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READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER QUESTIONS 1 TO 7

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Isabel
Allende
Chilean Writer

Personal life
In 1962, Isabel Allende married
firsther
husband, Miguel Frías. They had two children, Paula (born in
1963)and Nicolás (born in 1966). After herrom
divorce
Frías fin 1987, Allende met and married her
second husband, Willie Gordon, but after 27 years together, they divorced in 2015.

In 1982, Allende’s daughter Paula, died from complications of a rare disease*, porphyria, when the girl
was 28 years old. After
her daughter’s death, Allende established the Isabel Allende Foundation in
Paula’s honor.

Allende has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1987, and became* a U.S. citizen in 1993. She
says on her website that she lives “with one footand
in California
the other in Chile.”

Awards
During the course of her career, Allende has received* numerous awards* for her work including the
Chilean National Prize for Literatura (2010) and the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award
for Fiction (2010).
2014
In, President Barack Obama presented Allende with the Presidential medal of
Freedom.

*Glosario:
Disease:
enfermedad
Became:llegó a ser
Has received:
ha recibido
Awards:
premio

1. When did Isabel Allende receive The Chilean national Prize for Literarura?
a. 1962
b. 1966
c. 2010
d. 2014

2. What happened to Isabel in 1993?

a. She divorced from Frías
b. She became a U.S. citizen
c. She married Willie Gordon
d. She received the Presidental medal of Freedom

3. What word can you use to describe a talented writer as Isabel Allende?
A continuación escribe su respuesta en español.
4. According to the text, what book did Isabel Allende write?
A continuación, escribe su respuesta en español.

5. In honor to whom was The Isabel Allende´s Foundation created?

a. Miguel Frías
b. Her second husband
c. Her dead daughter
d. President Barack Obama

6. In the sentence
“Allende´s daughter Paula, died from complications of a rare disease, porphyria”.

What does rare mean?

a. Bad
b. New
c. Strange
d. Famous

7. What does Isabel mean that she lives “with one foot in California and the other in Chile”?
a. She prefers to live in Chile
b. She receives awards in both places
c. She feels better living in San Francisco
d. She feels the same way about both places.

8. Look at the picture:

What material do you have to recycle in the container?

a. Batteries
b. Magazines
c. Plastic bottles
d. Banana peels
 READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER QUESTIONS 9 TO 11

Araucaria araucana
is an evergreen* tree growing– to
151metres in diameter and
30- 40
metres in height*. Araucaria araucana is described as a living fossil, because of the longevity of this
species. It is alto the national three of Chile.

It was named Pinus araucana by Juan Ignacio Molina in 1782. In 1873, after several further
redescription, Karl Heinrich Emil published the combination Araucaria araucana. The name araucana
is derived from the native Araucanians who used (seeds)*
the nuts
of the tree in Chile. A group of
Araucanians living in the Andes, the Pehuenches, owe their name to their diet based n araucaria
seeds. Pehuenches means Araucaria and che means people in Mapudungun.

*Glosario:
Evergreen:
de hoja perenne
Height:
altura
Nuts (seeds)
: nueces (semillas)

9. Why is the Araucaria araucana described as a living fossil?

a. Because of its height
b. Because it is a national tree
c. Because it is an evergreen tree
d. Because of the longevity of this species.

10. Who gave the first name to this tree?

a. The Pechuenches
b. Karl Heinrich Emil
c. People in the Andes
d. Juan Ignacio Molina

11. According to the text, what do Pehuenches eat on their diet? A continuación, escribe su respuesta en español.
 READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER QUESTIONS 12 TO 17

One at a time, 33
trapped Chilean
miners got their
freedom

Theysurvived 69 days
underground*
--longer than any
other miners in history

Mario Sepulveda Espina, one of the miners, hugged his wife after he was rescued. An hour earlier, Florencio
Avalos, 31, married
with two children, was the first member of the group to be saved.

The miners were retrieved* one at a time with

-made
a custom
capsule, the Phoenix. It took about one hour for
each journey into the mine and back. The third rescued miner,ached
Juan Illanes,
the surface
re before 3 a.m.
local time.

The first paramedic stepped into the capsule at around 11:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Many of the miners’ family
members stayed at nearby “Camp Hope” since they heard ndonthat
August
the 33
22men survived the rock
collapse 17 days earlier.

Many local reporters an reporters all around the world covered this event and even a Hollywood movie was
created from this incident.

*Glosario:
Underground:bajo tierra
Were retreived
:fueron extraídos / sacados a la superficie

12.What is the text about?

a. A camp hope
b. A rescuing operation
c. Different ways of rescuing people
d. The moment when the rocks collapsed

13. How many days did the miner stay underground?

a. 17
b. 24
c. 31
d. 69

14. Who stepped into the capsule alt around 11:15 p.m.?
a. A miner
b. A reporter
c. A paramedic
d. A family member

15. According to the text, who was rescued first? A continuación, escriba su respuesta en español.

16. Why did the family members stay at the nearby “Camp Hope”? A continuación, escribe su respuesta en
español. __________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
17. What was created from this incident?
a. A new mine
b. New hope camps
c. A Hollywood movie
d. Movies around the world

READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER QUESTIONS 18 TO 22

Do animals have feelings?

Most pet owners think animals feelings

Mollythe dog and Whiskers the cat feel angry, depressed neglected, happy, even jealous and
guilty.

Many scientist however skeptical*

are about giving animals the full range of emotions that
humans feel. Part of the problem is that it is impossible to prove that even a human being is
feeling happy or sad. In fact*, it is only because we observe body language and n facial expressio
that we can deduce it. And of course humans express the motion with language

However, most researchers do agree that many creatures experience fear. Some scientists
define this as a primary emotion
.

*Glosario:
Sceptical
:esceptico
In fact
:de hecho

18. According to the text, what primary emotion is experienced by animals?

a. Happiness
b. Jealousy
c. Guilt
d. Fear

19. What are many scientists skeptical about?

a. Humans can feel happy or sad
b. Many creatures experience fear
c. Humans expressing their emotions
d. Giving animals the full range of human emotions

20. What can we deduce from human being facial expression?

a. What a person in feeling
b. What a primal emotion is
c. What an animal is experimenting
d. What opinion some pet owner have

21. According to the text, how do humans express the emotion? A continuación, escribe su respuesta en español

22. How do you think a dog can communicate its emotions? A continuación, escribe su respuesta en español.
23. Which sign is asking you to go slowly?

A B. C. D.

24. Which sign says “do not interrupt”?

A
A
A
A
A
A
A
B. C. D.

25. Which sign means “do not leave your care here”?

A. B. C. D.