Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Inovării

Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

Examenul de bacalaureat 2009

Proba E/F
Proba scrisă la Limba Engleză
L1 - Intensiv 3 - 4 ore

SUBIECTUL I ( 30 de puncte) Varianta 068

Read the text below and complete the following tasks.

Naomi lived on Mason Street, (1) … ; that was the basis of our friendship. When I first
moved to town, Naomi would wait for me in the mornings, in front of her house, which was on my
way to school.
“Why do you walk like that, Del?” she would say, “Like what?”. She would walk in a strange
weaving way, oblivious, chin in her collar. Offended I laughed.
But her criticism was proprietary; I was alarmed and elated to discover that (2) … I had not
had a friend before. It interfered with freedom and made me deceitful in some ways, but it also
extended and gave resonance to life. And we knew too much about each other (3) …
Naomi and I put our names down together to be board monitors, which meant we stayed
after school and (4) …, and took the red, white, and blue brushes outside and banged them
against the red brick wall of the school, making fan patterns of chalk. Coming in, we heard
unfamiliar music coming from the teacher’s room, Miss Farris singing.
(adapted from Alice Munro, Lives of girls and women)

1. Four sentences have been removed from the text. Select the appropriate sentence for
each gap in the text. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. 4 points

A. cleaned the blackboards

B. I lived on River Street
C. she considered we were friends.
D. to ever stop being friends, now.
E. That we were not friends

2. Give the antonyms of the underlined words. 6 points

3. Sum up the text in about 50 words. 10 points

4. For the following questions, choose the answer (A, B, C, D) which fits according to the
text. 6 points
1. What was the basis of their friendship?
A. Their feelings.
B. The fact that they were neighbours.
C. The fact that they knew too much.
D. That their names were on board monitors.
2. Whom did the two friends hear singing?
A. Their colleagues.
B. Their sister.
C. Their teacher.
D. Their brother.
3. How does the narrator describe the idea of friendship?
A. Something that gives meaning to life.
B. Something that annoys you.
C. A bothering thing.
D. Something alarming and dangerous.

5. Comment on the following statement: Friendship gives resonance to life. (100 words)
4 points