Ejercicios de Inglés Resueltos: Home Alone, Spyphones, Yellow Journalism y The Global Village

Ejercicios de Inglés: Home Alone, Spyphones, Yellow Journalism y The Global Village

1. Home Alone

Answer the following questions and decide whether the statements are TRUE or FALSE.

1. There are many more one-person households and more single parents.
2. Women are not so willing to get married, they are more independent, and more women become single mothers.
3. TRUE. Many other... same process (lines 3-4).
4. FALSE. The prototypical... old-fashioned (lines 8-9).
5. FALSE. These changing... parents (lines 10-11).
6. TRUE. Obsession... friends (lines 13-14).
7. Decreasing
8. Currently (line 2)
9. UP
10. Childish, childless, childlike
11. Johnny Depp, whose portrait of Captain Sparrow is superb, starring in Finding Neverland.
12. Michael asked her where she had found those trainers.
13. He would scare the Dursleys to death.
14. That box is too heavy to carry.

2. Spyphones

1. It cuts out background noise and enables you to speak in very noisy situations.
2. If you can hear the person on the other end, you'll know the noise will be cut out of the conversation.
3. FALSE. People... boss (lines 1-2).
4. FALSE. The device does... micro (lines 5-6).
5. FALSE. You... earpiece (line 7).
6. TRUE. A wireless... developed (lines 7-8).
7. Useless
8. Construction (line 10)
9. Boss (line 2)
10. Loudness
11. Nothing can be heard on a helicopter.
12. Michael wondered why he did that every day.
13. I would have left him right away.
14. She changed me 40 dollars for the wine.

3. Yellow Journalism

1. They are manipulated, badly treated, exaggerated, not carefully checked, with distortion of facts, lack of objectivity, and manipulation of language.
2. Because two of the earliest yellow papers carried a cartoon character called "The Yellow Kid".
3. FALSE. Sometimes... falsified (lines 1-2).
4. FALSE. These... success (line 10).
5. FALSE. The war... rebels (lines 12-13).
6. FALSE. Hearst... the war (lines 14-15).
7. Exciting
8. Event, fact
9. Employ (line 1)
10. Nickname
11. Alice asked her brother to buy her the paper if he was going out.
12. The yellow press is considered dishonest by many people.
13. Clark Kent worked for a newspaper whose name was "The Daily Planet".
14. What does the yellow press specialize in?

4. The Global Village

1. Because many foreign children have arrived lately.
2. Jobs and houses are offered to foreigners if they bring at least two children to the local school and stay in the village for at least five years.
3. FALSE. Remote village, as farm, big cities, as Aguaviva (lines 1-3).
4. FALSE. Foreigners... pupils (lines 8-9).
5. TRUE. Foreign... children (line 11).
6. FALSE. Ten... applicants (lines 12-13).
7. Brazilian, Chilean, Cuban
8. Mayor (lines 10-11)
9. Carefully (line 13)
10. Historical
11. Was driving
12. The village would have disappeared.
13. My little sister can't be expected to behave responsibly.
14. He has been attending Italian lessons since his family moved to Rome five years ago.