Олимпиада по английскому языку 8–10 классы — пригласительный этап ВсОШ 2024/2025: задания и ответы

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ВСЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОЛИМПИАДА ШКОЛЬНИКОВ АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК. 2024 г. ПРИГЛАСИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП. 8–10 КЛАССЫ ОТВЕТЫ Максимальный балл за работу – 53. LISTENING Time: 10 minutes (10 points) Задание 1. For items 1–10, listen to a radio talk for young people about animals communicating with each other, and decide whether the statements 1–10 are TRUE according to the text you hear, or FALSE, or the information on the statement is NOT STATED in the text. You will hear the text twice. 1. The fact that people can speak more than one language defines the difference between animals and humans according to popular opinion. a) true b) false c) not stated 2. Some insects use particular body movements to convey the whereabouts of food. a) true b) false c) not stated 3. Parrots can copy human speech if they like the way it sounds. a) true b) false c) not stated 4. The sounds some primates use to communicate with members of their social group are recognized within their species. a) true b) false c) not stated 5. Though chimpanzees are capable of understanding and reacting to human speech, no one has heard them produce speech-like sounds. a) true b) false c) not stated 1

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6. Dolphins can produce the majority of human sounds. a) true b) false c) not stated 7. Unlike parrots, dolphins copy the sounds of human speech and reproduce them contextually. a) true b) false c) not stated 8. Whales’ songs are meaningless and mistakenly compared to human speech. a) true b) false c) not stated 9. According to specialists, human languages have developed in favourable environments of multicultural societies. a) true b) false c) not stated 10. The power of speech forms in early childhood. a) true b) false c) not stated

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USE OF ENGLISH Time: 60 minutes (43 points) Задание 10. Task 1. (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). BEING A TEACHER Without a doubt, (0) ___ teaching ________ is one of the oldest professions and one of the most (1) __________. To be a good teacher, you need certain qualities such as (2) __________, understanding and patience. Teachers must also be good communicators if they are to convey (3) __________ to their students. Language teachers in particular have to be aware of all the skills students need to communicate (4) __________ with others. As well as being (5 )__________ to students’ needs, teachers also need to be (6) __________ and approachable while at the same time maintaining high standards of discipline in the classroom. Perhaps most (7) __________ of all, teachers need to keep themselves well-informed about current (8) __________ in their field and the world in general in order to give their best. However, although it can be difficult when teachers find themselves (9) __________ to help students outside of class, they (10) __________ try to help everyone in class.

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CHALLENGING MATURITY KNOWLEDGE SUCCESSFULLY SENSITIVE HELPFUL IMPORTANTLY DEVELOPMENTS UNABLE CONSTANTLY

Задание 11. Task 2. (10 points) For items 1–10, read the text below and decide which answer best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Example: A B C D 0

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ROLLS-ROYCE The name Rolls-Royce has been associated with high-quality cars for (0) __________ a century. The first Rolls-Royce was produced in 1905, as the result of the (1) __________ efforts of Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce. Rolls, an upper-class Londoner who was (2) __________ at Eton and Cambridge University, started a company in 1902 to sell motor-cars. Royce, an engineering genius, (3) __________ from a working-class background. He began his apprenticeship in a railway workshop at the age of 14, but by the age of 21 he had set up his own engineering business. Royce designed several motor-cars, and his first experimental model appeared in 1903. (4) __________ after that, Charles Rolls and Henry Royce met, (5) __________ the Rolls-Royce manufacturing firm in 1904. Royce designed the motor-cars and Rolls sold them. Rolls, who had (6) __________ himself a reputation as a keen racing motorist, also had a passion for flying. In 1910, at the age of only 33, he sadly (7) __________ his death in a plane crash - in (8) __________, he was the first Englishman to die in this way. Royce, however, continued work on their shared dream, and (9) __________ to develop his first aero-engine in 1915. The Rolls-Royce Merlin aeroengine later powered British fighter aeroplanes in World War II. On Royce's death in 1933, the famous Rolls-Royce monogram was changed from red to black as a (10) __________ of respect for the great man. 4

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Задание 12. Task 3. (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 the 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). A HOMECOMING OF A DIFFERENT SORT 0

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I’ll always remember the time Jeff told me about his family. His mother, a loving, caring woman, was the one who was held the family together. His father, a successful physician, cold and stern in Jeff’s words, had firm beliefs that a person would never make a valuable contribution to the world unless they graduated from college by the age of twenty-three. His father had even paved the way for Jeff to attend the same college from which he graduated, and had offered to pay Jeff’s entire tuition and living expenses. Jeff’s passion was skiing. When he finished high school he decided to decline from his father’s offer and move to Colorado to work with a ski patrol. With pain in his eyes Jeff told me so that he still remembered the day he told his father he was going to take a job at a ski resort instead of going to college. “No son of mine is going to work on a ski patrol and not attend college!” came the words that still echoed in Jeff’s mind. The two hadn’t been spoken since that conversation. 5

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Jeff was not even sure that his father knew he was back in the area where he grew up and he certainly didn’t want his father to know he was attending college. He was doing this for himself, he said over and over, not for his father. Janice, Jeff’s sister, had always remained supportive of Jeff’s decisions. She stayed in a contact with their father, but Jeff had made her promise that she would not share any information about his life with him. Jeff’s graduation ceremony that year was on a hot, sunny day in June. As I walked around talking to people before the ceremony, I noticed an elderly man with a confused expression on his face. “My daughter asked me to meet her at this address.” His eyes sparkled and smiled. “Maybe she completed her associate’s degree and wanted to surprise me!” “By the way, my name’s Dr. Holstrom.” I froze for a second. Could this be the same as cold, stern man who demanded his son attend college or never enter his home again? Soon the ceremony started. Dr. Holstrom seemed to be mistakenly looking up for his daughter amongst the graduates on the stage. Jeff was the last person to cross the stage. We heard his name being announced, “Jeff Holstrom, magna cum laude.” A lone figure stood up in the back of the audience — Dr. Holstrom. I’m not sure how Jeff even saw him in the crowd, but I could tell from their eyes met. Dr. Holstrom opened his arms as if to embrace the air around him. He bowed his head almost as if to apologize. For a moment it seemed as if time stood still, as if they were the only two in the auditorium. Jeff came down the stairs with tears in his eyes. “My father is here,” he whispered to me. I have smiled. “What are you going to do?” I asked him. “Well,” he said. “I think I’m going home.”

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Задание 13. Task 4. (8 points) For items 1–10, match the writers’ names 1–10 to the descriptions of their creative works A–L. There are some extra descriptions which do not match. 1. Jonathan Swift

2. Robert Louis Stevenson

3. Robert Frost

4. Emily Brontë

5. Harriet Beecher Stowe 6. Ernest Hemingway

7. John Steinbeck

A) an American writer of the 20th century. He is known for his poems about life in the country, especially in New England. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times. Some of his best-known poems are The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. The phrase “Good fences make good neighbours” is drawn from Mending Wall. B) an English author of the 17th century who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress while he was in prison for his beliefs. Cristian, his central character, journeys from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. C) an American writer best known for her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which influenced many people in the US, especially in the North, to oppose slavery. Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said to the author, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this big war.” D) a Scottish writer of the 19th century whose books Treasure Island and Kidnapped are among the best-known adventure stories in English. He also wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His two characters, Jekyll and Hyde, serve as symbols of the good and evil sides of a single personality. E) an English author of the 19th century, one of the three sisters who wrote some of the most famous novels in English. This writer is best known for Wuthering Heights. F) an English author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for creating the detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson. G) an American writer of the 20th century whose novels, including The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men show great sympathy for poor people and their problems. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Shakespeare’s phrase “The winter of our discontent” served as the title for one of his books.

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8. Rudyard Kipling

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H) an English writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries born in India. He is known for his novels, poems, and short stories set in that country, especially his popular children's story The Jungle Book, and for poems such as Gunga Din and If. One of his well-known novels is The Light that Failed. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1907. I) an English author of the 19th century, one of the three sisters who wrote some of the most famous novels in English. This writer is best known for Jane Eyre. J) an Irish writer of the 18th century who is best known for his book Gulliver's Travels but who also wrote many other satirical stories and clever articles, in which he used humour to criticize institutions such as the universities, the legal profession, and the political parties. K) an English poet of the 17th century who is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. This was followed by Paradise Regained, and both poems were written after he had gone blind. Before this, he was active in politics as a strong supporter of religious freedom and of Oliver Cromwell. L) an American writer of the 20th century who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954. He wrote many novels and short stories in a simple and direct style, and his books are often about typically male activities like war and hunting. His novels include A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea.

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Решения — текст

ВСЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОЛИМПИАДА ШКОЛЬНИКОВ АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК. 2024 г. ПРИГЛАСИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП. 8–10 КЛАССЫ ТЕКСТ ДЛЯ АУДИРОВАНИЯ For items 1–10, listen to a radio talk for young people about animals communicating with each other, and decide whether the statements 1–10 are TRUE according to the text you hear, or FALSE, or the information on the statement is NOT STATED in the text. You will hear the text twice. (pause 20 seconds) Now we begin. Presenter: If I asked you what the difference is between animals and human beings, you might think for a bit and then suggest something about the fact that humans can speak to each other using a language - or in some cases more than one language - and in a way you would be right. But that is not the whole story by any means. Many animals can communicate in surprisingly complicated ways, but they never quite achieve the range and depth of human languages. At the simplest level, several kinds of insect, including bees, have been observed performing a special dance to tell each other where they can find nectar and pollen, which is their food. This, of course, does not mean that they are using a 'language' but they are, all the same, communicating something. Many people think that certain birds like parrots can speak, but this is in fact not true. Such animals are only capable of copying the sounds of human speech but have no understanding of these sounds and generally use them at the wrong time. There is also no apparent logic in the way they select what to copy either. On the other hand, monkeys, apes and other primates are capable of communicating a small number of basic ideas using a range of simple sounds that are recognised by other members of their social group. Unfortunately though, none of the groups of monkeys observed so far have developed any form of grammar and so we cannot call this a language. However, some apes, chimpanzees in particular, can be trained to understand and respond to certain spoken commands by humans, but so far none have attempted to copy our speech. Now there is one kind of animal that does just this, although not many people can understand what they are saying. Dolphins have different shaped mouths to humans and as a result they are unable to make all the sounds that we can make. They can manage the vowel sounds 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', ... and so on, but lack the necessary voice equipment to reproduce our consonants. Thus, a simple phrase like 'Hello, how are you?' becomes 'e - o - ah - u'. But what makes these noises more amazing is that dolphins do show an awareness of when to use such phrases and in this sense, are actually trying to communicate with humans.

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But by far, the most remarkable form of animal communication are the 'songs' of whales. These are fast clicking and squeaking noises that whales make underwater and the sounds themselves actually contain more information than human speech. Scientists have noticed that some whales repeat certain long phrases of sounds, and this is in fact why they are called songs. Of particular interest is a species called the 'bottle-nosed' whale whose songs have many of the characteristics of human speech. But at the end of the day, we are the only species that have developed proper grammatical languages and most experts now agree that this is because of the large communities that we live in - where a child growing up can hear hundreds of different examples of his or her language being spoken every day. If, for any reason, a young child does not get enough contact with other people between the ages of one and four, he or she may never fully develop the power of speech. One can imagine that if whales or dolphins did start living in large communities then well ... FADE You have 20 seconds to check your answers. (pause 20 seconds) Now listen to the text again. (text repeated) This is the end of the listening comprehension task.