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 normal – L2

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

• Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 3 ore.
SUBIECTUL I (30 puncte) Varianta 068

Read the text below and complete the following tasks.

The trouble with television news bulletins is that not only will they never please all the people all
the time; they’ll probably annoy most of the people a lot of the time. In only half an hour they cover the
globe and struggle to do the impossible.
All the words in one television bulletin would fit onto just the front page of one large newspaper. …
(1). No one reads a newspaper from cover to cover: readers can flick through and find the item they
want. On television, they have to sit through all the stories they don’t want and may be disappointed if
their particular interest isn’t featured.
The typical news story contains a twenty-second introduction from the presenter, two twenty-
second quotes from key people, forty seconds of commentary over pictures, and then a reporter
summing everything up. … (2). Television is the hardest, most demanding kind of journalism there is.
Some viewers complain that bulletins should be longer and go into much more detail. … (3). And
how much of the news do people really take in anyway? I doubt if anyone ever watches the news from
start to finish, and concentrates all the way through. There is no right answer, no perfect bulletin. …
(4).

1. Four sentences have been removed from the text. Select the appropriate sentence for each
gap in the text. There is one sentence that does not fit. 4 points

A. It represents an important educational influence.

B. Large numbers of viewers will always complain.
C. However, it appears that a mass audience will not watch for more than half an hour.
D. Yet, viewers expect to see as much as there is in a whole newspaper.
E. How much can we cram into that tight format and still make sense?

2. What/Who do the words in bold refer to? 6 points

3. Give the synonyms of the following words. 10 points

1. trouble 2. to annoy 3. to struggle 4. particular 5. kind

4. Answer the following questions. 6 points

A. What seems to be the problem of television news bulletins?

B. Do people read a newspaper from cover to cover?
C. Are there any viewers who complain about news bulletins?

5. In your own words, comment on the following sentence: The trouble with television news
bulletins is that not only will they never please all the people all the time; they’ll probably annoy most
of the people a lot of the time. In only half an hour they cover the globe and struggle to do the
impossible. (50 words) 4 points