| SELECTIVIDAD MADRID 2012 junio: OPCIÓN A |
| Examen de inglés de selectividad (Bachillerato LOE), universidades públicas de la Comunidad de Madrid, curso 2011-2012. Examen realizado el martes 5 de junio de 2012. |
| TEXTO PROPUESTO: Some People Never Forget a Face |
| REDACCIÓN PROPUESTA: Would you like to have a photographic memory? Explain why or why not. |
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| ENUNCIADO DE LA OPCIÓN A |
| 1.- | Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text. No marks are given for only TRUE or FALSE. (Puntuación máxima: 2 puntos) |
| a) | A small minority of people cannot identify other people's faces easily. |
| TRUE: In fact about 2 percent of the population has prosopagnosia, a condition characterized by great difficulty in recognizing faces. |
| b) | Super-recognizers are only able to recognize people who have the same appearance as when they met. |
| FALSE: Often super-recognizers are able to recognize another person despite significant changes in appearance... |
| 2.- | In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer the following questions. Do not copy from the text. (Puntuación máxima: 2 puntos) |
| a) | Why do some super-recognizers pretend not to recognize people? |
| Because other people usually don't recognize them and they don't want to give the impression the meeting was important or special to them. |
| NOTA: Esta respuesta es simplemente una propuesta entre otras posibles. Añade la tuya y la comentaré. |
| b) | Why might the results of the study be important in courts? |
| Because they could help determine the different degrees of credibility of eyewitnesses. |
| NOTA: Esta respuesta es simplemente una propuesta entre otras posibles. Añade la tuya y la comentaré. |
| 3.- | Find the words or phrases in the text that mean: |
| a) | remembering (paragraph 2) | recalling |
| b) | wide (paragraph 2) | broad |
| c) | meeting (paragraph 2) | encounter |
| d) | believable (paragraph 3) | credible |
| (Puntuación máxima: 1 punto) |
| 4.- | Complete the following sentences. Use the appropriate form of the word in brackets when given. (Puntuación máxima: 2 puntos) |
| a) | According ________ the results of a recent study, some people ________ (find) to be super recognizers. |
| NOTA: La clave en este ejercicio es poner el verbo find en voz pasiva. Con matices distintos, varias soluciones son posibles: |
| According to the results of a recent study, some people were found to be super recognizers. According to the results of a recent study, some people are found to be super recognizers. According to the results of a recent study, some people have been found to be super recognizers. |
| b) | People ________ suffer from prosopagnosia find it difficult ________ identify faces. |
| People who suffer from prosopagnosia find it difficult to identify faces. People that suffer from prosopagnosia find it difficult to identify faces. |
| c) | Hi Jane! I remember ________ (meet) you ________ a party last year. |
| Hi Jane! I remember meeting you at a party last year. |
| d) | If the witness ________ (not be) in that city five years earlier, she ________ (not meet) the waitress. |
| If the witness had not been in that city five years earlier, she would not have met the waitress. |
| 5.- | Write about 100 to 150 words on the following topic. |
| Would you like to have a photographic memory? Explain why or why not. | |
| (Puntuación máxima: 3 puntos) |
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