Mobile phones - PAU inglés 2004 Andalucía resuelto

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Mobile phones are not a luxury item anymore. While they have improved people’s lives, they have some drawbacks and we need to be careful about when and where they should be used. Admittedly, they facilitate communication with other people anywhere at any time. Parents feel more relaxed knowing their children can get in touch with them immediately if they need help, and emergency services can be called without delay when there has been an accident. Advanced features such as e-mail services and image messaging are packed into extremely light and tiny models that fit into your pocket.

Yet mobile phones can be a serious threat to health, for children in particular. Experts warn that the radiation of this type of phones can cause headaches and affect your memory in a negative way, although this has not been proved convincingly. What is more, people who use a mobile phone while driving constitute a danger to others and to themselves and sometimes have had fatal accidents. Besides this, what for many people is a useful device can be a nuisance for others, who are always complaining about the constant ringing tones in public places. Some people even claim that mobile phones should carry health warnings as packets of cigarettes do.

RESPUESTAS

I. READING COMPREHENSION

ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS.
1) Is it true that mobile phones are dangerous for health? Why?

• THEY MIGHT BE DANGEROUS BUT THIS KIND OF EFFECTS HAVEN'T BEEN CERTIFIED YET.

2) Why have some people died while using a mobile phone?

• BECAUSE THEY USED THE PHONE WHILE THEY WERE DRIVING

ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT.                                                                                 
3) Mobile phones have reduced their size considerably.

• TRUE… advanced features are packed into extremely light and tiny models (lines 5-6)

4) Mobile phones can be risky for children.

• TRUE … mobile phones can be a serious threat to health, for children in particular (line 7)

5) Everybody is satisfied with this new device.

• FALSE … what for many people is a useful device can be a nuisance for others (line 11)

6) Mobile phones display health warnings.

• FALSE Some people even claim that… (line 12-13)

 

II. USE OF ENGLISH

7) Find in the text a word meaning           
“great comfort and pleasure of expensive and beautiful things” (noun)

• LUXURY (l.1) 

8) Find in the text an opposite for HEAVY (adjective)              

• LIGHT (l. 6)    

9) Give one opposite for HEALTH (noun)   

• SICKNESS, ILLNESS, DISEASE

10) Complete the series with another word of the same semantic group                               

• headache, backache, stomach-ache… TOOTHACHE, HEARTACHE

11) Turn the following sentence into reported speech:                                                             
She said: “We’ll go and get some food.”

• SHE SAID THEY/WE WOULD GO AND GET SOME FOOD.

12) Use the words in boxes to make a meaningful sentence                                             
      me    buy    I    my    asked    to    mobile    father    a

• I ASKED MY FATHER TO BUY ME A MOBILE

13) Turn the following sentence into the passive voice:                                                
The traffic warden gave the driver a ticket.

• A TICKET WAS GIVEN TO THE DRIVER (BY THE TRAFFIC WARDEN)
• THE DRIVER WAS GIVEN A TICKET (BY THE TRAFFIC WARDEN)

14) Complete the following conditional sentence: “If I didn’t have a mobile phone…”

• If I didn’t have a mobile phone… I WOULD BE AN OUTSIDER.

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