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COMPRENSIÓN DE TEXTOS ESCRITOS - TAREA 1 (7 x 1 = 7 puntos)
Read this text about the peculiarities of British houses. Match each extract (1 – 7) with the best heading (A – J). Two of the headings do not correspond to any of the extracts. Extract 0 is an example and goes with phrase D. WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN THE CORRESPONDING BOX ON THE ANSWER SHEET PROVIDED.
WHY ARE BRITISH HOUSES SO PECULIAR?
0. In Rome do as the Romans do.
Every country has its own weird and wonderful ways that baffle and confuse visitors. The UK is no exception, of course. London is particularly famous for having many housing quirks, due to the density of the population, prices and British culture. The important thing to remember is that every country expects visitors to respect their customs. Here are the top oddities you should prepare for.
1. __________________________ When Winston Churchill visited Stalin during the war, he was most impressed with the modern wonder of technology that was mixed taps. You would think that - over 70 years later - Britain would have joined the rest of the world. But no. Many houses in Britain still have separate taps for hot and cold water. In many public restrooms you will find that we're wholly traditional and your choices are the following: 1. Use cold water. The Brits say it's character building. 2. Mix the water in the basin - perhaps reserve this option for when you are at your place of residence and you know exactly who’s been using it. 3. Scald your hands. 2. __________________________ Is it a sign of endurance? Unless it is freezing, the British don’t force their little ones to wear jackets and mittens. As adults, they can’t wait to change out of their winter clothes into spring attire. So perhaps the reason that they seem to endure the cold better than other nations is due to nurture rather than nature? Extremely high energy prices and poorly insulated houses don’t help either. Whatever the reason, bring sweaters and possibly hot water bottles and slippers when coming to the UK. Because British homes are chilly, whether you're prepared for it or not. 3. __________________________ Never mind the fact that double glazed windows are a rarity – inviting the winter into plenty of homes - the Brits also love their health and safety rules. In an ideal world, that would mean fitting all homes with double glazed windows so that people can keep warm. Instead, windows often don’t open fully in case anyone would feel the urge to jump out. 4. __________________________ When Brits travel abroad, they often discover what true shower pressure is. You know, the kind which actually rinses the shampoo out of your hair in less than a hundred years. So, don’t be surprised if the pressure isn’t up to your country's standard when you have your first shower on British soil. 5. __________________________ British people love a bit of carpet. It's probably because their houses tend to be a bit chilly. The former landlord of one of our Country Managers also said that it decreases the humidity. Fortunately, bathroom carpets have become unfashionable in recent years. So you see, there is progress.
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6. __________________________ Not every private bathroom in the UK has a functioning lock. The Brits expect each other, and visitors, to knock if the door is closed. ADC has had students who feel that their human rights are infringed by not being able to physically lock the door. But please remember, Brits value privacy more than their afternoon tea and would rather die than to walk in on someone. Hence, they will knock! 7. __________________________ Another thing which has flabbergasted many of the European members of our team is the fact that many British bathroom lights are operated by pulling a string. We don’t have an explanation for this, but we can say that if you struggle to find a switch, try looking for a string to pull instead. Source: www.adccollege.eu
A Banned from the bathroom
B Better safe than sick
C Drying up your clothes in style
D In Rome do as the Romans do EXTRACT 0 ✓
E Resilient to low indoor temperatures
F Takes ages to get rid of foam
G They won’t enter unannounced
H Uses of an airing cupboard
I What you are looking for is not where you are used to seeing it
J When hygiene may put you at risk
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COMPRENSIÓN DE TEXTOS ESCRITOS - TAREA 3 (12 x 0,5 = 6 puntos)
You are going to read three different stories about unlucky criminals. Choose the option (A, B or C) that best fits in gaps 1 to 12. Question 0 has been completed as an example. WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN THE CORRESPONDING BOX ON THE ANSWER SHEET.
SOME UNLUCKY CRIMINALS
They say good luck is something we earn, (0) _____ perhaps it isn’t so strange that criminals sometimes have really bad luck, especially in the USA. Here are some remarkable examples:
In December a man stole a lady’s purse in a supermarket in Lewiston, Idaho, but
he didn’t (1) _____ the store’s surveillance cameras. The police published a photograph of the criminal on the (2) _____ page of the local newspaper, The Lewiston Tribune. On the same day – and on the same page! – local sign painter Michael Millhouse appeared in a photograph for an article about Christmas decorations. A newspaper employee could see that the criminal and sign painter were the same man and (3) _____ the police.
Another thief, Jeremy Parker from Grand Rapids, Michigan, discovered not only that crime doesn’t pay, but that it can also be very painful. He (4) _____ a collection of hunting knives (5) _____ $300 from a store by hiding them down his trousers. Everything (6) _____ until he tried to leave the store. Several store employees blocked his exit and, when he tried to run out, he fell over and one of the knives (7) _____ him in the abdomen. He was later arrested at the local hospital.
After an all-night party, 20-year-old Floridian Ryan Holle (8) _____ his car to a friend. As a result, he is now serving a life sentence. Florida law makes an accomplice liable for murders (9) _____ during robberies. Holle’s friends used his car to drive to Pensacola, where they (10) _____ a drug dealer, but the burglary (11) _____ . During a fight, the dealer’s daughter was killed. Holle says he didn’t even know where his friends were going, but he was still (12) _____ of first-degree murder. Source: Speak Up Magazine
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Example: 0. A because B however C so ✓
1. 7. A look A kicked B notice B punched C realize C stabbed
2. 8. A cover A borrowed B front B hired C head C lent
3. 9. A contacted A achieved B got in touch B committed C looked up to C made
4. 10. A could steal A fixed B meant stealing B robbed C planned to steal C stole
5. 11. A priced A looked up B valued B took off C worth C went wrong
6. 12. A didn’t go smoothly A arrested B turned up B convicted C went perfectly C jailed
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COMPRENSIÓN DE TEXTOS ESCRITOS - TAREA 2 (7 x 1 = 7 puntos) Read the following text and choose the option (A, B or C) that best completes each statement. Question 0 has been completed as an example. WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN THE CORRESPONDING BOX ON THE ANSWER SHEET PROVIDED.
A PILL TO MAKE EXERCISE OBSOLETE
What if a drug could give you all the benefits of a workout? It was late summer, and the gray towers of the Salk Institute, in San Diego, shaded seamlessly into ocean fog. The austere, marble-paved central courtyard was silent and deserted. The south lawn, a peaceful retreat often used for Tai Chi and yoga classes, was likewise devoid of life, but through vents built into its concrete border one could detect a slight ammoniac whiff from more than two thousand cages of laboratory rodents below. In a teak-lined office overlooking the ocean, the biologist Ron Evans introduced me to two specimens: Couch Potato Mouse and Lance Armstrong Mouse. Couch Potato Mouse had been raised to serve as a proxy for the average American. Its daily exercise was limited to an occasional waddle toward a bowl brimming with pellets of laboratory standard “Western Diet,” which consists almost entirely of fat and sugar and is said to taste like cookie dough. The mouse was lethargic, lolling in a fresh layer of bedding, rolls of fat visible beneath thinning, greasy-looking fur. Lance Armstrong Mouse had been raised under exactly the same conditions, yet, despite its poor diet and lack of exercise, it was lean and taut, its eyes and coat shiny as it snuffled around its cage. The secret to its healthy appearance and youthful energy, Evans explained, lay in a daily dose of GW501516: a drug that confers the beneficial effects of exercise without the need to move a muscle. Exercise has its discomforts, after all: as we sat down to talk, Evans, a trim sixty-something in a striped polo shirt, removed a knee brace from a coffee table, making room for a mug of peppermint tea; he was trying to soothe his stomach, having picked up a bug while hiking in the Andes. Evans began experimenting with 516, as the drug is commonly known, in 2007. He hoped that it might offer clues about how the genes that control human metabolism are switched on and off, a question that has occupied him for most of his career. Mice love to run, Evans told me, and when he puts an exercise wheel in their cage they typically log several miles a night. These nocturnal drills are not simply a way of dealing with the stress of laboratory life, as scientists from Leiden University, in the Netherlands, demonstrated in a charming experiment conducted a few years ago. They left a small cagelike structure containing a training wheel in a quiet corner of an urban park, under the surveillance of a motion-activated night-vision camera. The resulting footage showed that the wheel was in near-constant use by wild mice. Despite the fact that their daily activities—foraging for food, searching for mates, avoiding predators—provided a more than adequate workout, the mice voluntarily chose to run, spending up to eighteen minutes at a time on the wheel, and returning for repeat sessions. (Several frogs and slugs also made use of the amenity, possibly by accident.) Still, as the example of Lance Armstrong Human makes clear, sometimes exercise alone is not enough. When Evans began giving 516 to laboratory mice that regularly used an exercise wheel, he found that, after just four weeks on the drug, they had increased their endurance—how far they could run, and for how long—by as much as seventy-five per cent. Meanwhile, their waistlines (“the cross-sectional area,” in scientific parlance) and their body-fat percentage shrank; their insulin resistance came down; and their muscle-composition ratio shifted toward so-called slow-twitch fibres, which tire slowly and burn fat, and which predominate in long-distance runners. The drug works by mimicking the effect of endurance exercise on one particular gene: PPAR-delta. Like all genes, PPAR-delta issues instructions in the form of chemicals—protein-based signals that tell cells what to be, what to burn for fuel, which waste products to excrete, and so on. 516 alters in a way the messages the gene sends—boosting the signal to break down and burn fat and simultaneously suppressing instructions related to breaking down and burning sugar. Evans’s doped mice ran farther, in part because their muscles had been told to burn fat and save carbohydrates,
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which meant that they took longer to “hit the wall”—the painful sensation encountered when muscles exhaust their glucose store. Evans published his initial results in the journal Cell, in 2008. This year, he showed that, if his cookie-dough-scarfing mice were allowed to exercise, the ones that had been given 516 for eight weeks could run for nearly an hour and half longer than their drug-free peers. “We can replace training with a drug,” he said. Source: The New Yorker
Example: 0. It was summer and outside the buildings of the Salk Institute ... A it was very shady. B there was nobody. C you could see a marble monument.
1. In the green area at the south ...
A a peculiar smell could be noticed. B some people had retreated in search of peace and quiet. C the laboratory rodents could be heard.
2. The Couch Potato Mouse ...
A didn’t even need to move to feed. B had unhealthy-looking fur. C slept on a soiled bed.
3. The Lance Armstrong Mouse ... the other one.
A benefited from exercise more than B looked more fibrous than C was not fed as often as
4. Ron Evans ...
A has the typical ailments of his age. B is currently getting over an infection. C sprained a knee during his hiking in the Andes.
5. An experiment carried out in a park showed that …
A the novelty of the wheel wore off soon. B the training wheel seemed to allure wild mice. C wild mice rivalled to use the wheel at night.
6. After four weeks on the drug the laboratory mice …
A doubled the distance they were able to run. B had more stamina. C were more muscular.
7. As a result of using drug 516 ...
A all fat was quickly burnt for fuel. B the glucose store lasted longer. C waste was secreted faster.
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COMPRENSIÓN DE TEXTOS ORALES – TAREA 3 (10 x 0,5 = 5 puntos) You will listen to a person talking about books. Read the notes below and listen carefully to the recording. Complete the information required with up to THREE WORDS. Question 0 is an example. You have 2 minutes to read the task. You will hear the information twice. PLEASE, TRANSFER YOUR ANSWERS TO THE CORRESPONDING SECTION ON THE ANSWER SHEET.
BOOKS ARE HERE TO STAY
Example: 0. The narrator advises not to ……… LEND BOOKS ………….. if you do not want to lose them.
1. A book resembles a person because it has a spine, a backbone and a
……………………………………. .
2. In ancient times people would make marks on bones or ………………………….. to
record things.
3. In Roman times books were made of .................................................. .
4. In the narrator’s opinion, as books were made by hand, they were real ........................................... items.
5. The modern printing press made it possible to .................................................. books.
6. In the 19th century, book covers used to have …………………………............ on them.
7. It was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that the …………………………...... of book jackets started to be of interest.
8. The speaker believes that the main purpose of a physical book is to record ………………….………………. .
9. What people want is to hold a book, turn its pages and mark ……………………………… in the story.
10. The smell of ink or ageing paper is one of the things that makes books so ……………………….…… .
Source: TED Channel
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Eficacia comunicativa Organización del texto Riqueza lingüística Corrección lingüística
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PRODUCCIÓN Y COPRODUCCIÓN DE TEXTOS ESCRITOS - TAREA 1
You would like to spend a two-week holiday in an English-speaking country. You have never been there before and decide to ask a penfriend who lives there for advice. In your email: • say why you have decided to spend a holiday and what you plan to do there • enquire about places to visit and things to do • ask if you can stay at your friend’s for a few days. Write 120-140 words.
