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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 laprueba.
4. Proceda a 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 only able 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 conditioncharacterized by
great difficulty in 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 anotherperson despite significant changes 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 oftheir ability to remember
people. 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 yearsearlier in a different city. This
outstanding 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 recognizepeople?
b) Why might the results of the study 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, some people _____ (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 to150 words on the following topic.
Would you like to 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

INSTRUCCIONES GENERALES Y VALORACIÓN

QUESTIONS

1.- Are the following statements TRUE...