MINISTERUL EDUCAȚIEI

INSPECTORATUL ȘCOLAR JUDEȚEAN IAȘI

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OLIMPIADA NAȚIONALĂ DE LIMBA ENGLEZĂ

ETAPA JUDEȚEANĂ, IAȘI, 12 MARTIE 2022
CLASA a X-a, secțiunea A (regim normal de studiu)

VARIANTA 1

▪ Toate subiectele sunt obligatorii.

▪ Nu se acordă puncte din oficiu.
▪ Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 3 ore.

SUBIECTUL A – USE OF ENGLISH (40 points)

I. Read the following text and put the verbs in brackets into the correct form. 10 points
When he got back he (1) ……….. (tell) Mum about the old lady in the shop and how she (2) ………..
(manage) to avoid (3) ……….. (go) to school when she (4) ……….. (be) a girl. As soon as he (5)
……….. (finish) he saw that he (6) ……….. (be) wiser if he had said nothing. Talking about school
had given Mum ideas.
‘If you are going to school this term I will drop by and see the headmaster. He (7) ……….. probably
(let) you (8) ……….. (start) at once.’
‘I don’t want to start at once. It is only about two weeks to the end of the term.’
‘He will wonder if you (9) ……….. (not turn up) because Dad wrote and told him you (10) ………..
(come).’

II. Use the word given in brackets to form a word that fits in each gap. 10 points
In recent years the government has been criticised for its treatment of adult (EDUCATE) (1) ………..
It has poured money into the system, but the money has all gone into schools rather than colleges.
The adult education system has been (ORGANISE) (2) ……….. several times, but the result has
been fewer colleges and less choice. Many older people had a bad experience at school and want
to have a second chance. In the old days each town had its own adult education college which
provided (QUALITY) (3) ……….. teaching and (PRICE) (4) ……….. courses. It was (EXPENSE) (5)
……….. for the government to provide this, but it made a big (DIFFER) (6) ……….. to people who
had no qualifications. Because the courses were aimed at adults, even people who had (LIKE) (7)
……….. learning at school were able to enjoy the lessons. Many even took and passed (EXAMINE)
(8) ……….. which they had previously failed. Most of the courses were (TIME) (9) ……….. or took
place in the evenings. I think it is a (NATION) (10) ……….. disgrace that we have allowed this crucial
part of our education system to become so neglected.

III. Read the following text and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits in each gap.
10 points
Psychologists (1) ……….. introversion and extroversion as highly important aspects of character.
Extroverts are lively and outgoing, while introverts are more controlled and reserved. People who
are total extroverts may be rather irritating at times as they always seem to want to be the (2) ………..
of attention, whilst introverts can seem rather dull and boring because they are so quiet. Of course,
very few people are totally extrovert or totally introvert; most fall somewhere between the two
extremes, some (3) ……….. to extroversion, others to introversion.
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The (4) ……….. to which a person is extroverted or introverted can be very relevant to a person's
(5) ............ for a particular job. Some jobs (6) ……….. people who are (7) ……….. extrovert (sales,
public relations), other jobs are more appropriate for people with a (8) ……….. to introversion
(computer programming, librarianship). For this reason, companies looking to (9) ……….. new staff
will often give applicants a psychometric test to see, amongst other things, where they lie on the
introversion-extroversion (10) ………...

1. A. regard B. think C. agree D. believe

2. A. centre B. aim C. middle D. point
3. A. approaching B. inclining C. moving D. directing
4. A. amount B. rate C. level D. extent
5. A. suitability B. competency C. adequacy D. capability
6. A. expect B. search C. require D. appeal
7. A. somehow B. somewhat C. sometimes D. somewhere
8. A. trend B. custom C. preference D. tendency
9. A. find out B. get up C. take on D. show in
10. A. scale B. category C. series D. range

IV. Translate the following text into English. 10 points

În seara aceea, când George a fost lăsat singur între lumina stelelor și valuri, cu neașteptata revelație
că Alice avea să se mărite cu altul, el luă după un timp simpla hotărâre de a o uita. Și de atunci, în
fiecare zi, ca un celebru filosof ce dorea să îşi scurteze perioada de doliu ținut după un servitor
credincios, îşi spunea sieși în esență:
- Nu uita să o uiți pe Alice.
Uneori părea că reușește; apoi, deodată, când se aștepta mai puțin, îi găsea numele abia șoptit pe
buze si părea să-i vadă ochii întâlnindu-i pe ai săi. Toate acestea îl făceau să se simtă prost și ideea
de a se trezi gelos pe un prieten îi părea pur și simplu dezgustătoare.

SUBIECTUL B – INTEGRATED SKILLS (60 points)

Read the text below and do the tasks that follow.
Anderson could not remember that he had ever been in the room before, yet every detail was as
familiar to him as if he had lived there all his life. The woman who had admitted him had asked him
to wait while she went to inform her brother who, she said, was upstairs. Anderson was expected,
she added, and would he make himself comfortable while he waited.
She left him standing in the poorly lit high-ceilinged room with the curtains half drawn to keep out the
night and the dust covers of the chairs. I know, he thought, without lifting the covers, exactly the
pattern of the brocadé on those chairs, and one of them, that one by the fireplace, has a broken
spring that digs uncomfortably into one's back when it is sat in. Without even looking, he could have
given the names of the books on the shelves, knew that the little clock on the mantelpiece was
permanently five minutes fast, and that if he pushed open the French windows, he could walk out on
to a wide lawn with rose borders and a sundial whose markings had been almost obliterated by age.
The portraits on the wall were also familiar to him, yet nameless, like faces seen in a dream. They
stared at him with sly, secret smiles, knowing and yet not known, and suddenly he was seized with
an inward panic, a terrible realization that he was no longer himself. Anderson had not come to see
over a house for sale, but he had entered another identity, that he was, in fact, someone else, a
stranger, about whose life he knew nothing yet to whom every object in that room touched some
chord of recollection.

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He stood stock still, wanting to run away, to get back to his sanity and his car, but lacking the power
to move. The door opened behind him and a small, high-pitched voice said irritably: “So you’ve come
at last. I must say you've been long enough about it.”
I. For each question decide which answer (A, B, C or D) fits best according to the text.
10 points
1. What was Anderson's first impression of the room?
A) He felt he had always wanted to live there.
B) He knew he had to live there some time.
C) He knew he had lived there before.
D He felt as if he had always lived there.

2. The woman asked Anderson to wait because

A) he was too early for his appointment.
B) she had to go and confirm his appointment.
C) her brother had told her to keep Anderson waiting.
D) her brother had to be advised of Anderson's arrival.

3. From the information given in the text, how could the room be best described?
A) gloomy and seldom used
B) dusty and seldom used
C) dark and overcrowded
D) dark with musty curtains

4. From the passage we understand that Anderson had come to the house in the
first place because
A) he was interested in buying a house.
B) he thought the house might be for sale.
C) he was looking for a house to sale.
D) he wanted to sell his own house.

5. What was the forcible sensation that struck Anderson while he was waiting in
the room? He felt
A) he had been converted.
B) he was a stranger to himself.
C) he was a displaced person.
D) he had been disembodied.

II. Read the text again and write a narrative-descriptive essay (200-220 words) about the
events that preceded/ followed the narrator’s visit to the house for sale. 50 points

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