BAC ENG, 2009, SCRIS, L1-L2, V-2, Sb-1, [ sub + rezolv ]

[musa paradisiaca]

Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării şi Inovării
Centrul Naţional pentru Curriculum şi Evaluare în Învăţământul Preuniversitar

Examenul de bacalaureat 2009
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.

Varianta 2

SUBIECTUL I (30 de puncte)

Read the text below and complete the following tasks.

The complaints started in earnest about two weeks before the Sasos left for Tijuana and reached a crescendo during the first few days of the trip. Rather than spend their family summer vacation, say, going to the beach like many of their friends, Patt and Steve Saso were taking their children to the barrios of Baja to build houses for the poor.

"What kind of parents would make their kids do this?" moaned the children, aged 11, 12, and 14. Faced with hours of daily physical labor and no running water or electricity, Patt herself began to have doubts, writing in her journal, …(1) But by the end of the week, everyone had met new friends and was proud of his or her accomplishments. "It was actually fun," says Patt. "The experience cemented us as a family.

"Whether it's volunteering to build houses in Baja, learning about Buddhism in Burma (Myanmar), … (2), more families are trying to integrate meaning into their summer vacations.

These parents see travel as a chance to instill values or provide a learning experience for their children, …(3) What's more, they say the inherent challenges in such vacations allow for the type of bonding that's hard to come by these days. "We have this idyllic view of family coming together around the dinner table, … (4), that communication and bonding happens less at home," says Hank Phillips, president of the National Tour Association (NTA). "Family travel has become the new family dinner." (Margaret Loftus, New Family Values)

1. Four sentences/groups of words have been removed from the text. Select the appropriate sentence/ group of words for each gap in the text. There is one extra sentence/group of words which you do not need to use.
4 points

A. but with schedules and the variety of forms families take

B. “they want to expose their kids to things they wouldn’t ordinarily see, to dig deeper.”

C. or digging up Pueblo Indian artifacts in Colorado.

D. such as teaching them about other cultures or the environment.

E. "Why did I say 'yes' to this trip?"

My word explanation:

● in earnest = seriously;
● barrio, [ pl. barrios] = district, neighbourhood ( a Spanish word );
● Baja = Baja California, the northernmost state of Mexico;
● to moan = to groan, to lament, to complain;
● accomplishment = realization, triumph;
● to cement = to join, to stick together, to unite;
● artifact = ornament, tool, or any other object made by a human being;
● to integrate = to incorporate, to introduce;
● to instill = to inoculate, to insert, to inspire;
● inherent = implicit, internal, integrated;
● to allow for = to consider the effects of [ smth ];
● to come by = to get something [ that is hard to get ];

Solution
My answer:

● ( 1 ) – E;
● ( 2 ) – C;
● ( 3 ) – D;
● ( 4 ) – A;

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

Solution
My answer:

● everyone = the Sasos;
● it = the experience;
● these parents = the parents trying to give meaning to their summer vacations;

3. Explain the following words.
10 points

1. complaint
2. labour
3. journal
4. challenge
5. bonding

Solution
My answer:

● ( 1 ) complaint = statement of disagreement, discontent;
● ( 2 ) labour = very hard work;
● ( 3 ) journal = diary; personal notebook;
● ( 4 ) challenge = test, trial;
● ( 5 ) bonding = development of a close relationship between people;

4. Answer the following questions:
6 points

A. Why did the children complain?
B. Why did Pat begin to have doubts?
C. How are more and more families trying to integrate meaning into their summer vacations?

Solution
My answer:

● A – because their parents offered them a very unusual way to spend their summer vacation;
● B – because of lack of basic comfort ( no running water, no electricity, too much daily physical work );
● C – by fructifying every chance to instill values or provide a learning experience for their children, such as teaching them about other cultures or the environment;

5. Comment on the following sentence (50 words):

Family travel has become the new family dinner.

4 points

Solution
My answer:

● The context suggests that family travel is like daily afternoon food. Dinner unites family members in sharing emotions, feelings, experiences. Family travel offers a family the unique chance to grow together spiritually and emotionally, the way the physical dinner does. Thus family travel functions like a spiritual dinner necessary to develop harmonious family relationships. ( 54 words )

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[musa paradisiaca]

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