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UNIVERSIDADES DE ANDALUCÍA

LENGUA
PRUEBA DE ACCESO Y ADMISIÓN A LA EXTRANJERA (Inglés)
UNIVERSIDAD
CURSO 2016-2017

Instrucciones: a) Duración: 1 h.30m. b) No se permite el uso de diccionario. c) La puntuación de las preguntas está
indicada en las mismas. d) Los alumnos deberán realizar completa una de las dos opciones A o B, sin poder
mezclar las respuestas.

OPTION _: WELCOME TO LAS DALIAS IBIZA HIPPY MARKET


1 On 4th November 1954, farmer and carpenter Joan Marí opened a roadside bar for fellow residents of Sant
2 Carles. The success of the opening party took everyone by surprise and a grand total of 6,600 pesetas (about
3 €40.00) was taken. 1954 Spain was a grey place but, that summer, the island was discovered by celebrities like
4 Rainier of Monaco, all fascinated by its exuberant beauty. Mass tourism had not yet arrived.
5 Throughout the 50s, the success of Las Dalias soared. The story even goes that the Priest of Sant Carles started
6 offering movies, in an effort to tempt his parishioners away from the bar and the dancing, and back to the church!
7 During the 60s the first “peluts” (as hippies were known) arrived escaping from call-up for the Vietnam War. Soon
8 they found their natural paradise: flowers in the hair, the counter-culture etc. The island enjoyed a freedom unheard-
9 of in the rest of Spain. At Las Dalias, one day it was flamenco and sangria, the next, dozens of fervent fans of The
10 Doors or Janis Joplin.
11 In 1985, Las Dalias Market opened with just five stalls. Today, there are almost 200 stalls and around 20,000
12 people descend on the market every Saturday during the summer season. The stalls are set out in the shade of the
13 trees, and sell all manner of clothing, jewellery, CDs, bags, ornaments, and fabrics, to name just a few. There is also
14 live music, mime acts, food and drinks, etc.
15 This is still one of the favourite meeting places for the modern-day "hippies" and a great place to spend a day
16 during your visit to Ibiza!

I * COMPREHENSION (4 points)
CHOOSE AND WRITE THE CORRECT OPTION (A, B, C or D). (0.5 points each)
1. According to the text, when Joan Marí opened the bar…
(a) no one could expect it was going to be so trendy. (b) many celebrities were invited to the event.
(c) he took advantage of the great deal of tourists that were already coming to Ibiza. (d) free drinks were given away.
2. Nowadays, a massive amount of…
(a) visitors come by to the market every weekend. (b) products are purchased at the market every weekend.
(c) hippies drink sangria and dance flamenco every weekend. (d) people enjoy all the market has to offer every summer.
ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT,
OR USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (0.5 points each)
3. The priest of San Carlos tried to get the locals away from Las Dalias.
4. Some “peluts” rejected to join the war in Vietnam.
5. Life in Ibiza was quite the same as in the peninsula.
6. You can sunbathe while you’re buying around the market.
7. FIND IN THE TEXT: (0.5 points)
7.1. ONE SYNONYM FOR “enthusiastic” (adjective).
7.2. ONE OPPOSITE FOR “failure” (noun).
8. FIND IN THE TEXT: (0.5 points)
8.1. ONE EXPRESSION MEANING “not known to exist or be happening, very unusual.”
8.2. ONE WORD MEANING “the darkness caused by the screening of rays of light from an area”.
II * USE OF ENGLISH (3 points; 0.5 points each)
9. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS:
9.1. “He is always forbidding me … (take) his clothes”. 9.2. “I shouldn’t … so much last night. Now I feel terrible”. (drink)
10. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRECT WORD:
10.1. “He’s responsible ... (preposition) the sales department”. 10.2. “He is ... (adverb) good that nobody hates him”.
11. REWRITE THE SENTENCE CORRECTLY WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING: “He asked to me how much was it”.
12. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONAL SENTENCE. “If I went to Las Dalias Market…”
13. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE ACTIVE VOICE: “I am never given a birthday present”.
14. REWRITE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED: “We couldn’t swim in the sea
because there were big waves”. We couldn’t swim in the sea due to…

III * WRITING (3 points)


15. WRITE A COMPOSITION OF APPROXIMATELY 120 WORDS ABOUT THE TOPIC PROPOSED AND FOCUS STRICTLY ON IT:
Describe the best summer of your life.

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