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Межрегиональная олимпиада по английскому и немецкому языкам среди учащихся национальных школ
с преподаванием удмуртского языка
I. LISTENING
Task 1. Listen to five recorded telephone messages 1-5. They give information about the places in a-e. Match the messages 1-5 to the places a-e.
a) a language school
b) a theatre
c) an art gallery
d) a train service
e) a castle
Task 2. Read the messages and decide where to put these prepositions. They are in the correct order.
Message 1: for from about
Message 2: to between at
Message 3: at by in
Message 4: at on outside
Message 5: at about for
Task 3. Listen to the messages again to check your answers. Correct any other mistakes in the written messages above.
1. Thank you calling *****, the high speed passenger service. Please choose one of the following four options. To listen to our talking timetable, press 0. To make a booking, press 1. If you are calling an existing booking, press 2. For other enquiries, press 3.
2. This is *****. I’m sorry, but the switchboard is now closed. If you wish to speak an operator, please call this number 8 am and 6.30 pm Monday to Friday. The switchboard is not open the weekends or bank holidays. If you wish to listen to recorded information on *****’s opening times and admission prices, please call 020 7680 9004. I repeat 020 7680 9004.
3. This is the box office at the *****. All our lines are busy the moment. Your call will be answered as soon as possible. We are booking phone and person for performances to 7th July. If you have a touch-tone phone and you would like to hear information on this week’s performances and ticket availability, press 1.
4. Thank you for calling *****. Staff will be available to take your enquiry the following times. Mondays and Fridays, staff will be available from 9 am to 7 pm. From Tuesday to Thursday, staff will be available from 9 am to 9pm. The school will also be open on certain Sundays when you will receive a limited information service. Should you call these times, please leave a clear message after the tone.
5. Hello. You have reached the ***** answering service. I’m afraid that all our operators are busy the moment. For information our current exhibition and full details about Joe Cook, our artist of the month, please press ‘star’. For all other enquiries, please hold until an operator becomes available.
II. READING
Task 4. Read the text and put the sentences in the order in which they happened in Michael Crichton’s life.
Michael Crichton, best-selling author of Jurassic Park, is one of the world’s great travellers. In his autobiography, Travels, he describes how he began ‘serious’ travelling when he was thirty and he went to Bangkok. He then began his extraordinary adventures, which included diving with sharks off Tahiti, observing gorillas in Zaire and living with tribesmen in New Guinea.
It all began in Los Angeles where Crichton was writing films for Hollywood. He had quit his studies at Harvard Medical School and separated from his wife, because he wanted to concentrate on writing. Whilst at Harvard, he had already sold one film, The Andromeda Strain, to Hollywood and had begun to lose interest in medicine.
In L.A., he made the successful science fiction film Westworld, but he then fell into a depression and did not know what to do next. His first stop was Bangkok, because a friend of his who lived there had invited him. It was the beginning of an incredible odyssey.
a) A friend invited him to Bangkok.
b) He became depressed.
c) He left Harvard.
d) He made Westworld.
e) He sold The Andromeda Strain to Hollywood.
f) He went to Bangkok.
g) He went to Los Angeles.
h) He went to Tahiti and Zaire.
Task 5. Read the story and find out in the text the following information. Write the answers in the lines below.
a) how old Julian was when he started gambling.______
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b) why he began gambling.______
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c) what he gambled his money on.______
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d) where he got the money from.______
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e) why he liked it.______
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f) why he gave up.______
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g) how he stopped.______
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h) if he misses it.______
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A quarter of all the people who seek the help of Gamblers Anonymous are children addicted to fruit machines.
Julian started playing fruit machines five years ago when he was 13. Since then he has spent more than £20,000 – money he has earned, borrowed or stolen – on what quickly grew into a frightening addiction.
‘I was in a bowling alley with friends one day. One of them was playing the electric fruit machines and he kept pestering me to have a go. First I thought it was a waste of money, but somehow I couldn’t keep away. At the beginning I used to spend all my paper-round money on the machines, but then I started selling everything I owned – even my records and tapes. I took money from my parents and sold their things, too. I always told myself it wasn’t really stealing, that I was just borrowing and would pay them back.
‘By the time I was 15 I was already spending more than £30 a week on machines. They were my whole life. I used to skive off school every day and play the machine in the local café. I was in a world of my own where nothing else mattered.
‘Winning wasn’t even important; I always knew I was going to lose. There was just something about the machines. They became my friends; friends I didn’t owe anything to and who never got annoyed with me. Whatever mood I was in it made no difference to them, we got on fine. I’d go into the arcade feeling tense and excited, but as soon as I started playing I became totally relaxed.
‘Sometimes I’d spend £20 on a taxi to get to one of my favourite machines. – the bigger and more complicated the better – and I would spend a solid eight or nine hours playing. When I ran out of money I felt completely shattered and was desperate to get more to carry on.
‘The crunch came the Christmas before I left school when I was 16. I was so frantic to get some money I stole my parents’ antiques and sold them. When they found out, they made me show them each shop where I had sold the antiques and they bought them all back. I left home after that, rented a room and found a job in an insurance company. After I’d paid for food and rent I spent every penny I earned on machines – at first it was £350 a month, then it went up to £700 a month.’
Julian is one of the lucky ones. He hasn’t played for five months now and is determined to keep it that way. ‘I had just split up with my girlfriend and was feeling very upset. Quite suddenly I realised how much pain I’d put other people through – it made me feel so bad I wanted to die. It was incredibly difficult, but I stopped playing completely. I didn’t get any help – I did it on my own. Now I’ll have to live with all the damage I’ve caused and try to rebuild things. I’m tempted all the time but I know if I go back it’ll destroy me.
If you haven’t been through it you can’t understand what it’s like. It starts off as a bit of fun, but it’s like a silent drug that eats you up from inside.’
III. LANGUAGE IN USE
Task 6. Put the lines of each telephone conversation into the correct order.
a) - Oh, hi. Listen, do you mind if I call you back? I can’t speak right now.
- OK. I’ll speak to you in half an hour or so.
- Sure. I’ll be in all afternoon.
- Sue? Hi, it’s Christine. How are you doing?
b) - Hello. Could I speak to Helen, please?
- Yeah, hang on. I'll go and get her.
- Is that David? It’s Jane here.
- 734 4702.
- Oh, hi, Jane. Is Helen there?
c) - Yes, could I speak to Mr Read, please?
- Accounts department. Can I help you?
- Certainly, Mr Lawson.
- I’m afraid he’s not available at the moment. Can I take a message?
- Yes, could you tell him that John Lawson called?
d) - Yes, could I speak to Katy Wright, please?
- Yes. Could you say that Markella returned her call?
- I’ll put you through. I’m afraid her line’s busy. Would you like to leave a message?
- Macmillan Oxford, good afternoon. Can I help you?
- Yes, of course. Could you spell that for me, please?
Task 7. Complete the dialogues with a synonym of the word in bold.
topic extracts talk examine chance views
a) - Would you like another opportunity to answer the question?
- Yes, give me a ______to try again.
b) -We should look at the problems quite carefully.
- Yes, we need to ______them in more detail.
c) - She’s got some interesting opinions about modern art.
B) Yes, I always listen to her ______.
d) - Did you enjoy the video clips she showed us?
- Yes, the ______from her latest film were brilliant.
e) - Shall we go to the lecture at the art gallery this evening?
- Oh, yes, the woman giving the ______is brilliant.
f) - I’m afraid the subject doesn’t really appeal to me.
- Really? I think it’s quite an interesting ______, actually.
Task 8. Translate the following sentences into Udmurt paying special attention to the underlined words.
1. Нылашлы 16 арес.
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2. Та книгадэ нылашлы сёт.
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3. Котькуд ӝыт мон книга лыдӟисько./Али мон газет лыдӟисько.
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4. Та коркаез кылем арын пуктӥллям.
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5. Та пияшлы «вить» пуктӥллям.
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6. Та ужез мон ачим лэсьтӥ.
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7. –Ма кариськод туннэ ӝыт? - Дорысь ужме лэсьтӥсько.
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8. Луоз-а пырыны?
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9. Мон кырӟаны быгатӥсько.
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10. Анаелы жингыртыны кулэ.
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Task 9. Put each verb in brackets into a suitable form.
The facts about sugar
Packet sugar from the supermarket (1) ______(to extract) from either sugar cane or sugar beet. These products (2) ______(to mix) with hot water, which (3) ______(to dissolve) their sugar. Sugar (4) ______(also to find) in fruit some of which, such as dates and grapes, (5) ______(to contain) very high amounts of sugar. To be a little more specific, sugar should (6) ______(to call) sucrose. Sucrose (7) ______(to make up) of two substances: glucose, which (8) ______(to use) for instant energy, and fructose, which (9) ______(to last) longer as a source of energy. The sugar in fruit is mainly fructose. So when we (10) ______(to eat ) fruit, we (11) ______(also to eat) quite large amounts of natural sugar. Some scientists (12) ______(to believe) that too much sugar (13) ______(to eat) in sweets, cake and biscuits. It (14) ______(to say) to be generally bad for the health, although nothing (15) ______(definitely to prove) so far. However, it (16) ______(to know) that sugar (17) ______(to cause) tooth decay. As one expert puts it: ‘If other foods (18) ______(to damage) our body as much as sugar (19) ______(to damage) our teeth, they (20) ______(to ban) immediately. ’
Keys
Each correct answer is 1 point. The total is 97 points.
Listening – the total score – 24
Ex. 1- 5 scores
Message 1 a train service
Message 2 a castle
Message 3 a theatre
Message 4 a language school
Message 5 an art gallery
Ex.2, 3 – 19 scores
1. Thank you for calling *****, the high speed passenger service. Please choose from one of the following four options. To listen to our talking timetable, press 0. To make a booking, press 1. If you are calling about an existing booking, press 2. For other enquiries, press 3.
2. This is *****. I’m sorry, but the switchboard is now closed. If you wish to speak to an operator, please call this number between 8 am and 5.30 pm Monday to Friday. The switchboard is not open at the weekends or bank holidays. If you wish to listen to recorded information on *****’s opening times and admission prices, please call 020 7680 9004. I repeat 020 7680 9004.
3. This is the box office at the *****. All our lines are busy at the moment. Your call will be answered as soon as possible. We are booking by phone and in person for performances to 17th July. If you have a touch-tone phone and you would like to hear information on this week’s performances and ticket availability, press 1.
4. Thank you for calling *****. Staff will be available to take your enquiry at the following times. On Mondays and Fridays, staff will be available from 9 am to 7.15 pm. From Tuesday to Thursday, staff will be available from 9 am to 9pm. The school will also be open on certain Saturdays when you will receive a limited information service. Should you call outside these times, please leave a clear message after the tone.
5. Hello. You have reached the ***** answering service. I’m afraid that all our operators are busy at the moment. For information about our current exhibition and for full details about Joe Cook, our artist of the week, please press ‘star’. For all other enquiries, please hold until an operator becomes available.
Reading
Task 4 - 8 SCORES
A) 6B)5 C)2 D) 4 E) 1 F)7 G)3 H)8
Task 5 – 8 scores (these are possible answers)
a) 5 years ago when he was 13
b) His friend kept pestering him to play the electric fruit machine and he couldn’t keep away though he thought it was a waste of money