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CERTIFICADO DE NIVEL INTERMEDIOB2

CONVOCATORIA ORDINARIA 2020
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TASK 1: THE GLOBAL FOOD WASTE SCANDAL

EXTRACT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

HEADING D J I G A C B

TASK 2: TOM SIMPSON - AN NBA STAR

QUESTION 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

LETTER B A B C B B C B

TASK 3: CLIMATE CHANGE

16 FICTITIOUS

17 GO AWAY

18 EVIDENCE

19 MELTING

20 INDUSTRY

21 THREAT

22 DECISIVE

23 ELIMINATE

24 HUMAN RIGHTS

25 CHALLENGE

* No se penalizarán los errores de ortografía que no alteren esencialmente el significado de la

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TASK 1: THE GLOBAL FOOD WASTE SCANDAL

EXTRACT ZERO
But I noticed that most of the food that I was giving my pigs was in fact fit for human
consumption, and that I was only scratching the surface, and that right the way up the
food supply chain, in supermarkets, greengrocers, bakers, in our homes, in factories and
farms, we were haemorrhaging out food. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food
being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something
more sensible to do with food than waste it.

EXTRACT ONE
The job of uncovering the global food waste scandal started for me when I was 15 years
old. I bought some pigs. I was living in Sussex. And I started to feed them in the most
traditional and environmentally friendly way. I went to the local baker and took their stale
bread. I went to the local greengrocer, and I went to a farmer who was throwing away
potatoes because they were the wrong shape or size for supermarkets. This was great. My
pigs turned that food waste into delicious pork. I sold that pork to my school friends'
parents, and I made a good pocket money in addition to my teenage allowance.

EXTRACT TWO
Eventually, I set about writing my book, really to demonstrate the extent of this problem
on a global scale. What this shows is a nation-by-nation breakdown of the likely level of
food waste in each country in the world. Unfortunately, empirical data, good stats don't
exist, and therefore to prove my point, I first of all had to find some way of uncovering
how much food was being wasted. So I took the food supply at every single country and I
compared it to what was actually likely to be being consumed in each country. That's
based on diet intake surveys… (fade)

EXTRACT THREE
As a country gets richer, it invests more and more in getting more and more surplus into
its shops and restaurants, and as you can see, most European and North American
countries fall between 150 and 200 percent of the nutritional requirements of their
populations. So a country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in
its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people. If you include not just
the food that ends up in shops and restaurants, but also… (fade)

EXTRACT FOUR
I then needed to demonstrate where that food ends up. Supermarkets are an easy place to
start. This is what you can see more or less on every street corner in Britain, in Europe, in
North America. It represents a colossal waste of food, but what I discovered whilst I was
writing my book was that this very evident abundance of waste was actually the tip of the
iceberg. When you start going up the supply chain, you find where the real food waste is
happening on a gargantuan scale.

EXTRACT FIVE
Go one step up, and you get to farmers, who throw away sometimes a third or even more
of their harvest because of cosmetic standards. Potatoes that are cosmetically imperfect, all
going for pigs. Parsnips that are too small for supermarket specifications, tomatoes in
Tenerife, oranges in Florida, bananas in Ecuador, where I visited last year, all being
discarded. This is one day's waste from one banana plantation in Ecuador. All being
discarded, perfectly edible, because they're the wrong shape or size.

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EXTRACT SIX
Some food waste, as I said at the beginning, will inevitably arise, so the question is, what
is the best thing to do with it? Humans answered that question 6,000 years ago: We
domesticated pigs to turn food waste back into food. At the moment, Europe depends on
importing millions of tons of soy from South America, where its production contributes to
global warming, to deforestation, to biodiversity loss, to feed livestock here in Europe. At
the same time, we throw away millions of tons of food waste which we could and should
be feeding them. If we did that, and fed it to pigs, we would save that amount of carbon.

EXTRACT SEVEN
Feeding the 5,000 is an event I first organized in 2009. We fed 5,000 people all on food
that otherwise would have been wasted. It's a way of organizations coming together to
celebrate food, to say the best thing to do with food is to eat and enjoy it, and to stop
wasting it. For the sake of our children, for the sake of all the other organisms that share
our planet with us, we are a terrestrial animal, and we depend on our land for food. At the
moment, we are trashing our land to grow food that no one eats.

Adapted from ©www.ted.com/talks/tristram_stuart_the_global_food_waste_scandal#t-46687

TASK 2: TOM SIMPSON - AN NBA STAR

And we end up this news bulletin on a sad note, former NBA star Tom Simpson was
pronounced dead this morning after 4 days in hospital battling against the injuries
sustained in an accident last Sunday. Tom, former player of the Los Angeles NBA team Los
Angeles Lakers had spent the day working in San Francisco. He was driving his rental car
back to the airport when he crashed it against another motorist. Poor visibility was initially
thought of as the reason for the accident, as it was a particularly rainy day. However, an
eyewitness who was taking a selfie at the site of the crash told the police that Simpson had
actually gone through a red light, a fact which traffic cameras confirmed.
Thousands of people have gathered in mourning to pay tribute to a legend both on and off
the court.
Tom Simpson was born and raised in Mission Hill, Los Angeles – back then not the
fashionable neighborhood of today, but one of the roughest parts of the city with a very
high crime rate. His father took 3 buses every day to get to glamorous Beverly Hills, where
he worked as a gardener for well-off families, while his mum was a housekeeper at an old
people’s home.
Tom joined his school’s baseball team when he was in 2nd grade, only to find out that the
tallest kids were better suited for basketball. He never took it seriously, though, and by the
time he started high school he was about to quit playing. However, his new coach,
impressed with his performance, had a chat with him after his first training session and
made him realize his full potential. As a child, his father had always talked to him about the
wonders of the Beverly Hills mansions he worked in, so Tom decided that basketball could
be his ticket out of ugly Mission Hill.
On the court, Tom often displayed an awful temper. He had constant quarrels with the
referees, much to the frustration of his coaches. Mark Malone, his long-time teammate in
the LA Lakers was famously quoted as saying “he just won’t shut up”. Yet, despite his fiery
temperament on the court, he never once was unkind to the dozens of fans who waited to
get his autograph after each game.
It was one of these supporters, Amy Gray, who made him forget about the cheerleader
he’d been dating at the time. Although his friends and family opposed the idea, Tom and
Amy got married in a wedding chapel in Las Vegas only 3 months after they had first met.
Their honeymoon didn’t last long, and as he later put it, his was hardly ever a happy
marriage. Tom would complain that Amy was extremely jealous and couldn’t stand seeing
him talking to his physiotherapist, a beautiful blonde who was actually in a relationship

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with Tom’s coach. At the beginning of his career in the NBA, Tom was making millions.
However, his addiction to poker led him to lose much of his fortune in the casinos of Las
Vegas. He rarely shared any time with his wife, having to fly across the country every week
for matches, and he blamed this hectic life of the NBA star for the failure of his marriage.
1989 was a turning point in his career. Tom regarded himself as the star of the team, and
had more than once accused some of the other players of not working hard enough. He
even told the press that it had been him who had taken the Lakers to the semifinals that
year. To prove his point, he didn’t turn up for the first game. Twenty four hours later, the
coach announced that Tom's contract with the Lakers had been terminated. One thing was
not following his instructions, as he often did, but going missing for an important game
was too much – much more than the Lakers could put up with.

Five years later, a knee injury put a stop to his career as a player. He then turned to
coaching, first in Philadelphia and then San Antonio. In his fifth year there he took the
team to the finals, where they lost to the LA Lakers. He said then that he had had enough
and he even turned down an incredibly tempting offer to coach China’s national team
before the Beijing Olympics.
Instead, he set up a sports equipment business in Houston, Texas.

Tom used to say that his parents had always been his source of inspiration... (fade)

© J. López

TASK 3: CLIMATE CHANGE

Speaker: Please, welcome newly appointed United Nations Messenger of Peace, Mr.
Leonardo DiCaprio.

Leonardo DiCaprio: Thank you, Mr. Secretary General, your excellences, ladies and
gentleman, and distinguished guests. I’m honored to be here today. I stand before you not
as an expert but as a concerned citizen, one of the 400,000 people who marched in the
streets of New York on Sunday, and the billions of others around the world who want to
solve our climate crisis.
As an actor, I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious
problems.
I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way: as if it were a
fiction, as if pretending that climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.
But I think we all know better than that now. Every week, we’re seeing new and
undeniable climate events, evidence that accelerated climate change is here right now.
Droughts are intensifying, our oceans are acidifying, with methane plumes rising up from
the ocean floor. We are seeing extreme weather events and the West Antarctic and
Greenland ice-sheets melting at unprecedented rates, decades ahead of scientific
projections.
None of this is rhetoric, and none of it is hysteria. It is fact. The scientific community
knows it, industry knows it, governments know it, even the United States military knows it.
The chief of the US navy’s Pacific command, admiral Samuel Locklear, recently said that
climate change is our single greatest security threat.
My Friends, this body – perhaps more than any other gathering in human history – now
faces this difficult but achievable task. You can make history... or be vilified by it.
To be clear, this is not about just telling people to change their light bulbs or to buy a
hybrid car. This disaster has grown beyond the choices that individuals make. This is now
about our industries, and our governments around the world taking decisive, large-scale
action. Now is our moment for action.

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We need to put a price tag on carbon emissions, and eliminate government subsidies for all
oil, coal and gas companies. We need to end the free ride that industrial polluters have
been given in the name of a free-market economy. They do not deserve our tax dollars,
they deserve our scrutiny. For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse. The
good news is that renewable energy is not only achievable but good economic policy.
This is not a partisan debate; it is a human one. Clean air and a liveable climate are
inalienable human rights. And solving this crisis is not a question of politics; it is a question
of our survival.
This is the most urgent of times, and the most urgent of messages.
Honoured delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living, but you do not. The
people made their voices heard on Sunday around the world and the momentum will not
stop. But now it’s YOUR turn, the time to answer humankind’s greatest challenge is now.
We beg you to face it with courage and honesty. Thank you.

Adapted from © www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTyLSr_VCcg

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