Concursul regional de limba engleza KIDS HIGH

Clasa a VIII-a
Etapa finala 19 mai 2012
Varianta I

Subiectul 1 (10 puncte)

Read the text attentively and then arrange the information:
Early in our time in Madison I stuck a chart on the concrete wall of my room. It reminded me every
morning that there are one hundred sixty-eight hours in a week. Seventy of those I dedicated to sleep,
breakfasts and dinners (chances for socializing with Sally in all of those areas). Lunches - I didnt take
into account because I brown-bagged it at noon in my office, and read papers while I ate. To my job
classes, preparation, office hours, conferences, paper-reading I conceded fifty hours, though when
students didnt show up for appointments I could use the time for reading papers and so gain a few
minutes elsewhere. With one hundred and twenty hours set aside, I had forty-eight for my own. Obviously
I couldnt write forty-eight hours a week, but I did my best, and when holidays at Thanksgiving and
Christmas gave me a break, I exceeded my quota*.
People might wonder how my marriage lasted. It lasted fine, partly because I wouldnt have noticed
anything short of a walkout, but more because Sally was completely supportive and never thought of
herself as a neglected wife. She was probably lonely the first two or three weeks. Once we met the Langs
she never had time to be, whether I was available or not. It was a toss-up then who was neglecting whom.
I overdid it and punished us both. But I was anxious about the coming baby and uncertain about my
job. I had learned something about deprivation, and I wanted to guarantee the future as much as effort
could guarantee it. And I had been given, first by story, and then by Atlantic, intimations that I had a gift.
Thinking about it now, I am stuck by how modest my aims were. I didnt expect to hit any jackpots. I
had no definite goal. I just wanted to do well what my inclinations and training led me to do, and I
suppose I assumed that somehow, far off, some good might flow from it. I had no idea what.
---------*quota cot-parte

He didnt have lunch with his young expectant wife, Sally. ()

He didnt have any definite plans for the future. ()
The author was probably a young university lecturer at the time he is writing about. ()
Sally never complained about his routine because she also had her own occupations and friends. ()
He usually had a quick sandwich for lunch, in order to have more time to work. ()

Subiectul 2 (20 puncte)

Re-phrase the following sentences:
1. He went shopping after lunch.
Before
2. A very good electrician repaired my TV set yesterday.
I
3. Im sure he is at home now.
He ..
4. Joe has a more expensive car than Paul.
Pauls
5. They serve tea at 5 oclock.
Tea
Subiectul 3 (10 puncte)

Choose the best alternative for the following ones:

1. American Indian tribes often wore shoes made up of soft leather known as
a. molasses
b. moccasins
c. mohicans
1.
a.
b.
c.

At Madame Tussauds, the figures on display are known as

waxworks
exhibits
waxwings

2.
a.
b.
c.

Junk food is
Portuguese food
Indian food
food that tastes great but offers little body building nutrition.

3.
a.
b.
c.

She asked him to give her a/an to get to the station sooner.
elevator
cars
lift

4.
a.
b.
c.

If I him I would help them.

were
am
will be

Subiectul 4 (20 puncte)

The word at the end of the following sentences can be used to form a word that fits suitably in the blank
space. Fill each blank with one word only:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

You are not .. at all.

What a behaviour!
There was a of food during their voyage to the New World.
The castle is the biggest . of this town.
Its a matter of life and death, of
My grandmother, Mrs. Thompson, was a very . woman.
For years she tried to become
I dont like .. days.
She was crying ..
It doesnt take much .. to picture factories without workers.

HEALTH
CHILD
SHORT
ATTRACT
SURVIVE
TALENT
FAME
STORM
QUIET
IMAGINE

Subiectul 5 (30 puncte)

A magazine is running a competition for the best short story entitled A Disastrous Evening. Write
your story in about 180 words.
Note: set the scene (who-when-where-what); development (describe incidents leading up to the main

event itself in detail; use time words); end the story (refer to moods, consequences, peoples
reactions, feelings, comments)
Toate subiectele sunt obligatorii
Timp de lucru: 2 ore
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