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Олимпиада по английскому языку 10-11 класс
1. For items 1–10 listen to a talk about a woman pilot and decide whether the statements (1–10) are TRUE, or FALSE according to the text you hear. You will hear the text twice.
1. The speaker outlined his talk.
2. Amelia Earhart moved to Chicago as soon as her father was given the sack.
3. Amelia Earhart graduated from Columbia University in 1920.
4. Amelia’s parents in California bought her first plane.
5. After setting a world record Amelia Earhart was employed as a social worker.
6. Amelia Earhart is famous for being the only woman to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic.
7. Before flying across the Atlantic Amelia Earhart used to write articles.
8. The only reason that prevented Amelia Earhart from flying to Paris was unfavourable weather conditions.
9. After circumnavigating the world in 1937, Amelia Earhart published two books.
10. Amelia Earhart was awarded by American and French governments.
Task 2
For items 2-6 listen to a conversation between the manager of the fashion department and Chloe, a new salesperson. Choose the correct answer to answer the 2-6 questions. You will hear the text only once.
During her first week at the store Chloe managed to
deal with plenty of customers.
deal with a few difficult customers. +
deal with hardly any other trainees.
The manager thinks the best sales people
are more than just fashion experts. +
should answer questions about their section only.
are able to sell cosmetics and jewelry.
The sales staff at the department
can be models for the store fashions. +
are obliged to wear designer labels.
have to wear uniform.
Which advice is NOT given to Chloe?
Give customers a lot of attention.
Pressurise customers to buy something. +
Find out about other departments in the store.
What is NOT TRUE about Chloe?
She has little sales experience.
She isn`t grateful to the manager for the advice. +
She is the right person for sales.
Task 1
For items 7–16, read the passage below and choose the option which best fits according to the text.
The openness of talking to strangers
Catherine Carr shares her experience of talking to strangers.
You may be surprised to learn that one of my ideas of top entertainment is to people-watch. You’ll find me at it in cafés, bars, on trains. The only thing that can beat it is to take the extra step and strike up a conversation. Not the party kind one. I prefer the bigger sort, with feelings and explanations of passions, maybe with a bit of childhood thrown in.
Early on in my career as a radio reporter, this preference for the personal over the professional was obvious. I didn’t make the greatest of newshounds, as I was often completely diverted by the lives which surrounded the headline. Often, after switching off the recorder, instead of hurrying back to file my piece, I ended up chatting some more and more.
Some time later, I moved to Colchester and started recording my podcast, Where Are You Going? Its concept is simple: I potter around any location talking to strangers and asking them that question. The answers are sometimes funny, sometimes surprising, tragic or shocking. Occasionally they take your breath away. On one single sunny day, for instance, I recorded interviews with an artist in a fluffy orange cardigan, a pair of retired special needs teachers on their way to buy ice-creams, and a trio of Iranian refugees.
Or, I remember a hot September lunchtime, when I started talking to a man I have never met before. He was on the way to Boots and he told me he’d been married for years and was currently waiting for a hip replacement. He played in a rock band that performed all over Essex. He then told me how his Italian father had met his English mother. His parents’ marriage was a happy one and the story was precious to him. He told me about his trips to Tuscany and lovely meetings he had with the Italian relatives.
This September, the podcast won an award at the British Podcast Awards and lots of listeners tell us they have found a blueprint for creating connections of their own, understanding it can be quite possible to talk to people you don’t know and share a little of each other’s lives.
In his fascinating book Hello, Stranger writer William Buckingham writes that there is something freeing and comfortable in talking to strangers, in the possibilities they bring. Strangers are unentangled in our worlds and lives and this lack can lighten our own burden. This is why strangers can unexpectedly become confidants.” He says that strangers often trade the most surprising revelations and confidences as there’s little chance of ever seeing each other again.
At the beginning, I assumed lots of people would wave me away or tell me not to invade their privacy, or just be baffled by the whole idea of me asking: “Where are you going?” But the vast majority do not and aren’t. People seem to want to talk and very often about really important things.
Gina, a friend of mine, who is a psychotherapist, was less surprised that people opened up in this way. In her experience, people in therapy often blurt out the most vulnerable and important thing just as the hour’s session is ending. She explained that it’s a safe window of time, after which they leave the room and there is no comeback.
The few minutes I spend with people I talk to are perhaps a cross between the confessional described by Buckingham and the last few ticks of the clock in the therapy room. Interviewees are always anonymous and – after we chat – we go our separate ways. Even though the conversation can become intimate very quickly, it is also only a brief moment shared, which then sort of closes up behind us.
In the time since I started asking strangers where they are going, the world has changed, politics has become more divisive and spaces to talk openly feel rarer. A lot of interactions take place online and – as we all know – can become angry pretty quickly. So I’m always expecting the people I approach to reflect that – and to be hostile to the idea of talking to a stranger about things that really matter to them. But instead, I keep finding the opposite. People are as open as ever and – post pandemic – even more keen for connection.
7. Catherine’s two main passions are
looking at people from a café or train window.
going to cafes and talking to people in public transport.
watching people and imagining what their lives are like.
observing strangers and initiating conversations with them.
8. What is TRUE about Catherine’s job at the radio station?
She was one of the top newsmakers at the time.
She worked overtime by making long interviews.
She set her own interests above professional ones.
She efficiently emailed interviews after completing them.
9. The main concept of Catherine’s podcast is
to record exceptional life stories.
to talk to random people anywhere.
to talk to strange and unconventional people.
to choose respondents meticulously.
10. The man who Catherine talked to at lunchtime shared
his background and family history.
his failing health and unhappy marriage.
his wish to reconnect with his Italian roots.
his band’s successes all over the country.
11. Listeners of the podcast shared the opinion that the programme
let them become more open and communicative.
laid out a plan for how to start talking to strangers.
helped them understand other people better.
inspired them to start their own podcasts.
12. William Buckingham writes that while talking to strangers, people
try to sound light and unaffected.
tend to share their personal secrets.
feel free to tangle and argue with them.
aim to get feedback from their conversation partner.
13. After starting her podcast Catherine understood that
many people were keen to answer her question.
people were protective of their private lives.
her question put many people off.
her worst fears became reality.
14. According to Catherine’s friend Gina, people
open up to strangers more easily.
feel safer when talking to a psychotherapist.
feel vulnerable when you ask them a lot of questions.
tend to share most at the last minute.
Задание 15: Catherine thinks that her podcast
is more intimate and confessional than both approaches.
is a mix of both approaches and descriptions.
is way different from what Buckingham describes.
is more therapeutic than a psychotherapy session.
Задание 16: Catherine realises that alongside the world changes people
prefer to talk online and do it less openly.
are communicative and still eager to talk.
are more hostile when talking offline.
get more angered by her question.