Read the text below and point out the correct one word from the following

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ЗАДАНИЯ ОЛИМПИАДЫ ПО АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ

26 апреля 2020 г.

Уровень сложности: программа 7-8 классов

средней школы с углублённым изучением

английского языка

PART I. READING

Task 1

Read the text and choose four of the statements A–F t o match paragraphs 1-4.

A. Garlic reduces the risk of heart disease.

B. Juggling is good for the brain.

C. Eating oranges can stop you from getting colds

D. Sitting too close to a television is bad for your eyes.

E. If you get cold, you risk catching a cold.

F. Reading in poor light can damage your eyes.

Truth or Myth?

1 ______

This is a (5) ________. It won’t damage your eyes, (6) ________ it might give you a headache. The (7) ________ thing is to watch television at a distance that feels comfortable. But watching too much TV can be a bad idea. In (8) ________, research shows that children who (9) ________ spend more than 10 hours a week watching TV are more likely to be overweight and slower to learn at school.

2 _____

This (10) ________ to be true. Scientists have found that juggling balls for one minute every day can increase your brain (11) ________. Researchers in Germany carried out brain scans and found that certain areas of the brain had grown (12) ________ in people who practiced juggling. However, when they (13) ________ juggling, their brains went back to their (14) ________ size.

3 _____

This is a (15) ________ belief, but scientists say there is nothing to (16) ________ that it’s true. However, the use of this vegetable as a natural (17) ________ goes back to the Ancient Egyptians, and research shows that it can be an effective (18) ________ for coughs, sore throats and upset stomachs, among other (19) ________. Unfortunately, many people dislike the smell, but you can take it in pill form.

4 _____

The truth is that people get colds from viruses, not from being cold. (20) ________, keeping warm may help you to (21) ________ getting a cold. Researchers at Cardiff University’s Common Cold Centre found that a fall in body temperature can (22) ________ cold viruses to become active. In a (23) ________, a group of people sat with their feet in (24) ________ of iced water for 20 minutes. A third of them developed colds in the next five days, compared to only 9% of another group who kept dry.

Task 1	№ задания	1	2	3	4
Task 1	Ответ

Task 2

Now read again the text above and complete the gaps 5–24 with the words below:

although	cause	illnesses	power	sensible
appears	common	larger	prove	stopped
avoid	fact	myth	regularly	treatment
bowls	however	normal	remedy	trial

Task 2 – answers:

5		15
6		16
7		17
8		18
9		19
10		20
11		21
12		22
13		23
14		24

Task 3

Прочитайте статью из газеты и установите соответствие утверждений 25-32 содержанию текста. Отметьте каждое утверждение TRUE = 1, если оно соответствует содержанию текста, FALSE = 2, если оно не соответствует или NOT STATED = 3, если в тексте нет точной информации.

Sleep…sleep…sleep

In a normal life a person sleeps for about twenty-five years. But why do we sleep? The simple answer is: we don’t know. We need more sleep when we are young. A baby sleeps for about ten hours. A teenager sleeps for about eight and a half hours. An adult sleeps for seven or eight hours. Old people need only five or six hours.

There are two kinds of sleep. When you go to sleep you go into deep sleep. Your temperature falls, your body relaxes, and you breath slowly. After about half an hour you go into active sleep. This is also called rapid eye movement sleep (or REM sleep), because your eyes move. You dream in both deep sleep and REM sleep, but in REM sleep you dream in pictures. If you wake up in REM sleep you can usually remember your dream. Your body spends about twenty minutes in REM sleep and then goes back into deep sleep for an hour.

Do you ever talk or walk in your sleep? People sleepwalk in deep sleep and sleepwalkers do amazing things. They open doors and windows, they ride bicycles and drive cars. They cook, they take a bath or a shower (often in their pyjamas), they shave, they clean their teeth, they get dressed, they dig the garden and do other things.

Sleepwalkers are asleep, but they have their eyes open and they can see. They can’t wake up easily. If they do, they can’t remember anything. Do you ever sleepwalk? Are you sure? Perhaps you do, but nobody sees you.

25. Everyone sleeps for eight hours a night.