Examen Selectividad

UNIVERSIDADES DE ANDALUCÍA
PRUEBA DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD

LENGUA
EXTRANJERA (inglés)

CURSO 2011-2012
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a)Duración: 1 h.30m. b) No se permite el uso de diccionario. c) La puntuación de las preguntas está
indicada en las mismas. d) Los alumnos deberán realizar completa una de las dos opciones A o B, sin podermezclar las respuestas.

OPTION B
“Seeking therapy for anger”
Mary knew she had a problem when she found herself screaming at her university professor. He had caught her
having an aggressiveargument with a classmate and, after several complaints from other students, spoke to her
about it.
“All my life I’ve had a temper,” she admits. “I got into fights at school and university, and wouldlose control over
little things.” When the tutor said Mary would have to look for professional help or leave the course, she went to see
the university counsellor. It was a decisive moment for Mary,who had arrived in the UK at the age of 10 while trying
to recover from her sister’s death.
“It changed my life,” she says. “Suddenly I was speaking about things I had never talked about, such ashow I
was bullied at school when I first came to the UK because I couldn’t speak English and how I had watched my sister
die months before. My mother sent me back to school that day. We never spokeabout it again. Now, if I get angry, I
can talk about it.”
Many are not so fortunate. “We suspect that anger in our society is reaching dramatic levels, but there’s very little
help available,” saysthe director of the British Association of Anger Management. Last January, his association,
which operates several clinics across the UK, received an unprecedented number of reservations for itscourses,
despite January traditionally being its quietest month. “This could mean more people are seeking for help; nowadays,
domestic violence is increasing—eight women on average are killed every...