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PRIMERA PARTE
Esta parte de la prueba consta de 6 preguntas, de la 1 a la 6.
A continuacin se le presentan dos textos que usted deber leer con atencin y,
EXCLUSIVAMENTE con base en ellos, contestar las preguntas de esta parte.
At her death in 1695 Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz left a remarkable body of writingreligious, courtly, and popular poems in a wide variety of verse forms; intellectual
treatises; religious and secular plays; a long epistemological poem, Primero sueo;
and an autobiographical essay, the Respuesta a Sor Filotea, witch, to date, remains
the most reliable literary portrait we have of this woman of genius.
What we know of Sor Juana merely awakens our appetite for further information. We
are unsure of the date of her birth. We do not know whether she ever knew her father.
We know approximately when she was sent to Mexico City to live with her mothers
sister, but not why. We can approximate the dates of her life in court under the
protection and patronage of the Marqus and Maquesa de Mancera, but we know
nothing of the everyday details of those years. We can only speculate as to why at the
height of popularity and in the full flush of her beauty she left the court to enter the
convent. In addition to the guesses we can make from her writing, and besides the
autobiographical Respuesta, and the nearly contemporary biography written by
Father Diego Callejas, we have only a handful of birth, death and marriage records
relating to her family, and a few papers concerning Sor Juanas entrance into and
subsequent professions of faith first the Carmelite Order, and then the Convent of
Saints Jerome, where she died.
Sor Juana Ins by Margaret Sayers
(Adapted)

1. According to the text, biographical material on Sor Juana is

A) Accurate in its general content.
B) Abundant in chronological information.
C) Distorted for the study of her work.
D) Insufficient for understanding her life.
2. The reasons Sor Juana entered the convent are
A) Clear.
B) Dubious.
C) Unknown.
D) Mystical.

3. When the author says the most reliable literary portrait. He means that
A) The information is true
B) The details are perfect
C) The details are correct
D) The information is trustful
Who was Dame Agatha Christie? Her father was a rich American financier, but she
grew up in the English countryside among the genteel upper middle-class society she
describes so well in bar books. During the First World War, She married Colonel
Christie and served as a nurse. From her experience in hospitals at the time, she
developed an interest in poisons which was to be so useful to her later in many of her
stories. She divorced her husband in 1928 and a few years later, married Sir Max
Mallowan, a young archaeologist. She accompanied him on many of his expeditions
and drew from them the plot of several of her novels.
Agatha Christie starter writing just after World War I, as a kind of challenge. She had
no success with her first book, which no publisher wanted to take and which did not
sell very well. It was only with the publication of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in 1926
that she suddenly becarne well- known and started to reach fame.
Taken from Quartet.
4. Which of the following ideas is present in the text?
A) Agatha Christie became the first husbands nurse.
B) The critics rejected Agatha Christies first books.
C) Books on archaeology were written by Agatha Christie.
D) Agatha Christies works provide a good portrait of the British bourgeoisie.
5. Which of the following titles best suits the text?
A) The Road to Success.
B) Form Husband to Husband.
C) The Literature after the War.
D) A Medical Writer of War Times.
6. Agatha Christies knowledge about poisons was valuable to her because she
A) Worked in hospital.
B) Applied it in her stories.
C) Wanted to get rid of her husband.
D) Used it in archaeological research.

SEGUNDA PARTE
Esta parte de la prueba consta de 6 preguntas, de la 1 a la 6. A continuacin se le
presentaran dos textos que Usted deber leer con atencin y, EXCLUSIVAMENTE
con base en ellos, contestara las preguntas de esta parte.

Few men have been admired and glorified in recent times as the American astronauts.
In the 1960s a decade of assas sinations, campus violence, and a war in a distant
land the citizenry the U.S.A was in desperate want of heroes, and the spaceman
filled that need.
But NASA (the national) Aeronautics and Space Administration) was not content
simply to have astronauts respected for what they were: courageous men
experiencing many of the same pleasures and pains as other human beings. Instead,
the astronauts were 2sold as a unique kind of supermen. It was one of the most
ambitious and successful public revelations campaigns in history. From the beginning,
the media treated the astronauts as exceptional individuals. In its first article about the
original Project Mercury astronauts. Time said: from a nation of 175 million they
stepped forward last week: seven men cut of the same as Columbus, Magellan, Daniel
Boone, Orville and Wilbur Wright.
Taken from the Peoples almanac.
1. Which of the following ideas is present in the text?
A. America transformed normal men into an exceptional kind of superman.
B. American spaceman are the most admired men in modem history.
C. American spaceman ware formed through an intelligent propaganda
campaign.
D. American needed heroes to contrast the bad image of the sixties.
2. Which of the following titles best suits the text?
A. NASA: right or wrong The dangers of publicity
B. A new race of conquerors Exceptional men or ordinary people?
3. Astronauts were admired; however
A. NASA was not satisfied. They were quite popular.
B. They didnt like to be sold. Public relations worked well.
Hachi went to a Tokyo railroad station to see his master off for work, as usual, one day
in 1925. That evening at 5 oclock, he went to meet the train on which his master
always came home. The dog had no way of knowing that his master had died in the
city. Never giving up home, Hachi went to the railroad station every day for the next
ten years then, when of this life- and waited for the 5 oclock train. Then people of
his master didnt appear, he went sadly home. The people of japan loved the little dog.
When he died, the government put up a statue of Hachi on the where he had waited
and sent small replicas to all the schools in the Empire.
Taken from The Peoples Almanac.
4. Which of the following ideas is present in the text?
A. Master and dog deserved a statue. Hachi outlived his master ten years.
B. Hachis master was killed I the city. The dog liked to see his master at
work.
5. Which of the following titles best suits the text?

A. A Glorious Death the habits of a dog an unexpected death the

loyalty of a dog
6. In the phrase never giving up hope, the expression giving up could be
replaced by.
A. Losing. Forgetting. Putting away. Throwing away.
TERCERA PARTE
Esta parte de la prueba consta de 6 preguntas, de la 1 a la 6. A continuacin se le
presentan dos textos que Usted deber leer con atencin y, EXLUSIVAMENTE con
base en ellos, contestar las preguntas de esta parte.
In recent times the idiom has become the object of increased interest on the part of
both the theoretical and the practical linguist has approached the nature of the idiom
through lexical collocation and syntactic.
Structure, and has aimed at a formal framework of description.
The practical linguist has drawn the leanness attention to the idiom by providing
collections of idiomatic expressions both as reference and exercise material. This
interest has perhaps resulted the language to be learnt at will by advanced.
Students, but that the form an essential core of the living language as is spoken by
millions of native speakers all over the world. Idioms are neither nation-bound nor
class-bound. They are used by the Australian, Canadian or Scottish native speaker a
like and generally not dependent for their degree of use on either social or educational
background. It is difficult to find a passage of continuous prose in modern English
which does not contain idiomatic expressions.
1. In the sentence the idioms has become the object increased interest the world
idiom means.
A) A living tongue.
B) A contemporary language.
C) A syntactic structure.
D) A metaphoric from of speech.
2. Which of the following ideas is present in the text?
A) Only in recent times have linguists been interested in idioms.
B) English prose is based on the used of idiomatic expressions.
C) Idioms should be taught as an essential part of the language.
D) The theoretical linguist and the practical linguist work in opposite directions.
3. Which of the following titles is suitable for the text?
A) idioms and modern prose the teaching of idioms today
B) polemics in modern linguistics native speakers and their social
background
Who was dame Agatha Christie? Her father was a rich American financier; but she
grew up in the English countryside among the genteel upper middle-class society she
describes so well in her books. During the First World War, she married colonel
hospitals at the time, she developed an interest in poisons witch was to be so useful to

her later in many of her husband in 1928 and a few years later, married sir max
mallowan, a young archaeologist. She accompanied him on many of his expeditions
and from them the plot of several of her novels. Agatha Christie started writing just
after World War l, as a king challenge. She had no success with her first book, which
no publisher wanted to; take and which did not sell very well. It was only whit the
publication of the murder of Roger Ackroyd in 1926 that she suddenly became wellknow and started to reach fame.
Taken from quartet.
4. Which of the following ideas is present in the text?
A) Agatha Christie became her first husbands nurse. The critics rejected
Agatha Christies first books.
B) Books on archaeology were written by Agatha Christie. Agatha Christies
works provide a good portrait of the British bourgeoisie.
5. Which of the following titles best suits the text?
A) The road to success. From husband to husband.
B) The literature after the war. A medical writer of war times.
6. Agatha Christies knowledge about poisons was valuable to her because she.
A) Worked in hospital. Applied it in her stories.
B) Wanted to get rid of her husband. Used it archaeological research.
CUARTA PARTE
Esta parte de la prueba consta de preguntas, de la 1 a la 5. A continuacin se le
presentan dos textos que Usted deber leer con atencin y, EXCLUSIVAMENTE con
base en ellos, contestar las preguntas de esta parte.
Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, received more awards in America in
her short career than any other female artist. Shes the source and inspiration of
artists in many countries and projects emotion as if she invented it.
Born one of five children in Detroit, she was the daughter of Reverenced C.L. Franklin,
a well-known preacher in the States, who toured churches throughout the country with
his helpers and singers. Aretha was part of his choir, although she was only fourteen
years old.
Taken from record sleeve, by
Bill Harry. (Adapted)
1. According to the article, Aretha Franklin
A) Started singing when she was a teenager.
B) Was inspired by artists all over the world.
C) Invented different ways to project emotions.
D) Helped his father to preach all over the country.
2. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
A) Aretha Franklin had five children.
B) Aretha had four brothers and sisters.

C) Rev. Franklins oldest daughter was Aretha.

D) Rev. Franklins only child sang in his choir.
3. When the author refers to Aretha Franklin as the undisputed, Queen of Soul,
he means that everybody.
A) Deserve her.
B) Agreed with her.
C) Gave her full credit.
D) Considered her number one.
Dolores Del Rio was a Mexican actress of rare beauty who started in more than 30
films in Hollywood and dozens in Mexico. She died of natural causes at her home In
Newport Beach, Calif., at the age of 77. As a teenager Del Rio caught the eye of a
Hollywood director and shocked her upper-class family by leaving Mexico City to
appear in his films. Her exquisite, expressive face won her, many fans with such silent
movie as What Price Glory and Ramona, and she gracefully made the transition to
talking pictures. But she became typecast give you beautiful cloths to wear in
Hollywood for Mexico where she eventually won four Ariels, the Mexican. Oscars.
Taken from Newsweek, April 25, 1983.
4. Dolores del Rios beauty gave her a great popularity as an actress, however
she.
A) Only played, dumb roles.
B) Was a fame fatale
C) Became typecast...
D) Made only silent movies.
5. The reaction of Dolores del Rios family at her leaving for Hollywood was of.
A) Amusement and hope.
B) Surprise and disapproval.
C) Impotence and fear.
D) Frustration and anger.