Олимпиада по английскому языку 7-8 классы

ВСЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОЛИМПИАДА ШКОЛЬНИКОВ

ПО АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ/ 2021-2022 уч. г.

ШКОЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП. 7-8 КЛАССЫ

Part 1 (10 minutes)

Maximum points – 5

Listening

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Part 2 (15 minutes)

Maximum points - 6

Reading

A. They were more interested in the school's past than its present.

B. In many ways they behaved just as they had done 20 years earlier.

C. Despite all that had happened, everyone seemed quite happy and satisfied.

D. Many of the women said that they would attend.

E. They were doing jobs that the school had not expected them to do.

F. The head teacher met them to welcome them back to school.

G. Once they had eaten it was as if they were schoolgirls again.
H. Anne's aim was to let them know about her achievements.

Back to school

Nicolette Jones attends a school reunion and finds that times change, people do not

1. When Anne Bechar set out to find the 80 or so women - myself included - who
   were at Leeds Girls' High School with her until 1979, it was, she admits, because she
   had lots of good news she wanted to tell them. 'I wasn't very academic at school, and
   I felt I was a nobody,' she says. "Now I have lived for years in Paris and eight years
   in the Middle East, I have a family and I run a successful business. I feel that I am
   somebody."

2. Anne's detective work resulted in the tracking-down of all but a dozen of our ex-
   classmates. Then we received our invitations and 44 of us, astonished by the
   realization that we had been old girls for 20 years, agreed to show up for a lunch.
   Another 20 sent news, good wishes and apologies.

3. So, once we'd had our hair done - and wondering whether we would recognize
   each other - we assembled in a dining hall that made us think of cabbage and sponge
   pudding. By the end of lunch it could have been 20 years ago; it was like a bad
   episode of soap opera in which everything that had happened since was a dream.

4. It was not simply that in our own eyes we were unchanged. It was that we had
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gone back to the roles of two decades ago. Bryony, our head girl, who is now a doctor, asked kind questions with exactly the grace towards younger girls that made her popular then. Anne was told off by her friend Ruth for talking down to her, exactly as she had done at school. I showed off. We had become 14-year-olds in 37-year-old bodies.

1. The school authorities, who had arranged a tour of new buildings for us, found us
   uncooperative. We didn't want to see the new language labs and the new music
   block. We all wanted to see desks we sat at, we all walked along the corridors we had
   regularly raced down and talked in, and remembered. We wanted to meet the ghosts
   of our childhood selves.

2. We were amazed, though, at the well-stocked careers room. In our day, careers
   advice was a teacher who mostly suggested nursing and secretarial work. Her limited
   imagination had not had much effect. Among us were doctors, lawyers, accountants,
   pharmacists and laboratory technicians. Diane, who was enough of a rebel at school
   to break the rules about wearing make-up, is now a beautician. Mandy is now a
   school governor. And I became a journalist.

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Part 3 (30 minutes)

Maximum points - 39

Use of English

Task 1

Example answer:

0) А В С D

Weather

Weather influences the lives (0) everyone. The climate of any country

depends on its position on Earth, its (1)________from the sea and how high it is. In

countries which have sea all (2) them, like Britain and New Zealand,

winters are mild and summers are cool. There is not a huge change from one season

to (3) . Countries near the Equator have hot weather all year with some

(4) rain, except in deserts where it rains (5) little. Above the desert

there are no clouds in the sky so the (6) of the sun can easily warm the

ground during the day but it gets very cold at night. People are always (7) in

unusual weather and pictures of tornadoes, for example, shown on television. Strong

winds and rain can (8) a lot of damage to buildings and in spite of modern

(9) of weather forecasting they can (10) surprise us.

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Task 2

A friend in the rain

Last week I (0) В home after playing tennis when it (11) raining

very heavily. «Oh, no, I (12) soaked before I (13) home», I thought. «I wish I (14) to bring my raincoat». But unfortunately I (15)_____it at home. How stupid of me! I (16)______to bring it with me. Luckily just then a friend of mine passed in her car and offered me a lift. «(17)_____home? she asked», «or (18)____to go for a cup of hot tea?» «I think I'd rather you (19) me home,» I said. «If I (20)_______my

clothes, I know I (21) ill, and then I (22) to play in the

tennis tournament next week. And I (23) hard for the last month.» « I (24)______ for you to change if you (25)_________», she told me.' « I think

it's time you (26) for a change. You (27) too much about

things lately. And the one who (28) too much (29) ill

more easily. It's got nothing to do with the rain!»

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Task 3

30. An Englishman's home is his

a) security b) castle c) palace

31. Let sleeping dogs

a) sleep b) dream c)lie

32. Many make light work.

a) servants b) hands c) cooks

33. It takes all sorts to make a

a) world b) war c) salad

34. Prevention is better than

a) cure b) punishment c) medicine

35 is thicker than water.

a) coffee b) blood c) soup

36. A miss is as good as a

a) mister b) mile c) wife

37. Birds of a flock together.

a) family b) cage c) feather

38. It's no use crying over milk.

a) sour b) spilt c) tinned

39 begins at home.

a) charity b) learning c) love

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Part 4 (30 minutes)

Maximum points – 15

Writing

Libraries aren’t very popular with modern teens. Write a short article into your local newspaper expressing your opinion.

Remember to mention:

− why and where libraries appeared;

− if you and your friends go to the school library or any;

− what modern libraries offer to their visitors;

− what the future of libraries is;

− conclude your article with an appeal to your readers.

Write 120–150 words.

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Answer sheet

Part 1

Listening

Part 2

Reading

Part 3

Use of English

Task 1

Task 2

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Task 3

Part 4

Writing