OLIMPIADA DE LIMBA ENGLEZĂ

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17 februarie 2018

CLASA a XI-a SECȚIUNEA B

Key
BAREM DE EVALUARE ŞI NOTARE

SUBIECTUL A – USE OF ENGLISH (40 points)

I.A (4x 2 p. = 8 p.)

A. Western agricultural techniques dramatically differ from those in tropical regions.

B. The main shortcoming of high rainfall regions is heavy soil erosion.

C. Tropical deforestation is a significant cause of soil erosion.

D. Western-style modernization used expensive tractors instead of buffaloes – the source of

natural nutrients. Thus, the conversion showed the hidden costs of the change.

I.B (3x 2 p. = 6 p.)

1. c 2. b 3. d

I.C (3x 2 p. = 6 p.)

1. When they cut down a tropical forest, most of the nutrients leave with the timber.

2. It is only sterile soil that is left behind.

3. The hidden costs of the change were soon shown by the conversion.

II. 1. financially; 2. correspondingly; 3.repeatedly; 4. astronomical; 5. excess; 6. successful;

7. spectacular; 8. interminable; 9. bidder; 10. obscenity (10 x 1 p. =10 p.)

III. (a possible version - any other correct version is accepted) (10 p.)

After I told him what had happened to me in my first year of high school, he stared at me
and asked me, surprised:
” Don’t tell me you were a brillinat student, too.”
I looked at him for a while before I answered: was the teacher being ironic? I don’t know,
I don’t think he was... At any rate, after my first impulse to answer him by some sarcastic
sentence, I gave up saying anything. It was raining outside, the sky was grey and there
were heavy clouds up there. I rather liked this fine rain and the steps of the passers-by

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 echoing on the wet pavement. Then the ”teacher” went on with his monologue, his false
confession. I don’t really know why I called it this way. Maybe he wasn’t lying, poor man, or
he wasn’t doing so deliberately, or he was only half-lying: that is he was lying to himself
and the truth about his past life was a false one.

Subiectul B
1. C; 2. B; 3. C; 4. C; 5. A

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