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Task 1: Choose a topic from the following options and write ONLY ONE text of approximately 180-200
words. Follow the instructions carefully.
(40 MARKS)
1. Write to somebody living abroad who is coming to Argentina for the first time. He/She is planning to
live here for at least two years and would like to know about our customs.
- Describe at least two customs (or rituals) that are particular to your family or our culture.
- Say how you feel about them and why.
2. Write about an embarrassing situation with a friend or colleague.
- Where were you? What were you doing?
- What happened? What did you/ the other person do?

How did you feel afterwards?

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P 4 2015-PERFECCIONAMIENTO - MODELO EXAMEN-1

Task 2: Read the following article carefully:

Return to Victorian-Style Hospitals to Fight Superbugs

1. Wards in British hospitals need to be
redesigned to provide defences against the
spread of deadly, antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
That is the stark warning of scientists, who said
last week that the danger now posed by drugresistant infections had reached crisis level.

7. Resistance to antibiotics arises as a

consequence of the processes of natural
selection. In a population of bacteria, some are
more resistant to drugs than others. Occasionally
these resilient strains survive, multiply and
become more resistant to antibiotics.

2. In the long term, governments must encourage

the pharmaceuticals industry to develop new
generations of antibiotics, said a group of British
experts. However, these new drugs will take so
long to reach the market that short-term
measures must also be introduced to hold back
resistant diseases that now threaten to
overwhelm health professionals.

8. Scientists warn that there are 5,000 deaths a

year in the UK due to strains of bacteria that
have evolved resistance to antibiotics. In future,
the continuing rise in resistance could have
wider repercussions. Surgery, and treatment for
diseases such as leukaemia, would be hard to
carry out if there were no means to kill off
random infections in patients.

3. A group of senior scientists told the Royal

Society last week that the planet faced the
prospect of people dying from routine infections
because effective antibiotics no longer existed.

9. Yet only a handful of new antibiotics are in

development. "In the 1960s, there were plenty of
new versions appearing," added Kerr. "But that
has stopped. Essentially we took our eye off the
ball."

4. Changes to be made to hospital wards should,

they said, include greater distances between
beds, lower bed occupancy rates, improved staffpatient ratios and large, openable windows. "We
are talking about returning hospital wards to the
type we had 100 years ago," said microbiologist
Professor Kevin Kerr, of Hull York Medical
School.
5. The crucial point of such "old school"
measures is to buy time. "We need to hold back
the spread of resistant bacteria while finding
ways to persuade pharmaceutical companies to
improve their output of new generations of
antibiotics for we are facing a future in which
there might be no effective antibiotics left on the
planet."
6. Kerr said: "In the near future it is possible that
a scratch from a rose thorn could become septic.
Without effective antibiotics, septicaemia could
easily set in and result in death. It is a terrible
prospect, but a very real one. We are facing a
return to the state of affairs that existed before
antibiotics were discovered."

10. The problem for medicine is that antibiotics

do not offer good returns to shareholders in
pharmaceuticals companies. Drugs that can
tackle diabetes or high blood pressure offer a
much better prospect of good profits.
11. "If you develop a chronic condition like high
blood pressure, you will have to take drugs for it
for the rest of your life," Fielder said. "By
contrast, you usually only take antibiotics for a
week at most, when you are suffering from an
acute condition. That represents a poor financial
return for the pharmaceuticals companies that
make the drug."
12. In this effort to persuade drug companies to
develop new antibiotics the possible steps could
include giving companies tax breaks for making
new antibiotics or lengthening the period for
which a new drug is protected by patent.
13. Essentially this is a race against time.

Adapted fr The Observer, 24 May 2014

P 4 2015-PERFECCIONAMIENTO - MODELO EXAMEN-2

Decide whether the following sentences are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F) and in 9 and 10
choose the best alternative.
1. Experts recommend that there should be fewer patients in each ward.

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2. They also recommend that hospitals should have better ventilation.

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3. They insist that each doctor should be in charge of more patients.

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4. Scientists warn that mild injuries can become very serious infections.

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5. The long-term solution rests with the laboratories.

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6. All laboratories are busily engaged in finding new antibiotics as soon as possible.

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7. Drug companies make better profits with antibiotics than with any other drug.

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8. One way of encouraging companies to invest in research is to reduce their taxes.

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9. In Paragraph 1, superbugs refers to

A. problems with software programs

B. most insects

C. bacteria

B. production

C. reduction

10. In Paragraph 5, output means

A. price

LISTENING
Task 3: You are going to listen to a dialogue where Jackie and Richard talk about those
adverts that provide customers with misleading information about their products. Decide
whether the following statemenst are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). You will hear the dialogue
twice.
(10 MARKS)
1. The wristband company had to pay a big fine to the Australian government.

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2. The company had to say the wristband had no positive results.

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3. The wristbands have a psychological effect on the wearer.

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4. ASA did not allow Reebok to advertise in the media.

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5. Jackie and Richard believe only exercise keeps you fit.

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Task 4: You are going to listen to a CNN report on Queen Elizabeths visit to the Pope.
Decide whether the following statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). You will hear the
report twice.
(10 MARKS)
1. This is the first time Queen Elizabeth has visited a pope.

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2. The Queen wore black.

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3. They might have talked about Malvinas.

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4. The Pope gave the Queen a beautiful ring.

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5. The Queen gave the Pope tasty things to eat and drink.

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P 4 2015-PERFECCIONAMIENTO - MODELO EXAMEN-3

Solo para uso del docente:

Activity 1

Activity 2

Activity 3

Activity 4

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Content: ___ / 5
Vocabulary: ___ / 12
Grammar: ___/ 12
Notas
Org. & Register: ___/ 7
parciales
Spelling: ____/ 4
Total: _____
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Firma del Profesor

NOTA FINAL:

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