Question

OPTION A THE PILOT

1 As a German pilot in World War I, my father was flying a reconnaissance mission over the east of France when
2 he was attacked by French airplanes whose machine guns damaged his plane. Without engine power, he managed
3 to cross the Swiss border and crash-landed in a field among surprised farmers. At the end of the war, he returned to
4 Germany from neutral Switzerland, where he had been living in an internment camp. After that, he continued his
5 studies, graduated as a geologist, and eventually immigrated to the United States, where he became a geology
6 professor at a leading American University.
7 Half a century after this wartime incident and near the end of his career, my father was with a group of students
8 at the end of a day's geological fieldwork. They all gathered around a campfire and he started to tell them his
9 experience. Suddenly, one of the students interrupted him and said, "Let me finish the story." From that moment, to
10 the amazement of all, the student provided the correct details of what had happened that day in Switzerland.
11 He told them that, when the farm workers got to the place of the accident to assist the soldiers, they found that
12 the photographer who was seated behind my father was dead. They liberated my disoriented but uninjured father
13 from the plane and provided him with food and water. Some time later, the Swiss police arrived and interned him in a
14 camp. In his youth, the student had heard this story many times from his mother, who happened to be one of the
15 farm girls taking part in the events.


7. FIND IN THE TEXT THE WORD WHICH HAS THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION: “to come together into one group.”
8. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT PREPOSITION: “The French pilot arrived... Germany.”
9. FIND IN THE TEXT ONE OPPOSITE FOR “harmed” (adjective).
10. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS: “Her eyes are red. I think she... (cry).”
11. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRECT OPTION: “I had never seen... beautiful picture!” so / such / such a / rather
12. GIVE ONE SYNONYM FOR “eventually” (adverb) (line 5) AS IT IS USED IN THE TEXT.
13. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED. “I got wet because I didn’t take an
umbrella.” If I...
14. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: “The machine gun damaged his plane.”
15. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE: “People should wear life jackets during swimming lessons.”
16. JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING A RELATIVE. MAKE CHANGES IF NECESSARY. “I can’t find the house. Charles
Dickens was born there.”
17. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO DIRECT SPEECH: “He asked me not to leave the pilot unattended.”

Prueba de Selectividad Andalucia, Septiembre 2015-2016, INGLES

Answer 1

7. FIND IN THE TEXT THE WORD WHICH HAS THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION:
“to come together into one group.”
Gather - bring together and take in from scattered places or sources.

8. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT PREPOSITION: 
“The French pilot arrived..in..Germany.”

9. FIND IN THE TEXT ONE OPPOSITE FOR “harmed” (adjective).

Uninjured - that has not been hurt.

10. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS:

“Her eyes are red. I think she..has been crying.. (cry).”

11. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRECT OPTION: 
“I had never seen..such a.. beautiful picture!”

12. GIVE ONE SYNONYM FOR “eventually” (adverb) (line 5) AS IT IS USED IN THE TEXT. 
Finally - after a long time, typically involving difficulty or delay.

13. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED. “I got wet because I didn’t take an umbrella.”
If I had taken an umbrella, I wouldn’t have gotten wet.


14. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: “The machine gun damaged his plane.” 
What did the machine gun damage?

15. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE: “People should wear life jackets during swimming lessons.”

Life jackets should be worn by people during swimming lessons.


16. JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING A RELATIVE. MAKE CHANGES IF NECESSARY. “I can’t find the house. Charles Dickens was born there.”

I can’t find the house in which Charles Dickens was born.

17. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO DIRECT SPEECH: “He asked me not to leave the pilot unattended.”

“Don’t leave the pilot unattended, please”, he said.



Prueba de Selectividad Andalucía, Septiembre 2015-2016, INGLÉS