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ВСЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОЛИМПИАДА ШКОЛЬНИКОВ
АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК. 2024 г.
ПРИГЛАСИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП. 8–10 КЛАССЫ
ОТВЕТЫ

Максимальный балл за работу – 53.

LISTENING

Time: 10 minutes
(10 points)

Задание 1.

For items 1–10, listen to a radio talk for young people about animals communicating with each other, and decide whether the statements 1–10 are TRUE according to the text you hear, or FALSE, or the information on the statement is NOT STATED in the text. You will hear the text twice.

1.	The fact that people can speak more than one language defines the difference between animals and humans according to popular opinion.	a) true b) false c) not stated
2.	Some insects use particular body movements to convey the whereabouts of food.	a) true b) false c) not stated
3.	Parrots can copy human speech if they like the way it sounds.	a) true b) false c) not stated
4.	The sounds some primates use to communicate with members of their social group are recognized within their species.	a) true b) false c) not stated
5.	Though chimpanzees are capable of understanding and reacting to human speech, no one has heard them produce speech-like sounds.	a) true b) false c) not stated
6.	Dolphins can produce the majority of human sounds.	a) true b) false c) not stated
7.	Unlike parrots, dolphins copy the sounds of human speech and reproduce them contextually.	a) true b) false c) not stated
8.	Whales’ songs are meaningless and mistakenly compared to human speech.	a) true b) false c) not stated
9.	According to specialists, human languages have developed in favourable environments of multicultural societies.	a) true b) false c) not stated
10.	The power of speech forms in early childhood.	a) true b) false c) not stated

USE OF ENGLISH

Time: 60 minutes
(43 points)

Задание 10.

Task 1.
(10 points)

For items 1–10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a new word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

BEING A TEACHER

Without a doubt, (0) ___ teaching ________ is one of the oldest professions	TEACH
and one of the most (1) __________.	CHALLENGE
To be a good teacher, you need certain qualities such as (2) __________, understanding and patience.	MATURE
Teachers must also be good communicators if they are to convey (3) __________ to their students.	KNOW
Language teachers in particular have to be aware of all the skills students need to communicate (4) __________ with others.	SUCCESS
As well as being (5) __________ to students’ needs, teachers also need to be (6) __________ and approachable while at the same time maintaining high standards of discipline in the classroom.	SENSE HELP
Perhaps most (7) __________ of all, teachers need to keep themselves well-informed about current (8) __________ in their field and the world in general in order to give their best.	IMPORTANT DEVELOP
However, although it can be difficult when teachers find themselves (9) __________ to help students outside of class, they (10) __________ try to help everyone in class.	ABLE CONSTANT

Ответ:
1 CHALLENGING
2 MATURITY
3 KNOWLEDGE
4 SUCCESSFULLY
5 SENSITIVE
6 HELPFUL
7 IMPORTANTLY
8 DEVELOPMENTS
9 UNABLE
10 CONSTANTLY

Задание 11.

Task 2.
(10 points)

For items 1–10, read the text below and decide which answer best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Example:

	A	B	C	D
0	above	over	beyond	past

0 B

ROLLS-ROYCE

The name Rolls-Royce has been associated with high-quality cars for (0) __________ a century. The first Rolls-Royce was produced in 1905, as the result of the (1) __________ efforts of Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce.

Rolls, an upper-class Londoner who was (2) __________ at Eton and Cambridge University, started a company in 1902 to sell motor-cars. Royce, an engineering genius, (3) __________ from a working-class background. He began his apprenticeship in a railway workshop at the age of 14, but by the age of 21 he had set up his own engineering business. Royce designed several motor-cars, and his first experimental model appeared in 1903.

(4) __________ after that, Charles Rolls and Henry Royce met, (5) __________ the Rolls-Royce manufacturing firm in 1904. Royce designed the motor-cars and Rolls sold them. Rolls, who had (6) __________ himself a reputation as a keen racing motorist, also had a passion for flying. In 1910, at the age of only 33, he sadly (7) __________ his death in a plane crash - in (8) __________, he was the first Englishman to die in this way. Royce, however, continued work on their shared dream, and (9) __________ to develop his first aero-engine in 1915. The Rolls-Royce Merlin aeroengine later powered British fighter aeroplanes in World War II. On Royce's death in 1933, the famous Rolls-Royce monogram was changed from red to black as a (10) __________ of respect for the great man.

	A	B	C	D
1	connected	mixed	combined	collected
2	educated	learned	taught	trained
3	grew	arrived	came	arose
4	Early	Shortly	Briefly	Quickly
5	shaping	forming	building	constructing
6	earned	awarded	deserved	succeeded
7	got	knew	made	met
8	spite	case	order	fact
9	kept up	went on	got by	saw through
10	note	message	signal	sign

Задание 12.

Task 3. (15 points)

For questions 1–15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct put a tick. Use the letter "V" as a tick. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word in a given space. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00).

A HOMECOMING OF A DIFFERENT SORT

0	I’ll always remember the time Jeff told me about his family. His mother, a loving, caring woman, was the one who was held the family together.	was
00	His father, a successful physician, cold and stern in Jeff’s words, had firm beliefs that a person would never make a valuable contribution to the world unless they graduated from college by the age of twenty-three.	V
1	His father had even paved the way for Jeff to attend the same college from which he graduated, and had offered to pay Jeff’s entire tuition and living expenses.	V
2	Jeff’s passion was skiing. When he finished high school he decided to decline from his father’s offer and move to Colorado to work with a ski patrol.	from
3	With pain in his eyes Jeff told me so that he still remembered the day he told his father he was going to take a job at a ski resort instead of going to college.	so
4	“No son of mine is going to work on a ski patrol and not attend college!” came the words that still echoed in Jeff’s mind. The two hadn’t been spoken since that conversation.	been
5	Jeff was not even sure that his father knew he was back in the area where he grew up and he certainly didn’t want his father to know he was attending college. He was doing this for himself, he said over and over, not for his father.	V
6	Janice, Jeff’s sister, had always remained supportive of Jeff’s decisions. She stayed in a contact with their father, but Jeff had made her promise that she would not share any information about his life with him.	a
7	Jeff’s graduation ceremony that year was on a hot, sunny day in June. As I walked around talking to people before the ceremony, I noticed an elderly man with a confused expression on his face.	V
8	“My daughter asked me to meet her at this address.” His eyes sparkled and smiled. “Maybe she completed her associate’s degree and wanted to surprise me!”	V
9	“By the way, my name’s Dr. Holstrom.” I froze for a second. Could this be the same as cold, stern man who demanded his son attend college or never enter his home again?	as
10	Soon the ceremony started. Dr. Holstrom seemed to be mistakenly looking up for his daughter amongst the graduates on the stage.	up
11	Jeff was the last person to cross the stage. We heard his name being announced, “Jeff Holstrom, magna cum laude.”	V
12	A lone figure stood up in the back of the audience — Dr. Holstrom. I’m not sure how Jeff even saw him in the crowd, but I could tell from their eyes met.	from
13	Dr. Holstrom opened his arms as if to embrace the air around him. He bowed his head almost as if to apologize.	V
14	For a moment it seemed as if time stood still, as if they were the only two in the auditorium. Jeff came down the stairs with tears in his eyes. “My father is here,” he whispered to me. I have smiled.	have
15	“What are you going to do?” I asked him. “Well,” he said. “I think I’m going home.”	V

Задание 13.

Task 4. (8 points)

For items 1–10, match the writers’ names 1–10 to the descriptions of their creative works A–L. There are some extra descriptions which do not match.

1. Jonathan Swift	A) an American writer of the 20th century. He is known for his poems about life in the country, especially in New England. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times. Some of his best-known poems are The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. The phrase “Good fences make good neighbours” is drawn from Mending Wall.
2. Robert Louis Stevenson	B) an English author of the 17th century who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress while he was in prison for his beliefs. Cristian, his central character, journeys from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.
3. Robert Frost	C) an American writer best known for her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which influenced many people in the US, especially in the North, to oppose slavery. Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said to the author, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this big war.”
4. Emily Brontë	D) a Scottish writer of the 19th century whose books Treasure Island and Kidnapped are among the best-known adventure stories in English. He also wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His two characters, Jekyll and Hyde, serve as symbols of the good and evil sides of a single personality.
5. Harriet Beecher Stowe	E) an English author of the 19th century, one of the three sisters who wrote some of the most famous novels in English. This writer is best known for Wuthering Heights.
6. Ernest Hemingway	F) an English author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for creating the detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson.
7. John Steinbeck	G) an American writer of the 20th century whose novels, including The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men show great sympathy for poor people and their problems. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Shakespeare’s phrase “The winter of our discontent” served as the title for one of his books.
8. Rudyard Kipling	H) an English writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries born in India. He is known for his novels, poems, and short stories set in that country, especially his popular children's story The Jungle Book, and for poems such as Gunga Din and If. One of his well-known novels is The Light that Failed. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1907.
	I) an English author of the 19th century, one of the three sisters who wrote some of the most famous novels in English. This writer is best known for Jane Eyre.
	J) an Irish writer of the 18th century who is best known for his book Gulliver's Travels but who also wrote many other satirical stories and clever articles, in which he used humour to criticize institutions such as the universities, the legal profession, and the political parties.
	K) an English poet of the 17th century who is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. This was followed by Paradise Regained, and both poems were written after he had gone blind. Before this, he was active in politics as a strong supporter of religious freedom and of Oliver Cromwell.
	L) an American writer of the 20th century who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954. He wrote many novels and short stories in a simple and direct style, and his books are often about typically male activities like war and hunting. His novels include A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea.

Ответ:
1 — J
2 — D
3 — A
4 — E
5 — C
6 — L
7 — G
8 — H

Текст для аудирования

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ВСЕРОССИЙСКАЯ ОЛИМПИАДА ШКОЛЬНИКОВ
АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК. 2024 г.
ПРИГЛАСИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ЭТАП. 8–10 КЛАССЫ
ОТВЕТЫ

Максимальный балл за работу – 53.

LISTENING

Time: 10 minutes
(10 points)

Задание 1.

1.	The fact that people can speak more than one language defines the difference between animals and humans according to popular opinion.	a) true b) false c) not stated
2.	Some insects use particular body movements to convey the whereabouts of food.	a) true b) false c) not stated
3.	Parrots can copy human speech if they like the way it sounds.	a) true b) false c) not stated
4.	The sounds some primates use to communicate with members of their social group are recognized within their species.	a) true b) false c) not stated
5.	Though chimpanzees are capable of understanding and reacting to human speech, no one has heard them produce speech-like sounds.	a) true b) false c) not stated
6.	Dolphins can produce the majority of human sounds.	a) true b) false c) not stated
7.	Unlike parrots, dolphins copy the sounds of human speech and reproduce them contextually.	a) true b) false c) not stated
8.	Whales’ songs are meaningless and mistakenly compared to human speech.	a) true b) false c) not stated
9.	According to specialists, human languages have developed in favourable environments of multicultural societies.	a) true b) false c) not stated
10.	The power of speech forms in early childhood.	a) true b) false c) not stated

USE OF ENGLISH

Time: 60 minutes
(43 points)

Задание 10.

Task 1.
(10 points)

For items 1–10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a new word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

BEING A TEACHER

Without a doubt, (0) ___ teaching ________ is one of the oldest professions	TEACH
and one of the most (1) __________.	CHALLENGE
To be a good teacher, you need certain qualities such as (2) __________, understanding and patience.	MATURE
Teachers must also be good communicators if they are to convey (3) __________ to their students.	KNOW
Language teachers in particular have to be aware of all the skills students need to communicate (4) __________ with others.	SUCCESS
As well as being (5) __________ to students’ needs, teachers also need to be (6) __________ and approachable while at the same time maintaining high standards of discipline in the classroom.	SENSE HELP
Perhaps most (7) __________ of all, teachers need to keep themselves well-informed about current (8) __________ in their field and the world in general in order to give their best.	IMPORTANT DEVELOP
However, although it can be difficult when teachers find themselves (9) __________ to help students outside of class, they (10) __________ try to help everyone in class.	ABLE CONSTANT

Ответ:
1 CHALLENGING
2 MATURITY
3 KNOWLEDGE
4 SUCCESSFULLY
5 SENSITIVE
6 HELPFUL
7 IMPORTANTLY
8 DEVELOPMENTS
9 UNABLE
10 CONSTANTLY

Задание 11.

Task 2.
(10 points)

For items 1–10, read the text below and decide which answer best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Example:

	A	B	C	D
0	above	over	beyond	past

0 B

ROLLS-ROYCE

	A	B	C	D
1	connected	mixed	combined	collected
2	educated	learned	taught	trained
3	grew	arrived	came	arose
4	Early	Shortly	Briefly	Quickly
5	shaping	forming	building	constructing
6	earned	awarded	deserved	succeeded
7	got	knew	made	met
8	spite	case	order	fact
9	kept up	went on	got by	saw through
10	note	message	signal	sign

Задание 12.

Task 3. (15 points)

A HOMECOMING OF A DIFFERENT SORT

0	I’ll always remember the time Jeff told me about his family. His mother, a loving, caring woman, was the one who was held the family together.	was
00	His father, a successful physician, cold and stern in Jeff’s words, had firm beliefs that a person would never make a valuable contribution to the world unless they graduated from college by the age of twenty-three.	V
1	His father had even paved the way for Jeff to attend the same college from which he graduated, and had offered to pay Jeff’s entire tuition and living expenses.	V
2	Jeff’s passion was skiing. When he finished high school he decided to decline from his father’s offer and move to Colorado to work with a ski patrol.	from
3	With pain in his eyes Jeff told me so that he still remembered the day he told his father he was going to take a job at a ski resort instead of going to college.	so
4	“No son of mine is going to work on a ski patrol and not attend college!” came the words that still echoed in Jeff’s mind. The two hadn’t been spoken since that conversation.	been
5	Jeff was not even sure that his father knew he was back in the area where he grew up and he certainly didn’t want his father to know he was attending college. He was doing this for himself, he said over and over, not for his father.	V
6	Janice, Jeff’s sister, had always remained supportive of Jeff’s decisions. She stayed in a contact with their father, but Jeff had made her promise that she would not share any information about his life with him.	a
7	Jeff’s graduation ceremony that year was on a hot, sunny day in June. As I walked around talking to people before the ceremony, I noticed an elderly man with a confused expression on his face.	V
8	“My daughter asked me to meet her at this address.” His eyes sparkled and smiled. “Maybe she completed her associate’s degree and wanted to surprise me!”	V
9	“By the way, my name’s Dr. Holstrom.” I froze for a second. Could this be the same as cold, stern man who demanded his son attend college or never enter his home again?	as
10	Soon the ceremony started. Dr. Holstrom seemed to be mistakenly looking up for his daughter amongst the graduates on the stage.	up
11	Jeff was the last person to cross the stage. We heard his name being announced, “Jeff Holstrom, magna cum laude.”	V
12	A lone figure stood up in the back of the audience — Dr. Holstrom. I’m not sure how Jeff even saw him in the crowd, but I could tell from their eyes met.	from
13	Dr. Holstrom opened his arms as if to embrace the air around him. He bowed his head almost as if to apologize.	V
14	For a moment it seemed as if time stood still, as if they were the only two in the auditorium. Jeff came down the stairs with tears in his eyes. “My father is here,” he whispered to me. I have smiled.	have
15	“What are you going to do?” I asked him. “Well,” he said. “I think I’m going home.”	V

Задание 13.

Task 4. (8 points)

For items 1–10, match the writers’ names 1–10 to the descriptions of their creative works A–L. There are some extra descriptions which do not match.

1. Jonathan Swift	A) an American writer of the 20th century. He is known for his poems about life in the country, especially in New England. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times. Some of his best-known poems are The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. The phrase “Good fences make good neighbours” is drawn from Mending Wall.
2. Robert Louis Stevenson	B) an English author of the 17th century who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress while he was in prison for his beliefs. Cristian, his central character, journeys from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.
3. Robert Frost	C) an American writer best known for her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which influenced many people in the US, especially in the North, to oppose slavery. Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said to the author, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this big war.”
4. Emily Brontë	D) a Scottish writer of the 19th century whose books Treasure Island and Kidnapped are among the best-known adventure stories in English. He also wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His two characters, Jekyll and Hyde, serve as symbols of the good and evil sides of a single personality.
5. Harriet Beecher Stowe	E) an English author of the 19th century, one of the three sisters who wrote some of the most famous novels in English. This writer is best known for Wuthering Heights.
6. Ernest Hemingway	F) an English author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for creating the detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson.
7. John Steinbeck	G) an American writer of the 20th century whose novels, including The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men show great sympathy for poor people and their problems. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Shakespeare’s phrase “The winter of our discontent” served as the title for one of his books.
8. Rudyard Kipling	H) an English writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries born in India. He is known for his novels, poems, and short stories set in that country, especially his popular children's story The Jungle Book, and for poems such as Gunga Din and If. One of his well-known novels is The Light that Failed. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1907.
	I) an English author of the 19th century, one of the three sisters who wrote some of the most famous novels in English. This writer is best known for Jane Eyre.
	J) an Irish writer of the 18th century who is best known for his book Gulliver's Travels but who also wrote many other satirical stories and clever articles, in which he used humour to criticize institutions such as the universities, the legal profession, and the political parties.
	K) an English poet of the 17th century who is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. This was followed by Paradise Regained, and both poems were written after he had gone blind. Before this, he was active in politics as a strong supporter of religious freedom and of Oliver Cromwell.
	L) an American writer of the 20th century who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954. He wrote many novels and short stories in a simple and direct style, and his books are often about typically male activities like war and hunting. His novels include A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea.

Ответ:
1 — J
2 — D
3 — A
4 — E
5 — C
6 — L
7 — G
8 — H

[26-27.04.2024] Пригласительный школьный этап ВСОШ по Английскому языку для 8-10 классов 2024-2025 гг.

[26-27.04.2024] Ответы по Английскому языку Пригласительный этап ВСОШ для 8-10 классов 2024-2025 гг.

LISTENING

Задание 1.

USE OF ENGLISH

Задание 10.

BEING A TEACHER

Задание 11.

ROLLS-ROYCE

Задание 12.

A HOMECOMING OF A DIFFERENT SORT

Задание 13.

Текст для аудирования

LISTENING

Задание 1.

USE OF ENGLISH

Задание 10.

BEING A TEACHER

Задание 11.

ROLLS-ROYCE

Задание 12.

A HOMECOMING OF A DIFFERENT SORT

Задание 13.