A.

    Read the following text about the 2020 super bowl halftime show and choose (X) the
best possible title for it.
1.     The charismatic latin performance in the 2020 super bowl halftime show
2.     The 2020 super bowl halftime show performance, a political criticism
3.     The latin performance takes over the 2020 super bowl halftime show
4.     The Latina super women give 2020 super bowl halftime show a meaning

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By Jon Pareles
Feb. 2, 2020

On the surface, the Super Bowl halftime show by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira was a party: exultant
voices, shaking hips in glittery costumes, irresistible global rhythms. They danced and belted
through a quick-cutting megamix of their hits.
A. (_____). The explosive final segment began with Lopez’s daughter and a choir of children —
some of them in lighted cages — singing Lopez’s “Let’s Get Loud” and a fragment of Bruce
Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.,” as Lopez appeared wrapped in a feathered American flag cape
that reversed to a Puerto Rican flag. It looked like recognition for both Puerto Rico and for the
Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who are brought to America as children.
 
Shakira and Lopez were Latina superwomen, smiling pop conquistadoras backed by phalanxes of
dancers.  B. (_____). Lopez was born in the Bronx but has reveled in her Puerto Rican roots,
recording hits in Spanish and English while also thriving as an actress and a producer. Shakira
made her way from Colombia to international pop stardom, drawing on globally assorted sources,
the Americas, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
Both of them sing most often about romance and desire; both of them use songs and videos to
insist that even with stardom, they are still just “Jenny From the Block” or a Colombian girl-next-door
who dances barefoot in the street. C. (_____).
Lopez and Shakira performed a year after many musicians spurned the N.F.L. over its treatment of
Kaepernick, the quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers who protested racism by kneeling during
the pregame national anthem and was not signed to a team afterward. Last year, Jay-Z’s
entertainment company, Roc Nation, entered a partnership with the N.F.L., including advising on
performers for the halftime show, and joined the N.F.L.’s social justice initiative, Inspire Change.
Shakira is a Roc Nation client; Lopez is not. D. (_____).
 
The N.F.L.’s pregame publicity had announced that there would be more songs than in any
previous halftime show. With two headliners, that meant cramming a whole career into six minutes.
The upside was that each segment was a kaleidoscope of rhythms, a demonstration of how much
Latin (and Afro-Latin) music has contributed to American pop. The downside was that individual
songs barely registered, E. (_____). She showed off the interconnections of Latin music by turning
“Chantaje,” a reggaeton song, into an old-school rumba and pushing “Hips Don’t Lie” toward
samba. She also invoked Arabic and later African rhythms, unwilling to confine herself to one
hemisphere.
Lopez placed herself as a New Yorker from the start, arriving on a skyscraper spire to sing “Jenny
From the Block” and working through strenuous dance routines and wearing skintight leather and
then even less. F. (_____).
And “Let’s Get Loud” — mingled with Shakira’s “Waka Waka”— reached out to a wider world and
more serious concerns than a one-night party. This halftime show was euphoria with a purpose

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Adapted by David Barrero

B. Read the following sentences and decide where they go in the text. Write the numbers on
their corresponding gaps.
1.     Both are multicultural success stories.
2.     Lopez leaned on the dance-club part of her catalog of hits — a reminder that disco, too,
has Latin roots.
3.    Both are also among pop’s most savvy beat-seekers, finding and combining rhythms old
and new to keep fans dancing now.
4.     Yet the halftime show was also a no-nonsense affirmation of Latin pride and cultural
diversity in a political climate where immigrants and American Latinos have been widely
demonized.
5.     But booking them steered the halftime show away from black-and-white racial tensions and
toward the joys of motion and seduction.
6.     Though Shakira let herself linger over two of her best blockbusters: “Whenever, Wherever”
and “Hips Don’t Lie.”
 
C. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Support ALL your answers.
1.     Lopez made a performance highlighting the difficulties children live in the USA.    
________
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2.     Shakira’s music has taken as source rhythms from all over the world.                    ________
_____________________________________________________________________
3.     The protest made by Kaepernick had no consequences for him.                           ________
_____________________________________________________________________
4.     Because of the time, people didn’t get to listen to complete hits from the singers.    
________
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D. Answer the following two questions based on the information from the text. Use your own
words. DO NOT transcribe from the text.
 
1.     What is the author’s intention with the text? Use arguments from the text to support
your answer.
 
 
2.     Why do you think Lopez and Shakira made an emphasis on their Latin roots during
the show? Do you consider them as an example of success?