Інтелектуальний марафон 10-11
1. Match the phrasal verb to its synonym: Can you come round tonight?
а) to visit someone’s home; b) to survive a difficult event or period of time; c) to reach a particular level;
d) to move in circles.
2. Match the word to its dictionary definition: breakthrough:
а) something you do, that makes you fail; b) a sudden appearance of something (usually bad); c) an
important discovery; d) a road round a town
3. Fill in the gap with the appropriate form of the verb: He didn't mind … to the store from time to
time. а) going; c) go; b) to go; d) gone.
4. Complete the sentence. Use an appropriate word-combination: We tried to keep the party a
secret, but someone … .
а) let the cat out of the bag; c) laughed your head off; b) kept a straight face; d) told a funny story.
5. Complete the following sentence: The Tower of London is a…. now.
а) fortress; c) state prison; b) palace; d) museum.
6. Match the idiom to its dictionary definition: Artificial intelligence:
а) the use of computers to organize and store information; b) a program that you use to look for particular
information on the Internet; c) the ability of computers and robots to do things without humans; d) the
energy produced by some elements.
7. Match the tense – definition to the appropriate sentence: Events that follow one another in
immediate succession:
а) He`d seen the film before we invited him to join us in going to the cinema. b) She lay back in her chair,
closed her eyes tightly and nervously and fell asleep. c) When at school, she was planning to study
Physics. d) He`s been travelling a lot recently.
8. Fill in the gap with the appropriate word-combination: I thought Mark would be glad to help me,
but he gave me … at last night's party.
а) hot shoulder; c) сool shoulder; b) cold shoulder; d) warm shoulder.
9. Complete the following sentence: Ray Bradbury… .
а) was the first man to think of the nuclear bomb. b) thought of the formula: e = mc2 . c) was an
American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer. d) tried to decode the human
genome.
10. When you are acting dishonestly or unfairly in order to get an advantage during a test or exam,
you are: а) cheating; c) boosting; b) reckoning; d) prying.
11. Choose a line in which the idiom is used correctly:
а) He is so sentimental. He wears trousers in our company. b) It seems like their relationship become
worse every day. He is the apple of her eye. c) Today is really sunny, it rains cats and dogs. d) My
brother is the black sheep in our family, he’s always in trouble.
12. If you have a good memory, you can … a big poem easily.
а) revise; c) learn by hard; b) memorise; d) repeat.
13. The sentence «You don’t have to snap my head off» is formed by some stylistic device. Which
one? а) metaphor; b) simile; c) litotes; d) hyperbole.
14. Choose the line with the right order of inventions which correspond to the inventors (in the
suggested sequence).
Inventors: Serhii Koroliov, A. G. Bell, Yevhen Paton,J. L. Baird, Bill Gates:
а) X-rays, telephone, artificial satellite, electric welding, telephone; b) Microsoft-Dos, telephone,
television, electric welding, artificial satellite; c) artificial satellite, telephone, electric welding, television,
Microsoft-Dos; d) Microsoft-Dos, telephone, artificial satellite, television, electric welding.
15. Choose the right definition of this description: «when a person experiences worry, unease, or
nervousness, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome»: а) delightful;
b) anxious; c) abandoned; d) confused.
