Escuela de Educación y Pedagogía

Centro de Lenguas – Medellín

ENGLISH FINAL TEST (Units 10-11-12) 20%

UPPER INTERMEDIATE
TEACHER: MANUELA ORTEGA FORM
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Name: Yudy Andrea Peña ID:000345089

Grade: 10 25/06/2020
Time: 90 minutes

READING COMPREHENSION SECTION (2,0)

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What is success? When we talk about “successful” people, we usually think about someone who has a bank
account reaching into the billions, a prominent historical figure, or a world leader. But when those
successful people are asked about their definition of success, most will say those achievements are not
what make them feel accomplished. Here are some of the world’s most influential people and their success
quotes.

Ophra Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey came from humble and rough beginnings. She was able to turn her life around in her
teenage years and focused on a television career. Winfrey worked for local Baltimore stations, but faced
setbacks and discrimination. When she finally had the chance to have her own show, she continually came
last in ratings.

But Oprah never gave up and switched the formatting of her show. Her relatability skyrocketed her to
becoming America’s First Lady of talk shows. After the success of her show, Oprah started a magazine, a
production company, and multiple charitable organizations. However, for Oprah success isn’t being known by
just her first name or being one of the world’s wealthiest women, success to her is all about feeling fulfilled:

“…How to be used in the greater service to life. Ask this question, and the answer will be returned and
rewarded to you with fulfillment, which is the major definition of success, to me.”

Barack Obama
It may be hard for a President to define their own success. It could be walking away from office with a high
approval rating, passing a significant piece of legislation, or serving for eight years. For Barack Obama, success
was much simpler.

The 44th President of The United States didn’t equate power with success or wealth. First Lady Michelle
Obama told an audience that at the start of her husband's career the President turned down high-paying jobs
to work in struggling neighborhoods and help people. The First Lady went on to explain:
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“For Barack, success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s
lives.”

Bill Gates
Bill Gates is known for his incredible wealth and success. In 1975, Gates along with childhood friend Paul
Allen founded Microsoft. The company and its software changed the way the world worked and can be found
on nearly every computer today. When the company went public in the early 80’s, Gates became the world’s
youngest billionaire at only 31-years old.

In 1995, Gates became the wealthiest person in the world and since then has either topped the list or been
close to the top every single year since. Throughout his career, Gates has used a significant amount of his
wealth on charitable donations and started an organization with his wife to fight poverty around the world.
When asked about his definition, Gates related success in life to giving back and changing lives:

“It is also nice to feel like you made a difference — inventing something or raising kids or helping people in
need.”

*Taken and adapted from: https://www.globalexperiences.com/blog/successful-people-define-success

Answer the following questions: (0.4 each answer)

1.How would you define success?

Success for me is helping in order to change the lives of many people and to be remembered for that.

2. Who of the three characters do you find “more successful” and why?

In my opinion, Bill Gates is more successful than the other characters because the things that he has
done have had the greatest impact on everyone’s life.

3. According to the text, what do Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and Bill Gates have in common?
(besides being rich and successful)

They have in common that they don’t consider their greatest success to be having a lot of money, for
them success is being able to help people and change their lives.

4. If you could be successful in one thing, what would it be?

For me the success would be to have a company where I can help many people and change their lives
and with this have a positive impact on each person and be remember for that.
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Centro de Lenguas – Medellín

ENGLISH FINAL TEST (Units 10-11-12) 20%

UPPER INTERMEDIATE
TEACHER: MANUELA ORTEGA

WRITING SECTION (3.0)

(180-200 words)

Write a few paragraphs about how you could improve your productivity at university.
If you could make changes to your unversity, what kind of changes would you suggest?

I could improve my productivity at university looking for new projects in the group of environmental
investigations (GIA) research seedbed that I currently belong to, in order to expand my knowledge, I
would research on things that I do not know and that are of great importance at the environmental level,
I would provide more attention in the classes and ask if something is not clear to me so as not to be left
with empty knowledge, I would improve my study methods, participate in conferences that have to do
with what I study and also talks that are from other branches and finally I would not settle for just what I
learn at university, I would learn new thing every day.

The UPB is a university very complete, it has large research hot beds, excellent teachers, also to having
very pleasant spaces, it seems to me that it provides excellent accompaniment towards the students with
different workshops and cultural conferences that if offers weekly, the only thing that I could suggest is
to have more exits to different industries and have to more approaches to professional life, although it
only suggest that it have a little more, it seems to me a very complete university and that it trains
excellent students.
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Centro de Lenguas – Medellín

ENGLISH FINAL TEST (Units 10-11-12) 20%

UPPER INTERMEDIATE
TEACHER: MANUELA ORTEGA