5. Insomnia wounds and accompanies you.
A) 1 – 1 – 1 – 1 – 1
B) 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2
C) 3 – 3 – 3 – 3 – 3
D) 4 – 4 – 4 – 4 – 4
E) 5 – 5 – 5 – 5 – 5
33. Rhyme
1. You search for words that rhyme with your first name.
2. You search for words that rhyme with your last name.
3. Your first and last names do not rhyme, but you search for words that rhyme with both your first and last names.
4. You search for words that don’t rhyme with either your first name or your last name, or with anything else.
5. You are not crazy.
A) 5 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4
B) 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1
C) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
D) 1 – 5 – 2 – 3 – 4
E) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4
34. First person
1. You believe the only solution is to keep your mouth shut.
2. You never say I.
3. Thanks to several bottles of wine, you learn to say I.
4. You never say we.
5. Thanks to a bottle of pisco, you learn to say we.
6. You are rehabilitated.
A) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6
B) 1 – 2 – 4 – 3 – 5 – 6
C) 2 – 4 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6
D) 4 – 5 – 6 – 2 – 3 – 1
E) 2 – 3 – 6 – 4 – 5 – 1
35. Swimming
1. The scale says 92.1 kilos. You tune the radio to 92.1 FM. You loathe this station, every program on it. You have to lose weight.
2. You’re at the public pool. Sitting on the edge with your feet in the water, you watch some kids who are learning how to swim. The teacher is emphatic, her voice does not sound sweet. The children look very serious.
3. When you were a kid, you were in love with silence. Later, you wanted words to flood you, sink you. But you already knew how to swim, no one had to teach you. They just threw us into the water, you think, and like dogs, we learned to swim right away.
4. Or maybe they taught you in school. Maybe that was the only thing they taught you. Not to swim, but to move your arms and legs. And to hold your breath for hours.
5. Everyone knows that swimming is the best exercise. You’re going to be OK, you think to yourself, you’re going to lose weight. You dive into the cold water. Swimming strengthens your muscles and your memory.
A) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
B) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
C) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
D) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
E) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
36. Scars
1. You think about how the shortest distance between two points is the length of a scar.
2. You think: the introduction is the father, the climax is the son, and the resolution is the holy spirit.
3. You read books that are much stranger than the books you would write if you wrote.
4. You think, as if it were a discovery, that the last point in the line of time is the present.
5. You try to go from the general to the specific, even if the general is General Pinochet.
6. You try to go from the abstract to the concrete.
7. The abstract is the pain of others.
8. The concrete is the pain of others colliding with your body until you are completely invaded.
9. The concrete is something that can only grow.
10. Something like a tumor, or the opposite of a tumor: a child.
11. In your case, it’s a tumor.
A) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11
B) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11
C) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11
D) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11
E) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11
III. SENTENCE COMPLETION
In exercises 37 through 54, complete the sentence using the appropriate elements. Mark the answer that best fits the sentence.
37. the thousand amendments they’ve made to it, the Chilean Constitution of 1980 is a piece of shit.
A) After
B) Due to
C) In spite of
D) Thanks to
E) Notwithstanding
38. I often used to lie, I wore dark glasses.
A) but
B) though
C) so
D) but even so,
E) but only when
39. A lot of people want me dead, I’m not ill.
A)
but
that
B)
though
actually
C)
even though
gravely
D)
yet
even
E)
though
yet
40. Students go to university to , not to .
A)
study
think
B)
study
protest
C)
drink
think
D)
sleep
die
E)
buy
window-shop
41. And if they have any left, that’s what for.
A)
energy
sports are
B)
hope
reality is
C)
illusions
the void is
D)
dissent
the cops are
E)
neurons
crack cocaine is
42. What is impossible for is possible for .
A)
men
God
B)
men
women
C)
the right
the left
D)
Rebecca
Becky
E)
the poor
the rich
43. What is impossible for is possible for .
A)
my mom
my dad
B)
Pisces
Leo
C)
me
you
D)
McCartney
Lennon
E)
tomorrow
the day after tomorrow
44. If the within you grows , how deep is your !
A)
light
dark
darkness
B)
confusion
light
flashlight
C)
candor
lustful
schlong
D)
love
furious
divorce
E)
humor
bitter
book
45. If someone strikes you on the right , offer him the other as well.
A) cheek
B) week
C) wing
D) chord
E) time
46. I want to gather these words together, nothing makes any sense.
A) though
B) so that
C) even if
D) but
E) until
47. I seek words that appear in books.
A) sometimes
B) never
C) always
D) only
E) don’t even
48. You are not , you are not , you are not .
A)
good
bad
wrong
B)
wrong
right
here
C)
here
there
gone
D)
gone
around
mine
E)
mine
mine
mine
49. Last night I dreamed you were and I was and we were together.
A)
here
here
lying
B)
coming
coming
coming
C)
lost
lost
walking
D)
lost
not
not
E)
sick
dead
almost
50. Last night I dreamed you were a and I was a and we were together.
A)
dog
dog
barking
B)
leg
leg
dancing
C)
tooth
tooth
biting
D)
nun
priest
sleeping
E)
ghost
ghost
always
51. You were a bad son, you write.
You were a bad father, you write.
You are alone, you write.
A)
so
so
so
B)
of that
of that
of that
C)
but
but
but
D)
because
because
because
E)
and still
and still
and still
52. You were a bad son, so you write .
You were a bad father, so you write .
You are alone, so you write .
A)
letters
letters
letters
B)
novels
stories
poetry
C)
badly
badly
badly
D)
your will
your will
your will
E)
a lot
a lot
a lot
53. You were a bad son, but .
You were a bad father, but .
You are alone, but .
A) people vote for you
people vote for you
people vote for you
B) I love you
I love you
I love you
C) I’m not your father
I’m not your son
that’s not my problem
D) you know it
you know it
you know it
E) no one knows
no one knows
no one knows
54. You were a bad son, but .
You were a bad father, but .
You are alone, but .
A) you’re happy
you’re happy
you’re happy
B) it’s so hard to be a son
it’s so hard to be a father
we are all alone
C) a good soldier
a good Christian
Jesus is with you
D) your backhand is amazing
you lent me sixty bucks
man, you have a good time
E) your father died so long ago
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your son died so long ago
you want to be alone
IV. SENTENCE ELIMINATION
In exercises 55 through 66, mark the answer that corresponds to the sentences or paragraphs that can be eliminated because they either do not add information or are unrelated to the rest of the text.
55.
(1) For years, no one came to visit my grave.
(2) I didn’t expect anyone to, if I’m being honest.
(3) But today a woman came and left me flowers.
(4) Four red roses, two pink ones, and one white.
(5) I don’t know who she is; I don’t remember ever having met her.
(6) I don’t think she knows I was a shitty person.
A) None
B) 2
C) 4
D) 5
E) 6
56.
(1) There are hamburgers in the refrigerator.
(2) There’s some lettuce and mustard, too.
(3) I went to the beach with the kids.
(4) It’s normal, they’re my kids too.
(5) I’m afraid of you.
(6) And they’re afraid of you too.
(7) And that, too, is normal.
A) None
B) 1 and 2
C) 2
D) 4
E) 7
57.
(1) A curfew is a regulation prohibiting free circulation in public within a determined area.
(2) It tends to be decreed in times of war or popular uprising.
(3) The dictatorship imposed one in Santiago, Chile, from September 11, 1973, until January 2, 1987.
(4) One summer evening my father went out walking with no destination in mind. It grew late, and he had to sleep at a friend’s house.
(5) They made love, she got pregnant, I was born.
A) None
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