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UNIVERSIDADES DE ANDALUCA
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a) Duracin: Una hora y treinta minutos.

b) La puntuacin de cada pregunta est indicada en las mismas.
c) No se permite el uso de diccionario

INDIA: NATURE AND CULTURA

India is one of the most diverse places on the planet, with so many religions, so many
languages, and many ways of life. However, everywhere in India life has a spiritual dimension
which connects people with nature in an unusual way. Animals and people are never far apart,
and they often share the same space; wild monkeys play in temples, cows wander through city
streets, and nobody thinks anything about it. Placid domestic elephants bathe beside women
doing their washing. On the Indian subcontinent most elephants are not wild creatures, as they
are in Africa. They were domesticated here thousands of years ago. You see them working in
the countryside with their mahouts their handlers or covered in colourful clothing and
jewellery for festivals in cities. When many Hindus look at an elephant, they do not see it as just
an animal. They think of Ganesh, the elephant god, one of the most important deities in the
Hindu culture. Ganesh is the god people pray to for help with their everyday problems, and
statues of Ganesh are everywhere. Because of the connection to Ganesh, some people even treat
with respect wild elephants that destroy their crops. Farmers have even prostrated themselves
before a fierce elephant instead of frightening it off. In India there is no separation between the
spiritual and the everyday. In this culture, all life is interconnected. It is a different way of
thinking about the world.
1) Comprehension (4 points)
Answer the questions 1-2 according to the information given in the text. Use
your own words. (1 point per answer).
What kind of diversity characterizes India?
Why are elephants so important for Hindus?
Are these statements true or false? Justify your answers with words of phrases
from the text.
Elephants are washed in Indian rivers.
All elephants in India are domesticated.
Farmers drive wild elephants away to protect their corps.
Spiritual life is clearly distinguished from real life in India.
2) Use of English (3 points).
Find in the text the word which has the following definition: 0.25 points.
have or use something that another person has or uses.
Find in the text one opposite for common (adjective). 0.25 points.
Give one synonym for frighten (verb). 0.25 points.
Give an adjective with the same root as Respect. (noun). 0.25 points.
Join the following sentences using an appropriate linker (do not use and or but)
make changes if necessary. (0.5 points)
Sometimes Hindus have nothing to eat. They never kill cows.
Turn the following sentences into the passive voice. (0.5 points)
You may see elephants working in the countryside.
Fill in the gap with a correct preposition. (0.5 points)
The police are looking
the mystery.
Use the words in the boxes to make a meaningful sentence. (0.5 points)
Elephants
Work
Help
Hard
Do
Farmers
1) Production. (3 points).
Write a composition (80-100 words). Choose one of the following options.
Specify your option.
Cultural differences across countries.
Advantages and disadvantages of having pets.