Дополнительные задания к ЕГЭ для 9-11 классов
олимпиадные задания (английский язык, 9 класс) по теме

Part 1

Writing

Your class has been discussing the quality of television programmes . Your teacher has asked you to write an article to your school magazine giving your opinions on the following statement.

“Most of what is shown on television is not worth watching”

You should write between  200-250 words.

Writing time – 40 minutes.

Part  2                                             Use of English

Task  1

For Questions 1-15, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. There is an example at the beginning (0). Fill in the table given below.

                                                Looking for adventure

Insurance companies specialising (0) ____in_____            insurance policies for dangerous activities (1)__________ reporting a dramatic increase in (2)________        number of British holidaymakers choosing thrills and danger for (3)_____         holiday fortnight. It seems

that risky activities (4)        white-water rafting, freefall parachuting and bobsleighing appeal in particular (5)________ high-earning young men. Two years (6)___         ,

Andrew Blowers, a keen parachutist, set (7) _________

his own travel insurance company. He did this because he had had such difficulty finding

insurance cover for (8)              in the past year, he (9) _____        seen a huge increase in demand. Most other insurance companies (10)____        from his own exclude dangerous activities from their policies, whereas Mr Blowers insists that there are

very (11)        things that his company would not cover. Big game hunting, go carting. White-water rafting and  scuba diving are all included in the standard rate of insurance (12)        offer.

People (13)        read the small print of

insurance policies  (14)        setting off their on holiday,

but they really should, especially (15)        adventure

sports are concerned. Otherwise, the consequences could be extremely costly.

Use of English

Task  2

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word  given.

1.        Inventors don't like people copying their ideas.
object

Inventors        being copied.

2.        Why were the students mixing up those chemicals

   in the lab yesterday?

   being

Why        up in the lab

yesterday?

3.        They made her hand over her notebooks.
was

She        her notebooks.

4.        People say that the local camera shop is very good.
supposed

The local camera shop        

very good.

5.        My boss told me of his decision yesterday.
informed

I        decision yesterday.

6.        Fewer people smoke these days.
decrease

There        the number of people

who smoke these days.
        

Part 3                                                             Reading

Task 1

You are going to read an article about a photographer who specialises in taking photographs of birds called storks.

Choose from the list A-H the heading which best summarises each part (1-6) of the article.

There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Part   4                                                     Reading

Task  2

You are going to read a part of a story about a girl called Maria who is going on holiday with her parents. For Questions 1-7 choose the correct answer A, B, C or D

‘All right, back there?’ said Maria’s father.

‘Not much longer now,’ said Maria’s mother.

Neither of them turned round. The backs of their heads rode smoothly forward between the landscapes that unrolled at either side of the car; hedges, trees, fields, houses came and went before there was time to examine them.

Back behind her parents’ traveling heads, with the countryside unrolling tidily at each side of her, Maria hoped there would be something to talk to at this holiday house her parents had rented for the month. You can always talk to people, of course. It is usual, indeed. The trouble with people is that they expect you to say particular things, and so you end up saying what they expect, or want. And they usually end up saying what you expected them to. Grown-ups, Maria had noticed spent much time telling each other what the weather was like, or wondering aloud if one thing would happen or another. She herself quite liked to talk to her mother, but somehow her mother was always about going out, or into another room, and by the time Maria had got to the  point of the conversation, she had gone. Her father when she talked to him would listen with distant kindness, but as though what she said were of any great importance. Which, of course, it might not be. Except, she thought, to me.

And so for real conversation, Maria considered, things were infinitely preferable.

Animals, frequently. Trees and plants, from time to time. Sometimes what they said was consoling, and sometimes it was uncomfortable, but at least you were having a conversation. For a real heart-to-heart you couldn’t do much better than a clock. For a casual chat almost anything would do.

‘Here we are,’ said Mrs Foster.

Maria and her parents got out of the car and stood in front of the house, considering it. At least Maria considered it. Her mother said, ‘How pretty. I like the white walls,’ and her  father began to take the suitcases from the car. Maria went on considering.

It was a tidy house. It stood near and square – or rather, rectangular, for it was longer than it was high- with a regular number of green-shuttered windows upstairs and down, on either side of a black front door.

‘Well, Maria,’ said Mr Foster. ‘Is it anything like you imagined?’

‘No,’ said Maria.

‘Built around 1820, I should think,’ said Mr Foster in his instructing voice.

And Maria thought, never mind about that, because somewhere there is a swing. It is blowing in the wind – I can hear she squeaking noise it makes. Good, I shall like having my own swing. And someone’s got a little dog that keeps yapping. She walked round the corner of the house into the garden, to see where the swing might be, but there was nothing to be seen except a large square lawn and a good many trees.

 1. What do we learn about Maria’s parents when they speak to her without turning round?

        А.  They would rather ignore her.

        В.  They are too busy.

        С.  They do not expect an answer.

        D.  They think she may be asleep.

2. Why does Maria hope there will be something to talk to at the house?

She says she often feels bored and lonely.

She can’t rely on people to talk her.

She dislikes being with other children.

She feels people have fixed ideas.

3. What does the writer suggest about Maria’s opinion of adult conversation?

It is too difficult to follow.

It can often be quite dull.

The topics are unexpected.

The topics are interesting.

4. Which words best describes Maria’s feelings when she tries to talk to her mother?

disappointed

worried

angry

impatient

5. What do you think the writer means by Maria’s father listening with ‘distant kindness’?

He cannot always hear what she says.

He tries very hard to understand her.

He is not really involved in what she says.

He pretends to know what she means.

6. What does ‘it’ in line refer to?

what things say to Maria

Maria talking to herself

What people say to Maria

The attitude of Maria’s father

7. What is Maria most interested in when she arrives at the holiday house?

there is a dog she can talk to

the fact that the house is very old

the fact that she can hear a swing

the surprising appearance of the house.

Task 3

Reading

Read the text. You will find after the text a number of questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers or ways of finishing the statements.  Сhoose and circle the correct answer (А, В, С or D).

The use of leisure, we are frequently told, is now or will shortly become one of the major problems of the age of affluence. As the working week gets shorter, how are we to occupy the endless hours not spent at work? Are we equipped by education, training or habits of mind to meet the personal challenge that leisure presents to us? Is there not now an urgent need to re-educate and re-train so that when our leisure hours lengthen beyond our capacity with watching TV, do-it-yourself carpentry or fishing, we shall have further, more useful and time-filling activities to follow?

To some extent the problem is a false one, or at any rate has been falsely stated. There is a leisure problem, though it is not the one usually presented to us. There is also a work problem. Both are really parts of the same overall problem, which is how we are to use our time.

A busy manager and a factory worker have the same leisure problem: how to find the time and energy after a long, tiring day to come to life as human beings and live their own lives. They have very little spare time in which to be themselves and not enough energy left at the end of the day to be sociable, mentally or physically active or creative. When their hours of work are suddenly and severely reduced, both men have a different problem: how to fill the time that was previously occupied by work. They are now free to do all the things they always thought they wanted to do. After a period of adjustment, they take to golf and cocktail parties or fishing and gardening, according to their taste, and are then considered to have solved the leisure problem. In fact, they may have done nothing of the kind. They may now be spending part of their time doing things which bore them instead of things which merely exhaust them. They may be following their different leisure activities not because these are the activities that have always fascinated them but simply because social conventions suggest that they are suitable ways for managers or factory workers to spend their working hours.

If they lose their jobs altogether, both men have a great increase in leisure. Indeed, they previously spent working is now leisure time. Yet they are then not said to have a leisure problem, but a work problem. They have this problem even when savings or pension gives them an assured income so that the earning of money is not of vital importance for material survival. They have a work problem not only because there is in most men a practical need to earn a living. There is also a psychological need to be a contributing member of society, doing something to earn the respect of other people, and a need to be doing something which maintains self-respect.

The present-day problem of work or leisure is made more noticeable by the very uneven spread of both among the population of most advanced industrial countries. Despite the trend to shorter working hours, some workers at all levels from factory worker to managing director are working sixty hours a week or more, with almost no usable leisure time, while о unemployed. What all of them share is a problem of how to organise a pleasant and acceptable division of their time among a number of activities, so as to achieve a balanced and enjoyable life free from too much physical or psychological stress.

The questions the writer asks in

paragraph one are concerned with

increasing social problems.

The purpose of education

the growing increase in spare

time.

the facilities provided for

leisure.

According to the writer, the problem of

work and leisure

can never be solved

satisfactorily.

have to be looked at separately.

are really one and the same

problem.

concern a factory worker more

than a manager.

 The writer suggests that

most people will soon work

fewer hours

golf and fishing are excellent

spare time activities.

most people would rather not

work at all.

many people find it difficult to

fill their leisure time.

The writer also suggests that many people  take up leisure activities

which are similar to their jobs.

which quickly become boring.

in which they don't have to think.

which are not too expensive.

The problems that the writer discusses become more difficult when

someone has a psychological

problem as well.

a person loses his or her job.

someone has to earn extra

money.

a man loses respect for others.

The real subject of the text is

how to get the most out of your

job.

what to do in your spare time.

the problem of unemployment.

how to balance work and leisure.

Part 5

Culture Quiz

For questions (1-15) choose and circle the correct answer (a, b, c or d)

Part 6

Speaking

Speaking time—3-5 minutes

Number of participants—2

Discuss with your partner how necessary it is for parents   to have each of these qualities. Choose 2 the most important from your point of you, and justify your choice.

A sense of humour

Fairness

Strictness

Patience

Tolerance

The ability to listen

Good fashion sense

An interest in pop music

Energy