Model subiect olimpiada de Engleza, clasa a 11-a, faza judeteana

SUBIECTUL A – USE OF ENGLISH (40 points) 
 
I. Read the following text and fill in the blanks with ONE word only.   10 points 
 
Think teenagers, think couch potatoes eating pizzas (1)___of the box or munching 99p burgers? 
Think again because there is a new teenager in town and he is (2) ___ a chocolate-coated mission! 
Louis Barnett runs a rapidly-growing chocolate empire which counts (3)___ its customers the British 
supermarket chains Waitrose and Sainsbury’s, as well as upmarket department st ores in London, 
New York and as (4)___ away as Moscow. All (5)___ and Louis is still only eighteen. But things 
weren’t always that easy. (6) ___ an IQ of 132, Louis dropped out of school when he was only 
eleven, frustrated and disheartened. ‘It was terribly difficult for him,’ his mother Mary explains. His 
handwriting was really bad and he struggled (7) ___ spelling.’ The problem was that Louis was, in 
his own words, ‘dyslexic, dyspraxic and dyscalculic’. Nothing the school system had to offer (8) ___ 
any sense to him. So, with the help of his parents and a specialized tu tor, Louis (9) ___ about a 
vocational-based, home-study programme concentrating on the thing he loved (10) ___: chocolate.  
 
 
II. Choose the correct response A, B, C or D.  
10 points 
1. She came….already dressed….dinner and….a little red spot in….cheek. 
a. back/at/with/each 
b. in/for/of/either 
c. in/for/with/each 
d. in/at/with/either 
 
2. N-ar fi mai bine să faci ceva decât să trândăvești în pat? 
a. Shouldn’t it be better to do something instead of lying in bed? 
b. Wouldn’t it be better to do something instead of laying in bed? 
c. Wouldn’t there be better to do something instead of lying in bed? 
d. Would it be better to do something instead of lying in bed? 
 
3. She rejoiced…..she…..beautiful. 
a. having been told/was 
b to have been told/was 
c. to be told/is  
d. being told/is 
 
4. They are known….for more than half an hour and….yet. 
a.to be quarrelling/not to make up 
b.to have been quarrelling/not to have made up 
c.to have quarrelled/ to not making up 
d.to be quarrelling/to not have made up 
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5. So heavy….that no porter could carry…. 
a. were the luggage/them 
b. was the luggage /it 
c. the luggage was/it 
d. the luggages were/ them 
 
6. Why.…me that the meeting….? I .…to the office. 
a. didn’t you tell/was postponed/didn’t need to go 
b. hadn’t you told/was postponed/shouldn’t have gone 
c. didn’t you tell/was postponed/needn’t have gone 
d. didn’t you tell/will be postponed/ didn’t need to go 
 
7. She is happy now because she won her new car. If she.…her new car she…. happy now. 
a. didn’t win/wouldn’t be 
b. hadn’t won/wouldn’t be 
c. hadn’t won/wouldn’t have been 
d. wouldn’t have won/ wouldn’t be 
 
8. ….the clothes off the line before it….to rain. 
a. You’d better take/start 
b. I’d rather you take/starts 
c. I prefer you to take/ will start 
d. I’d rather you took/ starts 
 
9. Although Jack was…and.…of the two boys, he was clearly…than his…. brother. 
a. the youngest/more good-looking/more mature/older 
b. the younger/most good-looking/the most mature/elder 
c. the younger/the better-looking/more mature/elder 
d. the younger/the best-looking/the most mature/older 
 
10. Ea ar fi dorit să știe ce a mai făcut el, unde este și cum iși petrece zilele. 
a. She wishes she knew what he has been doing, where he is and how he spends his days. 
b. She wished she knew what he had been doing, where he is and how he spent his days. 
c. She wished she knew what he had been doing, where he was and how he spent his days. 
d. She wished she knew what he was doing, where he was and how he has spent his days. 
 
 
 
III. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using 
the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, 
including the word given.                                                                                              10 points 
   
1. Bob is in danger of getting sacked since his bad behaviour continued all last week.  RISK 
But for Bob’s bad behaviour which continued all last week,_____________ sacked. 
2. I’m sure Ben wasn’t pleased when Myra arrived, because he’s never liked her.        HAVE 
Ben has never liked Myra, so he_________________________ to see her arrive. 
3. When people treated Jane like a child, she didn’t like it.                                      RESENTED 
Jane ______________________________________________she was a child. 
4. They’ d hired someone to redecorate their garden a short time before I visited them. DONE 
They had just _________________________________when I visited them. 
5. George and Mary have refused to talk to each other since the argument.     TERMS 
George and Mary haven’t ________________________since the argument. 
 
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Centrul Naţional de Politici și Evaluare în Educație 
 
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IV. Translate the following text into English.      10 points 
 
Veneam în ziua aceea cu brațul plin de flori…Nu mă așteptase…Nu dorisem decât să retrăiesc 
o clipă…ceva din trecut și mă supuneam acestui demers cum primești un singur pahar de vin, știind 
că mai mult nu ai putea suporta…dar servitorul mi -a dat un bilet când am sunat.  Un plic odios, de 
un albastru pal, aproape alb. Parcă un gând otrăvit mi s-a împrăștiat în sânge și mi s-a uscat pielea.  
Nu știam ce să răspund, nici n-am citit biletul, pentru că acum conținutul lui mi-era indifferent. Mi-
era acum doar o imensă milă de bucuria mea și de florile pe care le aveam în brațe. Am regretat pe 
urmă brusc că am dat drumul trăsurii, din superstiție, căci eram atât de obosită că nu puteam merge 
pe jos. Nu știu de ce mi-era rușine să mă vadă servitoarea că aduc flori neprimite acasă și asta fară 
temei pentru că de obicei cumpăr singură flori pe care le aduc și le risipesc în vaze. 
                                                                                          (Camil Petrescu - Patul lui Procust) 
 
SUBIECTUL B – INTEGRATED SKILLS (60 points) 
 
I. Five paragraphs have been removed from the following newspaper article. Choose from 
the paragraphs A-F the one which fits each gap 1-5. There is one extra paragraph which you 
do not need to use.         (5x2=10 points) 
 
No Longer Blowing in The Wind 
Plastic bags disfigured South Africa´s landscape until a small town decided to act. 
They have been called the national flower of South Africa. Outside every city, town and village, 
hundreds of them flutter and rustle in the thorn bushes with the evening breeze. They come in red, 
green, blue and black, and even in multi -coloured stripes. P lastic bags. Lots of them. For South 
Africa consumes eight billion per year, or nearly two hundred for every man, woman and child in the 
country. But the country is not uniquely cursed. From the deserts of Yemen to the mangrove swamps 
of Thailand, the disc arded plastic supermarket bag disfigures the landscape of much of the 
developing world. 
1. [……………….] 
‘Our town was filthy’, says Sheila Joseph whose family has run the local general store for ninety 
years. ‘Our park looked as though there had been a snowstorm every weekend. It was littered with 
plastic bags and rubbish. We had lots of clean-up campaigns, but they didn’t work. After two or three 
weeks, the town was filthy again’. 
2. […………………] 
There are so many plastic bags blowing around the Northern Cape that a job-creation project in the 
provincial capital employs 38 peoples to wash discarded bags, cut them into strips and knit them 
together into brightly-coloured hats, carpets, doormats, bags and even picture frames for sale.  
3. […………………] 
‘The biggest businesses have been with us from the start, and haven’t given a plastic bag out since´, 
says the polite but steely Joseph, whose advice is now eagerly sought by other litter-strewn towns 
across South Africa. ‘Within two weeks, our park was clean. It’s definitely brought the community of 
Douglas together’. 
4. [………………….] 
As a representative explained: ‘We all want Douglas clean, but I will give a plastic bag instead of 
talking about it for ten minutes if a customer moans’. But if the government has its way, the store 
and others like it across the country may soon be banned from handing out the bags. 
5. […………………..] 
Plastic manufacturers and retailers have reacted to the plans with predictable outrage. They warn 
that thousands of people would lose their jobs and that the new rules are likely to be unenforceable 
as importers would almost certainly ignore them. They poi nted out that old -fashioned heavy-duty 
bags use more plastic, not less. Consumers, they insisted, would be greatly inconvenienced. “It 
won’t work”, said a spokesperson. ”The problem is not the plastic bags, the problem is litter, it’s a 
question of attitude!” 
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A. She blamed the mess on the thin bags handed out free to shoppers. Douglas’s 15,000 
residents did not like the litter. Nor did the tourists who came to see the confluence of the 
Vaal and Orange, two of southern Africa’s greatest rivers. Farmers were unhappy  too, 
Livestock sometimes ate the bags and died. 
B. Someone, of course, had to spoil the party. At the small Orange Vall store down the road 
from Joseph’s, they’re still giving out free plastic bags to customers who want them, 
although demand has halved since the campaign began. 
C. First inspired by the people of Douglas, they are equally passionate in their hatred of the 
bags. They nonetheless remain somewhat skeptical about the practicalities of such a 
solution. 
D. South Africans, however, have decided to do something. And it was the hitherto 
unremarkable town of Douglas in the arid Northern Cape region that took the lead. 
E. The argument put forward by the authorities is that thicker bags would not only be used 
again and again, but would also be easier to collect and recycle. Supply of bags with a 
thickness of less than 80 microns (a micron is a millionth of a meter) is theref ore likely to 
be outlawed. 
F. So it was that the people of Douglas, rejoicing in the slogan ‘Fantastic-no plastic’ came to 
ceremonially execute an effigy made up from old plastic bags by the project staff. Since 
then, shoppers bring their own, reusable baskets and bags, including those  made from 
locally recycled plastic. 
 
II. As representative of the students’ council in your school, the principal has asked you to 
write a report to assess young people’s awareness of the importance of recycling and to 
make suggestions of environmental activities schools can organise to involve students.   
 
Write your report in 220-250 words, starting from the text above.    50 points