Олімпіада

Listening

1. Mark sentences as true or false.  

The text mainly tells about travelling

The parents like to spend their holidays in the same city. 

They have got married recently

The action takes place in a cabin in the mountains

The parents have gone to their cottage two or three times a year for over twenty-five years. 

Both of the parents enjoy sailing. 

The author of the text is a man. 

The author of the text is an experienced traveler. 

The world is a small place to live in. 

You can never get to know a place too well.

2. Choose the correct variant

1.    It may be inferred from the text that the parents always spend their vacation:

     The parents prefer:

   One can make a conclusion that the parents are :

   The parents ‘ favorite season was:

  The cabin was bought:

 The author of the passage states that the parents like:

  The dream of the author is:

A lot of money was spent learning how to

The pyramids in Egypt were visited

 The author of the passage:

Reading

American English spelling differs from British English spelling largely because of one man, American lexicographer Noah Webster. In addition to his well-known American Dictionary of the English Language, Webster published The American Spelling Book (1783, with many subsequent editions), which became one of the most widely used schoolbooks in American history. Webster s books sought to standardize spelling in the United States by promoting the use of an American language that intentionally differed from British English.

The development of a specifically American variety of English mirrored the new country s separate political development. Webster s most successful changes were spelling with or instead of our (honor, labor for the British honour, labour), with er instead of re (center, theater for the British centre, theatre), with an s instead of a c (defense, license for the British defence, licence), with a final ck instead of que (check, mask for the British cheque, masque), and without a final k (traffic, public, now also used in British English, for the older traffick, publick).

Later spelling reform created a few other differences, such as program for British programme. Canadian spelling varies between the British and American forms, more British in eastern Canada and more American in western Canada.

Choose the correct variant.

The passage mainly discusses

The passage implies that written British and American words:

  It may be inferred from the passage that Webster s scientific interest was in:

The diference between American and British English were generated 

 The word “subsequent” in line 4 may most probably mean the following:

One can make a conclusion that Webster s changes

The word “mirrored” in line 8 is closest in meaning to 

It can be seen from the passage that the changes brought into American English must have:

    The passage states that in Canada:

The passage implies that of the two books mentioned in it