Школьный тур Всероссийской олимпиады по английскому языку

This text deals with …

1.  Tomorrow’s vegetables.

2.  Environment in danger.

3.  Additions to your food.

4.  Genetically modified food.

5.  Fast food.

6.  Unhealthy eating habits.

A.  Fast food and packaging come together. When you have eaten the beef burger, you throw away the packaging and somebody will then burn or bury it. This is clearly a problem. Fast food also contributes to global warming. In Brazil, 12 million acres of forest were cut down to build farms. Farmers use this land to grow soya beans and soya is given to the cows that become the beef in your beefburger. Fewer forests mean more global warming.

B Traditional methods of cooking and eating are disappearing, and are being replaced by fast food and ready-prepared meals. As a result, people today (especially children) have too much sugar, too many sweet drinks, too much white bread. This makes people’s level of blood glucose go up, causing tiredness, nervousness and headaches. Among schoolchildren it can also cause low concentration and bad behaviour.

C.  A lot of fast food contains ingredients that have been changed by scientists to be different: the tomatoes in the tomato sauce, the flour in the bread. How is it possible that you can buy a bright red tomato in Moscow, that comes from Cyprus, that is still fresh after four weeks? But the changes are not always bad. Some plants can be modified to provide more vitamin C, for example.

D.  Not many children like vegetables. It has been proved that eating vegetables in childhood helps to protect you against serious illness in later life. So yesterday chocolate-flavoured carrots went on sale in Britain as part of a campaign to encourage children to eat vegetables. The range of products also includes cheese-and-onion flavoured cauliflower, pizza-flavoured sweeetcorn, and peas that taste like chewing-gum.

E.  You should expect to find a lot of chemical ingredients in fast food. None of them are good for your health, but not all of them are bad. Chlorine is used to make bread white. Cochineal (made from dried insects) is used to make things red. However, more research is needed to find out exactly how these chemicals will affect our health in years to come.

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1. Complete the description using these relative clauses:

1. which tells the story

2. that we're going to next Saturday

3. where we cook and eat

4. whose family have all emigrated

5. which is the focal point of the room

6. which means

7. we haven't seen

8. I like best

9. who are cross and sleepy

10. where family and friends come together

My favourite room

Тhe room in our house (l) ________ is our kitchen. Perhaps the kitchen is the most important room in many houses, but it is particularly so in our house because it's not only (2) ________, but it's also the place (3) ________.

I have so many happy memories of times spent there: ordinary daily events such as making breakfast on dark, cold winter mornings for children (4) ________, before sending them off to school; or special occasions such as homecomings or cooking Christmas dinner. Whenever we have a party, peoplegravitate with their drinks to the kitchen. It always ends up the fullest and noisiest room in the house.

So what does this special room look like? It's quite big, but not huge. It's big enough to have a good-sized rectangular table in the centre, (5) ________. There is a large window above the sink, looking out onto two apple trees in the garden. There's a big, old cooking stove at one end, and at the other end a wall with a huge notice board (6) _________ of our lives, past, present, and future: a school photo of the kids; a postcard from Auntie Nancy, (7) _________ to Australia; the menu from a take-away Chinese restaurant; an invitation to a wedding (8) _________ ; a letter from a friend (9) _________ for years. All our world is there for everyone to read!

The front door is seldom used in our house, only by strangers. All our friends use the back door (10) _________ they come straight into the kitchen and joinin whatever is happening there. The kettle goes on immediately and then we all sit round the table, drinking tea and putting the world to rights! Without doubt some of the happiest times of my life have been spent in our kitchen.

1. Read the menu and the text below and decide what each person — Dan, Jenny, Kate, Tim — ate and drank.

Dan's food cost less than a pound.

Jenny doesn't eat meat or fish.

Kate's food cost more than Jenny's.

Tim doesn't like fish.

Jenny didn't have chips with her food.

Kate and Dan had the same thing to eat.

Tim's food was the most expensive on the menu.

Dan didn't have a sandwich.

The total bill for food was £4.43.

Jenny and Tim had the same drink.

Only Kate had a hot drink.

Dan had the least expensive drink.

Jenny's drink cost 25 p more than Kate's drink.

1. Dan ate ... .

1. egg and chips

2. hamburger and chips

3. sausage and chips

2.Dan drank ....

1. cup of tea

2. glass of coke

3. glass of milk

3.Jenny ate ....

1. cheese sandwich

2. ham sandwich

3. fish and chips

4.Jenny drank ... .

1. glass of lemonade

2. glass of milk

3. glass of coke

5.Kate ate ... .

1. chicken and chips

2. egg and chips

3. ham sandwich

6.Kate drank ....

1. glass of coke

2. cup of tea

3. glass of milk

7.Tim ate ... .

1. ham sandwich

2. sausage and chips

3. chicken and chips

8.Tim drank ....

1. glass of coke

2. glass of milk

3. cup of coffee

9.... paid more than others for food.

1. Dan

2. Kate

3. Tim

10.... paid less than others for a drink.

A) Dan

B) Jenny

C) Tim

Task 3. Use of English

Complete the gaps (1-6) with the correct form of the words in bold.

Task 4. Writing