Time: 20 minutes

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Муниципальный этап всероссийской олимпиады школьников по английскому языку в 2010/2011 учебном году (7-8 классы)

Конкурс понимания устного текста (Listening)

Part 1

You will hear 5 people talking in different situations. For questions 1-10 decide, which of the choices – A, B or C – is the correct answer. You will hear each speaker twice.

You have one minute to study the questions.

Situation 1. You will hear a girl talking about her free-time activities.

1. What is her hobby?

A. playing computer games

B. redecorating her room

C. making some works of art from paper

2. She picked her hobby…

A. from her best friend

B. at high school

C. from her brother

Situation 2. You will hear a girl talking about her after-school activities.

3. How is she going to use her skills later?

A. She is going to teach her brother.

B. She is going to become a professional musician.

C. She’s going to become a dancer.

4. She listens to music…

A. every morning

B. all the time

C. twice a week

Situation 3. You will hear a person talking about his plans for Christmas.

5. Why can’t he visit his parents?

A. He is getting married.

B. He is busy at work.

C. He has arranged to celebrate it with somebody else.

6. He believes that…

A. it’s not possible for family members to be together.

B. a wedding is a special occasion.

C. families must be together on special occasions.

Situation 4. You will hear a person describing his neighbour.

7. What kind of person is John?

A. He is shy.

B. He is cool.

C. He is friendly and outgoing.

8. According to the speaker, one thing John doesn’t like is …

A. beer

B. motorbikes

C. music

Situation 5. You will hear a person talking about a place she visited.

What place was it?

A. a museum

B. an exhibition

C. a theatre

10. The speaker is…

A. unfortunate

B. glad

C. interested

Part 2

You will hear a talk between a policemen and a woman reporting about an incident. Decide which of the statements 11-20 are True (A), False (B) or about which the information in the dialogue was Not Stated (C). You will hear the dialogue twice.

You have one minute to study the questions.

11. The lady was on the way to her house in Kent Road.

A. True B. False C. Not Stated

12. Suddenly she saw a bright green light.

A. True B. False C. Not Stated

13. The incident happened in broad daylight.

A. True B. False C. Not Stated

14. The lady saw three humans in the spaceship.

A. True B. False C. Not Stated

15. The creatures she saw had green eyes.

A. True B. False C. Not Stated

16. The woman didn’t take a picture because she didn’t have time for it.

A. True B. False C. Not Stated

17. She was shocked, her hands were weak, and her camera fell to the ground.

A. True B. False C. Not Stated

18. The woman fainted and came to her senses late at night.

A. True B. False C. Not Stated

19. The policeman is sure the woman was kidnapped.

A. True B. False C. Not Stated

20. The policeman thought the lady was too old to believe her story.

A. True B. False C. Not Stated

TRANSFER ALL YOUR ANSWERS TO YOUR ANSWER SHEET

Конкурс понимания письменного текста (Reading Comprehension)

Time: 20 minutes

Part 1

For items 1-5 read the story about the famous American writer Mark Twain. The five parts of the story are not in the right order. Say what the correct order should be. Fill in the gaps in the table, putting the letters A, B, C, D and E in the right order.

MARK TWAIN IN FRANCE

A. But first he explained that he was a very heavy sleeper. “I’ll probably protest loudly when you try to wake me up”, he said to the conductor. “But do not take any notice, just put me off the train anyway”.

B. The conductor looked at him calmly: “You are not half so angry as the American whom I put off the train at Dizon”, he said.

C. Then Mark Twain went to sleep. Later, when he woke up, it was night time and the train was in Paris already. He realized at once that the conductor had forgotten to wake him up in Dizon.

D. He was very angry. He ran up to the conductor and began to shout at him. “I have never been so angry in all my life”, Mark Twain said.

E. Mark Twain, a famous American writer, was travelling in France. Once he was going by train to Dizon. That afternoon he was very tired and wanted to sleep. He, therefore, asked the conductor to wake him up when they came to Dizon.

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Part 2

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