Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Tineretului
Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar
Examenul de bacalaureat 2008
Proba E/F
Proba scrisă la Limba Engleză
L1 - Intensiv 3-4 ore
SUBIECTUL I ( 30 puncte) Varianta 013
Read the text below and complete the following tasks.
Monday March 2nd
(1) … I sat up in bed and put a dead serious expression on my face just in case she’d got
six months to live or she’d been caught shoplifting or something. She fiddled with the curtains,
dropped cigarette ash all over my Concorde model and started mumbling on about “adult
relationships” and “life being complicated” and how she must “find herself”. She said she was fond
of me. Fond!!! And would hate to hurt me. And then she said that for some women marriage was
like being in prison. Then she went out. Marriage is nothing like being in prison! Women are let out
every day to go to the shops and stuff, and quite a lot go to work. (2) …
Sunday March 8th
My mother has gone to a woman’s workshop on assertiveness trening1. Men aren’t allowed.
(3) … He said “God knows, but whatever it is, it’s bad news for me”. We had boil-in-the-bag cod in
butter sauce and oven-cooked chips for Sunday dinner, followed by tinned peaches and Dream-
topping. My father opened a bottle of white wine and let me have some. We watched a film on
television, then my mother came home and started bossing us around. She said, “The worm has
turned”, and “Things are going to be different around here”, and things like that. Then she went into
the kitchen and started making a chart dividing all the housework into three. I pointed out to her
that I already had a paper round2 to do, an old age pensioner to look after and a dog to feed, as
well as my school work. (4) … She put the chart on the wall and said “We start tomorrow”.
(Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4)
1. trening= a course of lessons taken by someone to teach them how to express their opinions and make known their
wishes
2. a paper round=a job, usually done by children, delivering newspapers to a group of houses
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. I think my mother is being a bit melodramatic.
B. My mother has just come into my room and said she had something awful to tell me.
C. And she loved her husband.
D. But she didn’t listen.
E. I asked my father what “assertiveness trening” is.
2. Explain the underlined words. 6 points
3. Sum up the text in about 50 words. 10 points
4. For the following questions, choose the answer (A, B, C, D) which fits according to the
text. 6 points
1. Marriage is seen by the mother as …
A. a celebration.
B. something divine.
C. a prison.
D. a model to be followed.
Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Tineretului
Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar
2. The assertiveness trening is not allowed to …
A. women.
B. men.
C. students.
D. children.
3. What does the chart refer to?
A. Modern means of communication.
B. Business affairs.
C. Housework.
D. Writers.
5. Comment on the following statement: Marriage is nothing like being in prison! Women are let
out every day to go to the shops and stuff, and quite a lot go to work. (100 words) 4 points
