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TEXT 1(TWO TEXTS AND THE PREVIOUS ONE YOU HAVE TO HAND IT) Bullfighting in Catalonia It looks like Catalonia is on their way to curtailing 2 bullfighting after parliament voted to ban (1) it. Spanish bullfighting has suffered another major setback after the Catalan Parliament voted to outlaw it completely across the region. The vote was not without controversy (2); however, this is not surprising since there has always been controversy surrounding bullfighting between those who consider it animal abuse and those who believe it to be a cultural tradition. After a narrow (3) initial victory for the abolitionists –67 in favour and 59 against– the law could become effective. It seems that some believe the reason it is being banned is the ongoing (4) rivalry between Catalonians and Spaniards, since bullfighting is considered typically Spanish and the Catalonians pride (5) themselves on being different from the Spaniards, including having a different language. Others seem to think it w...

Opción A The Chronicle of In May 1886, Coca Cola was invented by John Pemberton, a pharmacist from Atlanta, who concocted (1) the formula in a brass kettle in his backyard. The name was suggested by his bookkeeper (2), Frank Robinson. Due to his excellent handwriting, it was he who first scripted Coca Cola into the flowing letters which have become the famous logo of today. The soft drink was first sold to the public at the soda fountain in Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, on May 8, 1886. About nine servings of the soft drink were sold each day. Sales for that first year added up to a total of about $50. The funny thing was that it cost Pemberton over $70 to produce it, so the first year of sales were a loss. Until 1905, the soft drink, marketed as a tonic (3), contained extracts of cocaine as well as the caffeine-rich kola nut. In 1887, another Atlanta pharmacist and businessman, Asa Candler, bought the formula for $2,300. By the late 1890s, Coca Cola was one of America's mos...

TEXT 1 Part A. Reading Comprehension. Read the following text: Brilliantly boring It is agreed that we are more bored today than ever before. And at the age of the Internet, when the average person has access to vastly more fascinating information than at any point in history, what are the sites that consistently achieve cult status, from the birth of the web up to the present day? The most boring ones. Just as frequently, though, boredom seems to be the very point of a boring website - as if we truly appreciate the quiet, uncomplicated space of a few moments spent watching, for example, a nest full of eggs or chicken in a farm with our web cam. In an information-saturated society, writes sociologist Orrin Klapp, we suffer anxiety, since the slow horse of our comprehension is unable to keep up with the fast horse of the information that we can access. It would be nice to believe that boring websites are pop...