Всероссийская олимпиада школьников школьный этап 10-11 класс

Всероссийская олимпиада школьников школьный этап 10-11 класс

LISTENING

You’ll hear 6 people talking about recent experiences they have had. Match what you hear from each speaker 1-6 with the statements marked A-G. Use letters once only. There is an extra statement you don’t need to use. You’ll hear the recording twice. Fill the boxes in the table with your answers.

A. I was embarrassed.

B. I was fascinated.

C. I was confused.

D. I was envious.

E. I was sympathetic.

F. I was bored.

G. I was proud.

Speaker	1	2	3	4	5	6
Statement

USE OF ENGLISH

Task 1

For questions 1-15 complete the following text by writing each missing word in the correct box on your answer sheet. Use only one word for each space.

The Baker Who Burned Down London

John Farynor was baker to King Charles II. One Saturday evening in 1666, he went to (1) ... in his room above his bakery in Pudding Lane accidentally leaving a flame still flickering in his bread ovens. If only he had known the significance (2) ... that small flame! At two o'clock (3) nday morning, the fire in the bakery sparked off one of the worst fires in history, the (4) ... Fire of London.

Sparks rising from the bakery set (5) ... to a haystack in the courtyard. Pudding Lane lay at the centre of an overcrowded area of old (6)…and thousands of local inhabitants were soon out in the street watching the blaze. If fires had not been so common in the city, people would have been more alarmed. But (7) ... was not until midday on Sunday that people realized (8) ... serious the situation was and the king was told of the fire.

НЕ нашли? Не то? Что вы ищете?

On Sunday afternoon the blaze reached the (9) ... Thames, and the river warehouses containing oil, brandy and coal exploded like bombs, one after (10) ... . Meanwhile a strong wind blew continuously (11) ... the east and the fire spread uncontrollably to the west. There was one stage on the Sunday when the blaze might have been stopped but the firefighters smashed the waterpipes to fill their buckets more quickly and in doing so they cut off the area's (12)pply.

The inferno continued from Sunday to then it had burnt down 13,000 houses, destroyed 87 churches and blackened 30 acres.

The greatest conflagration was at St Paul's (13) ... where the heat caused the stonework to explode and the tombs to burst open.

But Wednesday night the fire was almost extinguished, largely due to the personal intervention of the king, who instructed the fire-fighters to knock down buildings so as to clear a space as a firebreak.

Baker Farynor's mistake did result (14) ... some good, however. The slums of central London were destroyed in a single week and the fire cleared the last traces of London's previous disaster, the Great Plague of 1665, (15) ... had claimed 100,000 victims.

Task 2. Fill the gaps with the correct word

1. We lost our … in the forest.

A) way B) wait C) weigh

2. Police described her attacker as a white … aged 25.

A) male B) mail C) nail

3. You are my best friend in the … wide world.

A) whole B) hole C) broad

4. Anti-age creams always … well.

A) cell B) sell C) make

5. Lucy sat down on the bottom …

A) stare B) stair C) stairs

6. Children under four travel half-…

A) fair B) spare C) fare

7. Johnson was the political … as the leader of the party.

A) heir B) air C) fair

8. Queen Victoria … from 1837 to 1901.

A) rain B) rained C) reigned

9. Her hair was … jet black.

A) die B) died C) dyed

10. He woke up with a temperature and a … throat.

A) saw B) sour C) sore

Task 3 Change the given words in capital letters according to the text

The Opening Night

11 The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Mama Mia… They are all stage musicals. The opening night of a new musical is always a ________________ event. MARVEL
12 After years of __________________ and weeks of rehearsals the production has to be ready for the public and the critics. PREPARE
13 First nights usually start earlier than the regular __________________ so that the critics can write their reviews in time to include them in the next morning’s newspapers. PERFORM
14 The critics are the most __________________ people on the first night because their opinions will either help make the show a hit or force it to close. FRIGHT
15 The rest of the audience on the first night is usually made up of friends of the cast and famous celebrities. The celebrities attract newspaper __________________ and help give the musical maximum publicity. PHOTOGRAPH
16 There will also be some angels there who will __________________ be more nervous than the performers.
And then after the curtain has come down and the show is over, there’s the opening night party. PROBABLE

READING

Task 4 Read the text and answer the questions

The most famous lifesaver in history saved thousands of lives and many ships. He first appeared at the end of the nineteenth century. For more than twenty years he guided ships through dangerous waters. He could not read or write and he had no training. The sailors called him Jack and he was a dolphin. Near the coast of New Zealand there is a dangerous passage called French Pass. It had a bad reputation until Jack arrived. For over twenty years Jack met passing ships. He swam near the ship but when it reached the passage he swam in front of the ship until it was on the other side of French Pass. In 1903 a passenger on board the "Penguin” drank too much and fired a gun at Jack. The sailors were angry and wanted to throw him into the sea, but the captain stopped them. Everybody thought Jack was dead, but he was not. True, he never met the "Penguin” again. One day the ship hit the rocks in the Pass and was lost. Jack probably died of old age in 1912 but he wasn't forgotten. There is a statue erected to his memory on the beach of Wellington.

1. This story is about a dolphin that helped ships many years ago.