MOCK EXAM 12
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:
Chapter 4 Diver.
The week passed away. On the Saturday it rained, a soft drizzling rain that held off at
times. In one of the intervals Gudrun and Ursula set out for a walk, going towards Willey Water.
The atmosphere was grey and translucent, the birds sang sharply on the young twigs, the earth
would be quickening and hastening in growth. The two girls walked swiftly, gladly, because of the
soft, subtle rush of morning that filled the wet haze. By the road the black-thorn was in blossom,
white and wet, its tiny amber grains burning faintly in the white smoke of blossom. Purple twigs
were darkly luminous in the grey air, high hedges glowed like living shadows, hovering nearer,
coming into creation. The morning was full of a new creation.
When the sisters came to Willey Water, the lake lay all grey and visionary, stretching into
the moist, translucent vista of trees and meadow. Fine electric activity in sound came from the
dumbles below the road, the birds piping one against the other, and water mysteriously plashing,
issuing from the lake.
The two girls drifted swiftly along. In front of them, at the corner of the lake, near the
road, was a mossy boat-house under a walnut tree, and little landing-stage where a boat was
moored, wavering like a shadow on thestill grey water, below te green, decayed poles. All was
shadowy with coming summer.
Suddenly, from the boat-house, a white figure ran out, frightening in its swift sharp
transit, across the old landing-stage. It launched in a white arc through the air, there was a
bursting of the water, and among the smooth ripples a swimmer was making out to space, in a
centre of faintly heaving motion. The whole other world, wet and remote, he had to himself. He
could move into the pure translucency of the grey, uncreated water.
Gudrun stood by the stone wall, watching. ‘How I envy him,’ she said, in low, desirous
tones.‘Ugh!’ shivered Ursula. ‘So cold!" Yes, but how good, how really fine, to swim out there!’
The sisters stood watching the swimmer move further into the grey, moist, full space of
the water, pulsing with his own small, invading motion, and arched over with mist and dim woods.
‘Don’t you wish it were you?’ asked Gudrun, looking at Ursula.
‘I do,’ said Ursula. ‘But I’m not sure—it's so wet.’
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‘No,’ said Gudrun, reluctantly. She stood watching the motion on the bosom of the water,
as if fascinated. He, having swum a certain distance, turned round and was swimming on his back,
looking along the water at the two girls by the wall. In the faint wash of motion, they could see
his ruddy face, and could feel him watching them.
‘It is Gerald Crich,’ said Ursula.
‘I know,’ replied Gudrun.
And she stood motionless gazing over the water at the face which washed up and down
on the flood, as he swam steadily. From his separate element he saw them and he exulted to
himself because of his own advantage, his possession of a world to himself. He was immune and
perfect. He loved his own vigorous, thrusting motion, and the violent impulse of the very cold
water against his limbs, buoying him up. He could see the girls watching him a way off, outside,
and that pleased him. He lifted his arm from the water, in a sign to them.
SOURCE: Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence.
1. Find wordsin the text with an opposite meaning to the following
ones. Then write a complex sentence using each word from the text in a
different context.
NEW BRIGHT PALE SLUGGISHLY
2. Modernism on the example of the text.
3. Translate the first four paragraphs.
4. Teaching dialogical texts in an EFL class.
LANGUAGE USE ACTIVITIES
1. Replace the underlined verb or phrase with the correct form of a synonymous
phrasal verb:
BRING ABOUT - COME BY - CUT OUT FOR - DRAW BACK - GET ACROSS -
KEEP UP - LOOK INTO - ORDER ABOUT - PICK OUT - PULL THROUGH - PUT
DOWN - TO RUN INTO - SET ABOUT - STAND IN FOR - TAKE OUT
