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(ges. SN SS psucaapRAcricn- PARTE 6 De LAPRIMERAPRUEEA 4mm ynucy CUERPO DE PROFESORES DE ENSENANDA SECUNOMTIA S00 on NNN ESPECIALIDAD: INGLES -O11- Waring ‘You must do, after reading the text, ONLY three out of the si fallowing exercises (in case You answer more than 3, only the fist three you have dene will be considered). Give all your answers ONLY in English except in the exercise § conceming the Spanish translation. Wie ‘roperly the numbers of the exercises you have chosen. You must also enumerate al he pages you hand in, ‘Your score will be divided by 3, so if you get 30 points, your fine! score vill be 10. Remember that you need at least 2.5 as a final score inthis test so #! into account together wih the final score in the part B. AGREENER ciTy “For a city routinely descibed as one ofthe most besutful in the word, Para i ody lacking in green spaces. Compared with the ofner great cites of Europe, is provision of put Parks verges on the meagre, and none are used by local residents wih the some tegulatiy os Say, London's Hyde Park. So, in the past decade, Parisians have statted 12 lake Touring ‘matters ito thelr own hands via a new movement Known as “jardins poragés shared garden) Inspired by the 18th-century Parisian tradition of workers’ gardens, wherein plots of nd ney factories would be collectively tended by employees, enthusiasts of “erdins paviagés" search for forgotten strips of real estate and transform them into small areen oxces, ‘The first area to get the partagés treatment ~ there are some 70 community gardens in Paris now — was at Cignancour, an unloved io man’s land on the northern border of the aly, This 's Pats at its gitiest, where the boulevards begin to fray into the tower blocks of the outskirts, {There is minimal green spaca here, which made it an ideal target for a gfour of green ingered local residents, A disused railway track runs undemeath the main thoroughfare —a decade soot was a rubbish dump. Now, itis a folage-hooded avenue lined with lower beds. Each bed tae chalk board showing who is responsible fr its cultvalion ~ school, cafés, elplous groups, The plants have even reclaimed the raitvay track itself ~ the old signal lights are wrapped Ia stems, and leaves." 1 Denis Loubaton is the president of Les Amis des Jardins du Ruisseau, the group resbonsible for this metamorphosis. ‘The area was abandoned for years, and a place for garbage, he says. ‘But we saw the potential, and as we have started to develop i ithas become {an important place for the local community. We have more than 200 members, who take collective ‘esponsibifty but you don't need to be a member to use the garden. I's for everyone." His point is proven by a stroll through the greenery. At one end, a group of middle-aged women sit eating cake. At the other, a gang of teenage lads are playing cards around a trestle table. nthe middle, locally grown vegetables are for sale, An unloved crack in the urban spravd has been fumed into a fulcrum for a community, ‘Yet wifat happens in a place such as central Paris, where every spare yard of real estate has already been developed? The answer at Musée du Guai Branly. in the shadow of the Eifel ‘Tower, is to go up. The museum opened in 2006 to exhibit the art from Affica, Oceania, Asia and the Americas that struggles to get into more established museums, and the vall of the building ‘thal faces the Seine has been cullvated into a vertical garden. Pavement to roo its covered with plants, al growing at right angles. Press a hand against the buling and incload of hard concrete you fee! sof, damp soil. Designed by experimental botanist Patrick Blanc and wstered by vertical irgation, the garden is @ surreal solution to Paris's parkland defict ~ a dreamike flash of green stretching to the sky. OS ne BERN, EXERCISE 4 (10 points) ‘Look atthe folowing words which are in bold inthe ex, using the context, expla the messing of exch fone ve just the meaning in this particular conten, (6 paints) and we 2 complex sentence with esc, ‘word but in derent content (5 points). You wil. ints in any of the defialons or sentens ‘which are not English : EXERCISE 2 (10 points) Find words in the text witha similar meaning to the folowing ones (5 pons). Then, write & complex sentence using each word from the txt ina efferent content (Spolns). You wl nts In sny ofthe sentences containing words which are not Enalish 2. STRANGELY bs SUBURES © FELLOWS 4 FRACTURE DiRT ¢ EXERCISE 3 (10 points) Compete the folowing sentences using proper words tom the text. You cen only use each word once, (@ paints each one} 28, Recently, we have seen lovely fliage along the. al ever the outst ». This neighbourhood became a rel ‘8 decade ago when the rain factories close sown ©. The great palaces in Europe are wellknown forthe hh in thoi gardens, 4. When his grandfather passed away, his parents decided how to sel the family to avoid paying tres. «¢. Regular local eden are given preferential Docause they provide 80% of ‘the cultivation, EXERCISE 4 (10 points) “The verbs GET, MAKE, RUN, TAKE and TURN appear in the text. You ae given one phxasal verb {tom each verb. Explain one meaning of exch phrasal vars (5 points) and vile a comlex sentence using Sa one (© Points). You wil get 0 points in any of the definitions or sentences containing words whlch are not Enaish, 2. GET AY: MAKE UP: © RUNACROSS: TAKE OVER «. TURN SOMEONESOMETHING DOWN EXERCISE § (10 points) Teanslato into Spanish the fist and second paragraphs ofthe text (writen within *.") ‘The words in tales den have to bs translated. EXERCISE 6 (10 points) Nowadays, “there are a fot of communities evolve about keeping their envionment dean and free of pollaion. Do you think this work should have been done by volunteers or by the government? Jusiy your ‘answer (wie at least 200 but not more than 250 words), Each word written nother languages but E bo penalized with 4 PROGRAMACION FRESENTACION OS) DOCUMENTS ST EFERSATT opr pret 2 es aS (ded) sono rie singosoas ()o0n2uN0> serumuduos Sepeppede> 3p opouesap 2 (Peppong sowequpez0i sepepwDe “oer an eens aL emunonuss yousyaid avainn

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