READING EXAMEN APTIS

READING 1: ANTARTICA: THE FROZEN SOUTH

1. Who is in charge
2. Firts step on the ice
3. Hidden geography
4. Life on the ice
5. Race to the pole
6. Less effort needed
7. Why is so cold?

READING 2: THE FIRTS WEATHER MAN

1. Making life at sea safer
2. Early interest in the weather prediction
3. Weather recording equipment
4. A second career
5. Using science to save live
6. Initial reactions
7. A lack of public acceptance

READING 3: CHARLES DICKEN

1. Dikens for our times
2. Difficultles for the modern reader
3. Keeping the reader guessing
4. The influence on the media
5. Dicken´s early success
6. Trying to protect his property
7. Bringing the books to life
READING 4: EATING IN CHINA
1. The origins of Chinese food
2. The influence of philosophy
3. Regional Variations
4. Cooking methods
5. The style
6. Fast food
7. Effects of a changing diet

READING 5: OUR CHANGING RELATIONSHIP WITH ANIMALS

1. Early uses of animals

2. Early examples of pets
3. A pet with many functions
4. A friend around the world
5. Different attitudes
6. Various kinds of pets
7. Advantages and problems

READING 6: BREATHINGS EASY

1. The origins of smoke
2. The powerful smoking industry
3. Raising wareness of a harmful habit
4. Controlling the smoking habit
5. Results of a regulation
6. Global comparison
7. A healthier world

READING 7: WHAT IS CAVING

1. The growth of a new phenomeno
2. The wide appeal of caving
3. Man becomes the enemy
4. What to take with you
5. Staying safe underground
6. What to do in an emergency
7. The joy of discovery
TOBACCO READING VOCAB

- NICOTINE: Causes addiction, found in tobacco leaves

- STIMULANT: Drug that speeds up the activities of the central
nervous system, the heart and other organs.
- TAR: A thick, sticky, dark fluid produced when tobacco burns that
coats the lungs.
- CARBON MONOXIDE: A colorless, odorless, poisonous gas found
in tobacco that is absorbed easier in the body than oxygen.

- CHEWING TOBACCO: Coarsely chopped tobacco leaves that

contain flavorings and additives much like the tobacco in cigarettes.
Placed between the cheek and the gums.

- EMPHYSEMA: A respiratory disease in which air

cannot……because they become blocked or lose their elasticity.

- SIDESTREAM SMOKE: Smoke that escapes from the tip of a

cigarette, cigar, or pipe.

- MAINSTREAM SMOKE: Smoke that is inhaled through a cigarette

and then exhaled by a cigarette smoker.
 READING APTIS COMPLETAR

CLOZE 1: WRITING FROM AROUND THE WORLD

1. MANY

2. FOUND

3. RESPECTED

4. AFTER

5. CONDITIONS

6. TRAVELLED

7. BECAME

8. CONTINUES

CLOZE 2: CHARLES

1. KING

2. SPENT

3. TIME

4. DIFFERENT

5. LED

6. STARTED

7. LOST

8. BECAME
CLOZE 3: MARIA GRILLO

1. BORN

2. BECAUSE

3. MONEY

4. WORK

5. HOWEVER

6. SOUP

7. SOLD

8. RESTAURANT

CLOZE 4: THE BYCICLE

1. COMMON

2. APPEAR

3. SEEM

4. WHETHER

5. GET

6. LOSE

7. PROGRESS

8. REMEMBER

CLOZE 5: THREE BOYS ON A BOAT

1. YEARS

2. ALIVE

3. RELATIVES

4. THOUGHT

5. OCEAN

6. SURVIVE

7. SAVED

8. HEALTH
CLOZE 6: MICHAEL CAINE

1. GREW

2. STRUGGLED

3. CHANGE

4. CONFLICT

5. INTRODUCED

6. REMAINS

7. STARTED

8. GIVEN

TEXT ORGANIZATION

TEXT ORGANIZATION: MY FIRST CAR

1. I will never forget the first time i drove a car by myself

2. However, I didn’t have a car, and my parent would not let me drive
theirs
3. So, when i saw an advertisement in the local paper for a cheap second-
hand car, I didn’t waste a moment
4. I called the number in the advert and arranged to meet the owner of
the other side
5. We agreed a price, and when I handed over the cash, he gave me the
keys
6. I had just passed my test and I was the proud owner
7. I drove full of confidence, but unfortunately, I hit a lamp post at the
end of the street
TEXT ORGANIZATION 2: THE ACTRESS

1. Carol thought that she was very good actress

2. So she decided to go to Hollywood to follow her life- long dream
3. She booked her trip to go there before she could change her mind
4. When she arrived, she found a very nice hotel right on the middle of
the town
5. The next day she made appointments to see as many directors as
possible
6. She saw four on the first day and was offered a part at her last
appointment
7. Nobody knows her because she is a really famous film star and is
happy

TEXT ORGANIZATION 3: A LIFE TOUCHED BY HISTORY

1. Betty Barr has lived a life touched by the history of china

2. She was born is shanghai in 1993 to an American mother and father
from Scotland
3. At that time, shanghai was an exciting city filled with people from
different countries
4. But all this changed during the second world war and betty and her
family spent two and a half years in a prison camp in the city
5. A few years after the war was over, betty went to wellesley college, a
famous university in America
6. However, betty missed china and she applied for a jobin Hong Kong,
where she taught from 1959 and learnt to speak Cantonese, the local
language
7. In the early 80´s, she finally returned to shanghai where still lives with
her shanghai husband, George Wang.
TEXT ORGANIZATION 4: A NEW FLAT

1. I woke up early on Saturday because I wanted to find a new place to

live
2. Before I left the house, I checked the newspaper and the internet
3. I found the addresses of four places I wanted to see
4. I chose those four to look at because all the others were too
expensive
5. The next three needed too many repairs and were not as close to my
office
6. The first one I saw was close to where I work but the kitchen was
quite small
7. As I don’t need a big kitchen, I decided on the first place

TEXT ORGANIZATION 5: THE WRITER

1. Jon
2. He loved
3. While he
4. He sent
5. So he decided
6. People
7. He sold

TEXT ORGANIZATION 6: MY FIRST DAY

1. Before
2. When I arrived
3. Mr Jones
4. He asked
5. In the morning B
6. After lunch
7. Finally, the bell
TEXT ORGANIZATION 7: A SCHOOL TRIP

1. When 5 a.m.
2. They went only
3. When they arrived
4. In the afternoon
5. Whilw the were
6. He thought it was
7. His friends