Ejercicio 1.1 · Inglés PAU Galicia Ordinaria 2025

Tema: Verdadero, falso o no se dice, con cita del texto (True/False/Not Given) · Del examen Ordinaria (2025)

Enunciado

Read the following text:

Telling the truth may be a virtue, but isn’t it more important to know how to tell lies? Any idiot can tell the truth, but lying is a skill, a science, an art. Fortunately, schools, with the unrealistic expectations that they have of young people, provide early training in the art of lying. For example, is it realistic to expect a 15-year-old to write a 250-word composition and spend six hours watching television in the same evening? So we watch television and tell the teacher we did our homework but that the dog/ cat/ baby ate it. Then, later in life, when the really uncomfortable questions come, like “I know you’re 18 years old now, but wouldn’t it be nice if we all went on a family holiday together, with grandma and grandpa?”, we know better than to say that would be our idea of hell. Instead, we say we’re really sorry we can’t come, but we’ve got that project to finish for school, plus football training, piano practice, or even English grammar exercises.

Obviously, modern civilized societies couldn’t exist if everybody lied all the time. But wouldn’t it be equally disastrous if everyone always told the truth? How many families depend for their stability on the little white lie? How much unhappiness and conflict is avoided simply because people have the good taste to hide the dislike or contempt they feel for other people? It seems to me that lying is an essential skill, so schools are quite right to teach it. And if my editor wonders why this article reached her so late this week, please note that I did in fact write it on time, but unfortunately the dog, the cat and the baby gathered together, stole it and hid it in the garden.

1.1. Indicate whether the following statements are True, False or the information is Not Given in the text (T/F/NG). In true and false cases, copy the part of the text which justifies your answer. [1.5 points]

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Enunciado: Ejercicio 1.1 · Inglés PAU Galicia Ordinaria 2025

Solución

Según los criterios oficiales de corrección

1. The text suggests that it is more difficult to tell a lie than to tell the truth.

Solución: True

1. Evidence from the text: The text suggests that it is more difficult to tell a lie than to tell the truth.

Solución: "Any idiot can tell the truth, but lying is a skill, a science, an art."

2. Schools generally demand too much from students.

Solución: True

2. Evidence from the text: Schools generally demand too much from students.

Solución: "Fortunately, schools, with the unrealistic expectations that they have of young people, provide early training in the art of lying."

3. An 18-year-old person can easily make up excuses so as not to go on holiday with their family.

Solución: True

3. Evidence from the text: An 18-year-old person can easily make up excuses so as not to go on holiday with their family.

Solución: "...we know better than to say that would be our idea of hell. Instead, we say we're really sorry we can't come, but we've got that project to finish for school, plus football training, piano practice, or even English grammar exercises."

4. In Western countries, people are more used to telling lies than in Eastern countries.

Solución: Not Given

4. Evidence from the text (leave blank if Not Given): In Western countries, people are more used to telling lies than in Eastern countries.

Solución: No justification needed / Not Given

5. If people sometimes don't say what they really think is because they want to be offensive.

Solución: False

5. Evidence from the text: If people sometimes don't say what they really think is because they want to be offensive.

Solución: "How much unhappiness and conflict is avoided simply because people have the good taste to hide the dislike or contempt they feel for other people?"

6. The writer's editor is a male.

Solución: False

6. Evidence from the text: The writer's editor is a male.

Solución: "And if my editor wonders why this article reached her so late this week..."

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