# Pruebas de acceso a facultades, escuelas técnicas superiores y colegios universitarios

Comunidad: | Comunidad Valenciana
Convocatoria: | Septiembre de 1995
Modalidad: | LOGSE - Todas
Ejercicio: | 1er Ejercicio B
Asignatura: | Inglés
Obligatoriedad: | Obligatoria
Duración: | 60 minutos
Baremo: | Reading comprehension: 2 points (1 point each); True/ False: 1 point (0.5 each); Find synonym: 1 point (0.5 each); Multiple choice: 2 points (0.5 each); Composition: 4 points.

## Part A. Reading comprehension

Read the following text:

Save it or lose it

Costa Blanca Town Halls have launched a campaign pleading with residents to: "Save water or face cuts". Announcements are being read on radio stations in the Marina Baixa warning people not to use so much water or face serious consequences. Organised jointly by Calpe, Benissa and Teulada Councils, the warnings are in English, Spanish and French. They do not specify means of reducing water consumption, but the consequences would include the cuts that are presently hitting the Costa del Sol.

At the present Marbella and Estepona have only four hours of water supplies a day, while Fuengirola has to have drinking supplies brought in by lorry. Last week five coastal resorts, including Benalmádena and Estepona, were cut off completely for three days when the local reservoir dried up.

Warnings on the Costa Blanca come in the week that top government officials claimed that drastic measures on a national level must be taken. If not, over eight million people in southern Spain could be without water by autumn, despite restrictions. Public Works Minister José Borrell spelled out the situation by declaring that either water is piped to the worst hit areas by those with a surplus, or there won't be any water at all.

In spite of the intransigence of local farmers and officials, farmer's associations in Alicante province are demanding a rescue supply of water from the River Tajo in central Spain to save their crops.

Unsigned. Costa Blanca News. Benidorm. April 1995.

I. Answer these questions using your own words:

1. What measures are being taken to reduce water consumption?
2. Judging by what the Minister says, how could the problem be solved?

II. Are the following statements True (T) or False (F)?

1. According to the Costa Blanca authorities, it is pointless trying to explain the problem to the population.
2. Fuengirola had to bring water from the local reservoir.

III. Find a word or phrase in the text which, in context, is similar in meaning to...

1. emergency.
2. place where the water is collected artificially.

IV. Choose a, b, c, or d in each question below. Only one choice is correct.

1. The Minister of Public Works...
   1. failed convince the local farmers.
   2. amused the population with his proposals.
   3. indicated how the problem could be solved.
   4. said that water consumption is a question of getting organised better.
2. The writer recommends...
   1. nothing in particular.
   2. to bring water in lorries.
   3. to use the local reservoir until it dries up.
   4. to bring water from the river Tajo.
3. The idea of launching a campaign in the Marina Baja was inspired by...
   1. coastal resorts in southern Spain.
   2. angry farmers.
   3. knowledge that water resources are limited.
   4. the need to irrigate the land.
4. The campaign in the Marina Baja has been aimed at...
   1. everybody.
   2. local farmers.
   3. governement officials.
   4. Spanish residents.

## B. Composition (100-150 words approximately)

Choose one of the following two topics:

1. The local radio station has asked you to interview the Minister of Public Works on the situation created by the water restricion. Make a transcript of it.
2. What advice can you offer people to reduce water consumption? Describe the consequences of wasting water.

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