Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării, Tineretului şi Sportului

Centrul Naţional de Evaluare si Examinare

TEST DE EVALUARE INIŢIALĂ
Anul şcolar 2011-2012
Limba engleză
Clasa a XIII-a

Numele si prenumele elevului:

Data susţinerii testului:

Pentru rezolvarea corectă a tuturor cerinţelor din Partea I şi din Partea a II-a se acordă 90 de puncte.
Din oficiu se acordă 10 puncte.
Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 45 de minute.

PARTEA I 60p

I. 1. Read the text below and complete the following tasks. Write all your answers on the Answer Sheet.

In 1849 the German immigrant, Levi Strauss, who was only twenty/four, arrived in San Francisco.
Strauss used to sell cloth to a tailor in Nevada- Jacob Davis. He made clothes for the gold miners and railway
workers, but it was hot in California, so woolen trousers were no good. Davis used to make most of his trousers
from denim. This was made of cotton and it was very strong, but it was also soft and comfortable. People called
it ‘denim’, because it originally came from Nîmes, in France. ‚De Nîmes’ means ‚from Nîmes’. However, Davis
decided to make them stronger. He used copper rivets on the pockets and other places.It worked and other
tailors started to do the same thing. Davis wanted to protect his idea, but he didn’t have enough money for a
patent. So Levi paid $68 for the patent and they became business parteners. Their blue jeans were so popular
that Strauss soon had to build a factory to produce them.
For the next hundred years people only wore jeans as work clothes. But then in the 1950s, film stars, like
James Dean, and pop stars, like Elvis Presley, wore them and they became very fashionable. Teengers loved
them because their parents didn’t use to wear them. Today, jeans come in all kinds of styles and colours.