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    All About Winning

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    The document discusses the use of technology in sports to enhance performance. It notes that athletes have always sought ways to improve using technology, but some new technologies raise questions about fairness. Many sports now see records being set due to advances like lightweight poles, rubber tracks, and high-tech swimsuits. However, it is difficult to compare performances over time as equipment changes. Some argue certain technologies remove the sporting element, and equipment costs can favor wealthy competitors. Committees sometimes ban expensive innovations to keep competitions fair. In the end, there are no simple answers about what victory means and what the goal of sports should be.

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    All About Winning

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    The document discusses the use of technology in sports to enhance performance. It notes that athletes have always sought ways to improve using technology, but some new technologies raise questions about fairness. Many sports now see records being set due to advances like lightweight poles, rubber tracks, and high-tech swimsuits. However, it is difficult to compare performances over time as equipment changes. Some argue certain technologies remove the sporting element, and equipment costs can favor wealthy competitors. Committees sometimes ban expensive innovations to keep competitions fair. In the end, there are no simple answers about what victory means and what the goal of sports should be.

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    Examen de Selectividad cambiado con respecto a las nuevas preguntas

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    The document discusses the use of technology in sports to enhance performance. It notes that athletes have always sought ways to improve using technology, but some new technologies raise questions about fairness. Many sports now see records being set due to advances like lightweight poles, rubber tracks, and high-tech swimsuits. However, it is difficult to compare performances over time as equipment changes. Some argue certain technologies remove the sporting element, and equipment costs can favor wealthy competitors. Committees sometimes ban expensive innovations to keep competitions fair. In the end, there are no simple answers about what victory means and what the goal of sports should be.

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    All About Winning

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    The document discusses the use of technology in sports to enhance performance. It notes that athletes have always sought ways to improve using technology, but some new technologies raise questions about fairness. Many sports now see records being set due to advances like lightweight poles, rubber tracks, and high-tech swimsuits. However, it is difficult to compare performances over time as equipment changes. Some argue certain technologies remove the sporting element, and equipment costs can favor wealthy competitors. Committees sometimes ban expensive innovations to keep competitions fair. In the end, there are no simple answers about what victory means and what the goal of sports should be.

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    ITS ALL ABOUT WINNING

    Whether they score an additional goal in football or win another set in tennis, sports people
    everywhere like to win. So it is not surprising that athletes have always been willing to use
    technology to enhance their performance. But the use of some new technologies raises troubling
    questions.
    Today, there are new advances in almost every field of sport. The poles used by pole-
    vaulters are no longer made of flexible wood; instead, they consist of lightweight aluminium and
    fibreglass. The surface of the track used by runners has changed from coal, used in the 1930s, to
    plastic, latex and rubber. And swimmers today wear swimsuits made of a new fabric called Fastskin.
    Partly as a result of these changes, new records have been set. But does this mean that
    athletes are no longer competing against each other, that the technologies are competing instead?
    Already, it is hard to measure the performances of sports people today against those of times gone
    by. Is there any point in comparing the achievements of past baseball players, who used bats of
    white ash wood, with those of todays players, who use bats made of stronger, lighter maple wood?
    Many people believe that the use of some advanced technologies takes the sporting element
    out of certain activities. They wonder if it is fair to use heat-seeking missiles to shoot birds, or darts
    that are electronically guided. And what about the cost of new equipment? Competitions that allow
    expensive technology automatically favour competitors who can afford it. In order to keep
    competitions fair, sports committees have sometimes banned expensive innovations.
    How important is it to win? Is winning at all costs worth it? What should the goal of sporting
    competitions be? There are no easy answers, only questions.

    I. COMPREHENSION (4 points)
    CHOSE THE CORRECT OPTION (A, B, C or D). (0.5 points each)

    1. The use of technologies in sports...


    a. doesnt improve sport performances. b. makes sure players wins their match.
    c. makes the play unfair. d. is accepted as a legal practice.
    2. It is not easy to compare...
    a. past and present sport performances. b. the achievements of past baseball players.
    c. the materials used to make poles. d. competition committees.

    ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH


    WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)

    3. The use of technology to enhance performance is new.


    4. The surface of tracks used by runners is now made of coal from the 1930s.
    5. Technological advances have helped set new records in many sports.
    6. Sporting committees sometimes forbid the use of expensive equipment.

    7. Find in the text (0,5 points)


    7.1. a synonym for IMPROVE (verb)
    7.2. an opposite for ILLEGAL (adjective)
    8. Find in the text the word which has the following definition (05 points)
    8.1. to be able to pay for (verb)
    8.2. grey substance which keep after burning something (noun)

    II. USE OF ENGLISH (3 points; 0,5 point each)


    9. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: Dont play cheats if you practice
    Olympic games
    10. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE: Youd have win the race, ...
    11. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE : The use of some new
    technologies raises troubling questions.
    12. JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING A RELATIVE PRONOUN. MAKE CHANGES IF NECESSARY.
    A new fabric called Fastskin is worn by many swimmers today. It is believed to enhance
    performance.
    13. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED.
    But does this mean that athletes are no longer competing against each other? But does this
    mean that there is no longer
    14. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: Expensive innovations are sometimes
    banned in order to keep competitions fair.

    III. PRODUCTION (3 points)


    WRITE A COMPOSITION (100-120 WORDS). CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING
    OPTIONS. SPECIFY YOUR OPTION.
    a) The advantages and disadvantages of technological devices to enhance performance.
    b) Describe your favourite sport and how you try to enhance your performance.

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