Problema 3 d'Anglès de la Selectivitat 2014

Juny 2014, Sèrie 4 · Proves d'accés a la universitat (PAU) de Catalunya.

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Part 3: Listening comprehension ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE? In the following conversation you are going to hear some new words. Read and listen to them. Make sure you know what they mean. outer: exterior findings: descobertes / descubrimientos proof: prova / prueba claim (to claim): afirmar unavoidable: inevitable coverage: cobertura informativa Now read the questions on the following page. Read them carefully before listening to the conversation. Some scientific discoveries can be fascinating, but sometimes it is hard to believe that they are true. That’s the case with an article in the March issue of the Journal of Cosmology. In it, Richard Hoover, a scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, says he found signs of bacterial life in a group of meteorites, and that raises the exciting possibility that life had once arrived on Earth from outer space. In the following conversation, journalist Johanna Palmer talks with George Cody, a NASA expert on meteorites. They discuss Professor Hoover’s discoveries concerning the existence of life on Mars. [Now listen to the interview. ] Choose the best answer according to the recording. Only ONE answer is correct. [2 points: 0.25 points for each correct answer. Wrong answers will be penalized by deducting 0.08 points. There is no penalty for unanswered questions.] Look at number 0 as an example. Epaiperal connector 0. Professor Hoover has discovered that Correcta. Incorrecta contestada there’s no life in meteorites. x] there might be life on Mars. meteorites bring life to Earth. science raises fascinating possibilities. 1. Johanna Palmer has invited George Cody to talk about his scientific discoveries. to discuss his work at NASA. to talk about Prof. Hoover’s discovery. because she wants to mia onm What does i isto be sbiliy of ie i space? re true, it da be like living on Earth. He thinks there is no evidence of it yet. 3. What is Prof. Hoover’s main claim about meteorites? The bacteria found in meteorites prove that there is life on Mars. Microscopic fragments from meteorites are like those on Earth. Microscopic filaments in meteorites could not create new bacteria. The filaments found in meteorites were brought alive from Mars. 4. What is George Cody’s opinion about Prof. Hoover’s findings? Ll He believes scientists should not manipulate contaminated meteorites. Ll He thinks that Prof. Hoover’s discovery is not scientific. Ll He believes the meteorites may have been contaminated on Earth. Ll He doesn’t like experiments made on meteorites. 5. According to George Cody, scientists publish some discoveries before they have proved them because they want other people to know about their findings. they want to show their superiority. they are obsessive people. they like to play with extraordinary things. 6. When a group of scientists claimed they d found signs of life in a meteorite from Mars in the Antarctica, most of the media talked about the discovery widely. scientists didn’t want to hear anything…

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