Comunidad: | Comunidad Valenciana |
convocatoria: | Septiembre de 1997 |
Modalidad: | LOGSE - Todas |
Ejercicio: | 1er Ejercicio B |
Asignatura: | Inglés |
Obligatoriedad: | Obligatoria |
Duración: | 60 minutos |
Baremo: | Reading comprehension: 2 points (1 point each); True/False: 1 point (0.5 each); Find synonym: 1 point (0.5 each); Multiple choice: 2 points (0.5 each); Composition. 4 points. |
Read the following text:
The Flamenco Kid
It seems to happen every few generations - the explosion of interest in flamenco culture outside the confines of Spain. Before she began Middlemarch, George Eliot wrote her only verse drama, The Spanish Gypsy, about the torrid connection between freedom and romance. Decades later, the poetry of Federico García Lorca took the rhythms of Andalusia around the world, before the poet himself was silenced by tyranny. The latest detonation of the gitane style comes by grace of Joaquín Cortes, a knife-thin, baby-faced diminutive who makes the music play in time with him rather than the reverse.
So electrifying is his interpretation to the flamenco culture - which combines what he learned at Spain's Ballet National with what he took in from his Gypsy family - that his stage presence is being "translated" into a great amount of cultural idioms. You can see him courting Marisa Paredes in Pedro Almodovar's The Flower of my Secret. You can catch his television endorsement of a new car, bodly named the "Ibiza Passion". And he's touring the world with his dance troup in a show called Gypsy Passion (that word again). They say he loses more than four pounds during every performance, which is one way of living for your art.
"Just because I'm a Gypsy," Cortes said, "it doesn't mean that we all go around with a goat and a barrel organ." No indeed. But call it "the New Flamenco" as often as you like, it's the old flamenco - that toxic blend of Moorish, Jewish, and Gypsy - that keeps coming, and keeps reviving, and never dies.
I. Answer the questions using your own words:
II. Are the following statements True (T) or False (F)?
III. Find a word or phrase in the text which, in the context, is similar in meaning to...
III. Choose a, b, c, or d in each question below. Only one choice is correct.
Choose one of the following two topics:
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