Олимпиада по английскому языку для учащихся 9-х классов Школьный этап

МУНИЦИПАЛЬНОЕ ОБЩЕОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ

«СРЕДНЯЯ ШКОЛА № 72» г. МАКЕЕВКИ

Олимпиада по английскому языку для учащихся 9-х классов

Школьный этап

Время выполнения -90 минут. Максимальное количество баллов –100 баллов

LISTENING SKILLS (20 баллов)

You are going to hear part of a radio programme about the lives of famous inventors. Read questions 1-8, and match each question to the person A-C that it refers to. Write the answers on your answer sheet.

A.   Alexander Graham Bell

B.    Maria Mitchell

C.   Jan Szczepanic

1.     Who came from a big family? _____

2.     Who received a medal from a king? _____

3.     Whose scientific interests were not grounded in family traditions? _____

4.     Whose achievements were appreciated outside his/ her country? _____

5.     Whose research was concentrated on one field of science? _____

6.     Who had planned a different career? _____

7.     Who worked as a teacher? _____

8.     Whose birthplace is open to the public? _____

READING SKILLS (20 баллов)

Read the text. Write which sentences 1-8 are true (T), which are false (F) and which are not stated (NS), according to the text. Write the answers on your answer sheet.

Cambridge University

Cambridge University is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world (after the University of Oxford) and the seventh-oldest in the world.

The story of Cambridge University begins in 1209 when several hundred students arrived in the little town of Cambridge after having walked 60 miles from Oxford. These students were all churchmen and had been studying in Oxford at that city's well-known schools. It was a hard life at Oxford for there was constant trouble, even fighting, between the citizens of the town and the students. Then one day a student accidentally killed a man of the town. The Mayor arrested three other students who were innocent and they were put to death. In protest, many students left Oxford, some of them went to Cambridge. And so the new University began.

It was Cambridge University. Of course, there were no Colleges in those early days and student life was very different from what it is now. Students were of all ages and came from anywhere and everywhere. Life in College was strict. Students were forbidden to play games, to sing (except sacred music), to hunt or fish or even to dance. Books were very rare and all the lessons were in the Latin language which students were supposed to speak even among themselves.

In 1440 King Henry VI founded King's College, and other colleges followed. Nowadays there are more than 30 different colleges, including five for women students and several mixed colleges, in the University. The number of students in colleges is different: from 30 to 400 or 500.

The training course lasts 4 years. The academic year is divided into 3 terms. The students study natural and technical sciences, law, history, languages,  geography,  medicine, economics, agriculture, music and many other subjects. After 3 years of study a student may proceed to a Bachelor’s degree, and later to the degrees of Master and Doctor.

There are many ancient traditions that are still observed at Cambridge. Students are required to wear gowns at lectures, in the University library, in the street in the evening, for dinners in the colleges and for official visits. One more tradition is to use Latin during public ceremonies of awarding degrees.

All the students must pay for their education, examinations, books, laboratories, university hostel, the use of libraries. The cost is high. It depends on college and university speciality. Very few students get grants.

Many great men studied at Cambridge, for example, Bacon (the philosopher), Milton and Byron (the poets), Cromwell (the soldier), Newton (the outstanding physicist), Darwin (who is famous for his theory of evolution) and Kapitsa (the famous Russian physicist).

1) Cambridge University is the oldest university in the world.

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

2) The first students of Cambridge University got only religious education.

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

3) In early days of Cambridge University the students were taught in English. 1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

4) Cambridge University was started by the students of Oxford University.

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

5) After 4 years of study students proceed to a Bachelor’s degree.

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

6) Students must wear special uniform (gowns).

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

7) The education at Cambridge University is free.

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

8) There are famous scientists among the graduates of Cambridge University.

1) True

2) False

3) Not stated

WRITING SKILLS (40 баллов)

Some people think that extreme sports help to build character. What is your opinion? Do you agree with this statement? Write 15-16 sentences on your answer sheet.

Use the following plan:

- make an introduction (state the problem);

- express your personal opinion and give 2–3 reasons for your opinion;

- express an opposing opinion and give 1–2 reasons for this opposing opinion;

- explain why you don’t agree with the opposing opinion;

- make a conclusion restating your position.

SPEAKING SKILLS (20 баллов)

Choose the theme and speak about. Use 8-10 sentences to develop the following theme.

1. Compare the way of life in the country and in the city.

2. Why is it important to know foreign languages?

Tapescript

Alexander Graham Bell- as a young boy, the telephone inventor.

Alexander Graham Bell liked mathematics and science, but he was easily bored at school. He was much more interested in experimenting and discovering things on his own. One of his inventors was a simple machine imitating the human voice. Alexander

Built it with his brother Melville when they were still children.

As a teenager, Bell wanted to become an actor or a sailor. Instead, he worked, like his father, as a speech therapist, and taught deaf people. Bell studies of the human ear and voice vibrations, and years of experiments results in 1876 in the first telephone conversation between Bell and his assistant Tomas Watson.

Alexander Bell’s lifelong interest in nature and science also led to a variety of other invention ideas, including experiments with flight and designing aeroplanes.

Maria Mitchell.

Maria Mitchell was one of the most famous American scientists of the 19th century. Born in 1818, in Massachusetts, Maria was the third child of a family with ten children. Her father was a dedicated astronomer and teacher, and he encouraged Maria’s scientific interests. In 1847, when she was looking at the sky through a telescope from the roof of her parents’ house, she discovered a new comet. A year later she became the first woman admitted to the American Academy of Art and Science, and the first female professor of astonomy in the USA.

After her death, the Maria Mitchell Astronomical Society was created as tribute to her memory. The house where she was born was turned into a museum.

Jan Szczepanic.

There was an inventor who sometimes called the “Polish Edison”. His name was Jan Szczepanik, and he was born in a poor uneducated family in a small village in the south of Poland.

During the 54 years of his life, Szczepanik got a few hundred patients and made over fifty inventors, many of which are still used today, especially in colour photography, film production and television. He also worked on a moving wing aircraft, an airship and a submarine.

Szczepanik patented his inventions in Germany and England. The American novelist Mark Twain wrote two articles about his achievements, and the King of Spain gave him an order after a silk bullet-proof vest invented by the “Polish Edison” saved his life.

ANSWER SHEET (БЛАНК ОТВЕТОВ)

Шифр____________

Класс___________

Общее кол-во баллов__________

LISTENING SKILLS

READING SKILLS

WRITING SKILLS

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SPEKING SKILLS