INSPECTORATUL ȘCOLAR JUDEȚEAN CLUJ
OLIMPIADA DE LIMBA ENGLEZĂ
ETAPA LOCALĂ
8 FEBRUARIE 2025
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Clasa a VIII-a
● Toate subiectele sunt obligatorii
● Nu se acordă puncte din oficiu
● Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 2 ore
SUBIECTUL A - USE OF ENGLISH (50 points)
1. Fill in the blanks with the correct verb forms: (10x2 points = 20 points)
1. How often …… (your parents/ give/ usually) you pocket money?
2. She saw an amazing silk scarf while she …… (shop) for a present for her Dad.
3. Where …… (Mike/ go) for his holiday last year?
4. I can’t play basketball at the moment. I …… (break) a bone in my foot.
5. Grandpa …… (dig) in the garden for two hours now, let’s call him inside!
6. …… (the children/ wake up) yet?
7. All that money …….. (donate) by a secret organisation last year.
8. When I got home I realised I …. (forget) my jacket at school.
9. If I ……….. (find) some money in the street, I’d keep it.
10. I can’t talk right now. I …… (cook) dinner.
2. Use the word in bold given at the end of each sentence to form a new word that fills in
the gap: (5x2 points = 10 points)
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1. Why are cats such ….. animals? PLAY
2. In his youth my dad was a ….. . He worked on a big ship for two years. SAIL
3. I can’t stand ….. people, who always tell lies to everyone. HONEST
4. You could ….. improve your music skills with regular practice. EASY
5. The police have no ….. of the suspect's identity. KNOW
3. Read the following text, find the mistake in each line and correct it: (10x2 points = 20
points)
Last weekend, I went to a small village with my family. My father has booked us a house 0…
near a river with an amazing view. It was all so green, clean and fresh than I suddenly 1…
felt happy and relaxed. When we arrived, I saw some sheeps grazing in the fields. 2…
They were so cute! My sister, who loves animals, made a lot of pictures. 3…
The house itself was very nice and the lady who was looking for it was really friendly and 4…
helpful. My brother, who is fond on fishing, was a bit disappointed not to find a fishing 5…
rod around. Still, we were happy because the weather was better then we expected, so we 6…
took our host’s advices and started exploring the forest nearby. It was not very far, only 7…
about a hour’s walk from the house but the trail was very poorly marked. We walked 8…
carefully but my mother still tripped over a branch. Lucky, nothing bad happened. 9…
Eventually, we arrived to the forest, which was amazing and it was all worth it. 10 ...
Example: 0. has booked – had booked
SUBIECTUL B - INTEGRATED SKILLS (50 points)
1. Read the text and solve the following tasks:
Mark Charles: Extreme Weather Photographer
1. ____________
Mark Charles is a storm chaser and a weather photographer. During his career, he’s taken photos
of all kinds of amazing weather, including tornadoes, thunderstorms and hurricanes. His photos
have appeared in many scientific magazines.
2. _____________
Mark has also successfully appeared in documentaries on American TV to discuss severe weather,
storm chasing and global warming. He’s an energetic and keen speaker. He’s written fascinating
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articles about our changing weather and is the author of a very popular blog about extreme weather
and several books. So how did Mark begin his career?
3._____________
Mark grew up in Wisconsin in the USA, where ice storms, blizzards, floods and tornadoes are
common. When he was six years old, he saw his first hurricane at close hand and he never forgot
the experience. A few years later, his mother bought him a camera. Mark was more interested in
recording the sound effects of weather than taking photographs. He used to spend hours recording
sound outdoors. He did it as a hobby when he was a little boy, but he soon became very interested
in extreme weather. He has journals with notes and some pictures that he collected. He discovered
how some weather factors interacted and when you could expect to have a thunderstorm or ice
storms. He was just an observer but that was enough to teach him quite a lot about the world around
him.
4._______________
When he was a teenager, he used to read about all sorts of extreme weather events in the
newspaper and he sometimes went to the library to look for scientific magazines on specific topics.
He even joined an afterschool club that organized trips to observe weather patterns.
5. ______________
Mark studied journalism, not photography, at university and began his career as a writer working
on local newspapers. He was good at his job and he never regretted that he’d become a journalist,
but he kept his childhood interest in storms and when, in his late twenties, he saw an advert for a
storm-chasing holiday in Tornado Alley, he joined the group and took his camera with him.
Eventually, Mark’s photography took over from journalism and he became the artist he is today.
a) find the suitable heading for each paragraph. There are two options you do not need
to use: (5 X 2 points = 10 points)
A. Time for some research
B. A picture is worth a thousand words
C. He’s seen it all
D. When science meets art
E. Don’t keep it to yourself
F. It’s not for everyone
G. How it all started
b) choose the correct option according to the text: (5X 3 points = 15 points)
1 What does the writer say about Mark’s photos?
A They show a lot of incredible weather conditions.
B They have been published in many important books.
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C They have been the subject of several popular documentaries.
D They have changed a surprising amount over time.
2 What does the writer say about Mark?
A He can’t share his knowledge about extreme weather on the Internet.
B He’s good at talking about weather.
C He dislikes writing about extreme weather events.
D He isn’t keen on appearing in the media.
3 What do we learn about Mark’s childhood?
A He enjoyed taking photographs of hurricanes.
B He became interested in extreme weather.
C He was afraid of severe storms.
D He got hurt during a hurricane.
4 What does the writer say about Mark’s early career?
A He wished he had studied photography at university.
B He was good at writing about the news.
C He took excellent photographs of local events.
D He was better at art than at journalism.
5 What is the writer’s main aim in writing the text?
A to give advice on becoming a photographer
B to encourage people to take up photography
C to describe the career of one photographer
D to explain how to take photos of extreme weather
2. Write a narrative composition ending like this: After all, in spite of everything, the day
had not been that bad!
Write your story in 150-180 words and give it an appropriate title. (25 points)
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