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Centrul Na țional de Evaluare și Examinare
Prob ă scris ă la Limba și literatura englez ă Model
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CONCURSUL PENTRU OCUPAREA POSTURILOR DIDACTICE/ CAT EDRELOR DECLARATE
VACANTE/ REZERVATE ÎN ÎNV ĂȚĂ MÂNTUL PREUNIVERSITAR

15 Iulie 2015

Proba scris ă la LIMBA ȘI LITERATURA ENGLEZ Ă
Model

• Toate subiectele sunt obligatorii. Se acord ă 10 puncte din oficiu.
• Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 4 ore.

SUBIECTUL I (30 de puncte)

Consider the following text:

Lucrezia Warren Smith, sitting by her husband’s sid e on a seat in Regent’s Park in the Broad
Walk, looked up.
“Look, look, Septimus!” she cried. For Dr. Holmes h ad told her to make her husband (who had
nothing whatever seriously the matter with him but was a little out of sorts) take an interest in
things outside himself.
So, thought Septimus, looking up, they are signalli ng to me. Not indeed in actual words; that is,
he could not read the language yet; but it was plai n enough, this beauty, this exquisite beauty, and
tears filled his eyes as he looked at the smoke wor ds languishing and melting in the sky and
bestowing upon him, in their inexhaustible charity and laughing goodness, one shape after another
of unimaginable beauty and signalling their intenti on to provide him, for nothing, forever, for lookin g
merely, with beauty, more beauty! Tears ran down hi s cheeks.
It was toffee; they were advertising toffee, a nurs emaid told Rezia. Together they began to spell
t…o…f…
“K…R…” said the nursemaid, and Septimus heard her s ay “Kay Arr” close to his ear, deeply,
softly, like a mellow organ, but with a roughness i n her voice like a grasshopper’s, which rasped his
spine deliciously and sent running up into his brai n waves of sound which, concussing, broke. A
marvellous discovery indeed – that the human voice in certain atmospheric conditions (for one
must be scientific, above all scientific) can quick en trees into life! Happily Rezia put her hand with
tremendous weight on his knee so that he was weight ed down, transfixed, or the excitement of the
elm trees rising and falling, rising and falling wi th all their leaves alight and the colour thinning and
thickening from blue to the green of a hollow wave, like plumes on horses’ heads, feathers on
ladies’, so proudly they rose and fell, so superbly , would have sent him mad. But he would not go
mad. He would shut his eyes; he would see no more. […]
“Septimus!” said Rezia. He started violently. Peopl e must notice.
“I am going to walk to the fountain and back,” she said.
For she could stand it no longer. Dr Holmes might s ay there was nothing the matter. Far rather
would she that he were dead! She could not sit besi de him when he stared so and did not see her
and made everything terrible; sky and tree, childre n playing, dragging carts, blowing whistles,
falling down; all were terrible. And he would not k ill himself; and she could tell no one. “Septimus
has been working too hard” – that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one
solitary, she thought. She could tell nobody, not e ven Septimus now, and looking back, she saw
him sitting in his shabby overcoat alone, on the se at, hunched up, staring. And it was cowardly for
a man to say he would kill himself, but Septimus ha d fought; he was brave; he was not Septimus
now. She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed; and he was happy
without her. Nothing could make her happy without h im! Nothing! He was selfish. So men are. For
he was not ill. Dr.Holmes said there was nothing th e matter with him. She spread her hand before
her. Look! Her wedding ring slipped – she had grown so thin. It was she who suffered – but she
had nobody to tell.
(V. Woolf, Mrs Dalloway )

Ministerul Educa ției și Cercet ării Știin țifice
Centrul Na țional de Evaluare și Examinare
Prob ă scris ă la Limba și literatura englez ă Model
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a. Contextualize the text from a historical and cultur al point of view. (15-20 lines) 10 points

b. Discuss the relevance of the text, in terms of cont ent and style, with reference to its author’s
literary canon. (30-40 lines) 20 points

SUBIECTUL al II-lea (30 de puncte)

a. Specify and illustrate five categories of verbs that are not normally used in progressive
forms. 10 points

b. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in
meaning to the sentence printed before it. 10 points

1. The news was withheld until a workable solution had been found.
Only after ………………………………………………………….
2. The jury couldn’t reach a decision because of the l ack of hard evidence.
The lack of hard evidence prevented ………………………………….
3. The idea no longer interests her.
She has gone ………………………………. .
4. Our fight over such a trifle turned out to be compl etely unnecessary.
We……………………………………………………………
5. I’m afraid we’ll have to take Ann to hospital.
I’m afraid ……………………………………. .

c. Write one word in each gap. 10 points

Rarely_____1) one find as clear an account of socia l change as Olivia Harris’s Changing Britain.
Those who prefer to bury their heads in the _____2) and imagine that Britain is the same as it was
even 20 years ago are in _____3) a shock. Harris co nvincingly argues that not only have those
_____4) authority increased their power, _____5) or dinary people are also less likely to stand up to
those in office. At _____6) point in the book _____ 7) any of Harris’s claims presented without
evidence, and _____8) does she talk down to the non -expert. Her main conclusion, that _____9)
until we all realize that _____10) is a problem and decide to confront the authorities will the
situation improve, is powerful and irresistible.

SUBIECTUL al III-lea (30 de puncte)

a. 12 points
Based on the text from SUBJECT 1, devise a pre-read ing activity:
• specify the objectives 2 points
• specify the estimated time 1 point
• indicate the level of your students 1 point
• describe the stages of the activity 8 points

b. 18 points
Devise three exercises based on three types of ‘ indirect ’ items to measure students’ ability to
express condition (five items per each exercise). 3 exercises x 6 points

• Content 3 points
•• •• Specify the time limit and the students’ level 1 point
•• •• Mention the learning objectives 1 point
•• •• Provide the answer key 1 point