Direccin General de Polticas Educativas y Ordenacin Acadmica

ER 0682/2007

EOI Tribunal

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INSTRUCCIONES
A continuacin usted va a realizar una prueba que contiene dos ejercicios de comprensin de lectura. 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 la completan. En cada caso tendr que elegir la respuesta correcta rodeando con un crculo la letra de su 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. 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)

En total, deber contestar 20 preguntas para completar esta prueba. Dispone de 50 minutos para responder las preguntas de este cuadernillo. Utilice nicamente bolgrafo azul o negro y asegrese de que su telfono mvil o dispositivos electrnicos estn desconectados durante toda la prueba. Trabaje concentradamente, no hable ni se levante de la silla. Si tiene alguna duda levante la mano y espere en silencio a que la profesora o el profesor se acerque a su mesa. Si no tiene dudas, PUEDE EMPEZAR.

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EJERCICIO 1

State of the Union

Are there songs that represent the different and separate national musical identities of Britain? We asked English musicians to name the songs that they feel define Englishness
Kate Jackson of The Long Blondes The 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 noticeably different, noticeably English, were Suede. Suede's first album made me want to get on a National Express coach at 6am with a rucksack and my Walkman and live in a south London tower block squat with my unsuccessful photographer boyfriend. It doesn't conjure a quaint vision of England with cricket pitches and 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 like a very English response to what was coming from the other side of the Atlantic. Sarah Cracknell of Saint Etienne Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush I can't imagine this song going down well anywhere apart from England. Her stance is very quaint and English: the way she sings, her accent, the drama of it all. She had the audacity to put out a single that was going to stretch people's imaginations. I'm old enough to have heard it when it came out, and seeing her on T.V, on Top of the Pops, will be forever etched on my mind: it was a watercooler moment before they had watercoolers. Everyone talked about it at school the next day. In its style and atmosphere, it feels a bit late in the day, like it's from the hippy era. It's a bit of escapism from 1978 England. But it's a typically English thing to be so out there and taken on board by the general public. I've never met her, but funnily enough she's just moved down the road from me. Maybe I'll see her in the farm shop. She's a genuine eccentric.

Album Released Genre Label

Suede 1993 Brit pop Nude

# 1 UK singles Chart Album Released Genre Label The kick inside 1978 Art Rock EMI

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James Rushent of Does it Offend You, Yeah? God Save the Queen by The 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 good at - dangerous bands making dangerous music. English bands have ideas and manifestos, while American bands are more professional and play the game. The Pistols going on TV and saying "f***" changed England! You can go on TV now and say "f***" and no one cares. Touch wood, we'll make an impression in our time. I'm not saying we're full-on punks, but I'd like to think we freak a few people out. As long as some people leave our gigs scratching their heads, or pulling faces we are happy and that desire to make a statement and get a reaction, good or bad, is very punk, and very English Dan Gillespie Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks This is more about London than England, but London is all I know of England because that's where I grew up. When I was young, my dad took me to see The Kinks and for the first time I realised these songs were written by a living human being. Because to me, Waterloo Sunset sat alongside Kumbaya and We Wish You a Merry Christmas or Happy birthday to you, as one of those songs that just existed. They were Muswell Hill boys, and I was from Bounds Green, the suburb next door, so I feel a connection there. I've always found that sense of suburbanness interesting in their writing. The song romanticises the mundane. The English are so reserved, and there's a kind of shyness that can be quite charming, that beating-around-thebush way of expressing emotions that makes the songwriting more realistic. You can tell from the song that it's the time of Vietnam, drugs, freedom, sex and heightened political awareness. An extraordinary time to be a young person. And awful if you were old. Waterloo Sunset isn't about the hip city; Its tinged with melancholy: It conveys the sense of missing a moment almost as it's happening. This is a less a shocking pink and more a blackand-white and grainy version of the London of those days. It's a long way from the city centre to the suburbs 1. According to the Kate Jackson, The Kinks

#2 UK Singles Chart Album bollocks Released Genre Label Never mind the 1977 Punk Virgin

The Kinks
#2 UK Singles Chart Album Something else by the Kinks Released 1967 Genre Rock and Roll Label Reprise

A. B. C.

were a new reference for English music reacted against English little eccentricities were too eccentric to be followed by other bands

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2. Suedes first album

A. B. C.

reflects a traditional image of England shows the weak points of life in England idealizes the unpleasant aspects of England

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

A. B. C.

known received understood

4. Wuthering Heights was

A. B. C.

written for runaways from the 70s a new version of a song from the hippy era 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 by the general public means that the English

A. B. C.

normally take on board whatever happens out there do not have problems accepting unconventional or new things do not normally have problems accepting what comes from outside

6. American bands

A. B. C.

are professional at playing games think British bands play dangerous music avoid thoughts and declarations of principles

7. James Rushent thinks that

A. B. C.

they are not full-time punks England is not really full of punks his band is not really a punk band

8. The song Waterloo Sunset is about

A. B. C.

Christmas, birthdays and happy romantic feelings the ordinary suburban life seen through an idealistic prism a romantic relationship which takes place in suburban London

9. A characteristic that makes English songwriting more realistic is that emotions are...

A. B. C.

dealt with in an evasive and indirect way expressed in a straight and direct manner connected with reserved, shy and charming people

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10. Waterloo Sunset reflects on

A. B. C.

the fashionable but melancholic style of the city centre the distance in miles between the city centre and the suburbs 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 all teenagers play video games are unlikely to rock the world. Yes, the figures were fairly striking more reminiscent of Soviet "elections" than the demographic pie-slices we're used to in the free world. Somewhere out there, if the statistical analysis got it right, there's a stubborn 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 all do. And 94 per cent of girls play them as well, suggesting that received opinion about video gaming as a predominately male activity is considerably wide of the mark. All the same, the results went with the grain of expectation. Teenagers play video games. What the Pew researchers were interested in wasn't the crude statistics of participation 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 findings aren't likely to generate banner headlines. Unsurprisingly they found that teenagers who played socially, with other people in the room, were more likely to raise money for charity or stay informed about current events or take an active interest in politics than the lonely singletons 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 that only 20 years ago was the preserve of home-programmers and hobbyists was the mismatch between the scale of teenagers' involvement in video games and the relative invisibility of this creative field in what you might call the traditional media. From time to time a 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're tucked away in the back alleys of the publication, while film and music and television continue to dominate the big boulevards. Mainstream television does virtually nothing. Arts programmes remain almost exclusively dedicated to cultural forms which are also-rans for many teenagers. There are two reasons why this should be so. The first would be that video gamers get this stuff elsewhere from magazines such as Edge or Wired, and from online gaming sites, where no one needs to explain what "respawning" or "first person shooter" actually means. 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 their favoured 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 the industry and its threat to older forms of diversion (and older forms of fiction) it isn't something that needs taking seriously. Or, possibly, that it isn't something that can be taken seriously, in the sense that a film or a pop record can. For the moment that still isn't an entirely foolish response, but given those figures in the Pew report it surely can't last. There was a time, after all, when no serious newspaper would have included considered reviews of the kinematograph or the latest pop single. Now they 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? Struck by the figures Nostalgic of Soviet elections Hardly surprised at the results What were the results of the report like? Strikingly unlikely Statistically significant Demographically unpredictable Who play video games? 99% of teenagers in the world More than 94% people between 12 and 17 1% of young people living on end-time communes What does wide of the mark mean? Not correct Quite accurate Out of the question What was the aim of the Pew researchers? To be in the headlines To relate teenagers to politics To assess the implications of video gaming What did the writer find surprising? That new video game releases are reviewed in most newspapers That video games are pushed into the background in most publications That 20 years ago only home programmers and hobbyists were into video games What type of cultural forms come last in their ranks for many teenagers? Short reviews Films and music TV Arts programmes What dont video gamers mind? Reading magazines like Edge or Wire Explaining what respawning or first person shooter mean Hearing about video games in other media than the traditional ones

A. B. C.
2.

A. B. C.
3.

A. B. C.
4.

A. B. C.
5.

A. B. C.
6.

A. B. C.
7.

A. B. C.
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A. B. C.

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9.

What makes video gamers different from jazz lovers? They dont complain They form groups They are younger What does the traditional media think about video games? That they are a favoured art form That they arent worth their attention That they threaten other forms of diversion

A. B. C.
10.

A. B. C.

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