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Материалы городской (районной) олимпиады для 10 класса.

1. Порядок и время проведения олимпиады.

Олимпиада включает в себя 5 конкурсов:

1. Конкурс понимания письменного текста (40 минут, включая перенесение ответов в лист ответов, объяснения члена жюри перед началом конкурса в это время не включается).

2. Лексико-грамматический тест (40 минут, включая перенесение ответов в лист ответов, объяснения члена жюри перед началом конкурса в это время не включается).

3. Конкурс письменной речи (45 минут, включая перенесение текста с черновика в чистовик, объяснения члена жюри перед началом конкурса в это время не включается).

4. Конкурс понимания устного текста (ограничивается временем звучания записи, примерно 30 минут, включая объяснения и перенесение ответов в лист ответов).

5. Конкурс устной речи (максимальное время 3,5-4 минуты, включая подготовку и объяснения члена жюри).

2. Критерии оценивания конкурсов.

1. Reading (понимание письменного текса) – 12 баллов (за каждый правильный ответ дается 1 балл, всего 12 вопросов).

2. Use of English (лексико-грамматический тест) – 38 баллов (за каждый правильный ответ дается 1 балл, всего 38 вопросов).

3. Writing (конкурс письменной речи) – 20 баллов (содержание – максимум 10 баллов, оформление (композиция, лексика, грамматика, стиль, орфография и пунктуация) – 10 баллов).

4. Speaking (устная речь) – 20 баллов (содержание – 10 баллов, оформление речи (лексическое, грамматическое, фонетическое) – 10 баллов).

5. Listening (понимание устного текста) – 7 баллов (за каждый правильный ответ дается 1 балл, всего 7 вопросов).

Максимальная сумма баллов – 97 баллов

Reading

Part 1

Read the text and do the task that follows.

A Maritime Mystery

On 5 November 1872, Captain Benjamin Briggs and his crew raised the sails of their ship the Mary Celeste in New York’s East River and sailed out of the harbor into the Atlantic Ocean. They were making for the Italian port of Genoa, where they planned to unload their cargo of industrial alcohol.

On 4 December, the ship was sighted by Captain Moorhouse of the ship Dei Gratia, about 600 miles west of the Azores. Puzzled by her irregular movements, Moorhouse sent a small boarding party to investigate. What they found on deck is still argued over today. The ship was deserted: the captain, his wife, their two-year-old daughter and seven crew members, along with the only lifeboat, had all disappeared.

What they had left behind suggested that they must have abandoned the ship in a great hurry. Only some navigational instruments and the ship’s official documents were taken. Everything else (provisions, water, clothing and the crew’s tobacco) remained on board. Even the cargo was untouched. In the crew’s accommodation below the decks, they found bedding and floors soaked with rainwater, suggesting the ship could have run into severe weather after leaving port.

On 13 December, the US Naval Court of Investigation started looking into the case of the Mary Celeste and the legend began to take shape. The Chief Investigator concentrated on some strange discoveries made aboard the abandoned ship: an axe-mark and brown stains on the deck and Briggs’ sword could have been evidence of a fight. This theory did not stand up, however, after tests showed that the brown stains were not blood and there was no other evidence of a conflict on board.

Another theory was that the captain and his family might have been murdered by his crew who had been drinking from one of the barrels of industrial alcohol, usually called methanol. But there were flaws in this theory, too. Methanol doesn’t turn people into drunks: it poisons them.

A slightly more sensible theory was that the crew might have become alarmed by the amount of water the ship took on during a storm, and decided to abandon ship in the lifeboat. Yet Briggs, an experienced sailor, would have known the amount of water wasn’t enough to threaten the ship.

The most likely explanation is connected with the ship’s cargo. Industrial alcohol is potentially explosive. If something happened to one of the barrels on board, the crew would have to act quickly. Investigators did find out that one of the barrels was damaged. It could have been damaged during a storm and might have begun to release lethal fumes. Fearing an explosion, the captain may have ordered the crew to abandon ship. The crew lowered the lifeboat, which then sank during the violent storm. This would explain many of the mysterious features of the ship.

Unfortunately, it can’t be put to the test: the ship was destroyed by fire in an insurance fraud 12 years after its crew disappeared. So the Mary Celeste took with her the last hope of solving the most famous maritime mystery of all time.

1. Why did Captain Moorhouse decide to send some men to board the Mary Celeste?

a) He could see no one at all on board the ship.

b) The sailors on the ship had sent a request for help.

НЕ нашли? Не то? Что вы ищете?

c) The ship was sailing in a very strange way.

d) There was something odd about the shape of the ship.

2. What did the men discover after boarding the ship?

a) All the essential provisions for survival had disappeared.

b) There was evidence that the ship had met with a storm.

c) The ship’s instruments and documents were all below the deck.

d) The crew’s accommodation had not been slept in.

3. What does “the legend began to take shape” mean?

a) had not been heard by anyone before

b) slowly developed into something definite

c) gradually got longer and more complex

d) became a story everyone wanted to hear

4. The mystery remained unsolved because the ship

a) was too damaged for any conclusions to be drawn.

b) sank as it was being brought back to the port.

c) was broken up by an insurance company.

d) was later deliberately set on fire.

Part 2

For items 5-12 read a newspaper article about sport. Fill the gaps (5-12) in the text choosing from the list A-I the one which fits each gap. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

How Kids Get Their Kicks

Lack of experience means that children are much less fit than they used to be. Leigh Childs is a sports trainer who thinks he may have the answer to this problem.

It was a Thursday evening in a very ordinary-looking gym above a pizza restaurant in the English provincial town of Swindon. This may, at first, seem an unlikely place to go in search of an answer to children’s growing health problems. (5___) Leigh Childs, a sports trainer, runs a tae kwon do class in the gym. When I arrived, young boys and girls, dressed in their white uniforms, were kicking and punching the air. The place was alive with determined energy, full of lapping and laughing.

(6____) Originating in Korea, tae kwon do is what is known as a martial art. In Britain it is often also called kick-boxing. Leigh told me that the younger a person starts to exercise in this way, the greater are the long-term benefits. So he’s keen to get as many children involved as possible.

(7____) It takes children through an aerobic-style workout, alive with kicks and punches, with Leigh leading the way through a popstar-style headset. And it couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. Research studies have shown that fitness levels amongst British kids have been falling in recent years, a trend that seems to have come from the other side of the Atlantic.

(8____) Last week, a nationwide survey showed that over one third of six - to eight-year-olds do less than an hour’s physical exercise per week. Where it is provided at school, this is usually with teachers who have very little specific training and without access to good sports facilities. The government’s response has been to issue a report which says that primary school children should be doing at least two hours of sport per week.

Leigh Childs, it seems, could have the answer. “I would like to take martial arts into school,” he says. “(9____) Learning self-defence is also important these days, as is discipline and self-confidence.” Leigh, aged twenty-eight, first got involved in tae kwon do because he was not well-built and his grandfather thought he ought to know how to defend himself. He so enjoyed the sport that he went on to become five times national champion before going on to set up his own school. “Kids are materialistic. They want the next pair of designer trainers,” he says. “I teach them about dedication and hard work.”

I spoke to one of Leigh’s pupils, 12-year-old Gareth Davies, a promising champion of the future. “I started because it was fun,” he says. “Now I know I’m good at it and it gives me more self-confidence. If you go along to a football club, half the kids there don’t listen to what’s going on. (10____)”

But what about the experts, do they agree with Leigh Childs? I asked Professor Collins, head of sports performance at Edinburgh University. He agrees that martial arts can be superb for children because it’s a structured way of getting all-round physical training. He too approves of the self-discipline, of channeling the children’s energies in a positive way. (11___) “It’s the quality of the instructor that matters. And even then, it’s not a sport that’s going to work for everybody. Some children just don’t like combat sport, they find it too aggressive.”

Leigh would agree that tae kwon do will not suit all children. (12____) “You get hurt in all sports, but there are fewer injuries in martial arts than in football or rugby.” He prefers to see the sport as a way of relieving stress. There’s no doubt that Leigh Childs is doing his best for kids. And even the most convinced couch potato amongst them should be persuaded to watch his video.

A And not only because of the fitness benefits.

B We all know the causes: computer games, too much television, lifts to school.

C But here, you have to show respect.

D He offers a note of caution, however.

E To this end, he has just released a video for kids called Kick-boxing Fitness.

F He denies that it is violent, however.

G This is apparently what happens when children learn the sport.

H It’s a basic human instinct to defend yourself.

I But there I met a man who’s convinced he has the solution.

Use of English

Task 1

For questions 13-27, read the text below and decide which answer (a, b, c or d) best fits each space.

The Mystery of the Creeping Man – Episode One

When I (13) _____ at Baker Street, I found Holmes huddled up in his armchair deep in thought, with his pipe in his mouth. It was clear that he had been thinking (14) ___ about something. After several minutes, he (15) ____ me that someone had given him some curious (16) ____ which had made him (17) ____ whether dogs could help detectives in their work.

“A dog,” he explained, “is like a mirror – it reflects the life of its owners. Have you (18) ___ seen a happy dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Dangerous people have dangerous dogs.”

“But isn’t all this a (19) ____ exaggerated?” I asked. Holmes had refilled his pipe and sat down again, taking no (20) ____ of my question. He explained that what he had said about dogs was very important to the problem he had started to (21) ____ .

“The question, Watson, is this: why (22) ___ Professor Presbury’s faithful alsatian, Roy, try to bite him?”

I sank back in my chair, disappointed. Had he (23) ____ me from my work for such a trivial matter? “Isn’t it strange,” he (24) _____ on, “that an elderly philosopher, (25) ___ alsatian has always been his (26) ___ friend, should be attacked twice by his own dog?”

“The dog must be ill,” I answered.

“You could be (27) ___ ,” said Holmes, “but what if he attacks no one else? And what if he only attacks his master on special occasions? Curios, Watson, very curious.”

13 a) reached b) arrived c) appeared d) stopped

14 a) lots b) much c) hard d) deep

15 a) said b) told c) explained d) proved

16 a) information b) events c) ideas d) incidents

17 a) question b) talk c) wonder d) inquire

18 a) still b) never c) yet d) ever

19 a) lot b) bit c) fact d) thing

20 a) care b) attention c) sight d) notice

21 a) investigate b) search c) inquire d) look

22 a) does b) has c) must d) could

23 a) shouted b) ordered c) sent d) called

24 a) spoke b) told c) continued d) went

25 a) which b) who c) whose d) that

26 a) frankest b) faithful c) sincere d) correct

27 a) accurate b) true c) exact d) right

Task 2

For questions, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each case. There is an example at the beginning (0).

The Mystery of the Creeping Man – Episode Two

The doorbell rang.

“Ah, Bennett is early, if that is him (0) at the door. Pity, I had hoped to have a longer chat with you (28) ___ he came.”

There was a sharp tap at the door and Holmes’ new client appeared. He was a tall, handsome youth (29) ___ about thirty, well-dressed and elegant. He shook hands with Holmes and then looked at me (30) ___ surprise.

“This matter is very delicate, Mr Holmes,” he said. “Consider (31) ___ relationship with Professor Presbury.”

“Don’t (32) ___ , Mr Bennett – I teust Dr Watson absolutely..” Then Holmes turned to me and said, “You (33) ___ understand, Watson, when I tell you that this gentleman, Mr Trevor Bennett, (34) ___ Professor Presbury’s assistant and is (35) ____ engaged to his only daughter.”

Holmes went (36) ___ to explain the situation to me. Professor Presbury (37) ___ for many years led the life of an academic, with a high reputation in Europe. There had never (38) ___ a breath of scandal about his life. “He is a widower,” Holmes said, “with (39) ___ daughter, Edith. Although he is sixty-one years old, he is a very active man; a strong character with a very positive attitude. Then everything changed (40) ___ the Professor became engaged to the daughter of one of his colleagues. The girl’s name is Alice Morphy. Professor Presbury seemed to (41) ___ passionate in his feelings for Alice.”

Task 3

For questions 42-50, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the beginning of the text to form a word that fits in the corresponding space. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Jane Eyre

0. MARVEL

42. FORGET

43. POWER

44. IMAGINE

45. NOVEL

46. SUCCESS

47. IMMEDIATE

48. DESCRIBE

49. DEPEND

50. FREE

I have just finished an absolutely (0) marvellous book by Charlotte Bronte called Jane Eyre. It is one of the most (42) ___ books I have ever read. Although it was written over 150 years ago, it is still a very (43) ___ book. It is written in an (44) ___ way, with vivid characters and an exciting plot. Charlotte Bronte, one of the finest English (45) ___ of the last century, was born in 1816 and died in 1855, after publishing three novels. She was one of three sisters, all of whom wrote (46) ___ novels. Jane Eyre was Charlotte’s second novel and was (47) ___ popular. What I like about Jane Eyre is the (48) ___ of a young girl’s struggle for freedom and (49) ___ . The heroine, Jane, has a difficult childhood and although the rich and powerful try to take advantage of her, she refuses to give up her (50) ___ .

TRANSFER ALL YOUR ANSWERS TO YOUR ANSWER SHEET

Writing

Present your personal view on one of the issues below, using relevant reasons and/or examples to support your point of view. Write 280-300 words.

Time: 45 minutes.

· There is an exception to every rule.

· Practice makes perfect.

· Variety is the spice of life.

Listening

You will hear the conversation about the courses in figure skating. For items 51-57 decide whether the statements are TRUE (a), FALSE (b) or the statement is NOT STATED (c) on the tape.

51 It is possible to have one-to-one lessons on the Learn to Skate programme.