BAC ENG, 2009, SCRIS, L3, V-5, Sb-1, [ sub + rezolv ]

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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
L3 – Minorităţi

Toate subiectele sunt obligatorii. Se acordă 10 puncte din oficiu.
Timpul efectiv de lucru este de 3 ore.

Varianta 5

SUBIECTUL I (30 de puncte)

Read the text below and complete the following tasks.

Despite living the public life of a global celebrity, her personal life routinely splashed across magazines, Nicole Kidman finds the strength to perform by shrinking her world.

“Acting is actually very private,” says Kidman. “My husband [ country singer Keith Urban ] is a performer and he goes out and performs in front of 15,000 fans. That’s just not my calling; I could never do it.”

Kidman, now 40, stars in two films this fall, beginning with Noah Baumbach’s “Margot at the Wedding”, the young director’s follow-up to 2005’s “The Squid and the Whale.” This December, she will lend her star power to the big-budget fantasy epic “The Golden Compass”.

As Margot, though, she gives an exceedingly raw performance of a woman in crisis. A novelist and single mother, her character is brutally honest and neurotic to the extreme.

Although the film, which has an intentionally unpolished, ’70s aesthetic to it, has received mixed reviews, Kidman’s performance is a welcome sight for fans of the actress whose work since winning an Oscar for 2002’s “The Hours” has consisted of roles in 2004’s “The Stepford Wives” and 2005’s “Bewitched.”

1. Read the text again and decide if the following sentences are true (T) or false (F). On your exam sheet write T or F next to the letter indicating the sentence.
4 points

A. Nicole Kidman’s husband is a hip hop singer.

B. “Margot at the Wedding” is a film directed by Steven Spielberg.

C. The character Margot is a woman in crisis.

D. Kidman has played in 2006’s “The Stepford Wives”.

My word explanation:

● to be splashed across = to be large and easy to see;
● to shrink = to diminish, to shrivel, to dwindle;
● actually = in fact;
● fan = admirer;
● calling = vocation;
● to star = to play the main role;
● fall = autumn;
● follow-up = a book, film, or article that is based on or develops an earlier one;
● squid = octopus ( with 10 instead of 8 arms );
● to lend = to give something a particular quality;
● though = however;
● raw = natural;
● unpolished = unrefined;
● review = an article in which someone gives their own opinion of a play, book, film, art exhibition;
● mixed = partly good and partly bad;

Solution
My answer:

● A – F; [ country singer ];
● B – F; [ Noah Baumbach ];
● C – T;
● D – F; [ 2004 ].

2. Answer the following questions:
6 points

A. How does Nicole Kidman see acting?

B. What is the follow-up to ”The Squid and the Whale”?

C. In what year did Kidman perform in ”The Hours”?

Solution
My answer:

● A – not pubic but very private affair;
● B – the movie “Margot at the Wedding”;
● C – 2002;

3. Write questions to which the underlined words are the answers.
10 points

Solution
My answer:

● Who does Keith Urban perform for? / Where does Keith Urban perform? / Whose front does Keith Urban perform in?

● How is her character?

4. Find antonyms to the words written in bold.
6 points

Solution
My answer:

● [ never ] = always;
● [ beginning ] = ending;
● [ unpolished ] = polished;

5. Use two of the antonyms found above in sentences of your own.
4 points

Solution
My answer:

● [ always ] When he performs on the stage he always has a warm tone.
● [ polished ] He wears very polished shoes whenever he comes onto the stage.