"Mock exam" para practicar el examen de oposiciones de secundaria de inglés.
Perfecto para practicar la parte práctica del examen. Incluye 6 preguntas y sus correspondientes respuestas.
MOCK EXAM 5
SIMULA UN ENTORNO TRANQUILO DURANTE CUATRO HORAS Y MEDIA
COMO SI ESTUVIERAS EN EL EXAMEN. DURANTE ESE TIEMPO:
1. ELIGE UN TEMA Y REDÁCTALO SIN MIRAR APUNTES, SIMULANDO
EXAMEN REAL.
2. ELIGE TRES PREGUNTAS DE LAS SEIS DEL TEXTO.
GOOD LUCK!
PRACTICAL EXAM:
1 George Washington Crosby began to hallucinate eight days before he died. From the rented
2 hospital bed, placed in the middle of his own living room, he saw insects running in and out of
3 imaginary cracks in the ceiling plaster.
4 The panes in the windows, once snugly pointed and glazed, stood loose in their sashes. The
5 next stiff breeze would topple them all and they would flop onto the heads of his family, who
6 sat on the couch and the love seat and the kitchen chairs his wife had brought in to
7 accommodate everyone. The torrent of panes would drive everyone from the room, his
8 grandchildren in from Kansas and Atlanta and Seattle, his sister in from Florida, and he would
9 be marooned on his bed in a moat of shattered glass. Pollen and sparrows, rain and the intrepid
10 squirrels he had spent half of his life keeping out of the bird feeders would breach the house.
11 He had built the house himself-poured the foundation, raised the frame, joined the pipes, run
12 the wires, plastered the walls, and painted the rooms. Lightning struck once when he was in
13 the open foundation, soldering the last joint of the hot-water tank. lt threw him to the opposite
14 wall. He got up and finished the joint. Cracks in his plaster did not stay cracks; clogged pipes
15 got routed; peeling clapboard got scraped and slathered with a new coat of paint.. .
16 Get some plaster, he said, propped up in the bed, which looked odd and institutional among the
17 Persian rugs and Colonial furniture and dozens of antique clocks. Get some plaster. Jesus, sorne
18 plaster and some wires and a couple of hooks.
19 You'd be all set for about five bucks.
20 Yes, Gramp, they said.
21 Yes, Dad. A breeze blew through the open window behind him and cleared exhausted heads.
22 Bocee balls clicked out on the lawn.
23 Noon found him momentarily alone, while the family prepared lunch in the kitchen. The crack
24 in the ceiling widened into gaps.The locked wheels of his bed sank into new fault lines opening
25 in the oak floor beneath the rug. At any moment, the floor was going to give. His useless
26 stomach would jump in his chest as if he were on a ride at the Topsfield Fair and with a spine-
27 snapping jolt he and the bed would land in the basement, on top of the crushed ruins of his
28 workshop. George imagined what he would see, as if the collapse had, in fact, already
29 happened: the living room ceiling, now two stories high, a ragged funnel of splintered
30 floorboards, bent copper pipes, and electrical wires that looked like severed veins bordering the
31 walls and pointing towards him in the center of all of that sudden ruin. Voices murmured out in
32 the kitchen.
33 George turned his head, hoping someone might be sitting just out of view, with a paper plate of
34 potato salad and rolled slices of roast beef on her lap and a plastic cup of ginger ale in her
35 hand. But the ruin persisted. He thought he called out, but the women's voices in the kitchen
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36 and the men's voices in the yard hummed uninterrupted. He lay on his heap of wreckage,
37 looking up.
38 The floor fell on him, with its unfinished pine framing and dead-end plumbing (the
39 capped pipes never joined to the sink and toilet he had once intended to install) and racks of
40 old coats and boxes of forgotten board games and puzzles and broken toys and bags of family
41 pictures-some so old they were exposed on tin plates-all of it came crashing down into the
42 cellar, he unable to even raise a hand to protect his face.
43 But he was nearly a ghost, almost made of nothing, and so the wood and metal and sheaves of
44 brightly printed cardboard and paper (MOVE FORWARD SIX SPACES TO EASY STREET!
45 Great- Grammy nodding, shawled and stiff and frowning at the camera, absurd with her hat that
46 looked like a sailor's funeral mound, heaped with flowers and netting), which otherwise would
47 have crushed his bones, dropped on him and fell away like movie props, he or they facsimiles
48 of former, actual things.
49 There he lay among the graduation photos and old wool jackets and rusted tools and
50 newspaper clippings about his promotion to head of the mechanical-drawing department at the
51 local high school, and then about his appointment as director of guidance, and then about his
52 retirement and subsequent life as a trader and repairer of antique clocks. The mangled brass
53 works of the clocks he had been repairing were strewn among the mess. He looked up three
54 stories to the exposed support beams of the roof and the plump silver-backed batts of
55 insulation that ran between them. One grandson or another (which?) had stapled-the insulation
56 into place years ago and now two or three lengths of it had come loose and lolled down like
57 pink woolly tangues.
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58 The roof collapsed, sending down a fresh avalanche of wood and nails, tarpaper and shingles
59 and insulation. There was the sky, filled with flat-topped clouds cruising like a fleet of anvils
60 across the blue. George had the watery, raw feeling of being outdoors when you are sick. The
61 clouds halted, paused for an instant, and plummeted onto his head. The very blue of the sky
62 followed, draining from the heights into that cluttered concrete socket. Next fell the stars,
63 tinkling about him like the ornaments of heaven shaken loose. Finally, the black vastation itself
64 came untacked and draped over the entire heap, covering George's confused obliteration.
65 Nearly seventy years before George died, his father, Howard Aaron Crosby, drove a wagon for
66 his living. It was a wooden wagon. It was a chest of drawers mounted on two axles and
67 wooden spoked wheels. There were dozens of drawers, each fitted with a recessed brass ring,
68 pulled open with a hooked forefinger, that contained brushes and wood oil, tooth powder and
69 nylon stockings, shaving soap and straight-edge razors.There were drawers with shoe shine
70 and boot strings, broom handles and mop heads. There was a secret drawer where he kept
71 four bottles of gin. Mostly, back roads were his route, dirt tracks that ran into the deep woods
72 to hidden clearings where a log cabin sat among sawdust and tree stumps and a woman in a
73 plain dress and hair pulled back so tight that she looked as if she were smiling (which she was
74 not) stood in a crooked doorway with a cocked squirrel gun. Oh, it's you, Howard. Well, I guess
75 I need one of your tin buckets.
76 In the summer, he sniffed heather and sang someone's rocking my dreamboat and watched the
77 monarch butterflies (butter fires, flutter flames; he imagined himself somewhat of a poet) up
78 from Mexico. Spring and fall were his most prosperous times, fall because the backwoods
79 people stocked up for the winter (he piled goods from the cart onto blazing maple leaves),
80 spring because they had been out of supplies often for weeks before the roads were passable
81 for his first rounds. Then they carne to the wagon like sleepwalkers: bright-eyed and ravenous.
82 Sometimes he carne out of the woods with orders for coffins-a child, a wife wrapped up in
83 burlap and stiff in the woodshed.
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