ESCUELAS OFICIALES DE IDIOMAS DEL PRINCIPADO DE ASTURIAS

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Hoja de respuestas
EJERCICIO 1 EJERCICIO 2
COLD TURKEY FOR A FACEBOOK ADDICT

ALONE ACROSS THE ARCTIC CROWN

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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 en la HOJA DE RESPUESTAS.
Slo una de las opciones es correcta.
Ejemplo:

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Si se confunde, tache la respuesta equivocada y rodee la opcin que crea verdadera.

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En total, deber contestar 20 preguntas para completar esta prueba.
Dispone de 50 minutos para responder las preguntas de los dos ejercicios de que consta la prueba.
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

COLD TURKEY FOR A FACEBOOK ADDICT
It's become a daily ritual for millions, but what happens when you deactivate your
Facebook account and go cold turkey? Caroline Hocking - a self-confessed obsessive
- finds out.
I'd done it. My (virtual) life was over. After two years on the online social networking site
Facebook, I'd taken the plunge and killed off my account - in Facebook speak, I was "deactivated".
It hadn't all been bad; we'd had some good times. I'd enjoyed a bit of snooping as much as the
next person and found it useful enough as a way to check out potential love interests, flog unwanted
stuff and organise the odd shindig or three.
As a newbie to online social networking, my first few forays into Facebook had been cautious
and brief. It had been a guilty pleasure - an enjoyable escape which tapped into a basic urge to share
and compare.
But over two years, I'd turned into a Facebook fiend, uploading over 30 photograph albums,
posting countless inane status updates and acquiring hundreds of online "friends" (350, to be exact).
I'd got sucked into semi-stalkerdom and felt something akin to separation anxiety if I ever found
myself offline for more than a few hours. What had been my favourite waste of time had morphed into
a demanding and anti-social addiction.
The turning point came when I completely forgot about a long-planned reunion with a friend one
evening because I'd been sidetracked by mindless Facebook mulling. This is ridiculous, I thought.
Surely social networking was supposed to enhance my social life, not to trash it?
And the whole set-up had started to grate: so much pathetic posturing, fakery and careful
cultivating of one's online "brand". People posted anything and everything, surrendering their own
privacy and that of their friends. I didn't NEED to see pictures of strangers' weddings or the drunken
holiday antics of mates' mates.
'Liberated'
I told myself that I'd managed perfectly well pre-Facebook and resolved to return to simpler
times. I would still keep in touch with people I liked. I had a mobile and I was perfectly capable of
bashing out an e-mail or penning a letter. And so I decided to deactivate. It only took a few clicks and
was pretty painless.
Facebook demanded to know why I'd left - it even gave me a helpful little list of possible
reasons why I might have fallen out of love and suggested ways around them.
But my mind had been made up. I wanted to see if I could cope without - for at least a week. It
gave me the option to return at any time and resurrect my account, but I felt liberated.
One person, who thought I'd removed them alone from my list of Facebook friends, sent me an
anxious text message, citing - and apologising for - all the things they had done which might have
offended me and prompted a "de-friending".
Leaving Facebook was clearly seen as a BIG deal to them, indicative of something being "not
quite right". I was flattered that people cared about me and felt a little ache for the ol' Facebook
camaraderie.
But one day into Facebook cold turkey and my fingers had itched to log back on. I felt bereft
and out of the loop. I missed the online chatter of which I had become so contemptuous.
I knew I could cope without Facebook - just.
I thought I'd enjoy bags of free time in a Facebook-free life, but instead I've just reverted to
other distractions, like trashy celeb magazines.
And, even though I couldn't be actively involved in its machinations, I still found myself gassing
about Facebook. I might not have been frittering away hours browsing its pages, but the site - and my
departure from it - became my favourite topics of conversation. What did other people think about
Facebook? What did they think about me leaving?
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I found myself leaping on any Facebook-related story in the news with disproportionate
enthusiasm. It proved hard to let go completely. The break (up) was tough and eventually - well, after
just 10 days to be honest - I found myself reactivating my account.
My world hadn't fallen apart by going offline. I managed to stay in touch with the people I cared
about, even if it took a little more energy on my part (although I never did get round to penning any
letters).
But absence had made the heart grow a little fonder. My package holiday-sized abstention
reminded me how useful Facebook could be, particularly for organising and remembering events.
I confess my heartbeat had quickened a little when I logged in. When my homepage fired up, I'd
felt a small surge of joy at being reunited with my long-lost friend(s). I was back and I was downright
curious: what had I missed?
Not a huge amount as it turned out. It was like I'd never been away: acres of holiday snaps,
numerous links to interesting news stories and YouTube marvels, and some funny/not-so-funny
status updates.
I logged out within a few minutes. I've been back since, uploaded some pictures, dashed off a
few messages, commented on a few links and acquired a couple of new Facebook friends.
But I no longer had the same urge to plunder the latest online goings-on and see what people
are up to quite so regularly. I knew I could cope without Facebook - just. And if it all gets too much
and I feel myself slipping back to my old ways, I can always take another break.
Story from BBC NEWS.

1. The writer of the article

A. was one of many hooked on Facebook
B. has become world-weary of Facebook
C. always approached Facebook suspiciously
D. felt like a cold turkey after leaving Facebook

2. Caroline Hocking

A. put her life at risk when she left the site
B. did not miss people or stuff from Facebook at all
C. wiped out her account after two years on Facebook
D. organized some shindigs to celebrate her escape

3. The day she missed a friends meeting, she ...

A. was tracking someone on Facebook
B. was trapped by some Facebooks uninteresting pastimes
C. was making new online friends
D. became a Facebook demon

4. She decided to quit because ...

A. she felt too much intrusion into her privacy
B. the Facebook pictures were pathetic
C. she felt nothing was true
D. Facebook did not boost her social life

5. According to the writer, ...

A. she was deactivated for a week
B. it was a huge relief to come off Facebook
C. she disconnected for old times sake
D. she lost all interest in the site

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6. The day after she left, she ...

A. felt nothing but contempt for chat groups
B. couldnt stop scratching her fingers
C. felt withdrawal symptoms
D. felt lonely but happy

7. During the following days after being deactivated, ...

A. glossy magazines were not her main interest
B. she devoted her time to talking about Facebook
C. she temporarily logged onto the site
D. she kept engaged in Facebook machinations

8. The moment she logged in, ...

A. nothing on the site turned out to be the same
B. she wanted to get disconnected again
C. she felt eager and restless
D. she was calm and relaxed

9. Since she went back to Facebook, she ...

A. has now got everything under control
B. has gone back to her old times
C. hasnt thought of logging out again
D. tries to be honest to herself

10. The article shows

A. new technologies are responsible for new addictions
B. all Facebook users are addicted to it
C. a social networking site cannot be addictive
D. Facebook makes people more affectionate

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EJERCICIO 2

ALONE ACROSS THE ARCTIC CROWN

For two and a half days I listened to the sounds of the storm filtering down with the air through
the space around my axe handle and, when there was any light, watched six of my fingerprints slowly
turn from a pale white to the deepening black of frostbite. I tried not to think about food. I tried not to
wonder what had happened to my wolf dog Smoke. And I tried not to think about dying alone above
the Arctic Circle. Patience, I knew, was the key to survival. Things could be worse, I kept repeating
silently. At least Im still alive.
When the storm finally abated, both Smoke and I emerged from our icy cocoons and went on,
determined to finish what we had begun nearly eight months before: a complete traverse from east to
west of Alaskas vast and rugged Brooks Range. This mosaic of mountains tundra, boreal forests,
alpine lakes, and wild rivers contains some of the finest wilderness in North America. It is also a land
of extremes a land of nightless summers and sunless winters, where temperatures range from 100
degrees Fahrenheit above to 80 degrees below.
I moved to Alaska in 1979 from the urban environment of New York City, setting out in search of
the essence or spirit that is found in the vastness of the land and of a philosophy where life is learned
from the patterns found in nature where the land is not just a scenic backdrop but an integral part of
human life.
By the fall of 1985 Id trekked much of south central Alaska, and while studying a map of the
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state looking for possible future routes, I couldnt help but wonder what it would be like to travel
the wildness of the Brooks Range. Then and there the dream of traversing the length of the Arctic
Crown lodged itself in my heart and mind.
I hunched over maps, read books, and talked to people whod been there. Eventually the dream
matured into a definite plan: In the time between spring and winter, I would mush, hike, and canoe the
1,460 miles from Fort McPherson in Canadas Northwest Territories to Kotzebue on Alaskas north-
western coast.
Unlike many contemporary expeditions that rely heavily on external support, I wanted to
recapture, and experience, fully and firsthand, the physical and psychological- isolation confronted
by the past explorers. Therefore, resupply points would occur only at the four villages and one lodge
along the route, and no radio or tracking devices would be carried or air support arranged between
the resupply points. But I did invite my friend Paul Lowe - better known as Pappy - to join me.
This was the plan: We would stock up on provisions at Fort McPherson and take two dog teams
and sleds (loaded with several hundred pounds of food and supplies) 300 miles to Old Crow in the
Yukon Territory and then across northeastern Alaska to Arctic Village. There we would trade the dogs
for more food and supplies and hike 395 miles west along the spine of the Brooks Range, through the
village of Anaktuvuk Pass, to a lodge on Walker Lake in the gates of the Arctic National Park and
Preserve. At the lake we would load everything into a waiting canoe, pole 40 miles up the lake and its
tributary, then portage a mountain pass to the headwaters of the Noatak River. Finally, wed float 425
miles down the Noatak through Noatak village to Kotzebue. All this before freeze-up in late October.
But the wilderness has its own plans.
On March 13, 1989, Pappy and I set out from Fort McPherson. Most of the town turned out to
see us off, and rifle-fire echoed from a 21-gun salute as our dogs raced down the hill onto the frozen
surface of the Peel River toward the Richardson Mountains.
Climbing toward McDougall Pass, we took solace in knowing that others had climbed over the
pass before us. We were following a little-used but traditional trail over the mountains to the village of
Old Crow. Edward Itsi, a Gwichin Indian elder, had given us a verbal map of every hill, drainage, and
landmark along this route, and one by one we began passing each of the figures he described.
At McDougall Pass we dropped to the upper Bell River in the Yukon Territory. It was there that we
began to encounter a series of major difficulties. Deep powder snows slowed us down, and what should
have been a quick two week trip to Old Crow became a six-and-a-half week slog. We spent most of our
energy breaking trail for the dogs. To advance a mere six miles a day meant snowshoeing eighteen
miles-six up, six back, and six up again with the dogs. By the time we reached the abandoned trading
post at La Pierre House the miles had taken their toll. Little by little we had run out of supplies, the dogs
were dropping in their tracks from exhaustion, and Pappy began to have second thoughts about the
expedition.
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When we reached Old Crow on April 27, spring breakup - a period when neither the rivers nor the
backcountry is fit for travel was well under way. Pappy made his decision to quit the expedition, and I
wrestled with the possibilities and probabilities of continuing alone. I couldnt face the end of my dream
so soon.
Article by KEITH NYTRAY published by National Geographic.



1. The intention of the text is to

A. recount an arctic adventure
B. explain how to cross the Arctic Crown
C. encourage readers to cross the Arctic Crown
D. argue against the crossing of the Arctic Crown

2. Brooks Range

A. is sunny in the summer
B. is a vast expanse of flatlands
C. has a harsh and varied landscape
D. has a pleasant and invariable climate

3. The narrator left New York city

A. in search of a sense of unity with nature
B. to live in and observe nature in a rural setting
C. because he felt disconnected from his urban setting
D. to escape the pace of urban life and recapture the rhythms found in nature

4. I hunched over maps, read books and talked to people, means I maps,
read books and talked to people.

A. gave up
B. glanced at
C. lied on
D. closely studied

5. The writers main purpose in travelling was to

A. view the Brooks Range
B. improve his survival skills
C. experience adventure as it used to be
D. respond to new and unknown experiences

6. The plan for the trip relied upon

A. dogsledding until Anaktuvuk Pass
B. the exchange of dogs for provisions
C. following the lakes tributary downstream
D. carrying a canoe across the Anaktuvuk Pass



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7. ., we took solace in knowing that others had climbed means we

A. felt disappointed in knowing
B. took pleasure in knowing
C. felt solitude in knowing
D. were soothed to know

8. How did the narrator and Pappy avoid getting lost?

A. They strayed from the traditional Gwichin trail
B. They relied upon directions given by word-of-mouth
C. They mapped out each hill, drainage, and landmark
D. They closely examined and followed the map Edward Itsi had given them

9. What provoked delays in the journey to Old Crow?

A. The broken trail
B. The difficult slog
C. The lack of supplies
D. Nearly impassable trails

10. After reading the story we learn that the narrator

A. decided to continue in spite of his doubts
B. was still confident of success on April 27
C. has not yet decided if he will continue his journey
D. has lost all hope concerning his ability to succeed