Departament d’Ensenyament Proves d’accés accles formatius de grav superior de formacié professional inci, -d’onsonyaments d’arts pléstiques i disseny, i d’ensenyaments esporfus 2011 Re Rear eta Lory aa “Dade dei persona spirant ‘Cognoms i nomA. Read the text below and choose the corect answer, (125 naa 025 or ech carat ns ARTHQUAKES! STILL A MYSTERY [At the beginning of last year, G. Giuliani, a technician who was working on an experiment at a national laboratory in Italy, issued an urgent warning that a large farthquake was about to strike the Abruzzo region, The prediction was based on _mesturements he had mace of high level of radon ge presumably relenced frm rake that were belng moved by the pressure ofa coming quake. (On April 6, a magnitude 63 earthquake hit Aquila, in contra aly killing almost 300 people. Me. Gillan claimed recognition for his prediction, which had been ignored by officials. ‘But earthquake experts are skeptical Scientists studied radon asa possible earthauake 10 warning signal as far back as the 1970's, and while they found convincing eases of radon releases before some earthquakes, the cortelations were not strong enough for useful predictions. ‘One example of confusing radon signals occurred in 1979. Two detectors in Southern Caloris, 20 miles apart, measured unusually high levels of radon beginning in the 15 summer, The radon levels then decreased in October, shortly before thre earthquakes struck ‘One earthquake, of magnitude 6.6, occurred 180 mils tothe southeast and the wo smaller ones, of magnitudes 4.1 and 4.2, were 40 miles away. In addition, a radon detector close to one of the smaller earthquakes did not observe high radon level, although It 20 observed a radon drop a few days erle. ‘That eft sclentists confused about how they could construct a prediction based on the radon levels. Data on other gases like carbon dioxide and on electromagnetic emissions that have sometimes been detected before earthquakes ae also confusing ‘To complicate matters, Mr Gillan’ prediction was wrong in time and place. He had 25 predicted that the quake would hit a week earlier Ina town 30 miles away. If officials had acted on his prediction, they would have evacuated the wrong town atthe wrong, Adapted from an article published at Speak Up, no. 291 |. Me Giulian’ prediction was based on 4). information obtald ea laboratory expense >) information obtained on a rocky piece of lad, (©) information obtained analyzing the quantity ofa type of gas. 2. After the earthquake April 6 42), Mr. Giuliani admitted is conelusions were wrong. 2b). Mr. Giuliani asked officials to aceept the validity of his conclusions. (©) Mr. Giulians was not interested inthe opinion of officials. T Baap taastnaltenenen, 2 hadnt cent uc prany ah gue acl ment gun poset as se ais 2Farthquake experts 42) suppor the idea that radon is an indlator of earthquakes 'b) have not found enough evidence to suppor the idea that radon isan indicator of earthquakes, 6) have totally ignored the idea that radon isan indicator of earthquakes. mn 1979 ‘he lve of radon gis diminished and then there were three earthquakes. 1) there were three earthquakes of very similar intensity, 6) there were thre earthquakes but the level of radon gas was stable, According to evidence, 44) Me Giuliant’s predictions had been taken into account, alot of ives would have ben saved, 'b) Me. Giuliani’ prediions were correct chronologically but not geographically. (6) se would have been 4 mistake to take action based on Mr. Glin’ predictions 1B. Choose the correct words definitions (a,b, ord forthe words below as they are used in the text. The words appear in bold type inthe text. (125 mata: 0.25 oo crt ome 1 warning 4) prophecy example 6) instruction d) danger signal presumably 4) apparently} certainly 6) definitely not d) undoubtedly skeptical 4) unconvinced} confused 6) worried 4) surprised 4) numbers by degrees ©) speeds 4) characteristics 42) the material thestuation _c) the gases 1) the scientistsCC. Read the text below and choose the correct answer, (2.30 wa: 0.25 br wch cra ror ‘THE POSTMAN | work as a postman in Nebraska, One day two yeats ago, [drove up toa house witha ‘mailbox! outside. Christy, the divorced woman who lived there, _(2)__outside on the road, She sid she had a story to_(2)__ me. Six months eater, by mistake, |__(3)__ a letter to her __(4)__ had the correct number on it but was addressed to another house ‘withthe same number on different street. She had to go out anyway, so she deelded —(5)__ the letter tothe correct house. The letter was for Stan, a single man? They talked for __(6)__ time and later on he called her. They started.__(7)__ together. —_(@)__Iwas unbappy about delivering? the lete othe wrong person, Iwas pleased that Thad brought these people together Sometime later, a For Sale sign was put in Chrity’s garden; she and Stan got maried and she moved into his house. {A few months late, I saw a For Sale sign in their yard. 1 thought maybe they had separated so I invented an excuse to goto thelr door and check. Christy opened the door and pointed to her enormous stomach. “We're having two babies” she sid, “This house isn't —_()__ now so we have to move” 1 was touched by the thought that one letter was giving two lite people, who were not born _(10)__, the chance olive ‘Adapted from Tre Tales of American Life by Paul Auster 42) was waiting) had waited ¢) were waiting) walt 2, a) talkto ») ay 9 explain a tell 3. a) delivered ——_B) had delivered €) was delivering d) have delivered 4. a) where ») whieh 9 who 4) what 5. a) totake by take 6 king 4) to taking 6. a) atew >) ite 8 some 4 much 7. a) goingout —B) goingoutside ©) goingaway going along. 8. a) Meanwhile) However © But 4) Although 9. a) enough big b) too much big ©) big sufficiently) big enough 10. a) yet by sit already a) ever 2 So ie te ton. 4. Wiite 80-100 words about ONE ofthe following tpl. [Bot 1 You live ina cty where a low-intensity earthquake happened a month ago, while you ‘were in your apartment, Write an e-mail to a fiend desing what you were doing when the earthquake struck, what happened inside your sprtment and how it affected ‘your city, Aig earthquake has struck in a very populated area. Yeu ae a journalist wo works fora local newspaper. Wie an interview with one of thesurvivors. Ask him/her about ‘hat he/she was doing when the earthquake struck and sbout what he/she dd after it