Ministerul Educaiei, Cercetrii i Tineretului

Centrul Naional pentru Curriculum i Evaluare n nvmntul Preuniversitar

Examenul de bacalaureat 2008
Proba E/F
Proba scris la Limba Englez
L1 - Intensiv 3-4 ore

SUBIECTUL I ( 30 puncte) Varianta 024

Read the text below and complete the following tasks.

It is hard to believe that the World Wide Web did not exist 15 years ago. On November 11,
1993, the first Web Browser became available on the Internet. Think about everything that has
changed in those 10 years. No normal person had an Internet connection in 1993. Today, more
than 60 percent of U.S. households have an Internet connection. No one shopped on the Web,
(1), read the news on the Web, hooked up with dates on the Web, blogged on the Web,
participated in auctions on the Web, looked up movie trailers or reviews on the Web, traded or
purchased music on the Web, used Instant Messaging on the Web, etc. in 1993. (2) A tiny
handful of people used email in 1993. Today email is essential for both business and personal
communication, with trillions of messages sent every year. And the entire Internet Bubble came
and went on the stock market since 1993. Hundreds of billions of dollars were invested and lost in
new Internet companies. (3)
That pace of change seems fast, and it is, but it is not unusual in America. Even 100 years
ago things could change very quickly. The first model T Ford, for example, was sold in the 1909,
and in that first year only 10,000 were manufactured. By 1912 there were 3,500 Ford dealers
selling 300,000 cars per year. (4), Ford was selling 2 million cars per year and there were over
100 companies competing with Ford. Even a century ago, a popular idea could catch on and
spread very quickly.
(The Pace of Change)

1. Four sentences/groups of words have been removed from the text. Select the
appropriate sentence/group of words for each gap in the text. There is one extra
sentence/group of words which you do not need to use. 4 points

A. A few years later
B. Today these activities are taken completely for granted.
C. and computers can do anything
D. bought tickets on the Web
E. All in 15 years

2. Give the antonyms of the underlined words. 6 points

3. Sum up the text in about 50 words. 10 points

4. For the following questions, choose the answer (A, B, C, D) which fits according to the
text. 6 points

1. When did the first Web Browser become available?
A. in 1994 B. in 1995 C. in 1993 D. in 1996

2. All the changes happened in
A. 10 years. B. 13 years. C. 15 years. D. 20 years.

3. When was the first model T Ford sold?

A. in 1912 B. in 1993 C. in 1909 D. in 1920

Ministerul Educaiei, Cercetrii i Tineretului
Centrul Naional pentru Curriculum i Evaluare n nvmntul Preuniversitar


5. Comment on the following statement: Nowadays email is essential for both business and
personal communication, with trillions of messages sent every year. (100 words) 4 points