EVALUACIÓN DE BACHILLERATO
PARA EL ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD (EBAU)
FASE GENERAL
CURSO 2020–2021
MATERIA: Primera Lengua Extranjera II: Inglés
Convocatoria: Mock exam
Esta prueba está organizada en dos Grupos – A y B, cada uno de los cuales consta de 6 preguntas. El
alumnado dispone de la siguiente optatividad para realizar la prueba:
1. Preguntas 1, 2, 3 y 6: deberá elegir en bloque las 4 correspondientes a un mismo Grupo (A o B).
A saber, A1, A2, A3 y A6, o B1, B2, B3 y B6.
2. Pregunta 4: podrá optar por elegir la del Grupo A o la del Grupo B.
3. Pregunta 5: podrá optar por elegir la del Grupo A completa o la del Grupo B completa, sin que
sea posible combinar apartados de los dos grupos (A y B).
GRUPO A
Europe Wants to Diversify Its Team of Astronauts
The European Space Agency (ESA) is recruiting new astronauts for the first time in over a decade, with
more diversity as the goal. Of the seven astronauts from the agency currently ready to be sent on missions
to the International Space Station, only one of them, Samantha Cristoforetti, a 43-year-old Italian, is a
woman. But the agency is now encouraging women to apply. It is also initiating an effort to allow people
5 with disabilities to go into space, a program called the “Parastronaut Feasibility Project.”
The goal is to select four to six astronauts, as well as around 20 reserve astronauts who could take part in
shorter missions. Recruits with disabilities would first join the reserve group and work with the agency to
figure out any modifications needed for them to go into space.
Paradoxically, the difficulty of living in space for humans is a reason to encourage opportunities for
10 astronauts with disabilities, Ms. Cristoforetti said. “When it comes to space travel, everyone is disabled,”
she said. The solution is “just technology.”
The astronaut selection procedure takes 18 months and includes psychological tests, medical screening,
psychometric screening and interviews. Candidates will have to undergo several years of tough training,
which includes learning survival skills, how to run the spacecraft, mastering Russian and spending up to
15 eight hours underwater to simulate weightlessness.
Applicants must have some minimum requirements, the agency said, including a master’s degree in natural
sciences, medicine, engineering, mathematics or computer science, or a test-pilot license, and a minimum
of three years of relevant work experience.
Applicants need to show that they will be able to deal with the varied challenges of space travel. Daily life
20 in a space station consists of washing with wet towels instead of showers, arduous physical effort, meals of
dehydrated, packaged food, and continual zero gravity, which transforms everyday activities like sleeping
and urinating.
Given that life on the space station resembles a constant confinement, candidates would also have to be
able to see and hear. “Once everyone is locked away in a small space together, the only way they can
25 communicate with anybody else is via a screen,” Ms. van der Tas, the agency’s head of recruitment, said.
So far, 90 percent of all astronauts have been men. The European Space Agency has sent only two women
into space, Claudie Haigneré, who went there twice, in 1996 and 2001, and Ms. Cristoforetti. During the
last recruitment round in 2008, only about 16 percent of the 8,000 applicants were women. “Space affects
us very differently, depending on age, gender and ethnicity,” Ms. van Der Tas said. “The astronaut corps
30 worldwide is very small, so we need to diversify it as much as possible.”
Fragment adapted from The New York Times, February 2021
1. Say whether the following sentences are TRUE or FALSE according to the text. COPY the evidence
from the text. No marks will be given without the evidence. (1.5 points)
a) Seven male astronauts and just one female are currently trained for space missions.
b) ESA plans to recruit up to 26 permanent and reserve astronauts.
c) When astronauts are on the space station, they have no interaction with the outside world.
2. ANSWER the questions below. COPY no more than 10 words and/or a number from the text to
answer each question. (1.5 points)
a) How long does the ESA astronaut selection process last?
b) Why do astronauts have to train in subaquatic conditions?
c) How much related professional experience is needed to become an astronaut?
3. FIND a word or expression in the text that means... (1 point)
a) persuading someone to do something (lines 1-8)
b) intense (lines 9-15)
c) diverse (lines 16-22)
d) globally (lines 23-30)
4. READ this conversation and COMPLETE your part. Write the numbers (1-6) and complete each
sentence on your exam paper. (1.5 points)
Talking to your mum when you arrive home after class
You: Mum?
Your mother: Yes? Hello, honey.
You: (1) _______________________________
Your mother: What exam?! The one you didn’t study for?
You: (2) _______________________________. Don’t you remember?
Your mother: Oh, yes. That weekend you went out until late on Saturday, stayed in bed for the whole
day on Sunday and revised for a while?
You: But, Mum, (3) _______________________________. Anyway, I didn’t pass it.
Your mother: And was it an important exam?
You: (4) _______________________________
Your mother: But can’t you retake it?
You: Well, (5) _______________________________
Your mother: OK. Do that then. But the next time …
You: Stop, stop. (6) _______________________________
5. Read the following situations and WRITE what you would say in each one to show that you
understand the context of the situation. Write between 10 and 25 words. (1.5 points)
a) “Your bedroom is a mess. It’s time you gave it a clean-up”, your dad comments. Refuse politely.
b) “What can we have for dinner?” your brother asks you. Make a suggestion.
c) Your teacher considers the mobile phone a distraction in class. Convince him it can be an effective
learning tool.
6. WRITE a composition of about 120-150 words on the following topic (3 points):
Write an email to the director of the European Space Agency giving your opinion about their new
decision to improve diversity and inclusion.
EVALUACIÓN DE BACHILLERATO
PARA EL ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD (EBAU)
FASE GENERAL
CURSO 2020–2021
MATERIA: Primera Lengua Extranjera II: Inglés
Convocatoria: Mock exam
Esta prueba está organizada en dos Grupos – A y B, cada uno de los cuales consta de 6 preguntas. El
alumnado dispone de la siguiente optatividad para realizar la prueba:
1. Preguntas 1, 2, 3 y 6: deberá elegir en bloque las 4 correspondientes a un mismo Grupo (A o B).
A saber, A1, A2, A3 y A6, o B1, B2, B3 y B6.
2. Pregunta 4: podrá optar por elegir la del Grupo A o la del Grupo B.
3. Pregunta 5: podrá optar por elegir la del Grupo A completa o la del Grupo B completa, sin que
sea posible combinar apartados de los dos grupos (A y B).
GRUPO B
Sweden to build reindeer bridges over roads and railways
Sweden is to build up to a dozen bridges so reindeer can safely cross railway lines and major roads in the
north of the country as global warming forces them to go further afield in search of food.
The public broadcaster Sveriges Radio said the transport authority aimed to start work on the first of the
new bridges, named “renoducts” –a word made from ren (reindeer) and viaduct– later this year, near the
5 eastern city of Umea.
“In a changing climate with difficult snow conditions, it will be extra important to be able to find and
access alternative pastures,” Per Sandström, a landscape ecologist at the Swedish university of agricultural
sciences, told the broadcaster.
Global heating is having a devastating impact on both Sweden’s 250,000 reindeer and the 4,500
10 indigenous Sami owners who are authorised to herd them. Many winter pasture lands are still recovering
from unprecedented droughts and wildfires.
The animals are also finding it difficult in winter to reach the lichen, plants that form a key part of their
diet. While warmer summers help lichen grow, warmer and wetter winters are leading to rainfall rather
than snow in the coldest Arctic months. This means that when temperatures do fall back to below freezing,
15 impenetrable sheets of ice form on the ground, leaving the reindeer unable to smell the food or dig down to
get to it.
Increasingly, the animals (raised for their meat, skins and antlers) have to roam further afield in search of
food, forcing them to cross railway lines or busy roads that are often fenced off, or where they risk being
hit and killed.
20 The dozen bridges planned in the northern counties of Norrbotten and Västerbotten should ease the
situation – and also mean authorities are no longer obliged to close the main north-south E4 motorway
when a herd is on the move.
“I’m looking forward to us being able to cross undisturbed,” one reindeer herder, Tobias Jonsson, told the
radio station, adding that he and his fellow herders were consulted on the location and the design of the
25 bridges.
“We were able to make sure, for example, that the bridges were open on the top,” he said. “There are 2
metre-high fences on the sides, so that the reindeer cannot jump off. But it was important for the animals
that it did not look like they were going into a tunnel. They do not want to be trapped.”
Fragment adapted from The Guardian, January 2021
1. Say whether the following sentences are TRUE or FALSE according to the text. COPY the
evidence from the text. No marks will be given without the evidence. (1.5 points)
a) The name “renoduct” will be given to the first bridge to be built.
b) The reindeer need lichen to stay healthy.
c) The Sami herders were asked for advice about how and where to build the bridges.
2. ANSWER the questions below. COPY no more than 10 words and/or a number from the text to
answer each question. (1.5 points)
a) What is the plan proposed by the Swedish government to help keep reindeer safe?
b) What stops the reindeer from finding food in the coldest winter months?
c) Why will the bridges not be completely open?
3. FIND a word or expression in the text that means... (1 point)
a) getting better (lines 1-11)
b) important (lines 12-19)
c) the opposite of above (lines 12-19)
d) be certain (lines 20-28)
4. READ this conversation and COMPLETE your part. Write the numbers (1-6) and complete each
sentence on your exam paper. (1.5 points)
Your mum has asked either you or your brother to take the dog for a walk
Your brother: I think you should take the dog out today. I did it yesterday.
You: No you didn’t! (1) _______________________________
Your brother: Well, that was because I had a lot of homework. It must have been the day before,
then. He’s your dog, anyway.
You: (2) _______________________________?
Your brother: You were the one who wanted a dog.
You: That’s not true! (3) _______________________________
Your brother: Well, everyone was getting dogs during lockdown, so that they could go out. I
thought a dog would help me to stay fit.
You: (4) _______________________________
Your brother: I’m too busy with other things now. Why don’t we give him to grandad or to Uncle
Jim? I’m sure someone will give him a new home.
You: (5) _______________________________!
Your brother: So, you look after him if you want to keep him. Like I said, it was you who insisted
on getting a dog.
You: (6) _______________________________
5. Read the following situations and WRITE what you would say in each one to show that you
understand the context of the situation. Write between 10 and 25 words. (1.5 points)
a) Your friends know your parents are going away for the weekend and they have asked you to organise
a party in your home. Explain why you think this is a bad idea.
b) You and your family are spending a day at the beach. Your uncle is burying his cigarette ends in the
sand. Tell him why he shouldn’t do this.
c) Your laptop, which used to belong to your sister, is very old and slow. Persuade your parents that you
need a new one.
6. WRITE a composition of about 120-150 words on the following topic (3 points):
In your opinion, where do people have a better quality of life – in towns or in the countryside?
