You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend.
Государственное учреждение Луганской народной Республики
«Луганское общеобразовательное учреждение –
средняя общеобразовательная школа № 38 им. К.Е. Ворошилова»
Задания
I (отборочного) этапа Республиканской олимпиады
По английскому языку для учеников 7-8 классов
Reading comprehension
Task 1.
For questions (1-6), read the following text and then choose from the list given below the best phrase to fill each of the numbered spaces. Each correct phrase may only be used once. Some of the suggested answers do not fit at all.
There is an example for you (0).
A Good Night
Sleeping less than six and a half hours a night is not good for you, warned the American National Sleep Foundation recently. With supreme irony, the warning came just as people in the US, in the interests of daylight saving, were about to put their clocks forward one hour, (0) _______ . The Foundation’s latest research shows that eight hours’ sleep is optimal for good health. The problem is that these days, some people seem to regard sleep as slothful and unproductive, a view encouraged by innovations like the Internet, (1) _______ long after other sources of information are inactive. Actually, one could go further back in time and blame the invention of the light bulb, (2) _______. People slept on average nine hours a night before the arrival of electricity, (3) _______. For sleep is not equivalent to switching off your computer. In sleep important things still happen, things (4) _______. Sleep reduces the body’s metabolic rate by up to 20 per cent, representing a great saving in energy, and the amount of oxygen (5) _______ also falls dramatically, as does our body temperature to a lesser extent. And during sleep the body releases growth hormone, (6) _______.
Example:
| A | which is clearly not enough for the average person |
| B | which probably means they were a good deal happier |
| C | which is why children need plenty of sleep |
| D | which can even lead to major disasters |
| E | which allows users unlimited access |
| F | which we use in the first part of the night |
| G | which we need in order to fall asleep |
| H | which effectively eliminated darkness |
| I | which are thought to be restorative and conserving |
Use of English
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Task 1. For questions from 1-10, read the text below, then decide and circle which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space.
Stephanie Meyer is the best-selling author of the young adult novel Twilight and its sequels. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and was one of six children. She (1) __________ her husband, Christian, at school, but they didn't marry until after she had left University. They had three sons, and Stephanie chose (2) __________ at home to look after them. Then one night, Meyer had a dream (3)_________ she couldn't stop thinking about. She decided to write a novel about the characters in her head. She spent her days thinking about the plot, and then late at night, while her children (4) _________, she wrote a novel about Edward, a vampire, and Bella, a human girl. In the novel, the two characters fall in love with each other and of course there are plenty of (5) ___________ between them. After three months, Stephanie (6) ___________ a 500 page manuscript. Soon after, she found an agent who was delighted (7) __________ her work. It wasn't long before she had a publisher and a three-book deal.
Today, Stephanie Meyer's Twilight books (8) __________ into films and are known all over the world. It's strange to think that if Stephanie Meyer hadn't had a dream, she probably (9) ______ have written the novels. But it's fairly certain now that if she writes (10) ______ more books they will probably be best-sellers too.
| 1 | А | wasmeeting | B | met | C | hasmet | D | meets |
| 2 | A | stay | B | staying | C | tostay | D | stayed |
| 3 | A | what | B | who | C | when | D | which |
| 4 | A | sleep | B | weresleeping | C | hadslept | D | haveslept |
| 5 | A | comrades | B | battlefields | C | casualties | D | conflicts |
| 6 | A | wascreating | B | hadcreated | C | created | D | hascreated |
| 7 | A | of | B | on | C | with | D | at |
| 8 | A | havebeenmade | B | aremade | C | weremade | D | hadbeenmade |
| 9 | A | hadn’t | B | won’t | C | wouldn’t | D | haven’t |
| 10 | A | every | B | little | C | each | D | any |
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Writing
You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend.
… Today is Sunday, but I feel bored and unhappy. It’s already been raining hard for two days and there’s nothing to do at home…What is your favourite season and why? What do you do when the weather is rainy? How do you usually spend your weekends? …
Write a letter and answer 3 questions.
Write 100-120 words. Remember the rules of letter writing.
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