Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Inovării

Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

Examenul de bacalaureat 2009

Proba E/F
Proba scrisă la Limba engleză
L1 - Bilingv

• Toate subiectele sunt obligatorii. Se acordă 10 puncte din oficiu.

• Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 3 ore.

SUBIECTUL I (30 de puncte) Varianta 042

Read the text below and complete the following tasks.

Adolescents have a reputation for being more emotionally volatile than adults: their highs
are higher and their lows are lower. Although one reason for these differences is the variability of
adolescent social contexts, (1) … In particular, adolescent romantic relationships are both
emotionally intense and short-lived, a combination likely to produce an emotional landscape
characterized by steep highs and plummeting lows. It has been argued that the intense and volatile
nature of adolescent romantic relationships, combined with the immature state of adolescents’
developing social skills, may explain the differences between the emotional lives of adolescents
and their parents.
When I first began to think about adolescent romantic relationships and negative emotions
during adolescence, (2) … Adolescents rate breaking up with a romantic partner as highly stressful
on life event inventories, adolescents break up with romantic partners more frequently than adults
do. In fact, the norm for breaking up in response to dissatisfaction in a romantic relationship is so
strong, that it at first didn’t occur to me to think about the association of negative emotion and
adolescents’ experiences within ongoing romantic relationships. Why would a teenager stay in a
relationship (3) … when there were so few barriers to termination?
And then I remembered high school, and a friend of mine who would spend months
bemoaning how badly she was treated by a boyfriend who she never managed to dump. And when
he finally dumped her, how she would immediately get involved in another bad relationship. And I
looked at the work by Downey and others on abuse in dating relationships and rejection sensitivity
and reexamined the literature on romantic attachment. There was strong evidence that at least
some youths stayed in relationships that they were unhappy with, and that involvement in poor
quality relationships leads to negative effect and depressive symptoms. Because adolescents who
show patterns of insecure attachment are likely to be involved in less satisfactory romantic
relationships and are less likely to receive effective social support when upset, (4) …
So maybe it wasn’t just breaking up with romantic partners that was responsible for the
emotional volatility of adolescents: maybe it was the quality of ongoing dating relationships as well.

1. Four 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. 4 points

A. another reason is the type of social relationships that adolescents engage in.
B. I immediately thought of breaking up.
C. with someone who they weren’t happy with
D. here is no reason to worry.
E. they are also likely to be more depressed.

2. Give the synonyms of the following words. 6 points

1. reason
2. skills
3. evidence
 Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Inovării
Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

3. Sum up the text in about 50 words. 10 points

4. For the following questions, choose the answer (A, B or C) which fits according to the
text. 6 points

1. The relationships adolescents get involved in are ...

A. intense.
B. consuming and ephemeral.
C. immature.

2. One difference between teens and their parents as to their love management is ...
A. their immaturity.
B. their prejudiced mentality.
C. their incapacity to learn from mistakes.

3. Disappointing relationships in adolescence may result in ...

A. the ability to discern things better.
B. pessimism and depression.
C. depth of feeling.

5. Comment on the following in about 100 words: Adolescents have a reputation for being more
emotionally volatile than adults: their highs are higher and their lows are lower.
4 points