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Gymnasium OLYMPIAD WORK 2018

English Contest

9 form

Variant I

I. Entitle each passage, fill in the left blank with the proper title and find and odd title:

1. Comedy festivals E. Children's events

2. Music F. Dance workshop

3. Visual arts G. Amateur drama

4. Dance H. Lectures and courses

   1. A cat that's too old to catch mice, a dog that's too old to hunt, but they're not too old to run away to Bremley Town to become musicians. This new presentation by the internationally renowned Little Angel Theatre company, takes a fresh and poetic look at Grimm's loveable and popular folk tale the Musicians of Bremen. Using actors, puppets, masks and music, our story takes our heroes from the safety of the town to the edge of the forest where the robbers live.

   2. Jane Eyre is one of the best loved classics of the English language. In this latest production by the Bexhill amateur Theatrical Society the exciting and dramatic episodes in the romance between Mr. Rochester, the strange master of Thornfiled Hall, and the new governess, are brought to life. Bertha's attack on Richard Mason, the wedding ceremony, the fire in the night and the ultimate reconciliation, are all portrayed in this new adaptation for stage.

   3. Widely regarded as Europe's finest professional jazz dance company, the Lindy Hoppers are best known for their spectacular are breathtaking performances of the Lindy Hop - the original form of "jive" dancing originating in 1920s USA. Wear Jazz shoes or light trainers and socks - no bare feet please! Great fun for everyone. No experience needed.

   4. Shakespeare's enduring masterpiece is presented in all its colourful humour and enchantment. A Midsummer Night's Dream concerns the adventures and misadventures of a group of mortals and immortals in their resolutions of the confusions and problems of loving and being loved. It is called a "dream" because of the unrealistic happenings that occur to the characters. Choreography is by the company's artistic director and features international soloists from Australia, Germany, England and New Zealand.

   5. People love to tell stories about things that have happened to them in their lives. This five-day course is an opportunity to do this by means of pictures. It is designed for people of all levels and experience to develop ways of making visual narratives about, for example, memories, family, life work, leisure, places, politics, history and more.

   6. Playing hot dance music from the 20s and 30s, the Pasadena Roof Orchestra is one of the most consistently requested at the Pavilion. Despite its name, taken from the early hit Pasadena, and its unrivalled international reputation, the Pasadena Roof Orchestra is quintessentially 'British', flawlessly performing strict tempo dance music from the pens of Berlin, Ellington and Gershwin, including favourites like Let's Face the Music and Dance.

   7. An exhibition of work made by children with special needs from Bexhill during an Art Residency in October. The children were encouraged to work with paint, sand, clay and plaster. The exhibition includes paintings and plaster casts with photographs and documentation of the residency.

Odd title:

II. Read the text and complete the sentences.

A Great Composer

George Frederic Handel was born in Germany in 1684. His father wanted him to be alawyer and discouraged the boy from____1______ in any way. He, in fact, forbade his son totouch any_____2_____whatever. But young George was not one to accept defeat so _____3_____. Being a boy of resourceful mind he smuggled a small clavichord into the garret where heused to amuse himself while the family _____4_______

Once the duke while going into the church was surprised at hearing someone playing ____5________ .

What was ____6______when he found in the organ-loft ... a child of seven!It was Handel. After that the duke persuaded the boy's father to place his son under the organist as a pupil. When George was fourteen he far excelled his teacher. It took him a few more years to surpass any outstanding masters in composition as well.

First Handel went to Italy where he spent six years living in such towns as Florence, Venice and Rome. While in Florence he produced his opera "Rodrigo". His fame kept steadily _____7______ and the English nobility did their best to induce him to come to London. After ____8______ which touched him deeply he decided to make England his permanent residence.Shortly before his death a great misfortune befell him. He was afflicted with _____9____. But disease failed to break Handel's spirit and he continued to perform in public. Likemany other great people, Handel was buried in _____10____.

1. Westminster Abbey

2. his amazement

3. spreading

4. so well on the organ

5. the family was asleep

6. easily

7. musical instrument

8. a very warm reception

9. total blindness

10. studying music

III. Open the brackets to complete the text.

They Overdid it

The London police were looking for a criminal who (1) (rob) _________ a bank. One day they (2) (catch) _______ him and (3) (take) _______ him to prison. But while they (4) (take) ________ photographs of him from the front, from the left, from the right, with a hat, without a hat – he suddenly (5) (attack) _________ one of the policemen and (6) (run away) _________.

Then a week later the telephone (7) (ring) ________ in the police station and somebody (8) (say) _________: “You (9) (look for) _________ Ben Jackson, aren’t you?” – “Yes.” – “Well, he (10) ________ at Victoria Station an hour ago. He (11) (leave, probably) _________ London by now.”

The city police immediately (12) (send) _________ for different photos of the robber to the railway police. All the trains (13) (search) _________.

Less than two hours later they (14) (get) _________a telephone call from a small town not far from London. “ We (15) (catch)____________ three of the men,” they said happily, “and we hope to catch the fourth very soon.”

IV. Use the derivatives of the worlds to complete the text.

V. Read the text below and decide which answer best fits each space.

Washington is the 19^th largest state of the U.S. Farmland covers 6.4 million hectares, or more than one-third of the state. Crops are grown on 50 percent of the farmland; ___1____ is devoted to range, pasture, and forest. Crop sales account for 70 percent of annual farm income. Eastern Washington specializes in a cash-grain type of farming, growing spring and winter wheat and barley. This pattern ____2____ way in the northeastern countries to lives too___3___ and westward, in the irrigated lands of the Columbia Basin and the eastern slopes of the Cascades to fruit and nut growing and lives too Apples make ____4___ almost one-fifth of all annual soles and Washington leads the nation in commercial apple production. In 2004 cattle and milk production together accounted for about one-quarter of the state’s farm ___5____. Dairying is carried on in the Puget Sound lowland, ____6____ to the cities that have a big ___7____ for milk. Poultry is also raised in this area. Cattle ranching is confined to eastern Washington.

1. a) whole b) all c) rest d) others

2. a) takes b) gives c) yields d) passes

3. a) raising b) rising c) care d) arising

4. a) up b) out c) on d) in

5. a) receipt b) loss c) income d) credit

6. a) near b) nearly c) close d) nearby

7. a) rise b) demand c) interest d) tradition

VI. You have received a letter from your English speaking pen friend Mary who writes:

… Our school administration is planning to introduce a new school uniform. Students and parents are welcome to come up with ideas. Personally I’m quite happy with the old one - a white shirt or a blouse and a tie for both boys and girls. Do all school students in your town wear a uniform? What’s your idea of a good school uniform? Should it be the same for boys and girls? Just imagine I am going on an exchange school program to France!

Write a letter to Mary.

In your letter

- answer her questions

- ask 3 questions about her going on an exchange school program write 100-140 words.

Remember the rules of letter writing.

VII. Comment on the following statement.

Work is the most important thing in one’s life.

What’s your opinion? Do you agree with this statement? Write 150-200 words.

Use the following plan:

- make an introduction (state the problem)

- express your personal opinion and give 2-3 reasons for your opinion.

- express an opposing opinion and give 1-2 reasons for this opposing opinion

- explain why you don’t agree with the opposing opinion

- make a conclusion.

KEYS:

I.

II. Read the text and complete the sentences.

III. 1) had robbed; 2) caught; 3) took; 4) were taking; 5) attacked; 6) ran away; 7) rang; 8) said; 9) are looking for; 10) was; 11) has probably left; 12) sent; 13) were searched; 14) got; 15) have caught.

IV.

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