Examen PAU Lengua Extranjera: Inglés 2024 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: CHARLES DICKENS [1–2] Charles Dickens is one of the greatest writers in English literature. His stories such as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist continue to shape the way in which we understand nineteenth-century England. [3–7] Forget the idea that Dickens was always a rich, benevolent gentleman. His family moved around a lot in Dickens’s youth, from Portsmouth to Kent, and from there to London. Dickens’s father was getting deeper and deeper into debt, and the family were literally running away from their creditors. When he was 12, Dickens was sent to live with a family friend and to work at Warren’s shoe polish factory. In his youth, Dickens thought of becoming an actor. However, he fell in love with a woman whose parents were middle-class and disapproved of her association with an aspiring actor —actors being seen as of a low social status at the time. [8–11] Once he was a famous writer, Dickens became a well-known philanthropist who committed himself to many charities, particularly focusing on issues of child poverty and education. On the same altruistic note, Dickens was also the editor of magazines that, at popular prices, brought literature to everybody. They featured stories by different writers, established novelists, including himself, and also women, like the first salaried female journalist, Eliza Lynn Linton. [12–14] Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol rapidly, taking just six weeks from beginning to end. He was forced to pay half the publication costs himself as his publishers failed to see the value of a Christmas story. Ironically, it’s never been out of print since its publication in 1843 and it’s been considered one of Dickens’s finest literary achievements, as well as an inspiration for numerous films. (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.