General knowledge quiz

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ВСЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОЛИМПИАДА ШКОЛЬНИКОВ

ШКОЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП по АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ

Для 7 – 8 классов

I.ЧТЕНИЕ

Прочитайтерекламныйтекстиответьтенавопросы 1 – 5. Используйте не более чем

3 слова для каждого ответа.

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NATIONALMARITIMEMUSEUM

What's ON today?

- Tall Ships on the harbour

- Visit the "Vampire" destroyer

- 'Masquarie Lighthouse' - short film in the theatre

CAFE

Refreshments with views of the harbour.

MUSEUM SHOP

Crammed with books and unusual souvenirs.

VOLUNTEERS

Opportunities exist for interested people to donate their time by becoming tour guides

at the museum. Enquire at the Volunteers' desk.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Use of flash not permitted inside the Museum.

HOURS

lOam - 5 pm Daily Except Christmas Day

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1. How many events are on today? ______________________________________________________

2. What can you see from the cafe? _____________________________________________________

3. How much are the tour guides paid? __________________________________________________

4. What shouldn't you do here? ________________________________________________________

5. When is the museum closed to the public? _____________________________________________

Прочитайте информацию для посетителей музея А – Е. Установите соответствие между заголовками 1 – 6 и абзацами текста А – Е. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу.

Family Events 4. Travel opportunities

Free gift 5. Private viewings

Looking after the future 6. International reputation

Join the Australian Museum Society and start enjoying benefits

A As a Society member you can visit the Museum - considered to be one of the finest natural history museums in the world - absolutely free. A brilliant resource for adults and children, this museum offers you the opportunity to extend your understanding of our environment and cultural heritage through our superb collection of books and documents as well as the permanent and changing displays.

B The Society presents a diverse and interesting programme of Lectures - Seminars - Films - Social Events. You will be invented to previews of all Museum exhibitions and have the chanceto see exhibitions not usually open to the general public.

C Included in your membership is the award-winning magazine 'Nature Australia' which retails for $33 but comes to you as an exclusive membership privilege at no additional cost.

D Be part of the growth and development of the museum supporting its work in preserving our environment and heritage for generations to come. The Museum takes part in the educational programme. It can help young people take care for the environment.

E Embark on the adventures! The Museum organizes exciting and informativefield trips to remote places led by experienced scientists and specialists. Previous trips have included destinations such as the Antarctic and Easter Island.

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Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений 1 – 7 соответствуют содержанию текста (1- TRUE) и какиенecooтветствуют(2 –FALSE).

Touching the Void, a drama documentary directed by Ken Macdonald, tells the story of two young men from the North of England, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, both in their early twenties, who in 1985 set out to climb the 21,OOO-foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. It's a modest' Alpine-style" climb with no back-up team, no helicopters, and no equipment other than what they carry in their packs.

They make it to the top in three days, but on the way down (when apparently 80 per cent of accidents occur) they run into terrible weather and a treacherous ridge.

Simpson has a bad fall that drives a bone up through his shattered knee and Yates tries to lower him down the mountain, 150 feet at a time. But there comes a point when Simpson is hanging in mid-air, irretrievable, and probably dead. To save his own Iife, Yates cuts the rope and returns to base camp, a decision he will have to live with for the rest of his life. Simpson actually survives in a crevasse the size of St Paul's dome. Crippled and in terrible pain, he makes the journey back in four days, one of the great stories of survival.

This story has been on moviemakers' minds for some years. Then, in 2003, Macdonald had the brilliant idea of shooting the movie using actors to play Simpson and Yates, and to have the real Simpson and Yates talking both to camera and over the action, as a form of commentary. The actors hardly say a word.

The film was shot entirely on location in Peru and in the Alps with some very evocative music, and we never see the men in their domestic contexts.

We experience the effort, the exhaustion, the pain, and the triumph of the climbers - and it is a breathtakingly beautiful film as we watch these small figures crossing glaciers and climbing rock faces in the majestic mountains. Is there 'some evil force' in the mountains that's out to get you, Simpson wonders? It is also a film about taking control of your life and subjecting yourself to extreme challenges that involve complex practical and moral choices.

1.The film, Touching The Void, is based on a true story. __________

2. The climbers experienced serious difficulties on their way up the mountain. _________

3. Simon Yates cut the rope because he thought that Simpson had died. __________

4. Simpson had to be rescued from the crevasse. ___________

5. The voices of Simpson and Yates were those of actors. ___________

6. All of the filming took place in Peru. __________

7. Simpson sometimes had the feeling that the mountains were a kind of enemy that wanted

tokillhim..

Установите смысловое соответствие слов 8 – 13 фразам a-f.

8. ___ treacherous a) impossibletosave

9. ___ shattered b) broken into pieces

10. ___ irretrievable c) forcing yourself to suffer

II. ___ crevasse d) a very deep crack in ice

12. ___ evocative e) extremely dangerous

13. ___ subjecting f) reminding you of something

II.ГРАММАТИКА

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания А – Е, обводя цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую номеру выбранного вами варианта ответа.

My wife usually gets back.. A.. 9 am. Then she starts.. B..housework. She does a lot of other things as well. and she .. C..to go out to see people at some point.. D..the day. She tries to go.. E..before midnight.

A 1) at home 2) to home 3) home 4) the home

B 1) her 2) hers 3) the 4) a

C 1) оften has 2) has often 3) often shouId 4) must often

D 1) in2) during 3)by 4) at

E 1) to the bed 2) to bed 3) at bed 4) at the bed

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания А – С, обводя цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую номеру выбранного вами варианта ответа.

Friday was Shirley's last working day of the week after her business trip. She ..A..no time off the weekend before. So that weekend she ..B..to meet her daughter Becky and take things easy. Two things, however,.. C..out as she had expected.

A 1) has had 2) had 3) hasn't had 4) had have

B 1) intended 2) had intended 3) was intended 4) had been intended

C 1) not turned 2) hadn't tum 3) hadn't turned 4) didn't turn

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания А - I, обводя цифру 1, 2, 3 и 4,соответствующую номеру выбранного вами варианта ответа.

Have you ever had to stay in bed for a long time?.. A... About six months ago I.. B..very weak and so I went.. C..a doctor. He looked at me and asked a lot of questions: "Have you been working.. D..?" "Have you ..E..anything special?" And so on. Finally he ..F..that it was not very serious but that I .. G.. not to meet other people. I had to stay in bed for two weeks and take some medicine.. H... It wasn't so bad because my friends called me and we talked ..I..the phone.

А 1) I too have 2) So have I 3) I have 4) I had

B 1)felt2) filled 3) fell 4) feel

C 1) and see 2) to see 3) for see 4) for to see

D 1) too hard 2) too hardly 3) so hard 4) so hardly

E 1) eat or drank 2) eat or drunk3) eaten or drunk 4) eaten or drank

F 1) told 2) said me 3) told to me 4) told me

G 1)-ought 2) would 3) should 4) must

H 1)all the days 2) every days 3) all days 4) every day

I 1) on 2) at 3) by 4) through

Прочитайте текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами 1 – 10 так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами.

Three 1 _________ came to New York for the first time. They took MAN

a room in a hotel. In the evening they 2 ___________ out sightseeing, GO

and did not come back till nearly three in the morning. 3 __________ THEY

room was on the 44th floor. "I am terribly sorry, gentlemen," said the porter,

"but the elevator 4 _______________, there is something wrong with it. NOT WORK

You will have to walk up to your room." This was too bad. But the men

agreed to tell stories on the way up in order to while away the time.

When the 5 ____________ man finished his story they climbed up to the ONE

14th floor. The next story 6 ______________ them amused till they reached KEEP