Key Elvis: Madrid 2003

EXAMEN RESUELTO

ELVIS LIVES

1.- Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text. No marks are given for only True or False.

a) Elvis Presley never went to Europe.

• FALSE: "(...) Elvis, who was serving as an American GI in Germany (...)"

b) When the letter was found the landlady's relatives decided to keep it.

• FALSE: "Even though they realised its value to collectors, they donated the letter to the local Elvis Presley Society".

2.- In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer these questions.

a) Why did Elvis’s letter take thirty-nine years to reach the person to whom it was addressed?

• It took so long because Elvis didn’t send it personally. Indeed, he delivered the letter to his landlady but, unfortunately, she missed it and finally the letter wasn’t posted. 

b) How did Karen react when she got Elvis’s letter?

• She felt so moved that she cried.

3.- Find the words in the text that mean:

• a) fainted (paragraph 1) swooned
• b) tomb (paragraph 1) grave
• c) living (paragraph 2) staying
• d) trying to find (paragraph 4) tracking

4.- Complete the following sentences. Use the appropriate form of the word in brackets when given.

• a) Karen's children did not know that their mother had written to Elvis when she was eleven years old.
• b) The letter was found (find) in the attic when the old house was cleaned out (clean out).
• c) Thanks to club members of the local Elvis Presley society, Karen could be tracked down (*) without much difficulty.

      Rewrite the following sentence in reported speech starting with the words given.

• d) "If you send me your autograph I will marry you", Karen promised Elvis.
• Karen promised Elvis that she would marry him if he sent her his autograph.

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