Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Inovării

Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

SUBIECTUL II (30 de puncte) Varianta 066

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

1. I wish the neighbours …… making so much noise.

A. would stop B. will stop C. stopping D. stopped
2. Every worker gets an extra month’s salary as an end-of-year……..
A. bonus B. addition C. reward D. donation
3. At the scene of the disaster the Prince said some comforting words to the ……. relatives.
A. lamenting B. wailing C. complaining D. grieving
4. The soldiers walked cautiously through the ……. deserted streets.
A. obviously B. apparently C. probably D. hopefully

2. Use the words in bold to form one word that fits in the text. Write the new word on your
exam sheet. 6 points

1. It is essential that you do a minimum of …exercise. day

2. Because you are too young, you are … of how unsettling a separation can be. aware
3. Who may then experience a very real sense of …? lonely

3. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ONE word
in each gap. 10 points

The first known mention of the Italian tomato in Italy dates back to the year 1544. It was then (1)…
the herbalist Mattioli called it ‘Pomodoro’, (2)… means ‘Golden Apple’, (3)… possibly to the golden
colour of the original yellow vegetable known at that time. Tomatoes were then cultivated into
bright red varieties and (4)… to Matioli were first eaten fried in oil with salt and pepper. In 1811 the
Italian cook Filippo Re discovered that if tomatoes (5)… crushed, cooked and (6)… dried in the
sun they turned (7) … a dark red paste. This was an ideal (8) … of preserving the tomato
throughout the year, allowing (9) … preparation of many dishes such as sauces and stews.
Around the 1840’s (10)… product started to be commercialized.

4. Most of the following lines contain an extra word. Write the extra word on your exam
sheet. Put a tick to the numbers indicating a correct line. 6 points

He was offered to parts in films and attractive jobs in business 1 ____________

but he was more interested in seeing round the world and he 2 ____________
took up a position in India. He forgot about sport for a while but 3____________
then someone reminded him about that the Olympics were taking 4____________
place soon in four months’ time. He decided to have a go and went 5____________
to Los Angeles, where he represented for Ireland in the 400 metres 6____________
hurdles.

5. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it has a similar meaning to the
sentence printed before it. 4 points

1. Despite Jack’s strange clothes, everybody ignored him.

Nobody took………………………………………
2. Whenever he passed the prison, Bernard remembered the years he had spent there.
Brenda couldn’t………………………………………
3. If you buy fifteen tickets for the same performance, you can have a 50 per cent-discount.
Provided fifteen ………………………………………
4. Our profits this year are higher than they have ever been.
Never ……………………………………………….