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María Vicenta Llorca Llorca

Mayte Calatayud Puerto

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Supuestos prácticos de

INGLÉS SECUNDARIA

Teresa Vaello Reos

Vicenta María Llorca Llorca

Maite Calatayud Puerto

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Última edición 2017

Autoras: Teresa Vaello Reos, Vicenta María Llorca Llorca y Maite Calatayud Puerto Maquetación: Raquel Garzón Montagut y Jessica Sánchez Gavilán

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EJEMPLOS EXÁMENES PRÁCTICOS OPOSICIONES SECUNDARIA INGLÉS

1. The Physician by Noah Gordon ...

2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling ...

3. Wuthering Heights by E. Brönte ...

4. The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ...

5. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden ...

6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ...

7. Moby Dick by Herman Melville ...

8. Gulliver’s travels by Jonathan Swift ...

9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ...

11. Robin Hood by Henry Gilbert ...

12. Dracula by Bram Stoker ...

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1. The Physician by Noah Gordon ...

2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling ...

3. Wuthering Heights by E. Brönte ...

4. The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ...

5. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden ...

6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ...

7. Moby Dick by Herman Melville ...

8. Gulliver’s travels by Jonathan Swift ...

9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ...

11. Robin Hood by Henry Gilbert ...

12. Dracula by Bram Stoker ...

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86 TRADUCCIÓN TEXTOS CLÁSICOS

1. Drácula de Bram stoker ...

2. El Príncipe y el Mendigo de Mark Twain ...

3. El Retrato de Dorian Gray de Oscar Wilde ...

4. El libro de la Selva de Rudyard Kipling ...

5. La Letra Escarlata de Nathaniel Hawthorne ...

6. La Máscara de la Muerte Roja de Edgar Allan Poe ...

7. Canción de Navidad de Charles Dickens ...

8. Retrato de una Dama de Henry James ...

9. El Gran Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

10. Soneto 18 de William Shakespeare ...

11. Moby Dick de Herman Melville ...

12. Los Viajes de Gulliver de Jonathan Swift ...

13. Frankenstein de Mary Shelley ...

14. El Gran Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

15. Orgullo y Prejuicio de Jane Austen ...

16. Robinson Crusoe de Daniel Defoe ...

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EJEMPLOS EXÁMENES PRÁCTICOS OPOSICIONES SECUNDARIA INGLÉS

1. Google’s Satellite timelapses show the inconvenient truth about out place ...110

2. King tide flooding a preview of the daily norm we can expect ...………...113

3. How to survive a plague ...………...116

4. Is this the most liveable city in the world ...119

5. You need need to go back to school to relearn english ...………...122

6. Boxing day ..………...…...125

7. Nato review ..………...…...128

8. Donald Trump’s Victory speech ...………...…131

9. King George’s speech ...………...134

10. Some medical treatments are pointless ..………...…...136

11. Veganism ...………...…...……...138

12. Are you too old to find sucess? ...141

13. Your private medical data ir for sale ...………...……...……...144

SOLUCIONES EXÁMENES PRÁCTICOS OPOSICIONES SECUNDARIA INGLÉS

1. Google’s Satellite timelapses show the inconvenient truth about out place ...148

2. King tide flooding a preview of the daily norm we can expect ...………...149

3. How to survive a plague ...………...150

4. Is this the most liveable city in the world ...151

5. You need need to go back to school to relearn english ...………...153

6. Boxing day ..………...…...154

7. Nato review ..………...…...156

8. Donald Trump’s Victory speech ...………...…157

9. King George’s speech ...………...158

10. Some medical treatments are pointless ..………...…...159

11. Veganism ...………...…...……...161

12. Are you too old to find sucess? ...162

13. Your private medical data ir for sale ...………...……...……...164

TRADUCCIÓN TEXTOS CLÁSICOS

1. El Amigo Fiel, de Oscar Wilde ...168

2. El Corazón Delator, de Edgar Allan Poe ...………...169

3. Lazarillo de Tormes ...………...170

4. Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos ...171

5. Constitución de los Estados Unidos ...………...172

6. Si, de Rudyard Kipling ...………...…...174

7. Cuento de Navidad, de Charles Dickens ...………...…...176

8. El Gigante Egoísta, de Oscar Wolde ...………...…179

9. Romeo y Juliera, de William Shakespeare. Huerto de los Capuleto ...180

10. Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea ...………...…...183

11. Mi Ciudad de me deja Dormir .………...…...……...184

12. Día de Acción de Gracias ...185

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1. The Physician by Noah Gordon

Read carefully the following text and answer the questions about it:

“Let us catch some breakfast”, he said as they washed the dirt from their faces and hands. He cut two willow poles and got hooks and line from the wagon. From the shaded place behind the seat he pulled out a box. “This is our grasshopper box.”

He said. “It is one of our duties to keep it fi lled”. He lifted the lid only far enough to allow Rob to stick his hands inside. Living things rustled away from Rob’s fi ngers, frantic and spiky, and he pulled one gently into his palm. When he withdrew his hand, keeping the wings folded between his thumb and forefi nger, the insect’s legs scrabbled frantically.

The four front legs were thin as hairs and the hind two were powerful and large-thighed, enabling it to be a hopper. Barber showed him how to slip the point of the hook just beneath the sort section of tough, ridged shell behind the head. “Not too deep or he’ll bleed molasses and die. Where have you fi shed?”

“The Thames.” He prided himself on his ability as a fi sher, for he and his father often had dangled worms in the broad river, depending on the fi sh to help feed the family during the unemployment.

Barber grunted. “This is a different kind of fi shing,”

He said. “Leave the poles for a moment and get on your hands and knees”

They crawled cautiously to a place overlooking the nearest pool and lay on their bellies. Rob thought the fat man daft.

Four fi sh hung suspended in glass.

“Small,” Rob whispered. “Best eating that size,” Barber said as they crept away from the bank. Your big river trouts are tough and oily. Did you note how these drifted near the head of the pool? They feed facing upstream, waiting for a juicy meal to fall in and come fl oating down. They’re wild and wary.

If you stand next to the stream, they see you. If you tread strongly on the bank they feel your step and they scatter. That’s why you use the long pole. If you stand next back and lightly drop the hopper just above the pool, letting the fl ow carry it to the fi sh.” He watched critically as Rob swung the grasshopper where he had directed.

With a shock that travelled along the pole and sent excitement up into Rob’s arms, the unseen fi sh struck like a dragon. After that it was like fi shing in the Thames. He waited patiently, giving the trout time to doom itself, and then raised the tip of the pole and set the hook as his father had taught him. When he pulled in the fi rst fl opping prize they admired its blood: the gleaming background like oiled walnut wood, the sleek sides splattered with rainbow reds, the black fi ns marked with warm orange...

The Physician by Noah Gordon

1. Give homophones from the text for the following words (state the line number):

were would taut plaice dye sighs tuff

2. Give minimal pairs (from the fi rst paragraph) for the following words:

come for calm get thinks

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999 3. Make a phonetic transcription of the following words:

Thames withdrew

wagon beneath

grasshopper tough

duties leave

enough cautiously

4. Give 6 examples of silent letters found in the text:

5. Give 10 verbs belonging to the lexical ﬁ eld of TYPES OF MOVEMENTS:

6. Give 3 verbs belonging to the lexical ﬁ eld of types of talking:

7. Give 5 words belonging to the lexical ﬁ eld of Nature:

NATURE

8. Give 5 words from the text which refer to different parts of animals:

9. Give 7 words from the text which refer to different parts of a person’s body:

10. Give 6 words from the text which refer to the lexical ﬁ eld of types of animals:

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10 12. Name a metaphor in the text and add two more:

13. Give one example of:

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Temporal deixis:

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Personal deixis:

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Place deixis:

14. Give a euphemism which can be substituted by “decease” or “expire”:

15. Classify the category of the words given in the text according to their word formation (prefi xes,

suffi xes, compounds):

unemployment excitement fl opping grasshopper rainbow forefi nger walnut frantically gleaming enabling

16. Give 5 examples from the text of prepositions of place:

17. Deﬁ ne the following expressions using your own words:

pole

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hook living things wings bleed to feed juicy

18. Find the word or expressions from the text for these deﬁ nitions:

the thick short digit of the forelimb

an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun’s rays by rain

the feeling of lively and cheerful joy

a natural body of running water fl owing on or under the earth

organ of locomotion and balance in fi shes and some other aquatic animals

19. Give examples of synonyms for the following words:

skills back

excited to fi sh

bony almighty

hidden succulent

glossy to supply

20. Give examples of antonyms for the following words:

tame Tiny

tender Wide

weakly shallow

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fat Long

21. Give examples of connectors from the text and classify them:

22. Comment the following sentence from a morphosyntactic point of view:

“he watched critically as rob swung the grasshopper where he had directed”

23. Complete the following sentences with words from the text:

a. Mind your hands! I don’t want you ……….. the needle in your fi nger

b. Ummm, it smells tasty when you’ve ... from the pot.

c. He is not a confi dent person. He is always... of running his own business.

d. The city ha

s been destroyed by a huge earthquake. It was a ... and gloom

situation.

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1. Give homophones from the text for the following words (state the line number):

were

Where

would

Wood

taut

Taught

plaice

Place

dye

Die

sighs

Size

tuff

Tough

2. Give minimal pairs (from the fi rst paragraph) for the following words:

Come Some

For Four

Calm Palm

Get Got

Thinks Things

3. Make a phonetic transcription of the following words:

Thames tɛmz withdrew wɪθdru

Wagon ˈwæɡən beneath bɪˈniːθ

grasshopper ˈɡrɑːshɒpə(r) tough tʌf

Duties ˈdjuːtɪz leave liːv

Enough ɪˈnʌf cautiously ˈkɔːʃəsli

4. Give 6 examples of silent letters found in the text:

Some knees Allow where often would

5. Give 10 verbs belonging to the lexical ﬁ eld of TYPES OF MOVEMENTS:

to cut

Pulled

lifted

stick

withdrew

scrabbled

to slip

crawled

lay on

Crept

drift

fall

come

scatter

struck

6. Give 3 verbs belonging to the lexical ﬁ eld of types of talking:

said

grunted

whispered

7. Give 5 words belonging to the lexical ﬁ eld of Nature:

NATURE

willow

river

bank

stream

ﬁ sh

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Fin

wings

head

legs

shell

9. Give 7 words from the text which refer to different parts of a person’s body:

Faces

hands

ﬁ ngers

palm

knees

thumb

bellies

foreﬁ nger

10. Give 6 words from the text which refer to the lexical ﬁ eld of types of animals:

Insect

worms

grasshopper

trout

ﬁ sh

dragon

11. Name a simile in the text and add two more:

The four front legs were thin as hairs

12. Name a metaphor in the text and add two more:

The unseen ﬁ sh struck like a dragon.

13. Give one example of:

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Temporal deixis:

“…breakfast”

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Personal deixis:

“Barber, Rob”

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Place deixis:

“the Thames”

14. Give a euphemism which can be substituted by “decease” or “expire”:

“ to die”

15. Classify the category of the words given in the text according to their word formation (prefi xes,

suffi xes, compounds):

unemployment

noun that results adding the preﬁ x un- to the noun employment forming

_{its antonym}

excitement

noun that results adding the sufﬁ x –ment to the verb to excite

fl opping

adjective that results from adding the sufﬁ x –ing to the verb to ﬂ op

grasshopper

compound noun

rainbow

compound noun

forefi nger

compound noun

walnut

compound noun

frantically

adverbs that result from adding the sufﬁ x –ly to the adjective frantic

gleaming

adjective that results from adding the sufﬁ x –ing to the noun gleam

enabling

verb resulting from the preﬁ x –en and the sufﬁ x –ing added to the verb to

_able

16. Give 5 examples from the text of prepositions of place:

Beneath

behind

Above

along

inside

17. 17. Deﬁ ne the following expressions using your own words:

Pole

a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic.

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a device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something.

living things

Insects

Wings

moveable organs for ﬂ ying

Bleed

drain of liquid or stream

to feed

to provide food

Juicy

full of juice

18. Find the word or expressions from the text for these deﬁ nitions:

Thumb

the thick short digit of the forelimb

Rainbow

an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun’s rays

by rain

excitement

the feeling of lively and cheerful joy

Stream

a natural body of running water fl owing on or under the earth

Fin

organ of locomotion and balance in fi shes and some other aquatic

animals

19. Give examples of synonyms for the following words:

Skills

Abilities

back

hind

Excited

Frantic

to fi sh

to catch

Bony

Fat

almighty

powerful

Hidden

Unseen

succulent

juicy

Glossy

Sleek

to supply

to feed

20. Give examples of antonyms for the following words:

Tame

Wild

tiny

colossal

Tender

Tough

wide

closed

Weakly

Strongly

shallow

deep

Empty

Filled

cool

warm

Fat

Thin

long

sort

21. Give examples of connectors from the text and classify them:

For he: explicative When: temporal

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59 22. Comment the following sentence from a morphosyntactic point of view:

“HE WATCHED CRITICALLY AS ROB SWUNG THE GRASSHOPPER WHERE HE HAD DIRECTED”

Temporal Subordinate clause Main clause: He watched critically

Temporal subordinate clause: As Rob swung the grasshopper where he had directed Place-Relative clause subordinate: Where he had directed

Main clause: He watched critically

Subject he

Verb: Past simple tense watched

Adverb of manner critically

subordinate clause: As Rob swung the grasshopper where he had directed Temporal nexus as

Subordinate subject Rob

Verb: Past simple tense, irregular verb swung

Object complement The grasshopper

Place relative nexus where

Subordinate subject He

Verb: Past Perfect simple, regular verbs Had directed

23. Complete the following sentences with words from the text:

a. Mind your hands! I don’t want you …

To stick

... the needle in your fi nger

b. Ummm, it smells tasty when you’ve ...

Lifted the lid

... from the pot.

c. He is not a confi dent person. He is always...

wary

... of running his own business.

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92 Drácula

de Bram stoker

En cuanto llegué a esta conclusión escuché pesados pasos que se acercaban detrás de la gran puerta, y vi a través de las grietas el brillo de una luz que se acercaba. Se escuchó el ruido de cadenas que golpeaban y el chirrido de pesados cerrojos que se corrían. Una llave giró haciendo el conocido ruido producido por el largo desuso, y la inmensa puerta se abrió hacia adentro.

En ella apareció un hombre alto, viejo, limpiamente afeitado, a excepción de un largo bigote blanco, y vestido de negro de la cabeza a los pies, sin ninguna mancha de color en ninguna parte. Tenía en la mano una antigua lámpara de plata, en la cual la llama se quemaba sin globo ni protección de ninguna clase, lanzando largas y ondulosas sombras al fl uctuar por la corriente de la puerta abierta. El anciano me hizo un gesto con su mano derecha, haciendo un gesto cortés y hablando en excelente inglés, aunque con una entonación extraña: - Bienvenido a mi casa. ¡Entre con libertad y por su propia voluntad!

No hizo ningún movimiento para acercárseme, sino que permaneció inmóvil como una estatua, como si su gesto de bienvenida lo hubiese fi jado en piedra. Sin embargo, en el instante en que traspuse el umbral de la puerta, dio un paso impulsivamente hacia adelante y, extendiendo la mano, sujetó la mía con una fuerza que me hizo retroceder, un efecto que no fue aminorado por el hecho de que parecía fría como el hielo; de que parecía más la mano de un muerto que de un hombre vivo. Dijo otra vez:

- Bienvenido a mi casa. Venga libremente, váyase a salvo, y deje algo de la alegría que trae consigo.

La fuerza del apretón de mano era tan parecida a la que yo había notado en el cochero, cuyo rostro no había podido ver, que por un momento dudé si no se trataba de la misma persona a quien le estaba hablando; así es que para asegurarme, le pregunté:

- ¿El conde Drácula?

Se inclinó cortésmente al responderme.

- Yo soy Drácula; y le doy mi bienvenida, señor Harker, en mi casa. Pase; el aire de la noche está frío, y seguramente usted necesita comer y descansar.

Dracula by Bram stoker

Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back. Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the fl ame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it fl ickered in the draught of the open door.

The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation.

“Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!”

He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fi xed him into stone.

The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice, more like the hand of a dead than a living man.

Again he said.

“Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!”

The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was speaking.

So to make sure, I said interrogatively, “Count Dracula?”

He bowed in a courtly was as he replied, “I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in, the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.”

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110 1. GOOGLE’S SATELLITE TIMELAPSES SHOW THE

INCONVENIENT TRUTH ABOUT OUR PLANET

The image of the Earth from space is so seared into human consciousness that it is hard to conceive what it was like to live without the picture of our planet as a blue sphere that we all now carry in our minds.

The fi rst photographs of the Earth’s surface seen from 100 miles were taken in 1947. By 1968, the famous Earthrise image photographed by the crew of Apollo 8 framed our planet as a beautiful oasis in black space. Today, stunning and intensely informative pictures of the Earth’s surface are being taken from space constantly: so comprehensively, for so long, that Google has now created timelapses that show three decades of change. It induces anxiety to watch, in just a few seconds, a desert in Saudi Arabia turn into a vast agribusiness complex, a lake in Bolivia vanish or cities grow spectacularly in China.

History has become a car crash in speeded-up motion. We can see, in these timelapse satellite videos, how the Earth is being torn apart by human acts. We can also see, in timelapse videos of Arctic ice, great glaciers melt before our eyes. Yet, are human beings capable of assimilating such global perspectives or is our consciousness tragically limited to a pre-space age, even pre-Copernican mentality? Are people only capable of acting on immediate, personal and local concerns, even though images from space can show us the bigger picture? […] All the images of climate change, the timelapse videos of a crumbling Earth, the crash of glaciers, don’t apparently mean anything compared with the direct experiences people have in their own neighbourhoods. If a truth is inconvenient, ignore it.

If you want to experience, directly, the gap between imagination and reality, science and common sense, that threatens our ability to act rationally to save the planet, just consider your smartphone. Walking down the street, I can see myself move on the screen of my phone, in a real-time, real-life link between myself and a network of satellites. Yet do we go around pondering this magic? No, and perhaps it even seems naive to do so. We just use the app to check how far we are from the meeting or pub we’re trying to get to.

We are now a species in space, our lives as well as the health of our planet scanned by satellites. Globalisation is not abstract but a scientifi c reality that is made visible in these timelapse images of our changing world. Yet that knowledge somehow does not get into the depths of our psyches. The GPS in our smartphones and cars is an unfortunate metaphor for a crushing failure of human imagination. We literally refuse to engage with the dazzling global and extra-global nature of modern life. It’s all too complex, apparently.

We are mentally imprisoned, unable to soar in our minds to see the Earth as a satellite can see it. And it’s killing us.

1. Summarize the text in no more than 80 words.

2. Give a synonym and an antonym word or expression for the following words from the text:

seared into torn apart

dazzling soar

pondering crushing

3. Write the phonetic transcription of the following words from the text:

naive globalisation

failure depths

psyches speed-up

4. Complete the sentences with a phrasal verb.

a) I often use Wikipedia to_________________________information.

b) If you want to_________________________a bus in London, you will have to queue. c) Can I_________________________the TV? I want to watch the weather forecast. d) It is very hard to_________________________smoking.

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f) Shall I_________________________and offer my seat to the old lady? g) With a few buckets of water, we_________________________the fi re. h) Who will_________________________your cat when you’re on holiday? i) Would you like to_________________________your new dress today?

j) At the next stop we have to_________________________the bus and________________________the street to the cinema.

5. Rewrite the following sentences using the word in bold so that the second sentence has the same

meaning as the ﬁ rst. You cannot change the word in bold. In each gap you can write between

three and six words.

a) If your sister didn’t work so hard, your family would starve!

for

Were it_________________________working so hard, your family would starve. b) Margaret told her daughter never to touch the vase.

circumstances

“Under_________________________this vase to be touched,” Margaret told her daughter. c) We get on well with both of Jack’s parents.

terms

We_________________________with both of Jack’s parents. d) If we could choose, we’d prefer to go to Paris.

rather

We’d_________________________Paris if given the choice.

e) “Have you considered the cost of this project?” Elena asked.

account

Elena wanted to know if they had taken_________________________of the project. f) “You might have to drive a lot in this job,” Greg said to Kathy

involve

Greg told Kathy that the job_________________________of driving. g) The airline never said anything about having overbooked the plane.

time

At _________________________tell us they had overbooked the plane. h) If you left the bank at 3pm, it’s possible you saw the thief.

have

You may_________________________you were in the bank at 3pm.

6. For each space, choose ONE word which you think best completes the sentence. Look carefully

at the words both before and after each space.

a) In response to the question, Mary said that as_______________as she knew, the house was empty. b) I knew there were rabbits in the park, but I’ve never seen that_______________of them here before.

c) I need the name of the person_______________car is parked right in front of mine. He’s completely blocking me! d) Go down to the building site quickly. There appears to_______________been a bad accident.

e) We’ve now discovered you were the person who broke the door and in that_______________, we cannot be held responsible.

f) This is a great book,_______________only for those that are geology experts, but also for keen amateurs like myself. g) I don’t like_______________type of spice, but pepper in particular, I can’t stand.

h) I’ve read_______________single book you can see in this room. I think I read three books a week.

7. For each question, ﬁ ll the space in the sentence using the base word given in bold at the end.

The required word may be a noun, adverb, adjective or verb and it may be either positive (e.g.

helpful) or negative (e.g. unhelpful).

1. In___________________with an ancient tradition, dinner will be served on blue china.

keep

2. It’___________________rare to see large sharks in the Mediterranean Sea.

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3. The royal wedding fi nished with a___________________8-course meal in the evening.

majesty

4. Scientists used a simple beetle as the________________for their invention of a water-collecting bottle for hot climates.

inspire

5. A group of powerful___________________invested in the new company and made a fortune.

ﬁ nance

6. Helen Weldon has been totally___________________an a historian after it was shown she invented quotations.

credit

7. In your___________________, how much money do we need to save in order to buy the house?

estimate

8. Parking in the city centre can be a major___________________due to the narrow streets.

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148 SOLUCIONES EXAMEN PRÁCTICO 1

1. Summarize the text in no more than 80 words.

Several possible answers.

2. Give a synonym and an antonym word or expression for the following words from the text:

seared into burnt in / unexploited in torn apart devastated / preserved, protected dazzling impressive, stunning / unimpressive,

ordinary soar ascend / descend

pondering considering / ignoring crushing destructive, devastating / creative, improving

3. Write the phonetic transcription of the following words from the text:

naive /naɪˈiːv/ globalisation /ˌɡləʊbəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ failure /ˈfeɪljə/ depths /dɛpθs/

psyches /ˈsaɪki(ː)z/ speed-up /ˈspiːdʌp/

4. Complete the sentences with a phrasal verb.

a) I often use Wikipedia to look up information.

b) If you want to get on a bus in London, you will have to queue. c) Can I turn on the TV? I want to watch the weather forecast. d) It is very hard to give up smoking.

e) It is so dark in here, you can really take off your sunglasses now. f) Shall I stand up and offer my seat to the old lady?

g) With a few buckets of water, we put out the fi re. h) Who will look after your cat when you’re on holiday? i) Would you like to put on your new dress today?

j) At the next stop we have to get off the bus and walk along the street to the cinema.

5. Rewrite the following sentences using the word in bold so that the second sentence has the same

meaning as the ﬁ rst. You cannot change the word in bold. In each gap you can write between

three and six words.

a) Were it not for your sister working so hard, your family would starve.

b) “Under no circumstances is this vase to be touched,” Margaret told her daughter. c) We are on good terms with both of Jack’s parents.

d) We’d rather go to Paris if given the choice.

e) Elena wanted to know if they had taken into account the cost of the project. f) Greg told Kathy that the job might involve a lot of driving.

g) At no time did the airline tell us they had overbooked the plane. h) You may have seen the thief if you were in the bank at 3pm.

6. For each space, choose ONE word which you think best completes the sentence. Look carefully

at the words both before and after each space.

a) In response to the question, Mary said that as far as she knew, the house was empty. b) I knew there were rabbits in the park, but I’ve never seen that many of them here before.

c) I need the name of the person whose car is parked right in front of mine. He’s completely blocking me! d) Go down to the building site quickly. There appears to have been a bad accident.

e) We’ve now discovered you were the person who broke the door and in that case, we cannot be held responsible.

f) This is a great book, not only for those that are geology experts, but also for keen amateurs like myself. g) I don’t like any type of spice, but pepper in particular, I can’t stand.

h) I’ve read every single book you can see in this room. I think I read three books a week.

7. For each question, ﬁ ll the space in the sentence using the base word given in bold at the end.

The required word may be a noun, adverb, adjective or verb and it may be either positive (e.g.

helpful) or negative (e.g. unhelpful).

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a) In keeping with an ancient tradition, dinner will be served on blue china. b) It’ incredibly rare to see large sharks in the Mediterranean Sea.

c) The royal wedding fi nished with a majestic 8-course meal in the evening.

d) Scientists used a simple beetle as the inspiration for their invention of a water-collecting bottle for hot climates. e) A group of powerful ﬁ nanciers invested in the new company and made a fortune.

f) Helen Weldon has been totally discredited an a historian after it was shown she invented quotations. g) In your estimation, how much money do we need to save in order to buy the house?

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168 1. EL AMIGO FIEL, de Oscar Wilde

Una mañana, la vieja rata de agua sacó la cabeza por su agujero. Tenía unos ojos redondos muy vivarachos y unos tupidos bigotes grises. Su cola parecía un largo elástico negro. Unos patitos nadaban en el estanque semejantes a una bandada de canarios amarillos, y su madre, toda blanca con patas rojas, esforzábase en enseñarles a hundir la cabeza en el agua.

-No podréis ir nunca a la buena sociedad si no aprendéis a meter la cabeza -les decía. Y les enseñaba de nuevo cómo tenían que hacerlo. Pero los patitos no prestaban ninguna atención a sus lecciones. Eran tan jóvenes que no sabían las ventajas que reporta la vida de sociedad.

-¡Qué criaturas más desobedientes! -exclamó la rata de agua- ¡Merecían ahogarse verdaderamente!

-¡No lo quiera Dios! -replicó la pata-. Todo tiene sus comienzos y nunca es demasiada la paciencia de los padres. -¡Ah! No tengo la menor idea de los sentimientos paternos -dijo la rata de agua- No soy padre de familia. Jamás me he casado, ni he pensado en hacerlo. Indudablemente el amor es una buena cosa a su manera; pero la amistad vale más. Le aseguro que no conozco en el mundo nada más noble o más raro que una fi el amistad. -Y, dígame, se lo ruego, ¿qué idea se forma usted de los deberes de un amigo fi el? -preguntó un pardillo verde que había escuchado la conversación posado sobre un sauce retorcido.

-Sí, eso es precisamente lo que quisiera yo saber -dijo la pata, y nadando hacia el extremo del estanque, hundió su cabeza en el agua para dar buen ejemplo a sus hijos.

-¡Necia pregunta! -gritó la rata de agua-. ¡Como es natural, entiendo por amigo fi el al que me demuestra fi delidad! -¿Y qué hará usted en cambio? -dijo la avecilla columpiándose sobre una ramita plateada y moviendo sus alitas. -No le comprendo a usted -respondió la rata de agua.

-Permitidme que les cuente una historia sobre el asunto -dijo el pardillo.

-¿Se refi ere a mí esa historia? -preguntó la rata de agua- Si es así, la escucharé gustosa, porque a mí me vuelven loca los cuentos.

-Puede aplicarse a usted -respondió el pardillo. Y abriendo las alas, se posó en la orilla del estanque y contó la historia del amigo fi el.

1. THE DEVOTED FRIEND, by Oscar Wilde

One morning the old Water-rat put his head out of his hole. He had bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers, and his tail was like a long bit of black india-rubber. The little ducks were swimming about in the pond, looking just like a lot of yellow canaries, and their mother, who was pure white with real red legs, was trying to teach them how to stand on their heads in the water.

‘You will never be in the best society unless you can stand on your heads,’ she kept saying to them; and every now and then she showed them how it was done. But the little ducks paid no attention to her. They were so young that they did not know what an advantage it is to be in society at all.

‘What disobedient children!’ cried the old Water-rat; ‘they really deserve to be drowned.’

‘Nothing of the kind,’ answered the Duck, ‘every one must make a beginning, and parents cannot be too patient.’ ‘Ah! I know nothing about the feelings of parents,’ said the Water-rat; ‘I am not a family man. In fact, I have never been married, and I never intend to be. Love is all very well in its way, but friendship is much higher. Indeed, I know of nothing in the world that is either nobler or rarer than a devoted friendship.’

‘And what, pray, is your idea of the duties of a devoted friend?’ asked a Green Linnet, who was sitting in a willow-tree hard by, and had overheard the conversation.

‘Yes, that is just what I want to know,’ said the Duck, and she swam away to the end of the pond, and stood upon her head, in order to give her children a good example.

‘What a silly question!’ cried the Water-rat. ‘I should expect my devoted friend to be devoted to me, of course.’ ‘And what would you do in return?’ said the little bird, swinging upon a silver spray, and fl apping his tiny wings. ‘I don’t understand you,’ answered the Water-rat.

‘Let me tell you a story on the subject,’ said the Linnet.

‘Is the story about me?’ asked the Water-rat. If so, I will listen to it, for I am extremely fond of fi ction.’

‘It is applicable to you,’ answered the Linnet; and he fl ew down, and alighting upon the bank, he told the story of The Devoted Friend.