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PARTE 1
Ejemplo:
Ejemplo:
0. A star which is very hot and the center of the solar system.
Respuesta: 0 A B C D E F G H
B. aqueduct
D. camel
8. According to popular tradition, this food
originated in Italy.
E. prison
G. sun
10. A channel or system built to transport
water from one location to another,
particularly famous in ancient Rome. H. coliseum
PARTE 3
Respuesta: 0 A B C
A. At 6:00 A.M.
13. What time did you get up? B. It’s 6:00 o’clock.
C. In the morning.
A. Who?
14. Did you know Marta? B. Where?
C. When?
The Aztecs lived on the plains of Mexico between 500 and 1,000 years
ago. They spoke a language called Nahuatl. About 700 years (0) __, they
moved to (16) _ island called Tenochtitlan. This is (17) ___ Mexico City today.
The Aztecs could read and (18) ___. They used a special form of
hieroglyphics. They studied astronomy and mathematics, and they made (19) _
special calendar for the months and seasons from a large stone. The Aztecs
built many beautiful palaces and temples from stone. They wove cloth. They
(20) ___ made cooking pots from clay and many fine ornaments (21) __ silver.
About 500 years ago, Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico. He captured the
Aztec king Montezuma. Two years later, he defeated the Aztecs and
(23) ___, we can find many examples of Aztec culture in Mexico. More
than one million Mexicans speak Nahuatl, and we can see the remarkable Aztec
Respuesta: 0 A B C
16. A. a B. an C. the
19. A. a B. an C. the
“Environmental
issues”
Acid rain
Pesticides
Insects eat our vegetables. So farmers put pesticides on the vegetables. But
that is not the end of the story. The pesticide chemicals get into the “food
chain”. Insects eat the pesticide. Birds eat the insects. Big birds eat little
birds. At the top of the food chain you find birds like the Peregrine Falcon.
Fifty years ago they were common. But more and more of the pesticide DDT
got into their blood. Their eggs became weak, and broke. Now the Peregrine
Falcon is quite rare.
Respuesta: 0 A B C
A. birds.
25. The pesticides are first found in B. insects.
C. vegetables.
A. Gas stations.
28. What is one of the causes for the B. Power stations.
greenhouse effect? C. Radio stations.
The production of one car results in 1,500 kilos of waste, and 75 million
meters3 of polluted air.
When you throw the car away, many dangerous metals (like cadmium) and
other chemicals pollute the Earth.
The building of roads, motorways, and car parks produces a large quantity of
pollution. It is impossible to estimate how much.
The statistics above are for one car. There are now approximately 500 million
cars on Earth. So multiply all these number by 500 million. That gives,
for example, more than 22 billion tons of CO2 in ten years!
31. What is the writer trying to do in this article? (What is the intention?)
32. What can the reader find in this article? (What is the principal idea?)
1. 2. 3.
1. Valentina Tereshkova. She was born in the Soviet Union (0) __ 1937. She
became a cosmonaut in 1961. She spent nearly three days in space in 1963. She
(36) __ the first woman in space. After her space mission, she married the
cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev. The couple divorced. She later became involved
in politics and served in the Soviet parliament.
3. Dian Fossey. She was (41) ___ in California in 1932. In 1967 she went to
Rwanda to study mountain gorillas. She called (42) __ favorite gorilla “Digit”.
A few years later, hunters (43) ___ “Digit”. In 1980 she started writing her
book Gorillas in the Mist. (44) ___ she finished the book, she returned to
Rwanda. In December 1985 somebody killed her. But her life’s work was not
wasted and mountain gorillas (45) __ now protected by the government of
Rwanda.
Ejemplo:
0. A. in B. on C. by D. after
Respuesta: 0 A B C D