EXÁMEN SELECTIVIDAD 2011 INGLÉS, ANDALUCÍA. // ENGLISH EXAMINATION TO APPLY FOR UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN SPAIN

Selectividad Examination June 2011

2nd BACHILLERATO EXAM

This exam has been our proposal as a retaking examination in May. If you have a doubt about the keys for the exam, please send us an email and we'll provide them to you. Good luck!
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(Este exámen ha sido puesto en Mayo como exámen para recuperar; os puede servir para practicar SELECTIVIDAD, o para los que debéis recuperar en septiembre. Podéis adquirir más exámenes y una guía apra hacer el exámen de Selectividad adquiriendo nuestro libro : English in SELECTIVIDAD )


English Exam 2 Bachillerato

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We feel really proud of our guide for spanish Selectividad ( English test to apply for a University in Spain).
This book contains the knowledge acquired by teachers throughout years , after checking hundreds of Selectividad exams. You will find 15 real exams from different communities. they include the keys for the exams, explanations for the composition, possible answers for the reading comprehension, etc.
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Os presentamos nuestro nuevo libro: Inglés en Selectividad, totalmente actualizado y adaptado a la prueba de selectividad 2011. El libro incluye 15 exámenes resueltos de diversas comunidades, para que el alumno se autoevalue, o el profesorado lo pueda usar en clase. El libro incluye además consejos y orientaciones deprofesorado corrector de la prueba de Inglés; analizando cada parte del exámen. Del mismo modo, incluímos unas recomendaciones a la hora de realizar la redacción, y numerosos anexos de vocabulario que incluyen: False friends, sinónimos y antónimos, prefijos, campos semánticos etc. Esperamos os sea de gran ayuda. podéis adquirirlo haciendo click sobre la portada del libro en Ebook con descarga pdf por sólo 4 euros o en libro físico . 

CLEFT SENTENCES

CLEFT SENTENCES FOR ADVANCED LEVEL OF ENGLISH (B2).

This is the grammar about Cleft Sentences. Good Luck! I hope it will be of help!!

Note: If you want to download or print this handout , you need to click on the picture and you'll read it properly.
Aquí tenéis la gramática , morfología, tipología y ejemplos de estas " complicadillas" frases.
Nota: Descárgate o imprime esta ficha y podrás leerla y estudiarla de una manera adecuada.


CLEFT SENTENCES

Economy and Politics Vocabulary ! wide your knowledge about English.

This is a list of essential and basic vocabulary about Economy and Politics. It is really useful when dealing in English with these abstract topics .

( Esta lista es muy útil para los alumnos de Bachillerato y para preparar los textos y redacciones de Selectividad relacionados con economía y política; constituyendo la base para empezar a comprender y producir textos relacionados con esta temática.)

Economy and Politics Vocabulary

Reading comprehension text

WHY PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU?

People need to be active to be healthy. Our modern lifestyle and all the conveniences we've
become used to have made us sedentary - and that's dangerous for our health. Sitting
around in front of the TV or the computer, riding in the car for even a short trip to the store
and using elevators instead of stairs or ramps all contribute to our inactivity. Physical
inactivity is as dangerous to our health as smoking!
Add up your activities during the day in periods of at least 10 minutes each. Start slowly
... and build up. If you're already doing some light activities move up to more moderate
ones. A little is good, but more is better if you want to achieve health benefits.
Scientists say accumulate 60 minutes of physical activity every day to stay healthy or
improve your health. Time needed depends on effort - as you progress to moderate
activities, you can cut down to thirty minutes, four days a week.
Physical activity doesn't have to be very hard to improve your health. This goal can be
reached by building physical activities into your daily routine. Just add up in periods of at
least ten minutes each throughout the day. After three months of regular physical activity,
you will notice a difference - people often say getting started is the hardest part.
(From Handbook for Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living p. 4. Canadian Society for Exercise
Physiology, Ottawa, Ontario, 1998)

I. Answer the following questions using your own words (2 points: 1 point each)
a. Why is physical activity so important for people?

b. How can you include physical activity in your life?

II. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)? (1 point: 0.5 each)
a. Smoking is less dangerous than physical inactivity.
b. You do not need more than sixty minutes a day to be fit.

III. Find a word or phrase in the text which, in context, is similar in meaning
to: (1 point: 0.5 each)

a. inactive
b. fit
IV. Choose a, b, or c, in each question below. Only one choice is correct (2
points: 0.5 each)
1. Nowadays people ...
a) are less active than in the past.
b) are more active than in the past.
c) are as sedentary as they used to be.
2. Time needed for physical activity depends on ...
a) health
b) effort
c) money
3. You can improve your health ...
a) integrating physical activity into your timetable.
b) eating less and less during short periods of time.
c) relaxing and keeping cool.
4. People say that ...
a) they do not have time for physical activity.
b) getting into physical activity is the most difficult part.
c) getting into physical activity is not so difficult.

Part B. Composition (100-150 words approximately). Choose one of the following
topics (4 points)
1. Do you practise any sport? Why?

2. The relationship between our modern lifestyle and physical inactivity.

You can give your opinions about the topic leaving a comment or if you need the keys write a comment as well

English Exam of Selectividad 2003

This is the first of a series of Selectividad test( The test to accede to University) of English in Spain. This one is from year 2003.
(The answers will be provided if you ask any doubts about them.)

selectividad 2003

Selectividad 2007

UNIVERSIDADES DE ANDALUCÍA
PRUEBA DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD
ANÁLISIS DE TEXTO EN
LENGUA EXTRANJERA
(INGLÉS)
Instrucciones: a) Duración: Una hora y treinta minutos.
b) No se puede usar diccionario.
c) La puntuación de cada pregunta está indicada en las mismas.


STOP SMOKING OR WE MAY NOT OPERATE ON YOU

Patients will have to try to give up the habit if they want to get treatment, such as knee replacement. Posters with “Those
who don’t, may not be treated” are all over hospitals. The Health Service in Britain is millions of pounds in debt and this
strategy will help save money on care. Hospital managers say smokers are at greater risk of complications when having
operations, they take more time to recover, and they have longer and more expensive stays in hospital.
Critics accuse them of putting finances before the health of patients, but the hospitals are giving 5 an opportunity to
smokers, proposing that if they need surgery they must undergo therapy for three months in order to get out of the habit. If
they have made a strong effort to stop smoking but have failed, they may still get surgery, but if it is believed that they have
not tried hard enough, then they may not be operated on.
The National Health Service is following guidelines from the Government, which allows them to consider patients’
10 lifestyles when deciding if a treatment would be effective. Smokers, however, say that they are being discriminated against.
The pro-smoking pressure group Forest says: “Smokers pay their taxes like everyone else, they have the right to free
healthcare.” Last year, health authorities in Suffolk stopped obese people from having operations until they tried to lose
weight.
(A) COMPREHENSION (4 points)

a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS.
(1 point per answer)
1) Why do critics say that hospitals put money before health? (Give two reasons)
2) How does the British Health Service want to solve its financial problems?
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE
TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)
3) Hospitals warn patients.
4) If you have smoked for less than three months, you may be operated on.
5) Smokers say they are put at a disadvantage.
6) Smokers are not the only patients who are not allowed to have surgery.

(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points)

7) Give an adjective with the same root as CARE (noun) (line 3) (0.25 points)
8) Find in the text one synonym for CHANCE (noun). (0.25 points)
9) Give one opposite for FAIL (verb) (line 7) (0.25 points)
10) Find in the text the word which has the following definition:
“advice on what to do about something” (noun) (0.25 points)
11) Join the following sentences using a relative pronoun. Make changes if necessary. (0.5 points)
Medicine is a complicated subject. I know very little about it.
12) Turn the following sentence into reported speech: (0.5 points)
“I’ll pay for the operation”, he said.
13) Complete the following sentence: If I were a smoker...
14) Use the words in the boxes to make a meaningful sentence. Use all and only the words in the boxes without
changing their form.
(0.5 points)

(C) PRODUCTION (3 points)

15) Write a composition (80-100 WORDS) Choose ONE of the following options. Specify your option.
a) What do you think about the prohibition of smoking in public places?
b) Is health the most important concern for people?

Keys for the Exam:


UNIVERSIDADES DE ANDALUCÍA
PRUEBA DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD
ANÁLISIS DE TEXTO EN
LENGUA EXTRANJERA
(INGLÉS)
Instrucciones: MUY IMPORTANTE: por favor, aténgase a los criterios de corrección redactados por la
Ponencia de Inglés de Andalucía.
KEY TO “STOP SMOKING OR WE MAY NOT OPERATE ON YOU”
(A) COMPREHENSION (4 points)
a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN
WORDS. (1 point per answer)
1) Why do critics say that hospitals put money before health? (Give two reasons)
BECAUSE HOSPITAL MANAGERS SAY THAT SMOKERS TAKE LONGER TO RECOVER, HAVE MORE
COMPLICATIONS AND THEIR STAYS IN HOSPITALS ARE LONGER AND MORE EXPENSIVE.
2) How does the British Health Service want to solve its financial problems?
BY CUTTING DOWN ON THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS.
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH WORDS OR PHRASES FROM
THE TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)
3) Hospitals warn patients.
TRUE. “THOSE WHO DON’T, MAY NOT BE TREATED.” (line 2)
4) If you stop smoking for three months, you may be operated on.
TRUE. “IF THEY NEED SURGERY THEY MUST UNDERGO THERAPY FOR THREE MONTHS IN ORDER TO
GET OUT OF THE HABIT.” (line 6)
5) Smokers say they are put at a disadvantage.
TRUE. “SMOKERS, HOWEVER, SAY THAT THEY ARE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST.” (line 10)
6) Smokers are not the only patients who are not allowed to have surgery.
TRUE. “HEALTH AUTHORITIES IN SUFFOLK STOPPED OBESE PEOPLE FROM HAVING OPERATIONS
UNTIL THEY TRIED TO LOSE WEIGHT” (lines 12-13)
(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points)
7) Give an adjective with the same root as CARE (noun) (line 3) CAREFUL, -LESS, -FREE, -ING (0.25 points)
8) Find in the text one synonym for CHANCE (noun). OPPORTUNITY (line 5) (0.25 points)
9) Give one opposite for FAIL (verb) (line 7) SUCCEED
10) Find in the text the word which has the following definition: (0.25 points)
“advice on what to do about something” (noun) GUIDELINES (line 9) (0.25 point)
11) Join the following sentences using a relative pronoun. Make changes if necessary. (0.5 points)
Medicine is a complicated subject. I know very little about it.
MEDICINE IS A COMPLICATED SUBJECT ABOUT WHICH I KNOW VERY LITTLE.
MEDICINE IS A COMPLICATED SUBJECT I KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT.
I KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT MEDICINE, WHICH IS A COMPLICATED SUBJECT.
12) Turn the following sentence into reported speech: (0.5 points)
“I’ll pay for the operation”, he said.
HE SAID HE WOULD PAY FOR THE OPERATION.
13) Complete the following sentence:
If I were a smoker... I WOULD …. (0.5 points)
14) Use the words in the boxes to make a meaningful sentence. Use all and only the words in the boxes without changing
their form. (0.5 points)
HEAVY SMOKING CAN MAKE TREATMENT INEFFECTIVE
make heavy can ineffective smoking treatment

maximising children 2007 (Selectividad test)

UNIVERSIDADES DE ANDALUCÍA
PRUEBA DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD
ANÁLISIS DE TEXTO EN
LENGUA EXTRANJERA
(INGLÉS)
Instrucciones: a) Duración: Una hora y treinta minutos.
b) No se puede usar diccionario.
c) La puntuación de cada pregunta está indicada en las mismas..

“MAXIMISING” CHILDREN

Are you enrolling your small children in a violin course? Do you somehow add ballet, drama, and judo to football and
English lessons? The great news is that this will all make your children do better in school! Well, it might or it might not. It
may turn them into exhausted, disciplined automatons or it may block their imaginations, and leave them no time to
themselves.
If only middle-class parents would stop trying to maximise their children! Children don’t have 5 to be accomplished
violinists or athletics champions or black-belt karate kids. Why can’t they just have fun?
Certain enjoyable activities are very difficult to pick up as an adult, and these are worth learning when young.
Playing an instrument is one; skiing (if you can afford it) is another. But it is pointless to push children where they don’t
want to go. And you wonder: do all these children really want to be stars, or is it their parents’ ambition for them?
10 A child’s chances of success in life are determined mainly by its innate ability. There is not much you can do about
that. Mozarts are born, not made. A certain amount of application helps, particularly in secondary school. Beyond that, a
happy, loving and accepting family providing emotional stability is about all children really need.

(A) COMPREHENSION (4 points)

a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN
WORDS. (1 point per answer)
1) Why are many children so busy?
2) Do these courses provide everything children need to succeed? Why?
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR
PHRASES FROM THE TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)
3) Enrolling in different types of courses only has negative consequences for children.
4) Children learn more easily than adults.
5) It is useful to consider children’s opinion rather than compelling them to register for extra activities.
6) Innate abilities are necessary to become masters in most fields.

(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points)

7) Find in the text one synonym for ROBOT (noun) (0.25 points)
8) Find in the text the word which has the following definition:
“highly trained or skilled” (adjective) (0.25 points)
9) Give one opposite for ENJOYABLE (adjective) (line 7) (0.25 points)
10) Give a noun with the same root as ACCEPT (verb) (line 12) (0.25 points)
11) Fill in the gap with a correct form of the verb in brackets.
Those trees (grow) ___________ so high that they block the view. (0.5 points)
12) Join the following sentences using an appropriate linker (do not use AND or BUT). Make changes if necessary.
I was determined to develop my natural talent for music. I started to take lessons at an academy.
13) Complete the following conditional sentence.
If Mary had shown real passion for ballet,… (0.5 points)
14) Give a question for the underlined word:
It took Mozart only eighteen days to compose his last opera. (0.5 points)

(C) PRODUCTION (3 points)

15) WRITE A COMPOSITION (80-100 WORDS). CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS. SPECIFY
YOUR OPTION.
a) What’s your parents’ attitude regarding extracurricular activities?
b) What famous people do you consider geniuses? Why?

+KEYS (IN CAPITALS)

UNIVERSIDADES DE ANDALUCÍA
PRUEBA DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD
ANÁLISIS DE TEXTO EN
LENGUA EXTRANJERA
(INGLÉS)
Instrucciones: MUY IMPORTANTE: por favor, aténgase a los criterios de corrección redactados por la
Ponencia de Inglés de Andalucía.
KEY TO “MAXIMISING’ PARENTS”
(A) COMPREHENSION (4 points)
a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN
WORDS. (1 point per answer)
1) Why are many children so busy?
BECAUSE PARENTS ENROLL THEM IN MANY EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES WHERE THEY SPEND A
LOT OF TIME.
2) Do these courses provide everything children need to succeed? Why?
NO THEY DON’T. BECAUSE THEY ALSO NEED LOVE AND AFFECTION PLUS SOME INNATE ABILITY.
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR
PHRASES FROM THE TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)
3) Enrolling in many courses only has negative consequences for children.
FALSE: THIS WILL ALL MAKE YOUR CHILDREN DO BETTER IN SCHOOL! WELL, IT MIGHT OR IT MIGHT
NOT. (line 2)
4) Children learn more easily than adults..
TRUE: CERTAIN ENJOYABLE ACTIVITIES ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO PICK UP AS AN ADULT, AND THESE
ARE WORTH LEARNING WHEN YOUNG. (line 7).
5) It is useful to consider children’s opinions rather than forcing them to register for extra activities.
TRUE: IT IS POINTLESS TO PUSH CHILDREN WHERE THEY DON’T WANT TO GO. (lines 8-9).
6) Innate abilities are necessary to become masters in most fields.
TRUE: MOZARTS ARE BORN, NOT MADE. (line 11).
(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points)
7) Find in the text one synonym for ROBOT (noun) AUTOMATON(S) (line 3) (0.25 points)
8) Find in the text the word which has the following definition:
“highly trained or skilled” (adjective) ACCOMPLISHED (line 5) (0.25 points)
9) Give one opposite for ENJOYABLE (adjective) (line 7).
DISGUSTING, AWFUL, BORING, UNPLEASANT. (0.25 points)
10) Give a noun with the same root as ACCEPT (verb) (line 12) ACCEPTANCE. (0.25 points)
11) Fill in the gap with a correct form of the verb in brackets.
Those trees (grow) GREW / HAVE GROWN so high that they block the view. (0.5 points)
12) Join the following sentences using an appropriate linker (do not use AND or BUT). Make changes (0.5 points)
if necessary.
I was determined to develop my natural talent for music. I started to take lessons at an academy.
SINCE / AS / BECAUSE I WAS DETERMINED TO DEVELOP MY NATURAL TALENT FOR MUSIC, (SO) I
STARTED TO TAKE LESSONS AT AN ACADEMY.
13) Complete the following conditional sentence.
If Mary had shown real passion for ballet, SHE WOULD HAPPILY HAVE GONE ALONG WITH IT. (0.5 points)
14) Give a question for the underlined word:
“It took Mozart only eighteen days to compose his last opera.”
HOW LONG DID MOZART TAKE TO COMPOSE HIS LAST OPERA? (0.5 points)
HOW LONG DID IT TAKE HIM/ MOZART TO COMPOSE HIS LAST OPERA? (0.5 points)

The harry potter phenomenon (Selectividad test)

UNIVERSIDAD DE ANDALUCÍA

THE HARRY POTTER PHENOMENON

The five Harry Potter books have sold 250 million copies worldwide. Author J.K. Rowling’s agent, Christopher Little, confirmed the extraordinary sales figures on Monday –and revealed that, consequently, Rowling had begun work on the sixth Potter adventure. Mr Little said the series had “entered the history books again with its record-breaking sales.”


The books have been sold in more than 200 countries and translated into 60 languages from Hindi to Ancient Greek. The fifth book, The Order of the Phoenix, sold 1.78 million copies on its first day in the UK alone. Teachers and publishers believe that the Potter books have been helpful in encouraging more children to read. That success is even more welcome in an age dominated by TV, cartoons and computer games. “J.K. Rowling’s books have hown the way for a new generation of writers of exciting children’s books, causing a revolution in children’s enthusiasm for reading,” Mr Little said.

Rowling, once a single mother who wrote her books in an Edinburgh café, is now a multi-millionaire ranked as the world’s best paid author. The stories started as a way of making her daughter sleep, and now Rowling earns some £125 million a year –the equivalent of £388 for every word of her most recent book.


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(A) COMPREHENSION (4 points)

a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (1 point per answer)
1) Why has Rowling begun working on the sixth Harry Potter adventure?
2) Why is the success of the Harry Potter books so important today?

b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)
3) Harry Potter has been a failure in sales.
4) Up to now a total of 1.78 million copies of The Order of the Phoenix have been sold.
5) Rowling got the idea for the books from an Edinburgh café.
6) J.K. Rowling wasn’t married when she became a mother.


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(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points)

7) Find in the text a synonym for EXPLAIN (verb) (0.25 points)
8) Find in the text the word which has the following definition: (noun) (0.25 points)
“Someone who represents the business affairs of another person”
9) Give an adjective with the same root as ENTHUSIASM (line 10) (0.25 points)
10) Give one opposite for EXCITING (adjective) (line 9) (0.25 points)
11) Turn the following sentence into Reported speech: (0.5 points)
The Professor said, “I will finish my lecture before the bell rings”
12) Give a question for the underlined words. (0.5 points)
J.K. Rowling has written five Harry Potter books.
13) Complete the following sentence: (0.5 points)
I would have read J.K. Rowling’s books if … …
14) Join the following sentences using an appropriate linker (do not use AND or BUT). Make changes if necessary. (0.5 points)
Many Spaniards have read The Order of the Phoenix. It has already been translated into Spanish.


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(C) PRODUCTION (3 points)

15) Write a composition (80-100 WORDS) Choose ONE of the following options. Specify your option.
a) Family life and problems nowadays.
b) Do you prefer reading to watching TV or playing computer games? Why?