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EXAMEN FINAL
DE INGLES
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= 1/20

Elige la respuesta correcta.

The Board of Directors | is going to meet : in Paris next Thursday.

is going to meet met have met will go to meet

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po 3 2/20

Elige la respuesta correcta.

| | bought ¡ aticket to Ghent yesterday, but then | missed the train.

did buy bought am buying buy

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3 3/20

Completa la frase.

- Mummy, l've decided: when | grow up,

Saa aaa aaa ma

I'm being an astronaut. l am an astronaut. None of these answers are correct.

| was an astronaut.
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SE 4/20

Rellena el campo vacío - 2 palabras.

- Which sports do you do?

- | play football and tennis regularly and | played rugby play rugby

when | was at school. But | don't have time to play anymore.

Gramática

5/20

Elige la respuesta correcta.

- The train ¡is late again! |

- That's the fifth time this week!

late again too! late again! too late still! still late too!
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AR 6/20

Elige la respuesta correcta.

- What are you going to do this weekend?

- Well, | | was going | to go to the coast, but I've changed my mind.

have been going was going be going want

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Elige la respuesta correcta.

- | couldn't understand a word he was saying...

Neither can |! So could |! Me too! Neither could |!

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¡á(_ —_—__— 8/20

Elige la respuesta correcta.

- How did you get on at the team-building weekend?

- lt was great, but very intense. | Barely had we :' introduced ourselves when
-

the group leader had us running, jumping over obstacles and climbing up

walls. lt was great fun!

Had we We had Had we barely Barely had we

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<A====> 9/20

Elige la respuesta correcta.

- Did you see that documentary about the famous singer, Mark Wonder?

- No, | didn't. What was it about?

- A record label manager claimed that most of his songs : had been written :

by another singer!

had been writing had been written were being written had written
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5 __ 10/20

Rellena el campo vacío - 1 palabra.

If you want to go out tonight, count me oull Pm

grounded!
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Rellena el(los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Use the modal verb 'ought' in your three-word answer.

The plane ¡s late. lt ought to have landed by now.

Gramática

12/20

Elige la respuesta correcta.

Decide whether the capitalised phrase is correct.

WILL YOU BE SEEING Jackie Smith tomorrow?

Correct Incorrect
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E o BR prrrRrrroooos 13/20

Elige la respuesta correcta.

Which sentence is NOT correct?

1. lam believing him when he says he loves her.

2. | believe him when he says he loves her.

3. | believed him when he said he loved her.

4. | have always believed him when he says he loves her.

¡ Sentence 1

Sentence 4 Sentence 3 Sentence 2 Sentence 1

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A 14/20

Rellena el(los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Complete the sentences by adding words of emphasis. Each gap requires just

one word.

| can't make head nor tail of this letter. It's utter

nonsense! how the author can't write in plain English is

quite beyond me.

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LE_—_—_—_—_____________—————————————————— 15/20

Rellena el (los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first

sentence. Use the word 'possibly' in your answer.

1. It's just not possible for the cat to have opened the fridge.

2. The cat could not possibly have opened the fridge.

Gramática

PANA 17/20

Rellena el(los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Use reported speech to express the original statement. Use the word 'staying'

in your three-word answer.

"No, | really don't want to stay overnight, Julie,” Mark said.

Mark insisted on not staying overnight at Julie's house.

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A 18/20

Elige la respuesta correcta.

Decide which ambiguous meaning does NOT apply to the word 'might!.
He might have phoned to say he'd be late.

'm annoyed he didn't phone. He was intending to phone.

It's possible he phoned.

Gramática

EA 19/20

Elige la respuesta correcta.

Choose the correct pair of optional relative pronouns for the sentence.

That's the man | who/that | was telling you about.

which/whom who/which who/that

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zzz 20/20

Rellena el(los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Complete the gap in the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as

the first sentence.

1. It is thought that the two injured men were repairing some overhead cables

at the time of the accident.

2. The two injured men are thought to have beer repairing some

overhead cables at the time of the accident.

Vocabulario

> 1/15

Rellena el(los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Usa dos adjetivos.

Use an adjective beginning with "irre".

A stark new report warns that the Great Barrier Reef will suffer

irreversible and irreparable] damage by 2030 unless radical

action is taken to lower carbon emissions.

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== 2/15

Elige la respuesta correcta.

| have many wonderful pictures which our long friendship.

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document outline relate report

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+... 3/15

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Chloe was under the impression that | had criticised her report, when all | had

said was that

it needed a little fine-tuning! | didn't want problems between us, so | called her

in to set the | story | straight.

recount record version story

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hh 4/15

Rellena el campo vacío - 1 palabra.

Forma un sustantivo a partir del adjetivo SECRET

What surprises some outside observers is the secrecy with

which the country is governed.

Vocabulario

AAA 5/15

Rellena el campo vacío - 2 palabras.

Usa una frase.

The lawsuit was dropped after police failed to find sufficient evidence. No

further action] will be taken.

Vocabulario

>= =5 6/15

Elige la respuesta correcta.

For an upright man with so much experience of the world, his response to this

situation seems somewhat nalve, even weak, and rather lacking in

| sound ' judgement.

partial poor moral sound

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_—_———3 7/15

Elige la respuesta correcta.

l was reading the newspaper this morning and | noticed there has been a

sharp rise in the

number of employees suing their former bosses for unfair

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dismissal layoff expulsion firing

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Rellena el campo vacío - 1 palabra.

The expert tells me the company has been reaching ¡ts goals

ahead of schedule.
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FF 9/15

Rellena el campo vacío - 2 palabras.

Usa un verbo.

Use a verb that begins with "re".

Pete has been unable recover the money he invested in the

collapsed analytics company, ABC Enterprises. It's gone for good.

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Elige la respuesta correcta.

The car to a halt on a quiet countryside road.

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grind grinded ground grounded

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Esso 1/15

Elige la respuesta correcta.

My parents are experiencing difficulties in their marriage so they visited a

7 '
marriage : counsellor | last week.
1 '

councillor councilperson counsellor

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Rellena el(los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Use two adjectives. The first one means 'dry', and the second means 'capable

of producing abundant crops:.

Only 20 years ago, this was an arid and barren land

where farming was a struggle. Now there are fertile

terraces growing sweetcorn, sunflowers and tomatoes, irrigated by water from

tranquil lakes.
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Rellena el(los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Usa un verbo y un nombre.

After embezzling more than €4 million of company funds, he

was sentenced to a minimum sentencd of 10 years in prison

for fraud.
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Elige la respuesta correcta.

The Office of Motor Vehicles is there to ensure all vehicles : are fit to

be driven on UK roads. lt is essential to keep your vehicle in good repair.

are fit are permitted are decent

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Many women find it hard to balance motherhood with their

professional obligations. Having too many balls in the air has led experts to

talk about the need for a greater work/life balance.

Comprensión auditiva

o 1/10

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Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

According to the speaker, classical music:

makes us focus on ourselves and our own interests.

helps us to realise human capability and potential.

is not a large part of many people's lives today.

Comprensión auditiva

=== 2/10

Elige la respuesta correcta.

00:00 «()) A

Te quedan 2 intentos de escucha

The speaker was:

disappointed by the offer. surprised by the offer. insulted by the offer.

Comprensión auditiva

pa-— OAKS 3/10

Elige la respuesta correcta.

00:00 $4) e |

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Why ¡is the third political party successful?

Itis sitting on the fence on most major issues. lt has been around for a long time.

Unsure voters like the party leader.

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Elige la respuesta correcta.

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Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

According to the speaker, texting:

is responsible for shaping teenage communication habits.

lags behind telephoning as the most popular way to communicate.

is the way that most teenagers contact their parents.

has resulted in increased communication for teenagers.

Comprensión auditiva

5/10

Elige la respuesta correcta.

00:30 «(») a

Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

The Island of Flowers:

is a perfect destination for foodie travellers. is made up of rock formations.

is sparsely populated. contains many entertainment options.

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Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

Recycling ¡is still a problem in Britain because:

they recycle more than their European neighbours.

some local councils are not taking it seriously.

recycling of household waste has quadrupled since 1997.

Comprensión auditiva

KA 7/10

Elige la respuesta correcta.

P , 00:25 «(>) e

Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

The captain told the passengers that:

he is unsure whether they will take off. they have special authorisation to take off.

they have been blocked from the airport. they will take off in 10 minutes.
Comprensión auditiva

AAA 8/10

Elige la respuesta correcta.

-00:05 «4» A

Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

Which statement is true?

The main advantage of houseplants is their ability to purify the air.

Because houseplants are so readily accessible, anyone can enjoy their benefits.

Because houseplants require regular care and attention, they can have a positive impact
on mental health.

There is a wealth of information available on how to buy the right houseplants.

Comprensión auditiva

A 9/10

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Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

According to the speaker, Gladwell:

writes mostly about new and innovative subjects. is well organised and collected.

makes readers unsure of their understanding of the world.

has recently run out of ideas for his writing.

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=== 10/10

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00:00 a) A

Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

According to the speaker, brain games:

ensure a healthy brain later in life. improve the cognitive functions of the brain.

improve your ability to play the game. improve memory and spatial abilities.
 ¿Qué frase resume mejor el siguiente pasaje/fragmento?

In an ode to the art of odes, poetry critic Stephen Burt demonstrates through
lyrical explication that the practice of poetry is tied to being human. Says Burt,
“The patterns in poems show us not just what somebody thought or what
someone did or what happened, but what it was like to be a person like that —
to be so anxious, so lonely, so inquisitive, so goofy, so preposterous, so
brave.” It is, Burt suggests, our ability to imagine the hypothetical that makes
poetry work.
But in so many ways poetry is the opposite of work: lt can't apply force or
move matter; it can only be, on a page. Indeed, the act of reading a poem is
often singularly sedentary, requiring the reader to concentrate fully in a giant
arm chair, intently focused. As Auden is oft quoted as saying, "Poetry makes
nothing happen.”
The line, from his poem “In Memory of W. B. Yeats,” is a lyrical misnomer. In the
first stanza from this elegy to the Irish giant of modernist poetry, he writes,
“What instruments we have agree / The day of his death was a dark cold day.”
Ever the wry lamenter, Auden evokes a common human feeling: that nature
responds to our human joys and tragedies. Yet rationally we know that the
death of Yeats had no bearing whatsoever on the weather conditions of the
winter day — because poetry makes nothing happen.

Source: https://ideas.ted.com/what-happens-when-we-read-poetry/
[07/02/2018]

Poetry works because it links preposterous ideas creatively.

Poetry resonates because we often link human experience to nature.

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tells you that her face cream will make you look like Scarlett Johansson. The
next, you discover that it's not true. All their face cream will do is make your
face greasier and your wallet lighter.
This - in outline - is the finding that has been made by the Advertising
Standards Authority (ASA) against an advert in which "beauty journalists" tell
us that "if you're not ready for cosmetic injections” help is at hand in the form
of expensive "anti-ageing creams".
The thing about anti-ageing cream - a thing so blatantly obvious that it seems
a miracle the ASA hasn't coughed quietly and pointed it out more often - is
that it doesn't exist. There is no such thing. Nowhere in the universe.
The adverts might as well say "defy the second law of thermodynamics with
face cream" or "thanks to the special scientifically developed molecules in our
moisturiser, the earth's gravitational field need not affect you". This is an entire
industry built on pernicious horse manure, and the only wrinkles ¡t's likely to
reduce are the ones on your cerebellum.

Adapted from source:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/mar/05/beauty-industry-
fraud [08/02/2018]

The author feels:

ASA has upheld certain claims made in advertisements for moisturisers.

ASA has strongly upheld claims made by beauty journalists.

ASA has only mildly criticised claims made in some advertisements.

ASA has forcefully condemned claims made by the beauty industry.

package" and "falling service provision" are bandied around, it might be
thought somewhat profligate to suggest that millions of pounds (euros,
dollars) are spent on exploration of space.
Why do we need to go to Mars? How many pictures of galaxies do we need?
Surely that money could be better spent on more worthy areas, such as health
and education?
But the millions do not go up in smoke: they are used to pay for jobs and
services.
Rockets and spaceflight instruments do not assemble themselves. They are
designed and built by people, who get paid. They are fabricated from
components which have to be manufactured and then purchased. The
community engaged in the space industry includes specialist scientists and
engineers, designers, graphic artists and IT professionals, as well as a vast
support system: HR, catering, cleaning, etc.
This is where much of the space budget is spent - on salaries that in turn
generate a market for other goods and services — as well as returning funds to
the government through taxation. In fact, the European Space Agency might
be regarded as a massive money-spinning operation, in which every euro
contributed by the government ¡is returned ten-fold to the nation in terms of
the value of the jobs generated.

Source: https: //www.space.com/29621-of-course-space-exploration-is-

worth-the-money.html [accessed 08/02/2018]

The author:

points out that governments tax the industry highly.

argues that the space industry brings enormous returns.

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Pensioner lan Bone of Class War has been protesting about gentrification and
social cleansing since the 80s. Bones real stick is his words. His attitude. His
joy at pointing to obvious wrongs and asking us which side we are on. "l hate
dull lefties,” he tells me. “All the miserabilism.” He likes action and shock. And
swearing. Bone's stance has always been about having a laugh along the way
to smashing it all up.
His father was a butler. His family grew up “in service”. “So | grew up bitter and
resentful with a chip on my shoulder,” he tells me gleefully. When he was 15 he
wrote off to an address that he found in Punch to find out more about
anarchism. “Il believed in chaos,” he said. “l then panicked for weeks, | thought
they might send round a bearded person.” Since then, of course, he has
realised that anarchists are just not that efficient.
Underneath all the sloganeering though, Bone has been protesting about
social cleansing all his life. He led “poor doors” protests in the East End in
2014. “If you grow up like | did, that gets you. The tradesman's entrance.” He
saw the developing ghost towers but he sees the working class being
squeezed out everywhere. “Who wants another coffee shop or prep school?”

Source: https: //www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/07/ian-bone-

idol-shard-provocateur-anarchist-protester-qatari-royals [accessed
08/02/2018]

Class War promotes a blatant left-wing political agenda.

lan Bone ascribes his anarchic attitude to social inequality.

Class War exists to expose blatant “miserabilism”.

lan Bone blames his father for his lifelong anarchic attitude.
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From surgeons to chefs and firefighters, plenty of professionals have already

begun to develop functions for a hands-free and voice-activated piece of kit
that delivers information on the move, or on a task, without the need to touch
or tap a screen. lt does so either visually, to the small glass prism attached to
the right lens of the 43-gram titanium frame (for the viewer, equivalent to a
25in HD screen 8ft away), or else verbally, via a tiny microphone that makes
use of the bone-conduction technology found in hearing aids.

[The Independent, Boyd Tonkin]

What does this text describe?

headphones glasses a camera a smart phone

The Sun Rain Room, as this work is accurately called, may be the architectural
project with the most meteorology per square metre since Noah built the ark.
The architects say they want it to be “a good place to be on a bad day”:
Because of the doubling and dissolving of the reflective surfaces, it takes a
while to realise how little usable space is actually added - just a big wall
cupboard to house a barbecue, a potting shed and such like, an enclosed area
big enough for a smallish dining table and another, sheltered but external,
where you can also eat. Mostly, it's a machine for enjoying the weather.
There is also a room underneath, the bedroom of a basement flat, added late
in the gestation of the project when it became clear that the mathematics of
property prices in the London borough of Islington would more than repay the
cost of construction. It is thus a (relatively modest) addition to the new
basementism that elsewhere in the capital has seen swimming pools and
vintage car collections put underground. But here the main object of the work
= which has taken 12 years to complete since it was a gleam in Tonkin and Liu's
eye, and whose cost of £235,000 would be much greater if they hadn't put a
lot of their own time and ingenuity into the construction — is to allow the full
enjoyment of a small London garden that somehow they hadn't used much.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/aug/13/sun-rain-
room-review-tonkin-liu-home-for-all-seasons [07/02/2018]

The architects:

made a significant profit by adding basement rooms.

wanted to optimise their use of outdoor space.

reduced costs by building down into the basement.

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¿Qué frase resume mejor el siguiente pasaje/fragmento?

The global livestock industry already takes an enormous toll on the

environment. It's a hungry and thirsty beast, gobbling up land and water. It's a
potent polluter, thanks to the animal waste and veterinary medicines that seep
into soil and water, And ¡it emits more greenhouse gases than planes, trains
and automobiles combined.
The insect authorities assembling in Ede believe that entomophagy could be
an elegant solution to many of these problems. Insects are chock-full of
protein and rich in essential micronutrients, such as iron and zinc. They don't
need as much space as livestock, emit lower levels of greenhouse gases, and
have a sky-high feed conversion rate: a single kilogram of feed yields 12 times
more edible cricket protein than beef protein. Some species of insects are
drought resistant and may require less water than cows, pigs or poultry.
Some foods, like chocolate, sell themselves. Insects are not one of those
foods. “Insects,” says Paul Rozin, a psychologist at the University of
Pennsylvania, "are disgusting. Things that are disgusting are offensive
because of what they are. It's not that insects taste bad. It's that the idea of an
insect is upsetting to people.”
Many insect species are found on, in or around waste, and they're commonly
associated with dirt, decay and disease, all of which increase the yuck factor.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141014-time-to-put-bugs-on-the-
menu [accessed 08/02/2018]

Entomophagy means overcoming our natural revulsion in favour of sustainability.

Industry costs prohibit insects becoming a sustainable environmental solution.

Most personal correspondence of to-day consists of letters the first half of
which are given over to an indexed statement of reasons why the writer hasn't
written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder
devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.
So many people begin their letters by saying that they have been rushed to
death during the last month, and therefore haven't found time to write, that
one wonders where all the grown persons come from who attend movies at
eleven in the morning. There has been a misunderstanding of the word "busy"
somewhere.

Of course, there are a great many people now who write letters because they
like to. Also, there are some who do it because they feel that they owe it to
posterity and to their publishers to do so. As soon as a man begins to sniff a
chance that he may become moderately famous he is apt to brush up on his
letter writing and never send anything out that has not been polished and
proofread, with the idea in mind that someday someone is going to get all of
his letters together and make a book of them.

http://www.theironist.com/readings/2010/05/10/when-genius-remained-your-
humble-servant

The author claims:

Modern life does not allow much time for correspondence.

Most modern correspondence would make a poor biography.

Most modern correspondence is either meaningless or motivated by vanity.

People do not set aside enough time for correspondence.

This month in Pyeongchang, elite teams of physics and materials science
experts from all over the world will dazzle us with ostentatious displays of
grace and power. We commonly refer to these experts as athletes. Gymnasts
demonstrate their subtle understanding of gravity and momentum. Swimmers
and divers master fluid dynamics and surface tension. Skiers harness their
knowledge of friction and hydrology, and lugers push their aerodynamics
chops to the limits. Olympians, after all, understand science at a visceral level
in ways most of us don't.
One of the best places to explore this variety of physical forces is figure
skating. A skater's every twist, turn and leap begins with balance. And balance
relies on being able to keep your center of mass—which, as the name implies,
is the center of where an object's mass is located—directly over a point of
contact with the ice. For a highly symmetric object like a circle or sphere, that
is in the dead center. For the lumpier, bumpier shape of the human body, the
center of mass varies from person to person but tends to be a bit below the
navel. Through glides, spins, takeoffs and landings, a figure skater has to keep
their center of mass aligned with a foot on the ice—or risk taking a tumble.

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-physics-
keeps-figure-skaters-gracefully-aloft-180968051/ [accessed 08/02/2018]

Olympians have been studying science to optimise their performance.

Athletes have a different centre of mass from the average.

Olympians are a perfect example of physical science in action.

Scientists are attending the Olympics to monitor athletic performance.

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You could call it a Very British Modernism, the process by which the fierce
inventions of continental artists became gentler and kinder; whereby
Mondrian's implacable right angles became Ben Nicholsonr's more negotiable
compositions, whereby the artistic inventions of a merciless metropolis like
1900s Paris were soothed by Cornish seaside air, or the dismemberments
practiced on the human form by the surrealists and Picasso grew less brutal in
the hands of a Henry Moore.
Kettle's Yard in Cambridge is one of VBM's foremost incubators and shrines. lt
is discreet, internal, domestic, this row of tiny houses that was converted in
the 1950s into a house for Ede and his wife, Helen, donated to the University
of Cambridge in 1966 and extended in 1970 to form a gallery of modern art. Or
rather a house-gallery, as the little rooms of the old cottages, in which the
Edes lived until 1973, are notable for the way that works of art, both foreign
and domestic, repose alongside washstands and spindle-backed rocking
chairs. The 1970 extension is a gallery-house, with a museum's top-lighting,
white planes for the paintings, but still rugs on the floor, a long sofa casually
assembled out of single mattresses, informality in the way that a Bráncusi or a
Gaudier-Brzeska sculpture might sit on an old barrel or a large log.

Source: https: //www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/04/kettles-

yard-cambridge-redesign-jamie-fobert [08/02/2018]

Kettle's Yard:

houses an important collection of British artwork.

displays important artwork in an informal setting.

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| : bought ' aticket to Ghent yesterday, but then | missed the train.

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Did Laura go to the conference?

No, she didn't. Mary | went | instead.

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Rellena el(los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Verbo TO WATCH

Malcolm is not impressed with Chrissie. Yesterday, he asked her to stop

watchind videos during working hours.

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6/20

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- l'm late for work again!

- | told you out last night!

not to not
to go don't go to go
Gramática

A ——————————— 7/20

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- This is a great party.

- Yes, it is.

- Look there's Ann, she's talking to John. | didn't know that they knew each

other.

- Really? John told me that they | have been working + for the same company

for years!

have been working will have worked had worked were working
Gramática

8/20

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- How did you get on at the team-building weekend?

- lt was great, but very intense.

the group leader had us running, jumping over obstacles and climbing up

walls. It was great fun!

Had we We had Had we barely Barely had we

Gramática

— 10/20

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- l'm really looking forward to our trip to London. | can't wait to see the city

again.

- But you told me you didn't know London.

- | think you misunderstood me, | said | ( had been going ' back and forwards

to London on business for many years, but that | didn't know it from a tourist's

point of view.

was going used to be going had been going had gone

Gramática

NL) 1/20

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- Anthony still hasn't returned my call. | wonder why...

- Have you checked your voicemalil? He | might have tried ¡to call whilst you

were out.

might have tried should have tried could try may be trying
Gramática

A 12/20

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- Last weekend, | went to Rome. lt was the first time | | had ever been ! to

Italy.

was gone had ever been going had ever been was ever going
Gramática

AAA 13/20

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By the time you join our company we | will have appointed ' anew marketing

manager. So, the current vacancy will be filled before you join.

will have appointed will be appointing will appoint

will have been appointing

Gramática

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Rellena el (los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Use the modal verb 'ought' in your three-word answer.

The plane is late. lt ought to have landed by now.

Gramática

A) 15/20

Rellena el (los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Rewrite the conditional sentence so that it begins with the word 'Were".

If they offered you the job, would you accept?

Were they to offer you the job, would you accept

Gramática

NANA | 17/20

Rellena el (los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Correct the error in this sentence: |'d rather you don't eat all the bread.

l'd rather you I'd rather you didn't eat all the bread.
Gramática

A ÓR 18/20

Rellena el (los) campo(s) vacíio(s).

Honestly, Sarah, you promised you wouldn't tell anyone. It is high

Honestly, Sarah, you promised you

wouldn't tell anyone. It is high time you kept your word!

Gramática

20/20

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Decide whether the capitalised phrase is correct.

WILL YOU BE SEEING Jackie Smith tomorrow?

Incorrect Correct
Vocabulario

e E

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'm not going to my words: the company is in desperate need

he
o
D
2

of restructuring!

grind chew swallow mince

Vocabulario

Po 3 2/15

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- Do you think that the new funding is a good idea?

- Well, it's : high ¡time the government did something.

high long far tall

Vocabulario

an, 3/15

Elige la respuesta correcta.

Our projections for next year's turnover were : somewhat understated pl

think we”ll make slightly less than we predicted.

somewhat understated in the wrong wide of the mark out of this world
Vocabulario

q - == === 4/15

Rellena el campo vacío - 1 palabra.

Forma un adjetivo a partir del sustantivo HISTORY

As is often the case with exceptional historical documents,

the forty-eight surviving copies of the Gutenberg Bible are considered to be

among the most valuable books in the world.

Vocabulario

ss 5/15

Rellena el campo vacío - 1 palabra.

It's not just a matter of raising awareness of this issue in the

media; we also need to take direct action.

Vocabulario

gg 6/15

Elige la respuesta correcta.

Choose the exclamation you would express if you suddenly lost your balance
or dropped something.

Whoa! Wow! Whoosh! Whoops!

Vocabulario

E. —_ _——_—_—__—————— > 8/15

Rellena el(los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Usa un verbo y un nombre.

After embezzling more than €4 million of company funds, he

was sentenced to a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison

for fraud.
Vocabulario

o ——_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—______—_—_—__—__—_3] 9/15

Rellena el campo vacío - 1 palabra.

After a number of failed attempts to reach an out-of-court settlement, the

actress resorted to] to suing the newspaper for libel.

Vocabulario

n.- —__—_—__—_—_——_—_—_ 3] 10/15

Rellena el campo vacío - 1 palabra.

Many women find it hard to balance motherhood with their

professional obligations. Having too many balls in the air has led experts to

talk about the need for a greater work/life balance.

Vocabulario

yá — >= ->-—————4+A > 1/15

Rellena el(los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Use two adjectives. The first one means 'dry', and the second means 'capable

of producing abundant crops..

Only 20 years ago, this was an arid and barren land

where farming was a struggle. Now there are fertile

terraces growing sweetcorn, sunflowers and tomatoes, irrigated by water from

tranquil lakes.
Vocabulario

A 12/15

Rellena el campo vacío - 1 palabra.

As a result of his accident, the car was completely Written off

off and we had to buy a new one.

Vocabulario

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Rellena el (los) campo(s) vacío(s).

Usa un verbo preposicional y un sustantivo.

Itis sometimes necessary to Lay off employees when some

jobs become superfluous after a company restructures. In this case,

restructuring leads to Redundancies

Vocabulario

A 14/15

Rellena el campo vacío - 3 palabras.

Use an idiom meaning 'utterly unimaginable".

Those were the heady days when stockbrokers commanded salaries beyond

Beyond the wildest dreams] of ordinary folk.

Vocabulario

ÁKÁKÁKÁKÁKÁKÁáÁáÁáÁáÁáÁáÁáÁáÁA2> 15/15

Rellena el campo vacío - 1 palabra.

I was at the end of my tether] after weeks of dealing with

constant complaints and difficult clients.

Comprensión auditiva

ES 1/10

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00:00 mf) can y

Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

According to the speaker, classical music:

is not a large part of many people's lives today.

helps us to realise human capability and potential.

makes us focus on ourselves and our own interests.

Comprensión auditiva

22 2/10

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Po -02:15 MD) cama )

Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

Which of the following statements is not implied in Dr Johnson's monologue?

She advocates non-invasive over invasive treatments because the former has fewer
risks.

She recognises that plastic surgery can, in fact, be detrimental to body image and self-
esteem.

She takes a cautious approach when accepting new patients for surgical procedures.

She believes that post-surgical complications are inevitable,

Comprensión auditiva

+= 3/10

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» o 00:36 ml) cun )

Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

According to the speaker:

John Hammond's victory was mostly expected by the public.

John Hammond believes that the established political parties are doing a good job.

John Hammond's style is measured and relatable.

John Hammond's success is due to his appeal to older voters.

Comprensión auditiva

EÁ<ÁA<AáAAáAáAáAAAAA> 4/10

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Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

According to the speaker, living a long, healthy life:

depends mostly on relationships with others.

depends mostly on your mental outlook. depends mostly on your physical health.

depends mostly on luck.

Comprensión auditiva

NN 5/10

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00:00 dp) uma

Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

Why should the star be given a second chance?

He pleaded guilty. He apologised to his friends and family.

He promised to turn his life around.

Comprensión auditiva

Elige la respuesta correcta.

00:00 mi) aa

Te quedan 2 intentos de escucha

The Island of Flowers:

contains many entertainment options. is a perfect destination for foodie travellers.

is made up of rock formations. is sparsely populated.

Comprensión auditiva

E ss ss 6/10

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00:00 ql) una

Te quedan 2 intentos de escucha

According to the speaker, Gladwell:

writes mostly about new and innovative subjects.

has recently run out of ideas for his writing.

makes readers unsure of their understanding of the world.

is well organised and collected.

Comprensión auditiva

_Í __ _ _ __ _»>P_____QQQz___ AA 8/10

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00:00 qa) mas

Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

Recycling is still a problem in Britain because:

recycling of household waste has quadrupled since 1997.

some local councils are not taking it seriously.

they recycle more than their European neighbours.

Comprensión auditiva

9/10

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00:00 my) ema

Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

What happened to the project?

He found it interesting and viable. He lost the courage to do it.

It became profitable.
Comprensión auditiva

10/10

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00:00 ad») |

Te quedan 3 intentos de escucha

The captain told the passengers that:

he is unsure whether they will take off. they will take off in 10 minutes.

they have been blocked from the airport. they have special authorisation to take off.
 1/10

¿Qué frase resume mejor el siguiente pasaje/fragmento?

Most personal correspondence of to-day consists of letters the first half of

which are given over to an indexed statement of reasons why the writer hasn't
written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder
devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.
So many people begin their letters by saying that they have been rushed to
death during the last month, and therefore haven't found time to write, that
one wonders where all the grown persons come from who attend movies at
eleven in the morning. There has been a misunderstanding of the word "busy"
somewhere.

Of course, there are a great many people now who write letters because they
like to. Also, there are some who do it because they feel that they owe it to
posterity and to their publishers to do so. As soon as a man begins to sniff a
chance that he may become moderately famous he is apt to brush up on his
letter writing and never send anything out that has not been polished and
proofread, with the idea in mind that someday someone ¡is going to get all of
his letters together and make a book of them.

http: //www.theironist.com/readings/2010/05/10/when-genius-remained-your-
humble-servant

The author claims:

People do not set aside enough time for correspondence.

Most modern correspondence is either meaningless or motivated by vanity.

Most modern correspondence would make a poor biography.

A 2/10

Elige la respuesta correcta.

This month in Pyeongchang, elite teams of physics and materials science

experts from all over the world will dazzle us with ostentatious displays of
grace and power. We commonly refer to these experts as athletes. Gymnasts
demonstrate their subtle understanding of gravity and momentum. Swimmers
and divers master fluid dynamics and surface tension. Skiers harness their
knowledge of friction and hydrology, and lugers push their aerodynamics
chops to the limits. Olympians, after all, understand science at a visceral leve!
in ways most of us don't.
One of the best places to explore this variety of physical forces is figure
skating. Á skater's every twist, turn and leap begins with balance. And balance
relies on being able to keep your center of mass—which, as the name implies,
is the center of where an object's mass is located—directly over a point of
contact with the ice. For a highly symmetric object like a circle or sphere, that
is in the dead center. For the lumpier, bumpier shape of the human body, the
center of mass varies from person to person but tends to be a bit below the
navel. Through glides, spins, takeoffs and landings, a figure skater has to keep
their center of mass aligned with a foot on the ice—or risk taking a tumble.

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-physics-
keeps-figure-skaters-gracefully-aloft-180968051/ [accessed 08/02/2018]

Scientists are attending the Olympics to monitor athletic performance.

Olympians have been studying science to optimise their performance.

Athletes have a different centre of mass from the average.

Olympians are a perfect example of physical science in action.

A 3/10

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The Sun Rain Room, as this work is accurately called, may be the architectural
project with the most meteorology per square metre since Noah built the ark.
The architects say they want it to be "a good place to be on a bad day".
Because of the doubling and dissolving of the reflective surfaces, it takes a
while to realise how little usable space ¡s actually added — just a big wall
cupboard to house a barbecue, a potting shed and such like, an enclosed area
big enough for a smallish dining table and another, sheltered but external,
where you can also eat. Mostly, it's a machine for enjoying the weather.
There is also a room underneath, the bedroom of a basement flat, added late
in the gestation of the project when ¡it became clear that the mathematics of
property prices in the London borough of Islington would more than repay the
cost of construction. It is thus a (relatively modest) addition to the new
basementism that elsewhere in the capital has seen swimming pools and
vintage car collections put underground. But here the main object of the work
= which has taken 12 years to complete since it was a gleam in Tonkin and Liu's
eye, and whose cost of £235,000 would be much greater if they hadn't put a
lot of their own time and ingenuity into the construction — is to allow the full
enjoyment of a small London garden that somehow they hadn't used much.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/aug/13/sun-rain-
room-review-tonkin-liu-home-for-all-seasons [07/02/2018]

The architects:

reduced costs by building down into the basement.

wanted to optimise their use of outdoor space.

Comprensión lectora

AS 4/10

Elige la respuesta correcta.

From surgeons to chefs and firefighters, plenty of professionals have already

begun to develop functions for a hands-free and voice-activated piece of kit
that delivers information on the move, or on a task, without the need to touch
or tap a screen. lt does so either visually, to the small glass prism attached to
the right lens of the 43-gram titanium frame (for the viewer, equivalent to a
25in HD screen 8ft away), or else verbally, via a tiny microphone that makes
use of the bone-conduction technology found in hearing aids.

[The Independent, Boyd Tonkin]

What does this text describe?

glasses a camera headphones a smart phone

 ¿Qué frase resume mejor el siguiente pasaje/fragmento?

Pensioner lan Bone of Class War has been protesting about gentrification and
social cleansing since the 80s. Bone's real stick is his words. His attitude. His
joy at pointing to obvious wrongs and asking us which side we are on. “| hate
dull lefties” he tells me. “All the miserabilism.” He likes action and shock. And
swearing. Bone's stance has always been about having a laugh along the way
to smashing it all up.
His father was a butler. His family grew up "in service”. "So | grew up bitter and
resentful with a chip on my shoulder,” he tells me gleefully. When he was 15 he
wrote off to an address that he found in Punch to find out more about
anarchism. “| believed in chaos,” he said. "| then panicked for weeks. | thought
they might send round a bearded person.” Since then, of course, he has
realised that anarchists are just not that efficient.
Underneath all the sloganeering though, Bone has been protesting about
social cleansing all his life. He led "poor doors” protests in the East End in
2014. “If you grow up like | did, that gets you. The tradesman's entrance.” He
saw the developing ghost towers but he sees the working class being
squeezed out everywhere. “Who wants another coffee shop or prep school?"

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/07/ian-bone-
idol-shard-provocateur-anarchist-protester-gatari-royals [accessed
08/02/2018]

Class War promotes a blatant left-wing political agenda.

Class War exists to expose blatant "miserabilism”.

lan Bone blames his father for his lifelong anarchic attitude.

lan Bone ascribes his anarchic attitude to social inequality.

 Elige la respuesta correcta.

Seven Dials, in central London, is a good place to people-watch. Outside the

Crown pub, ruddy men laugh loudly, sloshing their pints; shoppers' heels click
on cobblestones; and tourists spill bewildered out of a musical at the
Cambridge Theatre. A column marks the seven-street intersection, and its
steps make a sunny perch for gazing on the parade.
Charles Dickens soaked up the scene here too, but saw something utterly
different. Passing through in 1835, he observed "streets and courts [that] dart
in all directions, until they are lost in the unwholesome vapour which hangs
over the house-tops and renders the dirty perspective uncertain and
confined.” There were drunken women quarrelling—"VWy don't you pitch into
her, Sarah?"—and men "in their fustian dresses, spotted with brick-dust and
whitewash” leaning against posts for hours. Seven Dials was synonymous with
poverty and crime, a black hole to most Londoners. Dickens stormed it with
pen and paper.
It's hard to conjure the notorious slum from the column steps today. Passing
reference to the area's history in a guidebook is abstract, leaving you with a
cloudy image of sooty faces. But read Dickens' description of the Dials in
"Sketches by Boz”, and it comes to life.

Source: https: //www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-charles-dickens-saw-

london-13198155/ [accessed 08/02/2018]

Seven Dials is still notorious for its rough drinking culture.

Dickens' description helped to sanitise the area around Seven Dials.

Though much improved, Seven Dials remains a rundown area today.

Dickens' description brought Seven Dials to the notice of Londoners.

 They lied to us! Who knew? | mean, one moment, there you are, slumped on
the sofa, drooling away in happy open-mouthed assent as the lady on the telly
tells you that her face cream will make you look like Scarlett Johansson. The
next, you discover that it's not true. All their face cream will do is make your
face greasier and your wallet lighter.
This - in outline - is the finding that has been made by the Advertising
Standards Authority (ASA) against an advert in which "beauty journalists" tell
us that "if you're not ready for cosmetic injections" help is at hand in the form
of expensive "anti-ageing creams".
The thing about anti-ageing cream - a thing so blatantly obvious that it seems
a miracle the ASA hasn't coughed quietly and pointed it out more often - is
that it doesn't exist. There is no such thing. Nowhere in the universe.
The adverts might as well say "defy the second law of thermodynamics with
face cream" or "thanks to the special scientifically developed molecules in our
moisturiser, the earth's gravitational field need not affect you". This is an entire
industry built on pernicious horse manure, and the only wrinkles it's likely to
reduce are the ones on your cerebellum.

Adapted from source:

https: //www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/mar/05/beauty-industry-
fraud [08/02/2018]

The author feels:

ASA has only mildly criticised claims made in some advertisements.

ASA has upheld certain claims made in advertisements for moisturisers.

ASA has strongly upheld claims made by beauty journalists.

ASA has forcefully condemned claims made by the beauty industry.

There ¡s wide concern that eloquence has fallen victim to expediency, that the
thoughtful phrase has been replaced by the fascicle contraction, that
communication ¡s suffering, and that texting bears the brunt of the blame. In a
2012 study published in the journal New Media £ Society, researchers at Wake
Forest University found a correlation between the use of SMS-abbreviations
and the increasing inability among students to identify and use correct
grammar; the more texts the 10-to-14-year-olds in the study sent, the worse
their grammar performance.
And although a 2013 study published in the journal Linguistics and Translation
concluded that most users are “context conscious,” and are adept at switching
from text speak to writing that calls for more formality, is it any wonder the
two sometimes intersect?
If conversation is an art, art takes practice. Today, that practice time is used
up screen-to-screen, rather than face-to-face or through composing a well-
constructed letter. And yet the reports of the death of eloquent expression
may be greatly exaggerated. If we look at what the age of digital information—
and texting and other forms of digital shorthand in particular—has done to the
art of interpersonal communication, all is not lost. It's just different. And in
some world-changing ways: better.

Source: https: //www.forbes.com/sites/peggydrexler/2014/06/23/the-

importance-of-being-fluent-in-the-language-of-texting/F5dcfb976034
[accessed 09/02/2018]

The author suagests that:

despite the findings, texting will never replace face-to-face conversation.

despite the findings, we can still express ourselves eloquently.

research shows text-speak is changing how we use grammar.

There is wide concern that eloquence has fallen victim to expediency, that the
thoughtful phrase has been replaced by the fascicle contraction, that
communication is suffering, and that texting bears the brunt of the blame. In a
2012 study published in the journal New Media € Society, researchers at Wake
Forest University found a correlation between the use of SMS-abbreviations
and the increasing inability among students to identify and use correct
grammar; the more texts the 10-to-14-year-olds in the study sent, the worse
their grammar performance.
And although a 2013 study published in the journal Linguistics and Translation
concluded that most users are "context conscious,” and are adept at switching
from text speak to writing that calls for more formality, is lt any wonder the
two sometimes intersect?
If conversation is an art, art takes practice. Today, that practice time is used
up screen-to-screen, rather than face-to-face or through composing a well-
constructed letter. And yet the reports of the death of eloquent expression
may be greatly exaggerated. lf we look at what the age of digital information—
and texting and other forms of digital shorthand in particular—has done to the
art of interpersonal communication, all is not lost. It's just different. And in
some world-changing ways: better.

Source: https: //www.forbes.com/sites/pegaydrexler/2014/06/23/the-

importance-of-being-fluent-in-the-language-of-texting/F5dchfb976034
laccessed 09/02/2018]

The author suggests that:

despite the findings, texting will never replace face-to-face conversation.

despite the findings, we can still express ourselves eloquently.

research shows text-speak is changing how we use grammar.

Comprensión lectora

AAA 9/10

Elige la respuesta correcta.

Following the old advice, 'f it ain't broke, don't fix it, is fatal in the fast-moving
world of computer security. New threats and vulnerabilities are always
emerging and the industry works hard to provide so-called patches to meet
them. Some are issued in response to specific threats, others as part of a
rolling programme of upgrades, such as Microsoft's “Patch Tuesdays” usually
the second Tuesday of the month, when a package of security measures is
distributed.

[The Times, Chris Partridge]

According to the article:

most computer security issues are fixed only temporarily.

the world of computer security is becoming easier to manage.

patches are issued only when there is a specific threat.

the industry is not doing enough to deal with computer security issues,
 ¿Qué frase resume mejor el siguiente pasaje/fragmento?

The global livestock industry already takes an enormous toll on the

environment. It's a hungry and thirsty beast, gobbling up land and water. It's a
potent polluter, thanks to the animal waste and veterinary medicines that seep
into soil and water. And it emits more greenhouse gases than planes, trains
and automobiles combined.
The insect authorities assembling in Ede believe that entomophagy could be
an elegant solution to many of these problems. Insects are chock-full of
protein and rich in essential micronutrients, such as iron and zinc. They don't
need as much space as livestock, emit lower levels of greenhouse gases, and
have a sky-high feed conversion rate: a single kilogram of feed yields 12 times
more edible cricket protein than beef protein. Some species of insects are
drought resistant and may require less water than cows, pigs or poultry.
Some foods, like chocolate, sell themselves. Insects are not one of those
foods. “Insects,” says Paul Rozin, a psychologist at the University of
Pennsylvania, "are disgusting. Things that are disgusting are offensive
because of what they are. It's not that insects taste bad. It's that the idea of an
insect is upsetting to people.”
Many insect species are found on, in or around waste, and they're commonly
associated with dirt, decay and disease, all of which increase the yuck factor.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141014-time-to-put-bugs-on-the-
menu [accessed 08/02/2018]

Industry costs prohibit insects becoming a sustainable environmental solution.

Insects are already being used in mainstream global food production.

Entomophagy means overcoming our natural revulsion in favour of sustainability.

Entomophagy is a sustainable solution but brings significant health risks.