Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad de Extremadura
Asignatura: Inglés
Tiempo máximo de la prueba: Una hora y 30 minutos
El alumno deberá responder a todas las preguntas que se formulan, excepto en el caso de la primera pregunta (la redacción), donde puede elegir entre la opci6n a y (a opción b, El alumno deberá hacer todos los ejercicios en ingles. (Puntuación máxima del ejercicio: 10 puntos. Puntuación máxima de cada pregunta: 1ª pregunta = 3 puntos; 2ª = 2 puntos; 3ª = 1,5 puntos; 4ª = 1,5 punto; 5ª = 2 puntos).
Sludge plant boss is held over toxic Hungary leak
The boss of the aluminium company responsible for Hungary's flood of caustic red sludge was arrested today. Police said they were questioning managing director Zoltan Bakonyi on suspicion of public endangerment and environmental damage.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban blamed "human negligence" for a spill of toxic red sludge that killed eight people last week, and said the government would take control of the company responsible. "In light of what happened, we have good reason to believe that there were people who were aware of the dangerously weakened state of the walls of the reservoirs, but driven by their private interests they believed they were not worth repairing and hoped that the trouble could be avoided," Orban said. Hungary's prime minister told parliament that the government wanted to take over the Hungarian Aluminium Production and Trade Company because the safe restart of production at the plant was needed to save thousands of jobs. Mr Orban said he was also freezing the company's assets to ensure that funds were available to compensate for the damages caused by the disaster.
"Since this is not a natural catastrophe but the damage was brought about by people, the damages must be paid first and foremost not by taxpayers but by those who caused the damage," he said. The company said it was willing to pay compensation "in proportion to its responsibility" for the damage caused by the deluge.
Meanwhile cracks in the reservoir which burst last week, flooding several towns with a million cubic metres of lethal red mud and killing at least seven people, have not continued to widen, officials said today. The National Disaster Management Directorate said measurements taken in the past 24 hours of cracks on the northern wall, which experts expected to fall, showed no further movement.
At the same time, health authorities warned the local population, as well as clean-up and building crews, that the amount of red dust in the air exceeded safe limits and that they should use protective gear. Parts of Kolontar, the town closest to the metals plant's 25-acre storage pool, have become uninhabitable, and more than 700 residents have been evacuated.
The owners of the plant expressed their condolences to the families of those killed, as well as to those injured - and said they were sorry for not having done so sooner.
Questions:
1. Write a composition on one of the following topics:
a) Which, in your opinion, is the most serious environmental problem that threats Spain?
b)
2.a. According to the Hungarian Prime Minister, who is to blame for the catastrophe?
2.b. What do health authorities suggest?
3. What can you do to save the planet? Imagine you are talking to a friend about the dangers the environment is facing nowadays. Suggest three ways of saving energy and stopping the pollution of the planet either at home or at school.
4. Rewrite the sentence below in
A. Future perfect negative
B. Past continuous interrogative
C. Present continuous affirmative
The owners of the plant expressed their condolences to the families of those killed.
