Районная олимпиада 10 класс 2012 (80 points)
I. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
Last week police (1) _______________ (to arrest) Paul Dawson. They (2) _______________ (to suspect) him of being the leader of a gang of robbers who (3) _______________ (to steal) art treasures from museums and homes since last January. Prior to his arrest, Dawson (4) _______________ (to spend) two years in prison for theft. They (5) _______________ (to release) him only 16 months ago. The police (6) _______________ (to try) to find the gang’s hideout for months. They feel sure they (7) _______________ (to arrest) the rest of the gang by the end of the month. This (8) _______________ (to be) the biggest art theft operation to be uncovered since 1974 when police (9) _______________ (to catch) a gang which (10) _______________ (to steal) over a million pounds worth of paintings from galleries all over the country.
II. Read the text below and decide which word A, B, C, or D best fits each space.
HOMES
Some of the (0) very first homes were caves, which had walls and ceilings that (1) ________ wind, rain and prowling animals, and floors where people could sit or sleep.
Gradually, as the centuries (2) ________ people learned to build different kinds of homes. They needed homes that were (3) ________ for the place where they lived, and they used (4) ________ that were available locally. In dry places, houses were made of mud or clay. Where there was (5) ________ of wood, people built houses of logs or boards. On grassy (6) ________, they built homes of dry grass. People who lived near rivers made rafts or houseboats, or houses raised above the ground on stilts.
Homes today are (7) ________ built bearing the local environment and conditions in (8) ________. Residents of very hot places need houses that will keep them (9) ________, while people in the frozen north need houses that protect them from the cold. Indeed, the climate affects many of the (10) ________ of a house, such as the size, position and number of windows. Where weather conditions are extreme, for example, windows tend to be smaller. Our homes, comprising modern blocks of flats, (11) ________ a lot in common with those first caves, since they protect us against the weather and give us (12) ________ safe place to sleep.
| 0. | A) very | B) rather | C) mostly | D) extremely |
| 1. | A) put away | B) held up | C) kept out | D) carried off |
| 2. | A) went by | B) passed up | C) ran away | D) fell behind |
| 3. | A) suitable | B) fitted | C) matching | D) agreeable |
| 4. | A) supplies | B) fabrics | C) materials | D) objects |
| 5. | A) sufficient | B) plenty | C) enough | D) much |
| 6. | A) stages | B) flats | C) levels | D) plains |
| 7. | A) more | B) ever | C) still | D) yet |
| 8. | A) idea | B) memory | C) thought | D) mind |
| 9. | A) cool | B) frozen | C) chilled | D) lukewarm |
| 10. | A) factors | B) points | C) features | D) sides |
| 11. | A) keep | B) are | C) like | D) have |
| 12. | A) a | B) the | C) some | D) — |
III. Make the right choice.
1. The strata (contains / contain) fossils.
2. Please, fill in the form (by / at / with / in) pencil first. Then check it.
3. He hardly recognized you, (hadn’t he / didn’t he / did he)?
4. People (by / at / on / in) large were dissatisfied with the government’s decision.
5. He cut the wood-logs (by / without / at / with) an axe.
6. The Rainforests are (impassable / impenetrable / non-passible) in some places.
7. The audience (were / was) throwing flowers and jewelry onto the stage.
8. Cookies or cake (are / is) available.
9. (The / A / —) President Bush is popular in the USA.
10. (— / The / A) certain Mr. Gibson wants you on the phone.
IV. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence. Use the word given and other words to complete each sentence. You must use between two and five words. Do not change the word given.
1. He smoked a lot, so he had a very bad cough.
DUE
His very bad cough _________________________________________ a lot.
2. I’m sure he wasn’t sincere when he said he liked mice.
CAN’T
He _____________________________________ when he said he liked mice.
3. You ought to find a job.
TIME
It _______________________________________________________ a job.
4. The decorators were still painting the flat when I moved in.
PAINTED
The flat _________________________________________ when I moved in.
5. The phone isn’t working I’m afraid.
OUT
The phone ____________________________________________ I’m afraid.
6. If he hadn’t reacted so quickly, we would have been killed.
REACTION
But ____________________________________ we would have been killed.
7. I don’t mind being alone at weekends.
ON
I don’t mind ________________________________________ at weekends.
8. Can I speak to you in private?
WORD
Can I ________________________________________________ in private?
9. Please check this document for misprints.
SURE
Please __________________________________ misprints in this document.
10. Although he is rich, he is mean.
WEALTH
In __________________________________________________ he is mean.
V. For questions 1–10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
The Desire to Know
Curiosity goes back to the dawn of human (0) existence. This irrepressible EXIST
desire to know is not a (1) ______________ of inanimate objects. Nor CHARACTER
does it seem to be attributable to some forms of living organism which, for that very
reason, we can scarcely bring ourselves to consider alive. A tree, for example, does
not display (2) _______________ curiosity, nor does a sponge or even an RECOGNISE
oyster. If chance events bring them poison, predators or parasites, they die as
(3) ____________ as they lived. CEREMONIOUS
Early in the scheme of life, (4) ___________________ motion was developed by DEPEND
some organisms. It meant an (5) _______________ advance in their control of ORDINARY
the environment. A moving organism no longer waited in stolid (6) ______________ RIGID
for food to come its way, but went out after it. The individual that hesitated in the
(7) _______________ search for food, or that was overly ZEAL
(8) _______________ in its investigation, starved. CONSERVE
As organisms grew more complex, more messages of greater variety were
received from and about the (9) ____________________ environment. At the same ROUND
time, the nervous system, the living instrument that interprets and stores the data
collected by the sense organs, became (10) ________________ complex. INCREASE
VI. For questions 1–6, think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences. Here is an example (0).
0. Some of the tourists are hoping to get compensation for the poor state of the hotel, and I think they have a very _____ strong ___ case.
There’s no point in trying to wade across the river, the current is far too _____ strong ____.
If you’re asking me which of the candidates should get the job, I’m afraid I don’t have any _____strong _____views either way.
1. When he was in his nineties, the famous writer’s health began to _______________.
If the potato crop were to _______________, it would create any problems for the local people.
Please do not _______________ to check the safety precautions for this device.
2. In the _______________ term, this new proposal could mean a property tax with substantial rebates for the poor.
Running up the stairs left her _______________ of breath.
The kids made _______________ work of the cakes and ice-cream at the party.
3. Sven was the star ___________ in the school review with his impersonation of all the teachers.
It’ll be my _______________ to cook meal for both of us next weekend.
Don’t drive too fast as you approach the next ____________ because there’s a sharp embankment.
4. When you take into _______________ the difficulties they faced, you must admit the team did well to come second.
After he had visited the theme park, Trevor gave us a detailed _______________ of the attractions.
Clara asked the shop assistant to charge the jacket to her _______________.
5. I thought I had a good solution to the problem, but my plan was _______________ by the director, who said it would be too expensive.
In many parts of the country, black clouds completely _______________ out the sun, and whole towns were cast into semi-darkness.
Enrico had to take a different route home because the main road was _______________ by a lorry which had overturned.
6. When I hesitated over the price, the salesman came up with a special _______________.
There’s a great _______________ of rubbish at the bottom of the garden.
The two sides tried and failed to come to a _______________.
VII. Read the text. Some of the lines are correct and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (V) in the space provided. If a line has a word which should not be there, write it in the space provided.
| A Trip to the Funfair 0. We have had been planning for a long time to go to 00. the funfair for my brother’s birthday, so on the big 1. day we all piled up into the car and set off. The traffic 2. was so much bad that day that it took us nearly two hours 3. to get there. Then we discovered that half the people 4. in town had been had the same idea. The place was so packed 5. that you could no hardly move. My brother wanted to go 6. on the roller coaster, so we joined the queue—which it seemed 7. to be about a mile long—and waited for our turn. 8. By far the time we got to the front of the queue, my sister 9. was complaining that she was so afraid to go on the ride, 10. and even my brother looked a bit of apprehensive. Just then 11. a man announced that there was a technical problem 12. and the ride was made closed. With a sigh of relief we went to get something to eat. | 0. have 00. V 1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______ 6. ______ 7. ______ 8. ______ 9. ______ 10. ______ 11. ______ 12. _______ |
VIII. Complete each of the idioms below.
| off the point | flat out | for good | full of beans |
| down to earth | in a nutshell | out of the blue | in black and white |
1. I want everything ____________________ before I sign anything.
2. He’s quiet, sensible, and ____________________.
3. We were discussing politics when, ______, she started talking about her daughter’s boyfriend.
4. The child is so _______________ that it’s tiring to be with him.
5. I’m _______________ — I think I’d better go to bed.
6. After his wife’s death he left town ____________________.
7. ____________________, my plan is to buy land.
8. What I think about him is ____________________.
IX. Multicultural knowledge. Circle the right variant.
1. What is the nickname of a British policeman?
a) Cop b) Bobby c) Charley d) Willy
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Районная олимпиада 10 класс 2012
| I. 1) arrested 2) suspect/suspected 3) have stolen/had stolen 4) had spent 5) had released 6) had been trying 7) will have arrested 8) is 9) caught 10) had stolen II. l)C 2)A 3) A 4) C 5) B 6) D 7) C 8) D 9) A 10) C 11) D 12) A III. 1) contain 2) in 3) did he 4) at 5) with 6) impassible 7) were 8) is 9) — 10) A IV. 1) was due to his smoking 2) can’t have been sincere 3) is time you found 4) was still being painted 5) is out of order 6) for his quick reaction 7) being on my own 8) have a word (with you) 9) make sure there are no 10) spite of his wealth
| V. 1) characteristic 2) recognisable/recognizable 3) unceremoniously 4) independent 5) extraordinary 6) rigidity 7) zealous 8) conservative 9) surrounding 10) increasingly VI. 1) fail 2) short 3) turn 4) account 5) blocked 6) deal VII. 1) up 2) much 3) V 4) been 5) no 6) it 7) V 8) far 9) so 10) of 11) V 12) made VIII. 1) in black and white 2) down to earth 3) out of the blue 4) full of beans 5) flat out 6) for good 7) in a nutshell 8) off the point IX. 1) b
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