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Examenul de Bacalaureat 2008 Proba E/F Proba Scris La Limba Englez L1 - Intensiv 3-4 Ore Subiectul I (30 Puncte) Varianta 040

The text criticizes modern long-distance travel for being pointless and environmentally damaging. It argues that while early humans traveled out of necessity, today's travel is driven by an "ever increasing desire" rather than purpose. Air travel especially consumes huge amounts of fuel and contributes greatly to global warming. While living and working in foreign countries can broaden one's mind, the author objects to tourism, which encourages cultural homogenization and does not benefit local communities. Governments should tax aviation fuel to curb air travel and its environmental impacts.

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Examenul de Bacalaureat 2008 Proba E/F Proba Scris La Limba Englez L1 - Intensiv 3-4 Ore Subiectul I (30 Puncte) Varianta 040

The text criticizes modern long-distance travel for being pointless and environmentally damaging. It argues that while early humans traveled out of necessity, today's travel is driven by an "ever increasing desire" rather than purpose. Air travel especially consumes huge amounts of fuel and contributes greatly to global warming. While living and working in foreign countries can broaden one's mind, the author objects to tourism, which encourages cultural homogenization and does not benefit local communities. Governments should tax aviation fuel to curb air travel and its environmental impacts.

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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 040

Read the text below and complete the following tasks.

I do not understand the modern fashion for long-distance travel. Of course, there was once an
evolutionary advantage to it: all people moved around in the search for food and better living
conditions. But now we do so without a purpose. (1) ... . What for? To see the sights and make a mess
of them? To get to know other cultures? You must be joking.
The instinct to explore has been exhausted. Humans have been everywhere, done everything.
They have climbed to the top of Everest so often the summit resembles a rubbish dump. (2) ... . This
restlessness and our ever increasing desire to travel long-distances is disastrous for the environment.
Air travel burns up unimaginable quantities of fuel and is the most energy - hungry thing that people
can do. It is a scandal that aviation fuel for international flights is not taxed. If the governments of the
world could agree to do something about it, they would have a permanent source of income - and put
the brakes on the fastest-growing source of global warming gases (3) ... .You can only really learn
anything about foreign countries by living and working in them and I applaud those who do it. It is
tourism I object to, and especially the desire to go to the remotest, wildest and often poorest places in
the world and built four-star hotels in them. (4) ... . Instead, it encourages the demand for Coca-Cola
and McDonalds and accelerates the homogenization of world culture. Go abroad and do exactly what
you do at home.

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. We travel thousands of miles to get to the other side of the world, and then two weeks later we
come back again.
B. Driven by their genes to invent ever more absurd frontiers to cross, the sort of people who might
once have trekked across the Rocky Mountains are now chartering jets so they can freefall
parachute over Antarctica.
C. As for the idea that travel broadens the mind, widens people’s horizons and promotes international
understanding this is just nonsense.
D. It does not do the local people much good: the hotels are owned by foreign companies and only 30
percent of the profits stay in the country.
E. Travelling does not involve only moving from one place to another.

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. What does the author say about the fashion for long-distance travel?
A. It enables us to understand other cultures.
B. There is no longer any point to it.
C. It helps us to relax.
D. It takes up a lot of time.
Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Tineretului
Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

2. Why do people do things such as freefall parachuting in Antarctica, according to the author?
A. They are trying to solve personal problems.
B. They feel the need for greater challenges.
C. It is safer than mountain climbing.
D. They want to go trekking in isolated places.

3. Why, according to the author, should aviation fuel be taxed?


A. It would ultimately help reduce pollution.
B. It would enable governments to buy more fuel.
C. It would help governments stay in power.
D. Other types of fuels are taxed.

5. Comment on the following statement: You can only really learn anything about foreign countries
by living and working in them and I applaud those who do it. (100 words) 4 points

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