7. Pruebas de exámenes anteriores resueltas

En esta sección tienes algunos textos reales de traducción que han sido propuestos en convocatorias de la Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad para mayores de 25 años. Léelos y tradúcelos. 

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Techno girls

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Meet the Techno Girls


The secret is revealed: if you are looking for the Next New Thing, go to Tokyo. For there, on this big city's streets, you will find the people who set tendencies of our times. But don't expect them to be powerful businessmen or rich young fashion designers. They are Japanese teenage girls.

Sciencie fiction writer William Gibson is fascinated by this element in Japanese society. As he puts it, Japanese teenage girls have a "techno-cultural flexibility" difficult to find anywhere else. They get every new gadget available, at times even using these items for purposes other than those intended. Cell phones can be found in the pockets of almost 95 per cent of all Japanese teenage girls. But unlike American models, their phones are constantly connected to the Internet.

Popular electronic diversions include animated tarot cards or phone service called "The God of Love". For $ 1.40 a month, young girls can send the date of birth of a potential boy-friend and the God of Love will evaluate the possibilities of such a love connection. Teenage girls are maniacal about their gadgets, the more colourful the better. Favourite objects among this set are the pink MiniDisc players, headphones with lights and portable DVD viewers.

 

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The Human Hobbit

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The Mystery of the Human Hobbit

On the remote island of Flores, in the Indonesian archipelago, a team of archaeologists happened upon a tiny 18,OOO-year old skeleton. It was no more than a metre tall. They assumed they had found the remains of a young girl. But other signs suggested she was in fact much older. They had discovered one of the smallest human adults ever found.

As the dig continued, the evidence obtained got stranger. The archaeologists found elephants the size of cows, rats the size of dogs, lizards the size of crocodiles. It was like walking into Alice into Wonderland. The humans were not the only ones who were peculiarly sized, everything large had shrunk and everything small had grown.

The team began to realise they had discovered a new species of human being. They called her the Hobbit. She was the smallest known species in modem human history. She lived at a time during which we previously thought we were the only species of human left on the planet. She seemed intelligent even with an animal-sized brain. She was someone completely different from everything known about our ancestors. The Hobbit was acclaimed as the scientific sensation of the century.