Ejercicio 1 - Opción A - 3 · Inglés PAU Aragón Ordinaria 2021

OPTION A

Reasons why Warsaw is awesome

Poland's capital city surprised me. It's a cool city, so long as you take the time to get to know it. Warsaw has quite a painful recent history. In 1939 Nazi Germany bombed Warsaw heavily. In 1944, toward the end of World War II, resistance forces in Warsaw decided to rise up against the Germans. The Warsaw Uprising largely failed, however, and the Nazis decided to punish the city by making an example of it — which meant essentially obliterating it. More than 80% of the city center was flattened after the Uprising, and the city's population dropped from 2 million to about 1,000 because people simply had nowhere to live and were forced to leave the city. Due to the Uprising and resulting destruction of the city, most of Warsaw is actually new –built after 1945. Even the “Old Town” is new, having been completely rebuilt after World War II.

Food is another reason to visit Warsaw and enjoy its many “milk bars”. These are restaurants which offer delicious, filling and healthy food at budget-friendly prices. Contrary to their name, milk bars do not serve up milk – they serve up traditional Polish food on plastic flatware.

Finally, as far as art and science goes, Warsaw has also contributed a lot. Chopin was born here and all over the city you can find benches that will play his music when you walk by or sit down on them. And Marie Curie, the first woman to ever win a Nobel Prize, also called Warsaw home.

3. Find words or phrases in the text which mean the same as the following: (1 point)

a) in fact:

b) decreased:

c) did not succeed:

d) impose a penalty, penalise: