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PRUEBA ESPECFICA DECERTIFICACIN DE NIVEL

AVANZADO DE IDIOMA INGLS

COMPRENSIN DE LECTURA

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Tribunal

Puntuacin total /20

Calificacin(Se divide la puntuacin total entre 2)

Direccin General de Polticas Educativas y Ordenacin AcadmicaER 0682/2007


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Servicio de Evaluacin, Calidad y Ordenacin Acadmica

Prueba Especfica de Certificacin de Nivel Avanzado de idioma InglsComprensin de lectura. JUNIO 2009

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INSTRUCCIONES

A continuacin usted va a realizar una prueba que contiene dos ejercicios de comprensin delectura.

Los ejercicios de comprensin de lectura tienen una estructura similar: se presenta un texto y a partir

de l se hacen una serie de preguntas.

Cada pregunta o frase incompleta va seguida de una serie de respuestas posibles o de frases que lacompletan. En cada caso tendr que elegir la respuesta correcta rodeando con un crculo la letra desu opcin.

Slo una de las opciones es correcta.

En otro tipo de preguntas tendr que responder con una palabra, frase o nmero, escribiendo la

respuesta en el espacio proporcionado.

En total, deber contestar20 preguntas para completar esta prueba.

Dispone de50 minutos para responder las preguntas de este cuadernillo.

Utilice nicamente bolgrafo azul o negro y asegrese de que su telfono mvil o dispositivoselectrnicos estn desconectados durante toda la prueba.

Trabaje concentradamente, no hable ni se levante de la silla.Si tiene alguna duda levante la manoy espere en silencio a que la profesora o el profesorse acerque a su mesa.

Si no tiene dudas, PUEDE EMPEZAR.

Ejemplo 2

How many people were in the car?

Write here: Five people / (5)

Si se confunde, tache la respuesta equivocada y vuelva a escribir la que considere correcta.

Write here: Five people / (5) Four people / (4)


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EJERCICIO 1

State of the UnionAre there songs that represent the different and separate national musicalidentities of Britain? We asked English musicians to name the songs that they

feel define Englishness

Kate Jackson of The Long BlondesThe Next Life by Suede

Englishness is all about the celebration of our little eccentricities.The Kinks knew this and were the benchmark for all to follow.But the first band that, as a teenage girl, I found noticeablydifferent, noticeably English, were Suede. Suede's first albummade me want to get on a National Express coach at 6am with arucksack and my Walkman and live in a south London tower

block squat with my unsuccessful photographer boyfriend. Itdoesn't conjure a quaint vision of England with cricket pitchesand Sunday dinners; it glamorises the underbelly of life in the UK.The lyrics may seem a bit contrived now, but at the time it felt likea very English response to what was coming from the other sideof the Atlantic.

Album SuedeReleased 1993

Genre Brit popLabel Nude

Sarah Cracknell of Saint EtienneWuthering Heights by Kate Bush

I can't imagine this song going down well anywhere apartfrom England. Her stance is very quaint and English: the way she

sings, her accent, the drama of it all. She had the audacity to putout a single that was going to stretch people's imaginations. I'mold enough to have heard it when it came out, and seeing her onT.V, on Top of the Pops, will be forever etched on my mind: itwas a watercooler moment before they had watercoolers.Everyone talked about it at school the next day. In its style andatmosphere, it feels a bit late in the day, like it's from the hippyera. It's a bit of escapism from 1978 England. But it's a typicallyEnglish thing to be so out there and taken on board by thegeneral public. I've never met her, but funnily enough she's justmoved down the road from me. Maybe I'll see her in the farmshop. She's a genuine eccentric.

# 1 UK singles Chart

Album The kick insideReleased 1978Genre Art RockLabel EMI


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James Rushent of Does it Offend You, Yeah?God Save the QueenbyThe Sex Pistols

This is a song by English people for English people. It's a

dangerous song and that's what England has always been goodat - dangerous bands making dangerous music. English bandshave ideas and manifestos, while American bands are moreprofessional and play the game. The Pistols going on TV andsaying "f***" changed England! You can go on TV now and say"f***" and no one cares. Touch wood, we'll make an impression inour time. I'm not saying we're full-on punks, but I'd like to thinkwe freak a few people out. As long as some people leave ourgigs scratching their heads, or pulling faces we are happy andthat desire to make a statement and get a reaction, good or bad,is very punk, and very English

#2 UK Singles Chart

Album Never mind thebollocksReleased 1977Genre PunkLabel Virgin

Dan GillespieWaterloo Sunsetby The Kinks

This is more about London than England, but London isall I know of England because that's where I grew up. When Iwas young, my dad took me to see The Kinks and for the firsttime I realised these songs were written by a living human being.Because to me, Waterloo Sunset sat alongside Kumbaya andWe Wish You a Merry Christmas or Happy birthday to you, asone of those songs that just existed. They were Muswell Hillboys, and I was from Bounds Green, the suburb next door, so I

feel a connection there. I've always found that sense ofsuburbanness interesting in their writing. The song romanticisesthe mundane. The English are so reserved, and there's a kind ofshyness that can be quite charming, that beating-around-the-bush way of expressing emotions that makes the songwritingmore realistic. You can tell from the song that it's the time ofVietnam, drugs, freedom, sex and heightened politicalawareness. An extraordinary time to be a young person. Andawful if you were old.Waterloo Sunsetisn't about the hip city; Its tinged withmelancholy: It conveys the sense of missing a moment almost asit's happening. This is a less a shocking pink and more a black-and-white and grainy version of the London of those days. It's along way from the city centre to the suburbs

The Kinks#2 UK Singles Chart

Album Something else

by the KinksReleased 1967Genre Rock and RollLabel Reprise

1. According to the Kate Jackson, The Kinks

A. were a new reference for English musicB. reacted against English little eccentricitiesC. were too eccentric to be followed by other bands


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2. Suedes first album

A. reflects a traditional image of EnglandB. shows the weak points of life in England

C. idealizes the unpleasant aspects of England

3. Sarah Cracknell cannot imagine that this song could be well . in any other countrybut in England.

A. knownB. receivedC. understood

4. Wuthering Heights was

A. written for runaways from the 70s

B.a new version of a song from the hippy era

C. completely different from other songs in the 70s

5. The statement Its a typical English thing to be so out there and taken on board bythe general public means that the English

A. normally take on board whatever happens out thereB. do not have problems accepting unconventional or new things

C. do not normally have problems accepting what comes from outside

6. American bands

A. are professional at playing gamesB. think British bands play dangerous musicC. avoid thoughts and declarations of principles

7. James Rushent thinks that

A. they are not full-time punksB. England is not really full of punksC. his band is not really a punk band

8. The song Waterloo Sunsetis about

A. Christmas, birthdays and happy romantic feelingsB. the ordinary suburban life seen through an idealistic prism

C. a romantic relationship which takes place in suburban London

9. A characteristic that makes English songwriting more realistic is that emotionsare...

A. dealt with in an evasive and indirect wayB. expressed in a straight and direct mannerC. connected with reserved, shy and charming people


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10. Waterloo Sunsetreflects on

A. the fashionable but melancholic style of the city centreB. the distance in miles between the city centre and the suburbs

C. the contrast between the glamorous city centre and the suburbs


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EJERCICIO 2

Thomas Sutcliffe: Why don't we take computer games more seriously?

The findings of a recent Pew Report which established that 97 per cent of allteenagers play video games are unlikely to rock the world. Yes, the figures were fairlystriking more reminiscent of Soviet "elections" than the demographic pie-slices we're usedto in the free world. Somewhere out there, if the statistical analysis got it right, there's astubborn 1 per cent of teenage boys between 12 and 17 who don't play video games.

But the 99 per cent who aren't living in Amish villages or on end-time communes alldo. And 94 per cent of girls play them as well, suggesting that received opinion about videogaming as a predominately male activity is considerably wide of the mark. All the same, theresults went with the grain of expectation. Teenagers play video games.

What the Pew researchers were interested in wasn't the crude statistics ofparticipation as such. They were simply a by-product of a bigger question about how video

gaming was related to teenagers' civic and political engagement. And again, the findingsaren't likely to generate banner headlines. Unsurprisingly they found that teenagers whoplayed socially, with other people in the room, were more likely to raise money for charity orstay informed about current events or take an active interest in politics than the lonelysingletons whose only contact with other humans was to frag them in online battles. So far,so obvious.

What did strike me, though given the almost universal enlistment in an activity thatonly 20 years ago was the preserve of home-programmers and hobbyists was themismatch between the scale of teenagers' involvement in video games and the relativeinvisibility of this creative field in what you might call the traditional media. From time to timea new game release, such as Will Wright's recently released Spor, will edge its way on to the

news pages and most newspapers carry some form of capsule reviews . But usually they'retucked away in the back alleys of the publication, while film and music and televisioncontinue to dominate the big boulevards. Mainstream television does virtually nothing. Artsprogrammes remain almost exclusively dedicated to cultural forms which are also-rans formany teenagers.

There are two reasons why this should be so. The first would be that video gamersget this stuff elsewhere from magazines such as Edge or Wired, and from online gamingsites, where no one needs to explain what "respawning" or "first person shooter" actuallymeans. And, since they get it there, they aren't that fussed that it doesn't exist elsewhere.

Unlike jazz enthusiasts persistently besieging Radio 3 for a better deal for theirfavoured art form gamers don't need to nag. The other explanation would be that the

traditional media still doesn't get it. That, despite all the articles about the scale of theindustry and its threat to older forms of diversion (and older forms of fiction) it isn't somethingthat needs taking seriously. Or, possibly, that it isn't something that can be taken seriously, inthe sense that a film or a pop record can.

For the moment that still isn't an entirely foolish response, but given those figures inthe Pew report it surely can't last. There was a time, after all, when no serious newspaperwould have included considered reviews of the kinematograph or the latest pop single. Nowthey could hardly call themselves serious without them.

Tuesday, 23 September 2008 The Independent on Sunday


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1. How will people probably feel about the findings of the Pew report?

A. Struck by the figuresB. Nostalgic of Soviet elections

C. Hardly surprised at the results

2. What were the results of the report like?

A. Strikingly unlikelyB. Statistically significant

C. Demographically unpredictable

3. Who play video games?

A. 99% of teenagers in the world

B. More than 94% people between 12 and 17

C. 1% of young people living on end-time communes

4. What does wide of the mark mean?

A. Not correctB. Quite accurate

C. Out of the question

5. What was the aim of the Pew researchers?

A. To be in the headlinesB. To relate teenagers to politics

C. To assess the implications of video gaming

6. What did the writer find surprising?

A. That new video game releases are reviewed in most newspapers

B. That video games are pushed into the background in most publications

C. That 20 years ago only home programmers and hobbyists were into video games

7. What type of cultural forms come last in their ranks for many teenagers?

A. Short reviews

B. Films and musicC. TV Arts programmes

8. What dont video gamers mind?

A. Reading magazines like Edge or WireB. Explaining what respawning or first person shooter mean

C. Hearing about video games in other media than the traditional ones


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9. What makes video gamers different from jazz lovers?

A. They dont complainB. They form groups

C. They are younger

10. What does the traditional media think about video games?

A. That they are a favoured art formB. That they arent worth their attention

C. That they threaten other forms of diversion

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