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Etapa județeană/sectoarelor municipiului București a olimpiadelor naționale școlare - 2019

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Limba engleză

CLASA a IX-a - SECȚIUNEA A

 Toate subiectele sunt obligatorii.

 Nu se acordă puncte din oficiu.
 Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 3 ore.

SUBIECTUL A – USE OF ENGLISH (40 points)

I. Read the following text and put the verbs in brackets into the correct form. 10 points

Henry lived in a boarding-house in Guildford Street. One day a new girl 1.

(COME)_____________ to the boarding-house, and 2. (SIT) ___________ next to Henry at meals.
Her name was Alice Weston. Henry was surprised to find that she was on the stage, in the chorus.
Previous chorus-girls at the boarding-house 3. (BE) ___________ of a more pronounced type—
good girls, but noisy, Alice Weston was different.
“I 4. (REHEARSE) ___________ at present,' she said. 'I 5. (GO OUT) ___________ on tour
next month in "The Girl From Brighton". What 6. (YOU/ DO) ___________, Mr Rice?'
'I'm a detective.'
'What's the matter?' he said, a little anxiously, for even at this early stage in their acquaintance
he was conscious of a strong desire to win her approval. '7. (YOU/NOT LIKE) ___________
detectives?'
'I don't know. Somehow I shouldn't have thought you 8. (BE) ___________ one.'
Naturally a detective does not want to look like a detective and give the whole thing away right at
the start.
'I think—you 9. (NOT BE) ___________ offended.'
'Go on.'
'I 10. (ALWAYS LOOK ON) ___________ it as rather a sneaky job.'
'Sneaky!' moaned Henry.

II. Use the word given in brackets to form a word that fits in each sentence. 10 points

1. John Glenn took great personal risks in his search for …. (KNOW)
2. Good role models don't think about being rewarded …(FINANCE) for their charity work.
3. Graphology is the study of people’s ……(WRITE) to reveal their personalities.
4. People often behave … (PREDICT) when under stress.
5. He shouldn’t have been so … (RESPECT) to his parents.
6. Her … (STRONG) impressed us all.
7. The beach was … (ACCESS) except by boat, and few people even knew about it.
8. Tomorrow I’m going to send off my … (APPLY) form for the job.
9. Our team is very … . (SUCCEED). We’ve won three competitions this year.
10. She tiptoed …(CARE) so as not to wake the others.

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III. Read the following text and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits in each gap. 10 points

We live in an age of television, video and interactive computing, in which children are skilled at
absorbing data from images at a glance. (1) ……… this makes them respond favourably to visual
learning, the disadvantage is that they sometimes lack confidence with words. So, what the
Eyewitness Guides have (2) ……… is to combine the two elements, words and pictures, (3) ……
them as just one thing-entertainment.

One of the main reasons (4) …… the books’ success is the discovery that, against a white
background, even the most (5) ……. objects can look wonderful. Often a single photographic
image will take up a(n) (6) ……. double-page spread, grabbing your (7) ………. Whatever the
image, you’ll always find the text (8) ………… alongside, building your understanding of the
subject.

Eyewitness Guides are the (9) ……. of a unique approach, in which photographs, models, maps
and diagrams are specially produced. Everything is done to make (10) …… that they compete with
the impact of television images

1 A – In contrast B - While C – Even so D - Despite

2 A - made B - done C - linked D - got
3 A - conducting B - treating C - operating D - applying
4 A - behind B - under C - beneath D - below
5 A - repeated B - habitual C - familiar D - accustomed
6 A - utter B - full C - whole D - entire
7 A - attention B - fascination C - involvement D - attraction
8 A - next B - nearby C - right D - quite
9 A - result B - formation C - effect D - production
10 A - firm B – certain C - definite D –guaranteed

IV. Translate the following text into English. 10 points

La dus era ușor. Recipientul mare, din plastic, conținea doar aer la dus. Nya, înaltă pentru
cei unsprezece ani ai ei, putea plimba toarta dintr-o mână în alta, putea flutura recipientul de o
parte și de alta sau îl putea cuprinde cu amândouă brațele. Putea chiar să îl târască după ea,
lovindu-l de pământ și stârnind un mic nor de praf la fiecare pas. Nu era deloc greu la dus. Trebuia
doar să facă față căldurii soarelui, care încingea aerul, cu toate că mai era mult până la prânz. I-ar
lua cam jumătate din dimineață, dacă nu s-ar opri pe drum. Căldura. Timpul. Și ghimpii.

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SUBIECTUL B – INTEGRATED SKILLS (60 points)

Read the text below and do the tasks that follow.

MEANWHILE the desire to express myself grew. The few signs I used became less and less
adequate, and my failures to make myself understood were invariably followed by outbursts of
passion. I felt as if invisible hands were holding me, and I made frantic efforts to free myself. I
struggled–not that struggling helped matters, but the spirit of resistance was strong within me; I
generally broke down in tears and physical exhaustion. If my mother happened to be near I crept
into her arms, too miserable even to remember the cause of the tempest. After a while the need of
some means of communication became so urgent that these outbursts occurred daily, sometimes
hourly.

My parents were deeply grieved and perplexed. We lived a long way from any school for the blind
or the deaf, and it seemed unlikely that any one would come to such an out-of-the-way place as
Tuscumbia to teach a child who was both deaf and blind. Indeed, my friends and relatives
sometimes doubted whether I could be taught. My mother's only ray of hope came from Dickens's
"American Notes." She had read his account of Laura Bridgman, and remembered vaguely that
she was deaf and blind, yet had been educated. But she also remembered with a hopeless pang
that Dr. Howe, who had discovered the way to teach the deaf and blind, had been dead many
years. His methods had probably died with him; and if they had not, how was a little girl in a far-off
town in Alabama to receive the benefit of them?

When I was about six years old, my father heard of an eminent oculist in Baltimore, who had been
successful in many cases that had seemed hopeless. My parents at once determined to take me
to Baltimore to see if anything could be done for my eyes.

The journey, which I remember well, was very pleasant. I made friends with many people on the
train. One lady gave me a box of shells. My father made holes in these so that I could string them,
and for a long time they kept me happy and contented. The conductor, too, was kind. Often when
he went his rounds I clung to his coat tails while he collected and punched the tickets. His punch,
with which he let me play, was a delightful toy. Curled up in a corner of the seat I amused myself
for hours making funny little holes in bits of cardboard.

I. For each question decide which answer (A, B, C or D) fits best according to the text. 10 points

1. The first paragraph shows

A. the girl’s growing need to communicate.

B. the passion by which she communicates.
C. the physical efforts she made to communicate.
D. the way she communicates with her mother.

2. The girl’s family was very sad

A. living too far from any important city.

B. because their chances to find a teacher were slim.
C. knowing that she couldn’t be taught.
D. realizing that she was blind and deaf.

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3. Her parents were not always optimistic about her chances to be educated

A. because the methods were not sure to have outlived the researchers.
B. because Laura Bridgman had not successfully been educated.
C. because nobody who was deaf and blind had managed.
D. because her mother vaguely remembered the sources she had read.

4. The girl’s parents had her seen by a doctor in Baltimore

A. that was experienced with blind and deaf children.

B. that had been fruitful in most cases.
C. that had been successful with blind children over six.
D. that knew how to treat only children with eye problems.

5. During her journey she made friends with a lot of people

A. who were having the same problems.

B. who tried to make her feel pleased and cheerful.
C. who gave her shells to strand in a necklace.
D. who allowed her to collect and punch tickets.

II. Write a narrative essay about an experience that taught you to appreciate life more.
(180-200 words) 50 points

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