Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Inovării

Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

Examenul de bacalaureat 2009

Proba E/F
Proba scrisă la Limba Engleză
L1 - Intensiv 3 - 4 ore

SUBIECTUL I ( 30 de puncte) Varianta 069

Read the text below and complete the following tasks.

When I was a child it was Enid Blyton’s books that met with strong moral objections from
parents and other opinionated adults. For the past twenty years or so, (1) … .
By the time I came to have a child myself, I had become familiar with the whole range of
critical comment, though I was not personally involved in the debate.
An academic friend (2) … I usually have much respect would not let his children have a
television set until they had learnt to read, on the grounds that if they did, they wouldn’t. But my
daughter learnt to read at four with great ease, and will now, from time to time, choose a book
rather than a television programme.
The main anxiety (3) … is that it trivializes, reduces all experience, all news, and all human
achievement to the lowest common denominator. That is why control needs to be exercised over
the number of hours a young child watches, why the quality and suitability to its age and stage
development (4) … . And why, if the child is to become a fully rounded person, it needs to have a
great many other things besides television in its world.
(The Listener)

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

A. may be unnecessary
B. it has been television
C. I do have about television
D. must be supervised
E. for whose good sense

2. Give the synonyms 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. Why should children not be allowed to watch television until they have learnt to read?
A. Because they would not read anymore.
B. Because they wouldn’t understand.
C. Because they are not allowed to.
D. Because they are not opinionated.

2. When did the author’s daughter learn to read?

A. When she was at the kindergarten.
B. When she was four.
C. When she went to school.
D. When her father taught her.

3. How did she learn to read?

A. Without much effort.
 Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Inovării
Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

B. With difficulty.
C. Very quickly.
D. By reading fairy tales.

5. Comment on the following statement: If a child is to become a fully rounded person, it needs
a great many other things besides television in its world. (100 words) 4 points