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1. Pre-icfes
preguntas tipo 4
Eleventh Grade
2013

2. PARTE 4
Read the text. Pag.55
Choose the best word (A,B,or C)for each space.
For questions 21-28 Mark A,B, or C on your answer sheet.
JOHN SNOW
John Snow 21)____born in 1813 in york, England and was the eldest of nine
children. When he 22)____fourteen, he started working for a surgeon and went on to
study madicine.
In 1855, a lot of people started dying in an area of london of the illness cholera and
john snow went there to study what was23)____.
21. A: is B: was C: had
22. A: has B: had C: was
23. A: happen B: happened C: happening

3. He discovered that the people who had died were drinking 24)____same
water.
Before this study, no one 25)____ how people got the illness. The results of
his study 26)____important because they 27)____ how the illness spread and
also 28)____ to start the science of public health.
24. A: a B: as C: the
25. A: knew B: was knowing C:knowing
26. A: is B: was C: were
27. A: explaining B: explained C: to explain
28. A: help B: helping C: helped

4. PARTE 7
Read the text.pag.59
Choose the best word (A,B,C or D)for each space.
For questions 41-50 mark A,B,C or D on your answer sheet.
It pains us to find that corruption 41)____ increased very much in our
country. Everyday new cases of corruption 42)____ unearthed. This is a sad
sign 43)____ immorality 44)____ is eating our society like white ants.
Perhaps, it is the laxity of the administrative machinery that is indirectly
responsible 45)____ this.
41.A: has B: had C: have D: does have
42. A: is B: are C: were D:was
43. A: from B: by C: of D: in
44. A: what B: that C: which D: where
45. A: about B: for C: by D: because

5. Laws are there 46)___ they are circumvented with impunity. Our education
has failed to turn out citizens of character. The culprits 47)____ be punished
in accordance 48)____ the laws. Honest officers must be rewarded 49)____
the dishonest punished. Only 50)____ we will be able to contain the rising
corruption in our society.
46. A: but B: because C: despite of D: though
47. A: mustn´t B: must C: should D: shall
48. A: to B: with C: by D: that
49. A: and B: also C: the same as D: as well as
50: A: then B: by C: also D: because

6. PARTE 4
Read the text. Pag.62
Choose the best word (A,B,or C)for each space.
For questions 21-28 mark A,B, or C on your answer sheet.
JUNGLE GIRL FOUND
A girl 21): ____ disappeared 22): ____ she was eight 23)____ old has
been found 24)____cambodia, according to 25)____ father.
21. A: which B: who C: she
22. A: when B: while C: during
23. A: year B: years C: age
24. A: at B: in C: on
25. A: his B: her C: their

7. . Eighteen years after she disappeared, a woman was 26)____ in a
village in the Ratanakkiri province trying to steal food.
The woman who was found looks 27)____ other members of the
family.
She can´t speak 28)____ language that has been identified and is
very frightened, but her family hopes that she will adjust and settle
down.
26. A: find B: found C: founded
27. A: as B: as if C: like
28. A: any B: no C: the

9. PARTE 7
Read the text.pag.65
Choose the best word (A,B,C or D)for each space.
For questions 41-50 mark A,B,C or D on your answer sheet.
The color of your skin 41)____ on how much pigment, or coloring
matter, you have in it. All people have 42)____ brown and some
yellow pigments in 43)____ skin. But different people have diferent
amount 44)____ each pigment.
41. A: depending B: is depend C: depend D: depends
42. A: some B: many C: much D: tons
43. A: his B: her C: our D: their
44. A: by B. from C: of D: in

10. The amount you have depends on 45)____ amount your parents have.
46)____ people have such differents of the two pigments; many shades of
skin color exist in the world. “Black” people have a lot of brown pigment in
their skin, and not 47)____ yellow. “ White” people have a small amount of
48)____ pigment in their skin. Oriental people 49)____ a lot of yellow
50)____ a smal amount of brown pigment.
45. A: a B: an C: the D ___
46. A: after B: though C: and D: because
47. A: many B: much C: few D: little
48. A: every B: one C: each D: both
49. A: has B: hasn´t C: haven´t D: have
50. A: too B: also C: and D: from

11. PARTE 4
Read the text.pag.68.
Choose the best word (A,B,or C)for each space.
For questions 21-28 mark A,B, or C on your answer sheet.
Researchers in Kenya have found 21)____ a fish could be an effective
weapon in the fight to reduce the spread of malaria. A fish that is 22)____
eaten was introduced to several places 23)____ the west of the country. The
fish eats mosquito larvae, 24)____ are young mosquitoes before they have
wings.
21. A: which B: who C: that
22. A: normal B: normality C: normally
23. A: on B: in C: at
24. A: which B: were C: that

12. People have known 25)____ a long time that this fish eats
mosquitoes, but this was 26)____ first time that researches had
looked at how the fish could be used 27)____ control malaria, which
28)____ 300 million people ill and causes a million deaths worldwide
every year.
25. A: since B: for C: from
26. A: at B: his C:the
27. A: for B: to C: under
28. A: makes B: make C: made

13. PARTE 7
Read the text.pag.71
Choose the best word (A,B,C or D)for each space.
For questions 41-50 mark A,B,C or D on your answer sheet.
CHILD LABOR
Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile
41)____ in conditions described as close to slavery to produce clotes that
appear destined for one the major high street 42)____
Speaking to a British newspaper, the children described long hours of
43)____ work and threats and beatings.
41. A: facility B: factory C: office D: bureau
42. A: warehouse B: retailer C: warehouses D: retailers
43. A: inpaid B: unpaid C: without pay D: without payment

14. The company said it was unaware that clothing intended for its 44)____ had
been improperly 45)____ to a 46)____ that used child labor. It further
announced it had withdrawn the garments involved until it had investigated
the alleged 47)____ of the 48)____ code it imposed on manufacturers three
years ago.
44. A: warehouses B: stores C: outlet D: branch
45. A: outsource B: outsourcing C: outsources D: outsourced
46. A: association B: sweatshop C: closed shop D: retailer
47. A: breaches B: errors C: mistakes D: wrong doings
48. A: ethic B: ethnic C: ethical D: ethnical

15. The discovery of these children working in appalling conditions in the
Shahpur jat area of Delhi has renewed concerns about the 49)____
by some large ratail chains of their 50)____ production to india,
recognized by the United Nations as one of the world´s hotspots for
child labor. According to one estimate, over 20 percent of India´s
economy is dependent on children, which comes to a total of 55
million youngsters under 14 working.
Consumers in the West should not only be demanding answers from
retailers about how their goods are produced but also should be
looking into their consciences at how they spend their money and
whether cheap prices in the West are worth the suffering caused to so
many children.
49. A: outsource B: outsourcing C: outsources D: outsourced
50.A: garment B: raiment C: garments D: raiments

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