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COMISSIÓ GESTORA DE LES PROVES D’ACCÉS A LA UNIVERSITAT
COMISIÓN GESTORA DE LAS PRUEBAS DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD

PROVES D’ACCÉS A LA UNIVERSITAT

PRUEBAS DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDADCONVOCATÒRIA: 2010

CONVOCATORIA: 2010

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Please answer on a separate sheet of paper.

Part A. Reading Comprehension.
Read the followingtext:

HOW FIVE YEARS OF YOUTUBE TURNS A NOBODY INTO A STAR
Five years after Karim and two fellow PayPal employees founded their video-sharing website YouTube, it
hosts more than 120 million videos.The site is a phenomenon that’s generated a whole culture of YouTube
celebrities. Never before had anyone with a video camera been able to reach a potential audience of
millions and for many theydid so by accident. But when the site started including advertisements related to
the user’s search, some people were able to make money out of their hobbies.
The science behind what makes a video ahit remains vague. It’s easier to bathe cats than to predict whether
the public will like or dislike something. It’s an illuminating choice of elements: cats are, of course, a pretty
good bet. Alsobabies, though it’s still surprising that a merely moderately amusing family moment is the
most watched YouTube video of all time: “Charlie bit my finger”, a clip in which Charlie, aged one, bitesthe finger of his big brother Harry.
With its ability to grant an audience of millions to any clip the site has extraordinary democratic potential.
Last year, a clip of Neda Agha-Soltan being shot inthe chest in Iran was put on YouTube instantly and
became a powerful tool in the protest movement against the Iranian government.
The site’s democratic character had already taken on new, practicaluses with the so-called “YouTube
election” of 2008, when what many had dismissed as simply a site for teenagers became a battleground for
one of the most interesting presidential fights in...