PAU Practice Examination (Andaluca)

INSTRUCCIONES:
A) DURACIN: UNA HORA Y TREINTA MINUTOS.
B) NO SE PUEDE USAR DICCIONARIO.
C) LA PUNTUACIN DE CADA PREGUNTA EST INDICADA EN LAS MISMAS.

ANIMAL EMOTIONS

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You may love your pet, but does your pet love you? Most animal lovers claim that animals
definitely experience emotions. Many stories are told of older dogs who become jealous when a
new dog (or a baby) arrives home. For many years, however, scientists did not agree that animals
experienced emotions; these behaviours, they said, were simply physiological reactions to external
stimuli. But now new research is beginning to confirm that animals may have feelings much like
ours.
Recent studies have shown that many animals, including chimpanzees, dogs, horses, rats
and birds, experience emotions similar to human jealousy, grief and love. Fear has also been widely
observed by scientists, perhaps unsurprisingly, since this emotion helps in survival. Biologist
Samuel Gosling claims that dogs exhibit four dimensions of personality: affection, sociability,
emotional stability and competence, a combination of intelligence and obedience. These are
similar to the categories of human personality generally found in basic psychological tests.
Other studies have shown that when a recording of dogs laughter is played to other
dogs, they start to play with each other, and rats who laugh frequently seem to be popular among
other rats, offering further proof of emotions among animals. In addition, animals respond to antidepressant drugs and this proves that their brain chemistry, which is affected by the drug, must be
similar to ours. Experts believe that their emotions must therefore be similar, too.
However, if animals really do have human-like emotions, there are some serious issues to
consider: how fair is it, for example, for humans to keep animals in cages, or use them for
pharmaceutical testing?
(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 scientists not surprised that animals experience fear?
2) Under what circumstances does the writer suggest it may be unfair to keep animals in cages?
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH WORDS OR
PHRASES FROM THE TEXT.
(0.5 points per answer)
3) Animal lovers believe that dogs can be jealous.
4) Scientists are beginning to believe that animals have got feelings.
5) Only humans experience both positive and negative emotions.
6) Dogs often laugh when they see other dogs playing.
(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points)
7) Find in the text a synonym for SADNESS (noun).
8) Give one opposite for FREQUENTLY (adjective, line 14).
9) Find in the text the word which has the following definition:
being able to live or exist in spite of great danger
or difficulty (noun)
10) Give a noun with the same root as OBSERVED (verb, line 9).
11) Turn the following sentence into the passive voice.
In the tests that Gosling performed, dogs exhibited four dimensions
of personality.

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12) Rewrite the sentence without changing its meaning. Begin as indicated.
It seems that many animals can experience human-like emotions.
It seems that many animals are
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13) Fill in the gap with a correct preposition.
We are the owners three dogs.
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14) Use the words in boxes to make a meaningful sentence. Use all the words
and only the words in the boxes without changing their form.
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HUMANS

DRUGS

REACT

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ANIMALS

ANTI-DEPRESSANT

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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) Using animals in testing pharmaceutical products is entirely justified.
b) Animals are incapable of experiencing human-like emotions.

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