Susan smiled... him and waved.
OLYMPIAD WORK 2018
English Contest
Form
Variant I
I. Read Jane’s story. For questions 1 -7 and choose the correctanswer A, B, C or D. Complete the table.
During the baking hot months of the summer holidays my mother and I used to escape to one of the scattered lakes north of Prince Albert. In its magic surroundings we used to spend the long summer days in the open air, swimming and canoeing or just lying dreaming in the sun. In the evening the lake was always a bright, luminous grey after the unbelievable sunset colors had faded.
The last summer before we returned to England was particularly enchanted. For one thing, I was in love for the first time. No one will ever convince me that one cannot be in love at fifteen. I loved then as never since, with all my heart and without doubts or reservations or pretence.
My boyfriend Don worked in Saskatoon, but the lake was ''his place'' – the strange and beautiful wilderness drew him with an obsessive urgency, so I suspected it was not to see me that he got on his motor-cycle as many Fridays as he possibly could, and drove three hundred-odd miles along the pitted prairie roads to spend the weekends at our place.
Sometimes he couldn't come, and the joy would go out of everything until Monday, when I could start looking forward to Friday again. He could never let us know in advance, as we were too far from civilization to have a phone or even a telegraph service. Three hundred miles in those conditions is quite a journey. Besides, Don was hard up, and sometimes worked overtime at weekends.
One Friday night a storm broke out. I lay in bed and listened to the thunder and the rain beating on the roof. Once I got up and stood looking out over the treetops, shivering. I tried not to expect Don that night hoping he would have enough sense to wait until the storm ended. Yet in my frightened thoughts I couldn't help imagining Don fighting the storm. His motorbike, which had always looked to me so heavy and solid, seemed in my thoughts frail enough to be blown onto its side by the first gust that struck it. I thought of Don pinned under it, his face pressed into the mud.
I crawled back into bed, trying to close my throat against the tears. But when my mother, prompted by the deep sympathy and understanding between us, came in to me, she kissed my cheek and found it wet.
"Don't get upset, Jane,'' she said softly. ''He may still come.''
When she had tucked me in and gone, I lay thinking about Don, about the danger of the roads. You couldn't ride or walk along them safely after heavy rain; your feet would slip from under you. The roads in Northern Canada are not like the friendly well-populated English ones, where there are always farmhouses within walking distance and cars driving along them day and night.
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It was hours later, that I suddenly realized the sound of the roaring engine were real. The storm was dying.
1. Every summer Jane used to spend
A. in the camp
B. by the sea side
C. near the lake
D. in the village
2. The last summer was particularly fascinating for Jane because she
A. spent it in the magic surroundings.
B. had a lot of fun in the open air.
C. enjoyed unbelievable sunsets by the lake.
D. fell in love for the first time.
3. Jane believes that love at fifteen is
A. a sincere deep feeling.
B. associated with doubts.
C. full of reservations.
D. connected with pretence.
4. Don traveled three hundred-odd miles every weekend because he was
A. desperate to see the author before she left.
B. fond of riding his motorcycle.
C. attracted by the beauty of the lake.
D. fond of spending weekends with his friends.
5. Sometimes Don didn't come to see Jane and her mother on Friday because he
A. thought they were too far from civilization.
B. had given up hope of seeing the author.
C. worked to make some extra money.
D. hated traveling in exhausting conditions.
6. Mother came into Jane's room during the storm because she
A. felt Jane was afraid of the thunder.
B. felt Jane was worried about Don.
C. heard Jane walking in the room.
D. heard Jane crying in her bed.
7. According to the author the roads in Northern Canada were
A. slippery.
B. muddy.
C. lonely.
D. busy.
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Points
II. Read the text and complete gaps A-G with sentences 1-7. There is one extra sentence that you don’t need to use. Write the answers on your answer sheet.
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When I arrived in England I thought I knew English. After I’d been here an hour I realized that I did not understand one word. In the first week I picked up a tolerable working knowledge of the language and the next seven years convinced me gradually but thoroughly that I A ______, let alone perfectly. This is sad. My only consolation being that nobody speaks English perfectly.
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are B ______ . You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand C______ .
If you live here long enough you will find out to your greatest amazement that the adjective nice is not the only adjective the language possesses, in spite of the fact that D ______ . You can say that the weather is nice, a restaurant is nice, Mr. Soandso is nice, Mrs. Soandso’s clothes are nice, you had a nice time, E ______ .
Then you have to decide on your accent. The easiest way to give the impression of having a good accent or no foreign accent at all is to hold an unlit pipe in your mouth, to mutter between your teeth and finish all your sentences with the question: “isn’t it?” People will not understand much, but they are accustomed to that and they will get a F ______ .
1. whatever it costs
2. most excellent impression
3. you have never heard of before, and nobody else either
4. in the first three years you do not need to learn or use any other adjectives
5. would never know it really well
6. far from being the whole vocabulary of the language
7. and all this
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POINTS
III. Choose the right variant.
1. The faster you are, the ______work you’ll get done.
a) most b) much c) more d) many
2. That man reminds me ... my history teacher.
a) from b) of c) about d) on
3. I need a holiday, ... I?
a) need nоt b) aren’t c) don’t d) need
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4. Before she started university, Jane ... in the States for six months working as a nanny.
a) lives b) has been living c) has lived d) had lived
5.I _____ do it in the evening.
a) would rather b) would better c) had better to d) would rather to
6. I should like to _____ your attention to the new parking regulations.
a) pay b) give c) draw d) focus
7. All the furniture in this room ... antique.
a) are b) are made of c) have d) is
8. The children hadn’t met ... their grandparents or their uncle before.
a) or b) neither c) nor d) either
9. She was in _____tears. She _____ that the whole subject was too dangerous to discuss at night.
a)---, mustn’t have known b)The, had to know c)----, should have known d) the ,should know
10. Don’t go near the water, _____?
a) won’t you b) will you c) did you d) do you
11. _____ famous English painter Gainsborough was passionately fond of music and sometimes even wished he ______ a professional musician.
a) The, were b) A, could c) The, had been d) -, was
12. I wonder if you… lend me some two hundred.
a) could b) may c) must d) can
13. If I`d been hungry, I_____________ something.
a) would have eaten b)would eat c) will eat d) would had eaten
14. Excuse me, but does this umbrella belong ... you?
a) at b) for c) to d) with
15. A lane winding up through fields was the only____ to the village.
a) route b) road c) way d) path
16. There is ____ milk in the bottle, but not enough for the children.
a) a little b) little c) few d) a few
Susan smiled... him and waved.
A) over b) to c) at d) on
18. I wish they___ to the weather forecast and... in such stormy weather.
a) had listened, hadn't sailed b) have listened, haven't sailed c) would listen, wouldn't have sailing
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