Inglés PAU 2020

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UNIVERSIDADES PÚBLICAS DE LA COMUNIDAD DE MADRID EVALUACIÓN PARA EL ACCESO A LAS ENSEÑANZAS UNIVERSITARIAS OFICIALES DE GRADO Curso 2019-2020 MATERIA: INGLÉS

INSTRUCCIONES GENERALES Y VALORACIÓN Después de leer atentamente el examen, responda de la siguiente la siguiente forma:

• elija un texto A o B y conteste EN INGLÉS a las preguntas 1, 2, 3 y 4 del texto elegido.

• responda EN INGLÉS una pregunta a elegir entre las preguntas A.5 o B.5.

TIEMPO Y CALIFICACIÓN: 90 minutos. Las preguntas 1ª, 2ª y 4ª se calificarán sobre 2 puntos cada una, la pregunta 3ª sobre 1 punto, la pregunta 5ª sobre 3 puntos.

TEXTO A A New BBC Period Drama

QUESTIONS

The BBC is to make its first prime-time period drama that will have Asian actors in all the leading roles. Filming is due to start this summer on an adaptation of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy, which at 1,349 pages is one of the longest novels in the English language.

A.1 (2 puntos) Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text. No marks are given for only TRUE or FALSE.

It will be directed by Mira Nair, the Indian-American film-maker behind Monsoon Wedding. Andrew Davies, best known for adapting Pride and Prejudice for the BBC, has been drafted in for the screenplay.

A.2 (2 puntos) In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer the following questions. Do not copy from the text.

To be broadcast next year, the series is expected to have more than 100 characters. All the main roles will be played by Asians – many from India – while the handful of white characters in Seth’s book will appear only as bit parts.

It contrasts with ITV’s current Sunday night offering, Beecham House, which stars Tom Bateman playing a former member of the East India Company in the leading role. Previous hit dramas set in Asia, such as The Far Pavillions and The Jewel in the Crown, have also focused on white characters.

Davies acknowledged it was a big departure for the BBC, but believes viewers will still tune in. “It is exciting,” he said. “Not many of the leading players will be known to a British audience. But it is also like a Jane Austen novel in that it’s got a lovely, easy-to-relate-to central plot.” A Suitable Boy revolves around the desire of a middle-class Indian mother, Rupa Mehra, to marry off her youngest daughter, Lata. The Indian actress Tabu, who starred as the mother in Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, is expected to play Mehra, while a Bollywood star has been cast as Lata.

a) This will be the first production by Mira Nair.

b) There will be no white characters in the new BBC series.

a) How does Andrew Davies think the audience will react to this new series and why?

b) What is the plot of the new BBC series?

A.3 (1 punto) Find the words in the text that mean:

a) screened (paragraph 3)

b) present (paragraph 3)

c) change (paragraph 4)

d) wish (paragraph 5)

A.4 (2 puntos) Complete the following sentences. Use the appropriate form of the word in brackets when given.

a) Vikram Seth _______ (born) in India, but _______ (spend) most of his life in the UK.

b) I’d _______ watch a period drama than _______ (read) a book.

c) If I had _______ opportunity to travel to India, I _______ (visit) Vikram Seth’s relatives.

d) After _________ (watch) the last thriller on Netflix, I couldn’t sleep _______ a couple of nights.

A.5 (3 puntos) Write about 150 to 200 words on the following topic.

What do you prefer, films or TV series? Justify your answer.

Adapted from “All-Asian cast is most suitable for BBC’s Vikram Seth drama,” The Times, 30 June 2019. <https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/all-asian-cast-ismost-suitable-for-bbc-s-vikram-seth-drama-t6qwvj57f>

UNIVERSIDADES PÚBLICAS DE LA COMUNIDAD DE MADRID EVALUACIÓN PARA EL ACCESO A LAS ENSEÑANZAS UNIVERSITARIASOFICIALES DE GRADO Curso 2019-2020 MATERIA: INGLÉS

INSTRUCCIONES GENERALES Y VALORACIÓN Después de leer atentamente el examen, responda de la siguiente la siguiente forma:

• elija un texto A o B y conteste EN INGLÉS a las preguntas 1, 2, 3 y 4 del texto elegido.

• responda EN INGLÉS una pregunta a elegir entre las preguntas A.5 o B.5.

TIEMPO Y CALIFICACIÓN: 90 minutos. Las preguntas 1ª, 2ª y 4ª se calificarán sobre 2 puntos cada una, la pregunta 3ª sobre 1 punto, la pregunta 5ª sobre 3 puntos.

TEXTO B The Carbon Footprint of your Inbox Your annual work email could be adding the same amount of warming carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as a flight between London and Bruges. Email has a carbon footprint because of the power demands to create and run the computers, servers and routers that transmit each message.

The average email reportedly adds an extra 4 grams of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere – but this can increase 12 fold in email chains or with big attachments. Office workers on average process over 34,000 emails each year and can spend around 13 hours a week working on their inboxes. “This amount of carbon dioxide is equivalent to a customer having used 16,800 plastic bags in a single year,” a spokesperson for CWJobs said.

Not every email is equal, however, as adding a single 1MB attachment is predicted to raise its carbon output up to 19 grams. Larger attachments use up more energy in turn. “A particularly long email chain produces more than just hot air – it can generate as much as 50 grams in CO2 emissions,” CWJobs said.

With global email traffic predicted to rise by 18 per cent in 2023, it would result in an extra 620 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year.

A series of recommendations for how people can cut down on their communicative carbon footprints have also been published. These include only adding necessary people in email chains, replacing attachments with links to material online, and talking to people in person. In addition, due to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, the total number of unwanted emails have been reduced by 1.2 billion messages a day, which is the equivalent of 360 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions cut every single day.

QUESTIONS

B.1 (2 puntos) Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text.

No marks are given for only TRUE or FALSE.

a) The carbon footprint of emails is not related only to the electricity consumed by computers.

b) The number of spam emails has been reduced thanks to the introduction of specific policies.

B.2 (2 puntos) In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer the following questions. Do not copy from the text.

a) What is the relationship between the size of an attachment and its carbon emission?

b) What can we do to reduce the carbon footprint of emails? Mention two ideas.

B.3 (1 punto) Find the words in the text that mean:

a) yearly (paragraph 1)

b) additional (paragraph 2)

c) quantity (paragraph 2)

d) consume (paragraph 3)

B.4 (2 puntos) Complete the following sentences. Use the appropriate form of the word in brackets when given.

a) Researchers said domestic travel was a bigger cause of CO2 emissions _______ international travel. In fact, air travel was one of _______ (important) causes.

b) _______ (avoid) natural disasters or extreme temperatures, ______ can damage the environment, we must keep the level of greenhouse gases at their natural levels.

c) Some people think that the greenhouse effect ______ (not/become) such a big problem if we _______ (not/cut) so many trees in the past.

d) Rewrite the following sentence so that it means the same: We are consuming natural resources so fast that the Earth does not have time to renew them.

Natural resources __________________________________________________.

B.5 (3 puntos) Write about 150 to 200 words on the following topic.

Would you agree to have limited Internet access to help reduce carbon emissions? Justify your answer.

Adapted from “How big is the carbon footprint of your inbox?” Daily Mail, 8 July 2019. < https://dailym.ai/2tww2ws >

CRITERIOS ESPECÍFICOS DE CORRECCIÓN El ejercicio incluirá cinco preguntas, pudiendo obtenerse por la suma de todas ellas una puntuación máxima de 10 puntos. Junto a cada pregunta se especifica la puntuación máxima otorgada. La valoración y los objetivos de cada una de estas preguntas son los siguientes:

Pregunta 1: Hasta 2 puntos. Se trata de medir exclusivamente la comprensión lectora.

El estudiante deberá decidir si dos frases que se le presentan son verdaderas o falsas, copiando a continuación únicamente el fragmento del texto que justifica su elección. Se otorgará 1 punto por cada apartado. Se calificará con 0 puntos la opción elegida que no vaya justificada.

Pregunta 2: Hasta 2 puntos. Se pretende comprobar dos destrezas: la comprensión lectora y la expresión escrita, mediante la formulación de dos preguntas abiertas que el estudiante deberá contestar basándose en la información del texto, pero utilizando sus propias palabras en la respuesta. Cada una de las preguntas valdrá 1 punto, asignándose 0,5 puntos a la comprensión de la pregunta y del texto, y 0,5 a la corrección gramatical y ortográfica de la respuesta.

Pregunta 3: Hasta 1 punto. Esta pregunta trata de medir el dominio del vocabulario en el aspecto de la comprensión. El estudiante demostrará esta capacidad localizando en el párrafo que se le indica un sinónimo, adecuado al contexto, de cuatro palabras o definiciones. Se adjudicará 0,25 por cada apartado.

Pregunta 4: Hasta 2 puntos. Con esta pregunta se pretende comprobar los conocimientos gramaticales del estudiante, en sus aspectos morfológicos y/o sintácticos.

Se presentarán oraciones con huecos que el estudiante deberá completar o rellenar.

También podrán presentarse oraciones para ser transformadas u otro tipo de ítem. Se adjudicará 0,25 a cada “hueco en blanco” y en el caso de las transformaciones o ítems de otro tipo se concederá 0,5 con carácter unitario.

Pregunta 5: Hasta 3 puntos. Se trata de una redacción, de 150 a 200 palabras, en la que el estudiante podrá demostrar su capacidad para expresarse libremente en inglés. Se propondrá una única opción y se otorgarán 1,5 puntos por el buen dominio de la lengua

– léxico, estructura sintáctica, etc. – y 1,5 por la madurez en la expresión de las ideas – organización, coherencia y creatividad. Para corregir esta redacción se utilizará la siguiente rúbrica de evaluación:

Puntuación: de 0 – 3 Cada apartado se valorará entre 0 y 0,5, según se ajuste a lo que figura en el descriptor de “Excelente” (con la nota máxima de 0,5) o de “Deficiente” (con la nota mínima de

0).

Excelente El mensaje es claro, preciso y coherente, con ideas interesantes, que se atienen al tema propuesto. Se sigue el requisito de extensión mínima.

Se muestra capacidad CONTENIDO para desarrollar un punto de vista personal, con opiniones originales. Las ideas se ilustran de forma adecuada.

FORMA

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Se emplean conectores de forma efectiva y variada.

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No hay errores importantes de gramática No muestra limitaciones en el uso del vocabulario que utiliza.

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No hay errores importantes de ortografía y/o puntación.

Total

Nota

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Deficiente El mensaje es demasiado confuso, ambiguo o incoherente, con ideas irrelevantes o repetitivas. No se sigue el requisito de extensión mínima.

Es difícil distinguir la postura personal del autor. Se incluyen generalidades sin fundamento, porque no se aportan datos o ejemplos que ilustren las ideas expuestas.

Faltan conectores adecuados y se acusa una falta de transiciones temáticas lógicas.

Hay errores graves de gramática Hay errores graves de léxico.

Hay múltiples equivocaciones en el uso de la ortografía y/o la puntuación.

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INGLÉS SOLUCIONES TEXTO A - SUGGESTED ANSWERS Question A.1

a) FALSE: “It will be directed by Mira Nair, the Indian-American film-maker behind Monsoon Wedding.”

b) FALSE: “All the main roles will be played by Asians – many from India – while a handful of white characters in Seth’s book will only appear as bit parts.” Question A.2 Key ideas

a) He thinks it will be very different from other BBC series, but he thinks the audience will still like it. It is a mixture of new elements, the unknown actors, and other known ones, as the plot is similar to that of Jane Austen’s novels.

b) The plot tells about an Indian mother, Rupa Mehra, who is trying to find a husband for her youngest daughter, Lata.

Question A.3

a) broadcast

b) current

c) departure

d) desire Question A.4

a) was born ------- spent / has spent

b) rather ------- read

c) the / an ------- would visit

d) watching ------- for

TEXTO B - SUGGESTED ANSWERS

Question B.1

a) TRUE: “Email has a carbon footprint because of the power demands to create and run the computers, servers and routers that transmit each message.”

b) TRUE: “In addition, due to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, the total number of unwanted emails have been reduced by 1.2 billion messages a day, which is the equivalent of 360 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions cut every single day.” Question B.2 Key ideas

a) The larger the attachment, the more power is needed. This leads to greater carbon emissions.

b) Avoid attachments and use website links instead; think about the number of people we really need to email; make face-to-face communication a priority.

Question B.3

a) annual

b) extra

c) amount

d) use up Question B.4

a) than ------- the most important

b) To avoid / In order to avoid / So as to avoid ------- which

c) would not have become ------- had not cut

d) Natural resources are being consumed so fast that the Earth does not have time to renew them.