Miністерство
освіти і науки України
III етап
Всеукраїнської учнівської олімпіади
з
англійської мови
THE MINISTRY
OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE
STAGE III
NATIONAL STUDENTS OLYMPIAD
IN THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Reading Comprehension Test
For 10th Form Students
Student’s Booklet
Do not open
this booklet
until
advised by the teacher
Dictionaries
are not allowed
Reading Comprehension Test for 10th Form Students
Directions
In this test you
will read five texts. Each text is followed by a certain type of task.
You should do the
tasks on the basis of what is stated or implied
in the text.
For each task you
will choose the best possible answer and circle the letter of your choice.
I. Read the text. For
questions 1-6, choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D).
Today, millions of people want to
learn or improve their English but it is difficult to find the best method. Is
it better to study in Britain or America or to study in your own country?
The advantages of going to Britain
seem obvious. Firstly, you will be able to listen to the language all the time
you are in the country. You will be surrounded completely by the language
wherever you go. Another advantage is that you have to speak the language if
you are with other people. In Italy, it is always possible, in the class, to
speak Italian if you want to and the learning is slower.
On the other hand, there are also
advantages to staying at home to study. You don’t have to make big changes to
your life. As well as this, it is also a lot cheaper than going to Britain but
it is never possible to achieve the results of living in the UK. If you have a
good teacher in Italy, I think you can learn in a more concentrated way than
being in Britain without going to a school.
So, I think that if you have enough
time and enough money, the best choice is to spend some time in the UK. This is
simply not possible for most people, so being here in Italy is the only viable
option. The most important thing to do in this situation is to maximise your
opportunities: to speak only English in class and to try to use English
whenever possible outside the class.
1) What is one of the advantages of going to
the UK to learn English?
A) There are no Italians in Britain.
B) The language schools are better.
C) The obvious advantage is the price.
D) You will have to speak English and not your
language.
2) How can staying in Britain improve your
Language skills?
A) You should interact with native speakers
only.
B) The pace of life and studying is faster.
C) A language environment attends your profound
knowledge greatly.
D) You are not allowed to use your native language.
3) What is one of the advantages of staying in
your country to learn English?
A) The teachers aren’t very good in Britain.
B) You have to work too hard in Britain.
C) You will be surrounded completely by the
native language.
D) Your life can continue more or less as it
was before.
4) People who don't have a lot of time and
money should...
A) learn English in Britain.
B) try and speak English in class more often.
C) go to Italy to learn English.
D) communicate with the British outside the
class.
5) If you stay at home mastering English includes …
B) maximising your efforts
C) speaking only English both in class and
outside the class.
D) a teacher with a profound knowledge of
English.
6) What is the article about?
A) How many people learn English.
B) The best way to learn English.
C) English schools in England and America.
D) The upsides of visiting Britain.
II. Read the text. Decide if the sentences 7-12 are True or False.
I have returned to my hometown of
Wilson Creek after an absence of 10 years. So many things have changed around
here. When I left Wilson Creek, there was a small pond on the right as you left
town. They have filled in this pond and they have built a large shopping mall
there. A new post office has also been built just across from my old school.
There is a baseball stadium on the
outskirts of Wilson Creek which has been changed completely. They have now
added a new stand where probably a few thousand people could sit. It looks
really great.
The biggest changes have taken place
in the downtown area. They have pedestrianised the centre and you can’t drive
there anymore. A European-style fountain has been built and some benches have
also been added along with a grassy area and a new street cafe.
My street looks just the same as it
always has but a public library has been built in the next street along. There
used to be a great park there but they have cut down all the trees which is a
pity. The library now has a large green area in front of it but it's not the
same as when the park was there.
Another improvement is a Chinese and
an Italian restaurant in the town centre and a Mexican restaurant near my home.
Which is where I am going tonight!
7) Jake’s school doesn’t exist anymore.
A) True
B) False
8) They have improved the baseball stadium.
A) True
B) False
9) It is only possible to reach the downtown
area on foot.
A) True
B) False
10) The buildings in the centre of the town
look European.
A) True
B) False
11) He is sad about the park being ruined.
A) True
B) False
12) Jake is going to eat Italian food tonight.
A) True
B) False
III. Read the text. For questions 13-18, choose the correct meaning of the
word in bold (A, B, C, or D). Use the context to guess.
TALES AS OLD AS TIME
How does the same story come to be known as “Beauty and the
Beast” in the U.S. and “The Fairy Serpent” in China?
As Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm collected Germanic folktales in
the 19th century, they realized that many were similar to stories told in secluded parts of the world. The
brothers Grimm wondered whether plot similarities indicated a shared ancestry thousands of years old.
Folktales are passed down orally, obscuring their age and origin. “There’s no fossil record before the invention of writing,” says Jamie Tehrani, an anthropologist at Durham University.
To test the Grimms’ theory, Tehrani and literary scholar
Sara Graça da Silva deduced 76 basic plots back to
their oldest linguistic ancestor using an international folktale database. If a
similar tale was told in German and Hindi, the researchers concluded its roots lay in the languages’ last common
ancestor. “The Smith and the Devil,” a story about a man who trades his soul
for blacksmith skills, was first told some 6,000 years ago in
Proto-Indo-European. Now we tell a similar tale about the blues guitarist
Robert Johnson.
A) no longer remembered or thought
about by people;
C) ones that have been there from
the earliest known times;
D) dull and conventional.
14) shared
A) distributed in equal shares;
B)
owned, divided, felt or commonly experienced by more than one person;
C) being or looking almost but not
exactly the same;
D) very, completely, entirely
unusual.
15) obscuring
A) changing completely and suddenly;
B)
burying something under a large quantity of things;
C) trying not to show;
D) making unclear, vague or hidden.
16) fossil
17) deduced
C) to discover a new place,
substance or a scientific fact;
D) to find or meet by chance.
18) lay
A) to be in a horizontal position
(not staying or sitting);
B)
to remain in a particular state or condition;
C) to begin at a specified point;
D) to bring into being, creating.
IV. Read the text. Some phrases have been removed from the text. Match the phrases A- G to the gaps 19-24. There is one
extra phrase that you do not need to use.
Pets Are Good For
Us – But Not In The Ways We Think They Are
John Bradshaw and his colleagues had to invent a
new word – and the new field of “anthrozoology” – to describe their work studying (19) ___. In his new book, The Animals Among Us, Bradshaw now demolishes a few
myths about the pets that increasingly crowd our homes.
Speaking from his home in
Southampton, England, Bradshaw explains (20) ___
the bond between humans and their pets an important area of research and why
having an animal in the house is so important, especially for kids (21) ___ to a smartphone screen.
Initial research showed that people
with pets survived longer after heart attacks than people without pets. The
most likely explanation is that (22)
___, other than having a heart attack, were in a better state of health than
people (23) ___ for a variety of reasons.
This has been
borne out recently in studies, (24) ___of people from California.
They showed that pet keeping is practiced by people who can afford it in
financial terms and in terms of lifestyle.
People who are settled, have children, who live in a house rather than an
apartment, and – to put it bluntly – are white have better
health. But it’s not because of the pets. The pet is the consequence of the
healthy life, not the cause of it.
A) whose world has increasingly been reduced
B) how he definitely outlined
C) which looked at large samples
D) the interactions between animals and humans
E) these were people who
F) why most scientists didn’t consider
G) who did not or could not have pets
V. Read
the text. For questions 25-30, choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D).
Have you ever noticed that when you log on to
the internet, you nearly always see adverts for things that you are interested
in? If you were looking for a new pair of trainers last week, suddenly you’ll
see adverts for trainers all over the place. Well, this isn’t (25) ___. The internet browsers and
websites and apps that we use know a lot about us (26) ___ they monitor how we use their site or app. This way they
can work (27) ___ what we like and
don’t like. You’ve probably heard of cookies? When you visit some sites for the
first time a cookie (28) ___ onto
your computer that keeps a track on how you travel around the site and exactly
what you do. The next time you use the same site again your computer will check
the cookies and adapt, depending on the information it stored from your last
visit. So, without even thinking about it, we give out a lot of information
that can then be used to personalise our online experience.
I saw a great presentation last week by the
internet activist Eli Parisier and I want to tell you a little bit about it. He
wrote a book a few years ago called “The Filter Bubble” and I think it’s
something that we should all know about. Here’s the book, we have it in the
school library if you want to borrow it. In this talk I’m just going to give
you (29) ___. He likens “the filter
bubble” (30) ___ an ecosystem and he
claims it is something we should all be worried about. After reading his book
and watching his talk, I think it’s something you should all know about too.
25. A) luck B) chance C) random D) occasion
26. A) due to
B) on
occasion C)
in case D) because
27. A) out B) up C) off D)
through
28. A) is uploaded B) is overloaded C) is
downloaded D) is underloaded
29. A) a taste B) a taster C) tasting D) tastefulness
30. A) with B) to C) and D)
from
Miністерство освіти і науки України
III етап Всеукраїнської учнівської олімпіади
з
англійської мови
THE MINISTRY
OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE
STAGE III
NATIONAL STUDENTS OLYMPIAD
IN THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Listening Comprehension Test
For 10th Form Students
TEACHER’S BOOKLET
Once again the organisation which promotes Australia,
Tourism Australia, is advertising the best job in the world. But this year,
they have six jobs going, all for six months, with a great salary and extra
spending money. If you think one of these is your dream job, you have to make a
30-second video explaining why you are the best person for the role.
The job of “outback adventurer” is for someone with a
passion for outdoor life, and in the Northern Territory there are plenty of
wide-open spaces. The job is for someone to find out the best adventures and
jobs for young people on working holidays. You’d be getting close to wildlife,
sleeping under the stars in a bush camp and flying over stunningly beautiful
landscape in a hot air balloon. Your duties will include getting to know about
aboriginal culture and eating traditional bushfoods, maybe including insect
larva.
Like the idea of 200 days of sunshine every year? Job
number two is a park ranger in tropical Queensland. It’s a wonderful state with
ancient rainforests, the world’s largest sand island and the awesome Great
Barrier Reef. Here your duties would include protecting and promoting native
plants and animals, spectacular waterfalls, dinosaur fossils, untouched beaches
and indigenous culture. You’d get paid to patrol the beaches of Lizard Island
and live a life most people can only dream about.
Another island job is as “wildlife caretaker” on Kangaroo
Island in South Australia. If you love all kinds of animals, this is the job
for you. The advert says you’ll be able to talk to wallabies (a kind of small
kangaroo), play with dolphins, cuddle koalas and sunbathe with seals on the
unspoilt beach at Seal Bay. You would get about the island on foot, by bicycle,
kayak or boat, taking photos and leaving only footprints. There is one
potential drawback, though. You’d need to be pretty brave since you might come
face to face with great white sharks.
Maybe you are not quite so keen on the great outdoors and
your talents are more journalistic. If you fancy feature writing, photography
and making videos, you can apply for the position of lifestyle photojournalist
for Time Out in Melbourne. You would be required to photograph and write about
the city's coolest cafés and musical events. But you’d also cover tourist
activities in the whole state of Victoria, including surfing on the Great Ocean
Road, skiing at Mount Hotham or watching the little penguins at Phillip Island.
Are you a foodie? Do you know about food, as well as love
eating it? If the answer’s yes, you can apply for the role of “taste master” in
Western Australia. Your job would be to promote the best restaurants, pubs,
wineries and breweries. You’d also catch fresh seafood off the beautiful coast
and learn all about making wine and beer.
Finally, a fantastic job in Sydney. We’ve all seen those
amazing firework displays in Sydney Harbour. Well, you could be one of the
people making that happen next year. New South Wales is looking for a “chief
funster”, who would be based in Sydney while travelling around the state and
tweeting about the coolest things going on. This job would appeal to someone
interested in everything: sports, the arts, entertainment, food. You’d also be
involved in making the Sydney Festival, Mardi Gras and Vivid Festival as
spectacular, and as fun, as possible.
Miністерство
освіти і науки України
III етап
Всеукраїнської учнівської олімпіади
з
англійської мови
THE MINISTRY
OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE
STAGE III
NATIONAL STUDENTS OLYMPIAD
IN THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Listening Comprehension Test
For 10th Form Students
Student’s Booklet
Do not open this booklet
until advised by the teacher
Directions: in this test you will listen to a text. After
the first listening look at the statements 1-10, and decide if they are true
(T) or false (F) according to the text you have just heard. Circle the letter
of your choice. Remember that you are not allowed to take any notes while listening
to the text.
Listen to the text. Decide if the
statements are true (T) or false (F).
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1. The organization lends assistance to promote tourism in Australia.
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F
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2. Tourism Australia annually advertises six jobs for six months.
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T
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F
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3. Extra spending money is included
into your monthly salary.
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T
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F
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4. You are to prove that you are
sizable for the job of your dream.
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T
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F
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5. A 30-second video guarantees you
will be admitted.
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T
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F
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6. The job of “outback adventurer” is
appropriate for you if you detest wildlife.
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T
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F
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7. A job of outback adventurer is a
tough trial because an applicant has to feed on bushfoods only.
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T
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F
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8. A park ranger in tropical
rainforests has to put up with hot and sunny weather.
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T
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F
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9. A park ranger patrols all beaches
in Australia, including those of Lizard Island and Kangaroo Island.
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T
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F
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10. A wildlife caretaker should interact with different animal species.
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PLEASE STOP AND WAIT FOR THE SECOND LISTENING.
Directions: you will listen to the text for the second
time. After the second listening look at the questions 11-20, decide, which of
the given answers (A, B, C or D) best corresponds to what was stated
or implied in the text you have just heard and mark your
answer by encircling the letter of your choice.
Remember
that you are not allowed to take any notes while listening to the text.
11) If you are looking for outdoor adventures,
leave for …
A) Western Australia.
B) Northern Territory.
C) Queensland.
D) Great Barrier Reef.
12) If you are eco-friendly and equally care
about environment and authentic originality, … is your destination.
A) Sydney Harbour;
B) Seal Bay;
C) Phillip Island;
D) Kangaroo Island.
13) A potential drawback of being “wildlife
caretaker” is …
A) absence of fast means of transport.
B) a chance to come across sea predators.
C) spoilt beaches at Seal Bay.
D) a constant interplay with wildlife.
14) If you apply for a position in Time Out,
you are both …
A) a surfer and photographer
B) a columnist and photographer.
C) a reviewer and photographer.
D) a surfer and traveller.
15) A foodie’s job is …
A) tasting local Australian dishes.
B) hunting for best products.
C) visiting restaurants and cafes.
D) distributing data and advertising
restaurants.
16) Amazing firework displays take place close
to …
A) the town centre.
B) the capital.
C) the water front.
D) Great Barrier Reef.
17) A “chief funster” is obliged to travel
around the …
A) country.
B) continent.
C) region.
D) city.
18) The job in Sydney presupposes that you are
ready …
A) to perceive new things.
B) to do sports.
C) to become a foodie.
D) to travel.
19) It is chief funster’s duty …
A) to make arrangements for events.
B) to hold sport competitions.
C) to have a good handle of surfing.
D) to run a restaurant.
20) The guiding idea of the text is …
A) to advertise all available vacancies in
Australia.
B) to preserve endangered species.
C) to define the best job.
D) to promote Australian originality and
support tourism.
Miністерство
освіти і науки України
III етап
Всеукраїнської учнівської олімпіади
з
англійської мови
THE MINISTRY
OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE
STAGE III NATIONAL STUDENTS OLYMPIAD
IN THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Speaking Comprehension Test
For 10th
Form Students
TEACHER’S BOOKLET
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Directions:
In this test you
will select three task slips and choose the one you are most capable to speak
about. Then take about a minute to collect your thoughts before you begin
speaking on the situation.
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If there was one thing you
could be really good at that you are not good at now, what would it be and
why?
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2.
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If you could have your ideal job,
what would it be and why? How would your working day go?
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‘Everybody is talented because
everybody who is human has something to express.’ If there were a talent show being
held tomorrow and you had to perform, what would you choose to do?
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4.
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‘The key to success is to focus on goals, not
obstacles.’ What makes the
most successful people on
the planet different from the rest? Do they have a special talent, or are
they just lucky? What things have you been successful at?
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5.
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The invention of the
Internet has made it possible to communicate with people around the world
instantly. But some information on the Internet is inaccurate and some people
are dishonest. Is the Internet a good or bad tool for people to use? Is e-shopping a good thing? How to
avoid online fraud?
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6.
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What influence have your parents had on your
life? Whose influence was stronger – your mother’s or your father’s, or any
other relative’s? Would you instil the values that your parents instilled in
you into your children?
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7.
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Everyone has a different idea of what
happiness is, but most of us want to be happier. Speak about three things
that make you happy.
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8.
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Imagine you were given a free wish, but you
had to wish something for somebody else. What would you wish, for who, and
why?
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9.
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‘Just to travel is
rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting’.When you visit a new place, what
kind of things do you like to do? Is there any way to convert one’s hobby to
travel to new places and experience their cultures into one’s job?
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10.
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Imagine you were able to instantly master any
academic subject, which subject would it be? Would you change your career as
a result?
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11.
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They say necessity is the mother
of invention. Which inventions do you think have been the best/the worst to
mankind? If you could
invent anything, what would it be, what would it do and how would it help
people?
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12.
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If you had to choose the
items to put into a space capsule that would be found by aliens, what would
you choose and why?
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13.
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Describe what you want your life
to be like in 15 years time. Do you think it will come true and why?
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14.
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Have you ever done any dangerous sports or
activities? Did you enjoy them? Would you do a parachute jump or a bungee
jump for charity?
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15.
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Describe something that you
have done that made you feel guilty afterwards. What was it and how did you
deal with the guilty feelings?
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16.
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If you were to live
in any time period, what century would you live in and what kinds of events
would you witness?
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17.
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Imagine that
you found a secret passageway in your house. Would you explore it? Where
would it lead? If you could build a secret passageway in your school, where
would it lead and why?
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18.
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Imagine what it
would be like to be a king or a queen? How would you rule? Do you think you
would be a good king or a queen?
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19.
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John F. Kennedy once said: ‘Ask
not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.’
Do you think that you have a responsibility to contribute to your country?
What are some examples of things you can do for your country?
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20.
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Think of an
event that you anticipated in the last year. What was the event and how did
you feel when it finally arrived?
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21.
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What makes a work of literature ‘great’? What
authors have recently become popular in your country? Have any characters in
books really impressed you? What book was it?
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22.
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What is the worst vacation
you have ever been on and describe the moment it all started to go bad.
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23.
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‘Tempers are temporary, but hateful and
hurtful words can be remembered forever.’ What makes you angry? When was the last time you blew your top? What about people who never lose their temper? How do they express
their anger?
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24.
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If someone gave
you one million dollars but said you couldn’t spend it on clothing,
electronics and food, how would you spend the money?
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25.
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Think of a recent movie that
you have seen that disappointed you at
the end. Change the ending the way you would have preferred to have seen it.
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Miністерство
освіти і науки України
III етап
Всеукраїнської учнівської олімпіади
з
англійської мови
THE MINISTRY
OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE
STAGE III
NATIONAL STUDENTS OLYMPIAD
IN THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Writing Comprehension Test
For 10th Form Students
TEACHER’S BOOKLET
Directions: In this test you will be given the written
task. Write it on the pages provided. When you are finished, hand in your
paper.
Write an answer to ONE of the questions 1-3.
Write your answer in an appropriate style.
1)
You recently
entered a competition on TV and won a holiday for two to a beach resort. Write
a letter to a friend telling him/her how you won the holiday,
describing the holiday and inviting them to join you.
Write your letter.
2)
You have seen this announcement in your school
English-language magazine.
Film
reviews wanted
From next month,
we would like to include some film reviews in our new 'Entertainment'
section. Why not write us a review of a film you have seen recently? Include
information on the plot, the acting, the soundtrack/special effects etc. and
say whether you would recommend it or not.
We
will publish the best reviews over the coming months.
Write your review.
3)
You have just seen this advertisement in
a local newspaper.
International Book Fair
Wanted: people of all ages to work at an international book fair
taking
place in London from 10th to 15th June. Accommodation and travel
costs will be paid for. Applicants must be:
- interested
in different kinds of books.
- cheerful and good at dealing with
people.
- able to speak English (other languages an advantage).
Apply in writing, explaining why you would be a suitable person
to help at the fair.
Write your letter of application.
Key 10th form
READING
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D
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13.
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B
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14.
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C
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15.
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D
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16.
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C
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17.
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C
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18.
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A
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19.
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A
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20.
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D
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