Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Tineretului

Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

SUBIECTUL II ( 30 puncte) Varianta 020

1. Choose the correct answer and, on your exam sheet, write the corresponding letter next
to the number indicating each sentence. 4 points

1. I wonder if you …by plane.

A. have ever travelled B. had ever travelled C. never travelled D. didn’t travel
2. You may choose …cake. Take the one you like the better.
A. either B. all C. both D. neither
3. They started building the house two years ago and … it yet.
A. haven’t finished B. hadn’t finished C. didn’t finish D. don’t finish
4. By next Sunday, my father … a whole month without smoking a cigarette.
A. has been going B. has gone C. will go D. will have gone

2. Use the word in capitals at the end of each gapped line to form a word that fits in the
space in the same line. Write these words on your exam sheet. 6 points

1. ‘How many …have you got working for you now, Mr Warner?’ EMPLOY
2. Police are investigating the … of a five-year-old girl. APPEAR
3. Drinking too much alcohol is … to your health. HARM

3. Fill in the gaps with only one word so that the text makes sense. 10 points

I’m going to Paris at the weekend – my friend Bernard has offered to put me (1) … for a few
days. I really need a break; I haven’t been getting (2) … with my girlfriend. We fell out over (3) …
we were going to spend Christmas. Eventually I gave up, but the (4) … made us face up to the fact
that things haven’t been (5) … good between us recently.

4. Each of the following sentences contains an error. Identify the errors and write the
correct text on your exam sheet. 6 points

1. It is actual true.
2. It’s not worth to try to persuade him.
3. He will help us at the project.
4. I wondered who Paul is writing letters to.
5. Live them alone!
6. I wish there weren’t so much endangered species!

5. Rewrite the following sentences, beginning as shown, so that the meaning stays the
same. 4 points

1. Peter had a stomachache because he ate some bad eggs.

If………
2. I would prefer you to give this money back on the 1st of July.
I’d rather………
3. They have cleaned the old rooms.
The old rooms………
4. “What are you going to do with it?”
He wondered………