PRUEBA DE ACCESO Y ADMISIÓN A LA

UNIVERSIDAD LENGUA EXTRANJERA

(Inglés)
ANDALUCÍA, CEUTA, MELILLA y CENTROS en MARRUECOS
CURSO 2018-2019

Instrucciones: a) Duración: 1 h.30m. b) No se permite el uso de diccionario. c) La puntuación de las preguntas está indicada en
las mismas. d) Los alumnos deberán realizar completa una de las dos opciones A o B, sin poder mezclar las
respuestas.
1
OPTION
1 A: BINGE-WATCHING KEY
2

3 Have you ever spent an entire weekend watching your favourite TV show? This is called binge-watching —
viewing
4 more than four episodes of a show in one sitting. But how can it affect our lives?
5 Adults who watch more than three hours of TV a day double their risk of premature death. Sitting for long stretches of time
6increases your risk of health issues such as diabetes or cancer, even if you exercise regularly. Another danger of binge-watching is
7addiction. If you intend to watch three episodes of a show and end up watching six, it could be a sign that you’re overdoing it.
8Some tips to avoid addiction involve taking breaks between episodes and not snacking while you watch, which could lead to
9mindless overeating.
10 Binge-watching can also be counterproductive due to “hedonic adaptation”, which is a fancy way of saying that we get used to
11new things quickly. At first a new show is exciting, but the more you watch, the less you enjoy it over time. However, not all experts
12are convinced that binge-watching decreases your viewing pleasure — watching a series to completion gives us a feeling of
13control and power.
14 In fact, binge-watching provides tremendous gratification, because we get to see a story from start to finish, and there’s no time
15to forget about plot points and characters between episodes. Binge-watching can be an immersive, stress-relieving escape from
16reality. In addition, it needn’t be an isolating experience. Getting into a show with someone could bring you closer because it gives
17you a common ground for talking about something. Moreover, using a popular series as a conversation topic can possibly help you
18relate to others more easily.
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I * COMPREHENSION
20 (4 points)
CHOOSE21AND WRITE THE CORRECT OPTION (A, B, C or D). (0.5 points each)
1. Binge-watching
22 can harm… (b)
(a) 23
your ability to relax after a day’s work. (b) your self-control to watch a limited number of episodes.
(c) 24
your professional prospects. (d) your memory and your ability to concentrate.
2. Which25 of these is not a benefit of binge-watching? (c)
(a) 26
Seeing a whole story come to a conclusion. (b) Keeping every detail fresh in our memory.
(c) 27
Feeling proud to be faithful to a TV series.
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29
(d) Helping us interact with other people.
ARE THESE 30 STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE
TEXT, OR 31USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (0.5 points each)
3. Binge-watching
32 helps us relax and get away from reality. TRUE (line 12) “Binge-watching can be an immersive, stress-relieving escape
from reality.”
33
4. Unless34you have a physically active lifestyle, binge-watching can harm your health. FALSE (lines 3-4) “Sitting for long stretches of time
increases35your risk of health issues such as diabetes or cancer, even if you exercise regularly.”
5. Watching36 a lot of TV might make us eat more than we should. TRUE (line 6) “… snacking while you watch, which could lead to mindless
overeating.”
37
38 binge-watching inevitably takes you to enjoy the show less and less as time goes by. FALSE (lines 8-9) “(However,) not all
6. As a rule,
experts are39 convinced that binge-watching decreases your viewing pleasure.”
40

7. FIND IN 41THE TEXT: (0.5 points)

ONE SYNONYM FOR “exaggerate” (verb). overdo(ing) (line 5)
7.1.42
ONE SYNONYM FOR “sophisticated” (adjective). fancy (line 7)
7.2.43
8. FIND IN 44THE TEXT: (0.5 points)
ONE WORD MEANING: “to eat small amounts of food between meals.” snack(ing) (line 6)
8.1.45
ONE WORD MEANING: “the arrangement of the incidents in a play, novel, film, etc.” plot (line 12)
8.2.46
II * USE OF47 ENGLISH (3 points; 0.5 points each)
9. FILL IN48THE GAP WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS:
“I don’t mind… (pay) extra for better service.” paying
9.1.49
“Please, let me… (explain).” explain
9.2.50
10. FILL IN51THE GAPS WITH THE CORRECT OPTION:
52“He got… the train when we arrived in London.” at / out of / over / off off
10.1.
 PRUEBA DE ACCESO Y ADMISIÓN A LA
UNIVERSIDAD LENGUA EXTRANJERA
(Inglés)
ANDALUCÍA, CEUTA, MELILLA y CENTROS en MARRUECOS
CURSO 2018-2019

Instrucciones: a) Duración: 1 h.30m. b) No se permite el uso de diccionario. c) La puntuación de las preguntas está indicada en
las mismas. d) Los alumnos deberán realizar completa una de las dos opciones A o B, sin poder mezclar las
respuestas.
2
53“There were… people at the concert, so it was cancelled.” little /a few / few / a little few
10.2.
11. TURN 54THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE: “They consider Seinfeld the best sitcom of all time.” Seinfeld is
considered55the best sitcom of all time.
12. GIVE56 A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: “Cecilia is very creative.” What is Cecilia like?
13. THERE 57 ARE TWO MISTAKES IN THIS SENTENCE. FIND THE MISTAKES AND REWRITE THE SENTENCE CORRECTLY: “John’s
him that she would go to home quite late.” John’s wife told him that she would go home quite late.
wive told 58
14. REWRITE
59 THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED: “I’m sure Joan didn’t take your
60 Joan can’t... have taken your smartphone.
smartphone.”
III * WRITING
61 (3 points)
15. WRITE 62A COMPOSITION OF APPROXIMATELY 120 WORDS ABOUT THE TOPIC PROPOSED AND FOCUS STRICTLY ON IT:
Do 63
you have any favourite TV series or movie? Explain what makes it special.