Examen de Inglés de Cataluña (PAU de 2020)

Semi-vegetarianism

A semi-vegetarian or flexitarian diet is one that is plant-based with the occasional inclusion of meat. In 2003, the American Dialect Society voted flexitarian as the year's most useful word.

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Monte Everest

El monte Everest, también conocido en Nepal como Sagarmāthā (‘La frente del cielo’), en el Tíbet como Chomolungma o Qomolangma (‘Madre del universo’) y en China como Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng, es la montaña más alta del planeta Tierra, con una altura de 8.848 metros (29.029 pies) sobre el nivel del mar. Está localizada en la cordillera de Mahalangur Himal, en el continente asiático, y marca la frontera entre China y Nepal. El macizo incluye los picos vecinos Lhotse, 8.516 m (27.940 pies); Nuptse, 7.855 m (25.771 pies) y Changtse, 7.580 m (24.870 pies).

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Global warming

Global warming and climate change are terms for the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming. Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented in the instrumental temperature record which extends back to the mid 19th century, and in paleoclimate proxy records over a thousand years.

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Bolivia

Bolivia, officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre while the seat of government is located in La Paz. The largest city and principal economic and financial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the (tropical lowlands) a mostly flat region in the east of Bolivia.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa. Spanning a land mass of 238,535 km², Ghana is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south. Ghana means "Warrior King" in the Soninke language.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University or simply Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England. It has no known date of foundation, but there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation. It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled north-east to Cambridge where they established what became…

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Principality of Catalonia

The Principality of Catalonia was a medieval and early modern political entity or state in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. During most of its history it was in dynastic union with the Kingdom of Aragon, constituting together the Crown of Aragon. Between the 13th and the 18th centuries it was bordered by the Kingdom of Aragon to the west, the Kingdom of Valencia to the south, the Kingdom of France and the feudal lordship of Andorra to the north and by the Mediterranean sea to the east. The term "Principality of Catalonia" remained in use until the Second Spanish Republic, when its use decli…

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