Покори Воробьевы горы: варианты олимпиадных заданий 2016–2017 по английскому языку

6. C

C. Minnie’s daughter

At the meat counter, Minnie was even more impressed. She examined carefully all the meat behind the glass, and then asked the butcher to cut some fillet mignon. Mariana couldn’t ever recall her mother order that, and she noticed it was the most expansive meat. She thought she understood why she ordered it.

On the way back to East Los Angeles, Mariana sensed her mother felt defensive and perhaps a little offended …

7. E

A. at a store that is not in Mariana’s neighborhood

Mrs. Jameson laughed a little. “It’s worth driving over here, isn’t it?” she said. “We used to live not far from here. That’s how I happen to know about it.” But Mariana suspected this store was not unique, that in gringo neighborhoods everything was a little better.

8. B

B. She wanted to impress Mrs. Jameson.

At the meat counter, Minnie was even more impressed. She examined carefully all the meat behind the glass, and then asked the butcher to cut some fillet mignon. Mariana couldn’t ever recall her mother order that, and she noticed it was the most expansive meat. She thought she understood why she ordered it.

On the way back to East Los Angeles, Mariana sensed her mother felt defensive and perhaps a little offended because the gringa had shown her a better way to do something, had shown that shopping near home was not good enough for someone with taste.

9. C

C. Mrs. Jameson had shown her that the way she usually shopped was not good enough.

On the way back to East Los Angeles, Mariana sensed her mother felt defensive and perhaps a little offended because the gringa had shown her a better way to do something, had shown that shopping near home was not good enough for someone with taste.

10. F (FALSE)

Fans of the popular children’s book series Harry Potter know that J.K. Rowling’s own story is very similar to Harry’s.

Fans of the popular children’s book series Harry Potter know that J.K. Rowling’s own story reads a bit like a fairy tale. В тексте жизнь писательницы никоим образом не сравнивается с жизнью Гарри.

11. F (FALSE)

The author had to take a pen-name because the boys wouldn’t read the book written by a woman.

Jo’s first publisher in the UK was afraid that boys would not want to read about Harry Potter if they knew it had been written by a woman, so they encouraged her to use her initials.

В тексте говорится, что издатель автора опасался такого поворота событий (что мальчики вообще, а не конкретные, могут не захотеть читать книгу, написанную женщиной), поэтому автору предложили использовать инициалы вместо полного имени. В задании же формулируется, что автор была вынуждена взять псевдоним из-за уверенности в том, что мальчики явно не будут читать книгу, написанную женщиной.

12. T
(TRUE)

When Jo divorced, she lived on state benefits in Edinburg.

Jo was in the midst of writing Harry Potter at this point, and she found herself divorced and living on public assistance in a tiny tenement flat.

Public assistance = Government help to the poor, disabled, or aged or dependant children, as financial assistance or food stamps.

State benefits = are sums of money paid by the Government to people in certain circumstances to meet their day to day living needs.

13. F (FALSE)

Jo loved writing in cafes while her daughter was asleep.

With a baby to take care of, she could only work when her daughter was asleep, so she would push the child through Edinburgh in her carriage and dash into a café to write for an hour while the infant napped.

В тексте отсутствует информация о том, что автору нравилось писать в кафе.

14. F (FALSE)

Each edition of the book is different depending on the country it is published in.

Harry Potter has been translated into more than a dozen languages, gaining fans among young people all over the world. Even the US edition has been localized. When fried potatoes appear at feasts at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, they have gone from “chips” to “fries”, for example.

В тексте отсутствует информация, заложенная в задании, что каждое национальное издание книги отличается от оригинала.

15. F (FALSE)

Many people love the idea that a child can literally and metaphorically run away from the world of adults.

“The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.” Based on the tremendous number of copies sold, the Harry Potter concept appeals to many people.

У предложений разное смысловое членение: сегмент literally and metaphorically в тексте определяет силу, как минимум, а в задании оно относится исключительно к сбежать. Таким образом, тезис, что многим людям нравится мысль, что ребёнок может сбежать в прямом и переносном смысле из мира взрослых, является лишь частичной правдой, т.е. он неверен.