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C ) is unlikely to come to terms with digital technology.<br />
D ) has always been surrounded by a digital environment.<br />
1 5. The underlined word in the following sentence:<br />
´Indeed, apart from age, one of the diferences between the<br />
natives and the immigrants is the intuitive acceptance of<br />
rapid digital change.`, can be, without changing its<br />
meaning, be replaced by:<br />
A ) Likewise<br />
B ) Nevertheless<br />
C ) Actually<br />
D ) Therefore<br />
B ) Despite replacing old technology like their children,<br />
parents are likely to keep it for much longer.<br />
C ) Besides replacing old technology like their children,<br />
parents are likely to keep it for much longer.<br />
D ) Rather than replace old technology like their children,<br />
parents are likely to keep it for much longer.<br />
T ex t o 0 1 :<br />
C h ico A ny s io , g r an h u m o r is t a de l a t el ev is ió n<br />
b r as il eñ a<br />
1 6. Some parents are concerned that continued exposure<br />
to digital technology will result in children becoming…<br />
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A ) less focused and used to senseless violence<br />
B ) experiencing lack of awareness of the risks they are<br />
running.<br />
C ) being unable to discriminate between the mindless<br />
violence they watch.<br />
D ) having lower discrimination between what might be<br />
useful for them.<br />
1 7. All the sentences below contain ideas found on the<br />
text, except:<br />
A ) Digital immigrants are the ones who are still trying to<br />
adjust to this age of technology,<br />
B ) Innovation takes place in such a speed that adolescents<br />
are more unlikely to replace it than their folks.<br />
C ) Digital natives examine information carefully in order<br />
to find something out to decide what is important and what<br />
is not.<br />
D ) Due to a ´multi-tasking `way of living, teenagers are<br />
bound to find activities such as reading and watching TV<br />
dull and not very fast.<br />
1 8. The following sentence: ´Instead of replacing old<br />
technology like their children, parents are likely to keep it<br />
for much longer.`, can be correctly replaced by:<br />
A ) Children replace old technology. Likewise, their<br />
parents are likely to keep it for much longer.<br />
Chico Anysio, ídolo de los brasileños, el mayor<br />
humorista de la televisión brasileña, falleció el v ier nes a<br />
los 80 años en el Hospital Samaritano de Río de Janeiro,<br />
por complicaciones pulmonares derivadas de su vida de<br />
fumador empedernido.<br />
Tras haber creado decenas de personajes, en sus<br />
65 años de ejercicio como humorista Anysio (1931,<br />
Maranguape) imitó a medio Brasil. Hizo reír a millones de<br />
personas y él mismo no co ns eg u íhablar a sin bromas. “En<br />
1940, a mi madre le dier o n seis meses de vida. Todos los<br />
médicos que la diagnosticaron murieron antes que el l a,<br />
que falleció con 89. Mi padre con 92, mi abuela con 97.<br />
Yo voy a morir con 104”, comentó en una de sus últimas<br />
entrevistas.<br />
Quería morir con 104 para superar al gran<br />
arquitecto Óscar Niemeyer, que tiene 103. No lo<br />
consiguió, pero es como si hubiera vivido 200 años,<br />
porque en su vida, como afirma el diario O’ Globo, fue<br />
“prolífero en todo”. En su carrera incansable de<br />
humorista, en su pasión por el tabaco que lo llevó a morir<br />
antes de lo que hubiese deseado, y sobre todo en su vida<br />
sentimental. Se casó seis veces y tuvo hijos con todas. En<br />
total, ocho, uno de ellos adoptivo. Entre sus exmujeres<br />
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