LICEUL TEORETIC ONISIFOR GHIBU CLUJ-NAPOCA

NAME:
TEST INITIAL, CLASA A 11-A, AN SCOLAR 20015-2016, SEMESTRUL I PROF.CONTRAS DANA
TOATE SUBIECTELE SUNT OBLIGATORII. TIMP DE LUCRU: 50 MINUTE. SE ACORDA 10 PUNCTE DIN OFICIU.
SUBJECT I, READING. FOR QUESTIONS 7-12, CHOOSE THE ANSWER, A-G, WHICH FITS BEST ACCORDING TO THE TEXT:

SUBJECT II, ENGLISH IN USE.

A. FOR QUESTIONS 1-12, CHOOSE THE ANSWER, A-D, WHICH FITS BEST ACCORDING TO THE TEXT:

The (1).............................. of lottery winners change their lives (2).............................. little, and continue on their settled (3).............................., happy
ever after. A couple of years ago, a Mr David Horabin won a million. He had been struggling to make a success of his dry cleaning shop for the
(4).............................. 12 months. He accepted his cheque in a small ceremony at the (5).............................. at 2.30, and by three o'clock he had
reopened for business. The reaction of Mr Pasquale Consalvo who won $30 million in the New York state lottery was very (6)............................... He was
unhappy not to be able to fulfil his (7).............................. to go to work as usual on the day he won. He also said that if the money made him unhappy he
would give it back. In fact, the (8) .............................. of his life being (9).............................. a misery by his new-found wealth are almost as
(10) ........................., though not quite, as the sixty million-to-one odds he (11).............................. to take a jackpot that had remained
(12).............................. through six previous draws.
1. A. most B. majority C. number D. quantity
2. A. but B. a C. scarcely D. not
3. A. way B. path C. road D. habit
4. A. earlier B. before C. recent D. past
5. A. site B. building C. company D. premises
6. A. appropriate B. linked C. similar D. same
7. A. passion B. ambition C. desire D. vocation
8. A. possibility B. probability C. chances D. odds
9. A. created B. made C. sent D. got
10. A. thin B. slim C. meagre D. reduced
11. A. cracked B. overwhelmed C. beat D. overthrew
12. A. unaccepted B. undone C. rejected D. unclaimed

B. FOR QUESTIONS 13-27, FILL IN THE GAPS WITH ONE SUITABLE WORD:

When it (13)..... to violent nationalism, the Welsh are not in the (14)..... league as the Basques or the Northern Irish, but they can be bad (15)...... The Welsh
do have a distinct nationality, (16)..... a language and literature of their own. Indeed, they have their own cultural festival, with music and singing, (17)..... an
Eisteddfod, which dates back to 1176. The Eisteddfod forms (18)..... of the Gorsedd, or assembly, founded many centuries before the Christian era. At the
Eisteddfod, the poets, or bards, wear long white, flowing robes, and (19)..... themselves very seriously. (20).....Brittany, Wales is rather isolated. It is a
mountainous lump (21)..... England and the Irish Sea. (22)..... it is isolated, and because it contains little (23)..... stealing, the place has been (24)..... to its
own devices, so that half a million people (25)..... speak the ancient Welsh language. (26)....., the proportion of the population who speak Welsh has fallen
(27)..... 1960 from about 30 per cent to about 20 per cent.

C. FOR QUESTIONS 28-37, FILL IN THE SPACES PROVIDED WITH A WORD DERIVED FROM THE ONES IN CAPITAL LETTERS.
In Totteridge, in north London, there is a yew tree estimated to be between 1,000 and 2,000 years old. This tree, however, is a
mere youngster in comparison with others of the species. The record in the UK is held by a yew in Scotland that is thought to be
between 4,000 and 5,000 years old. However, such trees are becoming (28).................... rare and the Totteridge specimen was
considered of (29).................... importance to be named in 1999 as one of the 41 great trees in London. Like many yews, the
Totteridge tree (30)..................predates the buildings around it and its exact age is unknown.
The Totteridge tree needs little (31).................. Some of its outer branches hang down so low that they have taken root. But this is
part of the trees natural architecture and contributes to its (32)...............in high winds. With the best of (33)............. ancient
yew sites are often tidied up with no benefit to the tree. Dead branches are not (34)...............shed by the tree and their wood
harbours a multitude of insects, an inseparable part of the old trees natural (35)................... Something of the trees history is lost
with the (36)...............of dead wood. After all, the decaying, twisted and (37)............parts give the tree character.

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