Examen PAU Lengua Extranjera: Inglés 2023 Ordinaria — Andalucía

BLOQUE A (Comprensión lectora) — COMPREHENSION (4 points). CHOOSE TEXT 1 OR TEXT 2 AND ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS FROM THAT TEXT ONLY. TEXT 2: IS WORLD HERITAGE IN DANGER? [1–2] In 2016 the city government of Vienna announced that a public-private partnership would build a new ice-skating rink just outside the city’s century-old concert hall. [3–7] Anyone visiting the place where Beethoven and Mozart met will notice two things immediately. First, the core of Vienna is an architectural fantasy of baroque palaces, immaculate courtyards, and a neo-Gothic city hall. Second, Austrians love winter sports, and ice-skating is as typically Viennese as symphonies and sausages. Therefore, the idea of a permanent ice rink would not have been expected to cause controversy. However, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decreed that the rink would undermine the “outstanding universal value” of central Vienna. [8–11] Since 2001, Vienna’s city center has been a World Heritage site, that is, one of the organization’s 1,154 unique landmarks around the globe. Since announcing its objection to the rink, the World Heritage Committee has kept Vienna on its “in danger” list, joining fifty other sites, from the ancient villages of Syria to Everglades National Park in Florida. If the city fails to address the committee’s concerns satisfactorily, it risks being permanently “de-listed” as a UNESCO landmark. [12–14] UNESCO has recently had to confront a newer enemy: climate change. Here the organisation’s resources to tackle the problem are limited too. Last year, UNESCO was forced to threaten Australia with placing its legendary Great Barrier Reef on the “in danger” list if its government did not work hard enough to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. [15–16] Even though the World Heritage program may be imperfect and at times powerless, it remains relevant because of its main philosophy: the world’s diverse treasures require protection, since they cannot protect themselves. (The numbers in brackets are the line numbers of the official paper; the answers refer to them.) 9–10: CHOOSE AND WRITE THE CORRECT OPTION (0.5 points each). 11–14: 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). 15–16: FIND IN THE TEXT (0.5 points each, 0.25 per word). Write one word, in the form it has in the text.

BLOQUE B (Uso de la lengua) — USE OF ENGLISH (3 points; 0.5 points each). CHOOSE AND ANSWER ONLY 6 (SIX) QUESTIONS. Write the complete new sentence (when the beginning is given, you can write the whole sentence or only the part that follows). Answers are checked against the forms in the official key: a different correct sentence may be marked wrong. Questions 17 and 18 have two gaps (0.25 each); if you answer more than six questions, only the first six count.