PART 1.- READING COMPREHENSION: Choose text A or text B and answer the questions 1A-3A or 1B-3B (5 points).
TEXT A. DIGITAL HABITS ACROSS GENERATIONS
Today's grandparents are joining their grandchildren on social media, but the different generations' online habits couldn't be more different. In the UK the over-55s are joining Facebook in increasing numbers, meaning that they will soon be the site's second biggest user group, with 3.5 million users aged 55-64 and 2.9 million over-65s.
Sheila, aged 59, says, "I joined to see what my grandchildren are doing, as my daughter posts videos and photos of them. It's a much better way to see what they're doing than waiting for letters and photos in the mailbox. That's how we did it when I was a child; but I think I'm lucky I get to see so much more of their lives than my grandparents did."
Ironically, Sheila's grandchildren are less likely to use Facebook themselves. Children under 17 in the UK are leaving the site – only 2.2 million users are under 17 – but they are not going far from their smartphones. Chloe, aged 15, even sleeps with her phone. "It's my alarm clock so I have to," she says. "I look at it before I go to sleep and as soon as I wake up."
Unlike her grandmother's generation, Chloe's age group is spending so much time on their phones at home that they are missing out on spending time with their friends in real life. Sheila, on the other hand, has made contact with old friends from school she hasn't heard from in forty years. "We use Facebook to arrange to meet all over the country," she says. "It's changed my social life completely."
Teenagers might have their parents to thank for their smartphone and social media as their parents were the early adopters of the smartphone. Peter, 38 and father of two teenagers, reports that he used to be on his phone or laptop constantly. "I was always connected, and I felt like I was always working," he says. "How would I tell my kids to get off their phones if I was always in front of a screen myself?" So, in the evenings and at weekends, dad and son hang out together. "I'm not completely cut off from the world in case of emergencies, but the important thing is I'm setting a better example to my kids and spending more quality time with them."
It's really a matter of time until the generation above and below Peter catches up with the new trend for a less digital life?
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1A. Choose the correct answer A, B or C. (3 points, 0.5 each)
1. Which group of users is becoming the second biggest one in Facebook?
2. Sheila considers herself lucky because she...
3. The group of users under 17 in the UK ...
4. How has Facebook changed Sheila's life?
5. Peter's worrying was respecting his children to ...
6. According to Peter, what are the main benefits of cutting down his smartphone use?
2A. Answer the following questions in no more than 8 words. (1 point, 0.25 each)
1. How did Sheila's grandparents know about her life?
2. What is Chloe doing justify sleeping with her smartphone?
3. What is the main difference between Sheila's generation and her Chloe's regarding friends?
4. How has Peter solved his excessive smartphone usage?
3A. Find a word in the text for each of these definitions. (1 point, 0.25 each)
1. Publishes something such as a message or picture on a website or using social media.
2. Probably.
3. To plan, prepare for, or organize something.
4. First users of a new product, especially a new piece of technology.

PART 2.- USE OF ENGLISH: CHOOSE FOUR OF THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AND REPHRASE THEM SO THAT THEIR MEANING IS AS SIMILAR AS POSSIBLE TO THE ORIGINAL. (2 points, 0.5 each)
1. I haven't met you. We visited other countries. Despite ...
2. This is the man. His dog bit my sister in the park. This is ...
3. If your friend doesn't arrive before midday, we will have to leave. Unless ...
4. Smoking is forbidden in most restaurants. You ...
5. The teacher said to me: "Wait for me outside". The teacher told me ...
6. The last time Jean wrote a poem was two years ago. Jean ...
7. The hairdresser cut my hair yesterday. I had ...
8. John forgot to phone his mother yesterday. John didn't remember ...

PART 3. WRITING: Choose ONE of the following topics and write a 135-180 words long text.
1. Write a REPORT about social networks. Name and describe briefly at least three different social networks. Include information about what type of content is published on them and who their main users are.
2. Write an INFORMAL E-MAIL answering to the following one. You are Mary, and Alex has emailed you about organizing your history project. Reply to all the questions Alex asks.
E-mail received from Alex:
Hi,
It's great that we're going to work together on the college history presentation. Do you think we should choose the Fire of London as our topic?
We only have two weeks to prepare, so can we start tomorrow?
Where can we go to prepare the presentation? My grandparents are staying at my house at this moment so, we can't work there because it's too noisy.
We can give our presentation to the class either in the morning or in the afternoon. Which would you prefer?
Let me know ASAP.
Alex.