Олимпиада

GRADE 8

Part 1.  Reading

The people, described below, all want to find somewhere to stay.

On the other page there are descriptions of eight hotels.

Decide which hotel would be the most suitable (самый подхядящий) for the following people.

For questions 1- 5, put the correct letter (A-H) on your answer sheet.

Для вопросов 1-5 поставь нужную букву

1. Felipe and Gabriela want to spend the weekend in the city centre near the railway station with their one-year-old son. They want to be able to walk everywhere. They plan to eat in restaurants.

____

2. Giorgos wants to be able to swim, but is not interested in other sports. He’d like to spend the weekend somewhere quiet in the country. The hotel must have a car park.

____

3. Monica would like to stay somewhere in the countryside where there are organised activities so that she can meet other people. As she has some work to do, e-mail facilities must be available.

____

4. Julia and Robert are travelling by car and want to park at the hotel. They don’t want to be further than ten kilometers from the city. They want to swim every day and have dinner at the hotel.

____

5. Adam and Barbara need to stay somewhere in the city which provides lunch and dinner and has a car park. Their three children all enjoy sport.

____

A     The Star Hotel is a five-minute drive from the city centre, and all rooms have their own television and telephone. Guests can eat all their meals here – breakfast, lunch and dinner. The hotel has its own large car park. There is a gym and two tennis courts. Entertainment is available at weekends.

В     York House is between two farms. The hotel arranges dances and other events which you can attend if you wish, or you can walk in the gardens and enjoy the scenery. It is especially popular with people travelling alone and also has a fully equipped business room and internet café. All meals are available on request.

C      The Grange Hotel is outside the city, but hotel staff can collect you from the station and arrange trips in the area by coach. It is close to all the main roads and has a large car park. Although only breakfast is served, there are two good restaurants nearby. Fax, e-mail and photocopying are available.

D      Rosewood Guesthouse is about one kilometer from the city centre. It is easy to reach the city’s shopping and entertainment areas or drive into the surrounding countryside. There is a swimming pool in the next street. Dinner is available if booked in advance, and there is a large car park.

E       The Blue Lion Hotel is on the south side of the city and is just a short taxi ride from the railway station and places of interest. Breakfast only is provided. Events such as talks and show are organized every evening and are popular both with local people as well as the hotel’s guests. Free parking is available in nearly streets.

F       Twenty kilometers from the city, in the middle of the hills, Blantyre Manor was previously a family home. It is a peaceful place to spend a few days, with very good sports facilities including golf, tennis and a swimming pool. There is a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, and plenty of car-parking space.

G      Victoria House is a family hotel five minutes’ walk from the railway and tram station and close to all the city’s facilities. It is in the city centre near the shopping mall, where a range of restaurants is available. No car parking or meals except breakfast. Bicycles can be hired from reception.

H      Just five kilometers from the city centre, The Spring Park Motel is very near the motorway with plenty of parking space, so it is convenient for drivers, although it is in the countryside. Meals are not available, but only two kilometers along the motorway there is an excellent café where breakfast, lunch and dinner are available.

Part 2.  Reading

• There are two mixed texts below.Ниже даны 2 смешанных текста.
• Separate the two texts. Раздели 2 текста.
• Arrange each text in the logical order. Поставь каждый текст по порядку.

1. "How did you find your way here being in this town for the first time and not knowing it, and not even using a map?" asked his uncle who was still very surprised at his nephew.
2. When the ticket inspector came and asked him for his ticket, the old writer began to look for it in his pockets, in his bag and suitcase. He could not find his ticket. He looked in the book he was reading, on the seat he was sitting. But in vein. The ticket was nowhere.
3. Michael looked around. Then he took a piece of paper out of his pocket and had a brief look at it. The address of his uncle's home was written on it. He looked at it once more, then he crossed the street and stopped in front of the new building. He came in and soon happened to be in his uncle's apartment.
4. It was an express train from London to Edinburgh. The compartment was spacious, the service was a first-class one, the people were pleasant and did not annoy him with the silly questions like: "Ah, you must be the person everybody knows, aren't you?" Looking out of the window he could see a picturesque landscape: carefully tended green plains with blue lakes like saucers, and a blue mass of sky above with yellow, warm and kind sun. To cut a long story short he obviously liked the trip.
5. It was the first time when Michael, a fifteen-year-old boy, went to see his uncle who had moved to a new town after he had married. It was 278 miles away and the boy decided to hitchhike to see the neighbouring countryside, to develop his communicational skills talking with drivers and, which had a great importance for him, to save an amount of money he had earned delivering newspapers every morning during the school year.
6. The ticket inspector stared at writer straight, the other passengers started the throw suspicious looks at him, and the writer himself was in despair. "Anyway I must find my ticket," said he. "I do want to know where I'm going."
7. "Please, do me a favour, don’t worry," said the ticket inspector. "You might have forgotten where you have put it. Take it easy. I can wait. I'll ask for it at the next station." But at the next station it was all the same.
8. He made that distance in quite a short period of time. The last vehicle was a truck, which let him off at the main street of the town. The boy thanked the truck driver and wished him a good luck. The town was modern and not large like many all round the country.
9. "No wonder," was the answer. "We live in a wonderful country which is very vast, with very friendly people always ready to help you. Just ask the people and they'll explain you how to get to a place."
10. Once upon a time an old writer who was extremely popular in England was travelling by train

Part 3. Use of English

Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For questions 1-15, choose the answer A, B, C or D which you think fits best according to the text. There is an example at the beginning (0). Прочитай текст ниже и выбери правильный вариант для каждого пропуска. На вопросы 1-15 выберите те варианты букв, которые подходят по смыслу. В начале текст приведен пример.

Example:

1. A concern B fear C worry D doubt

Canada is a massive country full of wide-open spaces. With scenery that is truly magnificent, it is without (0) D one of the great unspoilt areas of the world. If you have the (1) .…, make sure you go to Niagara Falls, which are the top attraction in North America and one of the most spectacular (2) .... anywhere. Visitors who are not easily (3) .... can take a boat ride to the edge of the roaring falls, almost right (4) .... the massive torrent of white water. Or walk through rock-cut tunnels for a terrific close-up look from behind the falls, a view familiar from the many film (5) .... taken there.

These tunnels are as near as anyone is likely to want to (6) .... to Niagara Falls. In 1960 a seven-year-old boy (7) .... holiday a little way upstream was playing happily in the water when he suddenly found himself (8) .... difficulties. There had been (9) .... rain and the river was very full, but nobody noticed that he was (10) .... danger until it was too late. Onlookers watched helplessly as he was swept (11) .... the Horseshoe fall. But despite being thrown down the 48-metre drop he miraculously came through the experience with no (12) .... at all. Such (13) .... escapes are the exception rather (14) .... the rule, however, and visitors are (15) .... not to try this for themselves!

1 A occasion B chance C success D fortune

2 A visions B sights C looks D scenes

3 A scared B feared C thrown D shocked

4 A down B beneath C low D further

5 A pictures B photos C images D shots

6 A get B arrive C reach D land

7 A in B on C at D of

8 A with B in C by D on

9 A hard B strong C deep D heavy

10 A in B on C into D with

11 A straight B towards C for D in

12 A injury B hurt C blow D wound

13 A slim B narrow C tight D close

14 A than B of C that D by

15 A suggested B warned C informed D demanded

Part 4. Use of English

For questions 1-15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there.

If a line is correct put a tick (∨) by the number. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word next to the number. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00). Если в строке все верно поставь галочку, если нет, напиши то слово, которое является там лишним. Смотри пример, во фразе 0 – все верно, во фразе 00 – лишнее слово it.

STUDYING ABROAD

There are two reasons why I had wanted to  study in  Paris.  I  wanted       0    _V_

to be in a place  which  it  was  at  the  centre  of  Europe,  close  to  it       00   _it_

other countries such  as  England  and  Germany.  The  other  reason         1    ___

 was   that  I   had   been   found   it  very  difficult  to  find  a  place  to     2    ___

study   of  medicine   in   my  own   country,   where   there  were  only     3    ___

three medical schools.  I  had  spent  my  last  two  school  years  at  a       4   ___

boarding  school,  where  I  was  made  a  lot  of  friends  and  learned       5    ___

to look  after  myself.  I  was  nineteen  when  I  left  and  I  had   knew     6    ___

that    I   could    to   deal    with   student   life.    First   of   all,   I   had     7   ___

to learn the language of the country I would be living in there for quite      8   ___

a  while.   I   learnt   with   the   language   quickly   because  I  stayed       9   ___

with  a  family,  which  was  a  most  great   help.   I  was  expected  to      10   ___

speak only their language and not mine.  After  that,  I  looked  around      11   ___

 for an apartment  to  rent.  I  found  one  very  close  to  the  university     12   ___

so I went on foot every day.  I was being  able  to  exercise  a  lot  and       13  ___

therefore  be  fit  all  year  round.   My  studies   went  very  much  well    14   ___

and I graduated at the top of the class with full honours.                             15   ___

Part 5. Use of English

Read the text below. Complete the spaces (1-6) with the correct form of the words in capitals. There is an example (0) at the beginning.

 Из слов справа образуй нужную форму (прилагательное, наречие и т.д.)

Tourism in Britain

KEY SHEET (ответы)

Part 1.  Reading                                                             Part 2.  Reading

                                               On the Train                               Michael’s Travel                                                        

Part 3. Use of English

Part 4. Use of English

Part 5. Use of English

GRADE 8

Part 1.  Reading

Read the texts about famous women.

For questions 1- 5, put the correct letter (A-H) on your answer sheet.

1. Florence Nightingale was impatient with a life without meaningful purpose. By age 24, Florence rejected a marriage proposal and decided to be a nurse. For several years Florence pleaded with her parents, with God and suffered a near nervous breakdown, but never considered disobeying her parents’ wish. At last, in 1851 her parents permitted her to study nursing at an institution in Germany.  Two years later, she was appointed superintendent of the institution. Her administration was very successful and so were the changes made to the institution.
2. Louisa May Alcott lived most of her life in Boston and Concord. She worked as a teacher for a short time. Next, she worked as a housekeeper and finally began writing. Her first books were written quickly. Then, Alcott volunteered to be a Civil War nurse, where she caught typhoid and was sent home. But, from this experience her book Hospital Sketches became famous. Soon, her stories were chosen for the Atlantic Monthly. Her most popular book was Little Women. It described her own childhood, as many of her other books: Aunt Joe’s Scrap Bag, Little Men, Eight Cousins and others.
3. Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowska as the fifth and youngest child of Bronislava Boguska, a pianist, singer and teacher and Wladislaw Sklodowski, a professor of mathematics and physics. From young she was remarkable for her prodigious memory and at the age of 16 she won a gold medal on a competition of her secondary education at Russian lycee. In 1891, she went to Paris. She worked late hours and virtually lived bread and butter and tea. In 1904 she was placed the second in the license of mathematical sciences. It was then that she married Pierre Curie, a famous scientist.
4. Valentina Tereshkova was born in Yaroslavl region of the former USSR. Soon after starting work in a textile mill at the age of 18, Valentina joined an amateur parachuting club. She was a hard worker. Later, at the age of 24, she applied to become a cosmonaut. On June 16, 1963 Tereshkova was launched into space aboard Vostok 6. She became the first woman to travel in space. Her flight lasted 48 orbits totaling 70 hours 50 minutes in space. She spent more time in orbit than all the US Mercury astronauts combined. Valentina received the Order of Lenin and Hero of the Soviet Union awards for her historic flight.   
5. Margaret Thatcher was born in England in the family of grocer and dressmaker. Her father was involved in local politics. Early in her life she decided to be a member of the Parliament. In 1950 Margaret married Denis Thatcher, got her degree from Oxford and worked there as a research chemist. In 1959 she won a seat in Parliament. In 1970 to 1974 she served as the Minister of Education and Science. In 1979 general elections Mrs. Thatcher became the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of Great Britain. She resigned in 1990. She was awarded an Order of Merit award by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Who

1. was a bright pupil? _C_
2. was honored with the title of Hero for her historic deed? _____
3. waited for her parental permission to realise her dream to become a nurse? ____
4. succeeded as a leader and was awarded the order for her remarkable work for the country? ____
5. worked as a nurse at war? ____
6. was an outstanding scientist? ____

Part 2.  Reading

Look at the statements 1-10 about advice for new students at a university. Read the text below to decide if each statement is correct or incorrect. If it is correct, mark A. If it is incorrect, mark B.

1. Some centres are open all winter.

2. The activities available depend on the weather.

3. Action Sports Camps courses are unsuitable for people who are excellent at sport.

4. You need to have your own sports equipment.

5. Children and adults spend some time together each day.

6. Some of the staff are unqualified.

7. Action Sports Camps only recommend accommodation of a high quality.

8. You have to pay the total fee one month after you book.

9. Action Sports Camps charge you more if you pay with your credit card.

10. If you cancel three weeks before your camp, you will get half your money back.

 SPORTS CAMPS

Action Sports Camps provide activity holidays for children aged over five and adults. We offer training in over twenty sports at ten different centres throughout the UK. All the centres are open from April until October and some open during the winter for weekend courses. The sports offered differ from one centre to another so if you want to do something in particular you should check our colour brochure.

The camps are not just limited to outdoor sports - we cover a wide range of indoor activities as well. So if the rain comes, the camps continue although you may have to take off your football boots and pick up a squash racket instead. With the experience we've gained over the years, we put together the right mix of sport and activities providing sport for all, not just for those who are brilliant at athletics. It is unnecessary to bring any equipment because it is all provided.

We work in small groups, children working with others of their own age, but we do all come together for social activities and meals. So, different members of a family can make their own individual choices but they get a chance to exchange their experiences later on.

Our centres offer first-class accommodation, food and facilities - and the staff are first-class too. Qualified teachers or professionals receive training from us and many work with us year after year. We always employ qualified staff for activities such as swimming, trampolining and gymnastics but some of the assistants organising the children's games are students, many of whom came to the camp themselves when they were younger.

At most of our centres, accommodation is in a hostel or tents. It is not possible for us to arrange other accommodation but we can send you a list of what is available in the area. Most of the places are recommended to us, but not all, so we are not responsible for the quality of the accommodation on this list. Luxury accommodation is not available near our camps.

To book a place at a sports camp, complete the form and send it with a cheque for the deposit to the address below. The rest of the fee can be paid at any time but we must receive it at least one month before your camp. Please note, to keep costs down, you are charged 2.5% extra by us if you pay with your credit card. You will receive a letter of confirmation within ten days of sending your form. Cancellations made up to a month before the camp are refunded in full apart from a 5% administration fee. Fifty per cent of the fee is refunded if a cancellation is made up to two weeks before the date of the camp. After that no refunds can be given.

Part 3. Use of English

1.I... glasses since I was a child,

a) wear, b) wore, c) am wearing, d) have been wearing.

2. When the phone rang, I... dinner.

a) cook, b) was cooking, c) had been cooking, d) have been cooking.

3. He usually had dinner at 4 p.m., ... ?

a) had he, b) hadn't he, c) did he, d) didn't he.

4. He works ... and makes good progress.

a) hard, b) hardly, c) good, d) badly.

5. He reminds me ... someone I knew in the army.

a) of, b) to, c) from, d) about.

6. Mary is here. Where are ... ?

a) other, b) others, c) the others, d) another.

7. What ... bad weather we are having today!

a) the, b) a, c) an, d) — .

8. Did you read ... English books at school?

a) some, b) many, c) much, d) none.

9. I want to know what ...,

a) are you doing, b) were you doing, c) will you do, d) you are doing.                          *•

10. I've made ... mistakes now than I made last time.

a) few, b) a few, c) fewer, d) less.

11. Can ... of you help me?

a) some, b) any, c) somebody, d) anybody.

12. This translation is twice as ....

a) easy, b) easier, c) the easiest, d) much easier.

13. We ... two compositions this month.

a) write, b) wrote, c) were writing, d) have written.

14. I had a feeling that somebody ... there before.

a) is, b) was, c) has been, d) had been.

15. She won't see him ... he phones her.

a) except, b) after, c) unless, d) because.

16. ... only one theatre and two cinemas in this city ten years ago.

a) there is, b) there was, c) there are, d) there were.

17. My watch....

a) stops, b) has stopped, c) have stopped, d) stop.

18. Do you know when he ... ?

a) comes, b) will come, c) shall come, d) come.

19. I don't have any pets. Neither ....

a) she does, b) does she, c) is she, d) does she have.

20. His parents didn't let him ... TV late.

a) to watch, b) watch, c) watching, d) watched.

Part 4. Use of English

For questions 1-15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there.

If a line is correct put a tick (∨) by the number. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word next to the number. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00).

Big Ben

0  Big Ben is in fact the bell which it tolls on the hour in the

00  clock tower of the Houses of Parliament and not, as is

1  commonly supposed, the tower and clock by itself. It is

2  thought about to have been named after Sir Benjamin Hall.

3  The bell was been competed on April 10th, 1858.

4  With a weight of more than over 13 tons, it was the heaviest

5  bell in Britain at that time. It began to striking the time

6  in July, 1859, but cracked later that year and was

7  consequently silent for the next three years. The crack is

8  plainly being visible even today. An electric motor is

9  now used to wind the clock mechanism, and checks with

10  Greenwich Observatory they have rarely shown an error

11  of more than one second. On some occasions the clock has

12  stopped accidentally, but almost seldom due to mechanical

13  problems. Radio made Big Ben as a symbol, and on New

14  Year's Eve in 1923 Big Ben has made its first broadcast.

15  It has been heard of nightly ever since.

KEY SHEET

Part 1.  Reading                                                            

Part 2.  Reading

Part 3. Use of English

Part 4. Use of English

Школьный этап Всероссийской олимпиады по английскому языку – 8 класс.

PART 1. READING.

1. Match the headings and the texts.

1. Irish hand-made tweed is famous all over the world for its individual look, its quality and different colours. This cloth is made from wool and widely used for caps, hats, skirts, trousers, and jackets. Tweeds can be bought in most of the larger cities as well as in the specialist tweed shops. The most famous place for tweed production in Ireland is Donegal.

2. Ceili consists of hundreds of people. They join arms together, dance up and down a hall at high speeds to the fast sounds of Irish traditional music. Men and women move so quickly turning round and round, that if they don't fall at least once, it means that they are not trying hard enough.

3. Gaelic is not widely used today in Ireland. With hundreds of years of colonisation by the British it lost its significance and was used less and less. It wasn't allowed to be taught in the schools, and it became impossible to use Gaelic in most jobs.

4. Irish products are very popular. Irish hand-made farmhouse cheeses, chocolates and wild smoked salmon taste so nice that they are known everywhere. Many people like Irish coffee which is a hot drink made with coffee, whiskey, and cream. Baileys, a cream liqueur, is becoming known internationally. We must also mention Guinness, is a type of beer, which for many years has been as the meal in a glass.

5. Children in Ireland love to listen to stories about leprechaun, a small wizard with magic powers who could make impossible things happen. He is dressed in green velvet and wears a shiny black belt and magic shoes. He is very small, no more than half a metre tall. He has a pot of gold and gets very angry if he thinks someone is trying to steal it.

6. Irish products are of great value and high quality. They can always tell a story of the history, culture and geography of the place where they were made. Most visitors know of Aran sweaters, Irish lace, Ulster linen table-cloths and bed covers, Galway glasses, Tara plates and cups. Hardly any visitor leaves the country without buying something which will remind them of the country later.

2. Read the text. For questions 7- 11, put the correct letter (A-D) on your answer sheet

I went to the cinema last week and laughed all the way through the new film “Waiter!” which is set in a restaurant. The American actor Tom Waters plays the worst cook the world has ever seen and he employs one of the worst waiters, played by Joe Vermont.

The London restaurant where the filming took place does actually exist.

Jane Connors, the owner, runs a successful business and, although she thinks “Waiter!” is a good film, she is very annoyed with the director. When she agreed to the filming, she wasn’t told that the film is about a restaurant where everything goes wrong and the food is disgusting. Although the film might make Jane’s restaurant famous if it is a success, she is afraid that people will stop coming because they will think that the food and service is terrible- like it is in the film. Jane is worried she will lose business and may even have to close and start again with a new restaurant.

Having seen this film, I agree that she has a problem. The film company paid her a very small fee and she has since asked for more. The best solution though is for her to contact the newspapers. I am sure they will be interested in her story and it will actually help her business in the end.

7. What is the writer trying to do next?

A) to advertise the restaurant   B) to review a film   C) to explain someone’s problem    D) to take someone’s advice

8. What can the reader find out from the text?

A) Why Jane is feeling angry   B) Why Jane’s restaurant has closed   C) Why Jane didn’t enjoy the film

D) Why Jane’s restaurant is unpopular

9. What does the writer think Jane ought to do?

A) To open a new restaurant   B) To ask the film company for more money   C) To improve the quality of the food in her restaurant   D) To write to the newspapers

10. What did the director not tell Jane?

A) That the film would be a success   B) That the restaurant in the film would be very bad   C) That she would not be paid   D) That she would need to employ extra staff

11. What is Jane worried about?

A)  That she would have to close her restaurant    B) That she would have to close her business and start a different one    C) That she would become unpopular    D) That she would have to close her restaurant and open a new one.

PART 2. USE OF ENGLISH.

1. Choose the correct letter.

1. I've just bought ... copy of his latest book.

a) — , b) a, c) the, d) any.

2. ... in my class likes him.

a) All, b) All pupils, c) All the pupils, d) Everyone.

3. Jack left ... Paris last week.

a) in, b) for, c) from, d) to.

4. They... yet.

a) didn't arrive, b) haven't arrived, c) hadn't arrived, d) don't arrive.

5. Turn right... the end of the street.

a) at, b) in, c) to, d) on.

6. Nelly is ... at History than Jane but worse at French.

a) as good, b) not so good, c) better, d) best.

7. A young man asked if we ... students.

a) are, b) were, c) have been, d) shall be.

8. I have asked some friends — for tea.

a) to go, b) to stay, c) to bring, d) to drink.

9. Has he ... you of his decision?

a) talked, b) said, c) told, d) spoke.

10. She made her husband ... the tree.

a) to cut down, b) cut down, c) to have cut down, d) cutting down.

11. When I entered they ... to music.

a) have listened, b) were listened, c) were listening, d) listen.

12. She spoke to ... person at the party.

a) few, b) a few, c) every, d) many.

13. I ... glasses since I was a child.

a) wear, b) am wearing, c) have been wearing, d) was wearing.

14. They took a rest after they ... the yard.

a) had cleaned up, b) were cleaning up, c) would clean up, d) have cleaned up.

15. I knew I'd forgotten ... .

a) somewhere, b) anywhere, c) something, d) anything.

16. You usually have dinner at home, ... ?

a) do you, b) don't you, c) have you, d) haven't you.

17. The police haven't got ... information to catch the robber.

a) some, b) enough, c) another, d) these.

18. I haven't heard ... you.

a) anyone call, b) anyone to call, c) someone call, d) someone to call.

19. The news you've brought ... much better than last time.

a) is, b) are, c) have been, d) were.

20. I hope I've got ... mistakes in my test today.

a) little, b) less, c) fewer, d) fewest.

2. Read the text below. Complete the spaces (1-7) with the correct form of the words in capitals. There is an example (0) at the beginning.

PART 3. QUIZ

For questions 1-20, choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

1. What is the name of the British flag?

A. State Standard,         B. Stripes and Stars,        C. Union Jack,        D. John Bull.

2. Who is the official head of Great Britain?

A. the Queen,                B. Prime minister,                C. Mayor,        D. Lord Chancellor.

3. Where is Cardiff situated?

A. in England,                B. in Scotland,        C. in Ireland,        D. in Wales.

4. Which day is not observed in Britain?

A. St. Valentine’s Day,        B. Thanksgiving Day,  C. Mother’s Day,        D. Guy Fawkes’ Night.

5. In what part of London is St. Paul’s Cathedral situated?

A. in the West End,        B. in the East End,      C. in Hampton Court     D. in the City.

6. What is Humpty Dumpty?

A. a toy,                B. an egg,                C. an animal,        D. a monster.

7. Who wrote ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’?

A. A. Milne,        B. L. Carroll,        C. O. Wilde,        D. J.R. Tolkien.

8. Who invented the telephone?

A. Isaac Newton,                B. Michael Faraday,     C. Alexander Bell,                D. James Watt.

9. When did the Romans first invade Britain?

A. in the 5th century AD,                B. in the 5th century BC,

C. in the 1st century BC,                D. in the 1st century AD.

10. Where does Elizabeth II live?

A. in the Tower of London,                B. in Westminster Palace,

C. in Buckingham Palace,                D. at No.10 Downing Street.

11. What is the British money today?

A. euros,                B. dollars,                C. pounds,                D. crowns.

12. What important historical event happened in 1066?

A. the Roman invasion,                B. the Danish invasion,

C. the Battle at Waterloo,                D. the Battle at Hastings.

13. Which holiday is traditionally celebrated on 25 January?

A. Burn’s Night,         B. Hogmanay,        C. Eisteddfod,            D. Guy Fawkes’ Night.

14. Which is not a traditional English dish?

A. scrambled eggs,        B. bacon and eggs,                C. porridge,                D. haggis.

15. Who was Robin Hood?

A. a character of English legendary stories,        B. a national hero of Great Britain,

C. a popular cartoon character,                         D. a leader of the people’s uprising.

16. What is a “public school” in England?

A. a state-financed school,                B. a private school,

C. a comprehensive school,                D. a religious school.

17. Where are the Crown Jewels kept?

A. in Buckingham Palace,                B. in the Tower of London,

C. in Westminster Palace,                D. in the British Museum.

18. Which word is missing in the saying “To kill two _____ with one stone”?

A. hares,                B. mice,        C. birds,        D. flies.

19. What is a limerick?

A. a joke,        B. a rhyme,                C. a song,        D. a play on words.

20. Which is the right Russian equivalent to the English proverb “Birds of a feather flock together”?

A. Рука руку моет.                        В. Рыбак рыбака видит издалека.

С. Всяк кулик свое болото хвалит.        D. В нужде с кем ни поведешься.

PART 4. WRITING

You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend John who writes

Write a letter to John.

In your letter

• answer his questions
• ask 2 questions about his plans for excursion.

Write 80 - 120 words.

Remember the rules of letter writing. Don’t forget to write your address and the date.

KEY SHEET

Part 1.  Reading                                                            

Part 2. Use of English

1.

2.

Part 3. Quiz

Part 4. Writing (15 points)

TOTAL – 73 points

Reading

Time: 45 minutes

Text 1

Task 1

Read the article and match the paragraph summaries (A-G) from the box below with each paragraph (1-7).

A        A language Ken helped save

B        Ken’s ability to learn languages quickly                 

C        How Ken learnt languages

D        Ken’s origins

E        Reasons for protecting languages under threat

F        Ken’s involvement in language theory

G        The biological basis of language

Kenneth Hale, Master Linguist

1. SOMETIMES Kenneth Hale was asked how long it would take him to learn a new language. He thought ten or fifteen minutes would be enough to pick up essentials if he were listening to a native speaker. After that he could probably converse; obviously not fluently, but enough to make himself understood. To those whose education, however admirable in other respects, had provided only rudimentary language skills, he seemed a marvel.

2. As many of these languages had no written grammar or vocabulary, and indeed were spoken by few people, Kenneth picked them up orally. His tip for anyone who pressed him for advice on learning a language was to talk to a native speaker. Start with parts of the body, he said, then common objects. After learning the nouns, you can start to make sentences and get attuned to the sounds.

3. This is all the more confusing as language is much more complex than, say, simple arithmetic, which often takes years to master. It is often hypothesised that language is an innate human faculty, with its own specialised system in our brain.

4. He spent his childhood on a ranch in Arizona and started his education in a one-roomed school in the desert. Many years later, lecturing at MIT, he still felt most comfortable in cowboy boots. On his belt was a buckle he had won at a rodeo by riding bulls, and he had the slightly bowed legs of a horseman. His students were impressed that he could light a match with his thumbnail.

5. One Indian language at its last gasp was spoken by the Wopanaak, the tribe that greeted the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620. It is now spoken again by several thousand people around Cape Cod.  A Wopanaak who studied under Kenneth is preparing a dictionary of her language. ‘Ken was a voice for the voiceless,’ said Noam Chomsky. And he worked tirelessly to learn endangered languages.

6. Despite these setbacks, Ken did contribute to an understanding of the apparently innate human capacity for speech. He made a number of what he called ‘neat’ discoveries about the structure of language, and had an instinctive sense of what all languages had in common. After his retirement from MIT, he said he would ‘really get down to work’, an ambition he was unable to achieve, though his other achievements were considerable.

7. And these people are often particularly upset by a scholarly argument which surfaces from time to time about the desirability of keeping alive languages that have little chance of survival. Occasionally the argument turns nationalistic. For example, is what Kenneth called the ‘revitalisation’ of Welsh merely a nuisance in Britain where, obviously, English is the working language? Kenneth Hale had an indignant answer to that question. ‘When you lose a language’, he told a reporter, ‘you lose a culture, intellectual wealth, a work of art. The damage that’s done is irreparable. It’s like dropping a bomb on a museum, the Louvre.’

Task 2

Now choose from the paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap in the text (8-13). There is one paragraph which you do not need to use.

A        And he had discovered his talent for language when playing with Indian friends who taught him Hopi and Navajo. Learning languages became an obsession. In Spain he picked up Basque, in Ireland he learnt Gaelic, and he mastered Dutch within a week. He sought to rescue languages that were dying out.

B        And so he was. He had a gift. But he was also an academic, a teacher of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was aware that many otherwise clever people find learning a second language extremely hard. He sought to find laws and structures that could be applied to all languages and the search took him into many linguistic byways, to the languages of Native Americans and Australian aborigines and the Celtic fringes of Europe.

C        However, for Kenneth bilingual dictionaries were an anathema and banned in his classes. He held that meanings were too fluid to be captured and readily translated word-for-word from one language to another. He always told his students that meaning was intuitive: you either grasped it, or you didn’t.

D        In addition to his feat of learning so many languages, he is likely to be remembered by The Green Book of Language Revitalisation, which he helped to edit. It was warmly welcomed, especially by those who may be a touch aggrieved by the spread of English, which is blamed for brutally sweeping other languages aside.

E        Kenneth could converse in about 50 languages, perhaps a world record. He was the last person on earth to speak some languages. Hundreds are disappearing, he said. ‘They became extinct, and I had no one to speak them with.’

F        Some students of linguistics believe that such an ability, if it exists, is normally lost at the age of 12. But for Kenneth it was around this age that his interest in language was just starting.

G        Still, there is much more to language than that. Noam Chomsky, like Kenneth a teacher of linguistics at MIT, wrote: ‘Language is really weird. There is nothing else in the natural world that even approaches its complexity. Although children receive no instruction in learning their native language, they are able to fully master it in less than five years.’

Text 2

Task 3

You are going to read an extract from an autobiography. For questions 14-20, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.

A Visit Home

Amid the swarming, clattering travellers, railway staff and suitcases, I saw the thick, dark eyebrows of my brother Guy lift by approximately one millimetre in greeting as I came down the steps of the footbridge and out into the station forecourt. Guy speaks like most men in the village we come from, i.e. not at all until he has spent five minutes considering whether there are other means of communication he can use instead. His favourites are the eyebrow-raise, the shrug, and the brief tilt of his chin; if he is feeling particularly emotional, he may perform all three together. That morning, as I worked my bags through the other passengers, he kept his eyebrows raised. Standing in his work clothes, he looked rather out of place, resembling a large, solitary rusty nail in the midst of, but apart from, the crowd of people: his steel-capped boots, battered, formless jacket and heavy stubble seemed to be causing many people to give him a wide berth^[1], diverting their path to the exit rather than heading for it directly.

‘Hello, Guy’, I said.

‘Now then,’ he replied. ‘Give me one of your bags.’

‘Thank you,’ I said, and passed him a large bag.

‘Whatever have you got in here?’ he exclaimed.

My brother is appalled by indulgences such as luggage, although his exclamations are less aggressive than resignedly bemused. With Guy, you have to understand that when he asks what on earth you’ve got in a bag, it is a way of saying, ‘Hello, how are you?’

‘It’ll be the computer that’s heavy. And there are some books,’ I explained.

‘Books,’ he said wearily, shaking his head.

‘Sorry.’

‘Doesn’t matter,’ he said. ‘It’s not that heavy.’ He yanked the bag up onto his shoulder.

‘It’s nice to see you, Guy.’

Guy raised his eyebrows and chin five millimetres, and strode off towards the car park.

I felt relieved by his distracted, unemotional expression because it was usual: since he was a small child he had gone through much of life looking as if he was pondering^[2] the answer to a complex mathematical problem. But as I caught up with him and looked at him from the side, I noticed dark half-circles below his eyes.

 ‘Are you all right, then?’ I said.

He raised his eyebrow again, and blew out through pursed lips. He looked as if he were trying to pop the features off his face. Then he gave me the sort of consolation smile you give people when they’ve asked a stupid question, batted his lashy black-brown eyes and shrugged.

‘You look a bit worn out,’ I said.

‘I should think I do,’ he said. ‘I’ve been doing twelve-hour days on the farm since July. Sling your bags into the back of the van then.’

This was not as straightforward as he made it sound. He used the van as a workshop, storage unit and mobile home, and so as well as the usual driving-dregs of sweet wrappers and plastic bottles, there was farm equipment of an often surprising scale – straw bales, black polythene barrels, bundles of shovels and forks, metal toolboxes which were themselves almost as large as small cars, and other tools which I did not recognise or understand. Intermingled with that were random, inexplicable household articles: sofa cushions, half a dozen plant pots and a roll of carpets.

I gingerly^[3] balanced my bags on some boxes, and then walked round the van and climbed into the front passenger seat. Guy stamped down the accelerator and we shot out of the car park. Guy looked straight ahead into the traffic, lifted his eyebrows and moved his mouth in what may or may not have been a grin. As we drove through the city, I watched his face to try to catch his expression when the half-grin lapsed, but he just lost himself in nonchalant concentration on the other cars and vans around us. For something to do, I turned on the radio and began retuning it. This caused a very loud static noise to fill the cab, and Guy to jerk round in his seat, shouting, ‘Don’t fiddle with that radio.’

I snapped it off, and looked at him again. ‘Sorry’.

‘Never mind,’ he said. ‘It only plays one station and it takes me ages to get that. There are some CDs in the glove compartment. Put one of those on instead.’

I put a CD on but as we accelerated off at the bypass roundabout the music was drowned out by the engine noise anyway.

It takes only twenty minutes to drive through the hills to our village, but that day the journey seemed to take forever. Neither of us could think of anything to say to each other so Guy pretended to concentrate on the speed of his windscreen wipers which were keeping the driving rain off the windscreen so he could see the road ahead. I, on the other hand, leant my forehead against the side window, looking out at the scenery which was so familiar to me but was actually obliterated by the horizontal rain.

14. What aspect of Guy’s personality is the writer reinforcing when he says ‘if he is feeling particularly emotional, he may perform all three together’?

A  His facial expressions are difficult to interpret.

B  His speech is always backed up by non-verbal expressions.

C  He is very controlled when expressing his feelings.

D  He can give out conflicting messages about what he is thinking.

15.  What is meant by many people giving Guy ‘a wide berth’?

A  People were staring at him because of the way he looked.

B  People were getting annoyed with him because he was in their way.

C  People did not understand what he was doing there.

D  People did not feel comfortable getting too close to him.

16.  How does the writer feel when Guy complains about his bag?

A  He knows he shouldn’t take the complaint seriously.

B  He thinks Guy is making an unnecessary fuss.

C  He wishes Guy had not greeted him with a complaint.

D  He is embarrassed about bringing so much luggage.

17.  As they walk towards the car park, the writer realises that

A  he is not being sensitive enough about Guy’s situation.

B  there is a change in Guy’s normal behaviour.

C  Guy’s expression seems more worried than usual.

D  he had more reason to be concerned about Guy than he initially thought.

18. What does the writer exaggerate when he is describing the back of the van?

A  the combination of items

B  the size of the items

C  how old the items were

D  how many items were unnecessary

19. Guy gets annoyed in the van because

A  the radio doesn’t work properly.

B  he prefers to listen to CDs.

C  the radio made a terrible noise.

D his brother touched the radio.

20. What does the writer say about the journey in the van?

A  He preferred to look out at the countryside rather than talk.

B  He didn’t speak to Guy because the driving conditions were difficult.

C  The fact that they travelled in silence seemed to make it longer.

D  It was much slower than usual because of the weather.

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XI Всероссийская олимпиада школьников по английскому языку

2009 -2010г.        III (региональный) этап

Reading

ID NUMBER

ANSWER SHEET

Карточка участника

Speaking

Set 1

Student 1

Task 1

Deliver a mini report, comparing the information from CHARTS 1 and 2 concerning the interests of schoolboys in the UK and Morocco. Explain why these differences of interests exist. Make your suppositions about what causes them.

(Monologue; Time: 1, 5 - 2 minutes)

Then answer 3 questions of your partner, using the information from CHARTS 1 and 2.

(Dialogue; Time: 2 minutes)

 Task 2

Listen to the report of your partner, based on CHARTS 1 and 2 about schoolgirls in the UK and Morocco, and ask 3 questions to get some new information not mentioned by your partner.

(Dialogue; Time: 2 minutes)

YOUR ANSWERS WILL BE RECORDED

Карточка участника

Speaking

Set 2

Student 2

Task 1

Listen to the report of your partner, based on CHARTS 1 and 2 about schoolboys in the UK and Morocco, and ask 3 questions to get some new information not mentioned by your partner.

(Dialogue; Time: 2 minutes)

Task 2

Deliver a mini report, comparing the information from CHARTS 1 and 2 concerning the interests of schoolgirls in the UK and Morocco. Explain why these differences of interests exist. Make your suppositions about what causes them.

(Monologue; Time: 1, 5 - 2 minutes)

Then answer 3 questions of your partner, using the information from CHARTS 1 and 2.

(Dialogue; Time: 2 minutes)

YOUR ANSWERS WILL BE RECORDED

CHART 1

Pupils passing school-leaving exams, by subject and sex, 2005-2006 in the UK

CHART 2

Pupils passing school-leaving exams, by subject and sex, 2005-2006 in Morocco

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ANSWER SHEET

ID NUMBER

Use of English

2. Time: 30 minutes

Task 1

For questions 1-7, read the text below and choose A, B or C to fill in the gaps.

How to stay famous by using the press

• Read all the tabloids and the (1) ____ magazines? Can you find something about you that isn’t quite true? If you can, (2)____ a press conference and tell people how hurt you are by what has been written about you. And then announce your intention to (3)_____ for libel.
• It’s almost always good to hit the headlines, but you don’t want to make the (4)___ page too often. The public will become bored if you receive too much (5)_______.
• Make a large and ‘anonymous’ charitable donation. And then make sure the tabloids run a story about you being the ‘anonymous’ donor. (6)____ a press release immediately, saying that you wish no one knew about it. After all, you say, never seek (7)____.

1        A. sparkly                B. shiny                C. glossy

2        A. grab                B. hold                C. take

3        A. charge                B. arrest                C. sue

4        A. face                B. front                C. first

5        A. treatment        B. coverage        C. reporting

6        A Issue                B Provide                C Give out

7        A fame                B familiarity        C publicity        

Task 2

For questions 8-12 complete the sentences below using the CORRECT GRAMMAR FORM of the phrasal verbs in the box. There are three odd phrasal verbs which you do not need to use.  There is an example (0) done for you.

1. Ronaldo was sent off during yesterday’s football match.

8. If you ___________ my glasses, please let me know as I can’t see anything without them!
9. Train fares ______________ twice already this year. It’s really outrageous.
10. Please _____________ what you just said and apologize to Jack.
11. Don’t believe anything Alison says. She’s always _______________ stories.
12. The doctors managed to _______________ David ______________ after the accident, but he had to stay in hospital for a while to recover from the consequences.

Task 3

For questions 13-22 solve the clues and complete the puzzle. Sentence (0) has been done for you as an example.

1. Erupting volcano has discharged massive quantities of dust, steam and gases into the atmosphere. 

13. The ozone ____________ prevents harmful ultraviolet light from the sun from reaching the Earth.
14. If you wear a fur coat in public you risk coming under attack from ___________ right activists.
15. Rain which contains large amounts of harmful chemicals as a result of burning substances such as coal and oil is known as ___________ rain.
16. A long period when there is little or no rain is called ___________ .
17. ___________ is a large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry.
18. An increase in the amount of waste gases in the atmosphere which is believed to be the cause of a gradual warming of the surface of the Earth is called the _____________ effect.
19. The general weather conditions usually found in a particular place is called ___________.
20. The scientific study of the relationships between the air, land, water, animals and plants is known as ___________.
21. If you don’t do more to protect pandas or any other endangered species they’ll soon be ____________ .
22. Damage caused to water, air, soil and biosphere by harmful substances or waste is called ___________.

Task 4

For questions 23-30, read the text below and choose A, B or C to fill in the gaps.

Thanksgiving is probably the most favorite American holiday. The history of the holiday started in colonial time. In 23. _____________ a group of English people who were unhappy with the way the Church of 24. _____________ was organized set sail from Plymouth on a ship called the 25. _____________. They wanted to found a new church in America.

After six weeks at sea, the 26. _____________ landed at what is now Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts. They had a hard winter and nearly half of them died. But the local Indians provided seeds for the corn, which the Europeans had never seen before. They also helped the English settlers to hunt and fish.

Fortunately the first year’s harvest was good. The English settlers wanted to thank both God and also the Indians. So the governor declared a feast and invited the Indians to join in. About ninety Indians brought along fish, deer meat, 27. _____________, corn and pumpkin. They feasted with the English settlers for three days.

The next year no Thanksgiving celebrations were held, and it didn’t become an annual event until the 1780s. It was made a national holiday in 1863 by President 28. _____________. At that time the country was in the middle of 29. _____________, and the president thought that the establishment of a national holiday would help to unite American people.

Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fourth 30. _____________  of November with much of the same food as had been eaten at the first Thanksgiving.

23. A. 1498

B. 1620

C. 1775

24. A. Britain

B. America

C. England

25. A. Mayflower

B. Santa Maria

C. Independence

26. A. Pilgrims

B. Founding Fathers

 C. Confederates

27. A. chicken

B. turkey

C. duck

28. A. George Washington

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. Thomas Jefferson

29. A. the War of Independence

B. the Civil War

C. World War I

30. A. Tuesday

B. Sunday

C. Thursday

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XII Всероссийская олимпиада школьников по английскому языку

2011 г.        региональный этап        

Participant’s ID number

Task 1

                                  A Story

Here is the beginning of the story. Please, complete the story. Produce your own version.

        You should write 220 - 250 words.

        Time: 60 minutes

        One morning I rolled out of bed and wandered over to the dressing-table to brush my hair.  Suddenly I saw an envelope addressed to me that was sealed. Who could have delivered it and what was inside?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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XII Всероссийская олимпиада школьников по английскому языку

2011 г.        региональный этап        

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Task 2

                         A Proposal

Write a letter of proposal to your school principal on how to make the school self-study centre working conditions better. Use ideas from the list below and/or your own ideas .

        Write your proposal in 180 - 220 words.

        Time: 45 minutes

• Up-to-date computers with different gadgets
• Teleconferencing
• Modern software
• Foreign language training facilities
• Library / Resource Centre
• Lighting, Ventilation /Air conditioning, Heating
• More comfortable furniture
• More space for discussion,  creative activities and relaxation
• Schedule flexibility / Special hours for training
• Reducing noise
• Tea, coffee, water available
• Rules of conduct

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2. Time: 30 minutes

Task 1

       For questions 1-10, read the text below and choose A, B, C or D to fill in the gaps.

J.K. Rowling is the author of a successful series of books. She uses the initials J.K. because her publishers thought that a book by a woman might not appeal _________ (1) boys.

Rowling was born in 1965 and brought up in England and South Wales. After she finished university, she got a job in London.

In 1990, while she was traveling from Manchester to London, her train was held _________ (2) and during the four-hour delay she got the idea of writing about a young wizard. In 1991 she ________ (3) to Portugal, where she had a job teaching English, and she ___________ (4) the manuscript for the first Harry Potter book with her. She returned to Britain in 1993 and carried _______ (5) writing it.

Rowling completed Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone in 1995. Twelve publishers turned _________ (6) before Bloomsbury agreed to publish it. The decision was apparently ________ (7) by the young daughter of the company’s chairman, who loved the first chapter of the book.

In 1995 Bloomsbury advised Rowling that she had little chance _________ (8) making money writing children’s books. Today she has a fortune of around $ 1 billion. Rowling believes that people who have a lot of  money should ________ (9) sure they use it responsibly. For this reason, she has given ________(10) millions of dollars to charitable causes.

Task 2

For questions 11-16, read the text below and choose A, B, or C to fill in the gaps.

I went to a new Italian restaurant last night. It claimed to _______(11) for everyone’s tastes. I went there with my brother. We both have a ________(12) preference for Italian food. We also both have a ________(13) liking for sitting out-of-doors and this restaurant had a lovely garden. Unfortunately, the food did not _______(14) us quite so much pleasure. Although the staff gave us a very warm welcome when we arrived, they didn’t seem to ________(15) much pride in their service or their cooking. I certainly don’t much relish the ________(16) of going there again.

Task 3

For questions 17-20 restore famous English phrases. First match their beginnings (A-E) with the endings (1-6) and then match the phrases with their Latin equivalents. There is one extra English phase you do not need to use. There is an example (0) for you.

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KEYS

XIII Всероссийская олимпиада школьников по английскому языку

2012 г.        региональный этап        

Participant’s ID number

                        Writing

Write your own version of the story based on the picture. Describe  events in an entertaining way.

        You should write 220 - 250 words.

        Time: 60 minutes

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

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Use of English

ANSWER SHEET

ID NUMBER

Use of English

2. Time: 30 minutes

Task 1

For questions 1-7, read the text below and choose A, B or C to fill in the gaps.

How to stay famous by using the press

• Read all the tabloids and the (1) ____ magazines? Can you find something about you that isn’t quite true? If you can, (2)____ a press conference and tell people how hurt you are by what has been written about you. And then announce your intention to (3)_____ for libel.
• It’s almost always good to hit the headlines, but you don’t want to make the (4)___ page too often. The public will become bored if you receive too much (5)_______.
• Make a large and ‘anonymous’ charitable donation. And then make sure the tabloids run a story about you being the ‘anonymous’ donor. (6)____ a press release immediately, saying that you wish no one knew about it. After all, you say, never seek (7)____.

1        A. sparkly                B. shiny                C. glossy

2        A. grab                B. hold                C. take

3        A. charge                B. arrest                C. sue

4        A. face                B. front                C. first

5        A. treatment        B. coverage        C. reporting

6        A Issue                B Provide                C Give out

7        A fame                B familiarity        C publicity        

Task 2

For questions 8-12 complete the sentences below using the CORRECT GRAMMAR FORM of the phrasal verbs in the box. There are three odd phrasal verbs which you do not need to use.  There is an example (0) done for you.

1. Ronaldo was sent off during yesterday’s football match.

8. If you ___________ my glasses, please let me know as I can’t see anything without them!
9. Train fares ______________ twice already this year. It’s really outrageous.
10. Please _____________ what you just said and apologize to Jack.
11. Don’t believe anything Alison says. She’s always _______________ stories.
12. The doctors managed to _______________ David ______________ after the accident, but he had to stay in hospital for a while to recover from the consequences.

Task 3

For questions 13-22 solve the clues and complete the puzzle. Sentence (0) has been done for you as an example.

1. Erupting volcano has discharged massive quantities of dust, steam and gases into the atmosphere. 

13. The ozone ____________ prevents harmful ultraviolet light from the sun from reaching the Earth.
14. If you wear a fur coat in public you risk coming under attack from ___________ right activists.
15. Rain which contains large amounts of harmful chemicals as a result of burning substances such as coal and oil is known as ___________ rain.
16. A long period when there is little or no rain is called ___________ .
17. ___________ is a large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry.
18. An increase in the amount of waste gases in the atmosphere which is believed to be the cause of a gradual warming of the surface of the Earth is called the _____________ effect.
19. The general weather conditions usually found in a particular place is called ___________.
20. The scientific study of the relationships between the air, land, water, animals and plants is known as ___________.
21. If you don’t do more to protect pandas or any other endangered species they’ll soon be ____________ .
22. Damage caused to water, air, soil and biosphere by harmful substances or waste is called ___________.

Task 4

For questions 23-30, read the text below and choose A, B or C to fill in the gaps.

Thanksgiving is probably the most favorite American holiday. The history of the holiday started in colonial time. In 23. _____________ a group of English people who were unhappy with the way the Church of 24. _____________ was organized set sail from Plymouth on a ship called the 25. _____________. They wanted to found a new church in America.

After six weeks at sea, the 26. _____________ landed at what is now Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts. They had a hard winter and nearly half of them died. But the local Indians provided seeds for the corn, which the Europeans had never seen before. They also helped the English settlers to hunt and fish.

Fortunately the first year’s harvest was good. The English settlers wanted to thank both God and also the Indians. So the governor declared a feast and invited the Indians to join in. About ninety Indians brought along fish, deer meat, 27. _____________, corn and pumpkin. They feasted with the English settlers for three days.

The next year no Thanksgiving celebrations were held, and it didn’t become an annual event until the 1780s. It was made a national holiday in 1863 by President 28. _____________. At that time the country was in the middle of 29. _____________, and the president thought that the establishment of a national holiday would help to unite American people.

Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fourth 30. _____________  of November with much of the same food as had been eaten at the first Thanksgiving.

23. A. 1498

B. 1620

C. 1775

24. A. Britain

B. America

C. England

25. A. Mayflower

B. Santa Maria

C. Independence

26. A. Pilgrims

B. Founding Fathers

 C. Confederates

27. A. chicken

B. turkey

C. duck

28. A. George Washington

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. Thomas Jefferson

29. A. the War of Independence

B. the Civil War

C. World War I

30. A. Tuesday

B. Sunday

C. Thursday

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