Оpen the brackets and put the verbs into the proper tense form.

When Mr. Smith 1 ______(get up) in the morning the weather was very bad. It 2 ______ (be) very bad. It 3 ______ (be) cold outside and it 4 _______ (rain) heavily. He was about to leave for his office when he 5 ________ (find) that all his umbrellas 6 _______ (be) out of order. So he 7 _______ (take) his umbrellas to the umbrella- maker and 8 _______ (say) that he 9 _______ (come) back and take them in the evening.

In the afternoon Mr. Smith 10 _______ (go) to have lunch at a restaurant. A lady 11 ______ (come) in and 12 _______ (sit) down at his table and 13 ______ (have) lunch. Mr. Smith 14 _____(leave) earlier. By mistake Mr. Smith 15 ______ (take) her umbrella and 16 _______ (go) to the door. However, the lady 17 _____(ask) him to give her umbrella back. “Oh, I 18_______(be) sorry,” 19 _______ (say) Mr. Smith. In the evening Mr. Smith 20 ______ (take) his umbrellas from the umbrella-maker and 21 _______ (get) on the train. The young lady 22 ______ (be) on the same train too. She 23 ______(look) at his umbrellas and 24 _______ (say) “You 25 _______ (have) a good day, _______ you?”

 

1. Reading (9 points)

Read the text and do the tasks below.

Patridge’s Almanac.

Many years ago there lived a man in London whose name was Patridge. A lot of people knew him because he wrote almanacs where he predicted the weather for each day of the year.

Once he decided to visit one of his friends who lived in the country.

He left London early in the morning and in a few hours he stopped at a small hotel to have dinner and rest a little. As he wanted to see his friend he didn’t stay at the hotel for along time.

When he was ready to go, the receptionist said to him, “Don’t go out! It will rain.“ “No. I am sure it will not,” said Patridge and left the hotel.

But soon it began to rain. “How did the receptionist know about it? He thought. “I must return and ask him. It will help me to write my almanac.”

The receptionist met him at the hotel. Patridge gave him some money and asked him, “How can you predict the weather so well?” “ Oh, we have Patridge’s almanac, and when this Patridge says that the weather will be fine we always know that it will rain. Today it is July 20^th, and the almanac says, “Fine weather, no rain”

 

A. Write down whether the following statements are true or false.

1. Mr. Patridge was popular because of his almanac.

2. One day he decided to find new material for his book.

3. The receptionist recognized him.

4. Mr. Patridge decided to speak with the receptionist because he thought that this talk will help him.

 

B. Answer the following questions.

1. Why did a lot of people know Mr. Patridge?

2. Why did he decide to go to the country one day?

3. How long was he going to stay at the hotel?

4. Why did the receptionist recommend him not to leave the hotel?

5. How could the receptionist predict the weather so well?

Writing (10 points).

Write a letter (50-60 words) to your friend in Britain describing the season you are having now.

 

 

Школьный тур олимпиады по английскому языку

Класс

Use of English (22 points)

Оpen the brackets and put the verbs into the proper tense form.

A forester with his dog Tarzan was riding through the thick forest. Suddenly his horse 1 ________(stop). The forester 2 _______(feel) that something 3 ________ (frighten) it. He 4 _______ (look) round and 5 _______ (see) a pack of wolves 6 ________ (come) to them. Then the dog Tarzan 7 ______ (run) over to the wolves, 8 ______(sniff) and 9 ______ (disappear) with them in the forest.

The forester remembered the day when he 10 ______ (find) a helpless hungry wolf- cub. He 11 _______ (pick) it up, 12 _______ (bring) it home, 13 ______ (warm) it, 14 _____(give) it food and 15_______(put) it in Tarzan’s dog house. Soon the cub 16 ______ (grow up). Then the forester 17 _______ (take) the young wolf back to the place where he 18_______ (find) him and 19 ______ (leave) him there.

Now the forester understood why the wolves 20 _______ (not attack) him or his dog. Among them 21 _______(be) Tarzan’s friend.

Tarzan 22 _______(return) home the next morning safe and sound.

2. Reading (8 points)

Read the text and do the tasks below.

A Wonderful Discovery.

Sarah had a son of ten, who was called Jack. He did not like studying, but loved watching television. Sarah used to drive at school at half past four in the afternoon, bring Jack back home and give him some tea, but as soon as he got home, he always rushed to the television set and turned it on. “Haven’t you got any homework, Jack?” his mother always asked him as she began to make tea.

“Eh? Oh, yes, I have got a little,” he used to answer. “I’ll do it later when there’s nothing interesting on the television.”

At first Sarah had allowed Jack to watch television instead of starting his homework first, but soon she discovered that he never had a little homework – it was always a great deal- and that there was never a time when there was nothing interesting on television, so that after putting off doing his homework for a couple of hours, Jack was too tired to do his homework properly, if at all.

Sarah then decided to make him do it first. This was always a battle, and often when Jack obeyed his mother, he did his work quickly and carelessly as he wanted to finish it quickly and get back to his beloved television.

The result was the same as when he left his homework until last; bad work, which he was punished for the next day at school by getting low marks, either because his homework was full of mistakes, or because he did not know the work he was supposed to have prepared the night before.

One evening Jack’s science homework was about famous inventors like Thomas Edison, who made important discoveries and inventions in the field of electricity. When he had homework that consisted of learning facts, his mother began to test him when he finished, to try to make sure that he had really done the work properly and not left anything out, and this was what she did this time. She did not let him stop until she was sure that he knew what was in his book.

But this time, it was less of a battle than usual to make Jack sit down and go over what he had learnt carefully, because it had strong connection with television.

In class the next day, the teacher said to Jack,” What are some of the things that Thomas Edison did for science?”

“Well,” Jack answered happily, “first of all, if it were not for Edison, we’d all be watching television by candlelight.”