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PAU Practice Examination (Andalucía)




INSTRUCCIONES:
A) DURACIÓN: UNA HORA Y TREINTA MINUTOS.
B) NO SE PUEDE USAR DICCIONARIO.
C) LAPUNTUACIÓN DE CADA PREGUNTA ESTÁ INDICADA EN LAS MISMAS.


animal emotions

|5 |You may love your pet, but does your pet love you? Most animal lovers claim that animals definitelyexperience emotions. Many stories |
|10 |are told of older dogs who become jealous when a new dog (or a baby) arrives home. For many years, however, scientists did not agree |
|15 |that animalsexperienced emotions; these behaviours, they said, were simply physiological reactions to external stimuli. But now new |
|20 |research is beginning to confirm that animals may have feelingsmuch like ours. |
| |Recent studies have shown that many animals, including chimpanzees, dogs, horses, rats and birds, experience emotionssimilar to human |
| |jealousy, grief and love. Fear has also been widely observed by scientists, perhaps unsurprisingly, since this emotion helps in |
| |survival. BiologistSamuel Gosling claims that dogs exhibit four dimensions of personality: affection, sociability, emotional stability |
| |and “competence”, a combination of intelligence and obedience. These aresimilar to the categories of human personality generally found |
| |in basic psychological tests.|
| |Other studies have shown that when a recording of dogs’ “laughter” is played to other dogs, they start to play with each other, and rats|
| |who “laugh” frequently seemto be popular among other rats, offering further proof of emotions among animals. In addition, animals |
| |respond to anti-depressant drugs and this proves that their brain chemistry,...