Олимпиадные задания по английскому языку.
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Олимпиадные задания

Вариант1

№1.READING

You are going to read the text. For questions 1–6 chose the answer A, B, C or D which you think fits best according to the text.

THE WORLD OF NATURE

People have always affected Nature. But during the last two centuries due to the development of industry human has transformed the environment radically. Satellite observations of the Earth have revealed that 60 per cent of land surface is damaged by industrial agricultural and other human activities.

The world has over 9 million square km of forests. This is a lot of trees, and also a lot of different species of trees. But they are disappearing fast. In many of our towns there are streets or areas where the names remind us that forests have been cleared to make place for us to live. Every day we see paper and cardboard – both made from wood – being used up. We see different kinds of wood being used in furniture and in other ways. Every year over 100,000 sq. km of forest is badly damaged that it is very hard for it to recover.

At this rate, by the time you are as old as your grandparents are now; all the forests on earth could be destroyed. In fact, the rate of destruction is increasing, so in only just over thirty years there will be very little forest left in most areas. This includes rainforests in Madagascar, Ecuador, Amazonia, Cameroon, the Himalayas and the Philippines.

Development of industries often means the destruction of the natural habitat of rare plants and insects. The power stations in the UK are responsible for causing acid rain not only in Britain but elsewhere in Europe. More than 450 mln of Britain’s these are affected by acid rain.

The world is also experiencing a permanent decline in water quality and water availability. In a lot of places water supplies are poisoned with toxic chemicals and nitrates. Waterbornediseasekill 10 millionpeople a year.

Can we preserve the life? Can we preserve the quality of life necessary for future generations? When we are sick we try to take care of ourselves. There is nobody but us, humans, to take care of the Earth that is sick because of our actions. Can we do something? YES, we can. And we are the only life form that is able to destroy our life support system. But we are sensible beings and we can maintain life Earth for the many generations to come.

1. The environment is spoiled because of __________ .

A. the mismanagement in history and agriculture.

B. the people’s disability to make true observations.

C. the amount of satellites in space.

D. the industrial progress.

2. Forests are disappearing fast because __________ .

А. people damage them badly.

В. people prefer furniture made of wood.

С. there are very few species of trees.

D. we don’t know how to make paper and car board.

3. All the forests on Earth can disappear __________ .

А. except the rainforests.

В. if the rate of destruction increases.

С. if your grandparents don’t solve this problem.

D. if people use furniture.

4. The reason for acid rain is __________ .

А. not in Britain but somewhere else in Europe.

В. Britain’s trees.

С. Rare plants and seeds.

D. Power plants.

5. The quality of water __________ .

А. is getting better.

В. is getting worse.

С. doesn’t change.

D. doesn’t tell on people’s health.

6. People can preserve life on the Earth as __________ .

А. they can look after themselves.

В. they have ruined their life support system.

С. they can act reasonably.

           D. they are human.

№2.VOCABULARY IN USE

1.Error correction.

In most lines of the following text, there is one unnecessary word.
It is either grammatically incorrect or it doesn’t fit in the sense of the text. For each numbered line 1–15, write the unnecessary word in the space. Some lines are correct. Indicate these with a tick (v). Theexercisebeginswithtwoexamples.

2.Read the sentences below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each blank.

1. … nothing interesting to show you.

A. It isn’t    B. It is    C. There isn’t    D. There is.

2. Nick apologized … Tom … stepping on his toe.

A. before/about    B. before/for     C. to/for    D. to/on.

3. Let me give you … advice.

A. a few    B. a little    C. few    D. many

4. I didn't know if he needed any help. ... ... .

A. So did IB. Neither did IC. So didn’t ID. Neither didn 't I

5. ... President of... United States lives in ... White House in ... WashingtonD.C.

A. -, the, the, -     B. -, the, -, the    C. -, -, the, the    D. the, the, the, -

6.1 have my English class ... Monday morning.

A. in    B. at    C. for    D. on

7. ... lovely music!

A. What a     B. How a     C. What     D. How

8. Have you ever watched the sun ...?

A. raise     B. rise     C. is rising     D. is raising

9. ... was still a day to spare.

A. There     B.It     C.This      D. These

10. She wasn't a bright student. He had to help her a lot, ... he?

A. hadn’t     B. had     C. didn't     D. did

3.Word formation. Complete each sentence with the correct form of the word given at the end. As you do the exercise think about the kind of word that is needed in the sentence - verb, noun, or adjective. Be careful, because in some cases you will need a negative form.

1. Our … was delayed due to technical problems.                

                                                                                FLY

2. 1 could only get tickets for the afternoon …

                                                                                PERFORM

3. One of my most … hobbies is playing a musical instrument.

                                                                                ENJOY

4. He kept the children amused with his … stories.  

                                                                                HUMOUR

5. It is so … to sit by the sea and watch the dolphins playing.    

                                                                                PEACE

4.for questions 1–15, read the text below and decide which answers A, B, C or D best fits each space. There is an example at beginning (0).

0        A gone          B brought          C taken          D come

E-mail or Snail Mail?

Modern technology has … (0) about enormous improvements in communications and yet many people are still very worried … (1) using the latest computers technology. I am often … (2) to meet colleagues who still don’t know what the ‘e’ in e-mail stands for and they are to … (3) to ask. They assumed you have to be skilled … (4) computers to send a message via e-mail but in fact it is … (5) thing in the world. It is also … (6) to send an e-mail message … (7) to send an ordinary letter or a ‘snail’ message which also takes … (8) longer. An e-mail message is only … (9) more expensive than a local telephone call to sent; on top of call itself you also have to pay a fee to your ‘server’. If you send a letter by … (10) mail it will take a couple of days to get there whereas an
e-mail will not take … (11) than a few seconds. Once you become … (12) to using the system you will be … (13) at how much more … (14) it is than other means of communication. Of course, before you have access to e-mail, you will need a fairly … (15) computer, whichcanbequiteexpensive.

5. «Страноведение» What do you know about The UK?

1. What is the official name of the country whose language you study?

a) Great Britain b) England c) the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

2. How many countries does the United Kingdom consist of?

a) four b) three c) two

3. What is the capital of the UK?

a) Cardiff b) Dublin c) London

4. What is the symbol of England?

a) a bald eagle b) Britannia c) a rose

5. What is the fastest way to cross the English Channel?

a) through the Channel Tunnel b) by boat c) by ferry

6. What is the most important airport in Great Britain?

a) HeathrowAirport b) GatwickAirport c) StanstedAirport

7. English children start going to school at the age of:

a) 7 b) 6 c) 5

8. There are 2 days a week when British pupils don’t go to school. They are:

a) Sunday and Monday b) Friday and Saturday c) Saturday and Sunday

9. Who helps schoolchildren to cross the street near the school?

a) a policeman b) a lollipop man c) a fireman

10. What is the school-leaving age in the United Kingdom?

a) 16 b) 13 c) 18

11. What is the highest mark in British schools?

a) A b) C c) G

12. What is the London residence of Queen Elizabeth II?

a) theTower of London b) Windsor Castle c) Buckingham Palace

13. Where is Nelson’s Column situated?

a) inParliament Square b) in Trafalgar Square c) in Piccadilly Circus

14. Earth Day is celebrated:

a) in winter b) in summer c) in spring

15. RSPCA is a charity that:

a) helps animals b) organizes meetings and parties in schools c) sells books and pictures

16. The environment organization is:

a) Oxfam b) Save the children c) Greenpeace

17. Which of these cities is not in Britain?

a) New York b) London c) Oxford

18. Lewis Carol was:

a) a teacher b) an actor c) a writer

19. The Beatles came from:

a) Liverpool b) Manchester c) Birmingham

20. Which holiday is on the 25th of December?

a) Christmas Day b) Halloween c) Easter

Олимпиадные задания

Вариант 2.

№1.Reading

You are going to read a newspaper article about bird flu. Eight paragraphs have been removed from the article. Choose from paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

FRENCH DOCTORS TEST WOMAN FOR BIRD FLU

AFTER TRIP TO TURKEY

French doctors were carrying out tests last night to establish whether a 32-year-old woman had caught bird flu during a holiday in Turkey.

The National Institute of Health Awareness (INVS) confirmed: "It is a case of suspected bird flu, given the symptoms and the fact that she saw dead birds during her travels in a country affected by episodes of bird flu".

"Samples taken from the [patient's] nose and throat are undergoing tests for the virus H5N1 at a laboratory in Marseille", said an INVS spokesperson.

The French health ministry said the woman, who was travelling alone, had complained of feeling ill after returning from a two-week visit to her family in the Tarsus region of Turkey.

She went to the emergency department of a hospital in Sete on Saturday but was later transferred to Montpellier for specialist treatment. Last night the French health ministry insisted that the response to the suspected case was routine.

Amid fears that the virus may have spread across a third of the country, Turkish authorities have slaughtered more than a million birds.

Yesterday a team of US government scientists visited the city of Van in eastern Turkey where the children died, to assess what help Washington can provide.

The delegation was also scheduled to visit Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia.

On Friday the Turkish government accused several of its neighbours of concealing bird flu outbreaks and hampering efforts to prevent the spread of the disease.

Turkey has reported possible H5N1 outbreaks in poultry in 26 provinces, including areas bordering Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Georgia.

The four-year-old boy and his 13-year-old sister died in Java. But laboratory test results confirming they had contracted bird flu were not released until yesterday. The children's father and one of their sisters are also in hospital with flu-like symptoms.

All the victims appear to have contracted the disease after close contact with infected poultry, and health officials say that so far there is no evidence that the virus can be transmitted from human to human.

____________________________________________________________

A. So far the area has not reported any cases of bird flu.

B. Turkey did not name the countries it believes are covering up infections.

C. Since 2003, 81 people have died from bird flu in Turkey and eastern Asia.

D. It added, however, that the woman had had no direct contact with any birds and initial tests for H5N1, the deadly bird flu virus, had proved negative.

E. Authorities in Azerbaijan have tightened sanitary controls on the frontier to prevent the spread of bird flu.

F. Yesterday it emerged that two Indonesian children from the same family died from bird flu last week, bringing the country's toll from the virus to 14.

G. The woman, who complained of having fever and breathing difficulties, has been placed in isolation and is being treated with the antiviral drug Tamiflu at a hospital in Montpellier, south-eastern France.

H.The H5N1 virus was initially detected in birds in Turkey in October, and the first humans to be infected there were reported a fortnight ago. Twenty-one people have since tested positive, and four children have died.

№2. English in use

1. Error correction.

In most lines of the following text, there is one wrong word. It is either grammatically incorrect or it doesn’t fit in with the sense of the text. For each numbered line 1-13, write the wrong word in the space. Some lines are correct. Indicate these with a tick (v). The exercise begins with two examples.

0 While travelled in Germany Trench, a young English doctor travelled

00 got acquainted with Mr. Sartorius, a respectable gentleman,   v

1 and his daughter Blanche. The young persons fell in love with  _____

2 eachother and was going to get married. Trench knew that  ________

3 Sartorius was rich, but he didnot know what kind of property  ______

4 he had. He learned about it from the conversation with Lickcheese, __

5 Sartorius’ rent collector. It had turned out that Sartorius was  _______

6 the owner of some tenement houses in the London slums, and that___

7 all the property he had were built by getting money out of poor _____

8 people. Trench was being shocked. He didn’t want to take money____

9 from Blanche’s father. But she said she couldn’t live on the small____

10 income he had. Than Trench learned that the land belonged to _____

11 Trench’s aunt and that he himself was living on money got in the___

12 same way. Everything comes out “all-right” in the end: Trench ____

13 married Blanche and became one of partners in Sartorius’ business__

2. For questions 1-16, read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Pigeon racing

The homing 0) A of pigeons has made them popular for the sport of pigeon racing. A young bird’s 1)... begins when it is about seven weeks old. It 2)... of giving it short exercise flights, teaching it to 3)... its 4)... call, and teaching it to enter inside of its cote, or 5)... . The next 6)... of training is started when the bird is about four months old. The pigeon is taken 7)... distances from its cote and is 8)... . These flights are gradually extended from three miles to 100 miles as the bird’s stamina 9)... . When the bird is ready, the owner may enter it in a race 10)... other trained pigeons. The owners take their birds to a central meeting place where all the birds are tagged and released 11).. . A bird is not considered to be home 12)... it has entered its cote and its owner has removed the tag and inserted it into a 13)... that records the birds 14)... time. 15)... owners live at varying distances from the release point, the first bird home may not be 16)... flyer. The bird that makes the best time in flying the distance home is the winner.

3. Read the sentences below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each blank.

1. Such kind of report is made in August, ...?

A. is it           B. aren’t it             C. is it not           D. isn’t it

2. The streets were five times as ... as in the old district.

A.  narrowB. narrower           C. narrowly          D. the narrowest

3. This soup was cooked by ... .

A. her self          B. her own                C. her                 D. herself

4. Where is my umbrella? – You must ... in the bus.

A. left           B. have left                 C. had left               D. has left

5. Even if she doesn’t want, she will ... to the hospital.

A. take           B. be taking              C. be taken             D. be took

6. What ... if it looked like raining?

A. would you do             B. would you be doing          C. have you done                D. are you doing

7. It was ... nice summer day when … weather was fine and ... sun was shining in the blue sky.

A. a, the, the         B. the, a, a               C. –, a, theD. the, –, a

8. I am afraid you will miss that train. You ... a taxi.

A. should take           B. should not take               C. should be taking            D. should have taken

9. My grandmother ... flowers from the country, but now she doesn’t go there.

A. is used to bring            B. is used to bringing          C. was used to bringing            D. used to bring

10. I never saw anyone ... a wedding so much.

A.  enjoyingB. enjoy              C. enjoys            D. enjoyed

4.Word formation. Complete each sentence with the correct form of the word given at the end. As you do the exercise think about the kind of word that is needed in the sentence - verb, noun, or adjective. Be careful, because in some cases you will need a negative form.

1. Our … was delayed due to technical problems.                

                                                                                FLY

2. 1 could only get tickets for the afternoon …

                                                                                PERFORM

3. One of my most … hobbies is playing a musical instrument.

                                                                                ENJOY

4. He kept the children amused with his … stories.  

                                                                                HUMOUR

5. It is so … to sit by the sea and watch the dolphins playing.    

                                                                                PEACE

5. «Страноведение» What do you know about english-speaking countries?

1. What is the official name of Great Britain ?

A) EnglandС )Great Britain

B )Britain              D) the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern  Ireland

2. What is the capital of England ?

A) EdinburghС )Cardiff

B )London                D) Belfast

3. What is the capital of Scotland ?

A) LondonС )Belfast

B )Cardiff                 D) Edinburgh

4. What is the capital of Wales ?

A) CardiffС )London

B )BelfastD) Edinburgh

5. What is the capital of NothernIreland ?

A) BelfastС )Edinburgh

B )CardiffD) London

6. What is the most famous river in England ?

A) the  ThamesС ) the Volga

B ) the Severn             D) the Enisey

7. Who is the head of Great Britain ?

A) the President          С ) the Prime Minister

B ) the Queen             D) the Lord Chancellor

8. How does her name ?

A) Merry                     С ) Elisabeth

B ) Jane                       D) Helen

9. Who is the chairman of the House of Lords ?

A) the President             С )  the Prime Minister

B ) the Minister             D) the Lord Chancellor

10. Who is the «Torry» ?

A) the Labour Party      С )  the Liberal Party

B ) the Conservative Party          D) the Social Party

11. Who are the « Whigs» ?

A) the Conservative Party           С )  the Liberal Party

B ) the Labour Party                    D) the Social Party

12. The USA is composed of……. States ?

A) 50                              С )  53

B ) 52                               D) 55

13. The capital of the USA is…….. ?

A) New YorkС )Chicago

B )Detroit                        D) Washington

14. Who is the first American President ?

A) LincolnС )Washington

B )JeffersonD) J. Bush

15. What monument in the USA is called « pencil» ?

A) the Capitol                            С ) the WashingtonMonument

B ) the Lincoln Memorial          D) the Congress

16. What is the official residence of the USApresident ?

A) the White House                   С ) the Capitol

B ) the Congress                        D) the State Duma

17. What is the capital of Australia ?

A) LondonС )Washington

B )Moscow                               D) Canberra

18. The native wild Australian animal is…….

A) cockatoo                               С ) dingo

B ) kangaroo                              D) kiwis

19.  What is the capital of New Zealand ?

A) CanberraС )Wellington

B )SidneyD) Washington

20. What native  animal is the symbol of New Zealand people ?

A) emu                                        С ) kiwis

B ) cockatoo                                D) the Ravens