Олимпиада по английскому языку 10–11 классы — муниципальный этап ВсОШ 2023/2024: задания и ответы
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ВСЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОЛИМПИАДА ШКОЛЬНИКОВ АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК. 2023–2024 уч. г. МУНИЦИПАЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП. 10–11 КЛАССЫ Максимальный балл за работу – 100. LISTENING Time: 15 minutes (15 points) (В скобках – нумерация заданий в МЭШ) (1) Task 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. 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 Task 2 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 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.
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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 nobrainer. 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.
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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. 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. 5
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(17) Task 2 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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USE OF ENGLISH Time: 60 minutes (45 points) (18) 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: 0 00 0
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V 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 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 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 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 to their tastes and will begin to feel less like an intrusion. 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. 8
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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 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 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 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. 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 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) 0
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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) 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. if We can go to the seaside __ __ ___ ___ tomorrow. (4 words) 10
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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)
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(29) 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 0 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!
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(30) 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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WRITING Time: 60 minutes (20 points) (31) Comment on the following quotation. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. Lao Tzu Write 200–250 words. Use the following plan: make an introduction, explaining how you understand the author’s point of view; express your personal opinion and give reasons to support it; give examples from literature or history to illustrate your reasons; make a conclusion restating your position.
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ВСЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОЛИМПИАДА ШКОЛЬНИКОВ АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК. 2023–2024 уч. г. МУНИЦИПАЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП. 10–11 КЛАССЫ 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. B) False A) True 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. B) False A) True
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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. B) False A) True 10. Lewis Carroll wasn’t good enough at Russian to be able to bargain with the Russian merchants. A) True B) False Критерии оценивания: за каждый правильный ответ – 1 балл. Максимум 10 баллов. 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. Критерии оценивания: за каждый правильный ответ – 1 балл. Максимум 5 баллов. 2
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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 no3
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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. Критерии оценивания: за каждый правильный ответ – 1 балл. Максимум 10 баллов.
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(17) 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. 1 H
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USE OF ENGLISH Time: 60 minutes (45 points) (18) 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: 0 00
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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. if 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)
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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 Критерии оценивания: за каждый правильный ответ – 1 балл. Максимум 10 баллов. 7 (25)
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(29) 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 0 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! 1 2 3 4 5
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(30) 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 1 J
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WRITING Time: 60 minutes (20 points) (31) Comment on the following quotation. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. Lao Tzu Write 200–250 words. Use the following plan: make an introduction, explaining how you understand the author’s point of view; express your personal opinion and give reasons to support it; give examples from literature or history to illustrate your reasons; make a conclusion restating your position.
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Критерии оценивания раздела «Письмо» Максимальное количество баллов – 20. Внимание! При оценке «0» по критерию «Решение коммуникативной задачи» выставляется общая оценка «0». ОФОРМЛЕНИЕ (максимум 16 баллов) Организация Орфография и Решение коммуникативной задачи Лексика Грамматика текста пунктуация (максимум 4 балла) (максимум (максимум (максимум (максимум 4 балла) 4 балла) 4 балла) 4 балла) 4 Задание выполнено полностью, все 4 балла 4 балла 4 балла 4 балла аспекты, указанные в задании, раскрыты Высказывание Работа не имеет Работа не имеет В работе нет (4 аспекта): логично, ошибок с точки ошибок с точки орфографических 1) вступление соответствует теме задания и имеется зрения зрения и/или объясняет точку зрения автора цитаты, вступление, лексического и грамматического пунктуационных 2 2) выражена позиция автора работы и дан(ы) имеется стилистического 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).
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Задание выполнено: некоторые аспекты, указанные в задании, раскрыты не полностью или неточно4 (1–2 аспекта раскрыты не полностью; или 1 аспект не раскрыт, остальные раскрыты полно);
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Задание не выполнено: содержание не отражает тех аспектов, которые указаны в задании (4 аспекта не раскрыты или 3 аспекта не раскрыты, и один раскрыт неполно или неточно).
0 баллов В работе имеются 7 и более ошибок в организации высказывания.
0 баллов 0 баллов В работе имеются В работе 7 и более имеются 7 и лексических более ошибок. грамматических ошибок.
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И/ИЛИ Объём менее 180 слов.
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Всероссийская олимпиада школьников. Английский язык. 2023‒2024 уч. г. Муниципальный этап. 10–11 классы
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, loseloose). 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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Решения — текст
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 1
Всероссийская олимпиада школьников. Английский язык. 2023‒2024 уч. г. Муниципальный этап. 10–11 классы. Текст для аудирования
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 wellknown 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 questions 11-15. You will hear the text once.
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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.
Всероссийская олимпиада школьников. Английский язык. 2023‒2024 уч. г. Муниципальный этап. 10–11 классы. Текст для аудирования
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.