Первый тур олимпиады по английскому языку 2020 (г.Гжель)

I. Прочитайте текст и выполните задания, обводя букву A, B, C или D, соответствующую ответу, который вам кажется наиболее верным.

Free Trip to America – Nearly

Six boys, aged seven to nine, nearly got a free trip to America last Sunday. They got on to the 42,000-ton ship Oriana, one of the world’s biggest passenger liners, by saying that their parents had their tickets and passports. As the ship sailed from Southampton on its way to the Caribbean and America, the boys laughed and waved goodbye to policemen standing on the dockside.

Unfortunately for them, the boys were discovered when they asked a sailor the way to the “café”. The sailor took them to the Captain, who checked up on them and radioed for a police boat to take them back to Southampton. The boys are now in a children’s home while police try to trace their parents.

Two of the boys are called John, there are two Davids (aged seven and nine), and the others are called Larry and Michael. They say that their surname is Power, and claim to be brothers or cousins. Nine-year-old David said that their parents’ caravan was moved on by police from its site near Heathrow Airport on Sunday morning. The boys came back from a swimming trip and found their home gone.

The boys took the Underground to Waterloo, bought platform tickets, and got on the boat train to Southampton. When they arrived there they thought it would be great to go to America, and boarded the Oriana.

Apparently this was not the first time the boys had experimented with foreign travel. They told police that a few weeks ago they went to France on a hovercraft, but were picked up by French police at Amiens and sent home.

1. Which statement is true?

• Six boys, aged nine, nearly got a free trip to America last Sunday.
• Six boys, aged seven to nine, got a free trip to America last Sunday.
• Six boys, aged seven to nine, nearly got a business trip to America last Sunday.
• Six boys, aged seven to nine, almost got a free trip to America last Sunday.

2. When were the boys discovered?

• When they asked the way to the “café”.
• When they were having dinner in the “café”.
• When they waved goodbye to policemen standing on the dockside.
• When they were saying that their parents had their tickets and passports.

3. Which statement is not true?

• Two of the boys are called John.
• There are two Larries and Michael.
• There are two Davids.
• They claim to be brothers and cousins.

4. Why did they board the Oriana?

• because they thought it would be great to go to America.
• because they wanted to go to France.
• because they wanted to trace their parents.
• because their parents had their tickets and passports.

5. Where did the police take the boys back to?

 

• to America
• to France
• to Southampton
• to the Caribbean

II. Из четырех предложенных вариантов выберите единственно пра­вильный.

1. Could you close … window, please.

a) a
b) an
c) the
d) –

2. We are going for a walk. You can go with….

• us
• we
• our
• ours

3. It was a through train so we … change trains.

• didn’t have to
• mustn’t
• hadn’t
• had not to

4. If I want to buy a jacket I always….

• try on it
• try it
• it try on
• try it on

5. We have been warned … the danger of smoking here.

• against
• about
• at
• from

6. You’d better … out alone at night.

• not to go
• don’t go
• didn’t go
• not go

7. A vegetarian is someone … doesn’t eat meat.

• whom
• which
• who
• whose

8. When Tom was a child he … ice cream, but he doesn’t like it now.

1. used to eat
2. use to eat
3. used eat
4. use eat

 

14. It was raining when Kate … the bus.

 

1. was waiting for

 

1. waits
2. was expecting
3. expected
4. They were supposed … with us till Monday

 

1. stayed
2. to stay
3. stay
4. had stayed

 

16. I will give you my address when I … somewhere to live.

 

1. will find
2. found
3. find
4. have found

 

17. We don’t know … about car engines.

 

1. anything
2. nothing
3. something
4. everything

 

18. I … like the film nor the novel it’s based on.

 

1. both
2. so
3. either
4. neither

 

19. Is the baby … crying?

 

1. yet
2. still
3. else
4. more

 

20. You needn’t say anything ….

 

1. yet
2. else
3. other
4. still

 

21. You needn’t … Mike.

 

1. speak to
2. say to
3. told
4. spoke to

 

22. It’s … to cross the river in this place than over there.

 

1. little dangerous
2. dangerous
3. less dangerous
4. a little dangerous

 

23. Mother asked Ann what she … to give her friend as a birthday present.

 

1. is going
2. will be going
3. would going
4. was going

 

 

24. I wonder when he … back tomorrow.

 

1. would come
2. will come
3. comes
4. coming

 

25. I don’t think it will make her … her mind
26. changed
27. to change
28. change
29. changing
30. …a yellow mackintosh, he had pink gloves and a Reading scarf on – a queer figure!

 

1. Besides
2. By side
3. Beside
4. Becides

 

27. The Bridge built across the Thames in 1716 … the one destroyed by the Great Fire of London.

 

1. is similar to
2. is similar as
3. is similar
4. similar to