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The document discusses how cartel censorship of journalists has spread from towns and cities across Mexico to Mexico City. Journalists in other areas now self-censor and avoid detailed cartel reporting due to threats of violence. One of Mexico's strongest cartels has now silenced the press in Mexico City as well.

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Lengua Extranjera: Inglés. Propuesta 3 (Option A) /2014 1

The document discusses how cartel censorship of journalists has spread from towns and cities across Mexico to Mexico City. Journalists in other areas now self-censor and avoid detailed cartel reporting due to threats of violence. One of Mexico's strongest cartels has now silenced the press in Mexico City as well.

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Pruebas

de Acceso a enseanzas
LENGUA
universitarias oficiales de grado
EXTRANJERA: EJERCICIO
Mayores de 25 aos
INGLS 2 pginas
Castilla y Len
CONVOCATORIA 2014

OPTION A

THE EXTRAORDINARY SCIENCE OF ADDICTIVE JUNK FOOD


Bob Drane was the companys vice president for new business strategy and development when
Oscar Mayer tapped him to try to find some way to reposition bologna and other troubled meats
that were declining in popularity and sales. In 1985, when Drane began working on the project,
his orders were to figure out how to contemporize what weve got.
Dranes first move was to try to zero in not on what Americans felt about processed meat but on
what Americans felt about lunch. He organized focus-group sessions with the people most
responsible for buying bologna mothers and as they talked, he realized the most pressing
issue for them was time. Working moms strove to provide healthful food, of course, but they
spoke with real passion and at length about the morning crush, that nightmarish dash to get
breakfast on the table and lunch packed and kids out the door. He summed up their remarks for
me like this: Its awful. I am scrambling around. My kids are asking me for stuff. Im trying to
get myself ready to go to the office. I go to pack these lunches, and I dont know what Ive got.
What the moms revealed to him, Drane said, was a gold mine of disappointments and
problems.
QUESTIONS

1. Translate the following paragraph into Spanish (4 points).

Working moms strove to provide healthful food, of course, but they spoke with real passion
and at length about the morning crush, that nightmarish dash to get breakfast on the table
and lunch packed and kids out the door. Drane summed up their remarks for me like this:
Its awful. I am scrambling around.

2. Read the text and answer the questions. Use your own words. Answers will be assessed
from 0 to 1 (2 points as a whole).

a) Why was Drane looking for a new business strategy?

b) What was Dranes first move?

3. Complete the following sentences. Use the appropriate form of thee word in brackets
when given. Answers will be assessed from 0 to 0.5 (4 points as a whole).

In 1988, Yoplait brand ___________ (1. transform) traditional unsweetened breakfast


yogurt (2.) ________ a veritable dessert. It now had twice as (3.) __________ sugar per
serving (4.) _________ General Mills marshmallow cereal Lucky Charms. And yet,
because of yogurts well-tended image as a wholesome snack, sales of Yoplait (5. be)
_______ soaring with annual revenue topping $500 million. (6. embolden) _________ by
the success, the companys development wing pushed even harder, inventing a Yoplait
variation that came in a squeezable tube perfect for kids. They called it Go-Gurt and
rolled it out (7. national) _________ in the weeks before the C.E.O. meeting. (By years
end, it would (8. hit) ___________ $100 million in sales.)

Lengua extranjera: Ingls. Propuesta 3 (Option A)/2014 1


Pruebas de Acceso a enseanzas
LENGUA
universitarias oficiales de grado
EXTRANJERA: EJERCICIO
Mayores de 25 aos
INGLS 2 pginas
Castilla y Len
CONVOCATORIA 2014

OPTION B

CARTEL CENSORSHIP REACHES MEXICO CITY


Like an unstoppable tsunami, the wave of drug-related censorship that has enveloped thousands
of journalists in Mexico has reached the capital city, long a bastion of relatively open crime
reporting, according to a report released Wednesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Since former President Felipe Calderon declared war on Mexicos criminal syndicates seven
years ago, reporters in the provinces have adapted to the new rules of the game: no detailed
reports on cartel activity, no mention of top echelon drug leaders, no serious investigations into
executions. In hundreds of towns and cities across Mexico, journalists can do little more than
regurgitate vague official press releases. For those who stray, threats, kidnappings, beatings and
murder are not uncommon. According to Article 19, a press freedom group, 50 reporters have
been killed since Calderon took office on December 2006.

But until recently, Mexico City-based journalists had largely been spared from the cartel
demands that created a self-imposed censorship for most of the country. They often wrote about
criminal organizations without fearing for their lives and the city itself was a bubble of relative
calm. Now thats changed. One of Mexicos strongest cartels has silenced the press there.

QUESTIONS

1. Translate the following paragraph into Spanish (4 points).


Until recently, Mexico City-based journalists had largely been spared from the cartel demands
that created a self-imposed censorship for most of the country. They often wrote about criminal
organizations without fearing for their lives and the city itself was a bubble of relative calm.
Now thats changed. One of Mexicos strongest cartels has silenced the press there.

2. Read the text and answer the questions. Use your own words. Answers will be assessed
from 0 to 1 (2 points as a whole).
a) Whats new in Mexico City?

b) Why do journalists repeat official press releases in towns and cities across Mexico?

3. Complete the following sentences. Use the appropriate form of the word in brackets
when given. Answers will be assessed from 0 to 0.5 each (4 points as a whole).
After arriving __________ (1.) Neza - a city of over 1 million people 10 miles southeast of Mexico
City - Familia Michoacana first ensured its monopoly over drug sales. Then, its members
__________ (2. begin) to kidnap and extort, roaming the city in big SUVs and threatening police
officers from behind rolled down, blacked-out windows. In the process, the report noted, they
infiltrated the police, __________ (3. make) it impossible for the mayor of Neza __________ (4.)
protect his people. Or the journalists who cover it. To stay alive in Neza, journalists __________ (5.
simple) stop __________ (6. tell) the public what the cartel __________ (7. not want) the public to
know, OConnor wrote. Its not only cartels that are intimidating Nezas reporters into silence. The
citys police are also censoring journalists in __________ (8.) attempt to kill reports that make them
look incompetent or corrupt.

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