Английский язык (с ответами). Всероссийская олимпиада школьников в Москве (2023-2024 год)

Всероссийская олимпиада школьников. Английский язык. 2023-2024 уч. г.

Муниципальный этап. 7-8 классы

could get a better deal elsewhere. He was smart with his money, so Pablo believed

that this deal had to be a sure thing.

Jake helped Pablo register online and (4) ______ on how the program worked.

Within hours, Pablo had received a gazillion e-mails trying to sell him a gazillion

things, but no games to test, and nothing free.

“Huh!” said Jake. “I guess I was (5) ______ on this one.” As it turned out, the

whole thing was a scam, and the boys had fallen for it (6) ______.

Fortunately, Pablo was able to change his e-mail address and (7) ______ the

entire mess. But he was still out $30. And instead of happily playing free video

games and (8) ______, he simply felt like an idiot.

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Task 3 (9 points)

All of the riddles in this task are about word spelling. Solve each riddle.

There is an example done for you:

Example:

0. What word will you get if you add something to one to make it less? - none

1. (15) What word starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t”, and ends with “t”?

____________ (teapot)

2. (16) What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters?

____________ (short)

3. (17) What is a heavy weight forward but not backward? _____________ (ton)

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ВСЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОЛИМПИАДА ШКОЛЬНИКОВ

АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК. 2023-2024 уч. г.

МУНИЦИПАЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП. 7-8 КЛАССЫ

ТЕКСТ ДЛЯ АУДИРОВАНИЯ

Part 1

Integrated Listening and Reading (30 minutes)

Maximum points - 6

The Fussy family - Mr. and Mrs. Fussy, their daughter Candy and Mr. Fussy’s

mother Grandma Fussy - have been traveling in Russia for a week. Tomorrow is

their last day in Moscow and each of them has their own idea about what to do on

their last afternoon in the Russian capital. Imagine that you are their tour guide

and need to choose the right place to take them to. There are 3 places you are

thinking about that might be just right.

Task 1

Read the information about the 3 places that might be interesting for the Fussy

family to visit on their last afternoon in Moscow and answer the questions that

follow.

Now you have 15 minutes to read the texts and answer the questions that follow.

(Pause 15 minutes)

Task 2

Now listen to the Fussy family members speak about what they would like to do on

their last afternoon in Moscow and decide where you as a tour guide should take

them.

Grandma Fussy:

I’ve had so much fun on this trip! I absolutely loved it! I have seen everything I

wanted to see, and the only thing that I need to do is buy some souvenirs for all my

friends! There are 7 elderly ladies back home who are waiting for me to come back

and tell them all about my trip. I would really like to bring them something special,

very Russian, something they could wear, like earrings maybe or necklaces or scarves

- we all like that kind of stuff! We are elderly but very fashionable ladies! The only

thing is, to be honest, I’m quite tired - my 80-year-old legs are not used to so much

walking! So, if we go somewhere tomorrow, it shouldn’t involve too much walking.

Mr. Fussy:

This trip has been fascinating! My biggest hobby is learning about history, and I’ve

learnt so much on this trip already! But you can never learn enough or too much! So,

if we have a free afternoon tomorrow, I would be happy if we could visit another

museum, it doesn’t have to be big, but it should be about something old and special.

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The older, the better! The beginning of Moscow, maybe, - if it is at all possible.

However, I want it to be interesting for all the rest as well.

Mrs. Fussy:

This has been such an enjoyable trip! I can’t believe we’ve managed to see so much

in just one week! The only thing that I would love to do tomorrow afternoon - if it is

possible - is to go to the theatre. I love drama, but of course, there is a big problem

with the language - none of us can understand Russian! So, I guess this leaves us few

choices - like a musical or an opera or maybe a ballet. Do you think we could find

something like that?

Candy Fussy:

Yeah, I agree, the trip was really cool! I loved everything! Especially the Metro and

the ice-cream! I don’t really have any special ideas for tomorrow. But if we could

find some nice T-shirts or sweatshirts with a print of something about Moscow, that

would be great. I wouldn’t mind buying a couple of those - for myself and for my

best friend Betty. Something to remember this trip by. Betty and I always bring each

other T-shirts from the places we visit.

You’ll hear the text again in 2 minutes.

(Pause 2 minutes)

Now listen to the text again.

(Text repeated)

Now you have two minutes to finish the task.

This is the end of the integrated task. Now you can start working on your

reading task.

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МУНИЦИПАЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП. 9 КЛАСС

ОТВЕТЫ

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LISTENING

Time: 15 minutes (15 points)

Task 1 (10 points)

(В скобках - нумерация заданий в МЭШ)

(1)

For items 1-10 listen to a talk about famous people who tried to learn Russian and

decide whether the statements (1-10) are TRUE (A), or FALSE (B) according to the

text you hear. You will hear the text twice.

1. Few people are attracted by the difficult nature of the Russian language.

A) True

B) False

2. Herbert G. Wells studied Russian eagerly in advance of his second journey to

Russia.

A) True

B) False

3. Herbert Wells learned to count in Russian by means of a different alphabet.

A) True

B) False

4. Herbert Wells promoted teaching Russian as a third foreign language in British

schools.

A) True

B) False

5. Herbert Wells considered the Russian script clear and logical and suggested

publishing books in it.

A) True

B) False

6. One of Herbert Wells’s novels was set in Moscow.

A) True

B) False

7. Alexandre Dumas undertook a voyage specially to see the Caucasus.

A) True

B) False

8. Alexandre Dumas wouldn’t have been skilled in Russian unless he had spent a

year in Russia.

A) True

B) False

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9. Alexandre Dumas considered Russian rude words less emotional than the words

expressing tenderness.

A) True

B) False

10. Alexandre Dumas translated some works by Dmitry Grigorovich.

A) True

B) False

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Task 2 (5 points)

For items 11-15 listen to the dialogue. Choose the correct answer (A, B or C) to

answer questions 11-15. You will hear the text only once.

11. (2) Being at Melanie’s for the 3^rd time Simon feels

A) pleased.

B) interested.

C) unusual.

12. (3) What is TRUE about Melanie’s mother?

A) She works for a news agency.

B) She is employed for a short period.

C) Her work life isn’t crowded with activities.

13. (4) Simon finds Melanie’s parents

A) very nice.

B) a bit dull.

C) exciting.

14. (5) Melanie’s father DOES NOT

A) work overtime.

B) leave his place for entertainment.

C) seem quite boring.

15. (6) At the end of the conversation, Simon wasn’t aware of the fact that

A) Melanie has no siblings.

B) Melanie’s father is over fifty.

C) Melanie’s parents don’t spend much time at home.

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READING

Time: 45 minutes (20 points)

Task 1 (10 points)

For items 1-10, read the passage below and choose the option which best fits

according to the text.

Leaving London for Coventry

Hayley Myers was worried about relocating back to her home city of Coventry

after a decade in London, but she hasn’t looked back ever since.

During those seemingly endless days of working from home in the midst of the

lockdown, we decided that enough was enough. My husband and I were squeezed

around the dining table, one eye on our laptops and the other on our restless toddler.

The living room as well as the flat itself felt cramped and crowded. I was excited,

nervous and constantly worried about how to cope with another newborn under the

current strict social restrictions, and later the high costs of having two children in a

nursery.

By that time, Mark (my husband) and I had lived in London for almost 10

years and owned a shabby but much-loved flat in a remote southeastern part of the

city. It was an enjoyable and exciting time. We both had good jobs, with a great

support network of friends. We actually accepted all inconveniences as part and

parcel of city living. We could not and did not want to ask for more. It was only

during the pandemic that we got fully aware of all the annoying inconveniences. The

walls of our windowless bathroom were constantly damp, the taps were leaky, the

ceiling mildewy. The concrete rectangle of our balcony seemed dreary and tiny, and

the creaks of the lift right next to our front door disturbed our sleep all night long.

Ours wasn’t a unique situation. According to the estate agent Hamptons, 2022

saw more than 150,000 households leave London in search of larger homes, peace

and quiet. As for our family, deciding where to move was never particularly difficult,

because we had always planned to return to my beloved hometown, Coventry. Living

in the countryside or close to the sea was appealing, besides it meant being

geographically closer to our family and old friends we had desperately missed during

our time in London.

It was a no-brainer, really, simple and clear, and it was a while before we took

the plunge. There was an unshakeable sense that leaving London was a failure of

sorts. I kept thinking if going back to where we started was in fact admitting defeat?

Slightly embarrassingly, there was also a fear of missing out, both socially and

professionally. We’d spent years working hard in the live-music industry, burning

both ends of the candle at gigs, clubs and festivals. And now I was irrationally

panicked by the idea of letting my old life go. But we needn’t have worried.

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Our new home is a rented terrace in the northwest of the city, and to us it feels

nothing short of a whole palace. We open cupboards and marvel when nothing

immediately topples out. Moving the sofa in order to sit down for tea at the dining

table is no longer necessary. There are stairs and plentiful windows and a front lawn

with an apple tree and a blossoming rhododendron near the porch.

I’ve painted an idyllic picture of a grand homecoming, but it would be

untruthful to say there haven’t been downsides. Going to London by train every

Thursday for our jobs seemed perfectly reasonable before we attempted it. It turned

out it requires patience for the neverending train delays and determination to find a

seat where you can wolf down an overpriced sandwich. But we think it a minor

inconvenience and don’t care much.

I’m also anxious that my kids will resent this move to suburbia when they’re

older, that they’ll struggle to understand the reasons why we left behind the

opportunities the capital offers. Of course, we will always miss London, but we know

that Coventry is the best place for us right now. The diversity of the local school is a

reflection of the city as a whole, and we are heartened that our children will grow and

learn with friends from different cultures. Now I can work happily, listening to them

laughing with my parents in the room next door, and it reminds me that for our family

there really is no place like home.

1. (7) During lockdown Hayley Myers realized that

A) their flat had not enough space for the growing family.

B) it was more convenient to work from home.

C) she could easily cope without a nursery.

D) the flat rental costs were gradually rising.

2. (8) Before the pandemic Hayley and her husband

A) rented a flat in the centre of the capital.

B) did not mind any inconveniences of their flat.

C) planned to move somewhere to the countryside.

D) wished to finally fix the bathroom taps.

3. (9) While living in London before the pandemic Hayler and her husband believed

A) that living in a city was better for their careers.

B) that renting a flat was enough for their family.

C) they were completely satisfied with what they had.

D) they needed a bigger flat for the family.

4. (10) At the time of the pandemic Hayley and Mark realized that their flat in London

A) was even more cozy.

B) needed renovation.

C) needed a bigger lift.

D) felt moist and bleak.

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5. (11) Hamptons’ report shows that during the pandemic people started leaving cities

because

A) they wanted to live somewhere by the sea.

B) they found commuting relaxing and calming.

C) they wanted to reunite with their relatives.

D) they were looking for calmness and space.

6. (12) The word “no-brainer” in Paragraph 4 means

A) an obvious decision that you do not need to think much about

B) a rash decision taken without much consideration

C) a smart step to take to avoid failure and defeat

D) an act of well-planned and calculated downshifting.

7. (13) Hayley thought that leaving the capital

A) would lead to professional burnout.

B) would mean disappointing their families.

C) might lead to professional isolation.

D) might mean stop trying to be successful.

8. (14) The family’s new home in Coventry

A) has a terrace and a green lawn.

B) looks like a grand palace.

C) is more airy and roomy.

D) has a big back garden.

9. (15) Living in Coventry, Hayley feels worried because

A) their children study in a multi-national school.

B) they will have to quit their jobs in London.

C) their children will regret moving away from London.

D) they will have to return to the capital.

10. (16) What is NOT TRUE about the family’s life in Coventry?

A) They have relatives and friends living nearby.

B) They regret moving to Coventry.

C) They have to commute to London once a week.

D) They dislike commuting to work.

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Task 2 (10 points)

(17)

For items 1-10, 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.

Decorating the Christmas tree is one of the most cherished holiday traditions

around the world.

(1) ____________. But have you ever stopped to wonder why you trim that

tree and how these traditions once made their way to our homes?

Legend has it that the tradition of decorating the Christmas tree was started by

the 16^th century German theologian Martin Luther.

(2) ____________. And as soon as he got home, he recreated the shimmering

spectacle by adding small lit candles to the branches of a fir tree he had cut down.

1610, when silver was a precious commodity, Germans in Nuremberg

displayed strands of silver, which came to be known as tinsel, on their Christmas

trees. (3) ____________. Cheaper materials, including copper and tin, were swapped

for silver to make the decor more accessible to the less well-heeled.

(4) ____________. Today’s tinsel is largely made of polyvinyl chloride and shaped

into its characteristic bands with the help of modern-day machinery.

In Russia, the custom of decorating the Christmas tree was initially introduced

by Peter I. (5) ____________. He also commanded to decorate the fir trees with fruits

and paper flowers, as they did in Holland and Germany. (6) ____________. For the

poor he ordered to decorate their dwelling with at least a few branches of fir trees.

There were parties, balls, and a grand fireworks display was arranged on the Red

Square.

(7) ____________. The Christmas tree returned as a tradition only under

Emperor Nicholas I (who reigned from 1825 to 1855) thanks to his wife, Empress

Alexandra Feodorovna, who before the marriage was princess Charlotte of Prussia.

(8) ____________. The custom was very much liked by the courtiers and soon spread

all over Russia. (9) ____________.

In the beginning, in Russia Christmas trees were decorated with edible

products wrapped in shiny colored foil, as well as toys made from improvised

materials: fabrics, cotton wool and papier-mâché. (10) ____________. So rather than

being just “funny” or “nice pieces,” the themes of the ornaments were meant to

convey the meaning of good old traditions.

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A. However, these materials became scarce later, leading to their replacement with

aluminum (which was a fire hazard) and lead (which turned out to be poisonous).

B. Once while walking home from the woods on a winter’s night, he was very

much moved by the sight of the stars shining above the evergreens in the winter

forest.

C. She introduced the custom of decorating the house with a Christmas tree with

burning candles, as well as the tradition of Christmas presents laid out under the

tree or hung directly on the branches.

D. Nobility and well-off citizens had to have a decorated tree in front of their

houses, decorate the house with spruce, pine and juniper branches and to not

remove the decorations until the 7th of January.

E. These ornaments were symbols of good harvest, prosperity, health, family, a

happy life.

F. Like clockwork, holiday-happy decorators annually pull their Christmas decor

from storage and deck the halls at the end of November and early December.

G. However, this tradition did not last very long: after the death of the tzar, his

decree was largely ignored.

H. In addition to glass toys, the “Dresden Cartonage” was also popular in pre-

revolutionary Russia - toys made of two halves of convex tinted cardboard.

I. Upon returning from one of his foreign trips, he ordered to celebrate the New

Year starting from the first night of January 1700, thus marking the new century.

J. By the late 1800s, lavishly decorated fir trees (yolki) were central to the holiday

celebrations and gift-giving to children became usual.

K. Not only did the tinsel display their wealth, but it also helped reflect the light of

candles that were placed on trees.

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USE OF ENGLISH

Time: 60 minutes (45 points)

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Task 1. (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 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).

Example:

the

Virtuous Nature

Can animals really have a sense of right and wrong? Experts

think they do.

If you think that we are the only creatures on Earth with a moral

the

sense, then you’re in the good company.

Most experts in behavior believe that morality is a uniquely

human trait, without which our complex social life would never

been

have been emerged - yet I’m convinced that many animals can

distinguish right from wrong.

Decades spent watching wild and captive animals have persuaded

me that species living in groups often have a sense of fair play

very

built on moral codes of conduct that help cement their very social

relationships.

The notion of Nature on being naturally competitive doesn’t hold

true for those of us who have observed and analyzed animal

relationships.

That’s not all. I suspect that herein lies the origin of our own

virtue. Biologists have had real problems trying to explain why

people are frequently inexplicably nice to each other.

It just doesn’t make sense in evolutionary terms, unless there are

far

ulterior motives far behind our seemingly altruistic actions.

Perhaps we expect getting a payback somewhere down the line,

or may be our good deeds are directed only towards kin, with

getting

whom we share a biological heritage.

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Nobody has been really considered the possibility that being

considerate to our neighbors might sometimes be the best way to

been

survive.

But I’m starting to find evidence that a well-developed sense of

fair play helps non-human animals live longer, more successful

lives.

I’m particularly interested in a social play amongst youngsters

because it has its own special rules of engagement, allowing

participants to reinterpret acts that might otherwise seem

aggressive.

My studies of infant dogs, wolves and coyotes bound reveal that

they use a special signal to prevent misinterpretation of playful

bound

actions.

They perform a “bow”- which reminds entails crouching on the

forelimbs while keeping the rear upright- when initiating play, or

reminds

in association with aggressive actions such as biting, to modify

their meaning.

And role reversal is far common, so that during play a dominant

far

animal will often allow a subordinate to have the upper hand.

Such behaviors reduce inequalities in size, strength and

dominance between playmates, fostering co-operation and

reciprocity that are essential for play to occur.

Indeed, on the rare occasions when an animal says “Let’s play”

and then beats up an unsuspecting animal, the culprit usually

both

finds itself both ostracized by its former playmates.

While animal minds may vary from one species to another, they

are not so different from our own, and if only when we accept

this can we truly be moral in our relations with nature as a whole.

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Task 2. (10 points)

For items 1-10, 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. Use from two to

five words. The number of words is specified in the brackets. Do not use short forms.

Please mind both grammar and spelling. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Example: 0. The pool isn’t deep enough to swim in.

too

The pool ____ ______ _____ ______ swim in. (4 words)

is too shallow to

1. (19) The thieves stole jewellery and paintings worth over $ 25,000.

away

The thieves ____ ____ ___ jewellery and paintings worth over $ 25,000. (3 words)

2. (20) We saw the film and then bought the book.

having

We bought the book ___ ___ ___ ___. (4 words)

3. (21) As I didn’t know the name for it in Greek, I just pointed.

say

Not ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ in Greek, I just pointed. (5 words)

4. (22) The ladies wore evening dresses, but it wasn’t necessary.

need

The ladies ___ ___ ___ ____ evening dresses. (4 words)

5. (23) The coffee machine stopped working right in the middle of the lunch break.

down

The coffee machine ___ ___ right in the middle of the lunch break. (2 words)

6. (24) The wearing of seat-belts is now obligatory for rear-seat passengers.

have

Rear-seat passengers now ___ ___ __ seat-belts. (3 words)

7. (25) Rainy days depress me terribly.

get

Rainy days __ __ __ terribly. (3 words)

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8. (26) Bob reduced his intake of fatty food and lost seven kilos in a month!

Bob __ __ __ his intake of fatty food and lost seven kilos in a month! (3 words)

9. (27) He felt disappointed when his mother didn’t come to see him in the play.

let

He felt ___ ___ when his mother didn’t come to see him in the play. (2 words)

10. (28) If you want someone to regain consciousness, you should throw cold water

in their face.

bring

___ __ __ __ , you should throw cold water in their face. (4 words)

1 (19)

got away with; ran away with

having seen the film; having watched the film; having the film seen;

2 (20)

having the film watched

3 (21)

knowing how to say it; knowing how to say this; knowing how to say that

4 (22)

need not have worn

5 (23)

broke down; shut down; went down

6 (24)

have to wear; have to fasten; have to use

7 (25)

get me down; get me depressed

8 (26)

cut down on

9 (27)

let down

to bring someone/somebody round; to bring somebody around; to bring

10 (28)

someone around

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Task 3. (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).

Example:

globally

As policy director for a well-known multinational, Ben Dims

GLOBAL

spends his days thinking (0) «.

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But when he travels on holiday, it’s always closer to home; several

VACATE

years ago he made the decision never again to take a (1) « by air.

“It was partly driven by a concern for the environment,” says

LOOK

Dims, “but also by a desire not to (2) « what’s on your doorstep,

and to travel in a more leisurely way.”

Now Dims and his family would rather board a (3) « train from

SLEEP

London to Scotland’s west coast.

The journey (4) « is a key part of the trip.

No matter that it takes three times longer than flying; for Dims and

SCENE

his family, enjoying breakfast in bed while chugging past some of

the world’s most beautiful (5) « is the end, not the means to get

there.

More and more people are living for their next holiday, and like

EMPLOY

Dims, are opting to travel in the slow lane. (6) « are bargaining

with their bosses for more time to savour their travels.

For them there seems to be an easy (7) « from the drudgery of

TRANSIT

work and responsibilities of bringing up children to the pleasures

of time off - and back again.

And today’s trips are more like (8) « in which the next page is yet

NARRATE

to be written, and the traveller is the storyteller.

They want to spend (9) « days, hiking, cooking and relaxing.

STRUCTURE

They enjoy living (10) « the islands, just dreaming. The whole

MID

idea of ‘If it’s Tuesday, it must be Belize’ is completely over. So is

the desire to come back with an object, or even a picture. They

want to come back with a story.

vacation

overlook

sleeper

itself

scenery

employees

transition

narratives/ narration(s)

unstructured

amid/ amidst

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Task 4. (10 points)

For items 1-10, match the items 1-10 to the phenomena A-M. There are some extra

phenomena which do not match.

1. Tossing the caber

A) Small plots of land rented by local governments on

which people grow plants in Britain

2. The Suffragettes

B) The record of all the people and things in his country

compiled by William I (‘the Conqueror’)

3. The Reformation

C) A Scottish athletic contest between two teams at

opposite ends of a rope, each team trying to drag the other

across a centre line

4. Allotments

D) An organization of people to fight local crime in

Britain

5. The Union Jack

E) Women who campaigned for the right to vote in the

early 20^th century

6. Old Glory

F) A dark secret from your past which you try to keep

hidden

7. Political correctness

G) An organization which helps to preserve the British

countryside

8. Skeleton in the

H) The name the UK flag is often known by

cupboard

9. The National Trust

I) The name the Australian flag is often known by

10. The Domesday Book

J) Throwing a straight, 17-foot-long log so that it turns

over in the air and falls on the ground with its small end

pointing directly opposite the tosser, a Scottish athletic

contest

K) The set of laws passed in the 16^th century which took

away the power of the Roman Catholic Church in England

L) The attitude which takes extreme care not to say

anything which might offend a minority group

M) One of the names the US flag is often known by

N) The famous stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer

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ОФОРМЛЕНИЕ (максимум 16 баллов)

Орфография и

Решение коммуникативной задачи

Организация текста

Лексика

Грамматика

пунктуация

(максимум 4 балла)

(максимум

4 балла)

Задание выполнено полностью, все

4 балла

аспекты, указанные в задании, раскрыты

Высказывание

Работа не имеет

В работе нет

(4 аспекта):

логично, имеется

ошибок с точки

орфографи-

1) вступление соответствует теме задания и

вступление, имеется

зрения

ческих и/или

объясняет точку зрения автора цитаты,

заключение, средства

лексического и

грамматического

пунктуационных

2) выражена позиция автора работы и

логической связи

стилистического²

оформления.³

ошибок.

дан(ы) аргумент(ы) в ее защиту,

использованы

оформления.

3) приведен(ы) исторические или

правильно, текст

литературные пример(ы),

правильно разделён

4) заключение соответствует теме задания и

на абзацы.

подтверждает позицию автора работы.

Объём работы либо соответствует

заданному, либо отклоняется от заданного

не более чем на 10 % в сторону увеличения

(не больше 275 слов¹) или на 10 % в

сторону уменьшения (не меньше 180 слов).

¹ При превышении объема более чем на 10 % от заданного (276 слов и более) проверяются первые 250 слов. При превышении объема менее чем на 10% от заданного баллы за

содержание не снижаются.

² Работа должна быть написана в нейтральном стиле, допускается наличие в работе стяженных форм и риторических вопросов, случаи неоправданного употребления

стилистически сниженной лексики считаются лексическими ошибками.

³ Ошибки на одно и то же грамматическое правило считаются однотипными и учитываются один раз.

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Задание выполнено: некоторые аспекты,

3 балла

указанные в задании, раскрыты не

Допускаются 1-2

В работе

В работе имеются 1

В работе

полностью или неточно⁴

ошибки в

имеются 1-2

- 2 грамматические

имеются 1-2

(1-2 аспекта раскрыты не полностью;

организации

лексические

ошибки.

орфографические

или 1 аспект не раскрыт, остальные

высказывания.

ошибки.

и/или

раскрыты полно);

пунктуационные

ошибки.

Задание выполнено не полностью: (3-4

2 балла

аспекта раскрыты не полностью или

Допускаются 3-4

В работе

В работе имеются

В работе

неточно;

ошибки в

имеются 3-4

3-4 грамматические

имеются 3 - 4

или 2 аспекта не раскрыты, но остальные

организации

лексические

ошибки

орфографические

раскрыты полно и точно; или 1 аспект не

высказывания.

ошибки.

и/или

раскрыт и 1-2 аспекта раскрыты не

пунктуационные

полностью или неточно).

ошибки.

Задание выполнено частично: (3 аспекта

1 балл

не раскрыты, но один раскрыт полно и

Допускаются 5-6

В работе

В работе имеются

В работе

точно или 2 аспекта не раскрыты и 1-2

ошибок в

имеются 5-6

5-6 грамматических

имеются 5 - 6

аспекта раскрыты не полностью или

организации

лексических

ошибок

орфографи-

неточно; или 1 аспект не раскрыт и 3

высказывания.

ошибок.

ческих и/или

аспекта раскрыты не полностью или

пунктуационных

неточно).

ошибок

⁴ Аспект считается раскрытым не полностью, если аргументы повторяются и/или аргументы неразвёрнутые. Аспект считается раскрытым неточно, если в приведенных примерах

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0 баллов

отражает тех аспектов, которые указаны в

В работе имеются 7 и

В работе

В работе имеются 7

В работе

задании

более ошибок в

имеются 7 и

и более

имеются 7 и

(4 аспекта не раскрыты или 3 аспекта не

организации

более

грамматических

более орфогра-

раскрыты, и один раскрыт неполно или

высказывания.

лексических

ошибок.

фических и/или

неточно).

ошибок.

пунктуационных

ошибок.

И/ИЛИ Объём менее 180 слов.

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Примечания к критериям оценивания

1. При определении типа ошибки (лексическая, грамматическая, орфографическая)

следует руководствоваться следующими указаниями:

Лексическими ошибками считаются

• ошибки в неправильном употреблении слова в контексте;

• ошибки в словосочетании;

• пропуск слова, когда это не влияет на грамматическую структуру предложения;

• ошибки в словообразовании (если не меняется часть речи: regular- unregular);

• послелоги во фразовых глаголах;

• ошибки в написании слов, которые меняют значение слова (think-thing, lose-loose).

Грамматическими ошибками считаются

• ошибки в употреблении артиклей, предлогов, видовременных форм глаголов,

неличных форм глаголов, степеней сравнения прилагательных и наречий,

местоимений, ошибки в порядке слов в предложении и т.д.

• пропуск слова, влияющего на грамматическую структуру предложения (пропуск

подлежащего или сказуемого).

• ошибки в словообразовании, если меняется часть речи (contribute - contribution).

• употребление its вместо it’s или наоборот.

Орфографическими ошибками считаются

 ошибки в написании слов, которые не приводят к образованию нового слова

(different - differen).

 если один раз слово написано правильно, а другой раз неправильно - неправильное

написание считать орфографической ошибкой

2. Однотипные ошибки считаются один раз.

3. При подсчете пунктуационных ошибок учитываются только следующие ошибки:

1) наличие точки в заголовке (при наличии заголовка);

2) отсутствие точки или восклицательного знака в конце предложения;

3) отсутствие вопросительного знака в конце вопроса;

4) отсутствие запятой при перечислении или в бессоюзном сложносочиненном

предложении;

5) отсутствие запятой при вводных словах;

6) отсутствие (или ошибка в употреблении) необходимых знаков препинания при

прямой речи или цитировании.

4. Ошибки в словах-связках (to my opinion - вместо in my opinion) учитываются по

критерию «Организация текста».

5. Ошибки в местоимениях считаются ошибкой в референте и являются

логическими: (Every person wants to know his mistakes. People use computers. I do not

love him. - логические ошибки).

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ТЕКСТ ДЛЯ АУДИРОВАНИЯ

Audioscript

Listening comprehension

For items 1-10 listen to a to a talk about famous people who tried to learn Russian

and decide whether the statements (1-10) are TRUE or FALSE according to the text

you hear. You will hear the text twice.

You have 20 seconds to study the statements.

(pause 20 seconds)

Now we begin.

Over the past centuries, the melodic and lyrical Russian language has charmed quite a

few people. They admired it and complained about its complexity and challenges, but

nevertheless persisted in their attempt to learn and speak “the great and mighty

Russian language”.

One of these people was Herbert G. Wells. The famed writer visited Russia three

times, the first time in 1914. Before the author of ‘The Invisible Man’ set out on his

journey, he studied the Russian language with much alacrity. At least, he had tried.

He later admitted to remembering only the words that he learned using the Latin

alphabet. This was how he taught himself to count to one hundred in Russian.

After his two-week trip to Russia, Wells penned an essay “What is Coming? A

Forecast of Things after the War”, in which he suggested introducing Russian as a

third foreign language in schools in Great Britain, in addition to French and German.

The great writer thought that the major challenge in learning Russian consisted in its

Cyrillic script, which Wells referred to as the “irrational spelling of words”. He

suggested using Latin transcriptions and even publishing Russian-language books in

the Latin script. Even more interesting, in his novel ‘Joan and Peter’, the main

characters travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow, just like the writer himself. The

book abounds in descriptions of the capital with its bright shop windows, the Kremlin

walls, sledge rides along the frozen river, as well as performances at the legendary

Moscow Art Theatre.

Alexandre Dumas was another one who tried to learn Russian. The author of

‘The Three Musketeers’ traveled across Russia at the suggestion of Earl Grigory

Kushelev-Bezborodko. His route wasn’t limited to only Moscow and St. Petersburg,

and he also sailed along the Volga River to Astrakhan and visited the Caucasus. He

wrote several books about Russia, as well as published a newspaper featuring his

travel notes. In total, the writer spent a year in Russia, and eventually mastered the

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language. He noted in his travel essays that

“Russian doesn’t have neutral

expressions”, with its “choice of insults being as wide as that of expressions denoting

affection and love”. Apart from his travel notes, Dumas managed to translate into

French some poetry by Nikolay Nekrasov, who he had met in St. Petersburg, as well

as works by Pyotr Vyazemsky and Alexander Pushkin. To do this, he made use of

literal translations by writer and translator Dmitry Grigorovich.

You have 20 seconds to check your answers.

(pause 20 seconds)

Now listen to the text again.

(text repeated)

You have 20 seconds to check your answers.

(pause 20 seconds)

For items 11-15 listen to the dialogue. Choose the correct answer to answer

questions 11-15. You will hear the text once.

You now have 25 seconds to study the questions.

(pause 25 seconds)

Now we begin.

Melanie: I can’t remember. Do you take milk?

Simon: Please, but no sugar. Thanks. It's weird, you know, but I've been to your

house three times now, and I still haven't met your parents.

Melanie: Yes, they're out a lot. My dad works for the BBC and my mum's er, she

does sort of temping work for a company. You know, like an advertising agency.

They're both really busy.

Simon: Oh, they sound really interesting.

Melanie: Do you think so? I find my dad a bit dull, to be honest. He works late every

day, even works some weekends, doesn't read, doesn't go out. I mean, don't get me

wrong, he's quite nice, but I don't know, I just don’t have anything to say to him. I

think the thing is, we just don’t spend enough time together.

Simon: How old is he, then?

Melanie: About fifty-five, I think. I can never really remember.

Simon: Oh, yeah.

Melanie: But my mum's lovely. She's really nice, a bit too nice though, sometimes,

always trying to look after me. She worries about me leaving home. She's a bit over-

protective, if you know what I mean. I'm an only child, so ...

Simon: Oh, I didn't know that.

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ОТВЕТЫ

Максимальный балл за работу - 100.

LISTENING

Time: 15 minutes (15 points)

(В скобках - нумерация заданий в МЭШ)

(1)

Task 1 (10 points)

For items 1-10 listen to a talk about famous people who tried to learn Russian and

decide whether the statements (1-10) are TRUE (A), or FALSE (B) according to the

text you hear. You will hear the text twice.

1. A lot of people have been determined to learn Russian because of its challenging

nature.

A) True

B) False

2. Otto von Bismarck had studied Russian before he was sent to Russia as an official

representative of Prussia.

A) True

B) False

3. Otto von Bismarck considered studying Russian grammar as difficult as fighting

the French Army.

A) True

B) False

4. The Russian emperor complimented Otto von Bismarck on the unwillingness to

show his true knowledge of Russian.

A) True

B) False

5. Prosper Mérimée lacked fluency in Latin.

A) True

B) False

6. Varvara taught Prosper Mérimée to translate from Russian into French.

A) True

B) False

7. Prosper Mérimée was stunned by the ability of the Russian language to convey

subtle shades of meaning.

A) True

B) False

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8. Lewis Carroll was professionally interested in religious beliefs of the Russians.

A) True

B) False

9. Comments about difficult Russian words didn’t discourage Lewis Carroll from

studying the language.

A) True

B) False

10. Lewis Carroll wasn’t good enough at Russian to be able to bargain with the

Russian merchants.

A) True

B) False

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Task 2 (5 points)

For items 11-15 listen to the dialogue. Choose the correct answer (A, B or C) to

answer questions 11-15. You will hear the text only once.

11. (2) Kelly’s week was

A) quite usual.

B) very slow and boring.

C) really nice.

12. (3) What is NOT TRUE about Steve’s dinner?

A) He will enjoy French cuisine.

B) He will go to the restaurant on Saturday.

C) It won`t take him long to get to the restaurant.

13. (4) Steve feels certain that at the weekend he will

A) prepare food for his friends.

B) go to the cinema.

C) have a lie-in.

14. (5) On Friday evening Kelly is going to

A) meet up her former colleagues.

B) attend her friends’ party.

C) spend a night at home.

15. (6) Steve finally says that a boat is

A) an awesome place for a party.

B) a cosy place for a party.

C) a tiny place for a party.

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READING

Time: 45 minutes (20 points)

Task 1 (10 points)

For items 1-10, read the passage below and choose the option which best fits

according to the text.

From London to Berlin

Irish author Naoise Dolan on moving to live in the German capital

I moved to Berlin last summer from London, where I had essentially suffered a

burnout, depression and emotional collapse. This explanation doesn’t go well in small

talk, so I tend to claim instead that I wanted a change of scene.

At the time, my debut novel had been published two years earlier and had

gathered a lot of attention. That might sound like a dream come true - but over the

months that followed, I was driven progressively more insane by my chronic inability

to say no. I tried to be thankful for the flood of media requests and speaking

invitations, endless interviews chat shows, Q&A sessions and other public

appearances I was asked to make. But that just didn’t’ work out. I never craved for all

that attention. I told myself that most people would regard it as a nice problem to

have. To me it turned into a nightmare.

For as long as I could, I denied that anything was wrong. Throughout my early

years and adolescence, I found it difficult to communicate and form relationships. I

was used to hiding my difficulties and neglecting my own wellbeing in an attempt not

to burden others. I could never get used to quick changes and always stuck to my

well-established daily patterns. There were definitely moments when I felt like I was

on a completely different planet from the rest of the young.

But by early 2022, I could no longer even vaguely pretend to be holding things

together. I struck the bottom when I couldn’t sleep for three whole days, by the end

of which my feet had swollen, I twitched at background noises and my own voice

sounded as if it were coming from several meters away. After finally managing to

sleep on the third night, I woke up sixteen hours later to several missed phone calls.

Someone from my literary agency had come to a nearby coffee shop with a contract I

urgently needed to sign, and had waited in vain for an hour. That was the turning

point.

Exactly around that time, I visited an Irish friend in Berlin. At my first night in

Berlin, I took the tram in the dark, carried my suitcase up the communal stairs in my

friend’s apartment building and slept more soundly on her small polyester couch than

I ever had in my London double bed in the semi-detached house. In the morning I

walked around the neighbourhood, enjoying the wide pavements and abundance of

trees.

Consider this January trip the first beat in my spiralling romance with Berlin. I

returned in the spring to stay another few days and I moved that summer. It was a no-

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brainer. I had no second thoughts about it. Relocating to Berlin has improved my

mental health in two main ways. The first is that I’m less professionally

overwhelmed. I’m asked to do fewer things now, since it’s a hassle to bring me to

London - and when I do feel swamped with work, I’m finding it easier to speak up.

Daily exposure to German directness has cured me of my once-consuming need to be

liked.

Better yet, learning German has toned-down my perfectionism. Many young

Berliners instantly switch to English when they hear the slightest trace of any accent.

At first I took this personally, interpreted each English response as a minus. Over

time, I toughened up. Nowadays I rarely get hit with English - and when I do, I

choose to see it as their own desire to practice. I asked my German friends “Why do

you reply in English to me if I’ve just spoken perfectly fine German?” They were

uniformly baffled that anyone could get upset. “Of course” they say “you speak

English with English-speakers - for us it’s just a matter of politeness!”

Did I need to move to Berlin to get happy? Maybe not. But I needed to do

something and this thing worked. I love writing again, love people, love being alive

and learning words of the German-yet-unknown.

1. (7) After the publication of her first novel Naoise

A) received too much unwanted publicity.

B) was grateful to be invited to interviews.

C) wanted to leave London for a change of scene.

D) was looking forward to be in the limelight.

2. (8) In London Naoise felt uncomfortable because

A) she didn’t feel safe and secure in public.

B) she disliked the shows she was invited to.

C) she couldn’t reject the offers she got.

D) she suffered from her fans’ attention.

3. (9) What is NOT TRUE about Naoise’s childhood and teenage years?

A) She didn’t pay attention to her health and mental state.

B) She used to show how different she was from others.

C) She had problems interacting with other people.

D) She preferred her well-paced regular routine.

4. (10) Naoise’s state reached its worst when she

A) was hours late and failed to sign an important contract.

B) stopped hearing clearly her own voice.

C) shuddered at the slightest sound of her cell phone.

D) started suffering from physical reactions to stress.

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5. (11) In comparison to her London home, the place Naoise stayed at during her first

visit to Berlin

A) was modest but more relaxing.

B) was more comfortable and roomy.

C) was safer and much greener.

D) was quieter and more peaceful.

6. (12) The word “no-brainer” in Paragraph 6 means

A) an obvious decision that you do not need to consider much

B) a rash decision taken without much consideration

C) a cautious step to take to avoid failure and defeat

D) an act of well-planned and calculated moving house.

7. (13) Moving to Berlin helped Naoise

A) improve her professional skills.

B) reduce overall work pressure.

C) get more work from her London agent.

D) become more popular and liked.

8. (14) When Naoise spoke German but got a reply in English, she

A) immediately switched to English.

B) was hurt and felt offended.

C) realized she had a strong accent.

D) felt she was misunderstood.

9. (15) The Germans are likely to reply in English to a native speaker of English

because

A) they feel a need to practice their English.

B) they want to surprise the other speaker.

C) they think it’s more respectful.

D) they wish to show their level of English.

10. (16) Eventually the experience of moving to Berlin

A) made Naoise completely independent of social media.

B) met Naoise’s expectations of a perfect city to work in.

C) turned Naoise into a perfectionist.

D) helped Naoise find a way to enjoy life.

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Task 2 (10 points)

For items 1-10, 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.

On July 22, 2012, the Lena Pillars Nature Park became a UNESCO World

Heritage Site. (1) ____________. The park occupies more than a million hectares,

with taiga, dunes, a full-flowing river, and bizarre rocks resembling an ancient Gothic

castle or a sleeping dragon.

(2) ____________. They stand intermittently in a 40 kilometre wall along the

right bank of the Lena River and the left bank of the Buotama, a nearly parallel

tributary.

In fact, the spire-shaped rocks are remnants that survived the weathering of

mountain ranges. (3) ____________. The mountains that shaped the Lena Pillars

began to form on the site of a once shallow sea that was lapping here, at the bottom of

which limestone was gradually accumulating. (4) ____________. For all these years

nature has been taking a creative approach in shaping the Cambrian limestones using

erosion and dramatic changes in temperature to form this impregnable wall.

(5) ____________. However, locals consider them to be frozen deities that are

waiting for their time to come back to people. (6) ____________. A young warrior

fought the dragon to save a fair lady. The monster was almost defeated, but at the last

moment it struck the ground with its tail and turned everything and everybody into

stone.

Another interesting fact is that researchers managed to find an early man site in

the park that is about 370,000 years old, as well as the remains of a mammoth, an

ancient bison, and a woolly rhinoceros. (7) ____________. The real paleontological

treasure of the park is the fossils found there, with ancient invertebrates preserved in

them.

Today the diversity of flora and fauna of the national park cannot but amaze.

There are about 500 species of plants, 42 species of mammals, more than a hundred

species of nesting birds, a huge number of fish and many reptiles. (8) ____________.

Unique Ust-Buotama Farm aims to restore the population of these rare animals that

are on the IUCN Red List. (9) ____________. On the territory of the national park,

there are many lakes with a depth of two to three meters, formed both in natural relief

depressions and on flat watersheds. They are filled with water due to rainfall.

(10) ____________. Their shores are usually flat, and in winter both the shores and

floors of the lakes are usually frozen.

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A. It disappeared after the Siberian platform began to rise, forming rocky

formations composed of limestone, faults and river valleys, while the shape of the

mountains was influenced by erosion, in particular - weathering.

B. The climate in the area of the pillars is usual for these places; it is sharply

continental, and the river makes the air very humid, causing hard frost in winter,

and swelteringly hot days in summer.

C. Archeologists discovered many caves with petroglyphs on the slopes of the

rocks: ancient people made these paintings with yellow mineral paint and stone

tools.

D. The Park is distinguished by a spectacular series of monumental columnar cliffs

up to 100 m high of limestone and dolerite karst.

E. Over time, depending on the degree of erosion, the rocks acquired the most

bizarre forms that to some people remind of the walls of a huge medieval castle

wall or stone giants, forever frozen by some magical or unnatural force.

F. Essentially, about 5,000 years ago, most of the bison living in Siberia died out,

while the rest moved to North America, from where 30 animals were brought back

to the farm.

G. Therefore, during a drought, large reservoirs become shallow, and small ones

dry up altogether.

H. The striking scenery of the park and wild Yakut nature make it the pearl of the

region and one of the most beautiful places in the world.

I. What’s more, the Lena Pillars Nature Park is home for living peers of mammoths

— the wood bison.

J. They were formed from the mountains and remains of plants and animals that

lived on the territory of Yakutia more than 500 million years ago.

K. Another story runs that these rocks are a monument of love, fidelity and

courage, since the Lena Pillars are actually nothing more than a pair of lovers who

were enchanted by the dragon.

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Time: 60 minutes (45 points)

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Task 1. (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 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).

Example:

such

Advertising will change profoundly over the next couple of

decades, although there’s a good chance you won’t notice the

difference, since the most meaningful changes won’t be visible to

the casual observer.

It’s the changes that are happening underground that will count,

and they’re the ones we should be aware of. Advertising in the

such

future will be such stealthily and eerily, targeted, disturbingly

omnipresent and inescapable.

Technology, naturally, will be the engine. User-tracking software

that records your TV and Internet viewing habits in minute detail

- and crosses it with your purchasing history - will allow the

far

advertiser to know that you have children, that you eat meat, that

your native tongue is Spanish and that your dishwasher is

however far many years old.

That way you will be shown commercials for mini-vans,

cheeseburgers, and replacement dishwashers, all in Spanish, and

not for sports cars, tofu and replacement refrigerators, in English.

In fact, this technology already exists. Refined with data that

have

track what kinds of online ads you tend to click on - funny,

sentimental, fact-laden - every commercial will have hit home.

Say what you will, that’s a nifty trick. In the future, people won’t

be bothered with advertising messages irrelevant to them. They’ll

tend to like advertising too better because it’s so carefully tailored

too

to their tastes and will begin to feel less like an intrusion.

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This works for the advertiser too because fewer dollars will be

wasted. While it’s a little dispiriting to think we can be so

predictably manipulated, maybe that’s a fair price to pay to avoid

the pollution of messages you don’t care about.

Nevertheless, it seems clear that the advertising outlets that exist

today - TV and audio commercials, prints ads, billboards and taxi

tops - will be inadequate for accommodating all the commercial

messages that are agitating to get out of.

Advertising will therefore inevitably slip beyond within the

boundaries of the 30-second commercial and the full-page ad and

within

migrate to the rest of the world, including entertainment,

journalism and art.

You can glimpse the future now. A product placement in movies

is an obvious instance of where advertising has slipped outside its

traditional container into entertainment.

The music channels which are an entertainment medium designed

specially to sell records are another classic example. Every time

an artist mentions a brand in their lyrics, advertising slips into art.

It you have a tattoo of your team’s name, you’re already there. If

you wear a T-shirt with a logo on it, you’re also there but with

made

less pain. Eventually, every surface that can display a message

will be made appropriated for advertising.

A backlash is inevitable. Perhaps people will be pay a premium to

live in advertising-free zones.

People get very nervous when they see the line being blurring

between advertising and other forms of content; they think

advertising is some kind of infection that pollutes the purity of

being

art, ruins objectivity and distracts from the pleasure of

entertainment.

Yet this is missing the point. Surely consumers are smart and

perfectly aware of when they’re being sold something; surely

people who go to company websites are happy to find worthwhile

information there and are capable of distinguishing between a

commercial message and an editorial one.

In the main, art and journalism have long relied on direct subsidy

from private sources. Don’t think for a minute that commercial

interests didn’t enter into it.

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The genuinely disturbing aspect remains of advertising is that it

has begun to take over what was formally the property of the

community. Take, for example, the popular Boston Garden park,

naturally named after the city. It is now known as the “Fleet

remains

Center”, after the sponsoring bank. A little town in the Pacific

Northwest just renamed itself after a dotcom company in return

for a generous denotation.

I won’t mention the name here, since I figure advertising should

be paid for it. That’s when advertising has gone too far: when it’s

become something we are, rather than something we see.

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Task 2. (10 points)

For items 1-10, 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. Use from two to

five words. The number of words is specified in the brackets. Do not use short forms.

Please mind both grammar and spelling. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Example: 0. The pool isn’t deep enough to swim in.

too

The pool ____ ______ _____ ______ swim in. (4 words)

is too shallow to

1. (19) Suzy couldn’t reach the picture without a ladder.

for

The picture was too high up ___ ___ ____ ____ without a ladder. (4 words)

2. (20) Those eggs will be rotten by now.

off

Those eggs ___ ___ __ __ by now. (4 words)

3. (21) The weather was so terrible that we stayed inside and played cards.

such

It was __ ___ ___ ___ we stayed inside and played cards. (4 words)

4. (22) It’s important to exercise a lot if you want to stay fit.

plenty

It’s important to ___ ___ ___ ___ if you want to stay fit. (4 words)

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5. (23) The Wall Street Crash caused a chain reaction in stock markets around the

world.

off

The Wall Street Crash __ ___ a chain reaction in stock markets around the world. (2

words)

6. (24) Vicki liked physics best at school.

favourite

Physics ___ ___ ___ ___ at school. (4 words)

7. (25) I hope it’ll be sunny tomorrow, then we can go to the seaside.

We can go to the seaside __ __ ___ ___ tomorrow. (4 words)

8. (26) Albert’s wife says he has to start being interested in his children’s lives.

about

Albert’s wife says it is ___ ____ ____ ____ ___ an interest in his children’s lives. (5

words)

9. (27) I wish Jack had bought tickets for Venice but we went to Paris instead.

rather

Jack bought us tickets to Paris but I __ ___ ___ ___ to Venice. (4 words)

10. (28) The council officer promised to get someone to remove the rubbish.

have

The council officer promised he __ __ ___ ___ ___ away. (5 words)

1 (19)

for Suzy to reach

2 (20)

will have gone off

3 (21)

such terrible weather that

take/ do/ have/ get plenty of exercise; take plenty of exercises; do plenty

4 (22)

of exercises; have plenty of exercises; get plenty of exercises

5 (23)

set off

6 (24)

was Vicki’s favourite subject

7 (25)

if it is sunny; if it gets sunny

about time that he took/ had/ showed/ expressed; about time he started

8 (26)

taking; about time he started having; about time her husband took

9 (27)

would rather have gone

would have the rubbish taken; would have the rubbish thrown; would

10 (28)

have the rubbish cleaned

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Task 3. (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).

Example:

inventor

French (0) « Franky Zapata became the first person to cross the

INVENT

English Channel on a jet-powered flyboard.

The flyboard is a (1) « between Franky and the French army,

PRODUCTION

who think his invention could have military uses in the future.

Preflight, Franky was a little (2) « because he hadn’t had time to

NERVE

do all the tests he wanted to do, but once he began flying, he felt

fine.

The flyboard only has enough kerosene for ten minutes of flight so

FUEL

he had to (3) « the board on a ship in the middle of the trip.

Unfortunately, the first time he tried to do this he

(4)

« his

CALCULATE

landing and fell into the sea. He went under the waves for a

second.

His team were glad to see him after his (5) « .

APPEAR

However, there was a lot of (6) « for Franky because his helmet

COMFORT

filled with seawater and he had to drink it to be able to continue

breathing.

He realized he had (7) « the size of the ship he would need to

ESTIMATE

land on and used a bigger one for his second attempt.

He travelled in a total distance of

22 miles and reached a

SONIC

maximum speed of approximately 160 kph. That isn’t exactly

(8) « but it’s not bad for a small flyboard.

Flying without wings, he looked like a (9) « .

HERO

Next, he says he’s going to build a flying car. Some people think

CONFIDENT

he’s (10) « when he says that the car will fly at a speed of 400

kph!

coproduction/ co-production

discomfort

nervous

underestimated

refuel

supersonic

miscalculated

superhero

disappearance

overconfident

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Task 4. (10 points)

For items 1-10, match the items 1-10 to the phenomena A-M. There are some extra

phenomena which do not match.

1. Gretna Green

A) To do the same things as the people around you to

appear as successful as they are

2. pulp fiction

B) What is right or wrong for one sex is right or wrong for

the other as well

3. Land’s End

C) The capital of Ireland

4. To keep up with the

D) Attract more attention and praise than other people in a

Joneses

particular situation

5. constituency

E) A work of fiction which is so bad and has so little

meaning that its main value is in the paper it’s written on

6. spin doctor

F) MPs who are their parties’ spokespeople

7. The Athens of the

G) A work of detective fiction, presented mainly as a

North

puzzle

8. front benchers

H) The area that an MP represents in Parliament

9. whodunit

I) A peson who treats acute and chronic illnesses and

provides preventive care and health education to patients

of all ages

10. What’s sauce for the

J) It was long famous as the goal of eloping English

goose is sauce for the

couples seeking hasty marriage. They were obliged to

gander.

cross the border into Scotland.

K) The westernmost peninsula of the county of Cornwall.

L) The capital of Scotland

M) A person who is a close adviser to a politician or

political party and whose job is to make them look good in

the media

N) a large gathering of people in a public place in support

of an MP

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Организация

Орфография и

Решение коммуникативной задачи

Лексика

Грамматика

текста

пунктуация

(максимум 4 балла)

(максимум

4 балла)

Задание выполнено полностью, все

4 балла

аспекты, указанные в задании, раскрыты

Высказывание

Работа не имеет

В работе нет

(4 аспекта):

логично,

ошибок с точки

орфографических

1) вступление соответствует теме задания и

имеется

зрения

и/или

объясняет точку зрения автора цитаты,

вступление,

лексического и

грамматического

пунктуационных

2) выражена позиция автора работы и дан(ы)

имеется

стилистического²

оформления.³

ошибок.

аргумент(ы) в ее защиту,

заключение,

оформления.

3) приведен(ы) исторические или

средства

литературные пример(ы),

логической

4) заключение соответствует теме задания и

связи

подтверждает позицию автора работы.

использованы

Объём работы либо соответствует

правильно,

заданному, либо отклоняется от заданного

текст правильно

не более чем на 10 % в сторону увеличения

разделён на

(не больше 275 слов¹) или на 10 % в сторону

абзацы.

уменьшения (не меньше 180 слов).

¹ При превышении объема более чем на 10 % от заданного (276 слов и более) проверяются первые 250 слов. При превышении объема менее чем на 10% от

заданного баллы за содержание не снижаются.

² Работа должна быть написана в нейтральном стиле, допускается наличие в работе стяженных форм и риторических вопросов, случаи неоправданного

употребления стилистически сниженной лексики считаются лексическими ошибками.

³ Ошибки на одно и то же грамматическое правило считаются однотипными и учитываются один раз.

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3 балла

указанные в задании, раскрыты не

Допускаются 1-

В работе имеются

В работе

полностью или неточно⁴

2 ошибки в

1-2 лексические

имеются 1 - 2

имеются 1-2

(1-2 аспекта раскрыты не полностью;

организации

ошибки.

грамматические

орфографические

или 1 аспект не раскрыт, остальные

высказывания.

ошибки.

и/или

раскрыты полно);

пунктуационные

ошибки.

Задание выполнено не полностью: (3-4

2 балла

аспекта раскрыты не полностью или

Допускаются 3-

В работе имеются

В работе

неточно;

4 ошибки в

3-4 лексические

имеются 3-4

имеются 3 - 4

или 2 аспекта не раскрыты, но остальные

организации

ошибки.

грамматические

орфографические

раскрыты полно и точно; или 1 аспект не

высказывания.

ошибки

и/или

раскрыт и 1-2 аспекта раскрыты не

пунктуационные

полностью или неточно).

ошибки.

Задание выполнено частично: (3 аспекта

1 балл

не раскрыты, но один раскрыт полно и точно

Допускаются 5-

В работе имеются

В работе

или 2 аспекта не раскрыты и 1-2 аспекта

6 ошибок в

5-6 лексических

имеются 5-6

имеются 5 - 6

раскрыты не полностью или неточно; или 1

организации

ошибок.

грамматических

орфографических

аспект не раскрыт и 3 аспекта раскрыты не

высказывания.

ошибок

и/или

полностью или неточно).

пунктуационных

ошибок

⁴ Аспект считается раскрытым не полностью, если аргументы повторяются и/или аргументы неразвёрнутые. Аспект считается раскрытым неточно, если в

приведенных примерах есть фактические ошибки. Аспект считается нераскрытым, если аргументация отсутствует или примеры не приведены.

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0 баллов

отражает тех аспектов, которые указаны в

В работе

В работе имеются

В работе

задании

имеются 7 и

7 и более

имеются 7 и

(4 аспекта не раскрыты или 3 аспекта не

более ошибок в

лексических

более

более орфогра-

раскрыты, и один раскрыт неполно или

организации

ошибок.

грамматических

фических и/или

неточно).

высказывания.

ошибок.

пунктуационных

ошибок.

И/ИЛИ Объём менее 180 слов.

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Примечания к критериям оценивания

При определении типа ошибки

(лексическая, грамматическая,

орфографическая) следует руководствоваться следующими указаниями:

Лексическими ошибками считаются

• ошибки в неправильном употреблении слова в контексте;

• ошибки в словосочетании;

• пропуск слова, когда это не влияет на грамматическую структуру

предложения;

• ошибки в словообразовании (если не меняется часть речи: regular- unregular);

• послелоги во фразовых глаголах;

• ошибки в написании слов, которые меняют значение слова (think-thing, lose-

loose).

Грамматическими ошибками считаются

• ошибки в употреблении артиклей, предлогов, видовременных форм глаголов,

неличных форм глаголов, степеней сравнения прилагательных и наречий,

местоимений, ошибки в порядке слов в предложении и т.д.

• пропуск слова, влияющего на грамматическую структуру предложения

(пропуск подлежащего или сказуемого).

• ошибки в словообразовании, если меняется часть речи

(contribute

contribution).

• употребление its вместо it’s или наоборот.

Орфографическими ошибками считаются

 ошибки в написании слов, которые не приводят к образованию нового слова

(different - differen).

 если один раз слово написано правильно, а другой раз неправильно

неправильное написание считать орфографической ошибкой

2. Однотипные ошибки считаются один раз.

3. При подсчете пунктуационных ошибок учитываются только следующие

ошибки:

1) наличие точки в заголовке (при наличии заголовка);

2) отсутствие точки или восклицательного знака в конце предложения;

3) отсутствие вопросительного знака в конце вопроса;

4) отсутствие запятой при перечислении или в бессоюзном сложносочиненном

предложении;

5) отсутствие запятой при вводных словах;

6) отсутствие (или ошибка в употреблении) необходимых знаков препинания

при прямой речи или цитировании.

4. Ошибки в словах-связках

(to my opinion

- вместо in my opinion)

учитываются по критерию «Организация текста».

5. Ошибки в местоимениях считаются ошибкой в референте и являются

логическими: (Every person wants to know his mistakes. People use computers. I do

not love him. - логические ошибки).

ВСЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОЛИМПИАДА ШКОЛЬНИКОВ

АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК. 2023-2024 уч. г.

МУНИЦИПАЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП. 10-11 КЛАССЫ

ТЕКСТ ДЛЯ АУДИРОВАНИЯ

Audioscript

Listening comprehension

For items 1-10 listen to a talk about famous people who tried to learn Russian and

decide whether the statements (1-10) are TRUE or FALSE according to the text you

hear. You will hear the text twice.

You have 20 seconds to study the statements.

(pause 20 seconds)

Now we begin.

Over the past centuries, the melodic and lyrical Russian language has charmed

quite a few people. They admired it and complained about its complexity and

challenges but nevertheless persisted in their attempt to learn and speak “the great

and mighty Russian language”.

One of these people was Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck spent three years in

Russia as Prussia’s envoy. He took his posting seriously, and learned the Russian

language on his own. Upon his arrival in St. Petersburg, he continued his studies, but

with a private teacher. Once a week, he postponed all his duties to dedicate at least

two hours to studying Russian grammar and syntax. At first, he complained that

dealing with the Russian parts of speech was harder than battling the French army.

However, in almost no time he was able to read Ivan Turgenev’s novel, ‘Home of the

Gentry’ in the original.

At the time, he hardly told anyone that he had mastered the language. It

became known only when Alexander II took note of Bismarck closely following his

conversation with Alexander Gorchakov, the foreign minister at the time. Bismarck

was forced to admit his language skills. Yet, the emperor didn’t get angry about the

diplomat’s reticence; instead, he complimented the envoy on the speed with which he

had learnt Russian.

Prosper Mérimée was another one who tried to learn Russian. The writer

started learning Russian after he had read Nikolay Karamzin’s

‘History of the

Russian State’. Mérimée was known to be a polyglot, fluent in Greek, Latin, English,

Italian, German and Spanish. As for the Russian language, it genuinely stunned him.

Bibliographer Sergey Sobolevsky introduced the French writer to Varvara, the former

maid of honor of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna. Varvara taught him Russian,

with their studies being so successful that Mérimée soon started to translate from the

new language. This is how the French public saw translations of Pushkin’s ‘Queen of

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Spades’ and his poetry, as well as Nikolay Gogol’s comedy ‘The Government

Inspector’. Mérimée referred to Russian as

“the most amazing of all European

languages, as though specially meant for expressing the minutest shades of meaning”.

Lewis Carroll also endeavoured to master the Russian language. The well-

known mathematician and writer set out to Russia in the company of his friend,

theologian Henry Liddon. For Carroll, his trip to Russia appeared to be a real

challenge, which he successfully faced and solved. He was repeatedly daunted by

remarks that Russian was too difficult and contained multiple long, unpronounceable

words. However, he started mastering the language, step by step, with the help of a

dictionary and phrasebook. First, he put down unknown words, then tried to learn

whole phrases. Although at the end of the day he spoke Russian with a dictionary

close at hand, he did it rather skilfully: he could even haggle at local markets!

You have 20 seconds to check your answers.

(pause 20 seconds)

Now listen to the text again.

(text repeated)

You have 20 seconds to check your answers.

(pause 20 seconds)

For items 11-15 listen to the dialogue. Choose the correct answer to answer

questions 11-15. You will hear the text once.

You now have 25 seconds to study the questions.

(pause 25 seconds)

Now we begin.

Steve: Thank goodness it’s Friday! This week's been dragging on forever.

Kelly: Tell me about it! So, what are you up to this weekend?

Steve: Oh, nothing special, really. This evening, I'm just going out for dinner with

my parents.

Kelly: Oh, that should be nice.

Steve: Yes, we're going to this little French place near where I live. The food's great

there, and then tomorrow I’ve got to get up really early - at least for me! -and do

some cooking, because I've got some people coming over in the afternoon. And I'll

have to give the place a really good clean as well. And, I'm not sure, but I think we'll

probably be going out after that - to see a film or something. We haven’t really

planned anything. What about yourself?

Kelly: Well, tonight I'm supposed to be going out with some people from my old

job, but I don't really feel like it any more. I'm feeling really tired.

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Steve: So, you're just going to stay in, then?

Kelly: Yes, because tomorrow night I'm going to my friends Pete and Rachel's

party. It's on a boat.

Steve: Oh, that sounds great. Whereabouts?

Kelly: Down by the river. You know, in the docks.

Steve: Oh yes, I know where you mean. I went to a party there myself a while ago.

Kelly: Right. Is it OK down there?

Steve: Yes, it's great, but it's not all that big. There's not that much room on the boat.

Kelly: Mm, sounds cosy!

Steve: Oh, yes, you can get really close to people! Lots of sweaty bodies!

Kelly: I don’t think it's going to be that sort of party!

Steve: Well, you never know. lf you're lucky, it might become one! No, I'm only

joking, it's actually a great place for a party.

You have 1 minute to complete your answer.

(pause 1 minute)

This is the end of the listening comprehension part.

Английский язык (с ответами). Всероссийская олимпиада школьников в Москве (2023-2024 год) - часть 3