SIMULAZIONE SECONDA PROVA
INGLESE
Comprehension and interpretation
1. T!
2. NS!
3. T!
4. F!
5. T!
6. According to the author’s words, the English language has got a salt that other European
languages do not have, and therefore it possessed the narrator. !
7. The elite at the Court has experienced a cosmopolitan education that has changed them,
their sense of race and nationalism, and as a consequence their fanaticism. !
8. As it is stated in the text, the narrator is fascinated by England, but at the same time he
struggles against this feeling. At the beginning of the text he introduces this aspect, but it is
made very clear at the end of the text, when he says that during his period at Oxford he
enjoyed the English language, even though he was using it to write anti-British articles.!
Written production
Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, said “Most of us have
overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are,
without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we
learn from others, and come to respect their teachings”. !
Everybody is unique, so that means we all have different identities, but sometimes it happens
that some of us have some similarities, which bring them to unite in different groups. Despite
all the differences, we can coexist peacefully, without a reason to fight. Actually, we could learn
something new from each others. !
Nowadays it is easier to be in touch with something different from our usual habits and
traditions, than in the past. Thanks to the evolution of technology we daily come across so
many cultural diversities, which range from the cuisine to the religion and have an important
impact on people’s way of living.!
Under many aspects this “fusion” among different cultures is positive. It actually changes
people’s minds, they become more open to diversity and respectful to traditions and ways of
living that are not their own. Beside this, people also learn something new about traditions that
are so far away from their reality. !
At the same time, it could also have the opposite result of a pacific existence. Dissimilarities
could also be the reason of struggles and tensions among people, who belong to different
“groups”. As it already happened in the past, cultural diversities can set a conflict off. !
Last year I had the opportunity to spend the entire school year in a small town in Illinois, USA.
As I arrived there, I realized that I had been catapulted in a completely different reality from the
one I was used to. The people around me had different habits and traditions. I enjoyed a lot
