Reading comprehension: problemes de Anglès de la Selectivitat
46 problemes dels exàmens oficials de les PAU de Catalunya (2012-2026) classificats en aquest tema. A continuació hi ha el començament de cada enunciat; l'enunciat complet, les imatges i la solució pas a pas són a la web.
Practica aquest tema amb les solucionsExamen de model 2025, Problema 2
II. Reading Comprehension (3 points) STONE AGE BABIES HAD BETTER PARENTING THAN TODAY! Modern life may have made many things easier, but scientists say that raising a child is certainly not one of them. A study of modern hunter-gatherer groups that has been recently published in the journal Developmental Psychology…
Juny 2025, Sèrie 1, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading Comprehension (Questions 1-6)
Setembre 2025, Sèrie 3, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK: WHY SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS NEED TO REGAIN A SENSE OF BALANCE If we are honest, most of us could use a little more balance at some points in our busy lives. Getting the right mix between work and leisure time can have benefits for our physical and mental health. It…
Juny 2025, Sèrie 4, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading Comprehension (Questions 1-6)
Juny 2024, Sèrie 1, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension STONE AGE BABIES HAD BETTER PARENTING THAN TODAY! Modern life may have made many things easier, but scientists say that raising a child is certainly not one of them. A study of modern hunter-gatherer groups that has been recently published in the journal Developmental Psychology…
Setembre 2024, Sèrie 3, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension HOW AI CAN MAKE CANCER TREATMENT MORE EQUITABLE Many are aware of the Cancer Moonshot—an ambitious and hopeful initiative of the US government to reduce cancer-related death rates by 50% by the year 2047. It will take an army to achieve this goal, composed of the brightest minds and…
Juny 2024, Sèrie 5, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension WHAT YOUR JEANS CAN (AND DO) HIDE Paris, Milan, New York... These are some of the world’s most prestigious fashion catwalks. There, young women and men graciously parade to impress elite guests and TV watchers with the surprising, fabulous creativity of the most renowned fashion…
Juny 2023, Sèrie 1, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension DANCE LIKE YOURE IN BRIDGERTON, PLAY SQUID GAME: WHY ARE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES BOOMING? Welcome to the age of immersion. Last summer saw the launch of Stranger Things and Tomb Raider “experiences” in London, and an Alice in Wonderland “immersive cocktail experience” in Sheffield. By…
Setembre 2023, Sèrie 2, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension SOCCER IS THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR SPORT. BUT WHO INVENTED IT? Soccer is by far the world’s most popular sport, and for good reason—beloved by at least 265 million people worldwide, it’s easy to play in a random yard or field, and viewers instantly relate to the players racing across…
Juny 2023, Sèrie 5, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension HOW GLOBAL CLIMATE TARGETS ARE SET AND WHAT THEY MEAN How much warming can the world bear? This question was one of the main issues discussed at the past UN climate change summit, known as COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland. Six years ago, when countries came together in Paris for the COP21…
Juny 2022, Sèrie 2, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension ASSATEAGUE’S WILD HORSES Assateague Island is a 60 km long barrier island located on the East Coast of the United States, facing the Atlantic Ocean. The northern two-thirds of the island is in Maryland while the southern third is in Virginia. The Maryland section contains the majority of…
Setembre 2022, Sèrie 3, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension SHE WAS SOLD TO A STRANGER SO HER FAMILY COULD EAT AS AFGANISTAN CRUMBLES Parwana Malik, a 9-year-old girl with dark eyes and rosy cheeks, giggles with her friends as they play jump rope in a dusty clearing. But Parwana’s laughter disappears as she returns home, where she’s reminded of…
Juny 2022, Sèrie 5, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension GINKGO TREES NEARLY WENT EXTINCT. HERE’S HOW WE SAVED THESE ‘LIVING FOSSILS’ On the streets of Manhattan and Washington, D.C., in neighborhoods in Seoul and parks in Paris, ginkgo trees are gradually losing their bright yellow leaves in reaction to the first frigid winter air. Such leaf…
Setembre 2021, Sèrie 1, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINES: HOW UNPLUGGING HELPS In the past, people could “switch off’ after work by simply going home or avoiding dealing with dramatic friends by not picking up the phone. But smartphones, social media and the expectation that everyone should be available all the time…
Juny 2021, Sèrie 2, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension THE WOMAN WHO SAVED MILLIONS OF LIVES WITHOUT KNOWING One young black woman made one of the greatest contributions of all time to modern medicine, even though she never knew the important role she has played. Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951 at the age of 31,…
Juny 2021, Sèrie 5, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension IS PLASTIC A DEADLY THREAT TO WILDLIFE? On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle. The turtle seems to be dying, bleeding profusely. For eight painful minutes a video on YouTube—which has registered more than 20…
Juny 2020, Sèrie 1, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension IS THERE SUCH A THING AS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT? The science of first impressions is complicated, influenced by things outside of our control, neurological processes that we don’t understand and inaccurate stereotypes. It takes less than a second to form an assessment of someone’s face.…
Juny 2020, Sèrie 3, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension HOW TO LOOK MODERN IN VINTAGE “T don’t want to look retro. I think permed hair looks ridiculous and I would not be seen dead in anything with real fur. Right now I want a cardigan that I can tuck into a midi skirt, but I want it simple, with neutral colours like the ones on the catwalk,…
Setembre 2020, Sèrie 4, Problema 2
Part 2: Reading comprehension HUGE REDUCTIONS IN MEAT-EATING ‘ESSENTIAL’ TO AVOID CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Huge reductions in meat-eating are essential to avoid dangerous climate change, according to one of the most comprehensive analyses of the food system’s impact on the environment. In Western countries, the study states…
Juny 2019, Sèrie 1, Problema 1
THE EMOJI IS THE BIRTH OF A NEW TYPE OF LANGUAGE (NO JOKE) Tyler Schnoebelen has discovered something curious about why people use the skull emoji. Schnoebelen is a linguist and the chief analyst for Idibon, a firm that interprets linguistic data. Recently he got interested in emoji. He analyzed a million social…
Juny 2019, Sèrie 4, Problema 1
THRILLER: MICHAEL JACKSON’S SURPRISING SUCCESS The album that would become the most successful record in music history went unnoticed by the magazine Time when it was first released 35 years ago, on November 30, 1982. But it didn’t take too long for that to change, as the album sat atop the charts for weeks and…
Setembre 2019, Sèrie 5, Problema 1
LEONARDO’S SALVATOR MUNDI: ART OR BUSINESS? Salvator Mundi, the long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting of Jesus Christ ordered by King Louis XII of France more than 500 years ago, has been sold in New York at Christie’s, the well-known auction house, for more than 450 million, breaking the world record of any work of…
Juny 2018, Sèrie 1, Problema 1
THE FUTURE OF FAKE NEWS: DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ, SEE OR HEAR In an age of Photoshop, filters and social media, many of us are used to seeing manipulated pictures—subjects become slimmer and smoother or, in the case of Snapchat, transformed into puppies. However, there’s a new breed of video and audio…
Setembre 2018, Sèrie 3, Problema 1
HOW THE COLOUR RED WARPS THE MIND We can never know what was going through our ancestors’ minds, tens of thousands of years ago, when they first picked up natural crayons and began painting their bodies. But it is perhaps significant that they chose a rich, red colour—the colour of our blood and a vivid reminder of…
Juny 2018, Sèrie 5, Problema 1
SECRETS IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE There are secrets and there are secrets. The work done during the Second World War at Bletchley Park, a Victorian mansion fifty miles north of London, was so secret that the people who worked there didn’t talk about it even to their friends or family. The work done at Bletchley Park is now…
Juny 2017, Sèrie 1, Problema 1
Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, when crowds of turkey-stuffed shoppers descend on stores all over the country to take advantage of the Christmas season's biggest bargains. But the real story behind Black Friday is a bit more complicated-and darker-than that. The first recorded use of the term Black Friday…
Setembre 2017, Sèrie 2, Problema 1
Sitting in a studio in Kensington, London, the designer Sebastian Conran walks me through a worst-case scenario. Basically, what it's looking for is a break in routine,” he explains, pointing to a drawing of an elderly woman lying on the floor of her home. “There's an event. The e-sensor in the room notices that…
Juny 2017, Sèrie 5, Problema 1
Jamie Oliver is an English celebrity chef, owner of more than 50 restaurants and also a personality known for his food television shows, cookbooks and more recently his global campaign for better food education. One of the actions of his global campaign is to impose a levy on sweet fizzy drinks sold in Jamie's…
Setembre 2016, Sèrie 1, Problema 1
One night, 18-year-old Ritesh Agarwal was locked out of his apartment in Delhi. It was an unfortunate minor incident that would change his life. Forced to check into a hotel, he found himself in a situation he had already experienced several times while travelling in India. The receptionist was sleeping, electrical…
Juny 2016, Sèrie 3, Problema 1
Norway, a country of 5.2 million people and one of the richest countries in the world, is trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet ambitious climate goals. Many Norwegians today are taking part in the world's most ambitious governmental effort to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Norway has become a global…
Juny 2016, Sèrie 5, Problema 1
Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? A recent book by Henry Hitchings, The Secret Life of Words, shows how and why English has absorbed…
Juny 2015, Sèrie 2, Problema 1
Beautiful bridges in Paris are being ruined by an epidemic of padlocks. But is the growing trend for love-locks a thoughtless act of vandalism, or just a harmless expression of love? It seemed romantic when Carolyn Barnabo and Clive Roberts attached a padlock to the Pont des Arts and symbolically threw the key into…
Juny 2015, Sèrie 4, Problema 1
Today, English has no rival as an international lingua franca. However, things could have been different if Esperanto, an artificial language invented in 1887 by Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, a Jewish doctor from Bialystok (modern-day Poland but then part of the Russian Empire), had become a common language. Esperanto is…
Setembre 2015, Sèrie 5, Problema 1
Harry Patch, the last survivor of the First World War, and the man who reminded the modern world of its obscene massacre, died at the age of 111. His life ended on a fine summer morning in his native Somerset, many miles from the Belgian land of Ypres where so many of his comrades fell, and where he so nearly joined…
Juny 2014, Sèrie 3, Problema 1
THE RIGHT TO VOTE “Votes for women? What a ridiculous idea!” Some of the arguments that male voters used in the past to prevent women the right to vote would seem unacceptable to most of us nowadays. However, many people would be surprised to read that the women of Switzerland received the right to vote in 1971, and…
Juny 2014, Sèrie 4, Problema 1
WHY BILINGUALS ARE SMARTER Speaking two languages has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns…
Setembre 2014, Sèrie 5, Problema 1
THE TEACHER WHO CHANGED MY LIFE A fortnight ago I heard that the English master who taught me at school, the great Frank Miles, had died, aged 92. Although he was a teaching giant and recognised as such by former pupils and colleagues, there is just a brief mention of him on the Internet. That is exactly as he would…
Setembre 2013, Sèrie 1, Problema 1
NOMOPHOBIA: THE BIGGEST PHOBIA IN THE WORLD? We use mobile phones every day, but for a growing number of people staying connected is an According to a study carried out in 2012 by SecurEnvoy, a company that deals in mobile phone technology, Nomophobia (as in “No Mobile phone phobia’, that is, the fear of being apart…
Juny 2013, Sèrie 3, Problema 1
WHY KIDS BULLY: BECAUSE THEY’RE POPULAR Mothers tell their children that mean kids behave that way because they have unhappy home lives, feel inadequate, or don’t have enough friends; or because they lack empathy. But a new study suggests some mean kids actually behave that way simply because they can. It has now…
Juny 2013, Sèrie 5, Problema 1
HOW CHINA IS WINNING THE SCHOOL RACE China’s education performance—at least in cities such as Shanghai and Hong Kong—is as spectacular as the country’s rapid economic expansion, surpassing many more advanced countries. But what is behind this success? Surprise came when the results of the OECD’s international maths,…
Juny 2012, Sèrie 1, Problema 1
DEATH SITES: HOW TO LOG IN YOUR AFTERLIFE Lately a lot of websites (legacylocker.com, gonetoosoon.org, Deathswitch.com...) have sprung up offering to help users to solve a particular modern problem: what happens to your web presence when you die? In the past, a person’s legacy used to include a collection of letters…
Juny 2012, Sèrie 3, Problema 1
THE DAY I MET THE STRANGE AND INSCRUTABLE STEVE JOBS One morning in Paris six years ago, I found myself sitting opposite Steve Jobs. I was feeling really excited, as getting an interview with Jobs had become an obsession. In recent years, particularly since his health had declined, he had rarely talked directly to…
Setembre 2012, Sèrie 4, Problema 1
LIVING IN HARMONY WITH THE LAND The Himba live in the northwest of Namibia in the Kunene region, near the river of the same name. The land is the driest and most barren region of Namibia, with less than 250 mm of rain a year. There is little farming and few roads. The mountains are hard to access. The largest town in…