Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Tineretului

Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

Examenul de bacalaureat 2008

Proba E/F
Proba scrisă la Limba engleză
L1 normal – L2

• Toate subiectele sunt obligatorii. Se acordă 10 puncte din oficiu.

• Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 3 ore.

SUBIECTUL I (30 puncte) Varianta 036

Read the text below and complete the following tasks.

What purposes should a school fulfil? Some sort of systematic training and instruction should be
offered, with a view to enabling pupils to pass specific examinations, so they will be qualified to
continue their education at other institutions, or to start their professional lives straight away. … (1) It
should encourage the pupils to develop their own abilities to the full and become social beings, able to
get on with other people and work out problems in a civilized manner.
One theory is that in an ideal school children would be able to choose which lessons they want to
attend. … (2) Some people, however, claim that children, if left to their own choices, will simply play
all day. … (3) Others say that the children of some experimental schools show the opposite; after a
short time children become bored with playing all day, and their natural curiosity leads them to attend
lessons voluntarily. …(4)

1. Four sentences have been removed from the text. Select the appropriate sentence for each
gap in the text. There is one extra sentence that does not fit. 4 points

A. In this way, they will follow their natural inclinations.

B. The basic problem with this sort of school may be that learning according to the pupils' natural
desires would probably take away their chances of passing the state examinations.
C. A school should also provide an atmosphere where children can gain wide experience and grow
to maturity.
D. There can’t be any ideal school.
E. In this case some compulsion is required to provide an atmosphere where they can learn.

2. Who/What do the words in bold refer to? 6 points

3. Explain the following words. 10 points

1. fulfil 2. abilities 3. ideal 4. choices 5. voluntarily

4. Answer the following questions. 6 points

A. What is school good for?

B. Why do some people say that children should be allowed to choose the lessons they want?
C. What happens in some experimental schools?

5. Comment on the following sentence: The basic problem with this sort of school may be that
learning according to the pupils’ natural desires would probably take away their chances of passing
the state examinations. (50 words)
4 points