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  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