SUBIECT PROPUS

Olimpiada de limba engleza faza judeteana

Clasa a Ix-a

I. Subject I (50 points)

Write a narrative essay ending with: The next day I told my professor what
had happened, and to my surprise his eyes filled with tears. <The man
youve described was my father>, he mumbled. <He died at that place
twenty years ago.>
Write your story in 250 words.

Subject II (25 points)

Youve just change your mind regarding the holiday you had planned with your best
friend. Write a letter and explain her/him the situation. Use between 120 and 150
words. Sign your letter as John/Johanna.

Subject III (25 points)

A. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense. (10 points)
I (1).................(write) to thank you for coming to our wedding last month. I hope you
enjoyed yourselves. Sheila and I (2).........................(just/return) from our
honeymoon in Kenya and (3)................... (now/look forward to) starting our new life
together. We (4).......................(just/move) into our new house and since our
honeymoon we (5).........................(spend) all our free time decorating. The house
(6)............................(actually/begin) to feel like home now and we
(7).........................(gradually/settle) into a routine. We (8)..........................(have)
breakfast together in the morning, but then we (9)....................................(not/see)
each other until late in the evening. I hope both of you (10)............................(be)
well since we last saw you.
B. Use the words in capitals at the end of each sentence to form another
word that fits in
each blank space. (5 points)
A British man was convicted and sentenced to twenty years
(1)...........................................(PRISON) yesterday after a court in the northern city
of Moyale in Kenya found him (2)....................................(guilt) of trying to smuggle
ivory tusks into Kenya. David Murray, who is (3)..............................(employ) and a

father of a young boy, was arrested last September on the Kenyan-Ethiopian border
after special police (4)................................(INVESTIGATE) discovered the tusks in his
car. A court spokesman said that Murray, a (5)................................(RESIDE) of
Manchester in England, told the court that he had been hired to deliver the car from
England to Ethiopia.

C. Rewrite each sentence so that it contains the word given in capitals,

and so that the
meaning stays the same. The word cant be changed in any way. (10
points)
1. I wish I knew the owner of this car.

WHOSE

.
2. His father would disappear for days.

HABIT

...
3. We went to seaside every summer when I was a child.

WOULD

..
4. Learning Chinese isnt so difficult for me now.

GETTING

.
5. Our part of town has a serious crime problem.

NEIGHBOURHOOD

TOTAL
PUNCTE
TOATE SUBIECTELE SUNT OBLIGATORII.TIMP DE LUCRU 3 ORE. NU SE
ACORD PUNCTE DIN OFICIU

100