OLIMPIADA DE LIMBA ENGLEZĂ

ETAPA JUDEȚEANĂ
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