Ejercicio A · Inglés PAU Madrid Modelo 2020

QUESTIONS

TEXTO A

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh, American writer and aviator (1906-2001), was perhaps best known as the wife of Charles Lindbergh, the pilot who had made the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927. In her own right, however, she was a renowned pilot and the author of a number of popular books of fiction, diaries, and poetry.

Anne met her husband when he was her family’s guest during the Christmas 1927 season. She graduated from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1928, and the couple was married the following year. Anne took up flying herself and in 1930 became the first woman in the U.S. to be granted a glider pilot’s license. She became her husband’s co-pilot, navigator, and radio operator and in 1930 helped him set a new transcontinental speed record of 14 hours 45 minutes from Los Angeles to New York City. In 1931 they made a three-month-long journey to survey air routes over Canada and Alaska to East Asia, and that trip later became the subject of Anne’s first book, North to the Orient (1935), which was an instant success. She solidified her reputation with her second book, Listen! The Wind (1938), which recounted a 1933-34 survey of transatlantic air routes.

She went on to write more than two dozen works of prose and poetry, including five volumes of her own diaries. With Gift from the Sea, published in 1955, Anne became a heroine to millions of readers, especially women, for her thoughtful and lyrical meditation on the lives of women in the twentieth century. The book remained on the nonfiction bestseller list of The New York Times for a formidable 80 weeks, and sold five million copies in hardcover and paperback during its first 20 years in print.

Adapted from “Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh,” Encyclopaedia Britannica.

<https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Spencer-Morrow-Lindbergh>

A.1 (2 puntos) Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text. No marks are given for only TRUE or FALSE.

a)

Most people knew Anne more for her marriage than for her works.

TRUE

FALSE

b)

Anne and Charles’s wedding took place before she finished her studies.

TRUE

FALSE

A.2 (2 puntos) In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer the following questions. Do not copy from the text.

a)

How did Anne help her husband develop his career as a pilot?

b)

Why did female readers feel so close to Anne?