Задания на 5.09.2021 "Олимпиадное движение"
6-7 классы
Part 2 (15 minutes)
Maximum points – 6
Reading
Read a newspaper article about school. Choose from the list A–H the sentence which best summarizes each part 1–6 of the article. There are two extra sentences you do not need to use.
A. They were more interested in the school’s past than its present.
B. In many ways they behaved just as they had done 20 years earlier.
C. Despite all that had happened, everyone seemed quite happy and satisfied.
D. Many of the women said that they would attend.
E. They were doing jobs that the school had not expected them to do.
F. The head teacher met them to welcome them back to school.
G. Once they had eaten it was as if they were schoolgirls again.
H. Anne’s aim was to let them know about her achievements.
Back to school
Nicolette Jones attends a school reunion and finds that times change, people do not
(1) When Anne Bechar set out to find the 80 or so women – myself included – who were at Leeds Girls’ High School with her until 1979, it was, she admits, because she had lots of good news she wanted to tell them. ‘I wasn’t very academic at school, and I felt I was a nobody,’ she says. “Now I have lived for years in Paris and eight years in the Middle East, I have a family and I run a successful business. I feel that I am somebody.”
(2) Anne’s detective work resulted in the tracking-down of all but a dozen of our ex-classmates. Then we received our invitations and 44 of us, astonished by the realization that we had been old girls for 20 years, agreed to show up for a lunch. Another 20 sent news, good wishes and apologies.
(3) So, once we’d had our hair done – and wondering whether we would recognize each other – we assembled in a dining hall that made us think of cabbage and sponge pudding. By the end of lunch it could have been 20 years ago; it was like a bad episode of soap opera in which everything that had happened since was a dream.
(4) It was not simply that in our own eyes we were unchanged. It was that we had gone back to the roles of two decades ago. Bryony, our head girl, who is now a doctor, asked kind questions with exactly the grace towards younger girls that made her popular then. Anne was told off by her friend Ruth for talking down to her, exactly as she had done at school. I showed off. We had become 14-year-olds in 37-year-old bodies.
(5) The school authorities, who had arranged a tour of new buildings for us, found us uncooperative. We didn’t want to see the new language labs and the new music block. We all wanted to see desks we sat at, we all walked along the corridors we had regularly raced down and talked in, and remembered. We wanted to meet the ghosts of our childhood selves.
(6) We were amazed, though, at the well-stocked careers room. In our day, careers advice was a teacher who mostly suggested nursing and secretarial work. Her limited imagination had not had much effect. Among us were doctors, lawyers, accountants, pharmacists and laboratory technicians. Diane, who was enough of a rebel at school to break the rules about wearing make-up, is now a beautician. Mandy is now a school governor. And I became a journalist.
Part 3 (30 minutes)
Maximum points – 39
Use of English
Task 1
Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question 1–10, mark the letter next to the correct word – A, B, C or D. The first one is done for you.
Example answer: 0 A B C D
Weather
Weather influences the lives (0) _______ 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 and 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, 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.
A
B
C
D
0
of
from
by
to
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
jobs
tools
methods
plan
10
yet
still
already
ever
Task 2
Read the text below and choose the correct word A, B, C or D for each question 11-29. The first one is done for you.
A friend in the rain
Last week I (0) _В___ home after playing tennis when it (11) _______ raining very heavily. ‘O, no, I (12) ________ soaked before I (13) ________ home’, I thought. ‘I wish I (14) __________ to bring my raincoat’. But unfortunately I (15) _________ it at home. How stupid of me! I (16) _________ to bring it with me. Luckily just then a friend of mine passed in her car and offered me a lift. ‘(17) _________ home?’ she asked, ‘or (18)_________ to go for a cup of hot tea?’ ‘I think I’d rather you (19) _________ me home,’ I said. ‘If I (20) ____________ my clothes, I know I (21) ________ ill, and then I (22) ___________ to play in the tennis tournament next week. And I (23) ___________ hard for the last month.’ ‘I (24) _________ for you to change if you (25) __________,’ she told me.’ ‘I think it’s time you (26) _________ for a change. You (27) ___________ too much about things lately. And the one who (28) __________ too much (29) ____________ ill more easily. It’s got nothing to do with the rain!’
6
A
B
C
D
0
walk
was walking
walked
have been walking
11
had started
was starting
started
start
12
will get
would get
was getting
got
13
reached
reach
will reach
would reach
14
remember
remembered
will remember
had remembered
15
leave
have left
had left
left
16
always forgot
always forget
always forgetting
forgot always
17
will you go
do you going
are you go
are you going
18
are you wanting
do you want
are you want
will you want
19
take
will take
took
have taken
20
don’t change
will not change
did not change
would not change
21
fall
felt
would fall
will fall
22
am not able
won’t be able
wasn’t able
would not be able
23
was practising
had been practising
have been practising
had practised
24
will wait
wait
would wait
am waiting
25
likes
will like
liked
like
26
will relax
relaxed
relax
are relaxing
27
have been worrying
had been worrying
have worried
are worrying
28
worried
is worrying
worries
worry
29
falls
felt
will fall
fall
Task 3
There’s a word missing in each of these proverbs 30–39. Choose the correct one from the three possibilities.
30. An Englishman’s home is his …..
a) security b) castle c) palace
31. Let sleeping dogs …..
a) sleep b) dream c) lie
32. Many ….. make light work.
a) servants b) hands c) cooks
33. It takes all sorts to make a …..
a) world b) war c) salad
34. Prevention is better than …..
a) cure b) punishment c) medicine
35. ….. is thicker than water.
a) coffee b) blood c) soup
36. A miss is as good as a …..
a) mister b) mile c) wife
37. Birds of a ….. flock together.
a) family b) cage c) feather
38. It’s no use crying over …..milk.
a) sour b) spilt c) tinned
39. ….. begins at home.
a) charity b) learning c) love
