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TAREA 1
Read the following text and choose the appropriate sentences or expressions to complete it. Be
careful! There are THREE additional sentences or expressions. When you have finished,
transfer your answers to the answer box. Answer 0 is an example. (1 ítem = 0,8).

‘MY TOY WALRUS WAITED 25 YEARS IN THE ARCTIC’

A remote Arctic island makes an unusual honeymoon destination. But for one couple it was
perfect, and led to a touching reunion with (0) ______, writes Juliet Rix.
Walruses huddle in blubbery bonhomie, almost overflowing the little ice-islands on which they float.
They nudge and scratch, (1) ______ in the Arctic sun. I am watching from a chartered icebreaker, one
of just a handful of ships a year to visit Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, the northernmost Unesco
World Heritage Site.
Wrangel is of crucial importance to wildlife, especially polar bears, (2) ______ .We see them, from the
deck of the ship or from a distance on land, roaming creamy-furred and curious across ice and tundra.
Herds of musk ox stare from beneath grey curved horns. Whales meander the coastal waters, and giant
puffins flap from craggy cliffs.
It's a spectacular place - but harsh too. There are no permanent human residents on this treeless Arctic
island (3) ______, deep in a tightly controlled military zone of the freezing Russian Far East. It is not the
sort of place you expect to find a young urban couple… on honeymoon.
I first spot Julia and Daniel, just visible through thick fog, freezing rain and a sea of rusting metal - at the
island's appropriately-named former military base, Doubtful Bay. But I don't get to talk to them until they
appear aboard our ship, (4) ______, and revelling in the comfort of a cosy cabin and fresh food.
I must have looked a little incredulous when they said they were on honeymoon, because Daniel
laughed. "I know," he said. "Our friends at home in Moscow didn't understand it either, so we made a
joke of it and said we were coming to look for Julia's lost toy."
Julia, it transpires, spent the first five years of her life on Wrangel, (5) ______. Her father, a scientist,
was studying snow geese - of which I've been fortunate to see a feeding flock, just a fraction of the
million-strong population now present on the island.
When she was five, Julia was sent to visit her babushka - her grandmother - in Moscow. She thought it
was for a few days' holiday and she would soon be back, so didn't take her favourite toy, a little fluffy
walrus her father had given her. In fact, her parents were splitting up and Julia never returned to
Wrangel. For a quarter of a century, she says, "I dreamed of my island, and my walrus."Finally,
(6) ______, she decided she had to return to Wrangel.
It wasn't the simplest piece of travel planning. But eventually Daniel, himself a scientist, (7) ______ -
and this became their honeymoon.
Daniel's first job on Wrangel was to renovate an old wooden cabin. It turned out that the last person to
live in it had been Julia's father. They found the family home too - now derelict - and explored the island,
drinking in its raw beauty, and coming too-close-for-comfort to a polar bear.
They stood, they tell me, on the silent tundra amidst a glorious meadow of tiny Arctic flowers (8) ______
in this remote land. They saw walruses too, of course, just as I did - but not Julia's toy.
Sitting one evening with one of the island's handful of seasonal rangers, Julia and Daniel told him the
story of how Julia departed the island, (9) ______ "Oh," said the ranger casually. "We found that."Julia
and Daniel didn't believe him, but, the next morning he appeared clutching in his gloved hand her little
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fluffy walrus."I didn't cry then," says Julia, her eyes welling. Now tears roll gently down her smiling
cheeks as she holds up a brown toy with soft creamy tusks.
Wrangel is a nature reserve with the highest level of protection (10) ______. But as we steam away
from the prowling polar bears, the treeless tundra and ice-islands groaning with gargantuan brown
bodies, one little walrus is on its way to Moscow to help Julia and Daniel explain to their friends about
Wrangel Island - how it must be protected, how much it matters to the wildlife. And to Julia. She sits
cradling a little piece of her childhood, a piece of her island.
Their honeymoon was just the start, she says. And Daniel nods. They'll definitely be back.
(From https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51661161)

CLAUSES/SENTENCES

A. a long-lost childhood friend

B. as she contemplated starting her own family
C. feeling desperately gloomy and helpless with the previous situation
D. gnarled brown skin and elegant ivory tusks glistening
E. hitching a lift back to the mainland
F. leaving her beloved toy behind.
G. long-legged creatures displaying black plumage and white chinstrap markings
H. many of whom breed here
I. musing on how wonderfully irrelevant humanity was
J. nothing must be taken from the island
K. secured a three-week stint volunteering on the island
L. since they did not want to give up their home comforts
M. that lies off the coast of Siberia
N. which then had a small civilian settlement

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CLAUSES /
A
SENTENCES

Puntuación1:_____/8
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TAREA 2
Read the text and choose the most suitable answer (A, B or C) to the questions below. Then,
transfer your answers to the answer box. There is only ONE correct answer for each question.
Answer 0 is an example. (1 item = 0,8).

CONTRAST WITHIN IRELAND

The past still remains firmly embedded in the Irish present, but a selective quest of the origins of the
modern situation, as opposed to an interest in relics from the past, must now realistically begin much
later, although continuity from previous times is still more important in Ireland than in many other parts
of the modern world.
It also remains true that although the island of Ireland held a pivotal location in the prehistory of Atlantic
Europe, in more recent times Ireland has been remote from the currents of European intellectual life
and economic change, which were often filtered through Britain. Membership of the European
Community has changed that situation in terms of Irish awareness of the outside world, but the island
still remains a geographical outpost in terms of immediate access to the heartland of European
economic growth.
In the new communications environment of the modern world the marginal location of Ireland has not
been preventing quite rapid change; but the future geographical development of Ireland will still differ in
detail from that found in other parts of Europe. One contributory factor of those differences will be the
distinctive manner in which the human geography of modern Ireland has evolved in the past, as well as
the more obviously unique assembly of physical, environmental and local factors found in this particular
outlier in Western Europe.
The political division of Ireland has left its mark on its evolving geography, since agricultural subsidies,
population change, industrial development, investment in transport and energy policy (among other
things) have all been influenced strongly by sometimes divergent policies of the two governments.
Seventy years of two independent political approaches to often similar problems have left a non
inconsiderable mark on the landscape of modern Ireland. But the immediate visibility of political division
distracts attention from even more relevant geographical contrasts within Ireland.
At a broad scale the most outstanding feature is the contrast between eastern and western Ireland. As
will be shown later, the physical environment allows much greater flexibility in agricultural production in
the east; and both sport and internal markets are also more accessible. Similarly, the economic
pressures for urban growth are much stronger on the east coast, facing the United Kingdom. As a
result, both in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, the population of the east is favoured in terms of
income and alternative opportunities. These contrasts also operate at a more detailed scale. The
intimate association of bleak uplands and more fertile lowlands in many parts of Ireland has brought a
great level of geographical variety within short distances. Areas where traditional life has been
conserved by agricultural poverty or relative remoteness lie close to other regions in which the pace of
social and economic change is more rapid.
(The Human Geography of Ireland by James H. Johnson)
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QUESTIONS
0. Irish history is:
A. Known to most European citizens.
B. Seen as a distinctive feature of this country.
C. The subject of recent academic research.
1. Irish historical heritage is said to be:
A. Crucial in order to understand modern Ireland.
B. More appealing than current cultural trends in Europe.
C. More relevant now than it was in the past.
2. In recent times:
A. Britain hasn´t been as isolated as Ireland from European cultural influence.
B. Ireland has been the most influential cultural model in Europe.
C. Ireland has outweighed Britain in terms of economic growth.
3. Being a member of the European community:
A. has changed the perception Irish citizens have of the world.
B. has enhanced the economic status of Ireland within Europe.
C. has brought immediate prosperity to the Irish community.
4. Rapid changes in Ireland:
A. Are partly due to improved communication.
B. Are quite similar to those found in other countries.
C. Have taken place to prevent isolation.
5. The unique evolution of human geography in Ireland:
A. Is due to the fact that Ireland is far away from other countries.
B. Is the combination of several factors.
C. Will greatly differ from what happened in the past.
6. Irish geography and landscape:
A. Changed dramatically because of industrial development.
B. Have been heavily influenced by occasionally inconsistent policies.
C. Remained unchanged for seventy years because of political conflict.
7. The most noticeable contrasts within Ireland:
A. Are due to geographical location.
B. Have to do with urban development schemes.
C. Provide better income and life opportunities.
8. At a more detailed scale:
A. The agricultural factor provides sharp contrasts.
B. There are no differences within short distances.
C. Traditional lifestyles have been preserved.

ANSWER BOX
QUESTION 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

ANSWER B

Puntuación 2:_____/6,4
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TAREA 3
Read the text and choose the best title to each of the following texts. Be careful! There are
THREE extra titles. When you have finished, transfer your answers to the answer box at the end
of the task. The first answer (title 0) is an example. (1 ítem = 0,8).

MARC MARON: EIGHT STEPS TO BECOMING A PODCAST KING

LA grouch Marc Maron's comedy podcast – the frank, bi-weekly 'WTF' – is so popular even President
Obama asked to be a guest. But how did he make it a hit? The acerbic comic gives us his guide to
becoming a podcast king.
I. Talk your guests into coming to your DIY studio
0. ‘If anybody has a problem with coming to my garage, I tell them, “Look, the president of the United
States was able to make it, I think you can make it over.”

1. ‘You can record on whatever you want if you want to put out a shitty thing that sounds like you
recorded it on your phone. Knock yourself out. But would anyone listen to it? I dunno. Maybe that would
be the coolest thing in the world to some people: who the fuck knows?

2. ‘That was an important milestone in my life, to be able to sit alone, talk and not be self-conscious. I
don’t think I ever hated my voice, but to actually speak freely into a microphone when there’s nobody
there took a few months before it became second nature.’

3. ‘If you want to build an audience, the podcast has got to be there regularly. One time I was stranded
in the snow in upstate New York and I didn’t have my equipment with me. I freaked out and went over
to the local college to talk these students into letting me record “WTF” in their radio station so I could
get it out the next day. That was a pretty wild day.’

4. ‘They approached me! They thought my audience would be good because I attract a very intelligent,
sensitive, slightly disgruntled bunch of people. There were snipers on my neighbour’s roof and 12 or 15
secret service men. Obama had his own food cart too and left his cup. So I now have this take-out cup
and cocktail napkin with the presidential seal on under a glass dome.’

5. ‘I’m curious about personal, psychological and emotional struggle and growth. That’s what I like to
talk about, so it just happens. But I think because the garage is a cluttered environment and there are
no cameras, it’s easy to get lost in conversation without being self conscious or aware that you’re even
recording something.’

6.‘If I have to do four or five interviews in a week that’s at least seven hours of talking, but doing the
intros and outros takes me a long time too. I always end up wandering around, fidgeting with things in
my garage and cleaning dishes while thinking, “I’ve gotta record, I’ve gotta record… Why can´t I just do
this!?” You never know how long that’s gonna go on.’
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7.‘I needed to do “WTF” because I wasn’t working a lot and I had to do something so I wouldn’t fall into
darkness, but there was no plan for it to become this big. There’s no system, you have to get out there
and get a presence. When I started out I wasn’t very savvy about social networking, but no one’s gonna
do it for you. It’s down to you to promote yourself any way possible and hope for the best because who
the hell knows why anything becomes popular.’
(Adapted from: timeout.com)

TITLES
A. Always on the air, no matter what!
B. Bag the big man
C. Better get the lie of the land first
D. Don´t turn into a time-server
E. Get stuck in
F. It´s up to you… if you want it to sound rubbish
G. Never mind close-to-home questions
H. No way to it but putting in the hours
I. Talk your guests into coming to your DIY studio
J. The sooner you start the better it will go
K. Train yourself to be on your own

ANSWER BOX
PARAGRAPH 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

TITLE I

Puntuación 3:_____/5,6

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