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PRUEBA TERMINAL
ESPECÍFICA DE
CERTIFICACIÓN

NIVEL AVANZADO

CONVOCATORIA
SEPTIEMBRE 2016

COMPRENSIÓN ESCRITA

APELLIDOS:______________________________________

NOMBRE: _____________________ DNI: ______________

DURACIÓN TOTAL: 90 minutos

INDICACIONES:
 Las tareas se desarrollarán en los espacios indicados.
 Debe emplearse tinta azul o negra. El uso del lápiz no es válido.
 Corregir tachando el texto. No usar correctores líquidos o cintas.
 No se debe escribir en las partes sombreadas.
 Puntuación total: 22. Calificación de “APTO”: 11

C O R R E C T O R
TASK A: Read the text “Disturbing Proof” and say if the following statements are TRUE (T) or
FALSE (F) according to it. Justify ALL YOUR ANSWERS with the exact words from the text (no
more than a sentence). A true or false answer will be right ONLY if it has been properly justified.
The exercise begins with an example. 8 points

0. This article is about the evidence of some online reviews being false.

 T Disturbing Proof: The online review that made you book your holiday may be fake.

1. When Mr. Rahman found out that his restaurant was getting negative reviews he decided to look into
the matter.

2. Mr. Rahman blamed the company TripAdvisor for not finding who made the false reports.

3. Age is a determining factor when being influenced by the reviews posted.

4. Consumers believe the reviews have been written by companies with an interest in the matter.

5. The market for fake reviews is lessening in India and Indonesia.

6. There has been proof of many reviews posted by someone assuming the identity of dead people.

7. To avoid fraud, Mr. Rahman suggests posting the review with a photo of the customer eating at the
restaurant, as proof of the meal.

8. TripAdvisor refuses to change their method to catch fraud, mainly because their customers prefer it
the way it is.

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TASK B: Find the word(s) in the text for each of the following definitions. 0 is given as an example.
6 points

Definition Word(s) from text

 0
Considered or thought of in a
specified way.
Regarded

Messy, unsystematic, excessively

1. casual. Done in a very careless
way.
To formally make something, such
2.
as a complaint or a claim.
To depend on something/
3. somebody with full trust or
confidence.
Astonishing, surprisingly
4.
impressive as to overwhelm.

5. To appear or occur suddenly.

An attempt to prevent something

6. by showing disapproval or creating
difficulties; deterrent.

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TASK C: Read Text 2 “Why do girls wear makeup” and complete the gaps with the missing
information. Choose from the phrases below and write your answers in the grid provided. There are
seven items that you don’t need to use. 0 is an example. 8 points

a. Ask a group of women why they wear makeup

b. the “no makeup selfie” being a case in point
c. and as many minutes worrying about the way they look
d. as a process of adornment used for attracting a mate
e. so as to take the most “unprepared” selfies
f. wear makeup for the perceived benefit of others
g. to enhance the bits you love the most
h. to completely enlighten your flaws
i. wearing an excess of makeup
j. like a scene out of a magazine
k. in order to sell products
l. although they sell more that way
m. it wasn’t until I gained confidence
n. only when I looked around more closely
o. you might resort to makeup as an attempt to “blend in”
p. you should do whatever you can to be unperceived

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

A


TASK A: ____/8

APTO (≥ 11)
TASK B: ____/6 TOTAL: ____/22
NO APTO (< 11)

TASK C: ____/8

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DISTURBING PROOF: THE ONLINE REVIEW THAT MADE YOU BOOK YOUR HOLIDAY MAY BE FAKE

Having spent 25 years ensuring his restaurant was regarded as one of the best Indians in Oxford, Aziz Rahman was
understandably proud of its reputation. So when he learned someone had described the establishment as serving “tasteless food” in
a “cold” atmosphere, he was determined to get to the bottom of the complaint. As it turned out, the same mystery “diner” had
something to say about no fewer than four other curry houses in the city. In reviews posted online, all were criticized for their ordinary
food and sloppy service and given only one star on influential travel website TripAdvisor.
Knowing how important good customer ratings are to attracting business, Mr Rahman was immediately suspicious. Not only
were all the reviews posted on the same day in August but all also recommended a rival establishment as better.
Complaints were lodged with TripAdvisor who, after an investigation, pulled the reviews. But Mr Rahman, 50, remains
unhappy. He says he does not blame the rival restaurant for what happened but he is critical of TripAdvisor for allowing such
blatantly false reviews to be posted in the first place.
“Like all restaurants, we have become more reliant on these reviews than ever,” said Mr Rahman. “In a city like Oxford that
has lots of tourists, people want to find a good place to eat. They rely on these reviews and their ratings. But there is no responsibility
for anyone making these reports. It is a huge problem.”
And it is a problem that touches just about every aspect of modern life. Today, log on to the internet and it is possible to find
reviews for everything from hotels to hospitals, from tradesmen to teachers. And their influence is enormous. Every year a staggering
£23 billion of UK consumer spending is influenced by online reviews. Half of all adults in the UK - some 25 million people – use them.
The younger the person, the more important the reviews are to their buying decisions. Furthermore, reviews directly affect where a
business will be listed on search engines like Google. Put simply, the more reviews there are, the higher up it will appear.
People trust the reviews because they believe they are unbiased and have been written by ordinary consumers like
themselves. While that is true for the majority, there is growing evidence that individuals and companies are cheating the system –
upping their ratings by posting positive reviews for themselves or damaging the reputations of rivals with negative ones.
In fact, an entire industry has grown up dedicated to generating false reviews for cash. People want to believe these online
reviews come from genuine people but often they are not. According to industry experts, the market for fake reviews is booming.
Across the world – India and Indonesia are particular hotspots- companies have been set up to produce fake reviews on demand by
the thousands. These can be used to help push firms to the top of search engines, attack rivals or simply hide bad reviews.
Online, customer-generated ratings also have a direct impact on what a hotel or restaurant can charge. It is a fact that when
restaurants increased their ranking by one star on leading customer review site Yelp, earnings increased between five and nine per
cent.
The phenomenon of paid-for, fake reviews is something many restaurant marketing directors know too well. “What these
people do is contact you and say that it will cost £3 per review, they then suggest we should do a contract of maybe 50 reviews over
a year and that they will make sure those reviews pop up over the course of that year from different accounts.”
Of course, leading review websites insist they are doing everything they can to erase fake reviews. TripAdvisor claims they
aggressively pursue individuals and companies who attempt this type of “organised fraud”. In the first half of 2015 they already had a
team of over 300 content specialists using sophisticated tools and techniques to catch fraud. Their users can also report suspicious
activity to them. Between their teams, their tools and their community, they guarantee they are very effective at maintaining the
integrity of the reviews on TripAdvisor.
The trouble is keeping up with the fakers. In order to give themselves credibility, they often set up false profiles and accounts
using names and photographs harvested from real people’s Facebook pages. Earlier this year, a BBC investigation found that a
review singing the praises of a British loan site had been posted in the name of an American woman killed in a car crash. Terribly, the
profile photograph accompanying it had been taken from her memorial website.
As well as legal action to act as a discouragement, there are those who believe that more should be done by the review
companies to authenticate the identity of those leaving reviews.
In Oxford, Mr Rahman believes one way to do this would be to insist that anyone writing a review also posts an image or scan
of their receipt as proof. This way, only those who have sampled the meal they are commenting on or the product they are reviewing,
would be able to do so.
TripAdvisor says they have considered, and rejected, such verification options. They have decided to stick to their current
model for one reason: the volume of opinions provides the most in-depth coverage of consumer experience, and is the model
consumers prefer.
Source: The Daily Mail

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WHY DO GIRLS WEAR MAKEUP?

From the soot-rimmed eyes of the ancient Egyptians to the lead paint worn by the Elizabethans, women
and girls have experimented with cosmetics throughout history.
__0__ and you’ll receive myriad responses. Some will say it makes them feel more confident, that they
don’t feel completely “done” without it; others will say they love experimenting with looks and colours as a
way of expressing themselves, that there’s a fun, theatrical element to face paint that allows them to
channel different personalities and aesthetics
But just as there are women and girls who wear makeup completely for themselves, there are those who
__1__, or who feel as though they are unacceptable without it. Makeup can be a mask you hide behind
that gets you ready to face the world, or something you use to attract a partner, to intimidate, shock and
amaze. It is used as part of religious or cultural rituals. It can mask your insecurities or be used __2__.
Makeup is so ubiquitous in our society that for a woman to go without it has become, in some cases, a
statement – __3__. Female celebrities feature on the Daily Mail beneath headlines such as “Jennifer
Lopez, 46, dares to expose her naked face”. Boybands, meanwhile, cynically tap into the anxiety young
women feel by claiming that they love you just as you are.
Perhaps, then, a useful question to ask is not “Why do women wear makeup?” but “Why do women wear
makeup when most men don’t?”
For some feminists, the question can be answered by simply muttering “patriarchy”. Certainly, women
receive messages from an early age that encourage us to believe that one of our primary functions is to
be decorative and therefore appealing to men. Go into any newsagent’s and you’ll see little girls’
magazines that come with free gifts of lipgloss and nail varnish. Parents buy their daughters disembodied
dolls’ heads to practise on. Considering the extent to which makeup is viewed __4__ , to impose it upon
girls so young is arguably more than a little creepy.
Cosmetics companies often rely on women’s insecurities __5__: “maybe she’s born with it, but probably
not, so buy this concealer”. Its function as a means for covering up unwanted flaws or “unsightly”
blemishes is impressed upon us again and again. Many women spend hundreds of pounds each year on
cosmetics, __6__ .
As such, the message that your natural beauty is never enough is socialised into us very young. I first
started to wear makeup as a young teenager because I believed my freckles were ugly. My mother never
encouraged me to wear makeup until – concerned about the fade-out cream I was using in an attempt to
bleach out my freckles – she thankfully steered me in the direction of foundation. At the time, covering up
my freckles made me feel better about myself, more in keeping with the “type” of girl I believed boys went
for. And __7__ , and started seeing more varied portrayals in the mainstream media, that I began to
wonder if freckles were really so hideous after all.
When the vision of beauty you are presented with is largely homogeneous, it’s only natural that __8__ .
Studies repeatedly tell us that men are more attracted to women who wear makeup.
Perhaps, then, when it comes to makeup, we are our own worst enemies, believing that the world wants to
see us in a certain way when in actual fact we’re fine the way we are. Why do women wear makeup? You
could say it’s a pinch of patriarchy, a dusting of sex, a handful of fun, and a whole layer of misplaced
insecurity.
Source: The Guardian

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