1. UNIVERSlDADES PÚBLICAS DE LA COMUNIDAD DE MADRID
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PRUEBA DE ÁCCESO A ESTUDIOS U!i.fI''ERSIT ARIOS (LOGSE)
Septiembre
CUTSO 2003-2004 Rl R2
MATERIA: INGLÉS
. QUESTIONS
INSTRUCCIONES GENERALES Y VALORACIÓN 1.- Are tbe fonowi~ statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the ev1den~.efrom the
l. Lea todo el texto cuidadosamente. tert. No marks are ~iven for ooly TRUE or FALSE-
2. Lea atentamente todas las preguntas de la prueba. a) Many years ago 'Tolstoy was awardcd fue Nobel Prize for Iiterature.
3. Proceda a responder en lengua Inglesa a las preguntas en el papel de examen. b) Coetzee has n01 yet written any book based on his Iife.
TIEMPO: t hora." 30 minutos. (puntuación máxima; 2)
CAUFICAClÓN: 'La puntuación máxima de la prueba es de 10 puntos.
2.- In y01JT own W'ords and based on the ideas in the text, answer these
Coetzee •••!1s Nobe! Prize
i questiens.
The 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature was won by the South Afsican a) Why has the N~bei Prize been sometimes wrongly awarded?
b) What did Coetzze do professionally before he wrote his first novel?
novelist J. M. Coetzee. This is wondetful news. Coetzee, 63, is
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unquestionably among the greatest living writers in English.
The Nobel has often been misapplied. it evaded Toistoy, Cnekhov, 3.- Find Ihe wordf lín tbe tnt that mean:
Joyce, Kafka and Nabokov. It was won, on the other hand, by BjomSlljeme a) without doubt (paragraph 1)
Bjomson, José Echegaray, Rudolf Eucken and others now wholly forgotten, b) competely (patagnph 2)
In. many cases, the judges seem to have been influenced by political, rather e) ideas (paragraph 2)
than literary, factors. But in choosing Coetzee, the judges have got í~right d) quicldy (paragraph 4)
and ignored the fact that Coetzee has many things to say that do not sit (Puntuación máxima: 1)
comfortably with liberal political assumptions. 4.- Complete the r.Uowing sentenees, Use the approprfate form cf the word in
His books deal with difficult, painful matters -betrayal, the abuse
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of power, the nature of evil, our cruel treatment of animals-- and ultirnately a) Coetzee, _was bom in South Afries in 1940, won the Nobel Prize _ year.
I they express deep scepticisrn over whether or not any of us are cap;Jble of
true ernpathy with others. Coetzee presents these unwelcome truths with a
rigour and purity that cannot be ignored.
Coetzee was bom in Cape Town in 1940 and trained as a cornputer
b) Before _~Cwin)
recognition.
the Nobel Prize, Coetzee _ (receive) intemational
e) James Joyce, __ works are still universally known, __ (not choose) for the
Nobel Prize olJring his lifetíme.
d) The German Rudolf Eucken, a Nobel Prize winner, wrote ethics aod
scientist, coming to London in the Sixties to work for 18M, a period
religión. But _ worlcs are almost forgotten today.
recollected in a supero autobiographical novel. He then became a prefessor
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of literature in the United States, initially using his cornputing skii11sfor
verbal analysis of writers, before returning to Cape Town in the early 5- Wriie .boüt 1#0 to 150 words 9" ONE of (he following toples.
Seventies, where he has continued to teach and publish literary crificism. a] What is the lsst book you have read? Give reasons why you did or you didn't
His first fiction, Dusklands, was publíshed in 1974, foilowed by!" The Iikeít.
Heart Of The Country and Waiting For Barbarians, which swiftly won hirn b) How can wiJJ!l íng a prize affect people's lives?
intematíonal recognition. (Puntuación máxima: 3)
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