The pilot - PAU inglés 2016 Andalucía

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As a German pilot in World War I, my father was flying a reconnaissance mission over the east of France when he was attacked by French airplanes whose machine guns damaged his plane. Without engine power, he managed to cross the Swiss border and crash-landed in a field among surprised farmers. At the end of the war, he returned to Germany from neutral Switzerland, where he had been living in an internment camp. After that, he continued his studies, graduated as a geologist, and eventually immigrated to the United States, where he became a geology professor at a leading American University. 

Half a century after this wartime incident and near the end of his career, my father was with a group of students at the end of a day's geological fieldwork. They all gathered around a campfire and he started to tell them his experience. Suddenly, one of the students interrupted him and said, "Let me finish the story." From that moment, to the amazement of all, the student provided the correct details of what had happened that day in Switzerland.

He told them that, when the farmworkers got to the place of the accident to assist the soldiers, they found that the photographer who was seated behind my father was dead. They liberated my disoriented but uninjured father from the plane and provided him with food and water. Some time later, the Swiss police arrived and interned him in a camp. In his youth, the student had heard this story many times from his mother, who happened to be one of the farm girls taking part in the events.

Museums are the new churches - PAU inglés 2016 Andalucía

>Exámenes selectividad inglés resueltos Andalucía 

Across the United States, arts institutions are in the middle of a building boom. About twelve museums have been built in the past year. That means twelve temples devoted to art in a single year. Near the end of the 1990s, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao marked the beginning of a new era of museums designed by star architects. Churches and cathedrals once stood at the top of the architectural hierarchy, but today the museum is the building that every renowned architect dreams of designing. Besides, only a museum can attract the sort of budget that used to be reserved for cathedrals in the past.
Art museums are the new churches not because the role of the church has declined in recent centuries and something had to fill the gap. The new status of museum architecture is rather a reflection of how art has changed over the years. Before the 18th Century, non-religious art could only be found in palaces and lacked any public function. By the 19th Century, museums were meant to serve as places for ethical and social improvement. But, in the 20th Century, aesthetic contemplation became a virtue in itself, and museum architecture changed accordingly. That is why modern museums are marked by pure, white walls and by giant spaces that, like the nave of a basilica, make visitors seem small in comparison.
Art has imitated religion in other ways too. These days, we frequently use religious language when talking about art. We make “pilgrimages” to museums in far-off places. We experience “transcendence” before major paintings. And, of course, Sunday is the busiest day of the week for most art museums.

No Fear, No Surprise, No Hesitation - PAU inglés 2016 Madrid

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Ancient Samurai Armor | by williamcho

Where does this saying come from? It's from a seventeenth-century samurai warrior. This way his key to successful living.

No fear. There should be nothing in this life that you are afraid of. If there is, you might need to overcome that fear. Here I have to confess to a certain fear of heights. Recently, owing to leaky rain gutters, I had to crawl out on our roof. I gritted my teeth and kept repeating, "No fear, no fear", until the job was done. Oh yes, and of course I didn't look down. Whatever your fear, face it head on and defeat it.

No surprise. Life seems to be full of them. You're going along swimmingly and suddenly something huge rears up ahead of you. But if you look carefully, there were clues all along the way that it was going to happen. So why does life seem to surprise us then? Because we are asleep half the time. Wake up and nothing can sneak up on you.

No hesitation. Weigh up the odds and then just get on with it. If you spend too long thinking, the opportunity will have passed. Once we have looked at the options, we make a choice; then, go for it. No hesitation means not waiting around for other people to help out or make up our minds for us. No hesitation means if there is a certain inevitability about a situation then just throw yourself in, head first, and enjoy the ride. If there is nothing to be done then waiting doesn't help.

Selectivos inglés 2016 Comunidad Valenciana resueltos

Exámenes selectividad 2016 Andalucía resueltos

 EXÁMENES INGLÉS

 Are you a Phubber?

Museums are the new churches 

The birth of Rock and Roll

  The Notting Hill Carnival

The pilot

Triskaidekaphobia

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Fechas Selectividad 2016

CALENDARIO DE PRUEBAS DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD

Comunidad Autónoma	Convocatoria ordinaria	Convocatoria extraordinaria
Andalucía	14, 15, 16 de junio	13, 14 y 15 de septiembre
Aragón	6, 7 y 8 de junio	13, 14 y 15 de septiembre
Asturias	1, 2 y 3 de junio	5, 6 y 7 de julio
Cantabria	8, 9 y 10 de junio	8, 9 y 12 de septiembre
Castilla La Mancha	8, 9 y 10 de junio	12, 13 y 14 de septiembre
Castilla y León	14, 15 y 16 de junio	12, 13 y 14 de septiembre
Cataluña	14, 15 y 16 de junio	6, 7 y 8 de septiembre
Comunidad Valenciana	7, 8 y 9 de junio	5, 6 y 7 de julio
Extremadura	7, 8 y 9 de junio	5, 6 y 7 de julio
Galicia	8, 9 y 10 de junio	14, 15 y 16 de septiembre
Islas Baleares	7, 8 y 9 de junio	7, 8 y 9 de septiembre
Islas Canarias	8, 9 y 10 de junio	6, 7 y 8 de julio
La Rioja	6, 7 y 8 de junio	6, 7 y 8 de julio
Madrid	7, 8 y 9 de junio (día 10 = materias coincidentes e incidencias)	13, 14 y 15 de septiembre (día 16 = materias coincidentes e incidencias)
Murcia	6, 7 y 8 de junio	12, 14 y 15 de septiembre
Navarra	8, 9 y 10 de junio	29 y 30 de junio, y 1 de julio
País Vasco	8, 9 y 10 de junio	6, 7 y 8 de julio

Exámenes selectividad 2016 Madrid resueltos

MODELOS DE EXÁMENES INGLÉS

Better ways to learn

How would we live in a world without oil?

No fear, no surprise, no hesitation

 

MODELOS DE EXÁMENES FRANCÉS

Parler une autre langue: est-ce un don?

Opération: Tous au restaurant

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