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Numele elevului……………………………………………….Data……………………………………………………………..

Partea I………………………………………….60pI. Read the text below and complete the following tasks. Write all your answers on the

answer sheet:

When you first see Sonya Thomas, you wonder whether she might be blown away by the breezethat is bouncing off Baltimore’s inner harbour this bright and sunny morning. She is a very slim

woman, indeed, and as unlikely as it seems, she is America’s number one eater!

What is even more remarkable is that Sonya is the overall eating champion –not just in the

skinny women category. She routinely destroys men more than twice her size, wolfing down her

food as they stand nauseated and unable to push any more into their mouths. To give some ideaof this woman’s ability, consider just some of the records she currently holds: 552 oysters in ten

minutes, 5.95lbs of meatballs in twelve minutes, 162 chicken wings in twelve minutes and 52hard-boiled eggs in five minutes. Last August in Harrington, Delaware, Sonya ate an astonishing

40 crabcakes in twelve minutes! It is that record she is here this morning to defend, or rather, to break. She has a plan to make it happen. “It’s actually easier if you can dunk them in water “,

she confides.

Her first try at competitive eating came in 2003 during a qualifier for the World Cup of

competitive eating—the 4 July hot dog challenge at Coney Island. In that qualifier, Sonya

managed eighteen dogs, giving her a slot in the final, where she ate 25, which was a new recordfor women eaters. “ I didn’t know I was good at it. The first time I did it, it was just for fun. It

just came out good, so I thought “OK, let’s do it!”

Many have pondered Sonya’s talent. One idea is the “band of fat theory”, which suggests larger

eater struggle to expand their stomachs, because they are constrained by the fat. They point out

that the world champion eater, the near-legendary Takeru Kobayashi of Japan, is also as skinny

as Sonya. Dedication is also a factor. Sonya regularly practices for contests.

It’s time to get started. As the biggest name at the contest Sonya comes on last and stands centre-

stage. She licks her fingers. The countdown begins. They’re off. Sonya grabs a handful of crabcake and pushes it into her mouth. It is gone in an instant and she pushes in more,

masticating like a machine. She eats with one hand, using the other to take sips from a bottle.

After one minute, she announces she has eaten eight. Nine minutes later, she has eaten 43

crabcakes. She ‘s the winner! She stands for photos, a huge smile across her face and her skinnyarms holding the oversized prize-winner’s cheque above her head.

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I.1.a Read the article and state if the following sentences are True (T), or False (F):

A. The writer suggests that Sonya’s achievements are surprising……………….B. In Baltimore she is attempting to regain a record she has once lost………………

C. Early success encouraged her to participate in more eating contests………………..

D. The writer says that the thinner a person is, the better they will be at competitive eating……..E. Sonya is unhappy with her performance in Baltimore…………………….

I. 1.b. Match each of the bolded words in the text to the definitions. There is one extra

definition you will not need to use.

A. 1. tell someone a secret

B. 2. pick something up suddenly and roughly

C. 3. eat very quickly

D. 4. chew

E. 5. put food into liquid before eating it.

I.1.c. For the following sentences, choose the answer (A,B,C,D) which fits according to the

text. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

1. In order to win an eating competition, one must…………………..A. practice regularly B. be very fat C. be skinny D. relax

2. Sonya Thomas’s talent is…………………………………….

A. a natural gift B. something she worked for C. dedication D. nothing special

3. Sonya ate 52 hard-boiled eggs in………………

A. 10 minutes B. 5 minutes C. twelve minutes D. 1 hour

4. This eating contest is held in………………..

A. Harrington B. Baltimore C. Delaware D. New York

5. This time, the food in competition is…………….A. hard-boiled eggs B. chicken wings C. crabcakes D. meatballs

I.2. Read the text below to fill in the missing word. On your answer sheet write only the

missing word next to the number indicating each blank space:

In Scotland, there is a popular 1)…………………. about a monster. The monster lives in a lake

2)…………………….. Loch Ness, near the town 3)………………………. Inverness. Loch Nessis 32 km long, 5 km 4)……………………….. and very, very 5)……………………….. The

monster’s name is Nessie. People 6)………………….. that she is very big, and that she has 7)

………………… long neck, 8)…………………….. a snake. But does Nessie really exist? some

people say yes, some say no. Scientists are 9)……………………. the lake with cameras andsound 10)………………………… .

I. 3. Use the word at the end of each gap to form a new word with which to fill the

gap.Write the answers on the answer sheet.

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We earn our _____ 1. (LIVE) in America today in peaceful ______ 2. (COMPETE) with people

all across the Earth. Profound and _____ 3. (POWER) forces are shaking and _____4. (MAKE)our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not

our enemy. This new world has already _____5. (RICH) the lives of millions of Americans who

are able to _____6. (COMPETITION) and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less, when others cannot work at all, when the cost of health care devastates families and

threatens to _____ 7. (BANK) our enterprises, great and small, when the fear of crime robs law

abiding citizens of their _____8. (FREE), and when millions of poor children cannot even

imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.

Partea a IIa…………………………….. 30p

Read the story below. In one paragraph write your own ending of the story. (8-10 lines)

It was a typical summer afternoon, the sun was beating down, the cars were creeping slowly on

the street. Some kids were playing in the park, near the fountain, jumping in and out of the water,

their nice voices mixing with the noise of the street. Everybody was busy doing something; theheat was the only enemy, but people could find remedies for this, too: the terraces were full, ice-

cream and cooling drinks were on great demand. There was a rush hour, and the streets werecrowded, but the park benches were vacant. Still, there was one occupied by an old man

watching peacefully the children playing in the water. “When did all this happen?, he wasthinking almost out loud, as he stood up and began walking towards the park gates. His

adventure was about to begin……………………………………………………………………….

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Barem de corectura

Partea I 60p

I. 1.a. A.- T, B. – F, C.- T, D.- F, E. – F………………………………………. ……. 10

p

I. 1.b. A 3, B 5, C 1, D 2 …………………………………………………. …10p

(2,5×4)

I.1.c. 1A, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5C …………………………………………………………………10pI.2. 1-story, 2-called, 3-of, 4-wide, 5-deep,6-think,7-a,8-like, 9-watching, 10-recorders ... 10p

1×10)

I.3. 1- living, 2-competition, 3-powerful, 4- remaking, 5- enriched, 6-compete, 7-bankrupt, 8-freedom …………………………………………………………………………..20 p ( )

PARTEA a II-a (30 de puncte)

Marking Scheme

Task: narrative paragraph (creative writing)task achievement & original input ………………………………………………………………..10prelevance of ideas to topic …………………………………………………………………………4p- organization ………………………………………………………………………………………..6p- organization / layout ………………………………………………………………………………3p- cohesion and coherence ………………………………………………………………………….2p- length constraint ……………………………………………………………………………………1p- language accuracy and variety…………………………………………………………………….6p- correct use of grammar structures ……………………………………………………………….5p- accurate spelling and punctuation ……………………………………………………………….1p- register and vocabulary

…………………………………………………………………………….4p- appropriate register and vocabulary 1p-range of vocabulary …………………………………………………………………………………3p

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