Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Tineretului

Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

Examenul de bacalaureat 2008
Proba E/F
Proba scrisă la Limba engleză
L3 – Minorităţi

• Toate subiectele sunt obligatorii. Se acordă 10 puncte din oficiu.

• Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 3 ore.

SUBIECTUL I (30 puncte) Varianta 006

Read the text below and complete the following tasks.

Shakira was sick of being a celebrity. Colombia's successful singer-songwriter had just come
off her "Oral Fixation" tour earlier this year, taking her to 140 cities on five continents to perform for
2.5 million fans. But even stardom can be a drag.
So she put away her sparkling gowns and hip-hugging pants, her jeans and sneakers, tucked
her famous shock of dyed hair under a cap and went undercover as a summer student at the
University of California, Los Angeles. She enrolled in a history of Western civilization course under
her middle and last names, Isabel Mebarak, telling classmates she was just visiting from Colombia.
"Oh, it was great for me," Shakira recalls. "I felt that need to put a brake on everything, to
escape from the celebrity life and reclaim a normal life for a while. It was very healthy for me."
Her decompression from rock star to common person was not just therapeutic, it coincided
with the creative retreat she required to compose new songs for the film "Love in the Time of
Cholera" (after the novel of Nobel laureate Garcia Marquez), which opened Friday.

1. Read the text again and decide if the following sentences are true (T) or false
(F). On your exam sheet write T or F next to the letter indicating the sentence. 4 points

A. Shakira performed for 2 million fans on her tour.

B. She went to the University of California, Los Angeles, as a summer student.
C. Shakira claims the experience was quite healthy for her.
D. Garcia Marquez is a Nobel laureate.

2. Answer the following questions: 6 points

A. How many cities did Shakira’s “Oral Fixation” tour take her to?
B. Under what name did Shakira enroll in a history of Western civilization course?
C. What film did she compose new songs for?

3. Write questions to which the underlined words are the answers. 10 points

4. Find antonyms to the words written in bold. 6 points

5. Use two of the antonyms found above in sentences of your own. 4 points