Biletul nr. 6 - 2005

Limba Engleza 1-2 ore/saptamana

SUBIECTUL I

Read the text below and do the following tasks:

a. state the central idea of the fragment;
b. comment on the underlined sentences.

Living in so temperamental a climate, with so many exceptions to so many rules to be discussed, it is no wonder that the Englishman talks a lot about the weather.But one thing about which the stranger should be warned is that when the Englishman appears to be talking about the weather he is often not talking about the weather at all. When he says "Lovely weather for the time of year!" he may just possibly mean that he is enjoying the sunshine. It is at least as likely, though, that he means nothing by it whatsoever, but he is merely filling in the time until he can decently bid you goodbye. It is not easy to imagine what would happen to the Englishman if the climate of his country suddenly became dependable, and lost its value asa topic of conversation. However, as long as it continues to be unreliable, as long as it remains "not what it used to be", the social small talk of England is secure, and the stranger can amuse himself by trying to decide when the people who talk about it mean less than they are actually saying, when thay mean more, and when they are genuinely enraptured by the fact that it is (as can sometimes happen, even in England) "lovely weather for the time of year".

Monica Redlich, Everyday England

SUBIECTUL II

Speak about the last week you spent at school with your teachers and mates. Point out the special moments you lived together and the feelings you had in those days.

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