Bac 2011 L Anglais LV1

BACCALAURÉAT GÉNÉRAL SESSION 2011 _______ ANGLAIS LANGUE VIVANTE 1 _______ Série L _______ DURÉE DE L’ÉPREUVE : 3 heures - COEFFICIENT : 4 _______ L’usage de la calculatrice et du dictionnaire n’est pas autorisé. Dès que ce sujet vous est remis, assurez-vous qu’il est complet. Ce sujet comporte 3 pages numérotées de 1/3 à 3/3. Répartition des points Compréhension et Expression 14 points Traduction 6 points 11AN1LME1 Page : 1/3 1AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, I attended an Ivy League college for less than one term. A year later, I was married and living in central Florida. This was 1958 and ’59. General Dwight Eisenhower was our President, and Dr Fidel Castro, hunkered down in the mountain passes southeast of Havana, was getting praised for his integrity and good looks by Time and Reader’s Digest. 5 I’d been a whiz kid in high school, rewarded for it with an academic scholarship as fat as the starting quarterback’s at a midwestern state university. In this Ivy League school, however, among the elegant, brutal sons of the captains of industry, I was only that year’s token poor kid, imported from a small New Hampshire mill town like an exotic herb. [ . . . ] It was a status that perplexed and intimidated and finally defeated me, so that, after nine weeks of it, I fled in the night. 10 Literally.