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Words on trial - PAU Murcia 2015

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January 2009. Chris Coleman began telling friends and associates that he was worried about the safety (1) of his family. He had been receiving death threats (2) by email, which also mentioned his wife and his sons. Coleman asked his neighbor across the street, a police officer, to set a security camera on the front of his house.

May 2009. Coleman left his home early to work out (3) at the gym. Later on, when he called his wife and got no answer, he asked his neighbor the policeman to check on her. The officer found a horrifying scene. Red graffiti —“Fuck you” and “U have paid!”— was scrawled1 on the walls and on the sheets of the beds in which Coleman’s wife and kids lay strangled to death. Although a back window was open —suggesting that someone had entered the house out of view of the camera—, the police quickly came to suspect Coleman himself, as they found out that he was having an affair (4) with a cocktail waitress.

However, his DNA2 was not found anywhere that would connect him directly to the crime. At the trial, experts showed that some of the threatening e-mails had been sent from Coleman’s computer, but they couldn’t prove it hadn’t been hacked. They could demonstrate Coleman had bought a can of red spray paint months before, but they couldn’t link him to the can used in the crime. Toward the end of the trial, prosecutors3 asked for the testimony of Dr. Robert Leonard, a forensic linguist who, relying on (5) word choice and spelling largely, suggested that the same person had written the threatening e-mails and sprayed the graffiti, and that those specimens4 were similar to Coleman’s prose style.

• 1 Scrawl: Garabatear 
• 2 DNA: ADN 
• 3 Prosecutor: Fiscal 
• 4 Specimens: Muestras

Your mom’s wrong! - PAU inglés Murcia 2015 resuelto

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To better understand how video games affect the brain, German researchers conducted a study in which they asked 23 adults in their mid-twenties to play “Super Mario 64” for 30 minutes a day over a period of two months. A separate control group did not play video games at all.

Examining the brains of the two groups using an MRI machine they found that the gaming group had a rise (1) in grey matter in the areas of the brain responsible for spatial navigation, memory formation, strategic planning and fine (2) motor skills in the hands. “While previous studies have shown differences in brain structure of video gamers, the present study can demonstrate the direct causal link (3) between video gaming and volumetric brain increase and that specific brain regions can be trained by means of video games,” study leader Simone Kühn said.

Another study, carried out at the University of Padua, throws cold water on the idea that video games are bad for the brains of young children. In February, the Italian researchers presented evidence (4) that playing fast-paced video games can improve the reading skills of children with dyslexia.

The team separated children age 7 to 13 into two groups, one of which played an action game called “Rayman Raving Rabbids” while the other played a lower tempo game. When the reading skills of the children were tested afterwards, those who played the action game were capable of reading faster and more accurately (5). The authors of the study hypothesized that the action games help kids increase their attention spans, a skill considered crucial to reading.

• 1MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, a system for producing electronic pictures of the organs inside a person’s body, using radio waves and a strong magnetic field. (Important note: You can perfectly do this exam without knowing the meaning of “MRI machine”).

Book review - PAU inglés Murcia 2015

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I am going to be honest. I said I would read this book because I think I need to read more women authors and more foreign writers, just to get out of my comfort zone. But when I finally got it in my hands and read the synopsis, I was scared because it dealt with a lot of things I tend to avoid (1). What will I have in common with a pre-World War II seamstress1 as she deals with love and intrigue in southern Europe? But being the dutiful guy I am, I took it to work to read during my time off —to, at least, make a start. That was a mistake, a big mistake, because… Bloody hell, this book rocked (2)!!!

I was distracted at work for the rest of the day and immediately devoured (3) this book as soon as I got home —all 600 pages of it. People like to talk about the skill of the writing as if that is what made a good book, but in reality it is voice and story, and the author has this in spades2.

The story is very exciting and slowly grabs (4) you, so much that you do not notice how tightly it has trapped you. The Time In Between just flows beautifully as the pages go by.

The most vivid aspect for me was the society that the heroine had to operate in, pre-WWII Spain and Morocco. It was dedicated to seeing who was loyal to the cause, forcing people to choose sides in a “nobody wins” situation. But as in all unfair dominion situations, you begin to lose all trust in those around you, even those that are closest. When you can’t trust (5) anyone, you have no family, and that is the beginning of death for any society. Our heroine survived because in even the worst of situations she was always able to find someone to trust.

• 1 Seamstress: costurera
• 2 In spades: muchísimo, de sobra

English idioms and their origins - PAU inglés Murcia 2015

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The phrase “turn a blind eye”, which is often used to refer to a stubborn rejection to acknowledge (1) a particular reality, dates back to a legendary chapter in the career of the British naval hero Horatio Nelson. During 1801’s Battle of Copenhagen, Nelson’s ships had to fight against a large Danish-Norwegian fleet1. When his more cautious superior officer flagged for him to withdraw (2), the one-eyed Nelson supposedly brought his telescope to his bad eye and cheerfully proclaimed, “I really do not see the signal.” He went on to score (3) a decisive victory. Some historians have since dismissed Nelson’s famous joke as merely a battlefield myth, but the phrase “turn a blind eye” persists to this day.

The phrase “paint the town red” most likely owes its origin to one legendary night of drunkenness. In 1837, the Marquis of Waterford, a known heavy drinker and troublemaker, led a group of friends on a night of drinking through the English town of Melton Mowbray. The party culminated in vandalism after Waterford and his friends knocked flowerpots over, pulled off doorknockers and broke the windows of some of the town’s buildings. To top it all off (4), the group literally painted the doors of several homes and a swan statue with red paint. The marquis and his companions later compensated Melton for the damages, but their drunken escapade is likely the reason that “paint the town red” became synonymous for a wild night out. Still yet another theory suggests the phrase was actually born (5) out of the brothels2 of the American West, and referred to men behaving as though their whole town were a red-light district3.

• 1 Fleet: A large group of ships 
• 2 Brothel: a place where prostitutes work
• 3 Redlight district: an area with a concentration of sex-related businesses

Is the crisis causing an exodus? - PAU +25 inglés Murcia 2014

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What if the crisis exodus caused by the crisis was not quite as massive as we believe? This is the question asked by a recent study from the Elcano Royal Institute. Based on information gathered from the Spanish consulates, the researcher Carmen González Enríquez notes that only two percent of nationals living abroad are Spanish citizens who left because of the crisis. That is just 39.912 people.

But what if the reality were different? This is what Amparo González Ferrer, a sociologist and demographics specialist at the CSIC National Research Council, claims. She says that the number of emigrants who left the country between 2008 and 2012 is close to 700.000.

That Spain is losing population to emigration is unquestionable in the view of data. But how many Spaniards are actually leaving due to the economic situation? There is a debate among the scientific community because of the absence of a statistical mechanism that can quickly and efficiently register the departure of nationals. González Enríquez feels that the concern over emigration is related to the fact that Spanish society “has been exceptionally static over the last few decades”. According to the researcher, staying close to family and friends “has been a priority for the majority”, which would explain the reticence to leave the country. Now, the majority of people leaving are university educated, that is, highly qualified. “For them, being able to go abroad and find a job is the best option.”

Buying properties in Spain - PAU +25 inglés Murcia 2014

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Gone are the days when banks were happy to grant 30-year mortgages, and an extra bit of cash for furniture. Those conditions meant getting indebted for life. But these days, with the crisis still around, seven out of every home purchases in Spain are paid in full. There is an explanation for this: the rise in foreign buyers, who now represent 17 percent of the total, according to figures from the Public Works Ministry.

Niger Salmon is the general director of Girasol Homes, a property finder based in Wales that sells homes in Florida, Spain and Portugal. Their clients, he says, are mostly retired people who have been waiting for prices to go down during the last few years, hoping they could finally afford an apartment by the sea. Girasol Homes has listings in the Valencia Region, Murcia and Andalucia for as little as 50.000 euro. Buyers are mostly British, Dutch, Belgian, French and Russian. These have recently been joined by Algerians, because of the good sea and air connections between Alicante and Oran. “They are mid-to high-class citizens in the liberal professions”, says Brigitte Castaño, a realtor at ReMax in Alicante.

Notary statistics show that it is precisely these coastal areas that have been attracting most of the foreign capital. “Although transactions fell again in the first few months of 2013, there are provinces such as Alicante, Murcia, Tarragona and Almeria where sales have picked up”, says Luis Montes, director general of Grupo Banco Sabadell.

Dunbar’s Number - PAU inglés Murcia

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We are the product of our evolutionary history and this colors our everyday lives —including the number of friends we can have—, according to Robin Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He says 150 is the maximum number of friendships that the human mind is capable of handling (1). ‘Dunbar’s number’ even applies to the Facebook generation.
Professor Dunbar concludes that the volume (2) of the neocortex region of our brain, used for language and thought, limits the number of friends we can maintain. “This number has not changed much throughout history and applies in the same way on the web as it does in real life.” He even goes as far as to say that anyone who claims to have more is ‘suspect’, as the quality of relationships deteriorates as the social group widens (3).
His research also explores why gossip is good for us. His view is that language allows us to integrate a large number of social relationships and one important means of doing this is through the exchange of information about individuals who are not present. Gossip about relationships accounts for an overwhelming (4) proportion of human conversations, and it plays an important part in how we assess (5) others outside our own close group. We can find out from one person how others are likely to behave, how we should react to them when we actually meet them, and what kind of relationships they have with third parties.
Professor Dunbar’s studies have revealed that, across the birds and mammals, it is monogamous species that have the biggest brains.

EuroVegas: Gambling in Spain? - PAU inglés Murcia 2012 resuelto

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Las Vegas in Europe… Do you like the sound of it? A giant complex that wouldn’t pale in comparison with its American counterpart with its six casinos, three golf courses, nine theatres and twelve hotels, not to mention a myriad (1) of restaurants and shops. This is the project being put forward (2) by multibillionaire Sheldon Adelson, the 14th wealthiest person in the world. After having conquered the US (Nevada and Pennsylvania) and Asia (Macao and Singapore), the gambling magnate now contemplates taking over Europe, and more specifically Spain. The colossal project would create more than 200,000 jobs, attract between 15 and 18.8 billion euros worth of investments up until 2022, and generate more than €15 billion from tourism income over ten to fifteen years.

Two regions are in contention (3), Madrid and Catalonia. Their presidents have put their full support behind this project and have claimed (4) to be ready to do anything to win the EuroVegas ‘jackpot’.

In an interview, Esperanza Aguirre has stated her ‘duty’ to establish EuroVegas in Madrid: “It represents 200,000 long-term jobs once the project is over, not to mention all those created for its construction. The project does not please many people, especially people my age, who consider Las Vegas, gambling, casinos… as scandalous. But today’s Las Vegas has nothing in common with what it was 40 years ago. Besides gambling, Las Vegas hosts (5) conferences, the best singers, the best shows, the best theatres, and the best sports venues. It is just like an adults’ theme park.”