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
L1 - Intensiv 3-4 ore

SUBIECTUL I ( 30 puncte) Varianta 009

Read the text below and complete the following tasks.

Some current evidence suggests that (1) …, and perform no adaptive role in maintaining
our psychological health. In fact, some researchers believe that (2) … - a developmental
cognitive achievement assigned to the healthy functioning of a complex neural network
located in specific areas of the forebrain.
Nevertheless, the way dreams reflect our emotional preoccupations or run parallel to our
awakened states of consciousness may explain why, throughout history, dreams have been put to
various uses. For example, in many societies dreams would be used by shamans or witch doctors
as a means to diagnose or cure illnesses, or to fend off evil spirits. (3) … In modern times dreams
have been used by psychotherapists as a means of understanding the patient's state of mind,
or (4) …. Dreams may even be used socially, as an ice-breaker, or as a way for some people to
express their fantasies. But these are emergent functions, coming about as a result of dreams
rather than causing them.

1. Four sentences have been removed from the text. Select the appropriate sentence for
each gap in the text. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. 4 points

A. dreams are merely an evolutionary bi-product of sleep combined with a gradually

awakening consciousness in human beings
B. simply to induce him or her to talk about repressed feelings
C. Occasionally, dreams would be used to predict the weather or make prophecies.
D. dreams may serve no useful psychological or physiological function
E. history proved they were right

2. Explain the underlined words. 6 points

3. Sum up the text in about 50 words. 10 points

4. Read the article again and answer the following questions. 6 points

A. Which phrase in the first paragraph implies that the ability to dream may have come about by
accident?
B. Explain in your own words why many societies believe dreams are significant.
C. What are the uses to which dreaming can be put in a modern society according to the text?

5. Comment on the following statement: In modern times dreams have been used by
psychotherapists as a means of understanding the patient's state of mind. (100 words)
4 points