МЕЖДУНАРОДНО ЛИНГВИСТИЧНО КЕНГУРУ 2008 г.

АНГЛИЙСКИ ЕЗИК XI – XII КЛАС

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1. A ballad is a song that ...

A) is learnt by heart B) sings bird C) tells a story
D) is written down E) is very ridiculous

2. How many sides has each snowflake?

A) four B) it is circular C) less than five
D) six E) three

3. The national musical instrument of Scotland is the ... For centuries, up to the First
World War, Scottish ... led the soldiers into battle. This instrument is still very
popular, and almost every Scottish town has a ... band.
Choose the correct series:
A) flute / flute player / flute B) bagpipe / bagpipers / bagpipe
C) drum / drummer / drum D) pipe / pipers / pipe
E) bagpipe / pipers / pipe

4. “All men are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Who wrote this?
A) Aldous Huxley B) William Shakespeare C) George Orwell
D) Charles Dickens E) Queen Victoria

5. We are really looking forward……the competition.

A) entering B) enter C) to entering
D) to enter E) to be entered

6. “Hang about” means:

A) wait for a short time B) end a phone call and put down the receiver
C) spend time at a place doing nothing D) distribute something to several people
E) try to avoid something

7. There's a clever old miser who tries

Every method to economise.
He said with a wink,
"I save gallons of ink
By simply ... my i's."
A) not writing B) not dotting C) crossing
D) skipping E) dotting

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8. For years a secret shame destroyed my peace -
I’ve not read Eliot, Auden or MacNeice.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
... had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.
A) Either B) None C) Even
D) Neither E) No sooner

9. “There are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the
credit. Try to be ...; there is less competition there.” Indira Gandhi
A) in the second group B) in the first group C) in neither group
D) in any other E) in both groups

10. Choose the correct order for these sentences:

1. 'This is ridiculous! I don't even make that much as a doctor!'
2. The plumber arrived, unpacked his tools, did mysterious plumber-type things for a while,
and handed the doctor a bill for $600.
3. The plumber quietly answered,
4. A pipe burst in a doctor's house.
5. 'Neither did I when I was a doctor.'
6. He called a plumber.
7. The doctor exclaimed,
A) 6 - 4 - 2 - 7 - 1 - 3 – 5 B) 4 - 6 - 2 - 5 - 1 - 3 – 7 C) 4 - 6 - 3 - 7 - 1 - 2 - 5
D) 4 - 6 - 2 - 7 - 1 - 3 – 5 E) 4 - 1 - 2 - 7 - 6 - 3 – 5

11. The name of the huge stone wall built to keep invaders out of the Roman Empire
is...
A) The Scottish Borders B) The Picket Fence C) Offa’s Dyke
D) Hadrian’s Wall E) The Great Stone Wall

12. Each country in the UK has its patron saint. Match them.
1.England a. St George
2.Scotland b. St Patrick
3.Wales c. St David
4.Northern Ireland d. St Andrew
A) 1b-2d-3a-4c B) 1a-2d-3c-4b C) 1d-2a-3b-4c
D) 1a-2c-3d-4b E) 1c-2b-3a-4d

13. Which of the following towns is located in the north of England?

A) Essex B) Plymouth C) Edinburgh
D) Bristol E) Manchester

14. The British have the weirdest dishes. Which of these is not a typically British dish?
A) Bubble & Squeak B) Bacon Roly-Poly C) Bangers and Mash
D) Toad-in-the-Hole E) Candy Mandy

15. What is the name of the British born creator of the World Wide Web?
A)Clive Sinclair B) James Dyson C) Christopher Cockerell
D)Timothy Berners-Lee E) James Wyatt
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16. Queen Elizabeth II usually goes by her first name. What is Her Majesty’s
surname?
A) Buckingham B) Westminster C) Wessex
D) Windsor E) Eire

17. America has seen some of the most interesting literary movements, one of which is
the Lost Generation. Which of the following writers does not belong to the movement?
A) Ernest Hemingway B) John Dos Passos C) F.Scott Fitzgerald
D) Jack Kerouac E) Ezra Pound

18. What is Buck House?

A) the house of a famous writer B) a famous department store
C) the Queen’s annual tea party D) a popular hotel
E) a castle

19. ”I was tickled………..by her compliments. Now I feel a lot more confident about
my looks”
A) yellow B) red C) green
D) black E) pink

20. Find the meaning of the words in bold:

Yes, that's right. I got my money back and as a result I opened up a whole new can of
worms because other people got their money back, too.
A) made a complete mess of his office B) caused a lot of serious problems
C) discovered some creatures on the carpet D) revealed a lot of paper work
E) got people to give me money for nothing

21. G.B. Shaw is a prominent British playwright, who wrote several famous plays.
However, one of the plays below is not written by him. Which one?
A) “Caesar and Cleopatra” B) ”Man and Superman” C) ”Pygmalion”
D) ”Saint Joan” E) “An Ideal Husband”

22. The British are quite a sporty nation and many sports were invented in the UK.
Which of the sports below was not?
A) soccer B) tennis C) rugby
D) cricket E) boxing

23. Can you match the people below to their jobs?

1. Mary Shelley a. painter
2. JMW Turner b. writer
3. Andrew Lloyd Webber c. composer
4. Christopher Wren d. architect
5. Alexander Fleming e. scientist
A) 1b-2a-3c-4d-5e B) 1d-2c-3a-4b-5e C) 1a-2d-3b-4e-5c
D) 1c-2b-3d-4a-5e E) 1e-2b-3a-4d-5c

24. Christopher Columbus was financed by ...

A) The King of Portugal B) the Queen of Spain C) the Queen of Italy
D) American Indians E) English Catholics
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25. Which of these entertainers was not born in the UK?
A) Stan Laurel B) Alfred Hitchcock C) Oliver Hardy
D) Charlie Chaplin E) Rowan Atkinson

26. When we say “The Gunners were hammered today”, what we mean is that ...
A) There was a street fight. B) A football team was defeated.
C) The British lost a battle. D) Policemen were attacked with hammers.
E) A hunting game ended in disaster.

27. What do you call a group of lions?

A) a gang B) a pack C) a pride
D) a herd E) a flock

28.) If you told an insensitive person your dog died, they wouldn’t ...
A) turn a blind eye B) turn a hair C) turn up
D) turn away E) turn upside down

29. When someone bores you to death you say he is as dull as ...
A) ditchwater B) dust C) a knife
D) brown E) rain

30. A gentleman was much surprised when this good-looking young lady greeted him
by saying 'Good evening.' He could not remember ever having seen her before. She
realized she had made a mistake, for she apologized, and explained: 'Oh, I’m so sorry.
When I first saw you I thought you were the father of two of my children.' She walked on
while the man remained puzzled. What he didn't know was that ...
A) she had had very many husbands.
B) she frequently suffered from lapses of memory.
C) she had very poor sight and had left her spectacles at home.
D) she was a school teacher.
E) he was having a dream.

31. Match the two parts of the following phrases:

1. odds a. parcel
2. part b. ruin
3. rack c. sweet
4. whys d. ends
5. short e. wherefores
A)1d-2a-3b-4e-5c B)1c-2b-3d-4a-5e C)1a-2c-3e-4b-5d
D)1b-2e-3a-4c-5d E)1e-2d-3b-4a-5c

32. Which pair doesn’t match?

A) son – daughter B) uncle – aunt C) groom - bride
D) artist – actress E) lord – lady

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33. "How did you get the essay finished? Yesterday you hadn't even started it. You
must have been burning the midnight oil." What does the proverb in italics mean?
A) You must have been oiling the wheels.
B) You must have been using all the cooking oil you had in the house.
C) You must have been spilling oil all over the place.
D) You must have been studying by candle light.
E) You must have been studying late into the night.

34. Choose the correct series:

“It was so cold where we were,” ... the Arctic explorer, “that the candle ... and we
couldn’t ... it out.”
“That’s nothing,” said his rival. “Where we were the words ... out of our mouths in
pieces of ice, and we had ... them to see what we were talking about.”
A) boasted / frozen / blow / came / to fry
B) boasted / froze / blew / came / to fry
C) has boasted / froze / blow / came / to fry
D) boasted / is freezing / blow / came / to fry
E) boasted / froze / blow / came / to fry

35. “Nothing in the world can take the place of ... Talent will not; nothing is more
common than unsuccessful men of ... Genius will not; the world is full of educated
derelicts. Persistence and ... alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on ‘ has solved
and always will solve the problems of the human ... “ (Calvin Coolidge)
Choose the correct series:
A) persistance / talent / determination / kind
B) persistence / talents / deterrmination / race
C) persistence / talent / determination / race
D) persistance / talent / deetermination / race
E) persistense / talent / dettermination / race

36. A Londoner shared a railway compartment with an elderly Scot. At each stop the
old man rushed out, ran down the platform, then rushed back, breathless. The curious
Englishman finally asked why. “Well,” said the Scot, “I have just seen a specialist in
London about my heart. He says I might drop dead any time, so I am just booking
from station to station.”
The joke points to the Scot's ...
A) thriftiness B) good physical shape C) curiosity
D) restlessness E) heartlessness

37. Son: Daddy dear, what is an actor?

Daddy: An actor is a person who can walk to the side of a stage, peer into the wings
filled with theatrical props, dirt, dust and other actors, and say: ‘What a lovely view
there is from this window.’
This joke is about:
A) actors who have eye problems B) a bad script
C) the power of the imagination D) a theatre hall with too many windows
E) distracted actors

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38. Choose the correct series:
A man at the theatre was sitting behind two women whose continuous chatter
became more than he could ... Leaning forward, he ... one of them on the
shoulder .
'Pardon me, madam,' he said, 'but I can’t hear.'
'You’re not supposed to – this is a private conversation,' she ... back.
A) bear / tapped / hit B) bore / tapped / hit C) bear / tapped / explained
D) bear / knocked / explained E) bear / hit / said

39. Here’s a question for you to fill in:”Why is the man who invests all your money
called a(n) ...?”
A) investor B) dealer C) broker
D) agent E) trader

40. What is the correct sequence of the sentence linkers in the text?
a)..., I don’t think Adam is very good at his job. 1. Furthermore
b)..., he is slow and not very creative. 2. To be more specific
c)..., he believes that he is the backbone of the company. 3. Yet
d)..., I don’t dare to challenge him because 4. Otherwise
of his close friendship with the manager.
e)..., I would not have a problem telling him a thing or two. 5. To tell you the truth

A) a5-b2-c1-d3-e4 B) a2-b1-c3-d4-e5 C) a4-b5-c1-d3-e2

D) a2-b5-c4-d1-e3 E) a1-b3-c5-d2-e4