ЗАКЛЮЧИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП 2014-2015 УЧЕБНЫЙ ГОД ОЛИМПИАДА ПО АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ
I. Listen to the audio and choose True or False for these sentences.
1. | The US starts trends in names that Britain sometimes follows | True/ False |
2. | Using nouns as names is a completely new fashion. | True/ False |
3. | Names that seem to come from nature could come from surnames. | True/ False |
4. | 'Ridge' is a name that is inspired by nature. | True/ False |
5. | 'Lyric' is a relatively popular name. | True/ False |
6. | All the different months are popular as names. | True/ False |
7. | 'Blue' is a popular name for boys. | True/ False |
8. | 'Apple' is probably becoming popular because of the company of that name. | True/ False |
9. | People soon accept names that seem strange at first. | True/ False |
10. | The Beckhams’ daughter was named after a famous writer. | True/ False |
11. | 'Rowling' is a popular name because of the Harry Potter writer. | True/ False |
12. | There is a Dutch family with six children whose names all use the same letters. | True/ False |
II. Listen to the audio and choose the correct letter a, b, c, or d for each question.
13. Who is Jayashri Kulkami?
a) a computer scientist b) a psychiatry professor
c) a gossip columnist d) an astrologist
14. What date did Jayashri Kulkami contrast January 1 with?
a) December 25 b) March 14
c) January 31 d) August 26
15. When are most New Year's resolutions broken by?
a) January 31 b) August 26
c) March 14 d) January 2
16. According to the audio, what are identical each year?
a) the stars and planets b) the Moon and Sun
c) resolutions d) the weight people want to lose
17. What did the website usa.gov say people have a hard time doing?
a) getting fit b) sticking to resolutions
c) finding a good resolution d) losing weight
18. How many of us make a New Year's resolution?
a) 45% b) 44%
c) 43% d) 42%
19. Who do many people resolve to help?
a) those with no resolutions b) the lonely
c) other people d) the poor
20. How long do 71% of us stick to our resolutions?
a) two weeks b) two days
c) 12 days d) 12 weeks
21. How many people continue their resolutions up to six months?
a) less than 50% b) 55%
c) 60% d) more than 65%
22. What kind of clause do people use to stop their resolution?
a) a legal clause b) a grammatical clause
c) a legal clause d) an escape clause
III. Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.
Coca-Cola was invented in 1886 by John Pemberton, a chemist from Atlanta, USA. He decided to (23) ... a soft drink to sell as a “brain tonic”.
He produced a (24) ... containing coca leaves, cola nut oil, sugar and caffeine. The exact (25) ... is still a secret. A few months later, an assistant (26) ... a customer Coca-Cola mixed with soda water by (27) .... It was this small addition that (28) ... out to be the vital ingredient that made the drink a success.The distinctive (29) . of the bottle was introduced in 1915 to prevent imitations and a 1920s advertising campaign even gave the world Father Christmas as we now know him - with a red and white (30) ... Coca-Cola was a major sponsor of the 1984 Olympic games in Los Angeles, as (31) ... as being the Games “Official
Drink”. The red and white Coca-Cola logo can be recognized (32) ... Coke was the most (33) ... distributed mass-produced item in America when World War II broke (34) ... and the war provided the (35) ... to spread the product into Europe and Asia. When conservative Europeans (36) ... about the invasion of modern American values into their ancient cultures, the act of drinking Coke became for the young a (37) ... form of rebellion against tradition. Even today, Coke is still (38) ... linked with the image of youth.
23. | A develop | B grow | C raise | D start |
24. | A composition | B mixture | C chemical | D drug |
25. | A receipt | B menu | C recipe | D prescription |
26. | A provided | B supplied | C served | D presented |
27. | A error | B mistake | C wrong | D misunderstanding |
28. | A put | B picked | C turned | D set |
29. | A design | B pattern | C model | D representation |
30. | A disguise | B clothing | C dress | D costume |
31. | A long | B far | C well ~ | D soon |
32. | A at times | B at once | C at all events | D at any rate |
33. | A largely | B broadly | C greatly | D widely |
34. | A out | B up | C through | D in |
35. | A possibility | B hope | C occasion | D opportunity |
36. | A blamed | B complained | C accused | D charged |
37. | A fewer | B minor | C lesser | D smaller |
38. | A hardly | B rarely | C closely | D nearly |
IV. Read the text. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
Tornadoes are one of the most (39) ... kinds of storm on | DANGER |
Earth. Although they do not last long, they can strike with extreme (40) ... travelling at speeds of up fifty miles per hour. | VIOLENT |
The (41) ... of most tornadoes is about five hundred feet, but in | WIDE |
(42) . circumstances they can be up to a mile wide and travel | EXCEPTION |
huge (43) ., possibly hundreds of miles. The reasons why | DISTANCE |
they spin remain (44) ..., but we know that tornadoes can form | MYSTERY |
when columns of air below thunderclouds start rising. Their (45) ... is increased by (46) ... winds. In the Southern hemi- | STRONG |
sphere, they always spin in a (47) . direction, while in the | CIRCLE |
North it is the opposite. At the centre of the tornado the air (48) | CLOCK |
... is extremely low, so the wind rushing in at hundreds of | PRESS |
miles an hour has the effect of an incredibly (49) . vacuum cleaner on dirt and solid objects on the ground below. | POWER |
V. Read the text and think of the word which best fits each space.
Many things can be found on the beach, but (50) ... of the most useful is wood. Wood that is washed up comes in varying shapes and sizes, (51) ... fish-boxes to parts of ships. Most old coastal cottages and houses have (52) ... beach wood built into them somewhere and many fishermen have a pile of beach wood from (53) ... they can select the required piece for any job in hand.
Not only cut wood, (54) ... the trees themselves may end up on the tide line. Torn up by (55) ... roots in time of flood or avalanche, (56) ... are riverborne and finally seaborne. They (57) ... even carry in their roots large rocks. These rocks (58)
. sometimes left behind, out of their geological context, to puzzle and intrigue those who come across them. The trees can often be traced back to their source simply (59)
. looking at the rings of their trunks. These can then be compared with (60) . of other trees to establish which area they came from.
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