UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCUREŞTI
FACULTATEA DE LIMBI ŞI LITERATURI STRĂINE
DEPARTAMENTUL DE ENGLEZĂ
EXAMEN DE LICENŢĂ ENGLEZĂ A: SESIUNEA IUNIE 2014
MODEL DE SUBIECT
I. CURS PRACTIC (9 p. + 1 p.)
A. Translate into English:
În condiţiile ratei crescute a şomajului în rândul tinerilor şi a crizei economice
actuale, voluntariatul rămâne o soluţie pentru acumularea de experienţă,
dobândirea de competenţe şi abilităţi şi un avantaj în căutarea unui loc de muncă.
Pentru o mai mare vizibilitate a importanţei voluntariatului în raport cu
angajabilitatea, este nevoie de strategii la nivel naţional, de centre de formare
pentru voluntari, de recunoaşterea competenţelor de către angajatori şi de un dialog
mai strâns între universitate şi actorii de pe piaţa muncii. (4,5 p.)
B. Translate into Romanian:
They all agreed that Mabel had been born in Shanghai. Mabel herself liked to tell
her friends that her mother had been a White Russian princess, reduced to penury
in China, magically rescued from prostitution by her father, a wealthy Shanghai
businessman who was later shot by the Reds while in Siberia buying lumber. Of all
the versions of her origins, this was one Mabel preferred, as it had the effect of
making her no older than thirty-five. Other stories, while potentially as glamorous,
necessarily made her slightly older.
(Timothy Mo - The Monkey
King) (4,5 p.)
II. STRUCTURA LIMBII (9 p. + 1 p.)
A.
Illustrate in sentences: (i) a deictic time adverbial; (ii) a modal verb used
with epistemic value; (iii) an accomplishment; (iv) a copula-like verb; (v) a
double object construction; (vi) expletive it; (vii) a gerund construction with a
possessive subject; (viii) an accusative + participle construction; (ix) a thatcomplement clause with a synthetic subjunctive predicate. ( 4,5 p.)
B. Discuss the use of the Present Perfect with state predicates. Provide examples.
(4,5 p.)
III.
LITERATURĂ (9 p. + 1 p.)
Consider the following fragment from Kurt Vonnegut’s novel SlaughterhouseFive:
“Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
Billy has gone to sleep a senile widower and awakened on his wedding day. He
has walked through a door in 1955 and come out another one in 1941. He has gone
back through that door to find himself in 1963. He has seen his birth and death
many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between.
He says.
Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips
aren't necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he
never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next.
Billy was born in 1922 in Ilium, New York, the only child of a barber there. He
was a funny-looking child who became a funny-looking youth-tall and weak, and
shaped like a bottle of Coca-Cola. He graduated from Ilium High School in the
upper third of his class, and attended night sessions at the Ilium School of
Optometry for one semester before being drafted for military service in the Second
World War. His father died in a hunting accident during the war. So it goes.
Billy saw service with the infantry in Europe, and was taken prisoner by the
Germans. After his honorable discharge from the Army in 1945, Billy again
enrolled in the Ilium School of Optometry. During his senior year there, he became
engaged to the daughter of the founder and owner of the school, and then suffered
a mild nervous collapse.”
A. Analyse the given fragment, pointing out the relationship between the
character's name, his identity and the way in which temporality is constructed. (4,5
p.)
B. Starting from your findings in response to question A, identify three
characteristics of postmodern fiction and discuss them with reference to the given
fragment.(4,5 p.)