Question

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TEXTO

Women and Sustainability

According to professor McElhaney, founder of the Centre for Responsible
Business at the University of California, companies that empower women are
more likely to act sustainably. It has been found that businesses with more
women on their board of directors are more likely to manage and improve their
energy efficiency, invest in renewable power, measure and reduce their carbon
emissions, improve access to healthcare in developing countries and have anticorruption
policies. What is more important, women have strong partnerships
with local communities.

But why is this? Do men have by nature unsustainable ways of acting in the
world? Does testosterone fuel the exploitation of our planet and its people? Are
women our best hope for creating a sustainable future?

Elle Carberry, co-founder of China G. Initiative, believes that women may be
drawn to sustainability because of its social angle. “From all my 20 years in
business, I have met more women working in this area than in others,” she says.
In China, women appear to be playing an increasingly important role in
sustainability and for one Chinese woman in particular, it turned her into the
wealthiest self-made woman in the world. Zhang Yin is the founder of a
recycling company that buys scrap paper from the US, imports it into China, and
turns it mainly into cardboard for use in boxes to export Chinese goods.

However, despite this and many other role models, millions of women are still
under-represented, but the hope is that more will be empowered to join the
sustainability revolution.

QUESTIONS


3.- Find the words in the text that mean:

a) give authority to (paragraph 1)

b) attracted (paragraph 3)

c) seem (paragraph 3)

d) products (paragraph 3)
(Puntuación máxima: 1 punto)


Prueba de selectividad para la comunidad de Madrid. Convocatoria Jun 2012-2013. Inglés.

Answer 1

3.- Find the words in the text that mean:



a) give authority to (paragraph 1) - Empower

To give someone the legal or accepted power to do something.


b) attracted (paragraph 3) - Drawn

To attract is to cause to come to a place or participate in a venture by offering something of interest, favorable conditions, or opportunities.


c) seem (paragraph 3) Appear

To look a certain way.


d) products (paragraph 3) (Puntuación máxima: 1 punto)  - Goods

Anything that can be offered to a market that might satisfy a want or need.



Prueba de selectividad para la comunidad de Madrid. Convocatoria Jun 2012-2013. Inglés.