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EXAMENUL DE BACALAUREAT 2007

Proba scris la Limba Englez
L1 Bilingv
Varianta 39
Toate subiectele sunt obligatorii. Se acord 10 puncte din oficiu.
Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 3 ore.
SUBJECT 1

30 points

a. Read the text below and explain the five underlined words and expressions in your own
words. Write 10 words for each.
10 points
In the first place, I want to emphasize the note of interrogation at the end of my title. Even if I
could answer the question for myself, the answer would apply only to me and not to you. The only
advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your
own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between
us, then I feel at liberty to put forward a few ideas and suggestions because you will not allow them
to fetter that independence which is the most important quality that a reader can possess. After all,
what laws can be laid down about books? The battle of Waterloo was certainly fought on a certain
day; but is Hamlet a better play than Lear? Nobody can say. Each must decide that question for
himself. To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them
tell us how to read, what to read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those
sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions there we have none.
But to enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We
must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water
a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot. This, it may
be, is one of the first difficulties that faces us in a library. What is the very spot? There may well
seem to be nothing but a conglomeration and huddle of confusion. Poems and novels, histories
and memoirs, dictionaries and blue-books; books written in all languages by men and women of all
tempers, races and age jostle each other on the shelf. And outside the donkey brays, the women
gossip at the pump, the colts gallop across the fields. Where are we to begin? How are we to bring
order into the multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?
(Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book?)
b. What advice does Virginia Woolf give in the text above on how one should read a book?
How far do you agree? Write a paragraph to present and support your view. (150 words)
20 points

SUBJECT 2

30 points

a. Use the word in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in
the same line.
5 points
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

The fruit cant have gone bad. The jar was ....... sealed.
She has a ....... collection of jewels.
There has been increasing ....... on him lately.
By the time the sun went down, we realized we were ....... lost.
We thanked them for the ....... advice they had given us.

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b. Rewrite each sentence beginning as shown so that the meaning stays the same.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

10 points

As soon as I got inside, the phone rang.

No sooner ............................................ .
People say hes been in trouble with the police in the past.
Hes ................................................................................... .
They sold all the best stuff before I got there.
By the time ................................................... .
Please dont make so much noise.
Id rather ...................................... .
His teachers have warned him about his bad behaviour.
He .................................................................................. .

c. Translate into English.

15 points

M-a bucura enorm dac mi-a i citi scrisoarea. M-am gndit de mai multe ori s v scriu, dar
de fiecare dat m ab ineam pentru c -mi d deam seama c sunte i foarte ocupat i nu este cazul
s v mai r pesc i eu pu inul timp. Dar, (pentru c ntotdeauna exist un dar!) de data aceasta,
m-am hot rt. De ce? Pentru c , f r s v sup r, vreau s v spun ceva ce m-a deranjat pe
mine, ca simplu om al acestei ri.
(Iosif Sava, Poli(tico)fonii)

SUBJECT 3

30 points

Write your own version of the story that begins with the following question: Who would have
thought that that day would change my life forever? (350 word/ 35 lines)

Proba scris la Limba englez, L1 Bilingv

Varianta 39