lunes, 15 de junio de 2020

KEY FOR PAU 1

1a. FALSE. Line 3: "The Nobel has often been misapplied. It evaded Tolstoi..."

1b. FALSE. Lines 13-14: "Coetzee was born in Cape Town in 1940 and trained as a computer scientist, coming to London in the Sixties to work for IBM, a period recollected in a superb autobiographical novel"

2 (Possible answers):

a) Because politics has often influenced the judges more strongly than literary criteria.

    Because their decision was based on political rather than literary reasons.

b) First he worked at IBM in the United Kingdom as a computer scientist. Then he went on to teach literature in the United States and was also a literary critic.

     After working at IBM in Britain for a period of time, he moved to the United States, where his occupation was that of a professor of Literature and literary critic.

3a "unquestionably"
3b "wholly"
3c "assumptions"
3d "swiftly"

4a "who" (not possible to say "that"), "last" (the PAU exam is from the year 2004; otherwise you can say "one" or "that")
4b "winning", "had received"
4c "whose", "was not chosen"
4d "about", "his"