Олимпиада
олимпиадные задания по английскому языку (9, 10, 11 класс) на тему

ОЛИМПИАДА

Школьный этап

9 класс

1. Reading

Read the text about self-study tips. The text has eight sections, 0 - 7. For sections 1-7, choose the correct heading A-L  from the list of headings below. Write the correct letter A-L in boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet. Section 0 is used as an example.

List of headings

A  Consult your teacher

B  Take a break

C   Make a timetable

D   Create a working place    

E  Sit comfortably

F   Study at home

G   Talk about your work

H  Photocopy important material

I   Make catalogue references

J  Use the library

K   Prioritise your work

L   Exercise regularly

Example  Answer

Section 0  C

SELF-STUDY TIPS

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However difficult you find it to arrange your time, it will pay off in the long run if

you set aside a certain part of the day for studying - and stick to it. It is best to make a weekly allocation of your time, making sure that you have enough left for recreational activities or simply to be 'with' yourself: reading a novel or watching a television programme.

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As part of your weekly schedule, it is also advisable to consider exactly what you have to do in that week, and make sure  that you tackle the most  significant tasks  first, leaving the easier or less urgent areas of your work until later.

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On a physical level, make sure that you have an area or space for studying. Don't  do it just anywhere. If you always study in the same place, preferably a room of your  own, you will find it easier to adjust  mentally to the activity when you enter that area. You should have everything that you might need at hand.

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Make sure that all the  physical equipment that you use, such as a desk, chair etc. is  at a good height for you. If you use a  personal computer, there are plenty of  guidelines available from the government  on posture, angles, lighting and the like.  Consult these 70and avoid the typical student aches and pains.

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If you are doing a long essay or research paper which involves the use of library books or other articles, it helps to keep details of the titles and authors on small  cards in a card box. It is also a good idea  to log these alphabetically so that you can  find them easily  -  rather like keeping  telephone numbers. It's all too easy to read  something and then forget where it came from.

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Make use of equipment that is available to  you. If you find a useful article in  the library, it is best to make a copy of the relevant pages before you leave. Then,

when you get back to your study, you can mark the article and make any comments that you have in the margin.

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If you are working on a topic your teacher has set, but finding it hard to concentrate, it may be that you actually need to take your mind right off it for a period of time. 'Airing the mind' can work wonders  sometimes. After a period away from the  task, having not thought about it at all, you may return to it refreshed and full of ideas.

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Similarly, it may help to discuss a topic  with other people, especially if you feel  that you have insufficient ideas, or too  many disorganised ideas. Bring your topic  up in conversations at meal times or with  other students and see what they have to say. You don't want to copy their ideas but  listening to what they think about  something may well help you develop or refine your own thoughts.

2.  Use of English

BREAKING INTO FILM

Hollywood (0) … out the promise of fame, fortune and glamour. Every year, thousands of yound hopefuls (1) … there, hoping that a producer will spot them and think they have that special something that (2) … want to see. Unfortunately, most of them are (3) … on a journey that leads to disappointment. Take a (4) … round Los Angeles and ask any waiter or waitress and they will tell you that they are only working there for the time (5) …, until they get their break in films. A combination of failure and (6) … problems usually means that they eventually (7) … up their minds to leave and return to the small town they came from, without having made their (8) … .

Before you come to the (9) … that a life in film is for you, ask yourself carefully if you are ready for that change of (10) … . 

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3. Writing

Write an article about good and bad points of using mobile phones.

You have to write 100 - 150 words.

Time: 20 minutes

ОЛИМПИАДА

Школьный этап

10 класс

1. Reading

For questions 8-13 read the text below and answer the questions choosing the

correct letter A, B, C or D. Mark the correct answer in the boxes for questions 8-13 on your answer sheet.

Using the Internet and CD-ROM databases in the Library

     Northways College  now has full electronic information resources in the College

Library to help  you in your studies. On CD-ROM in the library we have about fifty databases, including many statistical sources. Want to know the average rainfall in Tokyo or the biggest export earner of Vanuatu? It's easy to find out. Whether you are in the School of Business or the School of Art & Design, it's all here for you.

     You can conduct your own CD-ROM search for no charge, and you can print out your results on the library printers using  your library photocopying card. Alternatively, you

can download your results, again for  no  charge, but bring your own memory stick or CD-ROM. If you are not sure how to conduct a search for yourself, library staff can do it for you, but we charge $20 for  this service, no matter how long or how short a time it takes.

     All library workstations have broadband access to the Internet, so you can find the web-based  information you need quickly and easily. If you are unfamiliar with using the Internet, help is available in several ways. You can start with the online tutorial Netstart; just click on the Netstart icon on the Main Menu. The tutorial will take you through the basic steps to using the Internet, at any time convenient to you. If you prefer, ask one of the librarians for internet advice (best at  quiet times between 9.00 am and 11.30 am weekdays) or attend one of the introductory group  sessions that are held in the first two weeks of each term. Sign your name on the list on the  Library Bulletin Board to guarantee a place, as they are very popular.

     A word of warning: demand for access to library workstations is very high, so you are strongly  advised to book a workstation, and we have to limit your use to a maximum of one hour at any one time. Make your booking (for which you will receive a receipt) at the Information Desk or at the enquiry desks in the Media Services Area (Level I). Also, use of the computers is limited to Northways students only, so you may be asked to produce your Student Identification  Card to make a booking, or while using the workstations.

1. To use the library printers, students must have

A  a memory stick.

B  correct change in coins.

C  a photocopying card.

D  their own paper.

2.  To copy search results to a floppy disk, students pay

A  $20.

B  no fee.

C  a fee based on actual costs.

D  a fee dependent on the time taken.

3.  If library staff search for information on CD-ROM, students pay

A  $20.

B  no fee.

C  a fee based on actual costs.

D  a fee dependent on the time taken.

4. Students can learn to use the Internet

A  at all time.

B  in the first two weeks of term only.

C  Monday to Friday only.

D  between 9.00 am and 11.30 am only.

5.  To ensure efficient access to the library workstations, students should

A  queue to use a workstation in the Media Services Area.

B  reserve a time to use a workstation.

C  work in groups on one workstation.

D  conduct as many searches as possible at one time.

6.  At any one time, students may use a library workstation for

A  half an hour.

B  one hour.

C  two hours.

D  an unlimited time.

2. Use of English

Read the text. Fill in the blanks below the numbers 1-10 relevant forms of words printed in capital letters to the right of each proposal.

The Automobile

Tourism in Britain

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3. Writing

Write an article about good and bad points of using mobile phones.

You have to write 100 - 150 words. Time: 20 minutes

ОЛИМПИАДА

Школьный этап

11 класс

1. Reading

You are going to read a newspaper article about rewards. Eight paragraphs have been removed from the article. Choose from paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

2. PEWSEY'S FIRST OLYMPIC MEDAL

As the climax approached last night in a very English sort of pub – all frothing beer, overflowing ashtrays and thatched wishing wells – there was only one phrase on everybody lips: "Go Shelley!" Locals were 10 deep at the bar and it was standing room only on the pool table. Traffic on the supporters' website increased tenfold. A wag had added to the village welcome sign in Pewsey: "Home of Shelley Rudman".

There was curling (gold Salt Lake City 2002), yingling (gold Athens 2004) and pursuit cycling (gold Athens 2004). Yesterday, in Italy, it was the women's bob skeleton, propelling a hi-tech version of a tea tray at up to 80 mph down an icy track. And with it Shelley Rudman, a classroom manager from Wiltshire, to Britain's first medal – a silver – at this year's winter Olympics.

The commentary for Shelley's first "slide", as the locals now know to call it, was drowned out by cheers and shouts. A minute later the 24-year-old was at the bottom of the mountain, a tantalising fraction of a second outside the medals in fourth place. "She was pretty neat but she usually goes better second time out," said Colin Harris at the bar. "If she can just improve her start ... who knows?"

Strangers were hugging and kissing, children were crying. She could still be bumped out of the medals. Every time split as the next two competitors sped down the mile-long track was greeted with groans or cheers. She was still in first place, guaranteeing her a silver medal as the final competitor set off. Gold proved to be out of her reach – but, no matter, the beer and tears flowed for Pewsey's first Olympian since 1948 when the local footballer Bill Amor played on the wing for Great Britain.

In typical British fashion, villagers had baked cakes, rattled tins and held raffles to make sure Rudman, who has lived in the village all her life, had the equipment and training to give it a go at the Olympics. In all £ 4,000 was raised, which made all the difference to her preparations.

There, propping up the bar with a pint of stout, for example, was Mr Harris, who with his friend Emma Dainton (2003 carnival queen of Pewsey and All Wiltshire) took part in a 12-hour sponsored canoe ride to raise cash.

At his elbow was Mick Hunter, a member of the Pewsey Hasbeens sporting club. The Hasbeens-motto: the older we get the better we were – raised money at their annual gentleman's evening. They may have paid for that bit of extra training which allowed Rudman shave a few seconds off her time.

Over their pints last night, schoolfriends recalled with nostalgia her fighting spirit when she took them on at Pewsey Vale school. She loved beating the boys at football and running. And when she went on a school skiing trip when she was 13, her first taste of alpine sport, she beat the boys there as well.

She was hooked, began training seriously and rose up the rankings. But she suffered a setback when she was turned down for lottery funding after being disqualified on a technicality in a World Cup event. In stepped the locals at the Moonrakers with Mr Hunter (50, football fan) and Mr Harris (65, rugby man, former police officer) founding the Shelley Rudman Supporters' Group.

"It was the sense of injustice which got us going," Mr Hunter said. "She clearly had potential but was not getting the funding she needed. We were determined to give her a chance".

If he gets a medal, the villagers are promising to build a bobsleigh run on Pewsey Hill.

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A. Some of the lads from the fire station who organised a sponsored car wash were around, as were the cake-bakers, raffle-holders and tin-rattlers.

B. Then four years ago while she was a student at Bath University, nurturing ambitions of being a 400m hurdler, a friend on the British bob skeleton team took her to the training facility – an artificial track 100 metres long.

C. If the Moonrakers can take it, more excitement is expected today when Rudman's boyfriend, Kristan Bromley, who also lives up the road, competes in the men's event.

D. At the Moonrakers pub in Pewsey, better known in these parts for its carnival than its winter sports, the locals were analysing her performance, using with abandon terms like form, shape and G-force to work out how Rudman had pulled off one of the sporting performances of the year.

E. They earned £ 3,000. "I reckon we helped pay for the runners on her sled and her helmet", he said.

F. And they were enjoying their part in Rudman's success, for without their efforts, she may well not have been at the games.

G. Modern Britain's greatest sporting successes are often achieved in the most obscure disciplines.

H. Rudman got that better start the second time out and was in first place – with three to go.

2. Use of English

 Error correction.

In most lines of the following text, there is one wrong word. It is either grammatically incorrect or it doesn’t fit in with the sense of the text. For each numbered line 1-10, write the wrong word in the space. Some lines are correct. Indicate these with a tick (v). The exercise begins with two examples.

0 Casino is resort, one of the four quartiers (sections) of             resort

00 Monaco. It is situated on an escarpment at the base of    v

1 the Maritime Alps along the French Riviera, on the            _________

2. Mediterranean, just northern east of Nice, Fr. In 1856 Prince _______

3 Charles III of Monaco granted charter allowing a joint   ___________

4 stock company to build a casino. The casino opened in ___________

5 1861, and five years later the district around it was  ______________

6 declared by the Prince be Monte-Carlo. To revitalize  _____________

7 the principality's economy, Monte-Carlo was transformed  _________

8 into a luxuriously beautiful playground for the world's rich. ________

9 Te casino includes an opera house (1878). The International  ______

10 Sporting Club (1932) is nearbuy. The gambling tables are open  ___

3. Writing

Write an article about good and bad points of using mobile phones.

You have to write 100 - 150 words.

Time: 20 minutes