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The document provides instructions for an English language exam for university entrance in Spain. It states that dictionaries or other materials cannot be used. Answers must be in English. The exam duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes. This sheet is not to be submitted. The second document is about the history and ingredients of Coca-Cola. It describes Coca-Cola as the most popular drink in the world, sold in over 150 countries and 200 million bottles daily. It is 99% water and sugar with carbonation. Less than 10 people know the secret formula and ingredient 7X. John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in 1885 in Atlanta as a patent medicine and brain tonic containing coca leaves and kola

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Coca Cola

The document provides instructions for an English language exam for university entrance in Spain. It states that dictionaries or other materials cannot be used. Answers must be in English. The exam duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes. This sheet is not to be submitted. The second document is about the history and ingredients of Coca-Cola. It describes Coca-Cola as the most popular drink in the world, sold in over 150 countries and 200 million bottles daily. It is 99% water and sugar with carbonation. Less than 10 people know the secret formula and ingredient 7X. John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in 1885 in Atlanta as a patent medicine and brain tonic containing coca leaves and kola

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Pruebas de Acceso a Estudios Universitarios

(Bachillerato L.O.G.S.E.)
IDIOMA EXTRANJERO: Ingls
No se permite el uso de diccionario ni de ningn otro
material didctico.
Las preguntas debern ser respondidas en Ingls.
Duracin de la prueba: 1 hora y 30 minutos.
Esta hoja no se entrega.

COCA -COLA
Coca- cola is the most popular drink in the world. Maybe this is
because Coca-cola and its rival Pepsi are the most advertised products in
history. They are sold in more than 150 countries, and over 200 million bottles
are bought every day.
But, what exactly is Coca-cola? Well, a 99% per cent of it is water and
sugar, with carbon dioxide to make it fizzy; the other one per cent is a secret
formula. Fewer than ten people know the secret, especially about the secret
ingredient called "7X". Nobody has been able to discover what it is.
The formula was invented by John Styth Pemberton in Atlanta,
Georgia, in 1885.
Pemberton owned a drugstore in Atlanta, and he had invented several
patent medicines before Coca-cola, for instance, "Indian Queen Hair Dye",
and "Globe of Flower Cough Syrup". Pemberton called his new non-alcoholic
drink " a brain tonic", because it initially included coca leaves and kola nuts
(hence its name, coca- cola), coca leaves having been eaten by Indians in
Bolivia and Peru as a stimulant for centuries.
Pemberton sold Coca-cola as a syrup, you had to add water to drink
it. One day, in 1886, a customer at Pembertons drugstore added soda,
instead of tap water. Since then Coca-cola has been a fizzy drink, the most
popular in the world, though its inventor died a penniless man in 1888.
QUESTIONS
I. READING COMPREHENSION. (2 POINTS) (0.5 points for each correct answer)
Add TRUE or FALSE and copy the evidence from the text to support your answer.

II. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:


A. LEXICON. (1 POINT) (0.25 points for each correct answer)
Find words or phrases in the text that mean the same as these given.

1.
2.
3.
4.

Shown in publicity to make people buy it


Not known, mysterious.
A liquid medicine that makes you feel better
Hundreds of years.

B. PHONETICS. (1 POINT) (0.25 points for each correct answer)

1.
2.
3.

Write two words from the text that include the same sound as
most / /(0.5)
Which of these words includes the sound / / as "such" ? (0.25)
1. carbon,
2. drugstore
3. included
Is the s pronounced /s/ or /z/ in bottles? (0.25)

III. USE OF ENGLISH. (3 POINTS) (0.5 for each correct answer)


Rewrite the following sentences starting with the words given.
1. The

formula was invented


Pemberton in Atlanta , in 1885.

by

John

Styth

2. He invented Coca- cola in 1885, but previously he


3. Pepsi sells about 100 million bottles a day in the

world, whereas Coca- Cola sells


amount

Pepsi Cola isn't.....

twice that

4. Coca- cola is also getting extremely popular in the

Coca cola is getting....

former communist countries


5. Pemberton included coca leaves in his new
formula. Indians used to eat them as a brain

1. Coca- cola was initially sold as a medicine.

stimulant.

2. When it started being used, Coca- cola used to be drunk in Peru and Bolivia

6. Write the correct question for the underlined


words:
He also invented brain tonics and hair
dyes

4. Pemberton became inmensely rich thanks to his invention


.

Before....

had invented many other patent medicines.

NO marks are given for only true or false.

3. Ten people make all the Coca-cola that is sold in the world.

John Styth Pewmberton


..

Use a relative

.?

IV. COMPOSITION. (3 POINTS)


Write a composition of between 100 and 125 words on the following topic.

Do you think being clever makes you necessarily successful in life?

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