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 normal – L2

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

• Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 3 ore.

SUBIECTUL I (30 puncte) Varianta 082

Read the text below and complete the following tasks.

Taking her inspiration from nature’s ingenuity, Janine Benyus helped launch a design revolution.
… (1) 3.8 billion years of evolution have exposed the design flaws of roughly 99% of nature’s
creations –all recalled by the Manufacturer…(2) For example, nature’s design has led to the
creation of bat-inspired ultrasonic canes for the blind, synthetic sheets that collect water from mist
and fog as desert beetles do …(3) The underwater glue mimics the natural substance used by
mussels. … (4) Bio-mimicry learns and emulates how spiders make silk; biotechnology transplants
spiders’ silk-making genes into goats, then sorts silk from milk and hopes the genes don’t get loose.
Biotechnology is smart kids in an oil depot with matches. Biotechnology is pure hubris; bio mimicry
is luminous humility-treating nature as model and mentor; cherished not as a mine to be stripped of
its resources but as a teacher.
Steering this design revolution is a gentle, funny, lovely lady.
By revealing which organism knows how to solve design problems she is starting to help the world.
This will change your life. And it may save the world.

1. Four sentences have been removed from the text. Select the appropriate sentence for
each gap in the text. There is one extra sentence that does not fit. 4 points
A. Equally promising, we’ll soon make solar cells like leaves.
B. She draws her design inspiration from nature’s wisdom, not people’s cleverness.
C. Maybe we’ll get as smart as forests.
D. The 1% that have survived can teach powerful lessons about how things should be built
if they are to last.
E. Bio-mimicry is one of the wonders of the human brain.

2. Who/What do the words in bold refer to? 6 points

3. Give the antonyms of the following words. 10 points

A. cleverness
B. powerful
C. genius
D. loose
E. survive

4. Answer the following questions. 6 points

A. Who is the founder of bio-mimicry thought to be?
B. What is the main device that biotechnology operates with?
C. Which is the main purpose of bio-mimicry?

5. Comment on the following sentence: Bio-technology is smart kids in an oil depot with
matches; bio mimicry is wise adults in a rain forest with flashlights. (50 words) 4 points