Biletul nr. 10 - 2005

Limba Engleza 1-2 ore/saptamana

SUBIECTUL I

Read the text below, identify the main ideas and comment on them:

On November 19th, 1863, Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg to dedicate part of the battlefield as a national war cemetery. This is part of what he said when he did so:
"Fourscore* and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of the war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that nation might live. But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power. The world will note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living to resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth."
Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg became even more famous than the battle. At the time it was seen as a statement of what the North was fighting for. In later years it came to be seen as a moving expression of faith in the basic principles of democratic government.

(The Illustrated History of the USA)

*(archaic or poetic) four times twenty; eighty

SUBIECTUL II

Express your opinion on the following statement: People who practise sports and have active occupations are healthier Give examples to illustrate your arguments.

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