Fill in the space with an appropriate word

Listening (6 points)

You will hear a news reporter called Angela Bond, talking on the radio about her job. For each question, put a right variant  in the box.

              Questions:

8. Where is Angela working at the moment?

A  Britain

 В the USA

 С  Asia

9. Angela likes her job because she

A   loves being in dangerous situations.

 B   never knows where she’ll go next.

 C  enjoys watching important events happen.

10. What did Angela bring home from Hong Kong?

A  pictures

 B  carpets

 C  furniture

11. What time does Angela’s working day begin?

A  8.30 am

 B  6.30 pm

 C  10.00 am

12. Where did Angela meet her boyfriend?

A  at her sister’s house

 B  at university

 C  in Hong Kong

13. What does Angela do to relax?

A  She cooks a meal.

 B  She goes sailing.

 C  She goes shopping.

Writing

This is a part of a letter you have received from your Australian friend, Ben:

I watched my older sister take part in a singing competition last week. She won the first prize and it was wonderful! Tell me about a competition you have taken part in. What kind of competition would you not like to enter and why?

Write a letter answering your friend’s questions.

Do not forget to:

• greet your friend;
• congratulate him on his sister’s success;
• tell him about a competition you’ve taken part in;
• tell him about a competition you wouldn’t like to enter;
• say why you wouldn’t like to enter that competition;
• remember the rules of letter writing.

You should write about 100-120 words.

Vocabulary and grammar  (20 points)

1 (10 points)

Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. Fill in the space with an appropriate word.

English is the first language of many people in countries outside the United Kingdom. When you 1________speakers of English from around the world, you 2_________notice that they do not all speak in the same way. There are also some 3_________ in the words they use, including the names of 4________ objects that are part of everyone’s daily life. But although pronunciation and 5 ________ are not the same everywhere, it is interesting that English speakers 6 __________ opposite sides of the world can understand 7 _________  other easily. It does not seem to 8 _________ where they learnt the language. And of course this is one reason why speakers of other language are keen 9 _________ leaning English too. If you know English, you are more 10 _________ to be able to study or work in all sorts of exciting places, such as the United States or Australia.

1. recognize, meet, find, attend
2. originally, strangely, curiously, immediately
3. mistakes, corrections, changes, differences
4. common, popular, favourite, general
5. reading, composition, dictation, vocabulary
6. of, in, from, at
7. each, one, the, some
8. mind, care, matter, worry
9. by, on, to, for
10.  likely, probably, possibly, luckily

2 (10 points)

Open the brackets and put the verbs into the proper form.

A middle-aged, well-to-do woman 1 _____(d0) her Christmas shopping. She

2 _____(think) she 3 ______ (like) a cup of tea. She 4 ______ (go) to a café in the department store, 5 ______ (take) a vacant seat with relief and 6 _____ (lay) all her parcels and her handbag on the chair next to her. A pot of good English tea 7 ____

(bring) . while she 8 ______ (enjoy) it she suddenly noticed a hand from behind

9 _______ (snatch) her handbag. She 10 ______  so (shock)

READING  (7 points)

Read the text and do the tasks below.

Purcell was a small man. He owned a pet shop. He sold cats, dogs, monkeys and birds. Each morning when he completed the routine of  opening his shop, he sat down on a high stool behind the counter and read a morning newspaper.

It was a cold rainy day. Mr. Purcell was reading a newspaper as usual when a customer appeared in the shop and said that he wanted something in a cage. “Something in a cage?” Mr. Purcell was a bit confused. “You mean some sort of pet?”

“I mean what I said!” answered the man. “Something in a cage. Something alive that is in a cage”.

“I see, said the shopkeeper not sure that he did.

He started to offer different pets, but it seemed that the price was too big for the customer. At last he decided to have two white doves for five dollars. Mr. Purcell handed the cage to him.

“Listen”, the man said suddenly. “How long do you think it took me to make those five dollars?”

Mr. Purcell was in a state of panic, but he said, “Why, how long?”

The customer laughed. “Ten years! I’ve spent ten years in jail. Ten years! Fifty cents a year!”

He took his cage and left the shop. Mr. Purcell came up to the shop window to look at the customer who was holding the cage and looking at the purchase. Then he opened the cage and took the birds out. Soon they disappeared in the grey sky.

1. Write whether the following statements are true or false.

1. Mr. Purcell sold cats, dogs, horses and birds.
2. Each morning he had a cup of coffee.
3. The customer rejected all the offers because he could not afford the price.
4. He said that he had made those five dollars in jail.

1. Answer the following questions.

1. Why was Mr. Purcell surprised when he heard what the customer wanted?
2. Why did he choose the doves?
3. Why did he let them out?

KEY:

LISTENING

READING

A

B

1. He was not sure that he understood the customer.
2. Because they were not expensive and they were in a cage.
3. The customer wanted to spend all the money he had earned in jail on something that could get freedom.

VOCABULARY

GRAMMAR

Задания

для I тура олимпиады

по английскому языку

9       
класс

1.      
Read
the text and choose the correct word for each space. Fill in the space with an
appropriate word.

Weather influences the lives of
everyone. The climate of any country depends on its position on Earth, its
1_____ from the sea and how high it is. In countries which have sea all 2____
them, like Britain, New Zealand, winters are mild and summers are cool. There
is not a huge change from one season to 3____ . Countries near the Equator have
hot weather all year with some 4____ rain, except  in deserts where it rains
5____ little. Above the desert there are no clouds in the sky so the 6____ of
the sun can easily warm the ground during the day but it gets very cold at
night. People are always 7____ in unusual weather and pictures of tornadoes,
for example, are shown on television. Strong winds and rain can 8____ a lot of
damage to buildings and in spite of modern 9____ of weather forecasting they
can 10____  surprise us.

1.      
distance,
space, depth, length

2.      
through,
beside, around, near

3.      
next, another,
later, other

4.      
hard, large,
heavy, great

5.      
not, quite,
more, very

6.      
heat, fire,
light, temperature

7.      
attracted,
interested, keen, excited

8.      
make, happen,
have, cause

9.      
job, tools,
methods, plans

10.  
yet, still,
already, ever                                                                            
20 points

USE OF ENGLISH

2.       My friend.

My friend
Mark hates sport. He isn’t very good at running and he 1____ catch a ball. NOT
CAN

Mark likes
computers. So he is much more interested in 2 ____ a  computer which is in our
classroom. USE

Every
Monday we have to go swimming but last week Mark  3 ____ his swimming things to
school. NOT BRING

Our
teacher asked, “ 4______ (you) your swimming costume today, Mark?”  BRING

Mark 5
____ head. He looked miserable.  SHAKE

The
teacher got angry and said, “Then you 6____ at school until we come back. Wait
for us in the classroom”.  STAY

Mark 7____
but he was very happy because he could play computer games.  PUNISH

                                                                                                                                            
14 points

3.      
Tourism
in Britain

Every
year more than eleven million tourists visit Britain. In fact, tourism is an 1
… industry, employing thousands of people.  IMPORTANCE

Most
 2… come in the summer months when they can expect good weather. VISIT

Tourists 3 … spend a few days in
London, then go on to other well-known cities. USUAL

Perhaps the least visited places in
England are old 4 … towns. INDUSTRY

But many people think that nineteenth-century
cities show the  5… of Britain. REAL

The  6… of the past is to be still
seen in their old streets. GREAT

                                                                                                                        
12 points

4.      
Answer
the following questions.

1.      
Which river is
associated with the name of W. Shakespeare?

2.      
What is the
national symbol of England?

3.      
What is Big
Ben?

4.      
Is the Queen of
the UK  also the Queen of some other countries?

                                                                                                                                       
8 points

5.      
  C1 You
have received a letter from your English-speaking pen-friend Steve who writes:

Write a letter to Steve.

In your letter

—      answer his questions

—      ask 3 questions about his
favourite food

                  
Write 100 – 140 words.

Remember the rules of letter writing.

one
answer is possible.

1)
……………….. she joined the company only a year ago, she has
already been promoted twice.

2)
Fast food is cheap ……………….. food in a proper restaurant
is more expensive.

3)
We went out ……………….. the rain.

4)
……………….. he was only twelve he could run faster than any
other child in the class.

5)
Even ……………….. they loved each other, they decided to
part.

6)
The children are very clever. ……………….., they can be very
noisy at times.

4. Match the items in the two columns. The first one has been done as an example.

Example: Even
though he set off early, G

5. Rewrite each sentence, beginning as shown. Do not change the meaning.

Two
sentences should be rewritten as one.

a)
Despite the cold weather, we all went for a walk.

Although
it was cold, we all went for a walk.

b)
John has done well in French, but not so well in Maths.

While
___________________________________________________________________.

c)
I tried to persuade her. I didn’t succeed, however.

Although
________________________________________________________________.

d)
It was raining, but I went swimming anyway.

In
spite of
_______________________________________________________________.

e)
Ann felt ill, but insisted on going to work.

Despite
_________________________________________________________________.

f)
In spite of his early lead, Hudson lost the race.

Although
________________________________________________________________.

g)
I’m not going to pay, although I know that I should.

While
___________________________________________________________________.

h)
We expected Larry to accept the job, but he didn’t.

Even
though Larry
_________________________________________________________.

Vocabulary 2 The election system

1. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage below.

A
(a) __________ has
just taken place all over the United Kingdom. These must take place
every five years
unless the Prime Minister decides to (b) __________ earlier. Above
is the result
in Middleford, one of the approximately 635 (c) ___________ into
which the country is
divided for this purpose, (d)____________ was
last Thursday, when the election (e)
___________ and
door-to-door (f)___________
stopped
and the people of Middleford went to the
(g)
___________ to
make their choice, in a (h) ____________,
from the four candidates (anyone over
the
age of 21 can (i)__________,
on payment of a (j) __________ of
500 pounds, which is
returned
if he or she receives at least 5% of the votes cast). Voting is not
compulsory and
the number of people (k)___________ to
vote in Middleford (everyone over 18) was
100,000,
so the (1) __________ was
70%. Now Mr. Smith will become the (m) __________ for
Middleford,
which means he will represent the people of Middleford in the (n)
___________ in London. If he should die or be forced to give up his
seat, the people of Middleford
will
have to vote again, in a (o) ___________ to
replace him. It is a very simple system and
Mr.
Smith will try to represent all his (p) ___________ fairly,
whether they voted for him or not.
However, the fact remains that most voters in Middleford voted for
candidates (and
parties) other than Mr. Smith, and their votes are now lost. It is
seats which are important
in Parliament, not votes, and it is easy to see why the smaller
parties would
like a system of (q)
___________,
in which the number of votes they won was
reflected in the
number of seats they received in Parliament.

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