Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Inovării

Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

SUBIECTUL II (30 de puncte) Varianta 061

1. Choose the correct form. Give your answer on your exam sheet. 4 points

1. A recent ... of a language learning magazine has consulted a number of experts.

A. issue B. printing C. version D. volume
2. Their advice may prove invaluable for those ... a language course.
A. wondering B. thinking C. looking D. considering
3. One suggestion is that you ... whether you are likely to be successful at learning a language.
A. assess B. review C. balance D. survey
4. Therefore you must make sure that the course on offer leads to a ... qualification.
A. recognised B. understood C. valued D. regarded

2. Use the word in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the
same line. 6 points
A symbol is a word or even a picture that may be familiar in (1)…life, DAY
but possesses specific connotations over and above its standard and obvious
meaning. It points to something vague or (2)…, something which is MYSTERY
normally hidden from us or may even be quite (3)…. COMPREHEND

3. Fill in each blank with one word suitable in the context.

And now on The Crime Programme an update on another unsolved crime, the armed robbery
of the jewellery warehouse in London which we reported on six months ago. Police are anxious to
establish the identity of a man, believed to (1)… one of the gang members, (2)… purchased a
green lorry in March of last year, six months before the robbery, from a garage in Brentwood. The
garage’s suspicions were aroused (3) …the man paid in cash for the lorry, and then registered it
under a false company name. Significantly, the notes were handed (4)… in mixed denominations.
As police explained to us, one would normally (5)… a large wad of banknotes to (6)… been
obtained from a bank, in (7)… case the notes would all be neatly arranged in piles of the same
denomination.
(8)… short, the man may have paid for the lorry with money from a previous robbery.(9)… looked
again at video evidence of the robbery, police now know that the lorry was (10)… to block the
entrance of the warehouse, stopping any other vehicles from entering, so that the robbery could be
carried out more easily.

4. Each of the following sentences contains one error. Write the correct sentences on your
exam sheet. 6 points

1. A new cinema should have been discussed and debated for seven or eight years before it
finally happened, so it’s great to actually be here and see it.
2. I would have known I’d be working on the opening night! I’d have loved to see all the
celebrities!
3. No sooner had we arrived when the computer in the box office broke down, so I hope that’s
not going to be typical.
4. Very often are there problems in the first few days with a new cinema, but I’ve seen nothing
yet.
5. Little understand people just how difficult it must be to run a ten-screen cinema successfully.
6. I’m really do hope they succeed, because I’ve seen some great films here already.

5. Rewrite each sentence so that it contains the word given and that the meaning stays the
same. Do not change the word given. 4 points

1. Telling John to do anything is pointless, because he just does what he wants.

use
John likes to do his own………what to do.
 Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Inovării
Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

2. Micky said he was ill as he didn’t want to go to school.

be
Micky pretended………wouldn’t have to go to school.
3. Regrettably, Kate couldn’t cycle to work any more when she moved to London.
missed
Kate……… cycle to work when she moved to London.
4. I have seen all of his films except Look Back.
only
Look Back is……… I haven’t seen.