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| Лингва-мир. Отборочный тур. Английский язык |
| Назад к списку блоков |
| 8 класс. Блок № 2 |
| 50 минут на выполнение блока. Из них 50 минут на ввод ответов |
| Задание № 1 |
| ЧТЕНИЕ Прочитайте текст. Выберите правильный ответ к вопросам после текста. Lisa Tyler was weary after a long, hard day at the pottery factory where she works. But as she approached her home in the English city of Stoke-on-Trent, her heart lightened.; soon she would be having a nice cup of tea, putting her feet up and watching Friends, her favourite TV series. But first, she needed to change out of her work clothes and pick up (line 3) her three-year-old son from his grandmother’s house nearby. As Lisa walked up her garden path, she noticed a light flashing on and off in an upstairs bedroom. A shiver went down her back. What if it was a burglar? Quietly, she crept round to the back of the house to see if there was any sign of a break-in. Sure enough, a window was open and someone’s coat was hanging on the gatepost! Well, 26-year-old Lisa didn’t fancy coming face to face with a burglar, so she ran to a neighbour’s house and rang the police. But as she sat waiting for the police to arrive, Lisa’s curiosity got the better of her and she decided to go back and see what was going on. That’s when she saw a leg coming out of the downstairs front window. It was a man climbing out. Lisa gasped in shock. The burglar was carrying her portable television! (line 15) At this point, Lisa saw red. She didn’t have many possessions and she’d saved long and hard to buy that set. Besides, nobody was going to stop her watching Friends. “Oh, no you don’t,” she muttered under her breath, as the fury swelled inside her. Without even stopping to think, she tore across the garden and started shouting at the burglar. “Give me my TV - drop it now!” she screamed. Ignoring her, the man fled across the garden. So Lisa threw herself at him and successfully rugby-tackled him to the ground. The burglar struggled to escape, but Lisa hung on like the best kind of guard dog despite being punched and kicked. As she looked up, she realised that she recognised the burglar’s face. She was so surprised that she lost her grip and burglar got away, leaving the TV behind in the garden. By the time the police and her father arrived, Lisa was in tears. ‟I can’t believe you were so foolish, Lisa,' scolded her father. “You could have been killed.” “I know, but at least he didn’t get my TV,” she replied. Lisa later remembered the name of the burglar, who had been in the same year as her at school. He was later caught and jailed for 15 months after admitting burglary and assault. In May last year, Lisa was given a Certificate of Appreciation by Staffordshire Police, for her “outstanding courage and public action”. But in the future she intends to leave household security to a new member of her family, Chan, who is a real guard dog. |
| Вопрос № 1 1 балла(ов) |
| How was Lisa feeling as she walked home from work? |
| A. Tired Это правильный ответ |
| B. Anxious |
| C. Depressed |
| D. Relieved |
| Вопрос № 2 1 балла(ов) |
| What does “pick up” mean in line 3? |
| A. Contact |
| B. Visit |
| C. Collect Это правильный ответ |
| D. Check |
| Вопрос № 3 1 балла(ов) |
| What first led Lisa to think there was a burglar in her house? |
| A. Something had been broken. |
| B. Something had been left outside. |
| C. Something was in the wrong place. |
| D. Something was moving inside. Это правильный ответ |
| Вопрос № 4 1 балла(ов) |
| Why didn’t Lisa wait in her neighbour’s until the police arrived? |
| A. She was worried about losing her television. |
| B. She wanted to know what was happening. Это правильный ответ |
| C. She noticed something from her neighbour’s window. |
| D. She realized that the burglar was leaving. |
| Вопрос № 5 1 балла(ов) |
| What does “Lisa saw red” (line 15) mean? |
| A. She got impatient. |
| B. She felt frightened. |
| C. She got angry. Это правильный ответ |
| D. She felt brave. |
| Вопрос № 6 1 балла(ов) |
| What happened when Lisa shouted at the burglar? |
| A. He tried to explain why he was there. |
| B. He fell over as he ran towards her. |
| C. He pretended not to have heard her. Это правильный ответ |
| D. He dropped the TV and attacked her. |
| Вопрос № 7 1 балла(ов) |
| What did Lisa’s father do when he arrived? |
| A. He told her off. Это правильный ответ |
| B. He comforted her. |
| C. He praised her. |
| D. He argued with her. |
| Вопрос № 8 1 балла(ов) |
| Lisa recognized the burglar because… |
| A. he was her classmate. |
| B. they studied together. |
| C. she saw him at school. |
| D. they graduated the same year. Это правильный ответ |
| Задание № 2 |
| Прочитайте текст и выберите правильный ответ (A-утверждение верно, B – утверждение неверно, C - в тексте нет такой информации). Is there such a thing as Canadian English? If so, what is it? The standard stereotype among Americans is that Canadians are like Americans, except they say ‘eh’ a lot and pronounce ‘out and about’ as ‘oot and aboot’. Many Canadians, on the other hand, will tell you that Canadian English is more like British English, and as proof will hold aloft the spellings colour and centre and the name zed for the letter Z. Canadian does exist as a separate variety of British English, with subtly distinctive features of pronunciation and vocabulary. It has its own dictionaries; the Canadian Press has its own style guide; the Editors’ Association of Canada has just released a second edition of Editing Canadian English. But an emblematic feature of Editing Canadian English is comparison tables of American versus British spellings so the Canadian editor can come to a reasonable decision on which to use… on each occasion. The core of Canadian English is a pervasive ambivalence. Canadian history helps to explain this. In the beginning there were the indigenous people, with far more linguistic and cultural variety than Europe. They’re still there, but Canadian English, like Canadian Anglophone society in general, gives them little more than desultory token nods. Fights between European settlers shaped Canadian English more. The French, starting in the 1600s, colonised the St Lawrence River region and the Atlantic coast south of it. In the mid-1700s, England got into a war with France, concluding with the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which ceded ‘New France’ to England. The English allowed any French to stay who were willing to become subjects of the English King. At the time of the Treaty of Paris, however, there were very few English speakers in Canada. The American Revolution changed that. The founding English-speaking people of Canada were United Empire Loyalists – people who fled American independence and were rewarded with land in Canada. Thus Canadian English was, from its very beginning, both American – because its speakers had come from the American colonies – and not American, because they rejected the newly independent nation. Just as the Americans sought to have a truly distinct, independent American version of English, the loyalists sought to remain more like England… sort of. These were people whose variety of English was already diverging from the British and vice versa: when the residents of London and its environs began to drop their r’s and change some of their vowels people in certain parts of the United States adopted some of these changes, but Canadians did not. |
| Вопрос № 1 1 балла(ов) |
| Canadian English is considered more like British English by Canadians. |
| A. True Это правильный ответ |
| B. False |
| C. Not given |
| Вопрос № 2 1 балла(ов) |
| The English and American pronunciation of alphabet letters is the same. |
| A. True |
| B. False Это правильный ответ |
| C. Not given |
| Вопрос № 3 1 балла(ов) |
| According to the second paragraph, Canadian English is pretty similar to British, with some minor differences. |
| A. True Это правильный ответ |
| B. False |
| C. Not given |
| Вопрос № 4 1 балла(ов) |
| The St Lawrence River was colonized by Canadians in 1600. |
| A. True |
| B. False Это правильный ответ |
| C. Not given |
| Вопрос № 5 1 балла(ов) |
| Canadian English is considered neither American nor not American. |
| A. True |
| B. False Это правильный ответ |
| C. Not given |
| Вопрос № 6 1 балла(ов) |
| The fifth paragraph states that many English-speaking countries adopted changes in pronunciation |
| A. True |
| B. False |
| C. Not given Это правильный ответ |
| Вопрос № 7 1 балла(ов) |
| Americans and Canadians sought ways to make their languages independent. |
| A. True |
| B. False Это правильный ответ |
| C. Not given |
| Задание № 3 |
| ЛЕКСИКА-ГРАММАТИКА THE INTERNET HOUSE A leading British building and design company has just announced their plans for the home of the future. The new design, (1) _________ as the ‘Internet House’, has five bedrooms, plenty of bathrooms and a double garage. But these are not the main selling (2) _______ , for it is the £25,000 (3) ________ of automation that makes this house really different. It will be (4) ______ for people who have plenty of money, but not a great (5) _______ of time; young professionals in other words. They are likely to be (6) ________ to the idea of a microwave that provides easy-to-cook (7) _______ via the Internet and a cooker that switches itself on or off at a command received via e-mail. All the electrical appliances in the house, (8) ________ the heating and lighting controls, are linked together by (9) ________ of a gadget called a ‘router’. Using what’s called a ‘Webpad’, a kind of portable lap-top computer, the owners of the house tap in commands from (10) _______ they may be. The Webpad (11) _______ a signal to the router, which (12) _________ the message and then activates the necessary controls. On the way home at night, for example, the owners can switch on the lights or (13) ________ the central heating working, and so (14) ________ sure that they have a nice warm welcome when they (15) ________ into their home. |
| Вопрос № 1 1 балла(ов) |
| A entitled |
| B known Это правильный ответ |
| C called |
| D named |
| Вопрос № 2 1 балла(ов) |
| A points Это правильный ответ |
| B plots |
| C plans |
| D paths |
| Вопрос № 3 1 балла(ов) |
| A value Это правильный ответ |
| B price |
| C cost |
| D worth |
| Вопрос № 4 1 балла(ов) |
| A accurate |
| B model |
| C precise |
| D ideal Это правильный ответ |
| Вопрос № 5 1 балла(ов) |
| A length |
| B lot |
| C deal Это правильный ответ |
| D extent |
| Вопрос № 6 1 балла(ов) |
| A excited |
| B attracted Это правильный ответ |
| C appealed |
| D interested |
| Вопрос № 7 1 балла(ов) |
| A recipes Это правильный ответ |
| B receipts |
| C prescriptions |
| D instructions |
| Вопрос № 8 1 балла(ов) |
| A as long as |
| B as well as Это правильный ответ |
| C as soon as |
| D as far as |
| Вопрос № 9 1 балла(ов) |
| A account |
| B regards |
| C order |
| D means Это правильный ответ |
| Вопрос № 10 1 балла(ов) |
| A whatever |
| B however |
| C wherever Это правильный ответ |
| D whichever |
| Вопрос № 11 1 балла(ов) |
| A draws |
| B speaks |
| C sends Это правильный ответ |
| D hears |
| Вопрос № 12 1 балла(ов) |
| A decodes Это правильный ответ |
| B discounts |
| C decides |
| D dissolves |
| Вопрос № 13 1 балла(ов) |
| A lead |
| B send |
| C have Это правильный ответ |
| D put |
| Вопрос № 14 1 балла(ов) |
| A come |
| B make Это правильный ответ |
| C keep |
| D hold |
| Вопрос № 15 1 балла(ов) |
| A step Это правильный ответ |
| B stay |
| C enter |
| D stand |
| Задание № 4 |
| СТРАНОВЕДЕНИЕ Выберите правильный ответ |
| Вопрос № 1 1 балла(ов) |
| Who was the first nonroyal ruler of England? |
| A) Sir Thomas More |
| B) Oliver Cromwell Это правильный ответ |
| C) Robert Walpole |
| Вопрос № 2 1 балла(ов) |
| What was Margaret Thatcher's political party? |
| A) Liberal |
| B) Conservative Это правильный ответ |
| C) Labour |
| Вопрос № 3 1 балла(ов) |
| Which houses clashed in the Wars of the Roses? |
| A) Windsor and Aragon |
| B) Cambridge and Donegal |
| C) Lancaster and York Это правильный ответ |
| Вопрос № 4 1 балла(ов) |
| Who was the first prime minister of Great Britain? |
| A) Henry John Temple |
| B) Robert Walpole Это правильный ответ |
| C) Archibald Primrose |
| Вопрос № 5 1 балла(ов) |
| How many years did Queen Victoria reign? |
| A) 46 |
| B) 63 Это правильный ответ |
| C) 77 |