Задания для региональной олимпиады по англ. языку
олимпиадные задания по английскому языку (11 класс)

Grammar, Vocabulary & resding test for the contest (НЭПи (филиал) ТюмГУ 2013)

Chose the correct variant.

1. Could you give me that ....... of bananas, please.

clutch

strand

bunch

bend

2. Jane's advice helped me pass my exam. It was .......

invaluable

worthless

worth

deserving

3. Mr Bridges never offers to pay for anything as he is extremely tight-…....

lipped

fingered

handed

fisted

4. Look at that goat and its ....... They are so cute!

lamb

kid

calf

foal

5. He ate the meal, … the vegetables

except

apart for

except for

apart

6. Lapels are part of ....

a jacket

a pair of trousers

a pair of shoes

a hat

7. In a supermarket, where do you pay?

At the cheсk-in

At the cheсk-out

At the cheсk-on

At the cheсk-off

8. You are at the market. You want to buy some jeans. But you want them cheaper. So you will .......

barter

dispute

haggle

quarrel

9. You have no plans for the future, so you are .......

at a crossroads.

at a glance.

at a moment's notice.

at a loose end.

10. There is no aisle in .......

a cinema

an aeroplane

a church

a car

11. I'm very suspicious of this deal. I can smell … .....

a rabbit

a rose

a rat

a fish

12. How wonderful! I've got money in the bank again so I'm back in the ……

red

black

yellow

green

13. We say the grass is greener on the other side of the fence when we……

think someone else's situation is better than our own

cannot make a decision

feel jealous

do something that is not likely to succeed

14. My father is the sort of person who "calls a spade a spade". This means he ……

says exactly what he thinks

hides his true feelings

likes gardening

gets impatient easily

15. Someone who does not like to change their mind, even when they are wrong can be called "stubborn as a(n) ....".

horse

donkey

mule

ox

16. When he told me he'd passed his driving test I was so surprised. You could have knocked me down with a(n)...

bowling ball.

iron bar.

feather.

flower.

17. In British English this place is called "chemist's". But in American English it is a .......

medicine's

medico

drugstore

pharmaciepht's

18. - You didn't come to my party. I was expecting you!

- Sorry, something cropped up

- Sorry, I couldn't get over it.

- My apologies, something turned out.

- Sorry, I wouldn't see you out.

19. You didn't hear something. You say:

Repeat, please.

Sorry, I didn't catch that.

Could you speak better, please?

Excuse me, I'm not hearing you.

20. The crowd was so tightly packed that it took....

us hours to get through them.

us hours to get through it.

us hours to get through all them.

us hours to get through with it.

21. Don't be afraid of that fire. The material the tent is made of is .......

imflammable

deflammable

inflammable

non-flammable

22. The antonym for the word "perfect" is .......

unperfect

inperfect

imperfect

deperfect

23. The antonym for the word "resistible" is .......

unresistible

irresistible

disresistible

inresistible

24. The official letter begins with the words "Dear Sir or Madam". What complimentary close will you use at the end?

Yours faithfully,

Yours sincerely,

Yours,

My best regards

25. Which is the correct sentence?

I wish it would stop raining.

I wish it will stop raining.

I wish it would stop to rain.

I wish it will stop to rain.

26. Which is the correct tag for this sentence? They've had two children, .......

din't they?

hadn't they?

haven't they?

don't they?

27. Which word completes the sentence? She's the woman ....... came into the shop.

who

whom

whose

(no word)

28. Which is the correct sentence?

It was a brown, leather, nice bag.

It was a brown, nice, leather bag.

It was a leather, brown, nice bag.

It was a nice, brown, leather bag.

29. Which is the correct answer for this sentence? - I love chocolate!

- Mmmm, I as well!

- Mmmm, so do I!

- Mmmm, so am I!

- Mmmm, so love I!

30. Surely Sue ....... you if she was unhappy with your work.

will tell

would have told

must have told

had told

31. I regret ....... harder in school.

not studying

not to study

to not study

not have studied

32. Who ....... in that house?

does live

lives

does he live

he lives

33. The weather has been awful. We’ve had very ....... sunshine this summer.

little

a little

few

a few

34. Did you hear what happened to Kate? She ........

is arrested

arrested

has been arrested

is being arrested

35. We had expected that they ....... fluent English, but in fact they didn’t.

were speaking

would speak

had spoken

spoke

36. Nizhnevartovsk is ....... from Tyumen than Surgut is.

farther

far

farer

furthest

37. What a meeting! There are so many ....... in one room at the same time!

editor-in-chieves

editor-ins-chief

editor-in-chiefs

editors-in-chief

38. Look at them! They are ....... !

hero

heroes

heros

heres

39. Which is the correct reported sentence for this phrase: “Don’t go near the water, children”, she said.

She said children to not to go near the water.

She asked her children not to go near the water.

She said her children to not go near the water.

She asked her children to not going near the water.

40. Which is the correct reported sentence for this phrase: “Nothing grows in my garden as it never gets any sun”, she said.

She said that nothing had grewn in her garden as it never got any sun.

She said that nothing grew in her garden as it never gots any sun.

She said that nothing grew in her garden as it never got any sun.

She said that nothing has grewn in her garden as it never got any sun.

41. The other girls burst out ....... at the sight of such a great trick.

laugh

laughing

laughed

the laughing

42. It's important for her ....... the exam.

to have pass

to be pass

to pass

passing

43. Let's go to the cinema. This film .......

is spoken much about.

is much spoken on.

is much spoke about.

is much spoken about.

44. The fire spread through the building quickly but everybody ....... escape.

was able to

could

might

had to

45. My mom ............... here for twenty five years.

is working

has working

has being working

has been working

46. Read the text. Choose the best answer.

grasp (line 3) is closest in meaning to:

ability

use

understanding

skill

47. Read the text. Choose the best answer.

We can infer from the style of the text that this article was printed in a…

newspaper.

dictionary.

novel.

guidebook.

48. Read the text. Choose the best answer.

Kathy Rooney carried out research to see…

if students could spell certain words.

how widespread the use of computers is.

if academics were in touch with their students.

how dictionaries can help students.

49. Read the text. Choose the best answer.

them (line 20) refers to:

spellcheckers

computers

people

dictionaries

50. Read the text. Choose the best answer.

According to Beth Marshall, students today…

spell 800 words incorrectly on average.

like using spellcheckers.

mispronounce and misspell words.

are not as knowledgeable as they were in the past.

Read the text below. Choose the best answers for the questions.

Standards of spelling and grammar among an entire generation of English-speaking university students are now so poor that there is ‘a degree of crisis’ in their written use of the language, the publisher of a new dictionary has warned. Its research revealed that students have only a limited grasp of the most basic rules of spelling, punctuation and meaning, blamed in part on an increasing dependence on ‘automatic tools’ such as computer spellcheckers and unprecedented access to rapid communication using e-mail and the Internet. The problem is not confined to the US, but applies also to students in Australia, Canada and Britain.

Students were regularly found to be producing incomplete or rambling, poorly connected sentences, mixing metaphors ‘with gusto’ and overusing dull, devalued words such as ‘interesting’ and ‘good’. Overall they were unclear about appropriate punctuation, especially the use of commas, and failed to understand the basic rules of subject/verb agreement and the difference between ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’.

Kathy Rooney, editor-in-chief of the dictionary, said, ‘We need to be very concerned at the extent of the problems with basic spelling and usage that our research has revealed. This has significant implications for the future, especially for young people. We thought it would be useful to get in touch with teachers and academics to find out what problems their students were having with their writing and what extra help they might need from a dictionary. The results were quite shocking. We are sure that the use of computers has played a part. People rely increasingly on automatic tools such as spellcheckers that are much more passive than going to a dictionary and looking something up. That can lull them into a false sense of security.’

Beth Marshall, an English professor, said, ‘The type of student we’re getting now is very different from what we were seeing 10 years ago and it is often worrying to find out how little students know. There are as many as 800 commonly misspelled words, particularly pairs of words that are pronounced similarly but spelled differently and that have different meanings – for example, “faze” and “phase”, and “pray” and “prey”.’