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UNIVERSIDADES PÚBLICAS DE LA COMUNIDAD DE MADRID PRUEBA DE ACCESO A LAS ENSEÑANZAS UNIVERSITARIAS OFICIALES DE GRADO Curso 2011-2012 MATERIA: INGLÉS OPCIÓN A QUESTIONS INSTRUCCIONES GENERALES Y VALORACIÓN
1. El alumno dispone de dos opciones para contestar (A y B). Debe escoger sólo una de ellas. 2. Lea todo el texto cuidadosamente. 3. Lea atentamente todas las preguntas de la prueba. 4. Procedaa responder en lengua inglesa a las preguntas en el papel de examen. TIEMPO: 1 hora y 30 minutos. CALIFICACIÓN: La puntuación máxima de la prueba es de 10 puntos.

1.- Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text. No marks are given for only TRUE or FALSE.
a) A small minority of people cannot identify other people’s faces easily. b) Super-recognizers are onlyable to recognize people who have the same appearance as when they met.
(Puntuación máxima: 2 puntos)

Some People Never Forget a Face
A new study finds some people can remember faces of people they met years ago and only in passing. Others of us, of course, aren't blessed with that ability. In fact about 2 percent of the population has prosopagnosia, a condition characterized by great difficultyin recognizing faces. The "super-recognizers", as they are called, excel at recalling faces. The study suggests that there is — as with many things — a broad spectrum of ability in this realm. The research involved standardized face recognition tests, and the superrecognizers scored far above average on these tests. Often super-recognizers are able to recognize another person despite significantchanges in appearance, such as aging or a different hair color. They also recognize other people far more often than they are recognized. In these cases, they often compensate by pretending not to recognize someone they met in passing, so as to avoid appearing to attribute too much importance to a brief encounter. Super-recognizers, then, really stand out in terms of their ability to rememberpeople. They have extreme stories of recognizing people; it doesn't have to be a significant interaction. They can recognize someone who was shopping in the same store with them two months ago, for example, even if they didn't speak to the person. One woman in the new study said she had identified another woman on the street who served her as a waitress five years earlier in a different city. Thisoutstanding ability could be important in courts, where one person's eyewitness testimony might thus be more credible than another based on their varying abilities to recognize a face.

2.- In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer the following questions. Do not copy from the text.
a) Why do some super-recognizers pretend not to recognize people? b) Why might the results of thestudy be important in courts?
(Puntuación máxima: 2 puntos)

3.-Find the words in the text that mean:
a) remembering (paragraph 2) b) wide (paragraph 2) c) meeting (paragraph 2) d) believable (paragraph 3)
(Puntuación máxima: 1 punto)

4.- Complete the following sentences. Use the appropriate form of the word in brackets when given.
a) According _____ the results of a recent study, somepeople _____ (find) to be super recognizers. b) People _____ suffer from prosopagnosia find it difficult _____ identify faces. c) Hi Jane! I remember _____ (meet) you _____ a party last year. d) If the witness _____ (not be) in that city five years earlier, she _____ (not meet) the waitress.
(Puntuación máxima: 2 puntos)

5. - Write about 100 to 150 words on the following topic.
Would you liketo have a photographic memory? Explain why or why not. (Puntuación maxima: 3 puntos)

UNIVERSIDADES PÚBLICAS DE LA COMUNIDAD DE MADRID PRUEBA DE ACCESO A LAS ENSEÑANZAS UNIVERSITARIAS OFICIALES DE GRADO Curso 2011-2012 MATERIA: INGLÉS OPCIÓN B QUESTIONS

INSTRUCCIONES GENERALES Y VALORACIÓN
1. El alumno dispone de dos opciones para contestar (A y B). Debe escoger sólo una de ellas. 2. Lea...