Школьная олимпиада для учащихся 9 классов

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по английскому языку для 9-11 классов (2013-2014 учебный год)

Раздел 1 (Чтение)

1. Установите соответствие между заголовками 1 – 8 и текстами A – G. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.

1. A change in temper 5. Funny

2. Devoted 6. Natural temper

3. Inappropriate self confidence 7. Sensitive soul

4. Nervous 8. Inconvenient

A. My sister is a really happy soul and everybody loves her. She is often in a good mood and

rarely angry – but she does cry a lot! If she watches a film with a really sad ending it makes

her cry. What is more surprising is that if she sees a film with a really happy ending – the

changes are that we will still see wet cheeks. Even hearing our baby brother singing one of

his nursery rhymes will set her off!

B. Robert Long and Arthur Short are work colleagues and they have known each other since

school days. But they often make people laugh when first introduced since Robert Long

could easily get a part in a stage production of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. Arthur

Short, meanwhile, would not look out of place in a pro Basket Ball team although he is

useless at the game.

C. In the past, the smallest things made him angry – he was always shouting and raging. Shop

assistants, traffic lights, the TV news – almost anything could make him erupt! Cynthia’s

suggestion that he put a pound in a jar each time he got angry proved helpful. Now,

sometimes, he even begins to laugh the monument he notices he is angry. When the jar is full

he’s promised to treat Cynthia to a meal.

D. We live in a village two miles away from Brighton. There is a good bus service in terms of

lots of buses available that generally arrive on time. The problem is that few of them go

direct to our village. Instead they make detours down to the Marina and up various

residential roads making dozens of stops before reaching our village. What should take 5

minutes sometimes takes almost half an hour.

E. Andy has a terrible singing voice. However he likes to sing and when he sings he is usually

very loud and out of tune. Liz thinks that he cannot hear his own voice properly. She assumes

that Andy actually believes he has a marvelous voice and anyone who happens to hear one of

his beautiful performances is simply lucky. Certainly nobody has ever suspected Andy of

being faint hearted or shy.

F. Susie loves Rags – her cheerful, faithful and furry companion. She takes him walking every

morning and evening and if she cycles to her friend’s house, Rags is invited to run along

behind. She never forgets his birthday and is always buying him special toys and tasty treats.

I’ll never forget how sad she was when Rags went missing for a week. She cried every day

he was away.

G. What starts the “terrible two” syndrome on a child’s second birthday? During the first year

and 364 days they are smiling, cooing and sweet as can be. The next day they become mini

gangsters – screaming, biting, hair pulling and scratching! I am not sure but many

psychologists believe that it is because they lack needed language skills and are angry

because they can’t communicate.

1. Прочитайте рассказ и выполните задание. В каждом задание обведите цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному вами варианта ответа.

The Fence

Have you ever noticed how some people are so arrogant that they simply refuse to listen to advice, even when it is freely offered? Take our new neighbours, for instance. I honestly th ink that they would rather drive their car straight over the edge of a cliff than take any notice of well-intentioned warnings about anything. They are the sort who simply think they know everything.

We live in one of the most exposed areas in the whole of England, five hundred feet above sea level and nothing between us and the American continent but the Atlantic Ocean. It’s a beautiful place to be on a calm summer’s evening; wonderful sunsets, that kind of thing. Unfortunately, we enjoy such days about as frequently as we enjoy visits from my brother in Australia; most of the year there is a howling gale blowing in from the Atlantic. Which is why people round our way have never dreamt of putting up huge wooden fences to enclose their gardens. The privacy they often might be nice, but we know that a fence like that wouldn’t last five minutes, so we just have a couple of strands of cheap wire between the gardens to mark our boundaries. All very open and friendly – but evidently our new neighbours next door didn’t see it that way.

Of course, they never told us what they were planning to do, so we couldn’t have told them that they were making a big mistake, even if we had thought they would listen! The only warning we had was the arrival of a big lorry on one of our calmer days loaded with timber; believe our eyes. And then things started to turn nasty – very nasty.

Before the lorry driver and his colleague had finished unloading the materials to build the fence, another group of workmen turned up in an old van. There were four of them, big men armed with crowbars, pickaxes, spades and goodness knows what else. They looked as though they were about to rob a bank! To our astonishment, they marched into our garden without so much as a nod or a wink. Then they started digging holes for the fence posts, making a terrible mess as they did so. By this time, I had had enough. The neighbours had conveniently decided to take a short holiday while all this was going on, so I called the police, who responded quickly. Politely, they explained to the four gentlemen that, yes, of course they could put up their nice fence, but not from our garden. The absent neighbor should have asked us in writing first.

The next evening, the neighbours were back, looking very pleased with themselves and their beautiful new fence. In fact, they were so busy congratulating one another that they failed to notice that the wind was starting to pick up. Not that they would have attached any significance to this, anyway.

That night, at about two in the morning and the wind blowing strongly from the west, there was a huge crash outside. I didn’t bother to get out of bed to investigate. I could guess what it was.

There is some new woodwork in the neighbours’ garden now: a ‘For Sale’ sign. Nobody around here will be sorry to see them go. And they can take the ruins of their fence with them.

A1. In the first paragraph, the writer is complaining about the new neighbours’

1. plans.

2. attitude.

3. driving.

4. lifestyle.

A2. The area where the writer lives

1. is popular

2. has beautiful sunsets most days.

3. has a very small population.

4. is extremely close to the sea.

A3. People in the area don’t put up fences because

1. they don’t want to block out the beautiful views.

2. they are very friendly and sociable.

3. they know they are impractical.

4. they can’t afford to.

A4. The writer didn’t advise the new neighbours not to put up a fence because

1. he didn’t have the chance until it was too late.

2. he and his wife were on holiday at the time.

3. he wasn’t on speaking terms with them.

4. he wanted them to learn a lesson from their mistake.

A5. “this” (line 4, paragraph five) refers to

1. how the fence looked.

2. the neighbours’ happiness.

3. the change in the weather.

4. the writer’s opinion.

A6. The writer didn’t go to find out what made the noise in the night because

1. he already knew.

2. it was too windy.

3. he didn’t care.

4. such noises were common.

Раздел 2 (Лексико-грамматический тест)

1. Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные справа так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами.

Rules for Wildlife Watchers

There are a few rules that all 1_____to the wildlife visit

reserves observe. 2_____ these rules is necessary follow

if people want to enjoy themselves and have an 3____ forget

experience. First of all, it is 4______ to leave your car in the advise

park so as to cause as little disturbance as possible to

the varied wildlife. The animals can be easily 5_________ fright

by unexpected noises, 6______those made by machines. particular

Secondly, people need to be 7______ if they want to see patience

the animals in their natural 8_______. This often means that surround

people have to put up with 9______ weather conditions pleasant

and 10______ insects. annoy

1. Из четырех вариантов(A), (B), (C), (D) выберите единственно правильный.

1. I _______ home when I met my classmates.

1. went

2. had been walking

3. was walking

4. am walking

1. He didn’t know ________.

1. where the umbrella is

2. where had the umbrella been

3. where is the umbrella

4. where the umbrella was

1. He wasn’t going to let them _______him off his land.

1. to drive

2. drive

3. driving

4. drove

1. Innovations in ____ technology have improved pages, making them _____smaller, more affordable.

1. computer, much more

2. computer’s, much

3. computer, much

4. computer’s, more

1. Her parents ______ that she had won and ran over to kiss her.

1. were delighting

2. were delightened

3. were delightful

4. were delighted

1. _________, I’d like to say that everyone should be able to work, if they want to.

1. In the conclusion

2. As a conclusion

3. In conclusion

4. As the conclusion

1. ____in a traffic jam, with family cars inching their _____ past, the driver of a fast sports car begins to lose his temper.

1. Set, path

2. Stuck, way

3. Held, course

4. Sat, street

1. He’s interested in the ______achievements of science and _______.

1. last, technique

2. last, technology

3. latest, technique

4. latest, technology

1. Jane did very well on the exam. She _____ have studied very hard.

1. had to

2. need

3. should

4. must

1. Hold on, I’ll try to put you _____.

1. through

2. out

3. on

4. off

Раздел 3 (Письмо)

You have 20 minutes to do the task.

You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend Mark, who writes:

…it’s not long now until I come to visit you! How do I get to your house from the airport? I would like to bring a gift for your parents to say thank you for letting me stay with them – any ideas? Is there anything else that I should bring?

My grandparents will be celebrating their fortieth wedding anniversary next week …

Write back to Mark. In your letter:

• answer her questions

• ask 3 questions about his grandparents

Write 100-140 words.

Remember the rules of letter writing.

Ответы

1. Чтение

1 задание: 7 заданий по 2 балла, всего 14 баллов.

1. задание: 7 заданий по 3 балла, всего 21 балл.

1. Лексика и грамматика

20 заданий по 2 балла, всего 40 баллов

Ответы

1. Лексика и грамматика

20 заданий по 2 балла, всего 40 баллов

1.

1. visitors

2. following

3. unforgettable

4. advisable

5. frightened

6. particularly

7. patient

8. surroundings

9. unpleasant

10. annoying

2.

1. C

2. D

3. B

4. C

5. D

6. C

7. B

8. D

9. D

10. A

Раздел 3 Письмо

Всего 25 баллов

содержание –8 баллов

лексика – 5 баллов грамматика – 5 баллов

организация – 7 баллов

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