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Este examen escrito supone el 80% de la calificacin total de la asignatura para los estudiantes
que hayan optado por la evaluacin continua, y el 100% para los que no. Consta de 4 partes
(vocabulario, pronunciacin, traduccin y lectura/resumen). Es necesario alcanzar al menos el
50% de cada una de las partes para superarlo. Por tanto, no se deben dejar preguntas sin
contestar.
1A. Give a Spanish word or, if necessary, a very short phrase which means the
same or nearly the same as each of the English words below (10 points):
a) breach infraccin
b) tighten apretar
c) lock cerradura
d) performance actuacin
e) handle mango
f) casualties bajas en combate
g) ownership propiedad
h) pledge promesa
i) wrap envolver
j) amid en medio de
1B. Give an English word or, if necessary, an English phrase which means the
same or nearly the same as each of the Spanish words below (10 points):
a) enredo tangle
b) desmoronarse crumble
c) barrer sweep
d) multitud crowd
e) bolsa de valores stock exchange
f) arrepentimiento regret
g) suave gentle
h) entusiasmo enthusiasm
i) tumba grave
j) puetazo punch
Comentarios
iii. Saber una palabra supone saber cmo se escribe correctamente; los
errores de ortografa son errores.
2. Use the International Phonetic Alphabet to indicate how you pronounce the
four words below (15 points):
a) curtain
b) ideal
c) luxury
d) awful
Comentarios
By the time the police got there, the man had died. The police should have
called the ambulance. [GIH p. 140; 163]
c) "Me encantara tener un perro. Siempre me han gustado las mascotas", dijo
Peter a su cuado.
"I'd love to have a dog. I have always loved pets," said Peter to his brother-in-
law. [GIH p. 155]
If I get there ahead of time, I will wait for you. I will be sitting on a bench as long
as necessary. [GIH p. 260; 149]
Comentarios
i. Cada error supone una penalizacin de 3 puntos. Por lo tanto, con siete
errores se han perdido 21 puntos ms del 50% de los puntos y en
principio se suspende el examen entero.
iii. Se debe recordar tambin que las frases que aparecen en el examen
son idnticas o casi idnticas a frases que aparecen en las secciones
del libro Gramtica Inglesa para Hispanohablantes que se identifican en
la Gua del Estudio para que se estudien en preparacin para este
examen.
a) When the police arrives the man had already die the man had
dead the police should had called Police would must have phoned
to the ambulance
c) I love to have a dog Ive always like pets Always I like the liked
the pets
4. Read the extract below and write a summary in a maximum of 30 words (25
points):
Although it was only five o'clock, the sun had already set and the evening
was very still, as all spring evenings are, just before the birds begin to sing
themselves to sleep; or maybe tell one another bedside stories. The village was
quiet. The men had gone away to fish for the night after working all the morning
with the sowing. Women were away milking the cows in the little fields among
the crags.
Brigid Gill was alone in her cottage waiting for her little son to come
home from school. He was now an hour late, and as he was only nine years she
was very nervous about him, especially as he was her only child and he was a
wild boy, always getting into mischief, mitching from school, fishing minnows on
Sunday and building stone castles in the great crag above the village. She kept
telling herself that she would give him a good scolding and beating when he
came in, but at the same time her heart was thumping with anxiety and she
started at every sound, rushing out to the door and looking down the winding
road that was now dim with the shadows of evening. So many things could
happen to a little boy.
His dinner of dried fish and roast potatoes was being kept warm in the
oven among the peat ashes beside the fire on the hearth, and on the table there
was a plate, a knife and a little mug full of buttermilk.
At last she heard the glad cries of the schoolboys afar off, and rushing
out she saw their tiny forms scampering, not up the road, but across the crags
to the left, their caps in their hands.
Thank God, she said, and then she persuaded herself that she was
very angry. Hurriedly she got a small dried willow rod, sat down on a chair
within the door and waited for her little Stephen.
He advanced up the yard very slowly, walking near the stone fence that
bounded the vegetable garden, holding his satchel in his left hand by his side,
with his cap in his right hand, a red-cheeked slim boy, dressed in a close-fitting
grey frieze trousers that reached a little below his knees and a blue sweater. His
feet were bare and covered with all sorts of mud. His face perspired and his
great soft blue eyes were popping out of his head with fright. He knew his
mother would be angry.
At last he reached the door and, holding down his head, he entered the
kitchen. The mother immediately jumped up and seized him by the shoulder.
The boy screamed, dropped his satchel and his cap and clung to her apron.
The mother raised the rod to strike, but when she looked down at the little
trembling body, she began to tremble herself and she dropped the stick.
Stooping down, she raised him up and began kissing him, crying at the same
time with tears in her eyes.
What's going to become of you atall, atall? God save us, I haven't the
courage to beat you and you're breaking my heart with your wickedness.
Comentarios
ii. Resumir un texto en tan pocas palabras supone entender bien el texto y luego
decidir qu informacin es fundamental y de qu informacin se puede
prescindir. Lo fundamental en cuentos suele ser decir quin est haciendo qu
dnde, cundo y por qu. Estos conceptos pueden expresarse en una frase
as:
Brigid Gill had intended to beat her nine-year-old son, Stephen, for
returning an hour late from school, but instead kisses him tearfully,
relieved he is safe. (26 words)
2. Brigid was worried about her little son, because he was late on his way home.
Although she was angry, she kiss him when she saw him in the front door.
Este resumen tiene dos errores (kiss debera ser kissed; in the front door
debera ser at the front door) tampoco cuenta algo fundamental como es el
motivo por el que la madre acta as. Se calific con 15 puntos.
3. A mothers waiting for her son, who is an hour late, at home. Shes angry
and worried, nevertheless once he does come back instead of hitting him she
hugs him with love.
Comentarios finales
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Ingls Instrumental III. Septiembre de 2013.
Este examen escrito supone el 80% de la calificacin total de la asignatura para los estudiantes
que hayan optado por la evaluacin continua, y el 100% para los que no. Consta de 4 partes
(vocabulario, pronunciacin, traduccin y lectura/resumen). Es necesario alcanzar al menos el
50% de cada una de las partes para superarlo. Por tanto, no se deben dejar preguntas sin
contestar.
1A. Give a Spanish word or, if necessary, a very short phrase which means the
same or nearly the same as each of the English words below (10 points):
a) retrieve recuperar
b) heighten - realzar
c) knock golpe
d) hurdle obstculo
e) acknowledge reconocer
f) elderly mayor
g) merger fusin
h) regard considerar
i) outstanding excepcional
j) headline titular
1B. Give an English word or, if necessary, an English phrase which means the
same or nearly the same as each of the Spanish words below (10 points):
a) deletrear spell
b) susurrar whisper
c) instalaciones facility
d) incapaz unable
e) accionista shareholder
f) sorprendente striking
g) compasin sympathy
h) subasta auction
i) financiacin funding
j) ofrenda offering
Comentarios
iii. Saber una palabra supone saber cmo se escribe correctamente; los errores
de ortografa son errores.
iv. En las asignaturas Ingls Instrumental III, IV, V y VI se estudian las 6500
palabras ms frecuentes de ingls. La investigacin demuestra que un
estudiante avanzado necesita un vocabulario mnimo de entre 9 y 10 mil
palabras. El objetivo en esta pregunta debe ser acertar todas o casi todas las
palabras.
2. Use the International Phonetic Alphabet to indicate how you pronounce the
four words below (15 puntos):
e) therapy
f) courage
g) advertise
h) cycle
Comentarios
The water in my aquarium has turned green because of the algae. I have no
idea who to ask about how to clean it. [GIH p. 21; 55]
The green jacket doesn't suit you, in my opinion. I think you could find
something more elegant and appropriate for the party. [GIH p. 166]
c) El cadver de mi vecino fue cubierto con una manta. Era una persona
maravillosa, aunque su comportamiento pre-adolescente fue horrible.
If you had some free time, we could go to the Reina Sofa Museum to see some
postmodernist paintings. Postmodernism is a reaction against the rationalism of
modernism. [GIH p. 260; 35]
I have had the misfortune of losing my mother. Without her help, this will be 10
times as difficult as it is. [GIH p. 35; 87]
Comentarios
i. Cada error supone una penalizacin de 3 puntos. Por lo tanto, con siete
errores se han perdido 21 puntos ms del 50% de los puntos y en
principio se suspende el examen entero.
iii. Se debe recordar tambin que las frases que aparecen en el examen
son idnticas o casi idnticas a frases que aparecen en las secciones
del libro Gramtica Inglesa para Hispanohablantes que se identifican en
la Gua del Estudio para que se estudien en preparacin para este
examen.
b) In my opinin the green jacket dont fit dont fit to you eleganter
4. Read the extract below and write a summary in a maximum of 30 words (25
points):
God knows how often I had lamented that I had not half the time I needed
to do half the things I wanted. I could not remember when last I had had a
moment to myself. I had often amused my fancy with the prospect of just one
week's complete idleness. Most of us when not busy working are busy playing;
we ride, play tennis or golf, swim or gamble; but I saw myself doing nothing at
all. I would lounge through the morning, dawdle through the afternoon, and loaf
through the evening. My mind would be a slate and each passing hour a
sponge that wiped out the scribblings written on it by the world of sense. Time,
because it is so fleeting, time, because it is beyond recall, is the most precious
of human goods and to squander it is the most delicate form of dissipation in
which man can indulge. Cleopatra dissolved in wine a priceless pearl, but she
gave it to Antony to drink; when you waste the brief golden hours you take the
beaker in which the gem is melted and dash its contents to the ground. The
gesture is grand and like all grand gestures absurd. That of course is its
excuse. In the week I promised myself I should naturally read, for to the
habitual reader reading is a drug of which he is the slave; deprive him of
printed matter and he grows nervous, moody, and restless; then, like the
alcoholic bereft of brandy who will drink shellac or methylated spirit, he will
make do with the advertisements of a paper five years old; he will make do
with a telephone directory. But the professional writer is seldom a disinterested
reader. I wished my reading to be but another form of idleness. I made up my
mind that if ever the happy day arrived when I could enjoy untroubled leisure I
would complete an enterprise that had always tempted me, but which hitherto,
like an explorer making reconnaissances into an undiscovered country, I had
done little more than enter upon: I would read the entire works of Nick Carter.
But I had always fancied myself choosing my moment with surroundings to my
liking, not having it forced upon me; and when I was suddenly faced with
nothing to do and had to make the best of it (like a steamship acquaintance
whom in the wide waste of the Pacific Ocean you have invited to stay with you
in London and who turns up without warning and with all his luggage) I was not
a little taken aback. I had come to Vera Cruz from Mexico City to catch one of
the Ward Company's white cool ships to Yucatan; and found to my dismay that,
a dock strike having been declared over-night, my ship would not put in. I was
stuck in Vera Cruz.
Somerset Maugham, The Bum
Comentarios
ii. Resumir un texto en tan pocas palabras supone entender bien el texto y
luego decidir qu informacin es fundamental y de qu informacin se
puede prescindir. Lo fundamental en cuentos suele ser decir quin est
haciendo qu dnde, cundo y por qu. Estos conceptos pueden
expresarse en una frase as:
Comentarios finales