OLIMPIADA DE LIMBA ENGLEZĂ– LICEU

ETAPA LOCALĂ – 12 MARTIE 2022

CLASA a IX-a, SECȚIUNEA A
Varianta 3

SUBIECTUL A – USE OF ENGLISH (40 points)

I. Read the following text and put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense. (10 x 1p = 10p)

Sue Thomas is a fashion designer. She (1) …… (MAKE) clothes ever since she (2) …… (BE) a young girl.
She (3) ….. (GET) her first job in a clothes factory when she was sixteen. She (4)…… (SEW) buttons onto a
shirt one day when she (5) ….. (HAVE) a brilliant idea for a design. After she (6) …. (SPEAK) to her bank
manager, she got a loan and she (7) …. (OPEN) her own little workshop. Now she (8) …. (MAKE) lots of
money. Next year she (9)….. (OPEN) a shop which will sell all her own designs. She (10) … (SELL) clothes
to a lot of famous people, including film stars and singers, and she thinks she will be very rich soon.

II. Use the word given in brackets to form a word that fits in each sentence: (10 x 1p = 10p)

Sports in Japan are a significant part of (1) ____ (JAPAN) culture. Both (2) _______ (TRADITION) sports
such as sumo and martial arts, and Western imports like baseball and association football are popular with both
(3) _________ (PARTICIPATE) and spectators. Sumo wrestling is considered Japan's national sport. Baseball
was (4) _________ (INTRODUCE) to the country by visiting Americans in the 19th century. The Nippon
Professional Baseball League is Japan’s largest professional sports (5) _______ (COMPETE) in terms of
television (6) _______ (RATE) and spectators. Martial arts such as judo, karate, and modern kendo are also (7)
_______ (WIDE) practiced and enjoyed by spectators in the country. Association football has gained wide (8)
______ (POPULAR) since the founding of the Japan Professional Football League in 1992. Other popular
sports include figure skating, golf, and racing, especially auto racing. There are opportunities to play various
sports for all ages, and school plays an important role in the community. Kindergarten and lower elementary
school students can play in a sports club that can be joined (9) ______ (PRIVATE) for a moderate fee. Most
martial arts can be (10) ______ (START) as young as 4 or 5 years old.

III. Read the following text and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits in each gap:
(10 x 1p = 10p)
I was born and 1) ………. up in Norfolk. On the 2) ………., I’m near to being a fanatic about the country and all
it has to 3) ………. . Norfolk has a hundred miles of beautiful inland waterways, and, in 4) ………. a hundred
miles of unspoilt coastal scenery. 5) ………. the coast there are natural reserves 6) ………. seals, rare birds and
other wildlife thrive in profusion. Long distance footpaths 7) ………. along the whole of this coast and people
wander slowly along them peering 8) ………. binoculars. This is quite an amusing sight, though one sometimes
9) ………. for their safety near the edge of the cliffs! If you’re feeling 10) ………. Norfolk is the place for you!
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1. A. brought B. raised C. reared D. grown
2. A. opposite B. whole C. evidence D. contrary
3. A. praise B. provide C. offer D. give
4. A. addition B. fact C. reality D. places
5. A. With B. Next C. Beside D. Along
6. A. where B. with C. that D. while
7. A. almost B. accompany C. follow D. run
8. A. with B. into C. through D. by
9. A. worries B. dreads C. fears D. wonders
10. A. lowly B. worn C. weary D. heavy

IV. Translate the following text into Romanian. (10p)

“He was in the bathroom of the house that he had recently rented. For a moment he paused to look in the mirror.
The face that looked back at him was thin, middle-aged and pale. Dark hair, a high forehead and well-shaped
blue eyes. Only the mouth was unusual – narrow and quite straight. Even Ronald Torbay did not like his own
mouth.
A sound in the kitchen below worried him. Was Edyth coming up to have her bath before he had prepared it for
her? No, it was all right; she was going out of the back door.”
(Three is a Lucky Number, Margery Allingham)

SUBIECTUL B –INTEGRATED SKILLS (60 points)

Read the text below and do the tasks that follow:

There’s a popular idea that artists are not supposed to be into sports, but mountain biking is a huge part of my
life. It gets me out of my studio, and into the countryside. But more importantly, racing along as fast as you can
leaves you no time to worry about anything that’s going on in your life. You’re too busy concentrating on not
crashing. The only things you pay attention to are the pain in your legs and the rocks on the path in front of you.
I’m in the sixties now, but I started cycling when I was a kid. In the summer my friends and I would ride our
bikes into the woods and see who was brave enough to go down steep hills, or do big jumps. The bikes we had
then weren’t built for that, and often broke, so I used to draw pictures of bikes with big thick tires that would be
strong enough for what we were doing. They looked just like modern mountain bikes. However, it wasn’t until
many years later that someone actually invented one. By the 1980s, they were everywhere.
At that time I was into skateboarding. I did that for a decade until falling off on to hard surfaces started to hurt
too much. Mountain biking seemed a fairly safe way to keep fit, so I took that up instead. I made a lot of
friends, and got involved in racing, which gave me a reason to train hard. I wanted to find out just how fit and
fast I could get, which turned out to be fairly quick. I even won a couple of local races.

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In the end I stopped racing, mainly because I knew what it could mean to my career if I had a bad crash. But I
still like to do a three-hour mountain bike ride every week. And if I’m out cycling in the hills and see a rider
ahead, I have to beat them to the top.
I. For each question choose the correct letter A, B, C or D. (5 x 2p = 10p)

1. Peter enjoys mountain biking because

A. it gives him the opportunity to enjoy the views
B. he can use the time to plan his work
C. he is able to stop thinking about his problems
D. it helps him to concentrate better
2. What does Peter say about cycling during his childhood?
A. He is sorry he didn’t take more care of his bike
B. His friends always had better quality bikes than he did
C. His bike wasn’t suitable for the activities he was doing
D. He was more interested in designing bikes than riding them
3. Peter says he returned to cycling after several years
A. because he had come unfit
B. so that he could enter races
C. in order to meet new people
D. to replace an activity he had given up
4. How does Peter feel about cycling now?
A. He is proud that he is still so fast
B. He is keen to do less now than he is older
C. He regrets the fact that he can no longer compete
D. He wishes more people were involved in the sport
5. What could be a good introduction to this article?
A. For Peter Fuller, nothing matters more than mountain biking, not even his career.
B. Artist Peter Fuller takes mountain biking pretty seriously; here he describes how it all began
and what he gets out of it.
C. Peter Fuller explains how he became an artist only as a result of his interest in mountain
biking.
D. After discovering mountain biking late in his life, Peter Fuller gave up art for a while to
concentrate on cycling.

II. Nobody is perfect, everyone makes mistakes. Write a narrative essay, talking about a mistake you’ve
made and the lessons you’ve learned. (180-200 words) (50 points)

TOTAL : 100 PUNCTE

TOATE SUBIECTELE SUNT OBLIGATORII. TIMP DE LUCRU : 3 ORE.
NU SE ACORDĂ PUNCTE DIN OFICIU.

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