Curso: Ingles Técnico para Arquitectura - I

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UNIVERSIDAD FEMENINA DEL SAGRADO CORAZÓN
EXAMEN EXPLORATORIO
Especialidad: Arquitectura. Curso: Ingles técnico I
1. Elige la mejor palabra para cada frase según el ejemplo.
Ejemplo: What’s your name?
1. How (IS, AM, ARE, MUCH) you?
2. (ME, YOU, MY) name's José.
3. (WERE, WHY, WEREN’T, WHERE) are you from?
4. What's your (MARRIED, OLD, EXPENSIVE, ADDRESS)?
5. Ten, eleven, twelve, (THIRTEEN, THIRTY, SIXTEEN, FIFTEEN, FOURTEEN).
6. I'm (NOT, NO, ISN’T, IS NOT) married?
7. Penelope Cruz is Spanish. (SHE’S, HER, HIS, HE’S) from Madrid.
8. (WHAT, HOW MANY, HAVE, HOW) old are you?
9. Paris (NOT IS, ISN’T, AREN’T, NOT) in Italy.
10. I (NO, ISN’T, NOT, DON’T) like classical music.
11. I (GET UP, GET DOWN, GET BY, GET ON) at 7 o'clock in the morning.
12. Katherine Zeta Jones (NO, DOESN’T, NOT, DON’T) live in London.
13. My flat has a very big (KITCHEN, KITTEN, CHICKEN, HOUSE).
14. Brad Pitt was Jennifer Aniston's (WIFE, SON, HUSBAND, DAUGHTER).
15. David Beckham (DRIVES, PLAYS, EATS, DRINKS) football.
16. When (ARE, WERE, WAS, IS) you born?
2. Elige la mejor palabra para cada frase según el ejemplo.
Ejemplo: do you have lunch?
1. Danny usually (TAKES, EATS, HAS, DRIVES) 8 or 9 beers on Saturdays.
2. Nice to (MEAT, EAT, LEAVE, MEET) you.
3. Samantha likes (PLAY, DOES PLAY, PLAYING) with her rabbit.
4. Excuse me. How (MONEY, MANY, PRICE, MUCH) is the T-shirt?
5. What do you explain? I (HAVE EXPLAINED, AM EXPLAINING, EXPLAIN) the class.
6. Did you see the film on TV last night with Nicolas Cage?
- Yes, I (SEE, DID, SAW, I DID)
7. I (TOOK, EAT, HAD, DREAM) lunch with Penelope Cruz last week. She paid the bill.
8. George Bush (DON’T CAN, NO, CAN`T, NO CAN) speak English very well.
9. I didn't (WENT, GONE, BEEN, GO) out last night.
10. Luis and Craig started La Mansión del Ingles about five years (BEFORE, AGO, SINCE,
PAST).
11. (DO, WILL, WOULD, DOES) you like another beer?
- Yes, please.
12. I must buy (ANY, MUCH, SOME) Bacardi for the party.
13. (HAVE, WAS, DID, WERE) you ever been to Mexico?
14. Excuse me, (WHY, WHERE, WHEN, WHO) is the nearest cyber café?

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3. Localiza la palabra que es desigual de las demás y no pertenece al grupo según
el ejemplo.
Ejemplo: travel / ashtray / journey / trip / cruise
(Todas las palabras tienen relación con los viajes excepto 'ashtray', que significa 'cenicero')
1. windsurfing / swimming / camping / fishing / sailing
2. businessman / accountant / liar / politician / lawyer
3. lamp / receipt / armchair / desk / plant
4. salad / dry / tall / wet / short
5. warm / skirt / freezing / cool / boiling
6. his / my / their / we / our
7. peas / rice / omelette / glass / carrots
8. usually / sometimes / sunny / never / always
4. Lee las siguientes frases y elige una de las tres opciones:
TRUE (verdadero), FALSE (falso), NO IDEA (No entiendo la frase),
Ejemplo: It’s not very expensive to fly from Madrid to New York by boat.
1. Banks are often open after 5pm.
2. A family always has at least two people.
3. If you buy a return train ticket, you probably want to come back.
4. There are twelve days in a month.
5. April comes after March.
6. Walking is an expensive hobby.
7. Harrison Ford is older than Harry Potter.
8. A Ferrari is not as fast as a Tico.
9. People usually wear socks on their hands.
10. Ernest Hemingway wrote a lot about Spain.
11. Most people have two noses and one arm.
12. You can’t make an omelette if you don’t break an egg.
13. People never dream when they are sleeping.

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5. Lee el siguiente extracto y responde a las preguntas correspondientes.
The hardest language
People often ask which is the most difficult language to learn, and it is not easy to answer
because there are many factors to take into consideration. Firstly, in a first language the
differences are unimportant as people learn their mother tongue naturally, so the question of
how hard a language is to learn is only relevant when learning a second language.
A native speaker of Spanish, for example, will find Portuguese much easier to learn than a
native speaker of Chinese, for example, because Portuguese is very similar to Spanish, while
Chinese is very different, so first language can affect learning a second language. The greater
the differences between the second language and our first, the harder it will be for most people
to learn. Many people answer that Chinese is the hardest language to learn, possibly influenced
by the thought of learning the Chinese writing system, and the pronunciation of Chinese does
appear to be very difficult for many foreign learners. However, for Japanese speakers, who
already use Chinese characters in their own language, learning writing will be less difficult than
for speakers of languages using the Roman alphabet.
Some people seem to learn languages readily, while others find it very difficult. Teachers and
the circumstances in which the language is learned also play an important role, as well as each
learner's motivation for learning. If people learn a language because they need to use it
professionally, they often learn it faster than people studying a language that has no direct use
in their day to day life.
Apparently, British diplomats and other embassy staff have found that the second hardest
language is Japanese, which will probably come as no surprise to many, but the language that
they have found to be the most problematic is Hungarian, which has 35 cases (forms of nouns
according to whether it is subject, object, genitive, etc). This does not mean that Hungarian is
the hardest language to learn for everyone, but it causes British diplomatic personnel, who are
generally used to learning languages, the most difficulty. However, Tabassaran, a Caucasian
language has 48 cases, so it might cause more difficulty if British diplomats had to learn it.
Different cultures and individuals from those cultures will find different languages more difficult.
In the case of Hungarian for British learners, it is not a question of the writing system, which
uses a similar alphabet, but the grammatical complexity, though native speakers of related
languages may find it easier, while struggling with languages that the British find relatively easy.
No language is easy to learn well, though languages which are related to our first language are
easier. Learning a completely different writing system is a huge challenge, but that does not
necessarily make a language more difficult than another. In the end, it is impossible to say that
there is one language that is the most difficult language in the world.
Questions
1. The question of how hard a language is to learn is relevant to both first and second
language acquisition.
True
False
2. Portuguese is definitely easier than Chinese.
True
False

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3. A Japanese speaker may well find the Chinese writing system easier than a speaker of
a European language.
True
False
4. The Hungarian alphabet causes problems for British speakers.
True
False
5. Hungarian is the hardest language in the world.
True
False
6. Hungarian has as many cases as Tabassaran.
True
False
7. Many British diplomats learn Tabassaran.
True
False
8. The writer thinks that learning new writing systems is easy.
True
False
El puntaje mínimo para empezar el nivel intermedio deberá ser de 59 puntos. Si ha obtenido
menos de 59 puntos, deberá ser ubicado en el Nivel Básico.