Partes Reading Aptis General

Primera parte
Debes elegir una palabra de la lista para rellenar cada hueco. Aquí tienes un ejemplo de texto a
practicar:

Indian drummers
Shillong 1) __________ north east India 2) __________ the world record yesterday for the
largest number of people 3) __________ the drums together. People travelled 4)
__________ long way, many 5) __________ foot, from villages in the state in order 6)
__________ in.
A total of 7,951 people played the drums at 7) __________ same time, over seven hundred
more than the old record.
The state now 8) __________ two world records – it is the wettest place in the world as well.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
in breaks play a by join the hold
on broke plays an on to join a holds
at broken playing the in joining as holding
Respuestas
Ejercicio1: 1-in, 2-breaks, 3-plays, 4-a, 5-on, 6.to join, 7-the, 8-holds

1. The young man sold his share of the property and left for another country.
2. The father tried to dissuade his son, but he wouldn’t listen to his father whom he regarded as
old and ignorant.
3. Years went by. The younger son began to get restless because he was unhappy with his lot.
4. He led a luxurious life and spent a lot of money on gambling.
5. They were living together happily.
6. Soon all his money was gone and he became a pauper.
7. Once upon a time there lived a rich farmer.¡ called Jack.
8. He went to his father and asked for his share of the property.
9. So the father gave him a third of his property.
10. He had three sons.
Solución:
Once there lived a rich farmer. He had two sons. They were living together happily. Years went
by. The younger son began to get restless because he was unhappy with his lot. He went to his
father and asked for his share of the property. The father tried to dissuade his son, but he
wouldn’t listen to his father whom he regarded as old and ignorant. So the father gave him a
third of his property. The young man sold his share of the property and left for another country.
He led a luxurious life and spent a lot of money on gambling. Soon all his money was gone and
he became a pauper.
Tercera parte
En ésta parte del reading Aptis General debes eligir varias palabras de las dadas y ponerlas en el
hueco correspondiente.

Put Your Phone Down By 10pm To

Boost Mood
Disrupted body clocks have been linked to depression
and bipolar disorder.
If you’re__________ scrolling on your phone past 10pm at night, you might be heightening
your risk of __________disorders.
A new study by the University of Glasgow has found a disrupted 24-hour body clock, typically
caused by things like checking Facebook at midnight or getting up to make a cup of tea in the
middle of the night, could _____________ your risk of depression and ___________ disorder. It
was also associated with decreased happiness and health satisfaction, and a higher risk of
____________ loneliness.
Circadian rhythms are variations in physiology and behaviour that recur every 24-hours, such as
the sleep-wake cycle and daily patterns of hormone release. They occur in plants, animals and
throughout biology, and are fundamental for maintaining health in humans, particularly mental
health and wellbeing.
Professor Daniel Smith, Professor of Psychiatry and senior author on the study, told The
Times a 10pm cut-off with technology would give the average adult time to ____________
properly before sleeping, therefore giving them the chance to establish a regular sleeping
____________.
Interestingly it’s not just ____________ sleep that can upset the fine balance of your circadian
rhythm, it’s also important to be active during the day and inactive at night – so that evening
gym session probably isn’t for the best.
“Especially in the winter, making sure you get out in the morning in the fresh air is just as
important in getting a good night’s sleep as not being on your mobile phone,” said Smith.
“Benjamin Franklin said that ‘early to bed and early to _________ makes a man, healthy,
wealthy and wise’. There’s a lot of __________ in that.”
Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
Respuestas
1-scrolling; 2-mood; 3-increase; 4-bipolar; 5-reporting; 6-wind-down; 7-pattern; 8-disrupted;
9-rise; 10-truth

Cuarta parte Reading Aptis General

En la última y la más retadora parte del reading tendrás que asignar los títulos dados a los
párrafos correspondientes de manera que tenga lógica.

Gondwanaland
This test is in two parts, one of eight questions, the other of five.
For the first part you have to read the text, and then match the
paragraph headings A – H with the paragraphs 1-8. Write the
letter in front of each heading into the box next to the number of the
paragraph it belongs to. When you have finished the whole test
press ‘Answers’ to see if you were right.
This part of the test should take 17 -20 minutes.

1. Meet Mesosaurus, a small reptile which 5. By investigating similarities in animal

lived in fresh-water lakes and streams millions
of years ago during the lower Permain age.
Mesosaurus has had a big impact on how we
view our planet, because he helped to prove the
existence of the super-continent called
Gondwanaland.
2. Every schoolchild has probably looked at a
map of the earth and noticed how Africa and
South America fit together like pieces of a
giant jigsaw, yet until just over a hundred and
fifty years ago, no-one believed that this was
more than an odd coincidence. It seemed
impossible that the massive continents of the
earth could ever be moved, let alone so far
apart that they ended up half a planet from each
other.
3. Nevertheless, in 1912 Alfred Wegener, a
German meteorologist came up with the theory
that the continents of the earth had all existed
in a single mass, which he called Pangaea
(which is Greek for ‘all the world”). Later
researchers decided that Pangaea had been two
continents, one to the north of the other, which
had existed about 250 million years ago. From
the geological evidence found in the
Gondwana area of India, an Austrian geologist,
Eduard Suess coined the name
‘Gondwanaland’ for the southern
supercontinent, of which India was once a part.
(The northern continent was called Lurasia.)
4. For many years super-continents were
regarded as an interesting theory, but no-one
knew how it might work in reality. Then the
discovery of the mechanisms of plate tectonics
showed how continents might drift across the
face of the globe. Once it was accepted that the
continents were floating on currents of lava,
fossils, different types of plants found in the
southern hemisphere but not in the northern
hemisphere, and patterns of rock formations,
researchers have managed to put the
continents of modern-day earth together like
a huge jigsaw to make up the vanished super-
continent. Sometimes rock formations can be
seen to break off at the ocean’s edge, to carry
on once more thousands of miles away on
another continent. The evidence shows that
not only were Africa and South America once
joined to Antartica, but so were India and
Australia, parts of south Western Europe, and
Florida.
6. Although Gondwanaland was located in
the far southern hemisphere of the planet,
where Antarctica remains today, the climate
was much warmer, and we know that huge
forests grew there. These forests, fossilized
into coal, supply many Indians with energy
today. The land animals were adapted to life
on their cool continent, with its long dark
winter days. Some of the best known
dinosaurs, such as Stegosaurus, Triceratops,
and Tyrannosaurus lived on the northern
continents, but Gondwanaland also had some
fearsome predators such as Abelisaurus, a
large meat-eater that lived during the
cretaceous period. The seas were populated
with fish called placoderms, a name which
they get from their skin, which was so thick
that they were practically armoured.
7. The break-up of Gondwanaland had huge
consequences for planet earth as we know it
now. In geological terms, India has been a
sprinter. Breaking from Gondwanaland the
sub-continent drifted rapidly northward from
the south pole, finally smashing into Asia
more evidence became apparent. A particular
type of an early plant, the seed fern, was found
on continents now scattered about the southern
hemisphere of the world, as were tillates, a
deposit left by glaciers in the Permo-
Carboniferous era of 520 million years ago.
And Mesosaurus, the little fresh-water reptile,
left his remains in West Africa and Brazil.
Since Mesosaurus had no way of crossing the
Atlantic, researchers realized that it could not
be coincidence that this reptile had left remains
in exactly the place where Africa and South
America fit together so neatly.
about 45 million years ago in a collision that
raised the Himalayas.
8. When South America split off about 30
million years ago the effect was even more
dramatic. Cold Antarctic water no longer
mixed with warmer seas when pushed
northward by the south American landmass.
Instead it circled the pole getting colder and
colder, until Antartica lost its vegetation and
animal life, and became the barren icy
wilderness it is today.

A. Finding the evidence

B. The living continent
C. Small but significant
D. Making modern Antartica
E. Putting it all together
F. Joining another continent
G. An impossible idea
H. What’s in a name?

Fuente: http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Respuestas:
1. C
2. G
3. H
4. A
5. E
6. B
7. F
8. D