ARMY POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES

Distance Education Mode PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH

SEMESTER: SEPT 2012 - JAN 2013 HAND-IN ACTIVITY:TWO
CYCLE FOUR / LEVELS: VII-VIII

Please, do not change or modify the format of this Hand-in Activity in any form.

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Name: Ricardo Villafuerte Date: 24/12/2012
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I. LISTENING SECTION (10 POINTS)

A. Listen to your CD R7.2 and answer the questions

1. Why was Ian upset about his first day back at work?
Because He has only been away for a week and there were over 300 emails in his inbox.
2. What does Molly use the Internet for?
She uses for getting emails and shopping.
3. What does Olivia buy on the Internet?
She buys Books and CDs on the Internet.
4. What is the game Ian likes to play on the Internet?
He likes to play a role-play game fighting evil monster.
5. What does Olivia uses the web cam for?
She uses the webcam to keep in touch with her family in the States.
B. Listen to and write the name of the person who said the following phrases. Clive, Molly,
Ian or Olivia.

6.I just download music straight onto my MP3 player _Clive_

7.I’ve never sort of found the time to work out how to do it __Ian__

8.I often come home and find he’s been sitting in the study for hours _Olivia_

9.Really? Wow! _Molly_

10.A lot of my family lives in the States _Olivia_

II. VOCABULARY SECTION (10 POINTS)

A. Match the words with the definitions

11. Setback __c___

12. Walkout __e___

13. Breakup __b___

14. Letdown __d___

15. Outbreak __a___

a. The sudden beginning of something dangerous or unpleasant

b. Separation into different pieces

c. Something that delays or stops something else happening

d. A disappointment

e. When people leave something in protest

B. Choose the correct idiom

16. Are you thrilled to bits / having a rough time when someone says you look like a film star?

17. When was the last time you served you right / were on top of the world?

18. When was the last time you got carried away / got your act together and spend too much
money?

19.If you are in two minds /are on top of the world about something, how do you decide?

20. Do you keep an eye on / get carried away by your bank account to avoid identity theft?
III. GRAMMAR SECTION (20 POINTS)

A. Put the verbs into the correct tense in the following conversation.
(Present Perfect Simple or Present Perfect Progressive

21. A: I (call) ‘ve been calling for you for half an hour. Where have you been?

22. B: I (tidy) ‘ve been tiding up the shed in the garden.

23. A: (you / find)Have you found a box with old photos there?

24. I (look) ‘ve been looking for it for ages.

25. B: I (discover / not) haven’t discovered it yet,

26. but I (work / not) haven’t been working for a long time yet. I have just come in to eat
something.

B. Use "should have or shouldn’t have”. Read each sentence carefully before you write your
answer.

27. She eats hamburgers and drinks sodas every day. She shouldn’t have eaten so much!

28. You shouldn’t have called her. She got so depressed.

29. They should have cut these trees before. They caused such a serious accident.

30. He shouldn’t have married so young. He needed to travel more!

31. You should have seen the doctor. You look so bad.

32. They shouldn’t have let their son go out at night, he got in trouble!
C. Choose the right answer.

33. __a___ foods may decrease the risk of heart attack.

a. Such b. So c. So much

34. The analysts were surprised by __c___ strong prices in the market.

a. so b. such c. so much

35. ___c__ paper is used nowadays that we are gradually losing our forests.

a. so b. such c. so much

36. Professor Jansen's data was __a___ crucial to our theory that we could not have succeeded
without it.

a. so b. such a c. so much

37. I have had ___c__ problems with my project that I have decided to start over.

a. so b. such c. so many

D. Make a cross “X” on the right answer.

38. I'm going ............ at the new hairdresser's

a. to get my hair cut X b. to cut my hair c. to gotten my hair cut

39. She needs to........

a. have her car repairs b. have her car repaired X c. has his car repairing
40. I really must get ....... the central heating

a. somebody to fix X b. somebody fix c. somebody fixing

READING SECTION (20 POINTS)

I. Reading No. 1

The Winepressby Josef Essberger

"You don't have to be French to enjoy a decent red wine," Charles Jousselin de Gruse used to tell his
foreign guests whenever he entertained them in Paris. "But you do have to be French to recognize one,"
he would add with a laugh.After a lifetime in the French diplomatic corps, the Count de Gruse lived with
his wife in an elegant townhouse on Quai Voltaire. He was a likeable man, cultivated of course, with a
well deserved reputation as a generous host and an amusing raconteur.

This evening's guests were all European and all equally convinced that immigration was at the root of
Europe's problems. Charles de Gruse said nothing. He had always concealed his contempt for such
ideas. And, in any case, he had never much cared for these particular guests.The first of the red
Bordeaux was being served with the veal, and one of the guests turned to de Gruse."Come on, Charles,
it's simple arithmetic. Nothing to do with race or colour. You must've had bags of experience of this sort of
thing. What d'you say?""Yes, General.Bags!"

Without another word, de Gruse picked up his glass and introduced his bulbous, winey nose. After a
moment he looked up with watery eyes."A truly full-bodied Bordeaux," he said warmly, "a wine among
wines."The four guests held their glasses to the light and studied their blood-red contents. They all agreed
that it was the best wine they had ever tasted.One by one the little white lights along the Seine were
coming on, and from the first-floor windows you could see the brightly lit bateaux-mouches passing
through the arches of the Pont du Carrousel. The party moved on to a dish of game served with a more
vigorous claret."Can you imagine," asked de Gruse, as the claret was poured, "that there are people who
actually serve wines they know nothing about?""Really?" said one of the guests, a German
politician."Personally, before I uncork a bottle I like to know what's in it.""But how? How can anyone be
sure?"

"I like to hunt around the vineyards. Take this place I used to visit in Bordeaux. I got to know the
winegrower there personally. That's the way to know what you're drinking.""A matter of pedigree,
Charles," said the other politician."This fellow," continued de Gruse as though the Dutchman had not
spoken, "always gave you the story behind his wines. One of them was the most extraordinary story I
ever heard. We were tasting, in his winery, and we came to a cask that made him frown. He asked if I
agreed with him that red Bordeaux was the best wine in the world. Of course, I agreed. Then he made the
strangest statement."'The wine in this cask,' he said, and there were tears in his eyes, 'is the best vintage
in the world. But it started its life far from the country where it was grown.'"
De Gruse paused to check that his guests were being served."Well?" said the Dutchman.DeGruse and
his wife exchanged glances."Do tell them, monchéri," shesaid.DeGruse leaned forwards, took another sip
of wine, and dabbed his lips with the corner of his napkin. This is the story he told them.At the age of
twenty-one, Pierre - that was the name he gave the winegrower - had been sent by his father to spend
some time with his uncle in Madagascar. Within two weeks he had fallen for a local girl called Faniry, or
"Desire" in Malagasy. You could not blame him. At seventeen she was ravishing. In the Malagasy sunlight
her skin was golden. Her black, waist-length hair, which hung straight beside her cheeks, framed large,
fathomless eyes. It was a genuine coup de foudre, for both of them. Within five months they were
married. Faniry had no family, but Pierre's parents came out from France for the wedding, even though
they did not strictly approve of it, and for three years the young couple lived very happily on the island of
Madagascar. Then, one day, a telegram came from France. Pierre's parents and his only brother had
been killed in a car crash. Pierre took the next flight home to attend the funeral and manage the vineyard
left by his father.

Faniry followed two weeks later. Pierre was grief-stricken, but with Faniry he settled down to running the
vineyard. His family, and the lazy, idyllic days under a tropical sun, were gone forever. But he was very
happily married, and he was very well-off. Perhaps, he reasoned, life in Bordeaux would not be so
bad.But he was wrong. It soon became obvious that Faniry was jealous. In Madagascar she had no
match. In France she was jealous of everyone. Of the maids.Of the secretary. Even of the peasant girls
who picked the grapes and giggled at her funny accent. She convinced herself that Pierre made love to
each of them in turn.She started with insinuations, simple, artless ones that Pierre hardly even
recognized. Then she tried blunt accusation in the privacy of their bedroom. When he denied that, she
resorted to violent, humiliating denouncements in the kitchens, the winery, the plantations. The angel that
Pierre had married in Madagascar had become a termagant, blinded by jealousy. Nothing he did or said
could help. Often, she would refuse to speak for a week or more, and when at last she spoke it would only
be to scream yet more abuse or swear again her intention to leave him. By the third vine-harvest it was
obvious to everyone that they loathed each other.

One Friday evening, Pierre was down in the winery, working on a new electric winepress. He was alone.
The grape-pickers had left. Suddenly the door opened and Faniry entered, excessively made up. She
walked straight up to Pierre, flung her arms around his neck, and pressed herself against him. Even
above the fumes from the pressed grapes he could smell that she had been drinking."Darling," she
sighed, "what shall we do?"He badly wanted her, but all the past insults and humiliating scenes welled up
inside him. He pushed her away."But, darling, I'm going to have a baby.""Don't be absurd. Go to bed!
You're drunk. And take that paint off. It makes you look like a tart."Faniry's face blackened, and she threw
herself at him with new accusations. He had never cared for her. He cared only about sex. He was
obsessed with it. And with white women. But the women in France, the white women, they were the tarts,
and he was welcome to them. She snatched a knife from the wall and lunged at him with it. She was in
tears, but it took all his strength to keep the knife from his throat. Eventually he pushed her off, and she
stumbled towards the winepress. Pierre stood, breathing heavily, as the screw of the press caught at her
hair and dragged her in. She screamed, struggling to free herself. The screw bit slowly into her shoulder
and she screamed again. Then she fainted, though whether from the pain or the fumes he was not sure.
He looked away until a sickening sound told him it was over. Then he raised his arm and switched the
current off.

The guests shuddered visibly and de Gruse paused in his story."Well, I won't go into the details at table,"
he said. "Pierre fed the rest of the body into the press and tidied up. Then he went up to the house, had a
bath, ate a meal, and went to bed. The next day, he told everyone Faniry had finally left him and gone
back to Madagascar. No-one was surprised."He paused again. His guests sat motionless, their eyes
turned towards him."Of course," he continued, "Sixty-five was a bad year for red Bordeaux. Except for
Pierre's. That was the extraordinary thing. It won award after award, and nobody could understand
why."The general's wife cleared her throat."But, surely," she said, "you didn't taste it?""No, I didn't taste it,
though Pierre did assure me his wife had lent the wine an incomparable aroma.""And you didn't, er, buy
any?" asked the general."How could I refuse? It isn't every day that one finds such a pedigree."There was
a long silence. The Dutchman shifted awkwardly in his seat, his glass poised midway between the table
and his open lips. The other guests looked around uneasily at each other. They did not understand."But
look here, Gruse," said the general at last, "you don't mean to tell me we're drinking this damned woman
now, d'you?"DeGruse gazed impassively at the Englishman."Heaven forbid, General," he said slowly.
"Everyone knows that the best vintage should always come first."

Now, answer the questions (1point each)

41. Where were Count de Gruse's dinner guests from?

They were from Europe.

42. What did Count de Gruse think of his guests?

Charles de Gruse said nothing. He had always concealed his contempt for such ideas. And, in any case,
he had never much cared for these particular guests,
43. Which of the following describes Count de Gruse's appearance?
He was a likeable man, cultivated of course, with a well-deserved reputation as a generous host and an
amusing raconteur.

44. According to the Count's story, what did Pierre and Faniry own?
They lived in an island of Madagascar.
45. Why was Faniry a jealous woman?
In Madagascar she had no match. In France she was jealous of everyone
46. What did Faniry tell Pierre that she might do?
She would refuse to speak for a week or more, and when at last she spoke it would only be to scream yet
more abuse or swear again her intention to leave him.
47. Why did Faniry stumble towards the winepress?
She was in tears, but it took all his strength to keep the knife from his throat. Eventually he pushed her
off, and she stumbled towards the winepress. Pierre stood, breathing heavily, as the screw of the press
caught at her hair and dragged her in.

48. According to Charles' story, what did Pierre do with his wife's body?
Pierre fed the rest of the body into the press and tidied up.

49. What was distinctive about the wine Pierre made?

That you do have to be French to recognize the wine.
50. Which wine are the guests drinking while the Count is telling his story?
They’re drinking a decent red wine.
II. Reading No. 2
 Reality Television
Reality television is a genre of television programming which, it is claimed, presents unscripted
dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people rather
than professional actors. It could be described as a form of artificial or "heightened"
documentary. Although the genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of
television, the current explosion of popularity dates from around 2000.

Reality television covers a wide range of television programming formats, from game or quiz
shows which resemble the frantic, often demeaning programmes produced in Japan in the 1980s
and 1990s (a modern example is Gaki no tsukai), to surveillance- or voyeurism- focused
productions such as Big Brother.

Critics say that the term "reality television" is somewhat of a misnomer and that such shows
frequently portray a modified and highly influenced form of reality, with participants put in
exotic locations or abnormal situations, sometimes coached to act in certain ways by off-screen
handlers, and with events on screen manipulated through editing and other post-production
techniques.

Part of reality television's appeal is due to its ability to place ordinary people in extraordinary
situations. For example, on the ABC show, The Bachelor, an eligible male dates a dozen women
simultaneously, travelling on extraordinary dates to scenic locales. Reality television also has the
potential to turn its participants into national celebrities, outwardly in talent and performance
programs such as Pop Idol, though frequently Survivor and Big Brother participants also reach
some degree of celebrity.

Some commentators have said that the name "reality television" is an inaccurate description for
several styles of program included in the genre. In competition-based programs such as Big
Brother and Survivor, and other special-living-environment shows like The Real World, the
producers design the format of the show and control the day-to-day activities and the
environment, creating a completely fabricated world in which the competition plays out.
Producers specifically select the participants, and use carefully designed scenarios, challenges,
events, and settings to encourage particular behaviours and conflicts. Mark Burnett, creator of
Survivor and other reality shows, has agreed with this assessment, and avoids the word "reality"
to describe his shows; he has said, "I tell good stories. It really is not reality TV. It really is
unscripted drama."

Now answer the questions, (1point each)

1.In the first line, the writer says 'it is claimed' because
a. they agree with the statement.
b. everyone agrees with the statement.
c. no one agrees with the statement.
d.they want to distance themselves from the statement.

2.Reality television has

a. always been this popular.
b.has been popular since well before 2000
c. has only been popular since 2000.
d. has been popular since approximately 2000.

3. Japan
a.is the only place to produce demeaning TV shows
b.has produced demeaning TV shows copied elsewhere
c. produced Big Brother.
d. invented surveillance focused productions.

4. People have criticised reality television because

a. it is demeaning.
b. it uses exotic locations
c. the name is inaccurate.
d. it shows reality.

5. Reality TV appeals to some because

a. it shows eligible males dating women.
b. it uses exotic locations
c.it shows average people in exceptional circumstances.
d.it can turn ordinary people into celebrities.

6. Pop Idol
a. turns all its participants into celebrities.
b.is more likely to turn its particiapants into celebrities than Big Brother.
c.is less likely to turn its particiapants into celebrities than Big Brother.
d. is a dating show.

7. The term 'reality television' is inaccurate

a. for all programs.
b. just for Big Brother and Survivor.
c. for talent and performance programs.
d. for special-living-environment programs.

8. Producers choose the participants

a. on the ground of talent.
b. only for special-living-environment shows.
c. to create conflict among other things.
d. to make a fabricated world

9. Paul Burnett
a. was a participant on Survivor.
b. is a critic of reality TV.
c.thinks the term 'reality television' is inaccurate.
d. writes the script for Survivor.

10. Shows like Survivor

a. are definitely reality TV.
b. are scripted.
c. have good narratives.
d. are theatre.
WRITING SECTION (2O POINTS)

Read about a “crime” that happened in Ecuador.

*Use reported speech to explain what happened.

*Make sure you answer the following questions: when, where, how, who, etc.

*Use connectors and the appropriate grammar structures

*Write a title

95% of the crimes in Manta are unpunished

The police says that they couldn´t stopped to all the culprits, because there is not civic
collaboration.
The judiciary police of Manabí says that almost half of the 1098 registered crimes in
Manabí from 2008 up to the 2011 were given in Blanket. By This way 95% of the
murders doesn't end up clearing up.
The report of the police headquarters says that the murders take place such as: Manta,
Montecristi and Jaramijó.

The worst crime was carried out in The Gold with 44 deads. The report of the police
says that the authors of this crime were assassins.
These assassins say that they act with different modalities, maintaining the uncertainty
in the citizenship. And in spite of the equipment that the policemen receive the crimes
increase in number every month.

The boss of the police says that the last case is presented in this week. One of the
victims was Johnny Alberto Barzallo Orellana, 26 years old. He received two shots in
the head on the part of two fellows that was circulating in a motorcycle, when Rodrigo
walked for the streets Ugarte and Olmedo, in a place called Pasaje.