5. The doll's house was in front of a black wooden chest.
6. Martha moved the chest before she opened it.
7. Most of the keys Martha tried in the lock were too big.
8. The first man to step out of the chest did so politely.
9. The second man to step out of the chest was the fattest.
10. The men had weapons.
Section 2. Multiple choice. For each question, listen to the story and decide which of the statements is the best answer.
Questions 11 through 20 (on your answer sheet circle the correct letter A, B, C, or D).
11. Mrs. McFarland…
A. was gambling.
B. was working.
C. was playing cards.
D. had the day off.
12. Emeline was Martha's…
A. sister.
B. mother.
C. friend
D. maid.
13. All of these were in the attic EXCEPT…
A. rows of boxes.
B. windows.
C. odds and ends.
D. a basket of keys.
14. The chest…
A. had never been in the attic before.
B. had recently been sent from Italy.
C. had been in the attic for many years.
D. had come from Africa many years ago.
15. According to the text, Uncle Walter was many things EXCEPT…
A. a mighty hunter.
B. an alligator wrestler.
C. a world traveler.
D. a victim of a horrible elephant attack
16. Judging by the lock on the trunk, the key would have to be…
A. brass.
B. oddly-shaped.
C. long.
D. big.
17. The key that opened the chest was…
A. the first key Martha took out of the basket.
B. one of the first keys Martha took out of the basket.
C. one of the last keys left in the basket.
D. the last key left in the basket.
18. The men had…
A. dark skin and earrings.
B. short moustaches and rings on their fingers.
C. brown eyes and pig-tails.
D. plain clothes and swords.
19. The men's clothing included…
A. red velvet trousers.
B. sky-blue jackets.
C. golden stockings.
D. hats with ribbons.
20. In this story, Martha is everything EXCEPT…
A. curios.
B. illogical.
C. independent.
D. amazed.
Як бачимо, формат Всеукраїнської учнівської олімпіади включає два види тестів: визначення правильності або неправильності твердження (перша частина завдання), та завдання з вибором однієї правильної відповіді. Пропоную додати завдання на заповнення пропусків у реченні.
Section 3. Fill the gaps in the sentences.
A. Sister Nell's young man had called quite unexpectedly to take her for a long ... .
B. Every well-regulated house has an attic of this sort, so I need not … it.
C. All three were dressed in a curious … .
D. While Martha stared … at the remarkable sight a third man crawled from the chest.
3.3 Розробка серії завдань для учнівських олімпіад (для учнів 10 класу)
Listening Comprehension 10th Form
Text: "The Birdmen" from A History of the US - An Age of Extremes by Joy Hakim
Glossary:
daredevil - шибайголова
apiary - пасіка
beekeeper - пасічник
Suppose, tomorrow, you open your front door and there before you is a flying saucer. A spaceman steps out and smiles.
The next day you go to school and tell your friends what you saw. Do you think they will believe you?
Today, it is hard for us to understand what people thought when they first heard that men had flown. Mostly, if they hadn't seen it themselves, they didn't believe it. Why, if people were foolish enough to say men could fly, the next thing they might say was that someday men would walk on the moon!
But on December 17, 1903, two men flew. They were brothers from Dayton, Ohio, and they owned a bicycle shop. They had attended school, but neither had graduated from high school. Their names were Wilbur and Orville Wright. It was not luck that made them the first people in all of history to build and fly an airplane that lifted off the ground with its own power. It was hard work and determination. Before they built the plane they studied all that was known about flying. They thought, argued, and experimented. They built a wind tunnel and tested 200 differently shaped wings. Then they drew plans and built carefully.
When they flew, it was from Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, on North Carolina's Outer Banks. The Outer Banks are islands that run like a row of beads along the Carolina coast. Back in the 17th century, Sir Walter Raleigh planted a colony there, the Lost Colony. In the 18th century, the Outer Banks were home base to Blackbeard the pirate.
Today the islands are filled with tourists and hotels and cottages. But in 1903, Kitty Hawk was an empty sandy beach, with a few fishermen and a lifeboat station where men stood by to aid shipwrecks. Kill Devil Hill, which is just a big sand dune, was a good place to test an airplane.
On that windy December day, Orville won the toss of a coin. He got to fly first, lying flat on his stomach on the wing of the kite-like biplane. Wilbur ran beside him; the plane lifted a few feet above the sand and stayed in the air for 17 seconds. The brothers took turns and flew four flights that day. The longest lasted 59 seconds. It was enough. They had flown. The men from the lifeboat station had seen them and taken a picture.
The headlines in the morning newspaper in nearby Norfolk, Virginia - the Virginian Pilot - told of the flight, although most of the details in the story were wrong. The brothers were upset about the poor reporting, but it didn't much matter: no one paid attention, and other newspapers didn't carry the story. No one understood that birds now had competition: people would soon be flying.
Orville and Wilbur went home to Dayton and set to work. They knew they could fly, but they also knew their plane needed improving. They flew around a big pasture in Ohio. Neighbors saw them and talked about the flights. In 1904 a group of newspaper reporters came to see for themselves.
Now, the Wright brothers were not daredevils. They were very methodical and precise. They did everything as well as they could. They checked and tested and checked and tested again, each time they flew. That made sense.
When the reporters arrived, the brothers were having mechanical problems with the plane. The reporters stayed two days. The Wright brothers wouldn't fly on those days; the plane wasn't ready. The reporters left. Some wrote that the Wright brothers were fakes.
One writer did stay and see them fly. He was the editor of an apiary journal. An apiary is a place where bees are raised for their honey. Yes, you heard that right: the first long article about the Wright brothers' flight was in a beekeepers' magazine!
In September of 1908, in Virginia, Orville showed Americans that people could fly. He lifted his plane into the air and swung around an army field one and a half times before he landed. The crowd of watchers rushed forward "screaming as loudly as they could, overwhelmed by the miracle that had taken place before their eyes."
Try to imagine that scene in 1908. For thousands and thousands of years, men and women looked at birds and dreamed that they too could lift themselves into the air. Some tried. Mythical Icarus, back in ancient days, took birds' feathers and a frame and made something like a hang glider. But when he soared into the air the sun melted the wax that held the feathers and Icarus fell into the sea. Others, who we know were real, had built gliders, or hot-air balloons that floated on the wind. What the Wrights did was different. They didn't depend on the wind. They used their intelligence to build a machine that conquered the skies. They solved the problem of flight. Now everyone believed it - people could fly!
Section 1. True or False Statements (+/-). Listen to the story and decide which of these statements are true and which of them are false.
1. People have always believed that man can fly.
2. Orville and Wilbur Wright owned a shop that sold and repaired bicycles.
3. They were the first men to fly because they were very lucky.
4. The Outer Banks are islands that run along the Carolina coast.
5. Orville and Wilbur were comprehensive students of flight.
6. Orville sat on the wing when flying his first flight.
7. The brothers were pleased with what the reporters wrote about their first flight.
8. The first long article about the Wright brothers' flight was in an apiary journal.
9. In Virginia, Orville flew around an Army field 2 times to prove he could fly.
10. The Wright brothers' depended on the wind to help them fly their plane.
11. Orville and Wilbur…
A. graduated from high school.
B. didn't finish high school.
C. graduated from vocational school.
D. the article doesn't say.
12. Their first flight was...
A. at Dayton Ohio.
B. at Kitty Hawk.
C. at Norfolk Virginia.
D. in a big pasture.
13. The Lost Colony was established…
A. In the 18th Century.
B. To bring tourists to the area.
C. In the 17th Century.
D. The article doesn't say.
14. The Wright brothers were…
A. methodists.
B. medical.
C. methodical.
D. merry.
15. Orville got to fly the plane first because…
A. he won the coin toss.
B. he could run faster than Wilbur.
C. he had more courage than Wilbur did.
D. he convinced Wilbur he should be first.
16. The newspaper article that appeared about their first flight…
A. was also carried by many other newspapers.
B. pleased Orville and Wilbur very much.
C. was talked about by everyone.
D. had most of the details wrong.
17. You could describe the Wright brothers as…
A. daredevils when it came to flying.
B. very thorough about everything having to do with flying.
C. men who enjoyed arguing with reporters.
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