ne scng te an : congrats 7 Ministerul Educatie! Nar ionale F Inspectoratul © colar al Municipiului Bucuresti OLIMPIADA DE LIMBA ENGLEZA 2013-2014 - Etapa pe sector ~ clasa a Xia ~ |. (10 points) Read the texts below and decide which variant (A, B, C or D) best fits each The success of many leading companies depends on an effective management team and a) ways to encourage those managers to (2) ng with each other. In prev ways have (3). from weekends when managers wenl camping together to white-water latest corporate team-building technique that is becoming increasingly popular in the managem is sitting for hours round a table making shapes out of Lego. the well-known building bricks children have (5), up with But don't be (6) by those familiar green and yellow p this is Lego for adults, and among senior executives it is the hottest management (7), everywhere laptop. Companies are now (8) to send senior staff along to learn what Lego can do their corporate ethos, and management consultants are even (9), themselves to running Lego s to meet the demand. They claim that the multicoloured bricks can (10) free managers from a limited imagination 1A. searching B enquiring C requesting D seeking 2A go B come ¢ get D work 3A covered B included C ranged © consisted 4A circle 8 world © level © area 5.A grown B_ brought C come D taken 6A attracted B concerned © directes D fooled 7.A tool B equipment instrument O gadget 8A _ enthusiastic B agreeable C eager D excited 9A specialising 8 focusing € concentrating —-D._dedicating 10.4 assist B help Cc aid OD support Il. (10 points) Fill the gaps in the text below with ONE suitable word: j Many towns and cities around the world conjure (1). a particular image or memory as soon as they are mentioned, whether it is (2) to a catastrophic earthquake that shattered it, an airplane that came down, just outside it, or a madman with a gun (3) amok through the streets in the dim and (4) past Glastonbury now joins this group. ‘Have you been to Glastonbury?’ will rarely be a query as to whether you have (5), passed through the town on your travels. Almost certainly it will be a reference to the twenty-__ odd-year-old Festival of Music whose home it is. What is referred (6). in the media as ‘an instant town the size of Oxford’ appears there for three days in late June and (7), Inhabited by around 100,000 people, most of whom will have (8) up to £100 a ticket for the privilege. é. In the last year or so, a sometimes quite heated argument has broken out along the lines of ‘Are you too old for Glastonbury?’ As we milled yesterday amongst the crowds, opinion seemed evenly divided Never (9) been to such a festival before, seventeen-year-old Nathalie Worsnip failed to see why forty-something who. (10) had their day should spoll things for people like her who are going to Glastonbury for the first time. lil, (10 points) Read the text below and use the words given in capitals to form words that fit in the gaps. The words in capitals are given in the order in which you need to use them: 4-PROPORTIONATELY 2-RIVAL 3-REJUVENATE 4-SPECIAL 5-SLOW 6-BOTTOM7-RESTRAIN 8- DESCRIBE 9-ONE 10-ADD % Does Dubai need an introduction? Yes — but only if you had been living on Mars for the last 10 years. While Dubai has had its share of controversy, some of it (1) unfair, amazing things have come from nothing in_ less than a couple of decades. It has had an (2), infrastructure programme, a tourism boom, (3). of region - but it has also had the bad press, (4) when Dubai defaulted on its debt and had {0 take a bailout from Abu Dhabi. In reality, this was a further coming together of the Emirates in unity, but behind the Olimpiada de limba englezd 201 i ae Clasa a Xil-a, varianta 1 1014, etapa pe sectorMinisterui Educatiei NaMionale Inspectoratul “colar al Municipiuiui Bucure=ti OLIMPIADA DE LIMBA ENGLEZA 2013-2014 - Etapa pe sector — ciasa a X!i-a - varianta 1 scenes, it was a (5) in acceleration that the more brash Emirate had enjoyed over the last few yea’s. That doesn't mean that Dubai is all over. Dubai is glam and bling, smart and forward thinking, and even without the buckets of foreign investment, with the forethought of Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Al Makhtoum, Dubai will prevail. The Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing and Emirates Airline, with a seemingly (6) pit of money at their disposal, have been able to enthuse and extol the virtues of the city without (7)_____for several years. There is, at a rough estimate, about $100 billion worth of projects either underway or planned for the near future. That is a numbing figure, ungraspable. It is the equivalent of every single dollar invested in the United States from abroad last year. Visiting Dubai is somewhat (8) A trip to Dubai is a must for (9). travelling to the UAE. if you have visited Dubai before, you will be aghast at what has changed, and so any business trip to Abu Dhabi warrants some (10). downtime in Dubai IV. (20 points) Rephrase the following sentences so that they contain the words in capitals, and so that the meaning stays the same 1, Although she is clever, she is very arrogant. MAY Clever she's very arrogant 2. Joe would only agree to continue the trip f he could drive instead of Paul TOOK Only if he as the driver, would Joe agree to continue the trip. 3. You have gol fo decide what you really want to do with your life. TIME what you really want to do with your life 4, ‘vVillend you the money if you promise to pay it back.’ he said to me. BORROWING He agreed if | promised to pay it back 5. The council officer promised to get someone to remove the rubbish. HAVE The council officer promised away 6. Another five years were to pass before she saw her brother again GONE Not she see her brother again 7. Itappears that Sam informed the police HAVE Sam the police. 8. It doesn't look as though John wants to buy that nouse after all DECIDED John seems buying that house after all 9. tis thought that the two injured men were repairing overhead cables HAVE The two injured men overhead cables. 10. He really wants to see animals living in the wild, INTENT He animals living in the wild. V. (50 points) - REPORT WRITING This is an extract from a letter you received from a magazine called Family Matters is [We are very interested in finding out how the family is perceived in different parts of the world. Please write a | report for us describing the importance of both the nuclear" and extended family in your country, and how | family relationships might evolve in the foreseeable future. Write your report in 280-300 words. Think about = sections with subheadings writing an introduction and a conclusion 1g of amother, a father, and their children *(a family unit) cons SCRIE_| RASPUNSURILE PE FOAIA DE RASPUNS (ANSWER SHEET) BARA”| TOATE SPA ILE NECOMPLETATE. TIMP OE LUCRU: 3 ORE. NU SE ACORDA PUNCTE DIN OFICIU. Olimpiada de limba englezd 2013-2014, etapa pe sector Clasa a Xll-a, varianta 1INSPECTORATUL \COLAR AL MUNICIPIULU! BUCURE TI OLIMPIADA DE LIMBA ENGLEZA 2013-2014 ETAPA PE SECTOR- CLASA a Xil-a -varianta 1 PUNCTAJ SI BAREM 1, (10 puncte) 4D 26 3C 48 6A 6D 7A “SCP oD. 108 HI, (10 puncte) 4-up 2-due 3-running 4-distant §-ever 6-to 7-is 8-paid 9-having 10-had {i (10 puncte) A.disproportionately — 2.unrivalled 3,rejuvenation 4.especially —_ 5.slowdown, 6.bottomless 7.restraint 8.indescribable 9.anyone 10.additional V. (20 puncte) Rephrase the following sentences so that the meaning stays the same: asithough she may be 2. took over from Paul (high/about) time you decided to my/me borrowing the money 5.to have someone take the rubbish/he would have/get the rubbish taken/to have/get the rubbish taken 6 until five years had gone by did 7. must have informed/appears to have informed/appears to be the one who informed 8 to have decided against 9. are thought to have been repairing 10. is intent on seeing V. (50 points) - Report Writing - 280-300 words vezi GRILA PENTRU CORECTAREA LUCRARILOR SCRISE (Descriptori) NOTA: Pentru subiectele Il \\i IV se accepta orice variantd posibila corecta. NU SE ACORDA PUNCTE DIN OFICIU,