НМЦ ЮВАО
ШКОЛЬНЫЙ ТУР ОЛИМПИАДЫ ПО АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ
для учащихся 9-11 КЛАССОВ
Таблица заданий олимпиады
№ | Вид деятельности | Количество заданий | Количество баллов | Время выполнения |
1 | Чтение | Текст 1 Текст 2 | 8 13 | 15 мин. 20 мин. |
2 | Лексико-грамматический тест | Зад. 1- трансформац. Зад. 2- словообразов. Зад. 3- поиск ошибки | 10 11 17 | 30 мин. |
3 | Аудирование | Зад. 1 | 6 | 15 мин. |
4 | Письмо | Зад.1- письмо, с элементами рассуждения | 20 | 40 мин. |
5 | Говорение | Задание - беседа 2-х уч-ся | 20 | 10 мин. |
Итого: | 105 | 130 мин. |
РЕКОМЕНДАЦИИ: задание по аудированию составляется в школе по требованиям таблицы и оценивается из 6 баллов.
Лист ответов составляется в школе по данным заданиям.
Part 1.
Reading.
Text 1.
Reading time – 15 min.
Read the text and fulfill the tasks given.
The Secrets of Happiness
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has devoted his life to studying happiness. He believes he has found the key.
I've been fascinated by happiness most of my life. When I was a small boy, I noticed that though many of the adults around me were wealthy and educated, they were not always happy and this sometimes led them to behave in ways which I, as a child, thought strange. As a result of this, I decided to understand what happiness was and how best to achieve it. It was not surprising, then, that I decided to study psychology.
On arrival at the University of Chicago fifty years ago, I was disappointed to find that academic psychologists were trying to understand human behaviour by studying rats in a laboratory. I felt that there must be other more useful ways of learning how we think and feel. Although my original aim had been to achieve happiness for myself, I became more ambitious. I decided to build my career on trying to discover what made others happy also. I started out by studying creative people such as musicians, artists and athletes because they were people who devoted their lives to doing what they wanted to do, rather than things that just brought them financial rewards.
Later, l expanded the study by inventing a system called 'the experience sampling method'. Ordinary people were asked to keep an electronic pager for a week which gave out a beeping sound eight times a day. Every time it did so, they wrote down where they were, what they were doing, how they felt and how much they were concentrating. This system has now been used on more than 10,000 people and the answers are consistent: as with creative people, ordinary people are happiest when concentrating hard. After carrying out thirty years of research and writing eighteen books, I believe I have proved that happiness is quite different from what most people imagine. It is not something that can be bought or collected. People need more than just wealth and comfort in order to lead happy lives. I discovered that people who earn less than £10,000 are not generally as happy as people whose incomes are above that level. This suggests that there is a minimum amount of money we need to earn to make us happy. But below and above that dividing line, people's happiness has very little to do with how much poorer or richer they are. Multi-millionaires turn out to be only slightly happier than other people who are not so rich. What is more, people living in poverty are often quite happy.
I found that the most obvious cause of happiness is intense concentration. This must be the main reason why activities such as music, art, literature, sports and other forms of leisure have survived. In order to concentrate, whether you're reading a poem or building a sandcastle, what you need is a challenge that matches your ability. The way to remain continually happy therefore, is to keep finding new opportunities to improve your skills. This may mean learning to do your job better or faster, or doing other more difficult jobs. As you grow older you have to find new challenges which are more appropriate to your age.
I have spent my life studying happiness and now, as I look back, I wonder if I have achieved it. Overall, I think I have and my belief that I have found the keys to its secret has increased my happiness immeasurably.
Adapted from The Times
Read the questions 1-3 and the underlined sentences. Choose the answer (А, В, С or D) which you think fits best according to the underlined sentences. Circle the correct letter.
1) What does 'this' in line 5 refer to?
A the writer's decision to study psychology
В the writer's interest in happiness
С the writer's observations of adults
D the writer's unhappy childhood
2) What did he consider was wrong with psychology 50 years ago?
A Psychologists were trying to achieve the wrong objectives.
В Psychologists were using the wrong scientific methods.
С Psychologists were not making sufficient progress with their experiments.
D Psychologists were carrying out experiments on animals.
3) Why did he concentrate on creative people to begin with?
A They were obviously happier than other people.
В They had greater freedom than other people.
С They had clear aims in life.
D They did not try to become happy by making money.
Now, for questions 4-8, choose the answer (А, В, С or D) which you think fits best according to the text. Circle the correct letter.
4) The 'experience sampling method' showed in general that
A creative people are happier than ordinary people.
В ordinary people and creative people are equally happy.
С people's happiness depends on who they are with.
D people are happier when they are very focused on an activity.
5) What does the writer say about money and happiness?
A Below a certain level of income, people are not so happy.
В Poor people are often happier than rich people.
С There is no relationship between money and happiness.
D It is necessary to have money in order to be happy.
6) What is that dividing line in line 25 ?
A a level below which people do not live so comfortably
В a line dividing poor countries from rich ones
С a line which divides happy people from unhappy people
D a line dividing millionaires from poor people
7) According to the writer, people concentrate more when they are doing
A something which they find easy.
В something which they find difficult but possible.
С something which they find too difficult.
D more and more things all the time.
8) What impression do you have of the writer of the text?
A He has become happier by studying happiness.
В He has been unhappy most of his life.
С He has always been a happy person.
D He has only been happy for short times.
Part 1.
Reading.
Text 2.
Reading time – 20 min.
Read the text and fulfill the tasks given.
AUSTRALIA`S SPORTING SUCCESS
A They play hard, they play often, and they play to win. Australian sports teams win more than their fair share of titles, demolishing rivals with seeming ease. How do they do it? A big part of the secret is an extensive and expensive network of sporting academies underpinned by science and medicine. At the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), hundreds of youngsters and pros live and train under the eyes of coaches. Another body, the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), finances programmes of excellence in a total of 96 sports for thousands of sportsmen and women. Both provide intensive coaching, training facilities and nutritional advice.
В Inside the academies, science takes centre stage. The AIS employs more than 100 sports scientists and doctors, and collaborates with scores of others in universities and research centres. AIS scientists work across a number of sports, applying skills learned in one - such as building muscle strength in golfers - to others, such as swimming and squash. They are backed up by technicians who design instruments to collect data from athletes. They all focus on one aim: winning. 'We can't waste our time looking at ethereal scientific questions that don't help the coach work with an athlete and improve performance,' says Peter Fricker chief of science at AIS.
С A lot of their work comes down to measurement - everything from the exact angle of a swimmer's dive to the second-by-second power output of a cyclist. This data is used to wring improvements out of athletes. The focus is on individuals, tweaking performances to squeeze an extra hundredth of a second here, an extra millimetre there. No gain is too slight to bother with. It's the tiny, gradual improvements that add up to world-beating results. To demonstrate how the system works, Bruce Mason at AIS shows off the prototype of a 3D analysis tool for studying swimmers. A wire-frame model of a champion swimmer slices through the water her arms moving in slow motion. Looking side-on, Mason measures the distance between strokes. From above, he analyses how her spine swivels. When fully developed, this system will enable him to build a biomechanical profile for coaches to use to help budding swimmers. Mason's contribution to sport also includes the development of the SWAN (SWimming ANalysis) system now used in Australian national competitions. It collects images from digital cameras running at 50 frames a second and breaks down each part of a swimmers performance into factors that can be analysed individually - stroke length, stroke frequency, average duration of each stroke, velocity, start, lap and finish times, and so on. At the end of each race, SWAN spits out data on each swimmer.
D 'Take a look,' says Mason, pulling out a sheet of data. He points out the data on the swimmers in second and third place, which shows that the one who finished third actually swam faster. So why did he finish 35 hundredths of a second down? 'His turn times were 44 hundredths of a second behind the other guy,' says Mason. 'If he can improve on his turns, he can do much better.' This is the kind of accuracy that AIS scientists' research is bringing to a range of sports. With the Cooperative Research Centre for Micro Technology in Melbourne, they are developing unobtrusive sensors that will be embedded in an athlete's clothes or running shoes to monitor heart rate, sweating, heat production or any other factor that might have an impact on an athlete's ability to run. There's more to it than simply measuring performance. Fricker gives the example of athletes who may be down with coughs and colds 11 or 12 times a year. After years of experimentation, AIS and the University of Newcastle in New South Wales developed a test that measures how much of the immune-system protein immunoglobulin A is present in athletes' saliva. If IgA levels suddenly fall below a certain level, training is eased or dropped altogether. Soon, IgA levels start rising again, and the danger passes. Since the tests were introduced, AIS athletes in all sports have been remarkably successful at staying healthy.
E Using data is a complex business. Well before a championship, sports scientists and coaches start to prepare the athlete by developing a 'competition model', based on what they expect will be the winning times. 'You design the model to make that time,' says Mason.'A start of this much, each free-swimming period has to be this fast, with a certain stroke frequency and stroke length, with turns done in these times'. All the training is then geared towards making the athlete hit those targets, both overall and for each segment of the race. Techniques like these have transformed Australia into arguably the world's most successful sporting nation.
F Of course, there's nothing to stop other countries copying - and many have tried. Some years ago, the AIS unveiled coolant-lined jackets for endurance athletes. At the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, these sliced as much as two per cent off cyclists' and rowers' times. Now everyone uses them. The same has happened to the 'altitude tent', developed by AIS to replicate the effect of altitude training at sea level. But Australia's success story is about more than easily copied technological fixes, and up to now no nation has replicated its all-encompassing system.
Questions 9-15
Reading Text 2 has six paragraphs, A-F.
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter, A-F.
NB You may use any letter more than once.
9 a reference to the exchange of expertise between different sports _____________________________
10 an explanation of how visual imaging is employed in investigations __________________________
11 a reason for narrowing the scope of research activity ______________________________________
12 how some AIS ideas have been reproduced ______________________________________________
13 how obstacles to optimum achievement can be investigated _________________________________
14 an overview of the funded support of athletes ____________________________________________
15 how performance requirements are calculated before an event _______________________________
Questions 16-19
Classify the following techniques according to whether the writer states they
A are currently exclusively used by Australians
В will be used in the future by Australians
С are currently used by both Australians and their rivals
Write the correct letter, A, В or C by the numbers.
16 _____ cameras
17 _____ sensors
18 _____ protein tests
19 _____ altitude tents
Questions 20 and 21
Answer the questions below, choosing NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the text for each answer.
Write your answers in the space provided.
20 What is produced to help an athlete plan their performance in an event? ________________________
______________________________________________
21 By how much did some cyclists' performance improve at the 1996 Olympic Games? ______________
_________________________________________________________
Part 2.
USE OF ENGLISH
Time given—30 min.
Task 1.
Complete the sentences using the words in bold.
22. This film is so violent that I can’t watch it.
me This film is ……………………………………………………………………………………
23. I packed several sweaters because I was afraid I would be cold.
case I packed ………………………………………………………………………………………
24. He hasn’t signed the contract.
still The contract …………………………………………………………………………………
25. Is it necessary to write this report today?
have Does this report ……………………………………………………………………………
26. Everyone thanked me except Paul.
person The only ………………………………………………………………………………….
27. They are building me a new shed.
having I …………………………………………………………………………………………...
28. I’d prefer him to be back before 11 o’clock.
rather I ……………………………………………………………………………………………
29. You should never park on double yellow lines.
circumstances Under ……………………………………………………………………………
30. I regret ever telling her about my plans.
wish I …………………………………………………………………………………………….
31. The management won’t let passengers smoke on the train.
are Passengers …………………………………………………………………………………….
Task 2.
Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. Write your word in the answer boxes provided.
The (32) … of all burglaries occur when people go on holiday. (33) … guests often take advantage of an empty house. However, there are many (34) … measures you can take. It is (35) … to cancel any doorstep deliveries. Move (36) … items like TVs away from windows where they can be seen by a potential (37) … . Put all expensive items of (38) … in storage; if left, there is every (39) … they will be found – thieves know all the (40) … places to look. Finally, for extra (41) … ask a neighbour to keep a (42) … eye on your home. | MAJOR | 32 | |
INVITED | 33 | ||
PREVENT | 34 | ||
ADVICE | 35 | ||
VALUE | 36 | ||
INTRUDE | 37 | ||
JEWEL | 38 | ||
LIKELY | 39 | ||
TYPE | 40 | ||
SECURE | 41 | ||
WATCH | 42 |
Task 3.
Read the text carefully. Some of the lines are correct and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (۷) in the space provided. If a line has a word which should not be there, write it in the space provided.
43. Delivered in daily to your door, by your milkman e rain or shine, milk provides a remarkable 45. cocktail of protein, vitamins, minerals and 46. energy for your whole of family, from the 47. youngest to the most oldest. Milk is a delicious 48. nourishing drink for everyone – not only children 49. And because of our needs change as we grow 50. older, there’s a type of milk for every one member 51. of our family. It’s a refreshing, healthy drink 52. that the dentist will be approve of. There’s 53. nothing to beat milk: drink it like plain, or as 54. a milk shake flavoured with fresh fruit, chocolate 55. or fruit yoghurt. There are also such many ways 56. to drink milk, so it’s no any wonder its popularity 57. never dies. Milk in a bottle is the more “greenest” 58. way to buy it because milk they bottles are generally 59. re-used for between twelve and forty times | 43 | |
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Part 4.
Writing.
Writing time – 40min.
Task 1.
Comment on the following statement.
It’s reported that billions of dollars are spent on arms race every year. Many people in different countries believe that this money should be used for other aims. Should this money be spent on arms race?
What is your opinion?
Write 200-240 words.
Use the following plan:
- make an introduction (state the problem)
- express your personal opinion and give reasons for it
- give arguments for the other point of view and explain why you don’t agree with it
- draw a conclusion
Part 5.
Speaking (dialogue).
Preparation time—1-3 min.
Speaking time – 5-7 min.
You and your friend manage an English speaking club at your school. You have to attract some new members. There are different possibilities:
a) inviting a native speaker to your club;
b) writing an article in a school newspaper;
c) putting an advertisement on your school board;
d) organizing a trip to England for your schoolmates;
e) offering English speaking club members financial support;
f) participating in a special event during the Foreign Languages Week
Discuss with your friend all the options and choose the one you both would like to have.
Remember to:
· take an active part in the conversation and be polite
· come up with ideas
· give good reasons
· find out your friend’s attitudes and take them into account
· invite your friend to come up with suggestions
· come to an agreement
