Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Inovării

Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

SUBIECTUL II (30 de puncte) Varianta 063

1. Choose the correct form. Give your answer on your exam sheet. 4 points

1. General Custer was confident of victory despite being vastly…… by the enemy.
A. outnumbered B. outclassed C. overcome D. overtaken
2. The ministry refused to …… the figures to the press.
A. release B. leak C. show D. add
3. ……comes a time when you have to make a decision and stick to it.
A. It B. Therefore C. There D. That
4. The lawyer insisted that his client…… never have been arrested in the first place.
A. should B. must C. ought D. would

2. Use the words in bold to form one word that fits in the text. Write the new words on your
exam sheet. 6 points

1. She is …… of spiders. terrify

2. There are …… volumes on the history of the cinema. count
3. He is making an…… which might not be true. assume

3. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ONE word in
each gap. 10 points

Would you like to (1)… an astronaut? To do this, you must travel at least 50 miles (80
kilometres) above the surface of the earth. But even after you have done that you are still (2)…
earth's atmosphere. Indeed, there are at least 300 miles of air still between you and the true
vacuum of space.
Most of what we think of as our atmosphere is actually the troposphere, that part of the
atmosphere closest to earth. This is where most of our weather happens, and it is the only part of
the atmosphere which has enough oxygen and warmth for humans to survive. (3)… part of the
atmosphere is about ten miles thick at the equator and slightly half that height at the (4)… .
(5)… the troposphere is the stratosphere, which you have probably (6)… if you have
travelled on an international jet liner. But there is another kind of 'jet' at this altitude. Huge rivers of
air called 'jet streams' (7)… through the stratosphere, and the stratosphere contains the ozone
layer which filters harmful ultraviolet rays (8)… could make life on earth extinct. Above the
stratosphere is the mesosphere, and above that the ionosphere, which is important for radio
communications as signals can be (9)… off the ionosphere to different (10)… of the world.

4. Most of the following lines contain an extra word. Write the extra word on your exam
sheet. Put a tick to the numbers indicating a correct line. 6 points

Wrestling is generally considered to be one of the oldest

organised sports on earth. Men have been made 1_________
in the wrestling ring for more over a thousand years, and four 2_________
hundred years ago, wrestlers were to be found throughout Japan. The 3_________
organisational and structure of the sport began in the 1680s, with 4_________
most of the basic rules remaining largely unchanged ever since. The 5_________
ring itself is considered a sacred place, and even for this reason, 6_________
wrestlers must throw a handful of salt into it before they may start
fighting.

5. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it has a similar meaning to the
sentence printed before it. 4 points

1. Although I respect the law, I cannot accept the court’s decision.

Much………………………………………………………….
 Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Inovării
Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar
2. If you trade in your existing answer phone, we will reduce the price of a new one by £100.
Trade…………………………………………………………
3. Norman was sorry he had lost his temper.
Norman regretted…………………………………………….
4. Try as I might, I could not understand the code.
No matter………………………………………………………