Всероссийская олимпиада школьников по английскому языку. Школьный этап. 9-11 класс
ВСЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОЛИМПИАДА ШКОЛЬНИКОВ
ПО АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ.
ШКОЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП.
9-11КЛАСС
LISTENING
Time: 15 minutes
Listen to a part of an audio guide in a museum of modern arts. Decide
whether the statements 1-10 are True (T), or False (F) according to the text
you hear. You will hear the text twice.
The narrator says that:
1. in the picture Picasso has more eyes than his model.
2. Picasso’s mouth is the only realistic thing in the picture.
3. artists had to observe certain rules.
4. Picasso never learned how to paint by the rules.
5. the visitors will see the works of artists who didn’t follow the rules.
6. Matisse’s work is a model of a window.
7. the star at the top symbolizes Baby Jesus.
8. the work is dark and gloomy.
9. Matisse didn’t use paint and brushes making his work.
10. Matisse’s health was not good when he made his work.
READING
Time: 30 minutes
Task 1
You are going to read a magazine article about the planets of the solar system.
Choose the most suitable heading from the list A-H for each part (1-7) of the
article. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use.
A. Too hot for life.
В. A place of contrasts.
С. Red for danger.
D. Gases in turmoil.
E. A treat for the amateur.
F. A distant wanderer.
G. An unseen influence.
H. Fact and fiction.
A family of worlds
1. The solar system is a family of worlds. Nearest to the sun is Mercury, a place
where the day is hot enough to melt some metals and the night sufficiently cold to
make a rubber ball as brittle as glass. The planet has no atmosphere to scatter light so
the sun glares down from a pitch black sky.
2. Venus, on the contrary, has an atmosphere so thick that no one on its surface could
ever see the sun. Though the sun is concealed, its energy reaches the planet’s surface,
turning it into a baking desert where nothing can live.
3. Beyond the earth and its moon we come to the planet Mars. Its famous redness is
due to oxidization — a sort of rusting process that has taken place over millions of
two years. According to a now discredited theory, intelligent creatures on Mars have
dug canals to harness the small amounts of water released when the planet’s polar
ice-caps melt in the Martian spring.
4. Jupiter is a giant ice-ball surrounded by an atmosphere of poisonous gases. It is an
atmosphere full of storms and turmoil. The biggest storm of all — visible in the form
15 of the Great Red Spot — has lasted for over 200 years and shows no sign of dying
away.
5. Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are giant stepping stones leading us into the unseen
coldness of outer space. Saturn is the most distinctive planet of the three, since it has
the famous rings which almost everyone has heard about. They form a halo 20 round
its equator and no one knows quite how they were formed. A spectacular sight when
observed through a powerful telescope, they can also be seen and enjoyed with a
simple pair of binoculars.
6. Beyond Neptune orbits little Pluto. Too small and too far from the sun to receive
much light, it reflects so little that it tells us very little indeed about itself. Its orbit 25
sometimes brings it nearer to the sun than Neptune; at other times it swings out into
the blackness of space as if it never means to return.
7. Could there be another planet even further away than Pluto? There are clues that
the answer to this may be yes. A mysterious gravitational pull is disturbing the orbits
of Neptune and Pluto, suggesting that an unseen world awaits discovery.
Task 2
You are going to read an extract from an autobiography. For questions 8-15,
choose the answer (А, В, С or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
The warden led us in single file along a narrow line of paving slabs that ran past the
huts. Every so often, four steps led to a front door. We could hear people inside,
shouting at children.
‘The overcrowding has to be believed,’ he said as he shook his head forlornly.
We squeezed to one side as a sullen woman passed us, carrying a bucket of coal. She
had the look of someone who was old before her time.
The warden went up the last set of steps, opened the door with a jangling bunch of
keys, took one off the ring and handed it to me.
‘There you are. Home Sweet Home. There’s a bath in that hut by the trees; get the Ю
key from me when you want one,’ he said, and he came down the steps, leaving us
room to go up. ‘I hope you can make a go of it,’ he said. ‘At least we’ve got you a bit
of furniture.’
We walked into a square ‘cell’ with a table and two chairs and a two-seater settee. No
two of anything were the same; it all looked like furniture from a charity shop, which
is I suppose it was. There was a double hotplate on top of a low cupboard, and a dead
black stove against the back wall with a scuttle beside it containing a few lumps of
fuel. The adjoining ‘cell’ had a double bed with a pink plastic mattress cover,
glistening like wet salmon. There was a cupboard that hung open because the door
catch had gone. Inside the cupboard were two meagre blankets.
The bedroom was freezing. I struggled to shut the top flap of the window, but it was
jammed open by rust. There were bits of yellowing sellotape all round the wall near
it, where previous inmates had tried to block the draught with cardboard.
I sat on the bed with my head in my hands, wondering how long we would have to
spend here before we found a real home, and noticing, as I glanced sideways into 25
the front room, that a thin film of dust was blowing under the front door.
We took the plastic cover off the mattress because it looked worse than the stains
underneath. The blankets smelled, but we had to keep warm somehow.
We had been in this place exactly a week when, on returning in the evening, we went
up to our front door and heard children’s voices and a transistor radio. We peered 30
round the door at a jumble of people and things and colours. The people turned round
and we all looked at each other. The muddle resolved itself into a huge woman and a
little man, and two small children. They had a lot of stuff, mostly carrier bags and
laundry bags with clothes spilling out, and a couple of buckets full of kitchen
equipment which we’d have been glad to have ourselves.
They didn’t want to share with us any more than we did with them, but that’s what
the warden had told them to do. We argued about it, though it seemed ridiculous to
quarrel over accommodation which none of us really wanted anyway.
8. The place is
A a prison.
В a hostel for the homeless.
С a holiday camp.
D old people’s bungalows.
9. The warden seems to think that the couple’s accommodation is
A cosy.
В unpleasant.
С spacious enough.
D well furnished.
10. The main reason the author feels cold in the bedroom is that
A there isn’t enough fuel for the stove.
В the window lets in a lot of draught.
С there aren’t enough blankets.
D the door lets in a lot of draught.
11. The main thing the author notices about the furniture is that
A it looks or smells dirty.
В most of it is in poor condition.
С it is very cheap.
D nothing matches anything else.
12. The author feels
A unhappy.
В optimistic.
С determined to make the best of the situation.
D angry.
13. Taking the plastic cover off the mattress
A releases the smell of the blankets.
В improves the appearance of the bed.
С helps the couple to keep warm.
D makes the bed look worse.
14. The couple’s first feeling when they return home to find other people there is
A confusion and bewilderment.
В anger.
С fear.
D envy of all their kitchen equipment.
15. The four other people are in the accommodation
A by mistake.
В because they have been told to share their kitchen equipment.
С because they have been told to share the accommodation.
D because a week is up and it is their turn to live there.
USE OF ENGLISH
Time: 20 minutes
Task 1
Complete the sentences with the correct preposition from the box. There is one
preposition you do not need to use. Some of the prepositions can be used more
than once.
down off in over on through from at
1. Can you get the lid _________ this jar for me, please?
2. The river Thames flows ___________ London.
3. As soon as we got ___________ the plane, we were happy to be on solid
ground again.
4. We are flying to Hamburg _________ 11
th
August.
5. __________ the end, we decided to move out of the flat.
6. Donna was standing __________ the top of the stairs! She must have
overheard what we were saying.
7. Patty is arriving _________ Athens at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning.
8. Don’t run _________ the stairs! You’ll fall and hurt yourself.
9. You can fly _________ New York in a Helitour helicopter.
10. Rod is a genius. He got his degree in mathematics _______ the age of 15!
Task 2
Match the English and Russian idioms.
1. to be under smb’s thumb
а) ради бога
2. to be a thorn in smb’s side
b) брать голыми руками
3. let it be so
c) как бы то ни было
4. nothing to speak of
d) быть под каблуком
5. for goodness' sake
e) не бог весть что
6. to win hands down
f) была не была!
7. to touch smb's heart
g) взять себя в руки
8. to pull oneself together
h) бог с тобой
9. come hell or high water
i) брать за душу
10. be that as it may
j) бельмо на глазу
WRITING
Time: 30 minutes
You recently saw this notice in an English-language magazine called Cinema
World. Reviews needed!
Have you seen any films about love recently? If so, could you write us a review of the film
you saw? Include information on the characters, costumes and story and say whether you
would recommend the film to other people. The best reviews will be published next month.
Write your review. Use 100-140 words.
Transfer your review to the answer sheet.
Answer sheet
ID
Listening
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Reading
Task 1
Task 2
1
8
2
9
3
10
4
11
5
12
6
13
7
14
15
Use of English.
Task 1
Task 2
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
4
5
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
9
9
10
10
Всероссийская олимпиада школьников по английскому языку
Школьный этап: 9-11 классы.
Audioscript
Listening comprehension.
For items 1-10 listen to a part of an audio guide in a museum of modern arts. Decide whether the
statements 1-10 are True (A), or False (B) according to the text you hear. You will hear the text
twice.
Now you have 30 seconds to look through the items.
(pause 30 seconds)
Now we begin.
NARRATOR: Welcome to the High Museum, and the Modern Masters! A master is somebody
who does something really, really well, and Pablo Picasso is first on the list.
This is Picasso, himself, painting a model. Can you find him? Look on the right for two eyes, one
on top of the other. Picasso’s model is on the left side. She’s got a long thin neck. In the middle
is the painting he’s working on. Can you see where he’s painted the black line of her profile? It
doesn’t quite look like the model. She’s got three eyes. And Picasso, I think he’s got two noses.
And his mouth! It runs down the middle of his head instead of side to side. I thought he was
good at this. Why didn’t he paint people to look like people? Isn’t that what artists are supposed
to do?
SFX: The Rules Chime sounds
RULES VOICE: An artist’s job is to make a perfect copy of the real world.
NARRATOR: For hundreds of years, artists had to obey a lot of strict rules like this one, and
Picasso already knew how to paint by the rules. But he decided to break the rules. For him, it
was more fun to, maybe, see both sides of a person’s face at the same time. Or to break a picture
up into pieces and put them back together backwards or inside out. Why? His answer was,
―Why not!?
Today, you’re going to be hearing a lot more of those old rules and meeting a lot more artists
who broke them in new and interesting and very surprising ways. Your next stop is in the next
gallery, through the door to your right. You can’t miss it. It’s almost eleven feet high!
NARRATOR: If you think this huge artwork looks like a window, you’re right. Our second
Modern Master, Henri Matisse, made it as a life-sized model for a stained glass window. The
title Nuit de Noel means ―Christmas Night. In the Christmas story, a bright star showed
travelers the way to find the baby Jesus, and there’s the big bright yellow star at the top, and a
sky filled with lots of smaller stars.
The rest is all squiggly and wiggly and full of fun colors and just makes you feel happy to look
at. How could that ever be against the rules?
SFX: The Rules Chime sounds
RULES VOICE: An artist must use the correct tools: Pencils, Paint, and Brushes.
NARRATOR: For this work of art, Matisse threw away the old artist’s toolbox and decided to
make art with three different things that every kindergartener knows well: Colored Paper —
Scissors!—
and Glue
Всероссийская олимпиада школьников по английскому языку
Школьный этап: 9-11 классы.
NARRATOR: Matisse took brightly colored sheets of paper and started cutting out shapes
with his scissors. He moved them around on the big white background until he liked what he
saw, and then glued them down. He didn’t need a pencil or a brush. He just drew—with color.
So, would you like to guess how old Matisse was when he dared to act like a kid? Try 83—an
old, old man. He couldn’t walk anymore, and his hands were crippled, but nothing stopped
him from making art his way.
Now you have 20 seconds to check your answers.
(pause 20 seconds)
Now listen to the text again.
Text repeated.
Now you have 20 seconds to complete the task.
This is the end of the Listening task.
Keys 9-11
Listening
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
F
F
T
F
T
T
F
F
T
T
Reading
Task 1
Task 2
1
B
8
B
2
A
9
B
3
H
10
B
4
D
11
D
5
E
12
A
6
F
13
B
7
G
14
A
15
C
Use of English.
Task 1
Task 2
1
off
1
D
2
through
2
J
3
off
3
H
4
on
4
E
5
in
5
A
6
at
6
B
7
in
7
I
8
down
8
G
9
over
9
F
10
at
10
C
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