Олимпиада по английскому языку. 8 класс. Школьный этап.

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__________ А.Р. Сейманова

Олимпиада. Школьный этап. Английский язык. 8 класса

Максимальное количество баллов – 45 балла

READING -15 баллов

I. Read the text and answer the questions

In 1608 an Englishman whose name was Thomas Coryate visited Italy. He liked the country and noted down every interesting thing he found. But there was one thing which he found more interesting than others. In his diary Thomas wrote, ‘When the Italians eat meat, they use small forks. They do not eat with hands because, as they say, people do not always have clean hands. Before leaving for England, Thomas Coryate bought a few forks.

At home Thomas gave a dinner party to show the invention to his friends. When the servant brought the steak, he took out a fork and began to eat like they did in Italy. Everybody looked at him in surprise. When he told his friends what it was, they all wanted to take a good look at the strange thing. All his friends said that the Italians were very strange people because the fork was very inconvenient.

Thomas Coryate tried to prove the opposite. He said it was not nice to eat meat with one’s fingers because they were not always clean. Everybody got angry at that. Did Mr Coryate think that people in England always had dirty hands? And weren’t the ten fingers they had enough for then?

Thomas Coryate wanted to show that it was very easy to use the fork. But the first piece of meat he took with the fork fell to the floor. His friends began to laugh and he had to take the fork away.

Only fifty years later did people in England begin to use forks.

1. Why did Thomas Coryate bring forks to England?

1. He wanted to make his friends surprised?

2. He believed it was not nice to eat meat with fingers.

3. Forks were beautiful.

4. He wanted to make business selling forks.

1. Why did everybody look at Thomas when he began to eat like the Italians?

1. They believed it to be bad manners.

2. Nobody ate meat with hands in England.

3. Everybody thought it was an amazing invention.

4. Nobody had seen a fork before.

1. Coryate’s friends _________________

1. began to eat meat with forks at once

2. became ashamed of eating meat with their hands

3. didn’t like the forks

4. didn’t pay any attention to the forks

1. Why did the first piece of meat fall to the floor when Thomas took it with the fork?

1. The fork was very inconvenient to use.

2. The fork was bad.

3. Thomas was not used to eating with a fork.

4. The steak was too tough.

1. When did people in England begin to use forks?

1. In 1658

2. In 1568

3. In 1856

4. In 1685

II. Read the text and choose the correct phrase for each gap. Be careful! There is one extra phrase

School news

This week we (1) ________ a lot of things at school. Students in Class1 (2) ______ over 3000 aluminum cans. We (3) _____ these to the town recycling center. Students in Class 2E (4) _____ the playground. They (5) _______ a lot of things – so if you (6) ______ something, ask Class 2E!

Students in Class 3D (7) _____ large rubbish bins in the playground. Please put your rubbish there, in future! Class 3G (8) __________ “Save it” posters for each classroom. Class 5 (9) _______ a lot of old books, clothes and toys. They are going to have a sale on 17^th March. Please come! We (10) _______ another meeting on 20^th March. Please come with more ideas.

1. have brought

2. have collected

3. have taken

4. have designed

5. have found

6. have lost

7. have put

8. have cleaned

9. have done

10. have planned

11. have planted

Use of English -13 баллов

I. Read the text. Choose the best word (A, B or C) for each space (1-8).

If you 1 ____ to Birmingham, you 2 ____ also visit Stratford-upon-Avon. This is the town where William Shakespeare 3 ____and it`s only thirty-five 4_____ from Birmingham. Shakespeare, 5 ____ was one of the greatest writers of all time, grew 6 ____ in this little town. You can still visit his birthplace, a small house that 7 _____ hundreds of years ago. The town 8 ____ by thousands of tourists every year and there are lots of things to see and do there.

1. A go B will go C went

2. A need B should C mustn`t

3. A born B is born C was born

4. A litres B kilograms C kilometres

5. A who B which C that

6. A on B up C out

7. A built B was built C is built

8. A visits B is visiting C is visited

II. Write the correct form of the word.

Прочитайте приведенные ниже предложения 1-10. Употребите слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами, в необходимой грамматической форме

1. He wants some _____________ about London excursions. INFORM

2. Her boyfriend is very ________________. ROMANCE

3. My friend is __________. OPTIMISM

4. The woman across the street is very ____________. ATTRACT

5. The film was quite ________. BORE

SOCIO-CULTURAL COMPETENCE – 7 баллов

Match the English and Russian idioms.

1. piece of cake

2. eat one’s words

3. as cool as a cucumber

4. have a finger in every pie

5. cry over spilt milk

6. hot potato

7. sell like hot cakes

a) спокойный как удав

b) пустяковое дело

c) лезть во все дела

d) очень быстро продаваться

e) пустяковое дело

f) что упало, то пропало

g) взять свои слова назад

WRITING -10 баллов

Write an e-mail to your English penfriend about your Russian friend. In your e-mail write:

• name of person

• what he / she does

• character qualities

• why you find him / her interesting

Write 100 – 110 words

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