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
L3 – Minorităţi

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

• Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 3 ore.

SUBIECTUL I (30 puncte) Varianta 001

Read the text below and complete the following tasks.

Almost one-fourth of U.S. high school students currently smoke cigarettes, according to
background information in the article. Many teen smokers want to quit, but studies estimate that
only about 4 percent of those who try are successful each year.
Myra L. Muramoto, Scott J. Leischow, and colleagues at the University of Arizona, Tucson,
conducted a clinical trial of 312 adolescents aged 14-17 who smoked six or more cigarettes per
day and had tried to quit at least twice before. They were randomly assigned to receive 150
milligrams (105 teens) or 300 milligrams (104 teens) of bupropion per day, or placebo (103 teens).
Participants visited the clinic weekly for seven weeks--six weeks of treatment plus one week post-
treatment--and received 10- to 20-minute individual counselling sessions.
The results suggest that 300 milligrams of bupropion plus brief counselling sessions may help
teens quit smoking over the short term. In addition, the high rate of relapse after stopping
medication suggests that a longer treatment period--such as the 12 weeks recommended for adult
smokers--may be needed.

1. Read the text again and decide if the following sentences are true (T) or false
(F). On your exam sheet write T or F next to the letter indicating the sentence. 4 points

A. Almost a quarter of U.S. high school students currently smoke cigarettes.

B. 312 adolescents aged 14-17 took part in a clinical trial.
C. 200 teens were assigned to receive placebo.
D. Bupropion and short counselling sessions don’t help teens quit smoking.

2. Answer the following questions: 6 points

A. What percentage of teen smokers who try to quit are successful?

B. How many teenagers received placebo during the clinical trial?
C. What do the results suggest?

3. Write questions to which the underlined words are the answers. 10 points

4. Find antonyms to the words written in bold. 6 points

5. Use two of the antonyms found above in sentences of your own. 4 points