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Всероссийская олимпиада школьников. Английский язык. 2024 г.
Пригласительный этап. 8-10 классы
Choose the option which best fits according to the text.
Задание 3. What are we told about the family of Yuri Gagarin in the second
paragraph?
a) There were three children in the family in the time of World War II.
b) Yuri’s siblings grew up in Poland.
c) The Gagarins were forced out of Klushino by the Nazi invaders.
d) Gagarin was not a native of Moscow.
Задание 4. Yuri’s school teacher says that he…
a) used to play tricks on his friends.
b) loved technical disciplines at school.
c) used to smile a lot.
d) was keen on botany.
Задание 5. Reg Turnill remembers that Yuri Gagarin was…
a) taller than the other cosmonauts.
b) good at playing ball games.
c) not secretive.
d) favoured by senior ranks.
Задание 6. Gagarin’s “poyekhali” (“here we go”)
a) reflects the aspiration to explore space.
b) was the signal to launch the rocket.
c) was translated into many languages.
d) was broadcast live.
Задание 7. Which one of the listed activities did Gagarin not do during his flight?
a) reporting his state of health to the control centre
b) maintaining radio contact with the earth
c) eating
d) controlling his flight
Задание 8. Which one of the listed events CANNOT be regarded as a LOGICAL
follow-up of the first orbit flight?
a) Gagarin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
b) Gagarin kissed Gina Lollobrigida.
c) Gagarin became world-famous.
d) Gagarin met the diplomatic establishment as part of his world tour.
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Задание 9. Which one of the following statements is true according to the text?
a) The cause of the crash of Gagarin’s plane is still not clear.
b) It has been proved that a previous pilot had left the cabin air vent open.
c) Alexey Leonov has evidence that another plane caused turbulence which sent
Gagarin’s plane into a deadly spin.
d) Vladimir Seregin was the only one who survived the crash.
USE OF ENGLISH
Time: 60 minutes
(45 points)
Задание 10.
Task 1.
(10 points)
For items 1 - 10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a new
word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).
BEING A TEACHER
Without a doubt, (0)
___ teaching
________ is one of the oldest
TEACH
professions
and one of the most (1)
__________
CHALLENGE
To be a good teacher, you need certain qualities such as
(2)
MATURE
__________, understanding and patience.
Teachers must also be good communicators if they are to convey
(3)
__________ to their students.
KNOW
Language teachers in particular have to be aware of all the skills
students need to communicate (4)
__________ with others.
SUCCESS
As well as being (5 )__________ to students’ needs,
SENSE
teachers also need to be (6)
__________ and approachable while
HELP
at the same time maintaining high standards of discipline in the
classroom.
Perhaps most (7)
__________ of all,
IMPORTANT
teachers need to keep themselves well-informed about current
(8)
__________ in their field and the world in general in order to
DEVELOP
give their best.
However, although it can be difficult when teachers find
themselves (9)
__________ to help students outside of class,
ABLE
they (10)
__________ try to help everyone in class.
CONSTANT
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Ответ:
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Задание 11.
Task 2.
(10 points)
For items 1-10, read the text below and decide which answer best fits each gap.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example:
A
B
C
D
0
above
over
beyond
past
0
B
ROLLS-ROYCE
The name Rolls-Royce has been associated with high-quality cars for
(0)
__________ a century. The first Rolls-Royce was produced in 1905, as the result
of the (1)
__________ efforts of Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce.
Rolls, an upper-class Londoner who was
(2)
__________
at Eton and
Cambridge University, started a company in 1902 to sell motor-cars. Royce, an
engineering genius, (3)
__________ from a working-class backg0round. He began his
apprenticeship in a railway workshop at the age of 14, but by the age of 21 he had set
up his own engineering business. Royce designed several motor-cars, and his first
experimental model appeared in 1903.
(4)
__________
after that, Charles Rolls and Henry Royce met,
(5)
__________
the Rolls-Royce manufacturing firm in 1904. Royce designed the
motor-cars and Rolls sold them. Rolls, who had (6)
__________ himself a reputation
as a keen racing motorist, also had a passion for flying. In 1910, at the age of only 33,
he sadly (7)
__________ his death in a plane crash - in (8)
__________, he was the
first Englishman to die in this way. Royce, however, continued work on their shared
dream, and (9)
__________ to develop his first aero-engine in 1915. The Rolls-Royce
Merlin aeroengine later powered British fighter aeroplanes in World War II. On
Royce's death in 1933, the famous Rolls-Royce monogram was changed from red to
black as a (10)
__________ of respect for the great man.
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A
B
C
D
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connected
mixed
combined
collected
2
educated
learned
taught
trained
3
grew
arrived
came
arose
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Early
Shortly
Briefly
Quickly
5
shaping
forming
building
constructing
6
earned
awarded
deserved
succeeded
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got
knew
made
met
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spite
case
order
fact
9
kept up
went on
got by
saw through
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note
message
signal
sign
Задание 12.
Task 3. (15 points)
For questions 1-15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the
lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct
put a tick. Use the letter "V" as a tick. If a line has a word which should not be there,
write the word in a given space. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00).
A HOMECOMING OF A DIFFERENT SORT
0
I’ll always remember the time Jeff told me about his family.
His mother, a loving, caring woman, was the one who was
was
held the family together.
00
His father, a successful physician, cold and stern in Jeff’s
words, had firm beliefs that a person would never make a
V
valuable contribution to the world unless they graduated from
college by the age of twenty-three.
1
His father had even paved the way for Jeff to attend the same
college from which he graduated, and had offered to pay
Jeff’s entire tuition and living expenses.
2
Jeff’s passion was skiing. When he finished high school he
decided to decline from his father’s offer and move to
Colorado to work with a ski patrol.
3
With pain in his eyes Jeff told me so that he still remembered
the day he told his father he was going to take a job at a ski
resort instead of going to college.
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“No son of mine is going to work on a ski patrol and not
attend college!” came the words that still echoed in Jeff’s
mind. The two hadn’t been spoken since that conversation.
5
Jeff was not even sure that his father knew he was back in the
area where he grew up and he certainly didn’t want his father
to know he was attending college. He was doing this for
himself, he said over and over, not for his father.
6
Janice, Jeff’s sister, had always remained supportive of Jeff’s
decisions. She stayed in a contact with their father, but Jeff
had made her promise that she would not share any
information about his life with him.
7
Jeff’s graduation ceremony that year was on a hot, sunny day
in June. As I walked around talking to people before the
ceremony, I noticed an elderly man with a confused
expression on his face.
8
“My daughter asked me to meet her at this address.” His eyes
sparkled and smiled. “Maybe she completed her associate’s
degree and wanted to surprise me!”
9
“By the way, my name’s Dr. Holstrom.” I froze for a second.
Could this be the same as cold, stern man who demanded his
son attend college or never enter his home again?
10
Soon the ceremony started. Dr. Holstrom seemed to be
mistakenly looking up for his daughter amongst the graduates
on the stage.
11
Jeff was the last person to cross the stage. We heard his name
being announced, “Jeff Holstrom, magna cum laude.”
12
A lone figure stood up in the back of the audience - Dr.
Holstrom. I’m not sure how Jeff even saw him in the crowd,
but I could tell from their eyes met.
13
Dr. Holstrom opened his arms as if to embrace the air around
him. He bowed his head almost as if to apologize.
14
For a moment it seemed as if time stood still, as if they were
the only two in the auditorium. Jeff came down the stairs
with tears in his eyes. “My father is here,” he whispered to
me. I have smiled.
15
“What are you going to do?” I asked him.
“Well,” he said. “I think I’m going home.”
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Задание 13.
Task 4. (10 points)
For items 1-10, match the writers’ names 1-10 to the descriptions of their creative
works A-N. There are some extra descriptions which do not match.
1. Jonathan Swift
A) an American writer of the 20th century. He is known
for his poems about life in the country, especially in New
England. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times.
Some of his best-known poems are The Road Not Taken,
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. The phrase
“Good fences make good neighbours” is drawn from
Mending Wall.
2. Robert Louis
B) an English author of the 17th century who wrote The
Stevenson
Pilgrim's Progress while he was in prison for his beliefs.
Cristian, his central character, journeys from the City of
Destruction to the Celestial City.
3. Robert Frost
C) an American writer best known for her novel Uncle
Tom’s Cabin, which influenced many people in the US,
especially in the North, to oppose slavery. Abraham
Lincoln is reputed to have said to the author, “So you’re
the little woman who wrote the book that made this big
war.”
4. Emily Brontë
D) a Scottish writer of the 19th century whose books
Treasure Island and Kidnapped are among the best-known
adventure stories in English. He also wrote The Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His two characters,
Jekyll and Hyde, serve as symbols of the good and evil
sides of a single personality.
5. Harriet Beecher
E) an English author of the 19th century, one of the three
Stowe
sisters who wrote some of the most famous novels in
English. This writer is best known for Wuthering Heights.
6. Ernest Hemingway
F) an English author of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, best known for creating the detective Sherlock
Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson.
7. Francis Scott
G) an American writer of the 20th century whose novels,
Fitzgerald
including The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice
and Men show great sympathy for poor people and their
problems. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
Shakespeare’s phrase “The winter of our discontent”
served as the title for one of his books.
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8. John Steinbeck
H) an English writer of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries born in India. He is known for his novels,
poems, and short stories set in that country, especially his
popular children's story The Jungle Book, and for poems
such as Gunga Din and If. One of his well-known novels
is The Light that Failed. He won the Nobel prize for
literature in 1907.
9. Rudyard Kipling
I) an English author of the 19th century, one of the three
sisters who wrote some of the most famous novels in
English. This writer is best known for Jane Eyre.
10. George Orwell
J) a British writer of the 20th century best known for his
novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, which are
both about political systems in which ordinary people
have no power, and are completely controlled by the
government. A famous quotation from his book is “all
animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than
others.”
K) an American writer of the
20th century known
especially for his novels The Great Gatsby and Tender is
the Night.
L) an Irish writer of the 18th century who is best known
for his book Gulliver's Travels but who also wrote many
other satirical stories and clever articles, in which he used
humour to criticize institutions such as the universities, the
legal profession, and the political parties.
M) an English poet of the 17th century who is best known
for his epic poem Paradise Lost. This was followed by
Paradise Regained, and both poems were written after he
had gone blind. Before this, he was active in politics as a
strong supporter of religious freedom and of Oliver
Cromwell.
N) an American writer of the 20th century who won the
Nobel prize for literature in 1954. He wrote many novels
and short stories in a simple and direct style, and his books
are often about typically male activities like war and
hunting. His novels include A Farewell to Arms, For
Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea.
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ОТВЕТЫ
Максимальный балл за работу - 70.
LISTENING
Time: 10 minutes
(10 points)
Задание 1.
For items 1-10, listen to a radio talk for young people about animals communicating
with each other, and decide whether the statements 1-10 are TRUE according to the
text you hear, or FALSE, or the information on the statement is NOT STATED in the
text. You will hear the text twice.
1. The fact that people can speak more than one language defines the difference
between animals and humans according to popular opinion.
a) true
b) false
c) not stated
2. Some insects use particular body movements to convey the whereabouts of food.
a) true
b) false
c) not stated
3. Parrots can copy human speech if they like the way it sounds.
a) true
b) false
c) not stated
4. The sounds some primates use to communicate with members of their social group
are recognized within their species.
a) true
b) false
c) not stated
5. Though chimpanzees are capable of understanding and reacting to human speech, no
one has heard them produce speech-like sounds.
a) true
b) false
c) not stated
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6. Dolphins can produce the majority of human sounds.
a) true
b) false
c) not stated
7. Unlike parrots, dolphins copy the sounds of human speech and reproduce them
contextually.
a) true
b) false
c) not stated
8. Whales’ songs are meaningless and mistakenly compared to human speech.
a) true
b) false
c) not stated
9. According to specialists, human languages have developed in favourable
environments of multicultural societies.
a) true
b) false
c) not stated
10. The power of speech forms in early childhood.
a) true
b) false
c) not stated
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READING
Time: 20 minutes
(15 points)
Read a BBC article and answer the questions.
Profile: Yuri Gagarin
By Paul Rincon and Katia Moskvitch
Science reporters, BBC News
On 12 April 1961, manned space travel escaped the pages of fanciful fiction and
arrived blazing into the here-and-now.
The first space flight was a triumph for the Soviet Union and a political and
diplomatic setback for the US. But Yuri Gagarin was an instant history-maker whose
achievement transcended the politics of the time.
He was born in the village of Klushino, outside Moscow; his father was a carpenter,
while his mother worked as a milkmaid. His family, like many others, had suffered at
the hands of the Nazis in World War II. During the German occupation, the Gagarins
were forced out of their home and had to live in a tiny "mud hut" nearby. Yuri's
brother Valentin and his sister Zoya were deported to labour camps in Poland.
When the future cosmonaut was just 13, he moved with his family to the city of
Gzhatsk. His father dismantled the house in Klushino, moved it to the city and rebuilt
it there. Friends and family remember a fun-loving boy, fond of pranks, but also keen
on his studies. Yelena Kozlova taught Gagarin botany while the future cosmonaut
was at school in the city. Now 91, she recalls that Yuri's favourite subjects were
maths and physics: "No-one was able to resist his smile! And girls always liked him,
too," she explained.
Gagarin initially graduated from trade school as a foundryman. But he later chose to
pursue his studies, enrolling for a technical degree at the Saratov Technical College.
While studying here, Gagarin learnt to fly with the local "aero club".
"When he was a student at the Saratov Technical College, he didn't have much
money, and to make some extra cash he had to work part-time as a dock labourer on
the Volga River - and he used the money to buy presents for his family," his niece
Tamara Filatova told BBC News.
In 1955, Yuri Gagarin entered the Orenburg Pilot School, and upon graduation joined
the Soviet Air Force as a lieutenant. It was here that he met his wife, Valentina, a
graduate of the Orenburg Medical School. Soon after the couple married, Gagarin
began a tour of duty as a fighter pilot.
In 1960, Gagarin - along with 19 others - was selected as a candidate for the Soviet
space programme. "Gagarin was a very clever young man. He was head and
shoulders above all the other cosmonauts," says Reg Turnill, the BBC's aerospace
correspondent from 1958-1975. "He was so quick to learn and had such an easy
personality that he was very popular among the top brass, because he could be relied
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on to play ball and not to give away any secrets."
The pool of 19 was eventually whittled down to two: Gagarin and fellow test pilot
Gherman Titov. Some have suggested that Gagarin's relatively humble backg0round
may have given him the edge over Titov.
On the morning of 12 April 1961, the 27-year-old Gagarin blasted off atop a 30m-
high rocket from the Tyuratam Missile Range (now Baikonur Cosmodrome).
'Here we go'
The story goes that Gagarin yelled "poyekhali" ("here we go") as his rocket blasted
off from Earth. For many, the line embodied the impatience of all those who had for
decades dreamed of exploring space. During the historic 108-minute orbital flight,
Gagarin was able to consume food through squeeze tubes and kept mission control
updated on his condition using a high-frequency radio and a telegraph key.
The mission came perilously close to disaster. During re-entry, cables linking the
spacecraft's descent module to the service module failed to separate. This caused
violent shaking during the fiery re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere.
Gagarin baled out before his capsule hit the ground and parachuted to a safe landing
near the Volga River. He was subsequently bestowed the title of Hero of the Soviet
Union by the USSR's leader Nikita Khrushchev. Overnight, Gagarin achieved
international renown. He toured the world in style, signed autographs, rubbed
shoulders with world leaders and once happened to kiss the Italian film star Gina
Lollobrigida.
Final flight
On 28 March 1968, Gagarin was killed on a routine training flight. He was 34 years
old. His MiG-15UTI went into a dive and crashed into forest near the town of
Kirzach, north-east of Moscow. Gagarin's co-pilot Vladimir Seregin was also killed.
The cause of the crash is unknown, and many conspiracy theories have grown up in
the intervening years. Among the more credible theories is that proposed by fellow
cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, who believes that a Sukhoi jet - flying below its
minimum altitude - passed within metres of Gagarin's plane. This triggered
turbulence which sent the MiG into a spin from which it did not recover.
Alternatively, a cabin air vent may have been left open by the crew or a previous pilot
and this may have led to oxygen deprivation and an inability to control the aircraft.
Whatever the cause of the crash, since Gagarin's epochal flight in 1961, more than
500 people have flown in space. They all follow in the footsteps of the slight young
man from Klushino who took a leap into the unknown some 60 years ago.
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Задание 2.
For questions 1-8, сhoose the correct option: TRUE if the statement agrees with the
information given in the text; FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
given in the text or if there is no information given in the text.
1. The first space flight brought Gagarin global fame in no time.
a) True
b) False
2. The Gagarins moved to Gzhatsk as they didn’t want to live in their house any
longer after it had been dishonoured by the Nazi occupation.
a) True
b) False
3. Yuri Gagarin learned to fly a plane at the Saratov Technical College.
a) True
b) False
4. He met his wife after his graduation from the Orenburg Pilot School.
a) True
b) False
5. It is common knowledge that Yuri Gagarin’s social origin got him a head start over
the other candidates for the Soviet space programme.
a) True
b) False
6. The first space flight took less than two hours.
a) True
b) False
7. Gagarin’s capsule landed safely near the Volga River.
a) True
b) False
8. Gagarin died in an air crash when his plane collided with another one.
a) True
b) False
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Choose the option which best fits according to the text.
Задание 3. What are we told about the family of Yuri Gagarin in the second
paragraph?
a) There were three children in the family in the time of World War II.
b) Yuri’s siblings grew up in Poland.
c) The Gagarins were forced out of Klushino by the Nazi invaders.
d) Gagarin was not a native of Moscow.
Задание 4. Yuri’s school teacher says that he…
a) used to play tricks on his friends.
b) loved technical disciplines at school.
c) used to smile a lot.
d) was keen on botany.
Задание 5. Reg Turnill remembers that Yuri Gagarin was…
a) taller than the other cosmonauts.
b) good at playing ball games.
c) not secretive.
d) favoured by senior ranks.
Задание 6. Gagarin’s “poyekhali” (“here we go”)
a) reflects the aspiration to explore space.
b) was the signal to launch the rocket.
c) was translated into many languages.
d) was broadcast live.
Задание 7. Which one of the listed activities did Gagarin not do during his flight?
a) reporting his state of health to the control centre
b) maintaining radio contact with the earth
c) eating
d) controlling his flight
Задание 8. Which one of the listed events CANNOT be regarded as a LOGICAL
follow-up of the first orbit flight?
a) Gagarin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
b) Gagarin kissed Gina Lollobrigida.
c) Gagarin became world-famous.
d) Gagarin met the diplomatic establishment as part of his world tour.
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Задание 9. Which one of the following statements is true according to the text?
a) The cause of the crash of Gagarin’s plane is still not clear.
b) It has been proved that a previous pilot had left the cabin air vent open.
c) Alexey Leonov has evidence that another plane caused turbulence which sent
Gagarin’s plane into a deadly spin.
d) Vladimir Seregin was the only one who survived the crash.
USE OF ENGLISH
Time: 60 minutes
(45 points)
Задание 10.
Task 1.
(10 points)
For items 1 - 10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a new
word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).
BEING A TEACHER
Without a doubt, (0)
___ teaching
________ is one of the oldest
TEACH
professions
and one of the most (1)
__________
CHALLENGE
To be a good teacher, you need certain qualities such as
(2)
MATURE
__________, understanding and patience.
Teachers must also be good communicators if they are to convey
(3)
__________ to their students.
KNOW
Language teachers in particular have to be aware of all the skills
students need to communicate (4)
__________ with others.
SUCCESS
As well as being (5 )__________ to students’ needs,
SENSE
teachers also need to be (6)
__________ and approachable while
HELP
at the same time maintaining high standards of discipline in the
classroom.
Perhaps most (7)
__________ of all,
IMPORTANT
teachers need to keep themselves well-informed about current
(8)
__________ in their field and the world in general in order to
DEVELOP
give their best.
However, although it can be difficult when teachers find
themselves (9)
__________ to help students outside of class,
ABLE
they (10)
__________ try to help everyone in class.
CONSTANT
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Ответ:
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CHALLENGING
2
MATURITY
3
KNOWLEDGE
4
SUCCESSFULLY
5
SENSITIVE
6
HELPFUL
7
IMPORTANTLY
8
DEVELOPMENTS
9
UNABLE
10
CONSTANTLY
Задание 11.
Task 2.
(10 points)
For items 1-10, read the text below and decide which answer best fits each gap.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example:
A
B
C
D
0
above
over
beyond
past
0
B
ROLLS-ROYCE
The name Rolls-Royce has been associated with high-quality cars for
(0)
__________ a century. The first Rolls-Royce was produced in 1905, as the result
of the (1)
__________ efforts of Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce.
Rolls, an upper-class Londoner who was
(2)
__________
at Eton and
Cambridge University, started a company in 1902 to sell motor-cars. Royce, an
engineering genius, (3)
__________ from a working-class backg0round. He began his
apprenticeship in a railway workshop at the age of 14, but by the age of 21 he had set
up his own engineering business. Royce designed several motor-cars, and his first
experimental model appeared in 1903.
(4)
__________
after that, Charles Rolls and Henry Royce met,
(5)
__________
the Rolls-Royce manufacturing firm in 1904. Royce designed the
motor-cars and Rolls sold them. Rolls, who had (6)
__________ himself a reputation
as a keen racing motorist, also had a passion for flying. In 1910, at the age of only 33,
he sadly (7)
__________ his death in a plane crash - in (8)
__________, he was the
first Englishman to die in this way. Royce, however, continued work on their shared
dream, and (9)
__________ to develop his first aero-engine in 1915. The Rolls-Royce
Merlin aeroengine later powered British fighter aeroplanes in World War II. On
Royce's death in 1933, the famous Rolls-Royce monogram was changed from red to
black as a (10)
__________ of respect for the great man.
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A
B
C
D
1
connected
mixed
combined
collected
2
educated
learned
taught
trained
3
grew
arrived
came
arose
4
Early
Shortly
Briefly
Quickly
5
shaping
forming
building
constructing
6
earned
awarded
deserved
succeeded
7
got
knew
made
met
8
spite
case
order
fact
9
kept up
went on
got by
saw through
10
note
message
signal
sign
Задание 12.
Task 3. (15 points)
For questions 1-15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the
lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct
put a tick. Use the letter "V" as a tick. If a line has a word which should not be there,
write the word in a given space. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00).
A HOMECOMING OF A DIFFERENT SORT
0
I’ll always remember the time Jeff told me about his family.
His mother, a loving, caring woman, was the one who was
was
held the family together.
00
His father, a successful physician, cold and stern in Jeff’s
words, had firm beliefs that a person would never make a
V
valuable contribution to the world unless they graduated from
college by the age of twenty-three.
1
His father had even paved the way for Jeff to attend the same
college from which he graduated, and had offered to pay
V
Jeff’s entire tuition and living expenses.
2
Jeff’s passion was skiing. When he finished high school he
decided to decline from his father’s offer and move to
from
Colorado to work with a ski patrol.
3
With pain in his eyes Jeff told me so that he still remembered
the day he told his father he was going to take a job at a ski
so
resort instead of going to college.
4
“No son of mine is going to work on a ski patrol and not
attend college!” came the words that still echoed in Jeff’s
been
mind. The two hadn’t been spoken since that conversation.
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Jeff was not even sure that his father knew he was back in the
area where he grew up and he certainly didn’t want his father
V
to know he was attending college. He was doing this for
himself, he said over and over, not for his father.
6
Janice, Jeff’s sister, had always remained supportive of Jeff’s
decisions. She stayed in a contact with their father, but Jeff
a
had made her promise that she would not share any
information about his life with him.
7
Jeff’s graduation ceremony that year was on a hot, sunny day
in June. As I walked around talking to people before the
V
ceremony, I noticed an elderly man with a confused
expression on his face.
8
“My daughter asked me to meet her at this address.” His eyes
sparkled and smiled. “Maybe she completed her associate’s
V
degree and wanted to surprise me!”
9
“By the way, my name’s Dr. Holstrom.” I froze for a second.
Could this be the same as cold, stern man who demanded his
as
son attend college or never enter his home again?
10
Soon the ceremony started. Dr. Holstrom seemed to be
mistakenly looking up for his daughter amongst the graduates
up
on the stage.
11
Jeff was the last person to cross the stage. We heard his name
V
being announced, “Jeff Holstrom, magna cum laude.”
12
A lone figure stood up in the back of the audience - Dr.
Holstrom. I’m not sure how Jeff even saw him in the crowd,
from
but I could tell from their eyes met.
13
Dr. Holstrom opened his arms as if to embrace the air around
V
him. He bowed his head almost as if to apologize.
14
For a moment it seemed as if time stood still, as if they were
the only two in the auditorium. Jeff came down the stairs
have
with tears in his eyes. “My father is here,” he whispered to
me. I have smiled.
15
“What are you going to do?” I asked him.
V
“Well,” he said. “I think I’m going home.”
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Задание 13.
Task 4. (10 points)
For items 1-10, match the writers’ names 1-10 to the descriptions of their creative
works A-N. There are some extra descriptions which do not match.
1. Jonathan Swift
A) an American writer of the 20th century. He is known
for his poems about life in the country, especially in New
England. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times.
Some of his best-known poems are The Road Not Taken,
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. The phrase
“Good fences make good neighbours” is drawn from
Mending Wall.
2. Robert Louis
B) an English author of the 17th century who wrote The
Stevenson
Pilgrim's Progress while he was in prison for his beliefs.
Cristian, his central character, journeys from the City of
Destruction to the Celestial City.
3. Robert Frost
C) an American writer best known for her novel Uncle
Tom’s Cabin, which influenced many people in the US,
especially in the North, to oppose slavery. Abraham
Lincoln is reputed to have said to the author, “So you’re
the little woman who wrote the book that made this big
war.”
4. Emily Brontë
D) a Scottish writer of the 19th century whose books
Treasure Island and Kidnapped are among the best-known
adventure stories in English. He also wrote The Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His two characters,
Jekyll and Hyde, serve as symbols of the good and evil
sides of a single personality.
5. Harriet Beecher
E) an English author of the 19th century, one of the three
Stowe
sisters who wrote some of the most famous novels in
English. This writer is best known for Wuthering Heights.
6. Ernest Hemingway
F) an English author of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, best known for creating the detective Sherlock
Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson.
7. Francis Scott
G) an American writer of the 20th century whose novels,
Fitzgerald
including The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice
and Men show great sympathy for poor people and their
problems. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
Shakespeare’s phrase “The winter of our discontent”
served as the title for one of his books.
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8. John Steinbeck
H) an English writer of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries born in India. He is known for his novels,
poems, and short stories set in that country, especially his
popular children's story The Jungle Book, and for poems
such as Gunga Din and If. One of his well-known novels
is The Light that Failed. He won the Nobel prize for
literature in 1907.
9. Rudyard Kipling
I) an English author of the 19th century, one of the three
sisters who wrote some of the most famous novels in
English. This writer is best known for Jane Eyre.
10. George Orwell
J) a British writer of the 20th century best known for his
novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, which are
both about political systems in which ordinary people
have no power, and are completely controlled by the
government. A famous quotation from his book is “all
animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than
others.”
K) an American writer of the
20th century known
especially for his novels The Great Gatsby and Tender is
the Night.
L) an Irish writer of the 18th century who is best known
for his book Gulliver's Travels but who also wrote many
other satirical stories and clever articles, in which he used
humour to criticize institutions such as the universities, the
legal profession, and the political parties.
M) an English poet of the 17th century who is best known
for his epic poem Paradise Lost. This was followed by
Paradise Regained, and both poems were written after he
had gone blind. Before this, he was active in politics as a
strong supporter of religious freedom and of Oliver
Cromwell.
N) an American writer of the 20th century who won the
Nobel prize for literature in 1954. He wrote many novels
and short stories in a simple and direct style, and his books
are often about typically male activities like war and
hunting. His novels include A Farewell to Arms, For
Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Ответ:
L
D
A
E
C
N
K
G
H
J
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ПРИГЛАСИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП. 8-10 КЛАССЫ
ТЕКСТ ДЛЯ АУДИРОВАНИЯ
For items 1-10, listen to a radio talk for young people about animals communicating
with each other, and decide whether the statements 1-10 are TRUE according to the
text you hear, or FALSE, or the information on the statement is NOT STATED in the
text. You will hear the text twice.
(pause 20 seconds)
Now we begin.
Presenter: If I asked you what the difference is between animals and human
beings, you might think for a bit and then suggest something about the fact that
humans can speak to each other using a language - or in some cases more than one
language - and in a way you would be right. But that is not the whole story by any
means. Many animals can communicate in surprisingly complicated ways, but they
never quite achieve the range and depth of human languages. At the simplest level,
several kinds of insect, including bees, have been observed performing a special
dance to tell each other where they can find nectar and pollen, which is their food.
This, of course, does not mean that they are using a 'language' but they are, all the
same, communicating something. Many people think that certain birds like parrots
can speak, but this is in fact not true. Such animals are only capable of copying the
sounds of human speech but have no understanding of these sounds and generally use
them at the wrong time. There is also no apparent logic in the way they select what to
copy either. On the other hand, monkeys, apes and other primates are capable of
communicating a small number of basic ideas using a range of simple sounds that are
recognised by other members of their social group. Unfortunately though, none of the
groups of monkeys observed so far have developed any form of grammar and so we
cannot call this a language. However, some apes, chimpanzees in particular, can be
trained to understand and respond to certain spoken commands by humans, but so far
none have attempted to copy our speech. Now there is one kind of animal that does
just this, although not many people can understand what they are saying. Dolphins
have different shaped mouths to humans and as a result they are unable to make all
the sounds that we can make. They can manage the vowel sounds 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', ...
and so on, but lack the necessary voice equipment to reproduce our consonants. Thus,
a simple phrase like 'Hello, how are you?' becomes 'e - o - ah - u'. But what makes
these noises more amazing is that dolphins do show an awareness of when to use
such phrases and in this sense, are actually trying to communicate with humans.
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But by far, the most remarkable form of animal communication are the 'songs'
of whales. These are fast clicking and squeaking noises that whales make underwater
and the sounds themselves actually contain more information than human speech.
Scientists have noticed that some whales repeat certain long phrases of sounds, and
this is in fact why they are called songs. Of particular interest is a species called the
'bottle-nosed' whale whose songs have many of the characteristics of human speech.
But at the end of the day, we are the only species that have developed proper
grammatical languages and most experts now agree that this is because of the large
communities that we live in - where a child growing up can hear hundreds of
different examples of his or her language being spoken every day. If, for any reason,
a young child does not get enough contact with other people between the ages of one
and four, he or she may never fully develop the power of speech. One can imagine
that if whales or dolphins did start living in large communities then well ... FADE
You have 20 seconds to check your answers. (pause 20 seconds)
Now listen to the text again. (text repeated)
This is the end of the listening comprehension task.
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ШКОЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП. 5-6 КЛАССЫ
Максимальный балл за работу - 52.
LISTENING
Recommended time: 15 minutes
(8 points)
Task 1
Linda and Chris are travelling with their parents around Russia. Right now they are in
Moscow, in the Tretyakov Gallery. They are looking at different pictures and sharing
their impressions with each other. Listen to their dialogues about each of the following
pictures and guess which picture they are discussing. You will hear the dialogues twice.
Now you have 1 minute to study the pictures.
Задание 1.
«Опять двойка», Фёдор Решетников
In which dialogue are the children talking about this picture?
Dialogue
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Задание 2.
«За завтраком», Зинаида Серебрякова
In which dialogue are the children talking about this picture?
Dialogue
____
Задание 3.
«Устный счёт в народной школе С. А. Рачинского», Николай Богданов-Бельский
In which dialogue are the children talking about this picture?
Dialogue
____
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Задание 4.
«Тройка», Василий Перов
In which dialogue are the children talking about this picture?
Dialogue
____
Задание 5.
«Дети, бегущие от грозы», Константин Маковский
In which dialogue are the children talking about this picture?
Dialogue
____
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Задание 6.
«Крестьянские мальчики стерегут лошадей», Владимир Маковский
In which dialogue are the children talking about this picture?
Dialogue
____
Задание 7.
«Бабушкины сказки», Василий Максимов
In which dialogue are the children talking about this picture?
Dialogue
____
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Задание 8.
«Новенькая», Эмилия Шанкс
In which dialogue are the children talking about this picture?
Dialogue
____
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READING
Recommended time: 10 minutes
(9 points)
Задание 9.
Read the text below. Fill in the blanks 1-6 with sentences A-F.
I really love my room. (1)
___. Because it’s full of fantastic things and sounds. (2)
___
They shine in the dark. (3)
___. I also have a cage full of white mice. (4)
___. They are
always more active at night than during the day. (5)
___. Sometimes I like to think I’m a
monkey swinging and jumping from bunk to bunk. (6)
___
A) When I’m in bed, I imagine looking at the sky on a moonless night in a desert.
B) Finally, my bunk bed is like a jungle gym.
C) Can you guess why?
D) I guess I’m pretty lucky to have such a cool room.
E) For one thing, I have lots of plastic stars glued to my ceiling.
F) At night, it’s comforting to hear them scratching in the cage.
1
2
3
4
5
6
Now answer the following questions:
Задание 10. Which title is the best for this text?
A) White Mice Are the Best Pets
B) Reasons Why I Like My Room
C) Fantastic Things and Sounds
Задание 11. Which sentence is the best to finish this text with?
A) No wonder my friends love visiting me and having sleepovers.
B) To keep it cool, I always open the window at night to let in fresh air.
C) I’m also lucky to live in a nice town and to have a great family.
Задание 12. From the text we know that in the room the author of the text has …
A) at least one mouse.
B) at least one monkey.
C) a monkey and a mouse.
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USE OF ENGLISH
Recommended time: 45 minutes
(35 points)
Задание 13.
Task 1
Read the text below and choose the best answer for each space. The first one is done for
you.
Example:
0
A) was looking
B) looks
C) look
Maggie’s Big Brother
Maggi got into bed, but she didn’t close her eyes. She (0)
___ at her closet doors.
She was afraid. “I (1)
___ to Blake again!” she thought.
Blake was (2)
___
classmate. At school that afternoon he (3)
___
Maggie that
monsters lived in bedroom closets. Maggie knew it was not true because monsters
(4)
___. Right?
Maggie tried to (5)
___ asleep.
Scratch! Scratch!
She jumped (6)
___ bed and screamed, “A monster!”.
“No, it’s just me!” Connor said. “I (7)
___ the cat’s box.” Connor was Maggie’s
big brother. He was in middle school.
Maggie closed her eyes again.
Crunch! Crackle!
Maggie’s eyes opened. “What (8)
___?” she cried.
“(9)
___ again,” Connor said. “Mom told me to empty the wastepaper basket.”
A moment later, Connor came back to Maggie’s room. “(10)
___
aren’t you
asleep?” he asked.
“Because there are monsters in my closet!” Maggie said. “And why (11)
___
in
bed? Why are you cleaning the house so late?”
“I’m just helping Mum and Dad,” Connor said. Connor came up to Maggie’s
closet and pointed at it with (12)
___ finger.
“What are you doing (13)
___?” Maggie asked.
“Shh!” Connor said. “I’m doing magic! Alakazee! Alakazam! Monsters go to
Amsterdam! Now you (14)
___ no monsters in your closet!”
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Maggie started (15)
___
(16)
___
was all so funny and silly - her fears and
Connor’s magic! Why did she even listen (17)
___ Blake? Connor came up to her bed.
“Good night, Maggie,” he said, “See you (18)
___ the morning”.
Maggie (19)
___
stop laughing for a long time. But then she (20)
___
about
monsters. In five minutes she was sound asleep.
A
B
C
0
was looking
looks
look
1
will never talk
never talk
never talking
2
Maggie
Maggie’s
Maggies
3
tell
will tell
told
4
didn’t exist
not exist
was not existing
5
fall
jump
get
6
without
out from
out of
7
clean
am cleaning
cleaning
8
that was
was that
it was
9
I
my
me
10
What
When
Why
11
are you not
you are not
do you not
12
her
his
he’s
13
they’re
their
there
14
will not have
will have
won’t have any
15
laughing
laugh
was laughing
16
These
Those
This
17
---
to
at
18
on
---
in
19
can’t
couldn’t
could
20
forget
to forget
forgot
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Task 2
Can you turn CAT into PET? Use the word descriptions to help you find the right words.
Only the letter in the circle should change from one word to the next. The first three
have been done for you.
The opposite of COLD
You wear it on your head
A meowing animal
Задание 14.
A night animal with wings
Задание 15.
The opposite of GOOD
Задание 16.
You sleep in it
Задание 17.
It makes honey
Задание 18.
Eyes do it
Задание 19.
A lot of salty water
Задание 20.
You “drink with jam and bread”
Задание 21.
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Задание 22.
One man, many…
Задание 23.
You write with it
A cat at somebody’s home
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
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Task 3
Place the words in the right order to make sentences.
There is an example done for you:
Example:
0. are in all the cats grey dark
All cats are grey in the dark.
Задание 24. The dog her carries bag her lady in
_______________________________________________________________________
Задание 25. forget birthday if sad be I will He his
_______________________________________________________________________
Задание 26. my but books went I at school forgot home
_______________________________________________________________________
Задание 27. for book you were the looking you find Did
_______________________________________________________________________
Задание 28. scary am I afraid things of
_______________________________________________________________________
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ШКОЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП. 5-6 КЛАССЫ
ОТВЕТЫ
Максимальный балл за работу - 52.
LISTENING
Recommended time: 15 minutes
(8 points)
Task 1
Linda and Chris are travelling with their parents around Russia. Right now they are in
Moscow, in the Tretyakov Gallery. They are looking at different pictures and sharing
their impressions with each other. Listen to their dialogues about each of the following
pictures and guess which picture they are discussing. You will hear the dialogues twice.
Now you have 1 minute to study the pictures.
Задание 1.
«Опять двойка», Фёдор Решетников
In which dialogue are the children talking about this picture?
Dialogue __7__
содержание ..
1
2
3 ..