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La prueba evalúa 3 habilidades: conocimientos de gramática y vocabulario, comprensión lectora, y comprensión auditiva.

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Page 1 of 4

Listening

Questions 1 - 10 are based on the following audio recording. Please read the questions first and then listen to the audio. The audio will open in a separate window. You may replay the audio an additional time if needed.

1. eBay was founded 11 years ago.

True

False

Not Given

2. ebay employs 12,600 people worldwide.

True

False

Not Given

3. In 2005 the turnover was approximately $4.5 billion.

True

False

Not Given

4. From the beginning top eBay management had successful business backgrounds.

True

False

Not Given

5. Mag Whitman founded eBay alone.

True

False

Not Given

6. eBay has shops all over the world.

True

False

Not given

7. eBay is unsuccessful in Hong Kong and Japan.

True

False

Not Given

8. eBay became well known during the dot com boom.

True

False

Not Given

9. Yahoo is eBay’s only competitor.

True

False

Not Given

10. It is impossible to sell stolen items on eBay.

True

False

Not Given

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Grammar and Vocabulary

11. Tom __________six languages.

speak

speaks

speaked

12. __________ do you work?

Where

Who

What

13. What kind of job _____________________ have?

does your brother

do your brother do

did your brother

14. England _________________ any really high mountains.

doesn't have

don't have

don't

15. I'm ________________ manager at Disney.

the

16. Do you have any ___________________ on you?

cards of business

work cards

business cards

17. I ________________ yesterday.

arrived

arrove

arrive

18. I _________ to Africa.

had never be

have never been

has never been

19. Can you see that red car over _____________? It's _____________.

their/my

there/mine

they're/his

20. Don't call me _______ lunch time, please. I won't be able to hear you _________ the restaurant.

on/at

at/in

in/in

21. He's ____________________ of the accounting department.

in charge

in control of

charge

22. I'd like to ____________ you to Lisa, our database specialist.

assist

meet

introduce

23. If I _____________ my driving test last month, I would have bought a car straight away.

have pass

has passed

had passed

24. I think she is still ill. She looks even ____________ than last week.

more bad

worse

badder

25. My brother and _________ are both interested in economics.

26. Do you know that Mark _______________ a shop in the centre of town.

will open

is going to open

would open

27. The economy is in a bit of a _______________.

down time

down grade

downturn

28. Sorry for _____________ back to you so late.

getting

responding

informing

29. You can't rely on him. He's let me ______________ so many times.

down

out

30. I'm going to be a very rich man. By the time I'm 40 I _______________ my first million.

going to make

will have made

would going to make

31. Please! I'm trying to work here. Don't ____________ my time with stupid questions.

give

lose

waste

32. A bidding process, one where several businesses/individuals bid on a contract, is sometimes referred to as ________________.

tenderising

legal tender

to tender

33. John A. Thain is often credited with _______________ the New York Stock Exchange.

refurbishing

revitalising

renovating

34. Cell phone market ____________ is at 100% in many European countries.

penetration

penalty

penance

35. During the recession, marketers have learned that interactive marketing is _________________.

ground breaking

the way to go

the way to do

Page 3 of 4

Reading

Are you a blogger too?
A: Only a few years ago, a “web log” was a little-known way of keeping an online diary. At that time, it seemed like “blogs” (as they quickly became known) were only for serious computer geeks or obsessives. This didn’t last long, though, and within a very short period of time, blogs exploded – blogs were everywhere, and it seemed that almost everyone read blogs, or was a blogger.

B: The blogging craze of a couple of years ago (when it was estimated that ten new blogs were started somewhere in the world every minute) now seems to have died down a bit – yet thousands of blogs (probably the better ones) remain. Blogs are no longer seen as the exclusive possession of geeks and obsessives, and are now seen as important and influential sources of news and opinion. So many people read blogs now, that it has even been suggested that some blogs may have been powerful enough to influence the result of the recent US election.

C: Blogs are very easy to set up – all you need is a computer, an internet connection and the desire to write something. The difference between a blog and a traditional internet site is that a blog is one page consisting mostly of text (with perhaps a few pictures), and – importantly – space for people to respond to what you write. The best blogs are similar to online discussions, where people write in responses to what the blogger has written. Blogs are regularly updated – busy blogs are updated every day, or even every few hours.

D: Not all blogs are about politics, however. There are blogs about music, film, sport, books – any subject you can imagine has its enthusiasts typing away and giving their opinions to fellow enthusiasts or anyone else who cares to read their opinions. So many people read blogs now that the world of blog writers and blog readers has its own name – the “blogosphere”.

E: But how influential, or important, is this blogosphere really? One problem with blogs is that many people who read and write them seem only to communicate with each other. When people talk about the influence of the blogosphere, they do not take into account the millions of people around the world who are not bloggers, never read blogs, and don’t even have access to a computer, let alone a good internet connection.

F: Sometimes, it seems that the blogosphere exists only to influence itself, or that its influence is limited to what is actually quite a small community. Blogs seem to promise a virtual democracy – in which anyone can say anything they like, and have their opinions heard – but who is actually listening to these opinions? There is still little hard evidence that blogs have influenced people in the way that traditional mass media (television and newspapers) have the ability to do.

Match the description with the paragraph it best fits:

36. A blog is not a website, it is a forum for discussion and debate

37. A blog can be written to discuss any subject, not just politics

38. How the blog entered mainstream culture

39. Traditional forms of media continue to be far more important that the blogosphere

40. The origin of the blog

41. Millions of people are neither connected to nor influenced by blogs

Answer the following TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN42. Blogs are just for geeks

TRUE

FALSE

NOT GIVEN

43. A blog is just one page.

TRUE

FALSE

NOT GIVEN

44. Blogs started in China

TRUE

FALSE

NOT GIVEN

45. Blogs are rarely updated.

TRUE

FALSE

NOT GIVEN

Match the word or phrase with the definitions below:a). communication that reaches very large numbers of people b). all blogs and their interconnectionsc). a person who is highly interested in a particular activity or subjectd). people who are dominated by one feeling or a persistent ideae). a short-lived popular fashion

46. Blogosphere

47. Enthusiasts

48. Mass media

49. Obsessives

50. Craze

Page 4 of 4

Writing

Tell us why you want to learn English. What are your goals? What are your motivations? What are your expectations?

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