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I. (12 points) Read the texts below and decide which variant (A, B, C or D) best fits each space.
Whose wave power is it?
Construction of the world's biggest wave-energy installation is (1) ___ ahead off the coast of Cornwall in southwest England.
More than twenty-one million pounds' (2) ____ of funding has been agreed for what is (3) ____ as Wave Hub, a giant
electrical terminal on the seabed ten miles off the coast. Wave Hub will allow a number of different wave-energy devices
operating in the area to transmit the energy they generate along a high-voltage undersea cable, back to the shore.
Once it is in (4) ____ operation, Wave Hub is (5) ____ to support the largest concentration of wave-energy machines
anywhere in the world. It will also mark an enormous (6) ____ forward in the development of wave power, which has tended
to lag behind its cousins in the other main (7) ____ of renewable energy technology: wind power and solar power.
But surfers in the southwest have (8) ____ concerns about the project. Cornwall is Britain's principal surfing region (9) ____
of the size of the Atlantic rollers hitting the beaches there, and surfers are concerned that the energy taken from the waves
may (10) ____ in a reduction of as much as eleven percent in the height of those waves when they (11) ____ the shore. But
an independent study reported this week that any effect on wave height will probably be much less than the surfers had (12)
____.
1. A going
2. A amount
3 . A referred
4. A whole
5. A likely
6 . A tread
7 . A limbs
8. A explained
9. A because
10. A upshot
11. A arrive
12. A scared

getting
B value
B called
B full
B probable
B strike
B branches
B spoken
B account
B result
B realise
B worried

making
C worth
C entitled
C entire
C plausible
C pace
C wings
C expressed
C reason
C conclude
C reach
C frightened

D setting
D.quantity
D known
D thorough
D.surely
D.step
D prongs
D commented
D.thanks
D.arise
D achieve
D feared

II. (15 points) Fill the gaps in the text below with ONE suitable word.
Those of us ___(1) have a normal relationship with teenage offspring long ago gave ___(2) commenting on what they choose
___(3) wear. Once you reach a certain age, your appreciation of ___(4) is appropriate for a teenage girl dwindles to almost
nothing. Your ability to impose ___(5) will goes with it. Complain ___(6) you will about the Ugg boots, the tights revealing all
contours, the low tops, the short shorts, the improbable heels all a waste ___(7) breath. I once joined a shopping trip ___(8)
pursuit of some of this stuff. In Hollister, we wandered around in the dark for a ___(9) minutes. I thought there ___(10) been a
power cut. They said ___(11) was a fashionable half-light, presumably to obscure the prices. This is ___(12) doubt one of
those things parents worry about ___(13) much. Without letting you know they know, they do in ___(14) know when the
eyelash extensions should stay in the box and a sensible skirt ___(15) called for. They might not appear to be absorbing
instructions but thats because they are watching you instead.
III. (20 points) Rephrase the following sentences so that the meaning stays the same and using the word in capitals.
You must not change the word in capitals.
1. He made us wait two hours before he called us in.
We _______________________two hours before he called us in.
2. I am sure he didnt send you this letter.
He _____________________ you this letter.
3. He didnt know that Jack had planned a surprise party.
Little __________________had planned a surprise party.
4. When I have enough money, Im going to buy a new computer.
When I _______________________ to buy a new computer.

WERE
SENT
DID
SAVED

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5. Thanks for giving me another chance!
I appreciate ___________________________________ another chance!
6. The suitcase was so heavy that I couldnt lift it.
It was _______________________________ that I couldnt lift it.
7. Could you pass me the cheese, please?
Would __________________ the cheese?
8. I couldnt have bought that motorbike unless my mother had agreed to pay the monthly
repayments.
_________ agreeing to pay the monthly repayments I could never have bought that motorbike.
9. Helen didnt quite understand what Ben was trying to say.
Helen couldnt _____________________________ what Ben was getting at.
10. Im not going to worry about the money until I hear from the bank, Sarah said.
Sarah said _______________________________________from the bank.

GIVEN
SUCH
MIND
BUT

MAKE
WAS

IV. READING COMPREHENSION

Read the following text and complete the tasks:
In the 1930s, when radio was still in its infancy, broadcasting stations in the USA wondered what type of programmes they
should put on during the daytime. (1)____To keep the listeners' interest, there would be far more crises occurring than in real
life. Knowing that the majority of the audience would be women, the broadcasters decided that the women in the serials
would be strong characters and the men weak. The serials were an instant success with listeners. As the radio stations were
paid for by advertising, these programmes always carried advertisements and, since one of the most frequently advertised
products was soap, the programmes became known as Soaps or Soap Operas.
It was really by chance that the soap opera appeared in Britain. The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) had no interest
in producing this type of programme but during the Second World War it was thought that the Americans should be shown
how well the British people were standing up to the war. (2)______ It was called Front Line Family and showed how a typical
English family, the Robinsons, were living during the war. Some people in Britain managed to hear the programme and asked
for it to be broadcast for the British audience. (3)______ The programme ran for six years.
Other soaps were introduced later, one telling the life of a doctor's family and another, The Archers, about life in a countr y
village. The original aim of The Archers was to inform farmers of new developments in agriculture. The serial began in 1951
and is still to be heard on five evenings every week.
Some attempts at soap opera began to appear on television in Britain in the mid-1950s but it was not until 1961 that the first
real soap opera appeared. (4)____ The serial, called Coronation Street, was about the lives of people living in a workingclass street near Manchester. Although the serial was planned to run for only thirteen weeks, it is still to be seen several
nights every week and almost every week has more viewers than any other programme on British television. The BBC never
managed to produce a really successful soap opera until 1984, when it introduced Eastenders. This programme is about life
in an area of the east end of London. (5)_____ There is a major difference between the two programmes in that Eastenders
concentrates on often rather depressing realism whilst Coronation Street, although having serious storylines, always contains
a strong element of comedy.
A. (10 points) Five sentences have been removed from the text. Select the appropriate sentence for each gap in the
text. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
A. For this reason, a soap opera was written for the North American service of the BBC.
B. This was shown, not by the BBC, but by commercial television.
C. They came up with the idea of producing serials that would be on the radio every afternoon telling a continuous story.
D. For a time it had more viewers than Coronation Street and still rivals it as the most popular programme on British
television.
E. The BBC were unwilling to do this but finally agreed and broadcast the programme in Britain.
F. You do not have to stick to the story line.
B. (8 points) For the following questions, choose the answer (A, B, C, D) which fits according to the text.
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1. What problem did broadcasting stations in America have in the early days of radio?
A. How to reflect real life
B. What to broadcast during the day
C. What type of serial to produce
D. How to entertain women
2. Why did the radio stations make women have the strongest characters in soap operas?
A. Because men usually have weak characters.
B. Because no men would be listening.
C. Because women deal better with crises.
D. Because the audience would be mainly female.
3. Why was the programme Front Line Family made?
A. to tell the Americans why the British were at war.
B. to tell the Americans how the British were living during the war.
C. to tell the Americans how the British were winning the war.
D. to tell the Americans why the British stood to win the war.
4. How is Coronation Street different from Eastenders?
A. It is funnier.
B. It has a stronger storyline.
C. It is more serious.
D. It is more like real life.

V. (10 points) Read the text below and use the words given in capitals to form words that fit in the gaps. The words
in capitals are given in the order in which you need to use them.
(0) VISIT (1) RELEVANT (2) RARE (3) FASHION (4) INVENT (5) KNOW (6) LIBRARY (7) VALUE (8) DIFFER (9)
CREDIBLE (10) DIGITAL
Libraries and museums? Places that rarely get (0) visitors. Things of the past, of little (1) _____to our mobile-phone
generation! And yet, over the past decade, something bizarre has happened to the once (2)_____ world of museums and
libraries. Suddenly they become (3)_____ and many institutions have (4)_____themselves, regaining their old glory, that of
citadels of ideas and stores of human (5)_____.
(6)______ say that search engines may be (7)_____but they dont (8)_____between truth and fiction. Libraries can advise
people which websites have (9)_____ and which dont.
Transformations have occurred. Libraries and museums have launched their own websites. They will be able to have
(10)______ versions of almost everything and people will realize that they are alive.

VI. (25 points) Write a 8-10 line descriptive paragraph in which you describe the harbour of a medieval town. Mention what
you see, what you smell, what you hear. Remember to use specific details and colourful adjectives to help make your
description seem real to your reader!

SCRIEI RSPUNSURILE PE FOAIA DE RSPUNS (ANSWER SHEET). BARAI TOATE SPAIILE NECOMPLETATE.
TIMP DE LUCRU: 3 ORE. NU SE ACORDA PUNCTE DIN OFICIU.

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VARIANTA 1

I.

1A

(12 puncte)

2C

3D

4B

5A

6D

7B

8C

9A

10B

11C

12D

II. (15 puncte)

1 who; 2 up; 3 to; 4 what; 5 your; 6 if; 7 of; 8 in; 9 few; 10 had; 11 it; 12 no; 13
too; 14 fact; 15 - is
III. (20 puncte)
1. were made to wait
2. cant have sent
3. did he know that Jack
4. have saved enough money, Im going to buy
5. being given
6. such a heavy suitcase
7. you mind passing me
8. But for my mother/mothers
9. make out
10. she was not/wasnt going to worry about the money until she heard
IV. (18 puncte)
A.
B.

1-C 2-A 3-E 4-B 5-D

1-B 2-D 3-B 4-A
V. (10 puncte)

1. relevance 2. rarefied 3. fashionable 4. reinvented 5. knowledge 6. librarians 7. invaluable 8.

differentiate 9. credibility 10. digitalised
VI. (25 points)
NOT: Pentru subiectele II i III se accept orice variant posibil corect.