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IES CRISTÓBAL DE MONROY ENGLISH TEST 2º BACHILLERATO 2014

Instrucciones: a) Duración: 1h. 30 min. b) No se permite el uso de diccionario. c) La puntuación de las preguntas está indicada en las mismas. d) Los alumnos deberán realizar completa una de las dos opciones A o B, sin poder mezclar las respuestas.

EXTREME IRONING

Can an ordinary activity like ironing be considered an extreme sport? It sounds unlikely but when an Englishman, Phil Shaw, created a new sport calle Extreme Ironing, the idea quickly caught on.

Ordinary ironing becomes an extrem sport when the places where people do it are dangerous. Devotees of Extreme Ironing are constantly searching for bizarre spots, such as mountain tops or in the middle of busy streets. Extreme ironers are sometimes too enthusiastic and some participants have been injured while they were ironing. One ironer had to have medical treatment after unsuccesfully trying to iron on a surfboard inside a car.

Interest in Extreme Ironing has spread far beyond Britain. In the first world championship, which took place in 2002, participants came from countries as far as Chile. In the same year, a Swiss man set a record by ironing 4,100 metres up in the Alps.

One of the most ambitious ironing attempts was made by two British men, John Roberts and Ben Gibbons, who set out to breat the Swiss man's record. They walked 300 kilometres in 17 days to the foot of Mount Everest, where they joined 35 groups of mountaineers waiting their turn to climb the treacherous mountain. Roberts and Gibbons ironed their national flag, the Union Jack, on a mountain slope 5,440 metres above sea level.

Who knows what other places devotees of Extreme Ironing will find to do their ironing? One thing is for certain; ironing will continue to be done in places most of us would never dream of. Whether we admire their daring feats or criticise their foolishness is a matter of opinion.

I. COMPREHENSION (4 points: questions 1-3, 1 point each; questions 4-5, 0.5 points each)

*ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-3 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS.

1. When is ironing considered an extreme sport?
2. What happened in the first championship held in 2002?
3. What was Roberts and Gibbons's record?
   *ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT, OR USE YOUR OWN WORDS.
4. Roberts and Gibbons broke an existing record
5. At the beginning, Extreme Ironing wasn't really successful.

II. USE OF ENGLISH (3 points; questions 6-9, 0.25 points each; questions 10-13, 0.5 points each)

6. GIVE ONE SYNONYM FOR “treacherous”. (adjective) (line 12)
7. FIND IN THE TEXT ONE SYNONYM FOR “places”. (noun)
8. GIVE A NOUN WITH THE SAME ROOT AS “consider” (verb).
9. FIND IN THE TEXT THE WORD WITH THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION: “People ardently enthusiastic about something, such a sport or pastime”. (noun)
10. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: They walked 300 kilometres in 17 days to the foot of Mount Everet.
11. JOIN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES USING A RELATIVE. MAKE CHANGES IF NECESSARY:
    Phil Shaw is an Englishman. He created a new sport called Extreme Ironing.
12. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO DIRECT SPEECH:
    He asked her where they would go to do Extreme Ironing the next year if they had some money.
13. REWRITE THIS SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED: Sam spent a long time searching for a good place to do Extreme Ironing till he found a waterfall.
    Before...

III. PRODUCTION (3 points)

14. WRITE A COMPOSITION OF APPROXIMATELY 120 WORDS. FOCUS STRICTLY ON THE TOPIC: Why do some people practice dangerous sports?