Opción B - 4 · Inglés PAU Navarra Ordinaria 2024

4. Complete the text using the correct words from the box below. There are 2 words that you won't need (2 points, 0,25 each).

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FOCUSES

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WORSE

LIKELY

WORST

ALTHOUGH

FOCUS

NEARLY

The Washington Post reported that children are almost twice as

(a)

to be killed by guns as they were a decade

(b)

.

The rate of firearm deaths among people under the age of 20 more than doubled from 2011 to 2021—from 3.4 to 6.1

(c)

of every 100,000 individuals. This means that gun violence is getting far

(d)

at an incredible speed. A recent study found that the US's civilian gun death rate is

(e)

four times that of Switzerland, five times that of Canada, 35 times that of the United Kingdom, and 53 times that of Japan.

(f)

much of the attention to America's gun problem

(g)

on mass shootings and murders, suicides continue to be a major part of the problem and the research consistently shows that stronger gun laws

(h)

prevent suicides.