 8 _________ where they learnt the language. And of course this is one reason why speakers of other language are keen 9 _________ leaning English too. If you know English, you are more 10 _________ to be able to study or work in all sorts of exciting places, such as the United States or Australia.

1. recognize, meet, find, attend
2. originally, strangely, curiously, immediately
3. mistakes, corrections, changes, differences
4. common, popular, favourite, general
5. reading, composition, dictation, vocabulary
6. of, in, from, at
7. each, one, the, some
8. mind, care, matter, worry
9. by, on, to, for
10.  likely, probably, possibly, luckily

2 (10 points)

Open the brackets and put the verbs into the proper form.

A middle-aged, well-to-do woman 1 _____(d0) her Christmas shopping. She

2 _____(think) she 3 ______ (like) a cup of tea. She 4 ______ (go) to a café in the department store, 5 ______ (take) a vacant seat with relief and 6 _____ (lay) all her parcels and her handbag on the chair next to her. A pot of good English tea 7 ____

(bring) . while she 8 ______ (enjoy) it she suddenly noticed a hand from behind

9 _______ (snatch) her handbag. She 10 ______  so (shock)

READING  (7 points)

Read the text and do the tasks below.

Purcell was a small man. He owned a pet shop. He sold cats, dogs, monkeys and birds. Each morning when he completed the routine of  opening his shop, he sat down on a high stool behind the counter and read a morning newspaper.

It was a cold rainy day. Mr. Purcell was reading a newspaper as usual when a customer appeared in the shop and said that he wanted something in a cage. “Something in a cage?” Mr. Purcell was a bit confused. “You mean some sort of pet?”

“I mean what I said!” answered the man. “Something in a cage. Something alive that is in a cage”.

“I see, said the shopkeeper not sure that he did.

He started to offer different pets, but it seemed that the price was too big for the customer. At last he decided to have two white doves for five dollars. Mr. Purcell handed the cage to him.

“Listen”, the man said suddenly. “How long do you think it took me to make those five dollars?”

Mr. Purcell was in a state of panic, but he said, “Why, how long?”

The customer laughed. “Ten years! I’ve spent ten years in jail. Ten years! Fifty cents a year!”

He took his cage and left the shop. Mr. Purcell came up to the shop window to look at the customer who was holding the cage and looking at the purchase. Then he opened the cage and took the birds out. Soon they disappeared in the grey sky.

1. Write whether the following statements are true or false.

1. Mr. Purcell sold cats, dogs, horses and birds.
2. Each morning he had a cup of coffee.
3. The customer rejected all the offers because he could not afford the price.
4. He said that he had made those five dollars in jail.

2. Answer the following questions.

1. Why was Mr. Purcell surprised when he heard what the customer wanted?
2. Why did he choose the doves?
3. Why did he let them out?

KEY:

LISTENING

READING

A

B

1. He was not sure that he understood the customer.
2. Because they were not expensive and they were in a cage.
3. The customer wanted to spend all the money he had earned in jail on something that could get freedom.

VOCABULARY

GRAMMAR