Una fotografía olvidada · B2. Relaciona la persona, hora, lugar o cantidad con el hecho correcto.
Lee el material original en inglés y responde con pruebas. El nivel es una orientación editorial, no un resultado certificado.
Lee el material original en inglés y responde con pruebas. El nivel es una orientación editorial, no un resultado certificado.
The photograph fell from a book I was packing for the charity shop. At first I recognised only the gate: two pale posts and a latch that had always caught on the sleeve of my coat. Then I saw my brother, small and unsmiling, standing beside our mother. Someone had cut the edge of the picture, removing most of the person whose hand rested on his shoulder.
I was certain I knew the day. It was the afternoon we had been told that we were leaving the house, and my brother had refused to speak because nobody had asked what he wanted. I had repeated that version of events so often that it felt less like a memory than a fact entered in a family record.
I sent him a photograph of the photograph. His reply arrived while I was still packing. “You have the wrong day,” he wrote. “That was before the school play. I was frightened of forgetting my lines.” He remembered the borrowed jacket, which itched, and our mother telling him not to pull at the collar. The departing house and the silent protest belonged to another afternoon.
For a moment, I wanted to defend my account. The expression on his face seemed to support it. Then I noticed the paper flower pinned to his jacket, a detail I had previously treated as an unimportant blur. It did not prove every part of his story, but it fitted a school performance more comfortably than a sudden announcement about moving.
I asked about the missing person at the edge. He thought it was our aunt, though he was not certain. I had assumed it was me. Neither of us could explain why the photograph had been cut. We agreed to ask our cousin, who still had some of our aunt’s albums, rather than invent a reason that happened to suit us.
That evening, I put the photograph in a new envelope and wrote both accounts on a sheet of paper. I marked mine as a memory I was now questioning, not one I had proved false in every detail. My brother’s recollection deserved attention without being promoted automatically into a complete record.
The book continued into the donation box. The photograph stayed. It had become more interesting after it stopped illustrating the story I thought I knew. I no longer looked at my brother’s expression and saw a single obvious explanation. The unfamiliar space around it was not an empty place to fill quickly, but a reason to look again.
Relaciona la palabra con la persona, objeto o idea que representa en esa oración. Relaciona la persona, hora, lugar o cantidad con el hecho correcto. Usa la razón dada; una razón externa que parece posible no basta.
In “Mia lost her key”, her refers to Mia.
Relaciona la persona, hora, lugar o cantidad con el hecho correcto. Combina las pistas reales sin añadir hechos no respaldados.
The doors open at eight. The class starts at nine.
Lee el material original en inglés y responde con pruebas. El nivel es una orientación editorial, no un resultado certificado.
The photograph fell from a book I was packing for the charity shop. At first I recognised only the gate: two pale posts and a latch that had always caught on the sleeve of my coat. Then I saw my brother, small and unsmiling, standing beside our mother. Someone had cut the edge of the picture, removing most of the person whose hand rested on his shoulder.
I was certain I knew the day. It was the afternoon we had been told that we were leaving the house, and my brother had refused to speak because nobody had asked what he wanted. I had repeated that version of events so often that it felt less like a memory than a fact entered in a family record.
I sent him a photograph of the photograph. His reply arrived while I was still packing. “You have the wrong day,” he wrote. “That was before the school play. I was frightened of forgetting my lines.” He remembered the borrowed jacket, which itched, and our mother telling him not to pull at the collar. The departing house and the silent protest belonged to another afternoon.
For a moment, I wanted to defend my account. The expression on his face seemed to support it. Then I noticed the paper flower pinned to his jacket, a detail I had previously treated as an unimportant blur. It did not prove every part of his story, but it fitted a school performance more comfortably than a sudden announcement about moving.
I asked about the missing person at the edge. He thought it was our aunt, though he was not certain. I had assumed it was me. Neither of us could explain why the photograph had been cut. We agreed to ask our cousin, who still had some of our aunt’s albums, rather than invent a reason that happened to suit us.
That evening, I put the photograph in a new envelope and wrote both accounts on a sheet of paper. I marked mine as a memory I was now questioning, not one I had proved false in every detail. My brother’s recollection deserved attention without being promoted automatically into a complete record.
The book continued into the donation box. The photograph stayed. It had become more interesting after it stopped illustrating the story I thought I knew. I no longer looked at my brother’s expression and saw a single obvious explanation. The unfamiliar space around it was not an empty place to fill quickly, but a reason to look again.
A forgotten photograph
Relaciona la palabra con la persona, objeto o idea que representa en esa oración. Relaciona la persona, hora, lugar o cantidad con el hecho correcto. Usa la razón dada; una razón externa que parece posible no basta.
In “Mia lost her key”, her refers to Mia.Relaciona la persona, hora, lugar o cantidad con el hecho correcto. Combina las pistas reales sin añadir hechos no respaldados.
The doors open at eight. The class starts at nine.Relaciona la persona, hora, lugar o cantidad con el hecho correcto.
The doors open at eight. The class starts at nine.Conserva el primer intento, comprueba la evidencia y prueba otra pregunta. Responder sobre el mismo material no demuestra transferencia a otro texto.
Aún no hay repasos. Prueba un calentamiento corto.
Relaciona la palabra con la persona, objeto o idea que representa en esa oración. Relaciona la persona, hora, lugar o cantidad con el hecho correcto. Usa la razón dada; una razón externa que parece posible no basta.
In “Mia lost her key”, her refers to Mia.Relaciona la persona, hora, lugar o cantidad con el hecho correcto. Combina las pistas reales sin añadir hechos no respaldados.
The doors open at eight. The class starts at nine.Abrir una respuesta registra ayuda para esa pregunta.
A forgotten photograph
La respuesta respaldada es «It fell from a book being packed for donation.». Prueba: «The photograph fell from a book I was packing for the charity shop.». Compara la alternativa «It arrived with the brother’s account in a new envelope.». Esto confunde dos fases: la situación inicial y una comprobación o decisión posterior. Compara la alternativa «The narrator found it among albums already borrowed from the cousin.». Esto confunde dos fases: la situación inicial y una comprobación o decisión posterior.
A forgotten photograph
La respuesta respaldada es «The gate.». Prueba: «At first I recognised only the gate». Compara la alternativa «The paper flower.». Esto confunde dos fases: la situación inicial y una comprobación o decisión posterior. Compara la alternativa «The identity of the person whose hand was visible.». Esto añade un detalle que el relato no aporta; que parezca plausible no lo convierte en prueba textual.
A forgotten photograph
La respuesta respaldada es «A protest about leaving the house.». Prueba: «It was the afternoon we had been told that we were leaving the house, and my brother had refused to speak because nobody had asked what he wanted.». Compara la alternativa «Anger about an itchy borrowed jacket.». Esto confunde dos fases: la situación inicial y una comprobación o decisión posterior. Compara la alternativa «Reluctance to have a photograph taken before donating the book.». Esto añade un detalle que el relato no aporta; que parezca plausible no lo convierte en prueba textual.
A forgotten photograph
La respuesta respaldada es «Repetition had made the narrator’s version feel unquestionable.». Prueba: «I had repeated that version of events so often». Compara la alternativa «The narrator had avoided repeating the family story before this discovery.». Esto invierte la relación indicada en el texto. Compara la alternativa «An independently checked family record had confirmed the date.». Esto atribuye a las pruebas más certeza o alcance del que permiten.
A forgotten photograph
La respuesta respaldada es «A school play.». Prueba: «That was before the school play.». Compara la alternativa «An announcement that they were moving.». Esto confunde dos fases: la situación inicial y una comprobación o decisión posterior. Compara la alternativa «The day the book was first selected for donation.». Esto confunde dos fases: la situación inicial y una comprobación o decisión posterior.
A forgotten photograph
La respuesta respaldada es «It fits the brother’s account but does not prove all of it.». Prueba: «It did not prove every part of his story, but it fitted a school performance more comfortably». Compara la alternativa «It makes the brother’s recollection a complete and independently verified record.». Esto atribuye a las pruebas más certeza o alcance del que permiten. Compara la alternativa «It is no more compatible with the play than with the moving announcement.». Esto invierte la relación indicada en el texto.
A forgotten photograph
La respuesta respaldada es «A paper flower pinned to the jacket.». Prueba: «the paper flower pinned to his jacket». Compara la alternativa «The gate latch that had caught on the narrator’s coat.». Esto confunde dos fases: la situación inicial y una comprobación o decisión posterior. Compara la alternativa «The visible hand resting on the brother’s shoulder.». La mano aparece en la fotografía, pero no es el detalle que provoca la reconsideración; esa función corresponde a la flor. Contrasta el pasaje «whose hand rested on his shoulder.» con la pregunta y la afirmación «The visible hand resting on the brother’s shoulder.».
A forgotten photograph
La respuesta respaldada es «Fear of forgetting his lines.». Prueba: «I was frightened of forgetting my lines.». Compara la alternativa «Embarrassment that the photograph had been cut.». Esto añade un detalle que el relato no aporta; que parezca plausible no lo convierte en prueba textual. Compara la alternativa «Certainty that moving house was unfair.». Esto confunde dos fases: la situación inicial y una comprobación o decisión posterior.
A forgotten photograph
La respuesta respaldada es «Why the photograph was cut.». Prueba: «Neither of us could explain why the photograph had been cut.». Compara la alternativa «Whether the flower was visible on the jacket.». Este detalle ya está establecido en el relato; se pregunta qué cuestión sigue sin resolverse. Compara la alternativa «Whether the brother connected the image with a school play.». Este detalle ya está establecido en el relato; se pregunta qué cuestión sigue sin resolverse.
A forgotten photograph
La respuesta respaldada es «The cousin may have further evidence in the aunt’s albums.». Prueba: «our cousin, who still had some of our aunt’s albums». Compara la alternativa «They hope the cousin will choose the more comforting account without more evidence.». Esto invierte la relación indicada en el texto. Compara la alternativa «They believe the cousin has already identified the missing person with certainty.». Esto atribuye a las pruebas más certeza o alcance del que permiten.
A forgotten photograph
La respuesta respaldada es «By writing both down and qualifying the certainty of each.». Prueba: «That evening, I put the photograph in a new envelope and wrote both accounts on a sheet of paper. I marked mine as a memory I was now questioning, not one I had proved false in every detail. My brother’s recollection deserved attention without being promoted automatically into a complete record.». Compara la alternativa «By marking the narrator’s whole account as conclusively false.». Esto convierte un resultado matizado en una afirmación sin excepciones. Compara la alternativa «By presenting the brother’s version as a complete official record.». Esto atribuye a las pruebas más certeza o alcance del que permiten.
A forgotten photograph
La respuesta respaldada es «The narrator accepts uncertainty as a reason for further attention.». Prueba: «I no longer looked at my brother’s expression and saw a single obvious explanation. The unfamiliar space around it was not an empty place to fill quickly, but a reason to look again.». Compara la alternativa «The narrator treats the competing accounts as proof that photographs cannot offer evidence.». Esto convierte un resultado matizado en una afirmación sin excepciones. Compara la alternativa «The narrator accepts the brother’s account as the only explanation worth considering.». Esto invierte la relación indicada en el texto.