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SECTION I: READING COMPREHENSION (30 marks)

1. Read the text and decide whether statements 1.1 to 1.4 are true or false. Then, find a
textfragment which confirms your answer in either case. Write “TRUE” or “FALSE”
plus the fragment (one or two lines maximum) on your answer sheet. [Score: 4 items x
0.5 = 2 marks]

1.1.- Pizza was made and sold in small rooms by the working class.

1.2.- Uno Chicago Grill has spread its restaurants around the world.

1.3.- Many people have doubts about the origin of deep-dish pizza.

1.4.- Lou tried to stay in Pizzeria Uno as an ordinary employee after his father died.

Pizza in the United States is deeply embedded into the nation’s culinary
consciousness, but Chicago’s version took the concept in a much more indulgent
direction. Today, deep-dish pizza is as central to the Windy City as Wrigley Field.
To appreciate the story of deep-dish, you must first look back to the 16th century,
when modern-day pizza began to take shape in the Italian city of Naples. The
flourishing port was home to many working class residents who lived in dense
neighbourhoods around the Bay of Naples. Small rooms and cramped quarters
meant most of their living was done outdoors, and people looked for food that was
inexpensive and quick to eat. Baked in a hot oven and sold street-side, paper-thin
pizza became the quintessential fare for the Neapolitan poor.

Over the next decades, pizza grew in popularity, moving beyond Naples and
spreading across both the country and social strata. In 1889, Neapolitan pizza maker
Raffaele Espisito created the infamous Pizza Margherita – a simple blend of
tomatoes, mozzarella and basil – to honour the Queen of Italy, Margherita of Savoy,
birthing one of the most classic pizzas to date.

Throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s, Neapolitan immigrants arrived in the US,
like many Europeans of that time, in search of factory jobs. Before long, Chicago
was home to a flourishing community of first and second-generation descendants,
hungry for the thin pizzas that represented their culture and culinary roots. Eventually
two entrepreneurs, Ike Sewell and Ric Riccardo, decided to create something
different: an Italian-American version of pizza. In 1943, the pair opened Pizzeria Uno
in the Chicago’s Near North Side neighbourhood, serving a new style pizza with a
deeper dish, crunchier crust and inverted layers – a far cry from the classic
Neapolitan version.
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Today, Pizzeria Uno is a big brand with a changed name, Uno Chicago Grill, as well
as more than 200 cookie-cutter chain restaurants from Massachusetts to New
Jersey, South Korea to Pakistan. But there is something special about stepping into
the original location in downtown Chicago, still named Pizzeria Uno. Large groups of
tourists circle the building, waiting for their turn to enter the packed restaurant.

Deep-dish pizza is delivered dense and hot. With a heavy spatula, pre-cut slices of
weighty pizza are dished out. Intense layers of cheese and tomato sauce fill the pie-
like crust, inches high, to the browned edges. This is undeniably a knife-and-fork
affair. A few bites satiate, and though it is tasty, it is not Chicago’s best. But people
come here mostly for the tradition, not the world’s finest slice. Seventy years after it
opened its doors, Pizzeria Uno still stands as the original home of the deep-dish and
there is no disagreement that this pizza was first served at here.

A particularly muddled detail involves one of Chicago’s most famous pizza families,
the Malnatis. Adolpho “Rudy” Malnati, Sr – a one-time employee at Pizzeria Uno –
claimed that it was his spark of genius that created the recipe. He and Riccardo,
according to the Malnati family, would hand out slices of Pizzeria Uno’s deep-dish on
Chicago street corners in the hopes that passersby would give it a taste. Sewell, the
Malnatis say, came later. Records of either Sewell or Riccardo making pizza, or even
showing any ability in the kitchen are noticeably absent, fuelling the claims.

According to the Malanti storyline, after Riccardo’s death, Rudy and his son, Lou, co-
managed Pizzeria Uno until Rudy Malnati, Sr also passed away. Lou didn’t find his
place in the restaurant after being told he was an employee, just like everyone else.
Frustrated, he opened his own restaurant in 1971: Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria.

The story does not end here, however. Lou Malnati had a half-brother, Rudy Jr, who
opened his own joint, Pizano’s, in 1991 in downtown Chicago. A waiter at Pizano’s
divulged that Rudy and Lou’s mother, Donna Marie, gave Rudy Jr the original recipe
developed by Rudy Sr himself. So while Lou went off to Lincolnwood, Donna Marie
spent her nights in the kitchen rolling out dough from the secret recipe at Pizano’s.
Who is using the original recipe today remains a point of debate.

Anyway, if you want to tour for more in Chicago, there is also Gino’s East and many
other restaurants that offer deep-dish pizzas. To taste them all, book a tour with
Chicago Pizza Tours and take a seat on their bus, aptly named “Dough Force One”.
The bus traverses the city, guiding visitors on a tour of local spots, inside kitchens
and through Chicago’s pizza history.
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2. Complete each sentence with information from the text but using your own words
(about 10-15 words of your own per sentence). DO NOT COPY LITERALLY from the text
nor from statements 1.1 to 1.4. Write the two sentences on your answer sheet. [Score: 2
items x 0,5 marks = 1 marks]

2.1.- People from Naples ____________________________________________________

2.2.- Layers of cheese and tomato sauce_______________________________________

SECTION II: OVERALL LANGUAGE ABILITY (USE OF ENGLISH) (3 marks)

3. Complete the text choosing the best option (A, B, or C) for each gap (1-15). On your
answer sheet, draw a table like the one below and, for each gap (1-15), copy the letter that
corresponds to your answer (A, B, or C). Use CAPITAL LETTERS. [Score: 15 items x 1 marks
= 1,5 marks]

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

You stand no chance

If eternal happiness is what you are _____ (1) for, forget about it. It is a common mistake ____(2)
think that one can be happy all the time; happiness is a mood, ____(3) not something permanent. It
is merely one of a wide _____ (4) of emotions that us humans are able to feel and it would be crazy
to think otherwise. It has been _____ (5) out that those who deem themselves to be happy all the
time are either _____ (6) morons or liars. There have been_____(7) studies into the _____ (8) and
it is crystal clear that everyone needs to _____ (9) a mixture of emotions in order to reach the point
in ___(10) they could truly know what happiness is. By saying this, we _____ (11) that people need
to sometimes be unhappy, upset and annoyed to clear the way for them to become cheerful and
upbeat ___(12) other times. Over long periods of time, this ______(13) of emotions _____ (14) you
to actually know what happiness is and it also ___(15) you a well-balanced individual.

1. A. seeking B. looking C. trying 9. A. experience B. involve C.undergo

2. A. as B. thus C. to 10. A.which B. what C. whose

3. A. therefore B.so C.then 11. A. want B. mean C. indicate

4. A. range B. ambit C. scope 12. A. at B. in C.---

5. A. carried B. found C. gone 13. A.variation B.change C.chance

6. A. whole B. entire C. complete 14. A. lets B.concedes C. allows

7. A. several B.more C.much 15. A. makes B.does C.causes

8. A. incident B. occasion C. matter

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4. Complete THREE of the following sentences so that each sentence keeps the meaning
of the sentence printed before it and includes a clear change of linguistic structure.
COPY THE COMPLETE SENTENCES (including the beginnings already given to you)
onto your answer sheet. [Score: 3 items x 0.5 marks = 1.5 marks]

4.1. I drove home very late last night. My car broke down then

My car __________________________________last night

4.2. The film starts at 10:15 a.m. But Sam finishes working at 10:20

Sam will ________________________________ the film starts

4.3. The students sat on their seats. Then the teacher arrived.

By the time the teacher________________________________their seats.

4.4. We´ve arranged a meeting with my Italian friends in Naples

This time next week __________________________________________in Naples

4.5. His uncle is the richest man in the town.

Nobody _____________________________________in the town.

SECTION III: WRITING (4 marks)

5. Opinion writing. “Graffiti is the work of vandals no artists. Do you agree? WRITE AN
OPINION TEXT (150-175 words). Make sure you provide the necessary arguments to
convince the reader of your opinion. Write your text on your answer sheet. [Score: 4
marks x 1 item = 4 marks]