Inspectoratul Şcolar Judeţean Prahova

OLIMPIADA DE LIMBA ENGLEZĂ,

ETAPA LOCALĂ, 2023
Clasa a X-a Secțiunea B

BAREM DE CORECTARE SI NOTARE

VARIANTA 2
Se punctează oricare alte modalităţi de rezolvare corectă a cerinţelor.
Nu se acordă punctaje intermediare, altele decât cele precizate explicit prin barem.

SUBIECTUL A - USE OF ENGLISH 40 points

I. Read the text below and do the tasks that follow:

A. Answer these questions 8 points
Suggested answers
1. The description points to the fact that the speaker was a very rigid, intolerant, narrow-minded person
”square wall of a forehead, hard set mouth, inflexible, dry and dictatorial voice” who would not accept
anyone else’s opinion and impose his will on everybody.
2. He felt proud and satisfied because the school was his and he imposed his own rules and “principles” on
the others, without ever allowing to be contradicted.
3. The Gradgrind children were not familiar with stories, songs or poems for children/with children’s
literature.
4. The author’s attitude towards the main character in the fragment is ironic, critical, highly disapproving of
his teaching methods or the way he treated children.

B. Choose the right synonym: 6 points

1B 2B 3B

C. Rephrase the following sentences so as to preserve the meaning. 6 points

1. must be brought up
2. sooner been able to run alone than
3. they could/ would/ might/ should become

II. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that best fits in each sentence. 10 points

1 SIGNIFICANCE 2 OPPONENT/S 3 DOMINANT/ DOMINATING 4 SUBMISSIVE 5 CAUTIOUSLY

6 CONSIDERABLE 7 SCIENTISTS 8 SYSTEMATICALLY 9 BEHAVIO(U)RAL 10 IRRESPECTIVE

III. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits in each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
10 points

1. yourself 2. during/ over/ in 3. much 4. out 5. as

SUBIECTUL B – INTEGRATED SKILLS - 60 points

Read the text below and do the tasks below it:

I. For each question, choose the correct letter A, B, C or D 10 points

1B 2A 3B 4D 5C

II. Narrative-descriptive essay – 50 points