[PRUEBASDE ACCESO A 1A UNIVERSIDAD UNIBERSITATEAN SARTZEKO PROBAK
CURSO 2WaM5| 20142018 IKASTURTEA
INGLES INGELESA
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‘The boundary between family and friends is blurred in circus life because you
together. There are separate caravans, but they're just steps away, and you
‘one big family for the duration of the tow. On one of my favourite tours,
‘which took place in France, there were 12 children, so we had our own school with a
her, as opposed 10 the usual home schooling we got ~ and that vas 20
hard when we had to split up to go our separate ways". Winters were
more conventional. "Home was a house in France, so we'd live there for two or three
‘months out of season and I'd go to school. I loved seeing the same friends there, year
ape yer, and welered tr gueton abo mylar. Las never ead
far fromit, they found my life,
ime, not just the odd weekend”. Indeed, Germaine would be
lunch and her mother would be there putting on ber make-up
ther uncle and granéfether prepared for their clown act. Their
abysiters. “Fou went with your parents and did what they were 30
doing and if they were performing in the evening, they just made sure you were tucked
1p inbed frst”
1. Answer these questions about the text. Use your own words whenever possible (2
points, t exch).
1. Why dida’t Germaine want 2 normal childhood?
’b. What was hard about her relationship with children in tours?
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2, Read the following statements, decide whether they are true or false and justify
‘your answer by quoting evidence from the text (2 points, 0, $0 each).
4. Germaine did ot attend schoo! regu.
4 Ie was bard for her parents to find babysiters.
43. Find in the text the word or group of words which mateh these definitions (1 point,
0,20 cach).
a That cannot be improved or defeated because of excellent quality (Paragraph 1)
b. The first public performance ofa play or any other type of entertainment, Paragraph 1)
«To accept, admit, or recognize something. (Paragraph 2)
4. Real, suiteble. (Paragraph 2)
€ Coloured substances used on your face to improve or change your appearance.
(Paragraph 3)
4. Complete the text using the correct words from the box below. There are 2 words
‘that you won't need (2 points, 0,25 each).
Zippos, Britain's @)_ popular cieus, erived (8) Seottand this
‘week. Martin, who has been (@) for 30 yen, speaks to those who would
like to join his profession: “To be a low, you nead tobe willing to stand naked in front
of an audience, but dont inood you woo't need to 60 (4). 1
find clowning ve
things we laugh at. I
wer the world do not always laugh at the same
id a routine fora village of Aboriginal people. I
to me and said, ‘Thar's very good
but we have @ man
moming’. However if its physical humour, people iaugh (a) mater where
they are or where they come from”.
ONCE NO. MOST NOT EVERY CAME
CN ee CLOWN, ONG $0:
5, Write a composition of about 150 words on ONE of the following topics (3 points).
a. Express your opinion about life ina cizeus.
2. Think-of someane who has lived a very original Ife. Describe his or her Hite.