LICEUL TEORETIC CALLATIS MANGALIA TEST DE EVALUARE INITIAL Anul scolar 2011-2012 Limba englez - Clasa a XII- a Bilingv

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Pentru rezolvarea corect a tuturor cerintelor din Partea I si din Partea a II-a se acord 90 de puncte. Din oficiu se acord 10 puncte. Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 45 de minute. PARTEA I (60 de puncte) I. 1. Read the text below and complete the following tasks. Most countries have had, and some still have, educational systems that are, in one way or another, social disasters. The English educational system is unique, however, in the degree to which it has created educational institutions which perpetuate privilege and social division.(1)____ Some nine million children are educated at state schools; just under half a million are educated at private schools. What is the result of such a system? The facts seem to speak for themselves. In the state system, about eight per cent make it to university; in the private system, almost half the students go on to university. But those statistics are deceptive: middle class children do better at examinations than working class, and most of them stay on at school after 16. Private schools are entirely middle class, and so this positive attitude creates an environment of success. Private schools are enormously expensive, as much as 18,000 a year for a boarder at somewhere like Eton or Harrow to at least 8,000 a year almost everywhere. (2)___________ One father replied to this question by saying: "Everything is on the margin. If my son gets a five per cent better chance of going to university, that may be the difference between success and failure." You can believe him if you like, but 50,000 minimum is a lot to pay for a five per cent better chance. Most children, given the choice, would take the money. The real reason why parents fork out the cash is prejudice: they don't want little Henry mixing with the workers, or getting his accent wrong. Leaving aside the question of money, the attitudes generally to be found in the private schools are repellent. (3) ____________. One of them said: "At school you could point out the freaks very easily. Freaks were spotty or ugly, freaks were scholars, basically people who had too many brains, and were looked down upon because they didn't pay." Another said that saving up to send a son to Eton was "the wrong thing... you're bred in terms of privilege and education to be a racehorse, and you end up having to toil in some office block somewhere in the City..., it's a waste of an expensive training. One old Etonian tells how he was received by the printers when he went to work on a provincial newspaper. Printers were well-known as belonging to the most left-wing of all unions, and yet: "They loved me, they adored me... because I was nice and jolly with them, I was little Lord Fauntleroy, and they used to say, `Isn't it marvellous, he was at Eton and he still talks to us, and he jokes and laughs and he's really quite a nice guy.'" (4)___________ Such a one was Graham Greene. Yet he still sent his own son to the same school. In another case, an Old Etonian admitted the school was "a ghastly hideous place, it was a nightmare" and yet he too wishes the school upon his son: "I found it was a reflex that, as soon as Alexander was born, within three weeks I went and registered him." Rather, when one thinks about it, as one might register a pedigree dog with the Kennel Club. One has to ask the question if such privileges and attitudes are relevant to a country in which there is almost as great a chance of an individual attending psychiatric hospital as of going to university.

I. 1. a. 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. 8 points A. In a book published in 1988, some former Etonians were invited to talk about themselves and their old school. B. Why are parents, many of whom are not wealthy or even comfortably off, willing to sacrifice so much in the cause of their children's schooling? C. Private schools give their students better education than state schools do, because of better facilities and conditions. D. Most countries have some private schools for the children of the wealthy; the English have dozens of them E. Some, perhaps many, private school pupils find life there unpleasant in the extreme. I. 1. b. Match the words in bold in the text to their definition given below. There is one extra definition which you do not need to use. 4 points A. ______________________ to work very hard doing something difficult and tiring, especially physical work B. ______________________ to think that you are better or more important than someone else, or to think that something is not good enough for you C. ______________________ shocking in a way that frightens or upsets you D. ______________________ very ugly or frightening in appearance E. ______________________ to spend money on something, especially when you do not want to I. 1. c For the following sentences, choose the answer (A, B, C, D) which fits according to the text. 10 points 1. The English educational system is different from any other because A. has a balance between state and private education B. has more private schools than anywhere else C. contributes to creating a class system D. has so many things wrong with it 2. More private school children go to university because A. they are better taught B. their parents are middle class C. the schools create success D. they stay at school longer 3. Parents most often send their children to private school A. for social reasons B. for a margin of success C. to show how much money they have D. to pass university entrance examinations 4. Children at private schools A. work very hard all the time C. are very clever and highly educated B. are conformist and prejudiced D. are well-bred and cultivated

5. Former students of private schools A. automatically send their children there B. are inclined to think it is not worth the money C. are worried that they might end up in psychiatric hospital D. think carefully and then enroll their child in the best school

I. 2 Read the text below to fill in the empty spaces with only ONE word. 12 points
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Each and every young person must stop and ask (1)______________________ one very basic question- What can I do with my life? This all important query can be looked (2) __________________ into two different ways. Firstly, you can see it as one of the most challenging questions you will (3) ___________ have to ask yourself. Or, (4) ____________youre committed to exploring all the options, asking it can start you on the road to a fulfilling career. Sometimes its easier if you (5) ___________the big questions down into a few smaller ones. For example, How (6) _____________ time can I devote to achieving my goals? I. 3. Read the text below and use the words given in capitals to form words that fit in the gaps. 11 points The days when people would go to a zoo simply for (1) . are long gone. Today, when we place greater (2) ... on the survival of animals in the wild, zoos have a duty to inform the public and improve our (3)... of the environment and the problems faced (4) .. by large numbers of animals. Todays zoos also play a role in the (5)... of threatened species, breeding animals for release in the wild. Many zoos also fund (6).... research into animals and their behaviour. The way animals are treated in zoos has changed, too. Many intelligent animals suffer from (7) in captivity and their keepers now try to improve the (8) .. state of the animals in their care. They do this by, for example, providing the animals with a (9) ..of different food or by changing the animals daily routine. Although some critics of zoos remain (10).. there can be no doubt that animals in zoos today enjoy a more comfortable existence than in the past. 1. AMUSE 2. IMPORT 3. KNOW 4. WORLD 5. PROTECT 6. SCIENCE 7. BORE 8. PSYCHOLOGY 9. VARY 10. CONVINCE

I. 4. Rephrase the following sentences so that the meaning stays the same. 15 points 1. I think you should change your job. Id If ________________________________________________ change your job. 2. You arent obliged to attend all the classes. have through You ___________________________________________ attend all the classes. 3. Could you please connect me to with the managers office? 4. A firm of professional designers is doing the work. done arrival Would you mind _________________________________________the managers office? The work ________________________ affirm of professional designers. 5. It would have been better if we had informed them we have arrived here. We should ___________________________________________________here. PARTEA a II-a (30 de puncte)
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Read the beginning for the essay entitled Traditional values are irrelevant to modern society. Then write a paragraph giving your opinion on this topic. Do not use more than 80-100 words. Imagine you were given the chance to step back in time. You would probably be struck by the difference in values between then and now. On the one hand it could be said that those values belong to a bygone age. There are those, however, who feel that society today would benefit from the application of some of those values. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________