Task 3. Beneath each sentence you’ll find five ways of writing the underlined part. Choose the answer that makes the best sentence. Answer A is always the same as the underlined part and is sometimes the right answer. Each correct answer gives you 2 point

1. The soccer team plays exceptionally well tonight because the coach had them to practice every night this week.

A. to practice

B. has practiced

C. practiced

D. practice

E. the practice

2. Alice and Ivan used to going to the movies at the downtown mall every Saturday.

A. used to going

B. used to go

C. use to go

D. are used to go

E. were used to go

3. Mother had hoped him to answer her letter.

A. him to answer

B. that he answer

C. that he would answer

D. him answering

E. him answer

4. Having recovered from his flu, Mark now feels good enough to take care of his niece’s child again.

A. good enough

B. enough

C. enough good

D. good

E. well enough

5. We are planning to buy an apartment in New York, but we want to know what are the taxes there first.

A. what are the taxes

B. the taxes

C. what the taxes are

D. the taxes are

E. what taxes

6. Neither the dean nor the vice-president know how many candidates have sent in their applications for the new course.

A. know

B. are in the know

C. learns

D. knows

E. learn

7. Mary didn’t seem to mind that they watch TV while she was rehearsing her lines for her part in the show.

A. that they watch

B. them watching

C. their watching

D. them to watch

E. their watch

8. Since the tropical storm had been so fierce. City officials advised people living on the coast to watch the water level carefully.

A. fierce. City

B. fierce; city

C. fierce city

D. fierce; therefore, city

E. fierce, city

9. According to the local experts, the cost of the price of bus fares will increase every month.

A. the cost of the price of bus fares

B. the cost of bus fares

C. the cost of the bus

D. buses prices

E. fares

10. Although she seems at times rather mature and serious, Miriam still loves to read trashy novels, singing on a crowded bus, and to play hide-and-seek with little kids.

A. novels, singing on a crowded bus, and

B. novels, to sing on a crowded bus, and

C. novels, she sings on a crowded bus, and

D. novels to singing on a crowded bus and

E. novels; singing on a crowded bus and

Покори Воробьевы горы: варианты олимпиадных заданий 2015–2016 по английскому языку

Вариант 2 для 10–11 классов

Task 3. Beneath each sentence you’ll find five ways of writing the underlined part. Choose the answer that makes the best sentence. Answer A is always the same as the underlined part and is sometimes the right answer. Each correct answer gives you 2 point