Solucionario de Comprensión Lectora en Inglés: Modelos y Respuestas de Examen

Solucionario de Textos de Comprensión Lectora en Inglés

Recopilación de respuestas modelo y justificaciones de verdadero o falso (True/False) organizadas por temáticas para la preparación de exámenes de comprensión lectora en inglés.

1. The Loch Ness

1. Different kinds of cameras have been installed, and there are people who have decided to camp near the lake.
2. They think that it may be the same animal or a relative.
3. Playing a certain type of music with a kind of pipe.
4. False (lines 7–9).
5. False (lines 17–18).

2. Taxi Drivers

1. A taxi driver's brain is bigger because their work makes it grow.
2. Getting to know all the possible routes by taxi in London from Charing Cross to any place within 6 miles.
3. The order of the theatres north of Shaftesbury Avenue.
4. False (line 13).
5. False (lines 20–21).

3. Green Energy

1. Half to develop energy from the wind and the other half to obtain profits from that kind of energy.
2. Because they almost doubled the profits.
3. Because they cause problems for aeroplanes when using radar.
4. False (line 15).
5. True (lines 18–19).

4. Social Care

1. Because you are helping people who really need it.
2. A carer deals with feelings and a social worker with institutions.
3. Because there are more people who demand this need.
4. False (lines 11–12).
5. False (lines 19–20).

5. Zero Waste

1. To learn the rules to process waste; for example, you have to wash bottles and other containers at home.
2. No, many waste-processors still use electricity and the residents also have to use cars.
3. True (lines 1–2).
4. False (lines 4–5).
5. False (lines 10–11).
6. False (lines 12–13).

6. British Teachers

1. Because the students' behaviour is worse and there isn't any sanction in these schools.
2. Because it means that the system is failing.
3. False (lines 2–3).
4. False (lines 7–8).
5. True (lines 12–13).
6. True (lines 16–17).

7. No Child

1. Because there isn't any medical personnel to attend to them.
2. Because mothers take their children to school and feed them.
3. False (lines 2–3).
4. False (lines 5–6).
5. True (lines 9–10).
6. True (lines 16–17).

8. First Languages

1. Yes, because English is used more than their own native languages.
2. To be able to compete in international markets.
3. False (lines 7–8).
4. True (line 6).
5. False (lines 11–12).
6. False (lines 14–15).

9. Natural Disasters

1. Katrina flooded New Orleans.
2. They are the responsible ones because of global warming.
3. True (lines 8–9).
4. False (lines 12–13).
5. True (lines 14–15).
6. False (lines 18–19).

10. Video Game Addiction

1. You can receive treatment through insurance and society can see it as a medical issue.
2. Youngsters can attempt suicide, and adults can lose their jobs, family life, and self-esteem.
3. True (lines 1–2).
4. True (lines 13–15).
5. True (lines 14–15).
6. False (lines 17–18).

11. Climate Change

1. No; although sectors of the population in all countries will be affected, people in developing nations will be more exposed to its destructive consequences.
2. There will be more extreme weather conditions and agricultural production will also be reduced.
3. False (lines 2–3).
4. False (line 4).
5. False (line 10).
6. True (lines 11–12).

12. Barbie

1. Girls can feel insecure and dissatisfied with their body image, and it can cause eating disorders.
2. By warning girls at school about the risks of extreme thinness and that such a beauty ideal is unachievable.
3. True (lines 1–2).
4. True (line 6).
5. False (line 10).
6. False (lines 11–12).

13. Low Cost Airlines

1. They have expanded the market: there are many more flights and aeroplanes are the transport with the worst damaging ecological effect.
2. No, because only a minority will contribute money, and that does not represent an effective alternative to a political solution.
3. True (lines 5–6).
4. True (lines 8–9).
5. True (line 10).
6. False (lines 14–15).

14. Virtual or Plastic

1. They will have to pay only if they want to, and they decide how much.
2. They will not make money on digital sales, but rather on sales of special editions.
3. False (line 1).
4. False (line 5).
5. True (lines 9–10).
6. False (lines 13–14).

15. Fairly Safe

1. They create an ethical problem because they make it possible for athletes to improve their performance in an artificial way that is unfair according to some people.
2. Because there are other things that give advantages to athletes and they are not natural either, such as special carbon fibre shoes.
3. True (lines 3–4).
4. False (lines 9–10).
5. False (line 13).
6. True (lines 16–17).

16. Global Warming

1. The use of oil and coal produces greenhouse gases that are raising the Earth's temperature.
2. Because polar ice caps are melting into water due to rising temperatures.
3. False (lines 1–3).
4. False (lines 4–6).
5. False (lines 9–10).
6. False (lines 13–14).

17. Graphic Warnings

1. The message that tobacco can kill and is extremely harmful to pregnant women.
2. Prohibiting smoking in many public places and raising the legal age to buy tobacco.
3. True (lines 2–3).
4. False (lines 11–12).
5. False (line 14).
6. True (lines 15–16).

18. Spain

1. Because fewer people emigrated and unemployment increased.
2. Spain stopped sending workers abroad and began receiving many foreign immigrants.
3. True (lines 2–3).
4. False (lines 10–11).
5. False (line 12).
6. False (lines 12–13).