Задания для школьного этапа Всероссийской олимпиады школьников для 10 класса (2023-2024 учебный год)
олимпиадные задания по английскому языку (10 класс)

Задания

школьного этапа всероссийской олимпиады школьников

по английскому языку

2023-2024 учебный год

10 класс

LISTENING (20 points)

Part 1.

Listen to the audio and complete the table below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Questions 7- 10

Complete the information about ordering tickets below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

The easiest way, is to buy your tickets (7)                  .

Make sure that you receive a (8)                                  of your booking!

The second way is to book your tickets (9)                                .

If you don’t want to plan your visit in advance, you can simply purchase the tickets (10)                                 in ticket kiosks.

Part 2.

Listen to the audio and answer all the questions. Choose the correct letter, A, B, or С.

11. Initially, the Great Wall was built to

1. prevent invaders from entering China
2.   function as a psychological barrier
3.   show country’s enduring strength

12. The construction of the Great Wall started

1.   in third century B.C.
2.   in 220 B.C.
3.   in 390 A.D.

13. The Chinese name of the monument is

1.   the Great Wall
2.   the Big Wall
3.   the Long Wall

14. The wall as it exists today was constructed mainly by

A. Qin dynasty.

B. Northern Wei dynasty

C. Ming dynasty

15. During the Ming dynasty, the wall’s main purpose was

A. to be a military fortification

B.  to protect caravans traveling along the trade routes

C. to contribute to the defense of the country

Questions 16-20

Complete the timeline with information about the history оf the tomato in the United States.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

16. Before the use of bricks, the Great Wall was mainly built from stones, wood and                                  .

17. Many western sections of the wall are constructed from mud and thus

are more                              .

18. A part of the wall in Gansu province may disappear in the next 20 years,

due to                                 .

19. To see the wall from the Moon would require superman                          .

20. The Great Wall is generally recognized as one of the most impressive                             in history.

READING (13 points)

Reading Passage  has eight paragraphs A-H. Match the headings below with the paragraphs. Write the correct letter, A-H, in boxes 21-28 on your answer sheet.

21. Jailbreak with creative thinking

22. Five common traits among rule-breakers

23. Comparison between criminals and traditional businessmen

24. Can drug baron's espace teach legitimate corporations?

25. Great entrepreneur

26. How criminal groups deceive the law

27. The difference between legal and illegal organisations  

28 . Similarity between criminals and start-up founders

Life lessons from villains, crooks and gangsters

(A) A notorious Mexican drug baron’s audacious escape from prison in July doesn’t, at first, appear to have much to teach corporate boards. But some in the business world suggest otherwise. Beyond the morally reprehensible side of criminals' work, some business gurus say organised crime syndicates, computer hackers, pirates and others operating outside the law could teach legitimate corporations a thing or two about how to hustle and respond to rapid change.

(B) Far from encouraging illegality, these gurus argue that – in the same way big corporations sometimes emulate start-ups – business leaders could learn from the underworld about flexibility, innovation and the ability to pivot quickly. “There is a nimbleness to criminal organisations that legacy corporations [with large, complex layers of management] don’t have,” said Marc Goodman, head of the Future Crimes Institute and global cyber-crime advisor. While traditional businesses focus on rules they have to follow, criminals look to circumvent them. “For criminals, the sky is the limit and that creates the opportunity to think much, much bigger.”

(C) Joaquin Guzman, the head of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, for instance, slipped out of his prison cell through a tiny hole in his shower that led to a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and ventilation. Making a break for it required creative thinking, long-term planning and perseverance – essential skills similar to those needed to achieve success in big business.

(D) While Devin Liddell, who heads brand strategy for Seattle-based design consultancy, Teague, condemns the violence and other illegal activities he became curious as to how criminal groups endure. Some cartels stay in business despite multiple efforts by law enforcement on both sides of the US border and millions of dollars from international agencies to shut them down. Liddell genuinely believes there’s a lesson in longevity here. One strategy he underlined was how the bad guys respond to change. In order to bypass the border between Mexico and the US, for example, the Sinaloa cartel went to great lengths. It built a vast underground tunnel, hired family members as border agents and even used a catapult to circumvent a high-tech fence.

(E) By contrast, many legitimate businesses fail because they hesitate to adapt quickly to changing market winds. One high-profile example is movie and game rental company Blockbuster, which didn’t keep up with the market and lost business to mail order video rentals and streaming technologies. The brand has all but faded from view. Liddell argues the difference between the two groups is that criminal organisations often have improvisation encoded into their daily behaviour, while larger companies think of innovation as a set process. “This is a leadership challenge,” said Liddell. “How well companies innovate and organise is a reflection of leadership.”

Left-field thinking

(F) Cash-strapped start-ups also use unorthodox strategies to problem solve and build their businesses up from scratch. This creativity and innovation is often borne out of necessity, such as tight budgets. Both criminals and start-up founders “question authority, act outside the system and see new and clever ways of doing things,” said Goodman. “Either they become Elon Musk or El Chapo.” And, some entrepreneurs aren’t even afraid to operate in legal grey areas in their effort to disrupt the marketplace. The co-founders of music streaming service Napster, for example, knowingly broke music copyright rules with their first online file sharing service, but their technology paved the way for legal innovation as regulators caught up.

(G) Goodman and others believe thinking hard about problem solving before worrying about restrictions could prevent established companies falling victim to rivals less constrained by tradition. In their book The Misfit Economy, Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips examine how individuals can apply that mindset to become more innovative and entrepreneurial within corporate structures. They studied not just violent criminals like Somali pirates, but others who break the rules in order to find creative solutions to their business problems, such as people living in the slums of Mumbai or computer hackers. They picked out five common traits among this group: the ability to hustle, pivot, provoke, hack and copycat.

(H) Clay gives a Saudi entrepreneur named Walid Abdul-Wahab as a prime example. Abdul-Wahab worked with Amish farmers to bring camel milk to American consumers even before US regulators approved it. Through perseverance, he eventually found a network of Amish camel milk farmers and started selling the product via social media. Now his company, Desert Farms, sells to giant mainstream retailers like Whole Foods Market. Those on the fringe don’t always have the option of traditional, corporate jobs and that forces them to think more creatively about how to make a living, Clay said. They must develop grit and resilience in order to last outside the cushy confines of cubicle life. “In many cases scarcity is the mother of invention,” Clay said.

Questions 29–32

Complete the sentences below.

Write ONLY ONE WORD from the passage for each answer.

29. To escape from a prison, Joaquin Guzman had to use such traits as creative thinking, long-term planning and                  .

30. The Sinaloa cartel built a grand underground tunnel and even used a                           to avoid the fence.

31. The main difference between two groups is that criminals, unlike large corporations, often have              encoded into their daily life.

32. Due to being persuasive, Walid Abdul-Wahab found a                     of Amish camel milk farmers.

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

33. The main goal of this article is to:

      A  Show different ways of illegal activity

      B  Give an overview of various criminals and their gangs

      C  Draw a comparison between legal and illegal business, providing examples

      D  Justify criminals with creative thinking

USE OF ENGLISH (22 points)

Part 1

For Questions 34-45, read the text below and decide which answer, A, B, C or D best fits each space.

Example: (0)      A whether    B how    Cwhat    D when     

SPACE CADETS

Everybody loves a joke, right? But (0) C if the joke is on you? That is what nine unwitting ‘thrill-seekers’ will eventually discover, having signed up for the experience of a (34)                   – to be blasted off into space in a new

(35)                        TV series, Space Cadets. It is, in fact, an elaborate and very expensive hoax. The nine contestants - (36)                     three actors planted to help the action along – think that they are undergoing training in Russia, but in reality they’re (37)                 the south of England. They believe themselves to be (38)                against each other for four places on a Space Shuttle flight, but the truth is, they will not leave the ground. Their ‘spaceship’ will be a prop from a science fiction film, and the flight itself just an illusion created by special

(39)                . But is watching a hoax of this kind legitimate entertainment or just exploitation? Practical jokes by their nature tend to involve a certain (40)             of cruelty, as they are designed to make the victim feel foolish. But where do you draw the (41)                between a bit of a laugh and something really nasty? British comedian Arthur Smith says that, in his opinion, drawn-out hoaxes go too (42)                . ‘I quite like the idea of briefly fooling a friend, but on an enormous scale like this, it’s cruel. The greatest experience of your life is suddenly taken

 (43)                 from you, and you discover that you’ve been laughed at for weeks.’ Although practical jokes are cruel, they remain popular because we

(44)                     pleasure in the misfortune of others, according to psychologists. Basically, we enjoy watching other people look stupid because that (45)              us feel clever.

Part 2

Complete the sentences by changing the form of the word in capitals.

CULTURAL  AWARENESS

Part 1.

Match famous companies and their mottos:

Part 2.

Match the titles of books and their authors:

WRITING

Comment on the following quotation.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.            Lao Tzu

Write 200–250 words.

Use the following plan:

- make an introduction, explaining how you understand the author’s point of

view;

- express your personal opinion and give reasons to support it;

- give examples from literature or history to illustrate your reasons;

- make a conclusion restating your position.