OLIMPIADA DE LIMBA ENGLEZĂ

ETAPA LOCALĂ
CLASA a IX-a – SECȚIUNEA B
18 februarie 2023
Varianta 1

SUBIECTUL A – USE OF ENGLISH (40 points)

I. Fill in with the appropriate Voice and Tense of the verbs given in brackets; make use of any
auxiliaries or modals you need! (10 x 1p = 10p)

I went to the doctor's yesterday. I (1)....... (to have to) wait for an hour before he (2) ...... (can) see me. "I (3)
.......(to go) abroad next week but I (4).... (to have) a pain for two days. (5) ........(to think) I'Il be well enough
to go?" "When I (6) ..... (to examine) you, I’ll be able to tell you, " the doctor said. "I (7).... (to work) in the
garden when I suddenly felt the pain," I told the doctor. "If I (8) ... (to stop) immediately, it would have been
all right, I suppose. But I hardly ever (9)......... (to get) any exercise in my job, so I went on working." After
examining me carefully, the doctor said: "You (10) .....(to hurt) a bone in your back!"

II. Use the word given in brackets to form a word that fits grammatically in the gap. (10 x 1p = 10p)

1. They all stood up to the ____________________anthem, waving their country’s flag. (NATION)
2. Looking for work is very difficult and ________________________at the moment. (FRUSTRATE)
3. His resignation came very ______________________. (SUDDEN)
4. She’ a real ____________________________ (IDEAL)
5. Today’s society is obsessed with ____________________________. (MATERIAL)
6. There are a lot of decaying buildings in our ___________________________. (NEIGHBOUR)
7. He’s very _________________________________, and gets annoyed when he loses. (COMPETE)
8. She looked at him _________________________ when he told her of his success. (ADMIRE)
9. Most of his problems are _______________________________. (PSYCHOLOGY)
10. I don’t really know. I’m quite _________________________about what to do. (SURE)

III. Find the correct answer a., b., c. or d. (10 x 1p = 10p)

1. I haven't been to a party for ages and ... . a. my sister also b. my sister has neither c. my sister has not,
too d. my sister has not, either
2. The lecturer will begin his conference as soon as everybody ... seated. a. will be b. be c. are d. is
3. When we got to the chalet, it ... for three hours. a. had been raining b. was raining c. rained d. has been
raining
4. .......... had they left home than they remembered they had forgotten to lock the door.
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a. barely b. no sooner c. lately d. hardly

5. The harder he worked ... .

a. the better his results were b. his results were the better c. were the better his results b. should d. will d. his
results the better were

6. Grannie's cake is not ready yet. It ....... .

a. is just cooked b. has just cooked c. is just being cooked d. is cooking

7. We are looking forward ... you soon. a. to see b. to seeing c. seeing d. see

8. We ... better go home now. a. do b. should c. would d. had

9. I can't get used ... so early. a. to get b. to getting up c. get d. getting

10. .... his wife, he enjoys cooking. a. Dislike b. Not alike c. Despite d. Unlike

IV. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in
each space. (10 x 1p = 10p)

Money
There is no doubt that money, in the form that we know it today, (1) ____________ what
keeps modern economic life functioning. Yet, throughout history, money, in whatever form, has provided
people (2)__________ the ability to buy (3)____________sell goods.
Thousands of years (4)___________ , civilisations (5)__________to rely on the barter system as a way of
exchanging goods. Within this system a person had to exchange one thing for another. This meant that the
two parties involved had to (6)__________ an agreement as to what they thought their products were worth.
Items such (7)_______ wheat, tobacco and livestock have all been used as money at one time or another.
It was not until much later that humans came up (8)__________ the idea of money in the form of metal
coins. So why (9)____________ the barter system come to an end? The answer is simple. Coins were
much easier to handle and carry around. Since then, the use of coins has become widespread. It has made
commerce simpler and has given countries an opportunity (10)_____________ development by doing
business with other countries further afield, which they had never done business with before.

(10X1p=10 points)

SUBIECTUL B – INTEGRATED SKILLS

Read the text below and do the tasks that follow.

I. For each question choose the correct letter A, B, C or D. (5 x 2p= 10p)

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Her hand dropped to a little table beside her, fingering a tiny china rose-bowl, The room was so still she almost
screamed to break the silence. She must do something or go mad. She picked up the bowl and hurled it
viciously across the room toward the fireplace. It barely cleared the tall back of the sofa and splintered with a
little crush against the marble mantelpiece.
"This", said a voice from the depth of the sofa, "is too much"
Nothing had ever startled or frightened her so much, and her mouth went too dry for her to utter a sound. She
caught hold of the back of the chair, her knees going weak under her, as Rhet Butler rose from the sofa where
he had been lying.
"It is bad enough to have an afternoon nap disturbed by such a passage as I have been forced to hear, but why
should my life be endangered?"
He was real. He was not a ghost. But saints preserve us, he had heard everything!
"Sir, you should have made known your presence."
"Indeed?" His white teeth gleamed and his bold dark eyes laughed at her...
Her temper was beginning to rise again at the thought that this rude and impertinent man had heard everything
- heard things she now wished she had died before she ever uttered.
"Eavesdroppers..." she began furiously.
"Eavesdroppers often hear highly entertaining and instructive things", he grinned.
"Sir", she said, "you are no gentleman!"
"And you, Miss, are no lady. No one can remain a lady after saying and doing what I have just overheard.
However, ladies have seldom held any charms for me."

1. Scarlett first took a bowl and

a. broke it
b. put a rose in it
c. put it on the mantelpiece
d. admired it

2. On hearing Rhet's voice, Scarlett was

a. high-spirited
b. in a panic
c. disappointed
d. sorry

3. Scarlett had not seen Rhet because he was

a. sitting in an armchair
b. standing behind the door
c. waiting in the backyard
d. resting on a sofa

4. Then, Scarlett was worried because Rhet

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a. had kissed her
b. had been indiscreet
c. had not heard her
d. had shouted at her

5. During the conversation, Rhet was

a. miserable
b. frightened
c. being ironic
d. ill at ease

II. Read the text again and write a narrative essay (200-220 words) about a situation when you felt ill
at ease. (50p)

N. B. Toate subiectele sunt obligatorii!

Punctaj total 100p.
Timp de lucru 3 ore.