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    The document discusses how touch is becoming less common in modern society. It notes that while touch was instinctive for children, it has become awkward for adults. Doctors are warned not to hug patients and teachers hesitate to touch students due to legal concerns. Older adults in the UK often go days without touching anyone due to loneliness. Experts like McGlone are worried this lack of touch is negatively impacting mental health. Research shows gentle touching from strangers can reduce feelings of isolation. As a society, humans understand touch benefits stress and health, but technology may be reducing real-world interactions and touch.

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    The document discusses how touch is becoming less common in modern society. It notes that while touch was instinctive for children, it has become awkward for adults. Doctors are warned not to hug patients and teachers hesitate to touch students due to legal concerns. Older adults in the UK often go days without touching anyone due to loneliness. Experts like McGlone are worried this lack of touch is negatively impacting mental health. Research shows gentle touching from strangers can reduce feelings of isolation. As a society, humans understand touch benefits stress and health, but technology may be reducing real-world interactions and touch.

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    COMISSIÓ GESTORA DE LES PROVES D’ACCÉS A LA UNIVERSITAT

    COMISIÓN GESTORA DE LAS PRUEBAS DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD

    PROVES D’ACCÉS A LA UNIVERSITAT PRUEBAS DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD


    CONVOCATÒRIA: JUNY 2018 CONVOCATORIA: JUNIO 2018

    Assignatura: ANGLÈS Asignatura: INGLÉS

    Please answer on a separate sheet of paper

    OPCIÓ A / OPCIÓN A

    Part A. Reading Comprehension


    Read the following text:

    NO HUGGING: ARE WE LIVING THROUGH A CRISIS OF TOUCH?

    When did you last touch someone outside your family or intimate relationship? Touch is the first sense
    humans develop. But somewhere in adulthood what was instinctive to us as children has come to feel
    awkward. In countless ways social touch is being eliminated from our lives.

    In the UK, doctors were warned last month to avoid comforting patients with hugs to avoid legal
    action. Teachers hesitate to touch pupils. And in the UK, in a loneliness epidemic, half a million older
    people go at least five days a week without touching a person.

    What do humans risk losing, when we lose touch? Francis McGlone, a leader in affective touch, is
    worried: “We have demonised touch to a level at which it provokes hysterical responses, and this lack
    of touch is not good for mental health”, he says.

    McGlone says: “The pleasantness of touch encourages us to keep touching, pleasing babies and
    connecting adults. Last year, researchers from London showed that slow, gentle stroking by a stranger
    reduced feelings of social exclusion. As a society, we instinctively understand the power of touch.
    Caressing slows down heart beats and blood pressure, gives people better control over their stress
    hormones. Being touched also increases the number of natural killer cells”.

    “You just don’t see people touching each other these days,” Tiffany Field, founder of the Touch
    Research Institute, complains. There is still no scientific data to connect declining touch to mobile
    technology or social media, but Field’s descriptions of people wrapped in their own worlds rather than
    each other, sitting in isolation, are evocative and familiar.

    Excerpt from an article by Paula Cocozza, The Guardian, March 7th 2018

    1
    I. Answer the following questions using your own words but taking into account the
    information in the text. (2 points: 1 point each)

    a. Why is McGlone worried about humans losing touch?


    b. Why may mobile technology be related to less touching among people?

    II. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)? Identify the part of the text that
    supports your answer by copying the exact passage on the answer sheet. (1.5
    points: 0.5 each)

    a. We start touching people as soon as we become adults.


    b. People who are touched feel less isolated.
    c. Humans intuitively feel the benefits of touching.

    III. Find a synonym for each of the four words below from these six options. (1 point:
    0.25 each)

    awkward eliminated hesitate provokes gives connect

    a. provides
    b. strange
    c. link
    d. triggers

    IV. Choose a, b, or c, in each question below. Only one choice is correct. (1.5 points: 0.5
    each)

    1. In the UK loneliness epidemic...


    a. older people only touch other people at weekends.
    b. older people do not touch other people five days a week or more.
    c. older people do not touch other old people at least five days a week.

    2. The feelings associated with touch...


    a. are negative and generate negative reactions.
    b. are positive and can lead to long-term relationships.
    c. are positive and can lead to more touching.

    3. A gentle stroking by a stranger...


    a. can lead to a strong relationship with that person.
    b. can make you feel like you are not so isolated.
    c. can make you be willing to caress that stranger as well.

    Part B. Composition (130 to 150 words approximately) (4 points)

    Why do we touch each other less nowadays?

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