Ejercicio 1 — Bloque A · Text 1
Comprensión escrita4 puntosBLOQUE A (Comprensión lectora) — COMPREHENSION (4 points). CHOOSE TEXT 1 OR TEXT 2 AND ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS FROM THAT TEXT ONLY.
TEXT 1: JOSÉ ADOLFO QUISOCALA IS CHANGING THE WORLD
[1–5] When he was seven, José Adolfo Quisocala created a bank for school friends in his hometown of Arequipa, Peru, to save money to buy books, stationery and uniforms. Now, nine years later, the Bartselana Student Bank has 6,700 customers, all aged under 18. All these children can add more money to their savings by taking plastic and paper to recycle to school bus stops —the money is automatically credited to their bank accounts. Every month, the bank recycles between 15 and 16 tons of paper and plastic.
[6–9] The idea came to Quisocala when he saw children begging at traffic lights and wondered how he could help them and their families earn and save, and at the same time recycle household rubbish that would otherwise become litter. He left school to pursue his idea, but it was worth it, he says. “In my town, I considerably reduced the level of child poverty, the school drop-out rate and environmental pollution.”
[10–13] Quisocala also helped create the Bartselana Foundation, which turns donations of recyclable waste from local companies into funds to combat child hunger and improve education. The foundation has been making free online educational videos lately, which they put out via social media, explaining how to distinguish different types of plastic and paper for recycling, for example. “This is relevant information which is not taught at school so we make it public and free to watch,” says Quisocala.
[14–16] Now 16, he plans to pass the bank to another young executive in order to go to university. He intends to continue his social activism, working with the “least-favoured or forgotten groups in Latin America” and helping them benefit from carrying out environmental services.
(The numbers in brackets are the line numbers of the official paper; the answers refer to them.)
1–2: CHOOSE AND WRITE THE CORRECT OPTION (0.5 points each).
3–6: ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT, OR USE YOUR OWN WORDS (0.5 points each).
7–8: FIND IN THE TEXT (0.5 points each, 0.25 per word). Write one word, in the form it has in the text.