Pevau Leaflet 19-20 PDF

PEVAU texts
2º bachillerato
2019-20
xINDEX
1 Weather modification experiments page 3
2 Education Mamas page 5
3 La Tomatina page 6
4 Safe swimmimg page 7
5 Dronies page 8
6 Birth of Rock and Roll page 9
7 Book treatment page 11
8 Electronic tagging page 13
9 Zodiac signs page 15
10 Mannequin challenge page 16
11 Women in the media page 17
12 What science says about... page 18
13 Rosa Parks page 19
14 Sea salt page 20
15 Albert Einstein page 21
16 Our love for pets page 22
17 Do you have a fear… page 23
18 Nikola Tesla page 24
19 A substance abuse page 25
20 Banksy page 26
21 Screen dinosaurs page 27
22 Tattoos page 28
23 Netflix addiction page 29
24 The Spanish legion page 30
LENGUA
UNIVERSIDADES DE ANDALUCÍA
EXTRANJERA (inglés)
PRUEBA DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD
Instrucciones: a) Duración: 1 h.30m. b) No se permite el uso de diccionario. c) La puntuación de las preguntas está indicada en
las mismas. d) Los alumnos deberán realizar completa una de las dos opciones A o B, sin poder mezclar las
respuestas.
OPTION A: “Weather modification experiments”

1. The opening night of the 2008 Beijing Olympic summer games was an amazing spectacle: thousands of dancers,
2. acrobats and singers performed in carefully choreographed unison. No detail was too big or too small to be left to
3. chance; from the lovely child performers, to one factor that seemed uncontrollable: the weather. Chinese officials
4. claimed that they prevented the rain by launching rockets into the rain clouds the night before. Right on schedule,
5. the first day of the Olympics was clear, with low humidity – a notable contrast to the usual hot and wet conditions
6. of South East Asia in August.
7. Does this prove that humans have learned how to control the weather? The idea of humans controlling the
8. weather is not a new one. Back in medieval France, people would shoot cannons into the clouds to try to prevent
9. crop-damaging storms. But it wasn’t until the 1940s that human attempts to influence the weather had any real
10.results. A series of weather modification experiments carried out by General Electric Laboratories showed that
11. releasing chemicals into clouds caused rain drops to turn into ice at higher than normal temperatures.
12. New satellites and high technological measuring equipment are helping scientists and researchers learn more
13. about the weather patterns of the earth. By mid-century you can expect more accurate weather predictions, and
14. eventually controlling the weather itself.
15. Governments all over the world are researching weather modification. The obvious benefits of controlling local
16. weather would be to increase crop production, decrease the severity of storms, reduce flooding, eliminate water
17. shortages, etc. There are also military uses, such as making sure the weather is clear for a mission or covering the
18. enemy with snow, fog or lightning strikes.
19. A far better use of weather modification would be if we could someday stop a hurricane like Katrina from ever
20. reaching land.
I * COMPREHENSION (4 points)
CHOOSE THE CORRECT OPTION (A, B, C or D). (0,5 points each)
1. The Chinese authorities tried to guarantee good weather on the Olympic Games opening night
(a) by having more moisture in the air (b) by launching rockets into the rain clouds
(c) by shooting cannons into the clouds (d) by having a hotter climate than usual
2. What change has been achieved by General Electric’s experiments on weather control?
(a) They have increased crop production (b) New technological equipment to help scientists
(c) They have decreased the harshness of storms (d) They showed that they could turn rain into ice by releasing chemicals
into clouds
ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT,
OR USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (0,5 points each)
3. Technology contributes to more accurate weather predictions.
4. China is the only country carrying research into weather control
5. The weather of the first Olympic day was as usual hot and humid.
6. The only use of weather adjustment is to stop hurricanes.
7. FIND IN THE TEXT: (0,5 points)
7.1. ONE OPPOSITE FOR “low” (adjective).
7.2. ONE SYNONYM FOR “wetness” (noun).
8. FIND IN THE TEXT: (0,5 points)
8.1. ONE WORD MEANING “the total field production from a specific area”.
8.2. ONE EXPRESSION MEANING “a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)”
II * USE OF ENGLISH (3 points; 0.5 points each)
9. REWRITE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING.BEGIN AS INDICATED:
Ice climbing is too dangerous for me. Ice climbing isn´t...
10. USE THE WORDS IN THE BOXES TO MAKE A MEANINGFUL SENTENCE. USE ALL AND ONLY THE WORDS IN THE BOXES
WITHOUT CHANGING THEIR FORM:
with should scientists technologies be the familiar latest
11. JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING A RELATIVE. MAKE CHANGES IF NECESSARY: “The name of the hospital is St
Andrew’s. I had a heart operation there”.
12. REWRITE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. “The doctor said to the old lady: ‘I will not operate on
you’”.
13. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS: “They don’t let people ...... (smoke) in hospitals”
LENGUA
respuestas.
14. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE ACTIVE VOICE: “Weather modification experiments must be carried out by General
Electric Laboratories”
III * WRITING (3 points)

15. WRITE A COMPOSITION OF APPROXIMATELY 120 WORDS ABOUT THE TOPIC PROPOSED. YOU MUST FOCUS STRICTLY ON IT:
“WEATHER CHANGES GREATLY AFFECT PEOPLE’S LIVES.” DISCUSS
UNIVERSIDADES DE ANDALUCÍA LENGUA
PRUEBA DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD EXTRANJERA (inglés)
Instrucciones: a) Duración: 1 h.30m. b) No se permite el uso de diccionario. c) La puntuación de las preguntas está
indicada en las mismas. d) Los alumnos deberán realizar completa una de las dos opciones A o B, sin poder
mezclar las respuestas.
OPTION A: “Education Mamas”
1. The first day at primary school is an important event in every child’s life. It can cause the new learner excitement, or it can
2. cause fear. But in education-obsessed Japan, mothers of new pupils also suffer from first-day-nerves. Before the opening of the
3. school year, many read books and magazines to find what to wear to the school’s opening ceremony and what to put into their
4. their children’s school bags.
5. On the first day of school, they accompany their six-year-olds to the opening ceremony in the school hall. Speeches by the
6. headmaster focus on the new pupils’ bright futures. They stress the need to start on the right foot by studying hard and being
7. good citizens. From the beginning until they enter university 12 years later, students will go through a series of examinations.
8. These exams are almost as much as a trauma for the mothers as they are for the students. The Education Mamas is a
9. well-established stereotype in Japan. It applies to those women who push their children to get better and better academic
10. results. Seventy-two per cent of Japanese mothers do not work outside their homes so that they can look after their children.
11. Their husbands are usually absent during the long work day and the disappearance of extended family units has eliminated the
12. grandmother figure from the home. As a result, many mothers feel isolated and unsure where to turn for advice in raising
13. their children and making them excellent students.
14. The pressure on Education Mamas doesn’t stop at educational achievements. Even lunch boxes may become a problem.
15. A poorly presented packed lunch can be enough to provoke bullying by classmates and ridicule by other mothers.
1. The first day at primary school …..
(a) can be exciting for students. (b) can be frightening for students.
(c) can cause suffering to pupils and mothers. (d) nothing really important happens.
2. Japanese mothers try to be informed …...
(a) attending courses on education. (b) watching documentaries on TV.
(c) listening to the headmaster’s speeches on the first day. (d) searching for information on books and magazines.
3. Japanese students have to pass twelve exams before entering university.
4. Academic results are not important to most Japanese mothers.
5. Most Japanese mothers devote their full time to taking care of their children.
6. Mothers are confident about their children’s education.
7. FIND IN THE TEXT: (0.5 points each)

7.1. ONE SYNONYM FOR “ not present” (adjective)
7.2. ONE OPPOSITE FOR “leave” (verb)
8.1. THE WORD WHICH HAS THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION: “A very difficult or unpleasant experience that causes someone
to have mental or emotional problems usually for a long time”
8.2. ONE EXPRESSION MEANING: “take care of”
II * USE OF ENGLISH ( 3 points; 0.5 points each)

9. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH THE CORRECT WORD:
9.1. How long have you been waiting……. (preposition) me? 9.2. We turned left …….(preposition) the bus station.
10. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS:
10.1. “I am used to …………. (go) to school alone” 10.2. I wanted her ………….. (visit) us in summer.
11. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: “She left because she had an appointment”
12. JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING A RELATIVE. MAKE CHANGES IF NECESSARY: Please take me to the shopping centre.
Your mother works there.
13. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONAL SENTENCE: “If I hadn’t helped her, …..”
14. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING: “I like living in my apartment although it is noisy.”
DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE AT HIGHSCHOOL.
OPTION A: “LA TOMATINA FESTIVAL: THE MESSIEST HOLIDAY IN THE WORLD”
1. The world-famous Tomatina festival has been held in the Valencia town of Buñol on the last Wednesday of August since 1945.
2. Every year, thousands of tourists join the town’s 9.000 inhabitants to throw tonnes of tomatoes at one another. The event, often
3. regarded as the world’s largest food fight, is the culmination of a week-long celebration made up of street parties, fireworks, food
4. fairs and a paella cooking contest.
5. The tradition began in the mid-1940s, though its origins are unclear. It has been attributed to a food fight that broke out in the
6. town in 1945 during the “parade of giants and big heads” and had to be broken up by the police. The fight was banned in the early
7. 1950s until 1957, when the locals held a funeral for a giant tomato in protest and successfully had the ban removed.
8. Over 100 tonnes of tomatoes are brought to the town and thrown during an hour-long battle, at an estimated total cost of
9. €140.000 or € 2.300 a minute. In recent years the festival has become so popular that the council decided to limit the attendance
10. to the event to a maximum of 20.000 people.
11. The fight begins at 11am with the firing of a water cannon. According to the rules, participants must stop throwing tomatoes
12. as soon as they hear the second round of the cannon. Then, it’s time to clean up. Actually, once the tomato pulp is sprayed down
13. by fire trucks, the ground is clean due to the activity of the tomato.
14. The tomato festival has become a global phenomenon, with similar festivals staged at one time or another in Colombia, China,
15. the US and Chile.
1. As a consequence of the huge popularity of the festival, the council …
(a) has restricted attendance. (b) has extended the duration of the event.
(c) has forbidden the attendance of foreign people. (d) banned the celebration for a period of time.
2. In the late 50s, the locals …
(a) were able to get the festival back after a fight against the police. (b) made the government hold a funeral for a giant tomato.
(c) used their sense of humour to get the festival back. (d) took part in a giant heads’ parade to protest because the battle had been banned.
3. No one seems to know exactly how it all started.
4. The tomatoes are especially delivered for the event.
5. The battle ends after the ground is clean.
6. La Tomatina has inspired other similar celebrations all over the world.
7. FIND IN THE TEXT: (0.5 points)
7.1. ONE OPPOSITE FOR: “unusual” (adjective)
7.2. ONE SYNONYM FOR: “worldwide” (adjective)
8.1. THE WORD WHICH HAS THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION: “ an explosive device for producing a display of light used as
part of a celebration”
8.2. ONE EXPRESSION MEANING: “permanent residents of a place”

9. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS:
9.1. “I couldn’t help…….(laugh) when I saw her fall down”.
9.2. “I came across an old picture of Jake while I …….. (look through) the album.”
10. REWRITE THE SENTENCE CORRECTLY: “There is much people as hard-working as James.”
11. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO DIRECT SPEECH: “He asked her to write to him while he was away.”
12. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONAL SENTENCE: “If he hadn’t shouted at me, …”
13. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED: “I haven’t attended La Tomatina for five
years.” It’s been five years …..
14. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE: “James didn’t pay the deposit for the new flat.”

DO YOU PREFER CONVENTIONAL OR EXTREME SPORTS? EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER.
respuestas.
OPTION B: “SAFE SWIMMING”
1. When the summer holidays arrive, what could be nicer than a day at the seaside? Or perhaps you plan to lie by the pool, or try
2. a bit of river or canal boating. The water looks so sparkling and inviting that it is easy to forget it can also be a deadly hazard.
3. According to the Swimming Teachers Association (STA), the tragic fact is that 400 people drown every year in the UK. Lives
4. could be saved if more people knew the basics of safe swimming. According to the STA, everyone needs to know five basic skills.
5. First of all, we should all be able to float for one minute without a rubber ring or other support. In terms of distance, for safety you
6. need to be able to swim a minimum of 25 metres without stopping. This is the length of a standard swimming pool. You need the ability
7. to turn over from your front onto your back in case you get tired in the water and have to wait for help. For safety, you should also be able
8. to exit the pool without a ladder. And it is important to learn how to enter the water safely, make a turn, and get out of the water again.
9. It is never too late to learn, and age is no barrier. For most of us, swimming is excellent for the heart, lungs, muscles and joints.
10. Even if you have a disability, you can learn to swim. A properly trained swimming teacher can work with your abilities, and find ways
11. to help you stay safe while you enjoy all the health benefits of swimming –and all the fun!
1. According to the STA…
(a) 400 people drown in the UK in summer. (b) 400 people are saved by the STA every year in the UK.
(c) 400 people die by drowning every year in the UK (d) everybody knows five basic swimming skills in the UK.
2. One of the five basic skills is…
(a) swimming 25 metres underwater. (b) being able to float with support.
(c) being able to get out of the pool without using any structure. (d) entering the water making a turn.
3. Water can be tempting as well as dangerous.
4. A conventional swimming pool is longer than 25 metres.
5. We can learn to swim at any age.
6. Handicapped people also have the ability to learn how to swim.
7. FIND IN THE TEXT (0.5 points each)
7.1. ONE SYNONYM FOR: “incapacity” (noun)
7.2. ONE OPPOSITE FOR: “danger” (noun)
8.1. THE WORD WHICH HAS THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION: “a part of human body where bones are connected”
8.2. ONE EXPRESSION MEANING: “a means of rising”

9. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CPRRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS:
9.1. “By the time we got to the bus station, the bus…… (already leave)
9.2. “The doctor …… (bring) the most recent medical reports to yesterday’s meeting.”
10. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED: “ People say that he is a good trainer.”
He …
WITHOUT CHANGING THEIR FORM: wanted drink Mary the to cat water
12. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO DIRECT SPEECH: “He told me not to do that again.”
13. JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING A RELATIVE. MAKE CHANGES IF NECESSARY: “That girl over there is in my class.
Her mother is a well-known artist.”
14. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: “My brother has been swimming for two hours.”

THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING FIT. DISCUSS.
LENGUA
PRUEBA DE ACCESO Y ADMISIÓN A LA EXTRANJERA (Inglés)
UNIVERSIDAD
CURSO 2016-2017
OPTION _: DRONIES: A NEW TREND TO REPLACE SELFIES?
1 From Papal visits to the Oscars, no event is now complete without a “selfie” to document the day. But the
2 widespread trend for the self-portrait photographs, taken on a mobile at arm’s length, could now be usurped by the
3 “dronies” – photos or videos taken by a drone.
4 This new phenomenon known as dronie, where people look at a quadcopter flying above them and wave, is
5 getting more and more popular. Its arrival may mean selfies are no longer the new cool thing.
6 Unlike the selfies, where people usually appear squashed in at an awkward angle, this trend results in high
7 quality recorded films.
8 According to reports, experts predict that drones will become trendier in tourist destinations, as they will be able
9 to pilot themselves, following the subject around automatically.
10 Tony Saunders, general manager of Tourism New Zealand Australia, says they have a drone project designed to
11 attract younger tourists who are fond of taking selfies. He noted that popular selfies and dronies were "getting a lot of
12 attention". The drones can capture full HD videos of tourists for eight seconds, beginning with a close-up of the
13 subject and then later the background to provide them a unique opportunity to take amazing videos or photos of their
14 vacation experience. Saunders believes that dronies have become a creative way of recording people's memories.
15 The tourists featured in the short drone videos will be sent their recorded films via email so that they can share their
16 memories on social media sites.
17 Drone experts predict that the use of these remote-controlled flying objects will also catch on outside the tourism
18 industry.
CHOOSE AND WRITE THE CORRECT OPTION (A, B, C or D). (0.5 points each)
1. The videos captured by drones…
(a) start with a background view. (b) start with a foreground view of the subject.
(c) start after an eight second introduction. (d) start showing a photo.
2. Drone videos have …
(a) better quality than selfies. (b) the same quality as selfies.
(c) awkward angles. (d) been replaced by selfies.
OR USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (0.5 points each)
3. The Pope may have taken selfies.
4. Some young tourists like taking selfies.
5. The tourists will receive their drone videos via social networks.
6. Some people say that in the future, drones will be used in more fields aside from tourism.
7.1. ONE SYNONYM FOR “appeal” (verb).
7.2. ONE OPPOSITE FOR “foreground” (noun).
8.1. ONE EXPRESSION MEANING “to have affection for.”
8.2. THE WORD WHICH HAS THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION: “accepted widely by or occurring among many people.”
9.1. “Would you like me….with you?” (come) 9.2. “I … for the last four hours.” (study)
10. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRECT OPTION:
10.1. “I need to apply ... a loan from the bank.” to / for / by / into 10.2. “He’s been married … 2010.” for / by / since / during
11. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE ACTIVE VOICE: “Many selfies are taken every day.”
12. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONAL SENTENCE: “If I were on holiday now, …”
13. REWRITE THE SENTENCE CORRECTLY WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING: “I don’t like people who makes me feel
discomfortable.”
14. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED. “I saw him two weeks ago.” I haven’t…
15. WRITE A COMPOSITION OF APPROXIMATELY 120 WORDS ABOUT THE TOPIC PROPOSED AND FOCUS STRICTLY ON IT:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the social media sites?
CURSO 2014-2015
OPTION A: THE BIRTH OF ROCK AND ROLL

The origins of rock and roll have been fiercely debated by commentators and historians of music. There is
general agreement that it began in the Southern United States – a region which would produce most of the major
early rock and roll acts – through the meeting of various influences that embodied a merging of the African musical
tradition with European instrumentation. The migration of many former slaves and their descendants to major urban
centers such as Memphis, New York City, Detroit and Chicago meant that black and white residents were living in
close proximity in larger numbers than ever before, and as a result heard each other's music and even began to
emulate each other's fashions. Radio stations that made white and black forms of music available to both groups, the
development and spread of the gramophone record, and African American musical styles such
as jazz and swing which were taken up by white musicians, aided this process of "cultural collision".
The immediate roots of rock and roll lay in the rhythm and blues, then called "race music", and country music of
the 1940s and 1950s. Particularly significant influences were jazz, blues, gospel, country, and folk. Commentators
differ in their views of which of these forms were most important and the degree to which the new music was a re-
branding of African American rhythm and blues for a white market, or a new hybrid of black and white forms.
In the 1930s jazz, and particularly swing, both in urban based dance bands and blues-influenced country swing,
was among the first music to present African American sounds for a predominantly white audience.
CHOOSE THE CORRECT OPTION (A, B, C or D). (0.5 points each)
1. White people started listening to “black” music because…
a) African slaves started moving to small towns. c) large numbers of white people moved to big
cities.
b) black and white populations started to live in the same areas. d) southern music was very fashionable at the
time.
2. Which one is NOT a cause of the mix of both cultures?
a) The fact that people could listen to music on the radio. c) The fact that white people started to play
“black” music.
b) Technological improvements like the gramophone. d) African American population listened to the
radio at all times.
ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR
PHRASES FROM THE TEXT, OR USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (0,5 points each)
3. All commentators think that these new forms of music were purely African American.
4. Black and white people always lived close to each other.
5. Rock and Roll was born in the Eastern United States.
6. Rock and Roll has its origins in rhythm and blues.
7. FIND IN THE TEXT (0, 25 each)
7.1. One synonym for “mix” (noun).
7.2. Find in the text one antonym for “unimportant” (adjective)
8.1. The word which has the following definition “to disagree in opinion, belief, etc” (verb).
8.2. The expression which has the following meaning: ‘to start doing something regularly as a habit, job, or interest’
9. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRECT WORD:
9.1. “At the interview they asked me if I was interested ……. (preposition) politics.” 9.2. People usually complain ______
(preposition) the food at this restaurant.
10.1. By 9pm yesterday they _________ (go) to sleep. 10.2. I wish John ______ (apply) for that job next week.
CURSO 2014-2015
11. REWRITE THE SENTENCE CORRECTLY WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING: I agree that have children can change
your life.
12. REWRITE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED: “We
won't buy the CD player if there isn't a special offer”. Unless...
13. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: Charles was driving too fast when the accident took
place.
14. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: She looked at him and said: “I´ll be back
in five minutes.”
III * PRODUCTION (3 points)
15. WRITE A COMPOSITION OF APPROXIMATELY 120 WORDS ABOUT THE TOPIC PROPOSED. YOU MUST
FOCUS STRICTLY ON IT: Are you for or against downloading music from the internet illegally?
CURSO 2014-2015
LENGUA EXTRANJERA
(inglés)
Instrucciones: a) Duración: 1 h.30m. b) No se permite el uso de diccionario. c) La puntuación de las preguntas

está indicada en las mismas. d) Los alumnos deberán realizar completa una de las dos opciones A
o B, sin poder mezclar las respuestas.
BOOK TREATMENT
Many people like to lose themselves in a good book if they feel depressed, or
turn to great literature for inspiration and insight. But a new technique called
bibliotherapy consciously tries to use literature as a way of helping individuals deal with
emotional problems.
5 Usually, the therapist starts by recommending reading material, usually fiction,
which is thought to be relevant to the client’s situation. At the most passive level, the
book can provide an escape from a difficult reality. Readers may also identify with a
novel’s protagonist, and learn that they are not alone in having a specific problem. A
book’s plot may also suggest ways of approaching a situation that may not have
10 occurred to the reader.
However, the novel is also often used as a springboard for more active
communication between clients and bibliotherapists, who may be mental health
professionals, teachers or librarians. Clients are able to discuss the characters’
situations if revealing their own problems is too painful. They may also produce a
15 drawing or painting in response to the book, or write something themselves. Although
used on its own, bibliotherapy has been rated most successful when used in conjunction
with other forms of therapy.
The technique may be used to enhance self-awareness in people with no
specific problems, but it is commonly used in a therapeutic setting. In one government-
20 funded project in England, doctors direct depressed or anxious patients to the library for
a course of bibliotherapy. Some practitioners use this therapy to help rape victims and
drug addicts, among others.
So if you feel a bit low, why not try a spoonful of Shakespeare with a drop of
Dickens? It may help, and certainly can’t hurt.
1. How can reading help a person with emotional problems?
(a) By making him/her realize that other people share his/her problem.
(b) It can help the reader to solve a problem.
(c) It can help a person forget about a difficult situation.
(d) a, b and c are correct.
2. The client must start reading…
(a) a book he/she likes.
(b) a book which is related to the situation he/she is going through.
(c) a book that makes him/her forget about his/her problems.
(d) a story in which the main character is going through the same situation as the reader.
ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR
PHRASES FROM THE TEXT, OR USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (0,5 points each)
3) Readers usually recommend books to other readers as part of bibliotherapy.
4) Bibliotherapy helps people forget about their problems.
5) Through bibliotherapy, people may learn that their situation is not unique.
6) The writer believes that bibilotherapy can sometimes be harmful.
7.1. One synonym for “RELEVANT” (adjective).
7.2.Find in the text one antonym for “GENERAL” (adjective)
8.FIND IN THE TEXT (0,25 each)
8.1. The word which has the following definition “talk about” (verb).
8.2. The word which has the following meaning: ‘to give someone something that they need’

9. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS
9.1.“Bruno apologized, as he knew he ……. (hurt) Shmuel’s feeling the day before.” 9.2. We can’t go to the
park. It ______ (rain) non stop all day and the ground must be muddy.
10.1. He has passed all his exams because he has worked very _________ (adverb) this term. 10.2. John is
keen ______ (preposition) rock music. He doesn’t listen to any other kinds of music.
11) Turn the following sentence into the passive voice.

Everybody knows that reading books is an amusing activity.
12) Give a question for the underlined words.
Clients often discuss the book with the therapist.
13) Rewrite the sentence without changing its meaning. Begin as indicated.
Although he was ill, he kept on working. / In spite of …
14) Join the following sentences using an appropriate linker (do not use and, but, or because). Make changes if
necessary.
As they had lost their luggage, they had to call the train company.

15) Write a composition of approximately 120 words about the topic proposed. You must focus strictly on it.
How can a student improve his/her English level?

OPTION A: “ ELECTRONIC TAGGING”
1. Measuring output is essential to the success of any business, but quantifying the performance of office workers is often difficult.
2. However, a new approach to interaction in the workplace may soon change that.
3. This approach involves the use of electronic sensors that track and record the movement, body language and / or speech patterns
4. of the people wearing them. By analysing the results, researchers can identify the best strategies in inter-office
5. relationships in order to teach them to less successful workers.
6. For example, results from the monitoring can be used to train sales teams more effectively. By using sensors to record the voices,
7. but not the words, of employees at a call centre, researchers found that operators who spoke in the same tone were less successful
8. at selling than those who varied their volume and pitch. Future sales personnel can therefore learn to imitate these tones. The results of
9. another experiment may help train negotiators. Once again, scientists used monitors to track the body language and speech patterns
10. of students who “negotiated” a salary. The most successful “negotiators” used an emphatic and consistent tone of voice, which can be
11. taught to those who need it.
12. Electronic tagging may eventually reveal other information that can help managers improve the performance of workers: they may learn
13. where most work is done; how teams interact; who talks too much, or too little; and who is stressed at work. By using sensors, one
14. German bank discovered that employees who socialise more with colleagues, far from wasting time, are actually happier and
15. perform better.
16. Such monitoring naturally raises concerns about personal privacy, but researchers suggest the following safeguards: make tagging voluntary,
17. allow employees to delete recordings and store data only on individuals’ personal computers. In addition, if employees believe that tagging
18. will help them, they will be more likely to accept it.
19. So, is electronic monitoring an invasion of privacy, or another way for management to get the best from employees? Perhaps your answer
20. depends on whether you are a worker or the boss.
1. Workers at a German bank ….
(a) used monitoring to evaluate their employers. (b) seem to work better if they socialize more.
(c) waste far more time when they socialize. (d) measure their own output.
2. The writer seems to believe that …
(a) electronic monitoring invades personal privacy. (b) all office workers and managers should be monitored.
(c) workers and bosses may disagree about monitoring. (d) electronic monitoring only reveals personal information.
3. Electronic sensors will record what workers are saying.
4. Researchers think employees should have control over their personal data.
5. The results of the experiment are useless.
6. Future sales personnel can learn to imitate the tones used by successful operators.
7. FIND IN THE TEXT. (0.5 points)

7.1. ONE OPPOSITE FOR “ voluntary”
7.2. ONE SYNONYM FOR “investigator”
8. FIND IN THE TEXT. (0.5 points)
8.1. ONE EXPRESSION MEANING: “a group of people organized to work together”
8.2. ONE EXPRESSION MEANING : “become better”
9. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORREC PREPOSITION:

9.1. Do you see work as a way _______ making money? 9.2. We always travel to Italy _______ air.
10.1. Molly has got a new job in Paris. By next month, she _____________ (live) there.
10.2. Simon ____________ (not pass) his driving test yet.
11. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONAL SENTENCE: “If you worked overtime,……”
LENGUA
CURSO 2010-2011
respuestas.
12. COMBINE THE SENTENCES USING A RELATIVE CLAUSE. MAKE ANY NECESSARY CHANGES.
A call centre is a large place. Workers solve customer problems over the phone there.
13. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE: “The company is promoting several people this month”
14. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: “How long have you been working here?”, he said

WRITE A LETTER TO A LOCAL COMPANY APPLYING FOR A JOB IN THEIR OFFICE.
IS JOB SATISFACTION MORE IMPORTANT THAN A GOOD SALARY? EXPLAIN YOUR REASONS.
PRUEBA DE ACCESO Y ADMISIÓN A LA LENGUA EXTRANJERA
UNIVERSIDAD (Inglés)
CURSO 2017-2018
Instrucciones: a) Duración: 1 h.30m. b) No se permite el uso de diccionario. c) La puntuación está indicada en las
preguntas. d) Se debe realizar una de las dos opciones A o B completa, sin mezclar las respuestas.
OPTION A: ROSA PARKS: THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED A MOVEMENT

1 It was December 1, 1955 when Rosa Parks of Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested. The 42-year-old African American woman was
2 on a city bus on her way home after a day’s work, and she refused to give her seat to a white passenger.
3 William Pretzer was 5 years old then and lived more than 2,000 miles away in Sacramento, California. He was too young to
4 understand the full importance of the event. To be honest, it would take time for most people to see what the protest really was: the
5 beginning of the civil rights movement in the United States.
6 Pretzer is now a senior supervisor at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. As he looks over Parks’ police
7 report, he is surprised at how ordinary the arrest was. Rosa Parks and NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored
8 People) leaders had previously organized a number of altercations on the city’s segregated buses. The simplicity of the arrest
9 documents reveals that the police dealt with this situation just like any other of these incidents.
10 “Within the African American community, it was seen as an opportunity to make progress, and to bring attention and pressure on
11 the white power structure,” says Pretzer. Parks’ act of defiance inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott, through which Martin Luther
12 King emerged as a civil rights leader. The boycott lasted 381 days. After a Supreme Court ruling, the city’s buses became officially
13 integrated, and black and white people were eventually allowed to sit together.
14 According to Pretzer, Parks is a history maker. “History makers are those that sense the moment,” he says.
1. 5-year-old William Pretzer…
(a) failed to realize the relevance of Rosa’s protest. (b) was on the city bus at the time of the incident.
(c) was totally aware of the bus incident. (d) refused to understand the significance of Rosa’s protest.
2. Rosa Parks…
(a) symbolized the end of the civil rights movement. (b) is not a relevant African American figure.
(c) succeeded Martin Luther King as a leader. (d) represents the origin of the fight for civil rights fight in the US.
ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE
TEXT, OR USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (0.5 points each)
3. William Pretzer lived in the same city as Rosa Parks.
4. The police handled Rosa Parks’ arrest as a common event.
5. Martin Luther King was already a leader before Rosa Parks’ incident.
6. Finally, bus integration was legally regulated.
7.1. ONE OPPOSITE FOR “accept” (verb).
7.2. ONE SYNONYM FOR “truthful” (adjective).
8.1. ONE WORD MEANING “separated or set apart from others.”
8.2. ONE WORD MEANING “to continue in time, to go on.”
9.1. “Ana left Greece after she… (lose) her job.” 9.2. “I wish I… (be) a famous football player.”
10. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH THE CORRECT OPTION:
10.1. “I haven´t applied… that job yet.” to / for / about / on 10.2. “They don’t want to fight… that army.” on / against / towards / at
11. THERE ARE TWO MISTAKES IN THIS SENTENCE. FIND THE MISTAKES AND REWRITE THE SENTENCE CORRECTLY.
“I’m agree with John, but not with hers parents.”.
12. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: “I visited England last month.”
13. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE: “Michael grew those wonderful flowers in his garden.”
14. REWRITE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED. “I've played chess for
thirty years.” I started...

Is there any kind of discrimination in our society? Discuss.
CURSO 2017-2018
OPTION B: SEA SALT AROUND THE WORLD IS CONTAMINATED BY PLASTIC

1 Recent studies have shown that tiny plastic particles have been found in sea salt in the UK, France and Spain, as well as
2 China and the US. In August 2017, Spanish scientists tested 21 types of table salt and found plastic in all of them. They concluded
3 that “sea products are hopelessly contaminated by microplastics” and that there is “a background presence of microplastics in the
4 environment.”
5 Researchers from other countries have confirmed these findings. They believe the majority of the contamination comes from
6 microfibres and single-use plastics such as water bottles. “Plastics are in the air, in the water, in the seafood we eat, in the beer
7 we drink, and the salt we use —plastics are just everywhere,” said Sherri Mason, a professor at the University of New York.
8 The health impact of ingesting plastic is unknown. Scientists are having difficulties to research the impact of plastic on the
9 human body because they haven’t managed to find a control group of humans who have not been exposed. Some researchers
10 believe sea salt could be more vulnerable to plastic contamination because of how it is made, through a process of dehydration of
11 sea water.
12 The solution is not an easy one. “I hope what comes from this is not that consumers just switch brands and try to find something
13 that is not sea salt —like mined salt,” Mason said. “I’m afraid people just want to go to fast food restaurants and get their disposable
14 cups. We have to focus on the flow of plastic and the widespread overuse of plastics in our society and find other materials instead.”
1. It is difficult to research the effects of plastics because…
(a) most people have ingested plastics. (b) the sea is too polluted.
(c) people just want to disconnect and do not cooperate. (d) plastics are hard to research.
2. Sea salt is produced by…
(a) using a specific type of microfibres. (b) separating the plastics from the water.
(c) removing water. (d) focusing on the flow of plastic.
3. The effects of plastic in the human body have already been described by scientists.
4. Sea salt can become easily contaminated by plastic.
5. Using mined salt instead of sea salt is the solution to the problem.
6. We need to stop using so many disposable plastic items.
7.1. ONE SYNONYM FOR “pollute” (verb).
7.2. ONE SYNONYM FOR “change” (verb).
8.1. ONE WORD MEANING “to arrive at an opinion by reasoning.”
8.2. ONE WORD MEANING “existing or happening in many places or among many people.”
9.1. “After she had discussed sea contamination, she… (deal) with air pollution.”
9.2. “I now regret… (eat) so much salt.”
10.1. “Some companies are investing... (preposition) biodegradable materials.”
10.2. “You need to get rid… (preposition) your rubbish in the appropriate places.”
11. THERE ARE TWO MISTAKES IN THIS SENTENCE. FIND THE MISTAKES AND REWRITE THE SENTENCE CORRECTLY.
“Young people is usually louder that old people.”
12. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING (CONDITIONAL) SENTENCE: “If people stopped using disposable plastic containers, …”
13. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE ACTIVE VOICE: “Plastic particles have just been found in sea salt.”
14. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: “Up to 12.7m tonnes of plastic enter the world’s oceans every year.”

What do you think could be done to reduce environmental pollution?
CURSO 2017-2018
OPTION A: ALBERT EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF HAPPINESS SOLD FOR $1.5M

1 Albert Einstein may be recognised for his theory of relativity but it is his recently discovered theory of happiness which has just
2 been sold at an auction for $1.56m. Two handwritten notes by the acclaimed German physicist which outline his advice for living
3 a happy and fruitful life went on sale in Jerusalem 95 years after they were written.
4 The notes were handwritten during Einstein’s trip to Japan to deliver a series of lectures in November 1922. It was on this trip
5 that the then 43-year-old was informed he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. He felt extremely pleased but also
6 overwhelmed by the large crowd of Japanese people who rushed to see him. While he was in his room at the Imperial Hotel in
7 Tokyo trying to make sense of his feelings, a courier arrived with a delivery. The Nobel laureate composed two brief notes and
8 gave them to him. According to the seller of the notes, Einstein said that in the future they could be worth a great deal more than
9 the cash tip he might have handed over instead.
10 “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness,” reads one
11 of the autographed notes, which was written down on the hotel’s stationery. The other, written on a blank piece of paper, says:
12 “Where there’s a will there’s a way.”
13 The buyer and seller of the notes have wished to remain anonymous; however, the BBC reports that the seller may be the
14 Japanese messenger’s nephew.
1. Albert Einstein’s theory of happiness was written…
(a) in Europe. (b) in Israel.
(c) in a hotel room. (d) on a plane.
2. Einstein’s two notes sold at the auction…
(a) were typed by Einstein himself. (b) were written on different types of paper.
(c) were written in Japanese and translated into English. (d) summarised his theory of relativity.
3. Albert Einstein received $1.56m for the Nobel Prize he was awarded
4. The German physicist travelled to Japan for academic reasons.
5. Einstein thought that only success can bring happiness.
6. Nobody has any idea who the seller of the notes is.
7.1. ONE SYNONYM FOR “hurry” (verb).
7.2. ONE SYNONYM FOR “humble” (adjective).
8.1. ONE WORD MEANING “producing good results.”
8.2. ONE WORD MEANING “overcome or emotionally affected in a very powerful way.”

9.1. “He behaved… (preposition) a baby.” 9.2. “I did it… (preposition) fun.”
10. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH THE CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS:
10.1. “Can you please stop… (make) noise?” 10.2. “The light went out while we… (have) tea.”
11. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO DIRECT SPEECH: “She asked me if I could start work the following day.”
12. JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING AN APPROPRIATE LINKER (DO NOT USE AND, BUT, OR BECAUSE). MAKE CHANGES
IF NECESSARY. “Peter was ill. I wonder if you knew this.”
13. JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING A RELATIVE. MAKE CHANGES IF NECESSARY. “This is the place. We met here two
years ago.”
14. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED. “People expect that the government will
announce his new immigration policy today.” The government…
What makes you happy?
CURSO 2017-2018
OPTION B: OUR LOVE FOR PETS

1 While humans like to think of ourselves as the strongest, smartest species, it’s increasingly clear that many of us are simply
2 slaves to our pets. We may think we own our pets, but it’s actually the other way round.
3 The latest evidence of this can be found at Ikea. The Scandinavian company recently launched a range of pet furniture called
4 Lurvig, which means “hairy” in Swedish. To me, this proves that our obsession with our best friends is getting out of hand. We are
5 spending huge amounts of money on them. Global sales of pet products in 2016 were $103.5 billion; a 4.7% increase over 2015,
6 which is an enormous growth rate.
7 Why are we spending so much money on our animal companions? Well, basically because we seem to think pets are people
8 and treat them as such. A survey conducted in 2015 found that 95% of US pet owners consider their pets part of the family —up
9 from 88% in 2007. And it’s not just Americans; another survey this year claims that 56% of Brits plan to spend more money on
10 Christmas presents for their pets than on gifts for their human family.
11 Nowhere is the humanisation of pets more clearly reflected than in their diets. Despite the fact that dogs will happily eat anything,
12 their meals have become a gourmet affair —the ingredients of which tend to say more about the taste of their owners than animal
13 appetites.
14 I could go on talking to you about this, but I’m afraid I’ve got a gluten-free meal to prepare for my dog’s supper tonight, and he
15 doesn’t like to be kept waiting.
1. According to the author…
(a) animals should be treated like humans. (b) our love for pets has gone a bit too far.
(c) pets are treated like slaves by their owners. (d) Americans spend more than Brits on their pets.
2. We treat animals so well because...
(a) they tend to eat everything. (b) they are smarter than humans.
(c) we view them as humans. (d) we want them to keep fit.
OR USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (0.5 points each)
3. Ikea created a line of furniture for pets many years ago.
4. The number of Americans who see their pets as family members is decreasing.
5. UK citizens have already spent more on presents for their pets than for their relatives.
6. The author is in a hurry to prepare his dog’s dinner because he is a very impatient dog.
7.1. ONE SYNONYM FOR “possess” (verb).
7.2. ONE OPPOSITE FOR “save” (verb).
8.1. ONE WORD MEANING “objects in a room required for ornament, sitting or lying.”
8.2. ONE WORD MEANING “the action of selling something.”

9.1. “I enjoy... (feed) my kittens.” 9.2. “I don’t allow my dog... (come) inside the house.”
10.1. “I am very keen… (preposition) pets.” 10.2. “I am aware... (preposition) the disadvantages of having a pet.”
11. JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING A RELATIVE. MAKE CHANGES IF NECESSARY . “I found the kittens in the street. This is
the street.”
12. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORD: “My grandma lived with five cats for almost two years.”
13. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE: “Mary is feeding the dog that comes every night.”
14. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING (CONDITIONAL) SENTENCE: “Unless you take the dog for a walk, …”

Advantages and disadvantages of having pets. Discuss.
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PRUEBA DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD EXTRANJERA (Inglés)
CURSO 2014-2015
OPTION A SCREEN DINOSAURS

1 In 1922 a short film confused its audience by showing dinosaurs that were taken for real, living
2 dinosaurs that had somehow escaped extinction. The next day newspapers revealed the truth: they were
3 just special effects. Well, today we think we know what dinosaurs looked like because we’ve watched
4 hours of films and documentaries – from the black-and-white, robotic figures of old movies to today’s
5 computer-generated dinosaurs. But although animatronics have become extremely sophisticated and
6 realistic, what we see on screen today is a combination of fact and fantasy, just as it was 100 years ago.
7 Much of what movies have taught us is wrong. For instance, the latest paleontological research says now
8 that velociraptors (which were also much smaller than in Jurassic Park, about the size of a large chicken),
9 and quite possibly T-rex itself, could have had their bodies covered in feathers rather than skin – although
10 they lacked the ability to fly.
11 In the end, fiction is fiction, so perhaps it doesn’t matter very much if Jurassic Park and other movies
12 change some facts to add excitement. However, mixing truth and conjecture is more significant in
13 programmes that could be mistaken for reality, like Walking with Dinosaurs, often cited as the most
14 successful television documentary series of all time. But can it truly be classified as a documentary? Its
15 format is familiar to viewers as it resembles real-life wildlife programmes. So it feels like everything you are
16 shown and told in those so-called documentaries is established beyond doubt. But people should be
17 aware that many of today’s dinosaur programmes represent just the way things might possibly have been,
18 and so they should be enjoyed as a hybrid of fact and fiction.
I * COMPREHENSION (This section consists of six items combining ‘True/False’ and/or ‘Multiple Choice’ questions) (3 points)
1. Recent studies claim that…
(a) velociraptors were represented properly in Jurassic Park, but the T-rex was not.
(b) dinosaurs, like velociraptors and T-rex, most probably had feathers but couldn’t fly.
(c) velociraptors had chicken feathers, but their feathers were bigger than chickens’.
(d) velociraptors had feathers in Jurassic Park but probably not in real life.
2. TV programmes such as ‘Walking with Dinosaurs’ seem to report true facts because…
(a) they show things as they happened in real life.
(b) they have been the most successful television series of all time.
(c) they are very similar to actual nature documentaries.
(d) they do not mix reality and speculation.
TEXT (0.5 points each)
3. Modern dinosaur films are closer to reality than the old, mechanical-looking movies
4. Actual velociraptors were as big as a large chicken.
5. Movies like Jurassic Park transform reality to make them more entertaining.
6. The writer wants the public to understand that dinosaur “documentaries” do not contain absolute historical facts.
II * USE OF ENGLISH (4 points; questions 7-12, 0.25 points each; 13-17, 0.5 points each)
7. FIND IN THE TEXT ONE SYNONYM FOR “investigation” (noun).
8. FIND IN THE TEXT ONE WORD THAT HAS THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION: “more distant than, outside the limits of something”.
9. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRECT OPTION: “He is so rude! How can you put ……. with him?” through / up / out / in
10. GIVE AN ADJECTIVE WITH THE SAME ROOT AS “ability” (noun)
11. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS: “It’s the tallest building I … (ever see)”.
12. WHICH WORD DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME MEANING? connect / pray / link / join
13. REWRITE THE SENTENCE CORRECTLY. “Parents should take good care of his childrens.”
14. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: “Cecilia baked the carrot cake for us.”
15. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONAL SENTENCE: If the car had been checked before the trip… …
16. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE ACTIVE VOICE. “We were shown the house by the owner.”
WITHOUT CHANGING THEIR FORM: babies room not this warm is for enough the
What types of films do you prefer? Explain.
CURSO 2014-2015
OPTION B TATTOOS
1 The discovery of mummies with very simple decorative tattoos has proved the existence of tattooing
2 since prehistoric times. Scientists have not been able to explain the symbolism of these designs made up of
3 lines and dots, but it is thought they were part of a medical healing process.
4 However, for nearly as long as there has been tattooing, there has been condemnation. The Romans
5 used tattoos to mark slaves and criminals and the Japanese also considered them punishment. If you were
6 a convicted criminal, you would get a mark on your forehead, convicted twice get another, and if you were
7 convicted a third time, you would receive a third and final mark making the Japanese symbol for “dog”.
8 In some other societies, tattoos gained respect and assured the owners status for life. The Polynesians
9 developed them to mark rank, and there is evidence that the Incas tattooed their warriors to remind them
10 and others of their success and bravery in battle.
11 In the late 1700s Captain Cook and his men reintroduced tattooing in Europe. Returning from one of his
12 trips, he brought a heavily tattooed Polynesian man who was a sensation among London upper-class. They
13 were so fascinated that they began adorning themselves with body marks in discreet places and, for a short
14 time, tattooing became a trend.
15 After World War II, tattoos had a terrible reputation because newspapers reported stories of blood
16 poisoning and other diseases and the people who wore them were associated with delinquents. Today they
17 are becoming so popular that it is getting harder and harder to find individuals without a tattoo. This rise in
18 popularity has placed tattooists in the category of “fine artists”.
1
I * COMPREHENSION (This section consists of six items combining ‘True/False’ and/or ‘Multiple Choice’ questions) (3 points)
1. Tattooing...
(a) has always been fashionable. (b) is no longer related to delinquency.
(c) was forbidden after World War II. (d) has been considered art since prehistoric times.
2. In Japan …
(a) murderers were marked with the symbol for “dog”. (b) third-time offenders were marked with the symbol for “dog”.
(c) no criminals were marked with the symbol for “dog”. (d) all offenders were marked with the symbol for “dog”.
ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR PHRASES FROM
THE TEXT (0.5 points each)
3. According to some experts, the earliest tattoos may have been used to cure diseases.
4. In some cultures prominent citizens had their bodies tattooed.
5. In the 18th century Londoners wore visible tattoos.
6. In the mid 1900s tattooing was considered a harmful practice by some media.
II * USE OF ENGLISH (4 points; questions 7-12, 0.25 points each; 13-17, 0.5 points each)
7. GIVE ONE OPPOSITE for “rise” (noun) AS IT IS USED IN THE TEXT (line 17)
8. GIVE A NOUN WITH THE SAME ROOT AS “laugh” (verb).
9. FIND IN THE TEXT ONE SYNONYM FOR “courage” (noun).
10. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRECT PREPOSITION: “She is always complaining ...... her school.”
11. FIND IN THE TEXT THE WORD WHICH HAS THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION: “A proof of something.”
12. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS: “I’m tired because I ......... (work) since lunchtime.”
13. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED: “It is not necessary for them to attend the
lecture.” They .......
14. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE ACTIVE VOICE: “He was hit by a falling rock while skiing up in the mountains.”
15. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONAL SENTENCE: “If I had known the truth, ....”
16. JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING AN APPROPRIATE LINKER (DO NOT USE AND, BUT, OR BECAUSE). MAKE CHANGES
IF NECESSARY: “My neighbour watered the plants.” “It had been raining for five hours.”
17. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: “Tattoos are created by inserting ink below the skin.”
Tattoos, piercings, clothes, hairstyle, … do you like to follow trends? Explain.

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OPTION A: “Weather modification experiments”

III * WRITING (3 points)

OPTION A: “Education Mamas”

7. FIND IN THE TEXT: (0.5 points each)

II * USE OF ENGLISH ( 3 points; 0.5 points each)

OPTION A: “LA TOMATINA FESTIVAL: THE MESSIEST HOLIDAY IN THE WORLD”

II * USE OF ENGLISH (3 points; 0.5 points each)

III * WRITING (3 points)

OPTION B: “SAFE SWIMMING”

II * USE OF ENGLISH (3 points; 0.5 points each)

III * WRITING (3 points)

OPTION _: DRONIES: A NEW TREND TO REPLACE SELFIES?

OPTION A: THE BIRTH OF ROCK AND ROLL

2. Which one is NOT a cause of the mix of both cultures?

Instrucciones: a) Duración: 1 h.30m. b) No se permite el uso de diccionario. c) La puntuación de las preguntas

II * USE OF ENGLISH (3 points; 0.5 points each)

11) Turn the following sentence into the passive voice.

III * PRODUCTION (3 points)

How can a student improve his/her English level?

OPTION A: “ ELECTRONIC TAGGING”

7. FIND IN THE TEXT. (0.5 points)

II * USE OF ENGLISH (3 points; 0.5 points each)

9. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORREC PREPOSITION:

III * WRITING (3 points)

OPTION A: ROSA PARKS: THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED A MOVEMENT

III * WRITING (3 points)

OPTION B: SEA SALT AROUND THE WORLD IS CONTAMINATED BY PLASTIC

III * WRITING (3 points)

OPTION A: ALBERT EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF HAPPINESS SOLD FOR $1.5M

II * USE OF ENGLISH (3 points; 0.5 points each)

OPTION B: OUR LOVE FOR PETS

II * USE OF ENGLISH (3 points; 0.5 points each)

III * WRITING (3 points)

OPTION A SCREEN DINOSAURS

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