OLIMPIADA DE LIMBA ENGLEZĂ ETAPA JUDEȚEANĂ Clasa a VII-a 18 martie 2017

SUBIECTE

I. Correct the mistakes. (10 points) 1. I use to watch a lot of TV, but now I don’t.

2. Eric is going jogging every morning before work.

3. When did Queen Victoria died?

4. Look at the notice! You needn’t eat on the train.

5. When it will stop raining, we will go to the park.

6. There is that new restaurant who I went to last month.

7. Is Ben the boy who sister you like?

8. I told you to not get dirty.

9. The novel was wrote by Hemingway.

10. Bill likes ice cream, does he?

II. Choose the right answer: (15 points) 1. Look at these scarves. ………………… one do you like best?
A. What B. Which C. That

2. The roads are slippery. Remember to drive ………………… ! A. careful B. carefuly C.

carefully

3. I was so tired that I just ………………… in bed all day yesterday. A. lied B. lay C. laid

4. ‘Do you remember what happened?’ ~ ‘No, I don’t remember ………………… .’ A. anything
B. nothing C. none

5. One of ………………… must go there in person. A. we B. our C. us

6. If it ………………… , we will go hiking this weekend. A. won’t rain B. do not rain C. doesn’t
rain

7. You have been playing tennis for almost two years, ………………… ? A. don’t you B. haven’t
you C. isn’t it

8. He ………………… skating almost every day when he was a child. A. goes B. went C. was
going

9. I haven’t seen my cousin George ………………… we were both ten years old. A. since B. when
C. as
10. Her eyes are red. I’m sure she ………………… . A. has been crying B. was crying C. have
cried

11. He will not win the competition ………………… he trains harder. A. if B. when C. unless

12. Alice is exhausted. She has been ………………… for almost two hours. A. writting B. writing
C. writeing

13. If you are late again, the teacher ………………… furious. A. will be B. are C. is

14. I’m sorry I said that. Please, ………………… angry with me! A. don’t be B. be not C. aren’t
15. That is one of ………………… songs he has ever written. A. the good B. the better C. the
best

III. Read the text and answer the following questions. (25 points)

THE LEAST SUCCESSFUL DAY TRIP

Few people have packed more into a day trip than Michael and Lilian Long from Kent
who took the ferry from their home in England to Boulogne in France in 1987. On Easter Sunday
this adventurous couple went for a short walk around the town. In no time they were
spectacularly lost and showing all the qualities of born explorers.

‘We walked and walked’, Mrs. Long recalled, ‘and the further we walked to try to get
back, the further we walked away from Boulogne’.

Unable to speak French, they felt embarrassed about asking the way, so they walked
throughout the night until finally the next morning a driver gave them a lift to a small village
they did not recognize. Here they caught a train to the wrong destination – Paris. In the French
capital they spent all their remaining money on catching what they thought was the express train
back to Boulogne. After an enjoyable trip they arrived in Luxembourg at midnight on Monday.

Two hours later police put them on the train back to Paris, but it divided and their half ended
up in Basle, an attractive medieval town in the north of Switzerland.

Having no money, they tried to find work, but without success. The railway company
offered them a free ticket back to Belfort, thinking that this was where they had come from.
Once they got off the train, our heroes hiked forty-two miles to Vesoul, hitched a lift to Paris and
then nearly boarded the train to Bonn in Germany.

Diverted just in time to the right platform, they finally reached Boulogne a week after
they had set out on their walk. They had covered a distance of almost 1,700 km without luggage,
maps or any idea of where they were. When he arrived at Dover harbour, Mr. Long said it was
the first time they had travelled abroad and that they would not be leaving England again.

1. When Mr. and Mrs. Long first got lost, why didn’t they ask the way?
2. Why did they go to Switzerland?

3. Why were they given tickets to Belfort?

4. How long was the distance they had covered?

5. Would they travel again?

IV. Write a story beginning with the following sentence: (50 points) “I’ll never forget that
day. Whenever I close my eyes …” Write 120-150 words on your answer sheet. Do not forget to
give your story a title.

Notă: Toate subiectele sunt obligatorii. Timp de lucru: 90 minute.