Задания районной олимпиады учащихся IV-IXклассов
по учебному предмету «Английский язык»
2017/2018 учебный год
VIIIкласс
Reading Comprehension Form 8
Thirty years ago my family were one of the lucky ones and went on holiday,
once a year for a week. They went every year to the nearest seaside resort where there
were a few hotels, a beach, a little town and that was it. Today tourism is a big business
throughout the world and our expectations and life styles have greatly altered.
There are those people, especially environmentalists, who see the growth of tourism
as a disaster for the environment as well as local cultures. Tourism has often meant huge
hotel complexes, swimming pools, pollution and overcrowding that have destroyed many
local communities. This has been the case on Costa del Sol in Spain, which has been
literally invaded by tourists for the past few decades. As the tourists start to look for
more exotic places to go on holiday, the problem with protecting yet unspoiled areas in,
for example, South East Asia, Central America and Africa grows.
Many of us have laughed at the commercial that shows an American tourist
group on a sightseeing coach in Norway. Whenever the guide points out a local sight
of interest, someone on the coach spots a McDonald's or another American
Company on the other side of the coach, and everyone's attention is drawn to that. This
is a good example of how many people, who go abroad on holiday, are actually more
interested in experiencing familiar surroundings than discovering the local culture. As a
result, travel companies try to make the resorts look as much as possible like the
environment the tourists are used to.
Yet the growth of tourism has opened up parts of the world and enabled travellers
to go to places they could only have dreamed of thirty years ago. The meeting of
different cultures in this way has led to a greater mingling of peoples and cultures and
habits. Take food for example: Italian dishes such as spaghetti and Spanish rice dishes
such as paella are nowadays eaten all over the world.
On a more serious level, tourism is often the developing countries' most
important source of income. Foreign tourists bring in much needed foreign currency and
this can help that country buy equipment and goods from abroad. In this way tourism is
good for an area of the country.
Reading Comprehension Test Form 8
Total: 20
I. Mark as the following statements true or false. (4 points)
1. Some people think that the growth of tourism has been harmful to nature.________
2. Many tourists on holiday abroad laugh at Mc Donald's or other American
companies. _______
3. Costa del Sol in Spain hadn't been a popular tourist place until a few decades
ago._______
4. Tourism has led to disappearance of many cultures._________
II. Fill in the gaps. (4 points)
1. Today tourism is a big ___________________.
a)experiment;
b)business
[Link] problem with protecting yet____________ areas grows.
a) poisoned;
b) unspoiled
3. Tourists have laughed at the commercial that shows an ___________ tourist group
on a sightseeing coach in____________.
a) American, Norway;
b) African, New Zealand
4. Many people, who go abroad on holiday, are actually more interested in
________surroundings than discovering ________________.
a) experimenting familiar; local sightseeing;
b) experiencing familiar, the local culture
III. Answer the following questions giving the full answers (8 points)
1. Where did the narrator's family usually go on holiday 30 years ago?
___________________
_______________________________________________________________________
2. Where do tourists today try to find more exotic places for a holiday?
___________________
_______________________________________________________________________
3. Why has tourism destroyed many local communities?
______________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
4. What dishes are nowadays eaten all over the world?
______________________________
______________________________________________________________________
IV. Correct the following sentences according to the text. (4 points)
1. Every month the narrator's family went fishing to the nearest seaside
resort.________________________________________________________________
2. Costa del Sol in Spain has been literally invaded by tourists for the past ten
years.________________________________________________________________
3. Travel companies try to make the resorts look different from the environment the
tourists are used to.-
___________________________________________________________
4. Tourism is often the most important source of culture for developing countries._____
______________________________________________________________________
Part В. Lexical-Grammar Test.
I Change the following words. Look at the example first (10 points):
Change beard into something you can eat BREAD
1. Change cheap into a fruit. ___________
2. Change heart into a planet. ___________
3. Change swap into an insect. ___________
4. Change hated into something that comes to everybody._________
5. Change super into something you keep money in. __________
6. Change toga into an animal. __________
7. Change disease into a popular place to go on holiday. __________
8. Change recall into one of the rooms in a house. ___________
9. Change agree into another word for keen. ____________
[Link] carthorse into a group of musicians. ___________
II Think of one word which can be used to complete the sentences below
(7 points):
I bought a white tack suit last week, but now I realized that I _______________ a
mistake. It was my _____________ fault because I should have realized
________________ I bought it that it would need washing immediately because its
white colour, and I really paid too ___________ for it. There were also a
____________ coloured ones in the shop that were much _________________
economical and practical, but this one just appealed to me _____ much.
III Translate the fragment in brackets into English (7points):
1. As we dug(глубже)___________, we discovered a large wooden chest.
2. This is hardly the ideal time to buy a house, (нетакли)____________?
3. I(не могу не рассказать) ___________________________youaboutit.
4. His message (говорит)________________________ very little.
5. He (одолжил)____________________ some money from his friend.
6. Once you have become (зависимым)_____________________ theNet, it’s hard to
(избавиться) _____________________the habit of browsing the sites every night.
IVFill in the correct tense forms (12 points):
YesterdayI (receive)__________________________a phone call from an old friend
who I (not/hear)_____________________from for months. I asked him what he (do)
______________, andhe told me that he (spend)_________________________the
past three months sailing around the world on an old-fashioned sailing ship. I
(always/ love)_____________________ everything to do with the sea, so I was very
excited to hear that he (manage)___________________to do something so thrilling. I
asked him if we (can)____________________ get together soon, and made him
promise that he (bring)______________________ all the photos he
(take)__________________. When he (come)________________ next week,
I(expect)___________________________ him to tell me exactly what the trip (be)
______________ like.
VRewrite the sentences using the word in bold so that it has a similar meaning to
the first sentence(7 points):
1. You’d better see a doctor.
If__________________________________________________________________
2. It is too hot to work in the garden. cool
____________________________________________________________________
3. Someone should have told her about it. been
____________________________________________________________________
4. People say she’s the best athlete in the [Link]
____________________________________________________________________
5. I don’t know your name. introduced
____________________________________________________________________
6. If I drink strong coffee at night, it keeps me awake. prevents
______________________strong coffee___________________________________
7. She doesn’t let her children play by the river. allowed
Thechildren _________________________________________________________
VISpot one error in each sentence and write down the correct
sentence(4 points):
[Link] horses rose a cloud of dust. _____________________________________
2. He made me to do the things I liked doing least of all._____________________
__________________________________________________________________
3. Stop to pull my hair — it hurts!_______________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
4. I get really annoying when people throw rubbish in the street._______________
__________________________________________________________________
VII Choose the correct word to complete the sentences (8 points):
The policeman asked John why he had tried to (1)___________________ his father’s
car without license and he answered that he had (2)_________________ it to be easy.
John’s mother said that John knew how to (3)________________ a motorbike, and
that he had never had an (4)_____________________ on it. But the policeman
pointed out that what he had (5) ____________________was very serious. He
(6)__________________ John that he might have (7)___________________ a
pedestrian if he hadn’t (8)_________________in time.
1) A lead B drive C move Dgo
2) A waited Bexpected C accepted Dappeared
3) A ride Bdrive C move D go
4) A incident Baccident C case D happening
5) A made BdoneCacted D created
6) A said B told C spoke Dtalked
7) A woundedB damaged C injured D hurt
8) AremainedB stayed C stopped D held
VIII Fill in the articles where necessary(a/an, the,-) (5 points):
About_________ hundred miles south of England and within sight of _________
French coast lies _____ small group of _____________ beautiful rocky islands
known as _______________ Channel Islands.
IXComplete the sentences using the appropriate derivatives of the words in
capitals (5points):
1. The sudden _________________ of the travel agency left many people
stranded abroad. CLOSE
2. She’s got an enormous ________________ of flowers in her garden.
VARIOUS
3. I find ___________________ books impossible to follow when I want to make
some special dish. COOK
4. You should consider your options ___________________CARE before
making a __________________________DECIDE
