Legal doesn't mean right - PAU inglés Andalucía 2002 resuelto

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I had a liberal upbringing, growing up in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s. I was free to go where I pleased, bicycling alone almost everywhere from the age of 12. I was never warned against drugs, underage sex, subversive television or dangerous strangers. There was a nun who told us we should never visit a man’s room alone after 12 o’clock at night and an aunt who said you shouldn’t marry a Protestant because they accept divorce, but apart from that I can scarcely remember being forbidden anything.

We lived then in an authoritarian country, where the law did all the forbidding, so our families hardly had to do any. The world has changed since then –in part for the better, in part for the worse– and the opposite is now common for parents raising their children. The culture now is officially liberal, so parents and educationalists have to do all the forbidding, warning against the dangers that await careless young people, from unsafe sex to predatory horrors on the Internet.

The cannabis law states that those in possession of marijuana will not be prosecuted. This is an example of how this paradox works. Once the law protected us from ourselves: but as the protection of the law decreases, so we have to take more responsibility to be our own inner police.

  SOLUCIONES

I. READING COMPREHENSION

a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS.
1) What things was the writer warned against when she was young?

• VISITING MEN'S ROOMS AT NIGHT AND MARRYING A PROTESTANT (lines 3-5)

2) Why do we have to be our own inner police?

• BECAUSE THE LAW DOES NOT DO AS MUCH FORBIDDING AS IT USED TO (lines 12-13)

b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT.
3) The writer’s parents were very strict.

• FALSE: ‘I was never warned.., I can scarcely remember being forbidden anything‘ (lines 1-2, 5)

4) The writer’s aunt did not approve of divorce.

• TRUE: ‘an aunt who said you shouldn't ...divorce" (lines 4-5)

5) In the 1950s and 1960s families had to forbid their children to take drugs.

• FALSE: ‘We lived in an authoritarian country...so our families hardly had to do any’ (lines 6-7)

6) Nowadays the law protects young people against unsafe sex.

• FALSE: ‘we have to take more responsibility to be our own inner police’ (lines 12-13)

II. USE OF ENGLISH

7) Give a noun with the same root as FREE (adjective) (line 1).

• FREEDOM  

8) Find in the text one synonym for EDUCATION (noun).

• UPBRINGING (line 1) ("culture" no es aceptable)

9) Find in the text the word which has the following definition:
“a member of a religious community of women” (noun)

• NUN (line 3)

10)Give one opposite for INNER (adjective) (line 13).

• OUTER, EXTERNAL, EXTERIOR (‘outside' no es aceptable)

11) Turn the following sentence into reported speech:
Jenny said: “We have to take more responsibility.”

• JENNY SAID THAT WE/THEY HAD TO TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY.

12) Turn the following sentence into the active voice:
I was never warned against drugs.

• NOBODY EVER WARNED ME AGAINST DRUGS 
• THEY NEVER WARNED ME AGAINST DRUGS.

13) Give a question for the underlined words.
The law did all the forbidding.

• WHAT DID THE LAW DO?

14) Complete the following sentence:

• If I could go anywhere I liked, WOULD CHOOSE THE CARIBBEAN.

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