Олимпиадные задания по английскому языку

Олимпиада  школьников по английскому языку.

Муниципальный этап. 2018-2019 уч. год

7-8 классы

Общее количество баллов 75

ANSWER SHEET

LISTENING – 10 баллов (1 балл за правильный ответ)

READING - 20 баллов (1 балл за правильный ответ)

USE OF ENGLISH -25 баллов

Пожалуйста, внимательно ознакомьтесь с условиями участия посредством массовой регистрации. Если этот способ участия Вам подходит, пожалуйста, следуйте инструкции.

Если данный вид регистрации и проведения первого тура Олимпиады Вам не подходит Ваши ученики могут принять участие в Олимпиаде посредством самостоятельной регистрации на сайте Олимпиады https://univercandidate.com/ 

Массовая регистрация участников в первом туре Олимпиады необходима, если индивидуальная регистрация каждого ученика на сайте и прохождение Олимпиады онлайн затруднительны или не возможны.

ВНИМАНИЕ! Если Вы выбрали этот способ участия в первом туре Олимпиады, для Ваших учеников, принимающих участие в первом туре Олимпиады, личные кабинеты не создаются.

В этом случае для таких участников первый тур Олимпиады проводится оффлайн.

Учитель, осуществляющий проведение первого тура Олимпиады оффлайн, берет на себя функции организатора.

Участники, прошедшие во второй тур Олимпиады, для принятия участия во втором туре В ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬНОМ ПОРЯДКЕ должны будут пройти процедуру ИНДИВИДУАЛЬНОЙ РЕГИСТРАЦИИ на сайте Олимпиады.

Второй тур Олимпиады будет проводиться ТОЛЬКО В РЕЖИМЕ ОНЛАЙН.

Что нужно для того, чтобы провести первый тур Олимпиады оффлайн:

1. Заполните форму (находится ниже).

ВНИМАНИЕ! Вы должны заполнять форму максимально внимательно, правильно указывая требуемые данные:

- фамилию, имя, отчество (БЕЗ СОКРАЩЕНИЙ) каждого ученика,

- дату рождения ученика,

- класс ученика,

- фамилию, имя, отчество (БЕЗ СОКРАЩЕНИЙ) преподавателя, осуществляющего обучение ученика,

- наименование, регион и город нахождения школы

2. После заполнения формы, ее проверки Вы отправляете ее в Службу Поддержки Олимпиады info@univercandidate.com.

3. После оправки формы на Ваш адрес электронной почты придет ЕДИНЫЙ счет для оплаты оргвзноса за всех указанных в форме учеников.

 ВНИМАНИЕ! Счет на оплату придет в течение 24 часов с  момента отправки формы.

4. Получив единый счет на оплату оргвзноса за всех учеников, указанных в форме, оплатите счет любым удобным для Вас способом (наличными в банке, через интернет-банк, Сбербанк-онлайн, через бухгалтерию школы).

5. После оплаты счета отправьте подтверждение об оплате (скан или копию платежки/чека/квитанции или скрин об оплате) в Службу Поддержки Олимпиады info@univercandidate.com.

6. В день проведения Олимпиады на Вашу электронную почту, указанную в форме, будут направлены олимпиадные задания в соответствии с классами, указанными в форме.

7. Далее Ваша задача – провести первый тур Олимпиады.

1.  Для этого Вы распечатываете и раздаете участникам задания, соответствующие классу каждого участника и проводите первый тур.

ВНИМАНИЕ! Задания каждого участника должны быть подписаны – должна стоять его фамилия, имя, отчество (БЕЗ СОКРАЩЕНИЙ).

Помните, что на проведение первого тура отводится 120 минут.

Использование участниками справочной литературы, электронных устройств, средств связи, вычислительных устройств для получения ответов, помощи учителя и любых иных внешних источников информации не допускается.

Участникам и учителям запрещается:

- передавать печатные и электронные материалы Олимпиады третьим лицам, не имеющим отношения к Олимпиаде, за исключением случаев, предусмотренных законодательством РФ;

- использовать результаты Олимпиад в целях, которые могут привести к нарушению прав субъектов персональных данных - участников.

Участникам и Организаторам-учителям запрещается размещать в сети Интернет информацию, касающуюся Олимпиады, до подведения итогов и размещения их на официальном сайте олимпиады http://univercandidate.com.

2. По истечении 120 минут Вы собираете задания участников.

8.  На следующий день после даты проведения первого тура Олимпиады на Вашу электронную почту, указанную в форме, будут направлены ответы на олимпиадные задания в соответствии с классами, указанными в форме.

9. В течение ДВУХ ДНЕЙ с даты получения ответов на олимпиадные задания Вы должны самостоятельно осуществить проверку заданий участников.

ПРИ ПРОВЕРКЕ ИСПРАВЛЕНИЯ И ОТМЕТКИ О ПРАВИЛЬНОСТИ ВЫПОЛНЕНИЯ ЗАДАНИЙ ДЕЛАЙТЕ НЕПОСРЕДСТВЕННОЙ В ЗАДАНИЯХ УЧАСТНИКОВ.

10. После проверки заданий, но не позднее ТРЕТЬЕГО ДНЯ с даты получения ответов на олимпиадные задания Вы должны отправить отсканированные задания участников с результатами проверки на электронную почту Олимпиады info@univercandidate.com.

11. После получения проверенных Вами ответов и их проверки на сайте будут опубликованы результаты первого тура Олимпиады. Дополнительно на вашу электронную почту будет направлено письмо с подтверждением результатов.

С уважением,

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READING

Time: 45 minutes (40 scores)

Task 1

For items 1–10, read the passage below and choose option A, B, C or D which best fits according to the text.

Duncan Phyfe

Duncan Phyfe made some of the most beautiful furniture found in America. His family name was originally Fife, and he was born in Scotland in 1768. In 1784, the Fife family immigrated to Albany, New York where Duncan’s father opened a cabinet making shop. Duncan followed in his father’s footsteps and was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker. After completing his training, Duncan moved to New York City. Duncan Fife was first mentioned in the 1792 NYC Directory as a furniture “joiner” in business at 2 Broad Street. Two years later, he moved, expanded his business, and changed his name to Phyfe. He was a quiet-living, God-fearing young man who felt his new name would probably appeal to potential customers who were definitely anti-British in this post-Revolutionary War period. Duncan Phyfe’s name distinguished him from his contemporaries. Although the new spelling helped him better compete with French émigré craftsmen, his new name had more to do with hanging it on a sign over his door stoop.
The artisans and merchants who came to America discovered a unique kind of freedom. They were no longer restricted by class and guild traditions of Europe. For the first time in history, a man learned that by working hard, he could build his business based on his own name and reputation and quality of work. Phyfe’s workshop apparently took off immediately. At the peak of his success, Phyfe employed 100 craftsmen. Some economic historians point to Phyfe as having employed division of labor and an assembly line. What his workshop produced shows Phyfe’s absolute dedication to quality in workmanship. Each piece of furniture was made of the best available materials. He was reported to have paid $1,000 for a single Santo Domingo mahogany log.

Phyfe did not create new designs. Rather, he borrowed from a broad range of the period’s classical styles, Empire, Sheraton, Regency, and French Classical among them. Nevertheless, Phyfe’s high quality craftsmanship established him as America’s patriotic interpreter of European design in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although the number of pieces produced by Duncan Phyfe’s workshop is enormous, comparatively few marked or labeled pieces have been found extant. In antiques shops and auctions, collectors have paid $11,000 for a card table, $24,200 for a tea table, and $93,500 for a sewing table.

1. Based on the information in the passage, what can be inferred about Duncan Phyfe?

• A) He regretted that Great Britain no longer governed New York City.
• B) He was an excellent businessman with a good sense of craftsmanship and design.
• C) He built all his furniture by himself in a workshop in Santo Domingo.
• D) He joined the cabinetmakers’ guild after he moved to Scotland in 1792.

2. According to the passage, which of the following does the author imply?

• A) Duncan Fife and his father had the same first name.
• B) Duncan Fife worked for his father in Scotland.
• C) Duncan Phyfe made over 100 different kinds of tables.
• D) Duncan Fife and his father were in the same business.

3. Which sentence in paragraph 2 explains Duncan’s name change?

• A) The third sentence.
• B) The second sentence.
• C) The first sentence.
• D) None of the above.

4. Which choice does the word ‘it’ refer to in the second paragraph?

• A) His spelling.
• B) His chair.
• C) His name.
• D) His French.

5. Which of the following does the word ‘freedom’ refer to?

• A) Restricted.
• B) No longer restricted.
• C) By working hard.
• D) Took off.

6. Which choice is closest in meaning to the word ‘guild’ in the third paragraph?

• A) Organization of craftsmen.
• B) Verdict of a jury.
• C) Political party of émigrés.
• D) Immigrants’ club.

7. Where in the passage could the following sentence be added to the passage? Every joint was tight, and the carved elements were beautifully executed.

• A) After the word “workmanship” in paragraph 3.
• B) After the word “cabinetmaker” in paragraph 1.
• C) After the word “stoop” in paragraph 2.
• D) After the words “sewing table” in the last paragraph.

8. In his business, Duncan Phyfe used all of the following EXCEPT:

• A) division of labor.
• B) an assembly line.
• C) continental designs.
• D) inexpensive materials.

9. Based on information in the passage, what can be inferred about Duncan Phyfe’s death?

• A) He died in the eighteenth century.
• B) He died in England.
• C) He died in the nineteenth century.
• D) He died in Scotland.

10. The author implies that furniture from Duncan Phyfe’s work-shop

• A) no longer exists.
• B) costs a lot of money today.
• C) was ignored by New Yorkers.
• D) was made by his father.

Task 2

For items 11–20, read the passage below and choose which of the sentences A–K fit into the numbered gaps in the text. There is one extra sentence which does not fit in any of the gaps. Write the correct letter in boxes 11–20 on your answer sheet.

Ever since the 1910s, when film-makers first set up shops in Hollywood, mapmakers have been making quite unusual and even unique things: maps showing the locations of the fabulous homes of the stars. Collectively, they form an unofficial version of the Oscars, showing who’s in and who’s out in the film world. ‘Each one looks different,’ says Linda Welton, whose grandfather and mother pioneered these maps. 11 ________. Former film stars vanish from them, new ones appear on them, and some of the truly greats are permanent fixtures on them.
In 1933, noticing the steady stream of tourists going westward to follow the stars from Hollywood to Beverly Hills (the nearby district where most of the stars went to live), Linda’s grandfather, Wesley Lake, got a copyright for his Guide to Starland: Estates and Mansions. 12 ________. For 40 years Linda’s mother, Vivienne, sold maps just down the road from Cary Cooper’s place at 200, Baroda*. The asterisk indicates that it was the actor’s final home, as opposed to a plus sign (denoting an ex-home) or a zero (for no view from the street).
‘My grandfather asked Mom to talk to the gardeners to find out where the stars lived,’ Linda recalls. ‘She would come up to them and say: “ 13 ________” Who would suspect a little girl?’ Linda Welton and her team now sell about 10,000 maps a year from a folding chair parked curbside six days a week. 14 ________.

GRADE 8

Part 1.  Reading

Read the texts about famous women.

For questions 1- 5, put the correct letter (A-H) on your answer sheet.

1. Florence Nightingale was impatient with a life without meaningful purpose. By age 24, Florence rejected a marriage proposal and decided to be a nurse. For several years Florence pleaded with her parents, with God and suffered a near nervous breakdown, but never considered disobeying her parents’ wish. At last, in 1851 her parents permitted her to study nursing at an institution in Germany.  Two years later, she was appointed superintendent of the institution. Her administration was very successful and so were the changes made to the institution.
2. Louisa May Alcott lived most of her life in Boston and Concord. She worked as a teacher for a short time. Next, she worked as a housekeeper and finally began writing. Her first books were written quickly. Then, Alcott volunteered to be a Civil War nurse, where she caught typhoid and was sent home. But, from this experience her book Hospital Sketches became famous. Soon, her stories were chosen for the Atlantic Monthly. Her most popular book was Little Women. It described her own childhood, as many of her other books: Aunt Joe’s Scrap Bag, Little Men, Eight Cousins and others.
3. Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowska as the fifth and youngest child of Bronislava Boguska, a pianist, singer and teacher and Wladislaw Sklodowski, a professor of mathematics and physics. From young she was remarkable for her prodigious memory and at the age of 16 she won a gold medal on a competition of her secondary education at Russian lycee. In 1891, she went to Paris. She worked late hours and virtually lived bread and butter and tea. In 1904 she was placed the second in the license of mathematical sciences. It was then that she married Pierre Curie, a famous scientist.
4. Valentina Tereshkova was born in Yaroslavl region of the former USSR. Soon after starting work in a textile mill at the age of 18, Valentina joined an amateur parachuting club. She was a hard worker. Later, at the age of 24, she applied to become a cosmonaut. On June 16, 1963 Tereshkova was launched into space aboard Vostok 6. She became the first woman to travel in space. Her flight lasted 48 orbits totaling 70 hours 50 minutes in space. She spent more time in orbit than all the US Mercury astronauts combined. Valentina received the Order of Lenin and Hero of the Soviet Union awards for her historic flight.   
5. Margaret Thatcher was born in England in the family of grocer and dressmaker. Her father was involved in local politics. Early in her life she decided to be a member of the Parliament. In 1950 Margaret married Denis Thatcher, got her degree from Oxford and worked there as a research chemist. In 1959 she won a seat in Parliament. In 1970 to 1974 she served as the Minister of Education and Science. In 1979 general elections Mrs. Thatcher became the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of Great Britain. She resigned in 1990. She was awarded an Order of Merit award by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Who

1. was a bright pupil? _C_
2. was honored with the title of Hero for her historic deed? _____
3. waited for her parental permission to realise her dream to become a nurse? ____
4. succeeded as a leader and was awarded the order for her remarkable work for the country? ____
5. worked as a nurse at war? ____
6. was an outstanding scientist? ____

Part 2. Use of English

1.I... glasses since I was a child,

a) wear, b) wore, c) am wearing, d) have been wearing.

2. When the phone rang, I... dinner.

a) cook, b) was cooking, c) had been cooking, d) have been cooking.

3. He usually had dinner at 4 p.m., ... ?

a) had he, b) hadn't he, c) did he, d) didn't he.

4. He works ... and makes good progress.

a) hard, b) hardly, c) good, d) badly.

5. He reminds me ... someone I knew in the army.

a) of, b) to, c) from, d) about.

6. Mary is here. Where are ... ?

a) other, b) others, c) the others, d) another.

7. What ... bad weather we are having today!

a) the, b) a, c) an, d) — .

8. Did you read ... English books at school?

a) some, b) many, c) much, d) none.

9. I want to know what ...,

a) are you doing, b) were you doing, c) will you do, d) you are doing.                          *•

10. I've made ... mistakes now than I made last time.

a) few, b) a few, c) fewer, d) less.

11. Can ... of you help me?

a) some, b) any, c) somebody, d) anybody.

12. This translation is twice as ....

a) easy, b) easier, c) the easiest, d) much easier.

13. We ... two compositions this month.

a) write, b) wrote, c) were writing, d) have written.

14. I had a feeling that somebody ... there before.

a) is, b) was, c) has been, d) had been.

15. She won't see him ... he phones her.

a) except, b) after, c) unless, d) because.

16. ... only one theatre and two cinemas in this city ten years ago.

a) there is, b) there was, c) there are, d) there were.

17. My watch....

a) stops, b) has stopped, c) have stopped, d) stop.

18. Do you know when he ... ?

a) comes, b) will come, c) shall come, d) come.

19. I don't have any pets. Neither ....

a) she does, b) does she, c) is she, d) does she have.

20. His parents didn't let him ... TV late.

a) to watch, b) watch, c) watching, d) watched.

Part 3. Use of English

Read the text below. Complete the spaces (1-6) with the correct form of the words in capitals. There is an example (0) at the beginning.

Tourism in Britain

Part 4. Writing

Describe your ideal planet you would like to live on.

You should write about 100 - 120 words

ANSWER SHEET

Part 1.  Reading                                                            

Part 2. Use of English

Part 3. Use of English

Part 4. Writing

KEY SHEET

Part 1.  Reading                                                            

Part 2. Use of English

Part 3. Use of English

Part 4. Writing (15 points)