UNIVERSITATEA DE STAT DIN MOLDOVA

Departamentul Limbă Engleză şi Limbă Franceză specializate

TEST 1 la Limba Engleza 2021
Facultatea Drept
Student(a) Ursu Mihail_____________ Anul I Grupa 2017

Task 1. Look at the article below. Read it and decide if the statements under it
are TRUE or FALSE.

Sanjay Pritam is a partner with a law firm in Southampton in the south of England.
Sanjay is a specialist in maritime law. He chose this area of law because of his family
history. His father owns a ship. Sanjay’s father worked on this ship for his whole life.
Sanjay worked with him for two years and then he started his legal studies. Sanjay thinks
this practical experience on a ship was very useful.
English law influences most of the law that governs international maritime cases.
For this reason, lawyers from all over the world contact Sanjay’s office to ask him for his
opinion, which he gives by phone or email.
When maritime lawyers are speaking informally they divide cases into two categories.
They call them ‘dry’ cases and ‘wet’ cases. Dry cases involve problems with shipping
contracts and wet cases involve problems at sea, such as ships that have accidents. Most of
the cases that Sanjay deals with cannot be negotiated and end in litigation.

1. Sanjay Pritam works in a family law practice.(False)

2. Sanjay’s father is also a lawyer.(False) Sanjay’s father worked on his ship for his whole
life.
3. Sanjay thinks it is good that he worked on a ship before he was a lawyer. 1
(True) Sanjay thinks this practical experience on a ship was very useful.

4. Sanjay usually travels to other countries to help lawyers who have questions about
maritime law.(False)Sanjay gives his opinion by phone or email
5. A maritime case involving a breach of contract is informally called a ‘dry case’.(True)
6. Most of Sanjay’s cases go to court because the parties cannot agree upon a solution.
(True)

Task 2. Write 5 questions to the text.

1._Why Sanjay chose this area of low ?
2_Wher Sanjay father worked?
3._Why lowers from all over the world ask Sanjay for his opinion ?
4._Witch are the 2 informal maritime low categories ?
5._What does the ‘’wet’’ term means ?

Task 3. Identify the terms for the definitions given below.

1. The law that punishes acts against a person or against property that people consider to
be harmful to the whole community. The state prosecutes criminals.
_______________Criminal Low____________
2. The law concerning the rights and duties of private individuals and companies rather
than criminal matters. _____Civil Low______________________
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3. This person is a lawyer who gives legal advice and opinions to solicitors. He or she
passed the exams of the Bar Council of England & Wales at the end of his or her
studies. _______________Barrister____________
4. This person is a lawyer who gives legal advice to individuals and companies. He or she
passed his or her exams in the USA at the end of his or her studies and is usually a
member of the American Bar Association.
______Attorney_____________________
5. Solicitors finish their university studies they do a one year legal practice course and
then a two-year __________Training contract______________ with a law firm.

Task 5. Fill in the blanks with a verb from the box in the SIMPLE PAST:
Break not/ swim have make sit
write spend not/buy drink lose
wash
1. She ………………….. a cake an hour ago.
She did not buy a cake an hour ago.
2. She ………………….. a hat last week?
Did she have a hat last week?
3. The boy …………… a letter yesterday?
Did the boy write a latter yesterday?
4. They …………… in the sea for an hour.
They did not swim in the sea for an hour.
5. They ………… a lot of Coke last night?
Did they drink a lot of Coke last night?
6. She ………………… her arm last week.
She broke her arm last week 2
7. He ……………. all his money last week?
Did he spend all his money last week ?
8. She …………… a bath two minutes ago.
She made a bath two minutes ago.
9. He ………………. his wallet last night?
Did he lose his wallet last night?
10. She ……….. on the old chair a minute ago.
She sat on the old chair a minute ago.
11. She …………….. the clothes yesterday?
Did she wash the clothes yesterday?

Task 6. Read the following story:

Bob is a young sailor. He lives in England, but he is often away with his ship. One summer
he comes back from a long voyage and finds new neighbors near his mother’s house. They
have a pretty daughter, and Bob soon loves her and he wants to marry her when he comes
back. Bob promises the girl to send a present from every port. Bob’s first port is Capetown
in Africa, and he sends the girl a parrot from there. The parrot speaks three languages.
When Bob’s ship reaches Australia, a letter comes from the girl. The letter says, “Thank
you for the parrot, Bob. It tasted much better than a chicken.”

a) Write the story again.

Use THE SIMPLE PAST: Bob was a young sailor. He lived in England, but he
was often away with his ship. One summer he came back from a long voyage and
found new neighbors near his mother’s house. They had a pretty daughter, and Bob soon
loved her and he wanted to marry her when he came back. Bob promised the girl to send a
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present from every port. Bob’s first port is Capetown in Africa, and he sent the girl a parrot
from there. The parrot spoke three languages. When Bob’s ship reached Australia, a letter
came from the girl. The letter said, “Thank you for the parrot, Bob. It tasted much better
than a chicken.”

Task 7
Comment on the following quote:
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men
are afraid of the light.” by Plato (200 words)

Useful languge: To begin/to start with, one way/another way, another

solution would be, measures should be taken in order to solve, the situation
could be improved, therefore, consequently, due to, as a result, so that…,in order
to, obviously, clearly, all in all, to sum up, all things considered.
Assessment criteria:
1. Content and understanding – 7p
2. Organisation and presentation of ideas – 8p
3. Vocabulary – 2p
4. Grammar – 2p
5. Spelling – 2p
6. Punctuation – 1p

To start with, this quote made me think what Platoon was writing
about and I understood that child represent innocence, the first steps
that we are making in our lives. At the beginning of our lives we are
opened to every thing and also scared of some things that we do not 3
know that are represented by the dark. But on the other hand we
understand that a child is not strong and clever enough, child does not
know the consequences of his acts to understand things that are going
around him or her. As a result we can not punish a child for being
afraid of something.
Obviously men is well educated, capable of making educated and
well informed decisions for their act, however they are lacking valour
and courage to face the light of the truth. They are afraid of the
consequences of representing the truth in its absolute form. Another
way of this idea is that every men should face every thing that comes
into his life without being scared of something.
To sum up the ideas all human beings must face every trouble that
appears in our lives and pass throe it because if we stuck at any kind
of trouble we can not evolve our skills and minds so we can not live
our lives as we wont.  An ignorant man spends full life with greed
and desire which remains unfulfilled while a realized men spends
life with full appreciation of its existence.

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Test la Limba Engleza. Anul I. Semestru II. Anul de studiu 2020-2021.
Profesor: Volosciuc Ina