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OPTION A THE PILOT 1 As a German pilot in World War I, my father was flying a reconnaissance mission over the east of France when 2 he was attacked by French airplanes whose machine guns damaged his plane. Without engine power, he managed 3 to cross the Swiss border and crash-landed in a field among surprised farmers. At the end of the war, he returned to 4 Germany from neutral Switzerland, where he had been living in an internment camp. After that, he continued his 5 studies, graduated as a geologist, and eventually immigrated to the United States, where he became a geology 6 professor at a leading American University. 7 Half a century after this wartime incident and near the end of his career, my father was with a group of students 8 at the end of a day's geological fieldwork. They all gathered around a campfire and he started to tell them his 9 experience. Suddenly, one of the students interrupted him and said, "Let me finish the story." From that moment, to 10 the amazement of all, the student provided the correct details of what had happened that day in Switzerland. 11 He told them that, when the farm workers got to the place of the accident to assist the soldiers, they found that 12 the photographer who was seated behind my father was dead. They liberated my disoriented but uninjured father 13 from the plane and provided him with food and water. Some time later, the Swiss police arrived and interned him in a 14 camp. In his youth, the student had heard this story many times from his mother, who happened to be one of the 15 farm girls taking part in the events. ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT, OR USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (0.5 points each) 3. The events that the professor told the students about had taken place fifty years earlier. 4. The story was told after that day’s academic activity had finished. 5. The Swiss police gave food and water to the pilot. 6. The student’s mother had often heard the story of the accident when she was young. Prueba de Selectividad Andalucia, Septiembre 2015-2016, INGLES

Answer 1

1. The events that the professor told the students about had taken place fifty years earlier.

• True. In the text it says "Half a century after this wartime incident and near the end of his career, my father was with a group of students"

2. The story was told after that day’s academic activity had finished.

• True. The professor told the story to his students at the end of a day's geological field work.

3. The Swiss police gave food and water to the pilot.

• False. It was the farm workes who fed watered him, the police arrived after the accident to take him to a camp.

4. The student’s mother had often heard the story of the accident when she was young.

• False. His mother was one of the farm worker who help the professor and used to tell the story to her son