Modelo de examen trimestral tipo selectividad (1) Práctica de comprensión lectora, vocabulario y gramática.

Buenos días, estimados alumnos.

Vamos ahora a trabajar con un texto cuyo nivel de dificultad y longitud es similar al que vosotros tendréis que enfrentaros el día de vuestro examen de selectividad.

Os he preparado con él varias actividades:

1) Comprensión lectora: preguntas para buscar información en el texto y redactar una breve respuesta.

2) Ordenar frases que resumen la historia que se narra en el texto.

3) Vocabulario: buscad sinónimos en el texto.

4) Os he preparado, de nuevo, un glosario, con las palabras que, sí o sí, debéis saber de memoria, para ayudaros durante la lectura.

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Recordad qué procedimiento debéis seguir para hacer bien la prueba:

1) Revisad primero el tipo de preguntas que se os van a hacer: leed bien el vocabulario que aparece en él, puesto que de esta manera ya os haréis una idea de qué va el texto.

2) Leed el texto completo, subrayando todas las palabras cuyo significado no sepáis.

3) Leed muy bien dichas palabras e intentad deducir su significado por el contexto.

4) Empezad a responded las preguntas:

- Con respecto a las de sinónimos, anotad al lado de cada palabra que se os da si esta es sustantivo, verbo o adjetivo. Normalmente se suele pedir que busquéis sinónimos sobre ese tipo de palabras. Después, buscad sólo la palabra que haga falta, es decir, si os dan un sustantivo, id al texto, haciendo una lectura rápida, centrándoos sólo en los sustantivos, y os olvidáis de lo demás. Repetid este procedimiento con todas las palabras. Si es un verbo, fijaos si está en presente, o pasado, para tener alguna pista más. Si es un adjetivo, prestad atención también a la morfología de la palabra, por ejemplo, a veces os dan una palabra que acaba en -ing y tenéis que buscar una que también acabe en -ing. 

5) Recordad: Nunca se comienza una oración afirmativa con 'Is...', si acaso, habrá que poner un sujeto como 'It is...', etc.

6) Recordad: Usad siempre los signos de puntuación correctos en todo momento, por ejemplo, los puntos al final de las frases. Siempre que sea necesario.

🇬🇧 Reading Comprehension Questions

Text: Paco's Trip and Indian Cuisine

1. Why couldn't Paco sleep on the plane, despite being relaxed, and what did he do instead? (Requires information from paragraphs 1 and 2).

2. Mention two main topics, besides the Taj Mahal, that Paco read about in the guide book. (Requires identifying specific information from paragraph 2).

3. According to the text, what figure demonstrates the popularity of Indian food in England and Wales by the year 2003, and what was Paco's conclusion upon reading this fact? (Requires extracting two specific pieces of data from paragraph 3: the number and Paco's reaction).

4. What is the monetary value of the Indian food industry in the United Kingdom, and what fraction of all eating out does it account for? (Requires extracting the exact figures from paragraph 3).

   
   

   🧠 Question Reversal Exercise

   Instructions: Below are four statements taken directly from the text. For each statement, your task is to write the exactquestion that would produce the statement as its answer. Use the question word provided in brackets (the "question word" may also be a phrase).

   Paragraph	Statement (Answer)	Required Question Word
   P1	He had bought a guide book about this surprising country before leaving Kenya.	What
   P2	"You can't use the English language properly," he added.	Who
   P3	In fact, in 2003, there were as many as 10,000 restaurants serving Indian cuisine in England and Wales.	How many
   P4	It serves about 2.5 million British customers every week.	How often

   
   

   
   

   ✍️ Synonym Matching Exercise: Look for a synonym for these words:

   
   

   1) Pondered (paragraph 2): 

   2) Appropriately (P2):

   3) Recounted (P3): 

   4) Narrative (P2):

   5) Deduced (P5):

   
   

   
   

   🧩 Text Structure Exercise (Reading Comprehension)

   Instructions: The following 5 sentences summarize the content of the text about Paco and India, but they are out of order. Identify the logical order and number the sentences from 1 (beginning of the text) to 5 (end of the text) to reconstruct the sequence of the story and information.

   Order	Summary Sentence
   	While traveling, Paco read the book, which turned out to be very amusing, and in it he discovered anecdotes about writers and the famous Indian cuisine.
   	Paco arrives in New Delhi, having been at Nairobi airport reading a guide book he had bought before leaving Kenya.
   	At the end of the text, Paco reflects on the quality of Indian food abroad, concluding that it must taste even better in its country of origin.
   	The book explains that Indian cuisine is one of the most popular in the world, a success demonstrated by the 10,000 restaurants that existed only in England and Wales by 2003.
   	Figures from a survey reveal the great economic value of the Indian food industry in the United Kingdom, exceeding £3.2 billion and serving millions of customers.

   
   

   
   

   
   

   📚 Glosario de Palabras Clave (Nivel B2/C1)

   Palabra/Frase	PdD	Nivel (Est.)	Definición en español	Contexto (Opcional)
   arrived	Verbo	B2	Llegar a un lugar.	Paco has just arrived in New Delhi, India.
   surprising	Adjetivo	B2	Que causa sorpresa o asombro.	He had bought a guide book about this surprising country.
   guide book	Sustantivo	B2	Libro que proporciona información para turistas.	He had bought a guide bookabout this surprising country.
   leaving	Verbo	B2	Irse o marcharse de un lugar.	before leaving Kenya.
   airport	Sustantivo	B2	Lugar desde donde operan los aviones.	At the airport in Nairobi, he had to wait for a long time.
   took off	Frasal V.	B2	(El avión) empezar a volar.	time the plane took off.
   relaxed	Adjetivo	B2	Tranquilo, sin estrés.	He was relaxed on the plane.
   tried to sleep	Verbo Fr.	B2	Intentar conciliar el sueño.	He was relaxed on the plane and tried to sleep.
   too long	Adverbial Fr.	B2	Demasiado tiempo.	He had been sleeping for too long the night before.
   amusing	Adjetivo	C1	Que entretiene y divierte.	The book was so amusing that he continued reading it.
   learn more about	Verbo Fr.	B2	Adquirir más conocimiento sobre algo.	reading it to learn more aboutIndia.
   anecdotes	Sustantivo	C1	Relatos breves de un suceso interesante o divertido.	He also read some anecdotesabout two English writers.
   writers	Sustantivo	B2	Personas que escriben libros o artículos.	about two English writers born in India.
   working	Verbo	B2	Estar empleado; realizar una labor.	Kipling had been working for a newspaper for some time.
   fired	Verbo	B2	Despedido de un empleo.	before he was fired.
   editor	Sustantivo	B2	Persona que dirige una publicación o corrige textos.	the editor told him.
   properly	Adverbio	B2	De manera correcta o adecuada.	"You can't use the English language properly," he added.
   smiled	Verbo	B2	Formar una expresión de alegría o placer en la cara.	Paco smiled when he read that.
   wondered	Verbo	C1	Preguntarse o tener curiosidad sobre algo.	"How is it possible?", Paco wondered.
   dealt with	Frasal V.	C1	Tratar, abordar o tener relación con un tema.	Another section of the guide book dealt with Indian cuisine.
   cuisine	Sustantivo	B2	Estilo o modo de cocinar propio de un país o región.	dealt with Indian cuisine.
   popular	Adjetivo	B2	Gustado por mucha gente.	one of the most popularcuisines across the globe.
   across the globe	Frase	C1	En todo el mundo.	most popular cuisines across the globe.
   has spread	Verbo Fr.	B2	Se ha extendido o propagado.	that it has spread throughout North America and Europe.
   throughout	Preposición	B2	Por todas partes de un lugar.	has spread throughout North America and Europe.
   survey	Sustantivo	C1	Estudio para recopilar información mediante preguntas.	A survey held in 2007 revealed that...
   worth	Adjetivo/Sust.	B2	Valor de algo, que merece algo.	the Indian food industry in the United Kingdom is worth £3.2 billion.
   accounts for	Verbo Fr.	C1	Representar una parte o cantidad de algo.	accounts for two-thirds of all eating out.
   eating out	Frasal V.	B2	Comer fuera de casa, en un restaurante.	two-thirds of all eating out.
   must be	Mod. V. Fr.	B2	Expresión de una deducción o conclusión firme.	"Indian cuisine must befantastic," Paco thought.

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   🔑 Answer Key: Respuestas.

   Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions

   1. Paco couldn't sleep because he had been sleeping for too long the night before. Instead of sleeping, he continued reading the guide book because it was so amusing.

   2. The two main topics Paco read about were:

      • Anecdotes about two English writers born in India: Rudyard Kipling and E.M. Forster.

      • Indian cuisine, which is one of the most popular cuisines across the globe.

   3. The figure demonstrating its popularity is 10,000 restaurants serving Indian cuisine in England and Wales in 2003. Paco's conclusion/reaction was that he "wondered if there is an Indian restaurant in every street."

   4. The value of the Indian food industry in the United Kingdom is £3.2 billion, and it accounts for two-thirds of all eating out.

   
   

   
   

   🔑 Answer Key

   Answers for Question Reversal Exercise

   Paragraph	Statement (Answer)	Required Question Word	Correct Question
   P1	He had bought a guide book about this surprising country before leaving Kenya.	What	What had Paco bought before leaving Kenya?
   P2	"You can't use the English language properly," he added.	Who	Who told Kipling that he couldn't use the English language properly? (The editor)
   P3	In fact, in 2003, there were as many as 10,000 restaurants serving Indian cuisine in England and Wales.	How many	How many restaurants were serving Indian cuisine in England and Wales in 2003?
   P4	It serves about 2.5 million British customers every week.	How often	How often does the industry president say it serves 2.5 million British customers?

    🔑 Answer Key

   Answers for C1 Synonym Matching Exercise

   Column A: Word from Text	Column B:
   1. anecdotes (P2)	E. Narrative
   2. properly (P2)	C. Appropriately
   3. wondered (P2)	D. Pondered
   4. dealt with (P3)	B. Recounted
   5. account for (P4)	A. Deduced

   🔑 Answer Key. Answers for Text Structure Exercise

   The correct order of the sentences, which follows the progression of the text, is:

   Order	Summary Sentence
   2	While traveling, Paco read the book, which turned out to be very amusing, and in it he discovered anecdotes about writers and the famous Indian cuisine.
   1	Paco arrives in New Delhi, having been at Nairobi airport reading a guide book he had bought before leaving Kenya.
   5	At the end of the text, Paco reflects on the quality of Indian food abroad, concluding that it must taste even better in its country of origin.
   3	The book explains that Indian cuisine is one of the most popular in the world, a success demonstrated by the 10,000 restaurants that existed only in England and Wales by 2003.
   4	Figures from a survey reveal the great economic value of the Indian food industry in the United Kingdom, exceeding £3.2 billion and serving millions of customers.