LIMBA ENGLEZĂ, CLASA a X-a

TEST INITIAL
2019-2020

Name:………………………………………………….
Date:…………………………………………………...
Class:………………………………………………….

1. This is an article about fashion. Read it and fill each gap with a word from the table.
(30 p)

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Jewellery is a ………..(1) part of the royal wardrobe and the Queen owns the finest
………..(2) collection in the world. The basis of the present royal collection was ……….
(3) by Queen Victoria, who spent an enormous sum of ……….(4) on jewellery, and the
most famous jewels that the Royal family wears today, the Koh-i-noor, the ……….(5)
necklace and the Indian regal ………..(6) were all acquired in her reign.
Queen Mary had a ……….(7) for being the most avid ………(8) of jewellery and even
today the brooch made from the fabulous Cullinan Diamond, said to be the most ………..
(9) in the world, is known within the ………….(10) as “Granny Chips”.

2. The following sayings are all connected with fashion. Match the two halves of each
saying. Write the full sentences on your answer sheet (30p)

a) Fashion fades,… …I design dreams.

b) If you are not in fashion, …. …wear red.
c) A designer is only as good as… …style is eternal.
d) When in doubt,… …I am fashion.
e) I don't do fashion,… …. the star who wears her clothes
f) I don't design clothes. …you are nobody.

3. Read the following quote and answer the questions on your answer sheet. (30p)

“…all fashion is ultimately an art of illusion, an elaborate fantasy enabling us to change

personality, chameleon-like, at will”. Bella-Jan 1993

a) Do you think a person’s appearance is important? Why? Why not?

b) Do you like to be fashionably dressed? Why?
c) Do you think that the way we dress may depend on our mood? Give examples.

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