This is the 2023 Andalusian EvAU or EBAU English exam with all the answers except for the “Writing” section, since that is your own answer.
It is carried out by a student of the Degree in English Studies at UMA.
PRUEBA DE EVALUACIÓN DE BACHILLERATO PARA EL
ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD Y PRUEBAS DE ADMISIÓN LENGUA EXTRANJERA
(INGLÉS)
ANDALUCÍA, CEUTA, MELILLA y CENTROS en MARRUECOS
CURSO 2022-2023
Instrucciones: a) Duración: 1 hora y 30 minutos.
b) Este examen consta de varios bloques. Debe responder a las preguntas que se indican en cada uno.
c) La puntuación está indicada en cada uno de los apartados.
d) No se permite el uso de diccionario.
El examen consta de 3 Bloques (A, B y C)
En cada bloque (Comprehension, Use of English y Writing) se plantean varias preguntas, de las que se deberá responder al número
que se indica en cada uno. En caso de responder más cuestiones de las requeridas, serán tenidas en cuenta las respondidas en primer
lugar hasta alcanzar dicho número. Las preguntas han de ser respondidas en su totalidad: si la pregunta tiene dos secciones, hay que
responder ambas.
BLOQUE A (Comprensión lectora)
Puntuación máxima: 4 puntos
Debe responderse a las 8 preguntas de uno de los 2 textos propuestos.
I * COMPREHENSION (4 points). CHOOSE TEXT 1 OR TEXT 2 AND ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS FROM THAT TEXT ONLY.
TEXT 1: WAR LETTERS
1 Sharon Taylor has no firsthand memories of her father. The World War II fighter pilot was shot down over Germany in April
2 1945, when Taylor was three weeks old. The war ended less than a month later, and the letters that the 22-year-old pilot had
3 exchanged with his wife Mary since they were high school sweethearts stopped coming. Taylor’s father was eventually listed as
4 killed in action, although his body was never recovered.
5 One day, when Taylor was seven years old, she was sipping a hot chocolate while her paternal grandmother shared stories
6 about their fallen hero, crying as she remembered her son. “Nana, I’m going to find him and bring him home.” It was a promise
7 Taylor, now a 77-year-old author and retired professor, would keep. In 2006 she concluded a multi-decade mission to recover her
8 father’s remains and bring them home. She did it guided by clues that she had put together from her parents’ wartime letters —
9 along with help from historians, eyewitnesses, and an excavation team.
10 Now, through a sound and light show at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, she’s bringing to new generations
11 her parents’ experience and a larger story of war casualties and their families. Taylor shares her story widely, raising awareness
12 of soldiers who never returned from war and emphasizing the importance of recovery efforts. An estimated 81,000 American
13 soldiers’ bodies remain missing, and she wants people to know there are ongoing efforts to locate them.
14 Taylor will never know exactly what her father’s final moments were like. But as she previews the Expressions of America
15 exhibition in New Orleans, she somehow feels that he has come home at last.
CHOOSE AND WRITE THE CORRECT OPTION (A, B, C or D). (0.5 points each)
1. Taylor’s parents…
(a) started writing each other during the war. (b) were in love when they were teenagers.
(c) stopped writing each other during the war. (d) first met when they were in their twenties.
2. Taylor’s search for her father…
(a) was kept secret from her grandmother. (b) led to the discovery of a number of war letters.
(c) was carried out by other pilots. (d) is something she believes is worth being made public.
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. Taylor cannot remember her father well.
4. Her mission was accomplished without any assistance.
5. Taylor is campaigning to start a search for thousands of missing soldiers.
6. The retired professor eventually discovered the precise details of her father’s death.
7. FIND IN THE TEXT: (0.5 points)
7.1. ONE SYNONYM FOR: “lover” (noun)
7.2. ONE SYNONYM FOR: “consciousness” (noun)
8. FIND IN THE TEXT: (0.5 points)
8.1. ONE WORD MEANING: “a piece of evidence that leads one toward the solution of a problem”
8.2. ONE WORD MEANING: “a person who has seen something happen”
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