Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Inovării

Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

SUBIECTUL II (30 de puncte) Varianta 065

1. Choose the correct form. Give your answer on your exam sheet. 4 points

1. How voters will react to this latest political scandal …… to be seen.

A. is B. remains C. has D. waits
2. The minister made no …… of any further negotiations.
A. mention B. comment C. indication D. remark
3. The forecasters take a gloomy …… of the economic future.
A. regard B. aspect C. view D. outlook
4. You’d rather speak to him yourself,……..?
A. hadn’t you B. didn’t you C. wouldn’t you D. won’t you

2. Use the words in bold to form one word that fits in the text. Write the new word on your
exam sheet. 6 points

1. It is sad spending long miserable hours … jogging for miles in the rain every day. happy
2. It seems that it is not … the most useful, but it is beautiful. necessity
3. There is less …. of happy people showing strong feelings and dependency. likely

3. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in
each gap. 10 points

Imprinting is a learning mechanism which occurs early in the life of certain animals. (1)… is
through this process that they develop a positive attachment (2)… members of their own species.
No (3)… do young birds hatch than they must learn to recognise their mother in (4)… to be able to
follow and keep close to her for their own safety. (5)… this process go wrong, newly-hatched
chicks (6)… the risk of becoming lost, and may (7)… to harm. (8)… that they possess a high level
of mobility, it would be difficult for the mother to keep the chicks together (9)… the assistance of
imprinting. The process can take literally (10)… matter of minutes.

4. Most of the following lines contain an extra word. Write the extra word on your exam
sheet. Put a tick to the numbers indicating a correct line. 6 points

In the early part of the 20th century, Bob Tisdall became famous by 1___________
the winning four events in just two hours in a university athletics 2___________
competition. He won the 400 metres, the 100 metres hurdles, the 3___________
long jump, and putting the shot. Because of at that time university 4___________
athletics made it the front page of national newspapers, and as 5___________
Tisdall was extremely handsome, he became very well-known. 6___________

5. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it has a similar meaning to the
sentence printed before it. 4 points

1. The controller never looked away from the screen.

At no time………………………………………
2. Miranda said she was sorry that she had not read my report yet.
Miranda apologized…………………………………..
3. You can stay in the flat for free if you pay the bills.
So long as……………………………………….
4. I didn’t mean to be impolite.
It…………………………………………….