Question 1 TRUE / FALSE QUESTIONS

A 40 -year-wait for plant to flower – and then it dies

A plant has flowered for the first time after almost 40 years at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Just before flowering, the Agave franzosinii more than quadrupled in height – growing a rate of almost 3ft a week until it was as tall as a house. The plant outgrew its conservatory, forcing staff to remove parts of the roof to allow its progress to continue. When it did finally bloom, most of the 3in yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers were outside the building. However, as Agaves die shortly after flowering the glorious display did not last long.
The plant is of the same family as the Agave tequilana, which is used to make the spirit tequila. Collectively they are known as “century plants”, as it was previously thought they only flowered every hundred years. Where they grow in arid parts of Mexico, they are an oasis for wildlife, as they are full of pollen and nectar, attracting birds, bees and bats.
By chance, the flowering took place while Sir David Attenborough was filming at Kew Gardens for a new series, Kingdom of Plants 3D. Its progress was filmed for the show.
Before it died, staff at Kew took some seeds from it, which have already been sown and reached around 2ft in height. They are expected to flower some time around the middle of the century.

Question 1 Indicate whether the following statements are true or false and write down which part of the text justifies your answer.
a) This Agave Franzosinii has bloomed before.
b) Gardeners at Kew had to modify the building to let the plant grow.
c) Tequila can be made from the Agave Franzosinii plant.
d) Only insects are attracted to Agave plants.

Tips for TRUE / FALSE questions

Every part of a true sentence must be "true"
If any one part of the sentence is false, the whole sentence is false despite many other true statements.

Pay close attention to negatives, qualifiers, absolutes, and long strings of statements

Negatives can be confusing.
If the question contains negatives, as "no, not, cannot"
Drop the negative and read what remains.
Decide whether that sentence is true or false.
If it is true, its opposite, or negative, is usually false

Qualifiers are words that restrict or open up general statements.
Words like "sometimes, often, frequently, ordinarily, generally" open up the possibilities of making accurate statements.  They make more modest claims, are more likely to reflect reality, and usually indicate "true" answers.

Absolute words restrict possibilities.
"No, never, none, always, every, entirely, only" imply the statement must be true 100% of the time and usually indicate "false" answers.

Long sentences often include groups of words set off by punctuation.
Pay attention to the "truth" of each of these phrases.
If one is false, it usually indicates a "false" answer

Antes de nada, recuerda que tu respuesta debe empezar con la palabra TRUE o FALSE, con la palabra completa y por supuesto en inglés.

Cuando copies del texto para justificar tu respuesta, limita la cita copiando solamente la información necesaria, que si bien debe de recoger las respuestas a todas las partes de la pregunta, no debes incluir información extra, ya que esto conlleva una penalización.

Tienes que tener en cuenta que en algunas ocasiones la justificación a la frase dada puede estar en dos partes, incluso en distinto párrafo. Debes incluir toda la información, para ello puedes utilizar dos citas separadas.

Todas las partes de la frase tienen que ser “verdaderas”. Si cualquiera de las partes de la frase es falsa, toda la frase es falsa aunque muchas de las otras partes sean verdaderas.

Presta mucha atención a las partículas negativas, calificadores, intensificadores, o sucesiones de frases muy largas.

Las negativas pueden confundirte. Si la pregunta contiene negativas, tales como “no, not, cannot”, elimina la negativa y lee lo que te queda. Decide si la frase es verdadera o falsa. Si es verdadera, normalmente, su negativa es falsa.

Fíjate bien si en la frase aparece un modal que indique posibilidad o certeza y que en el texto se refleje también esa posibilidad, para que esa frase sea verdadera, si la pregunta da una posibilidad que en el texto aparece como algo seguro, evidentemente la frase es falsa.

Los calificadores son palabras que limitan o amplian frases generalistas.

Palabras como “sometimes, often, ordinarily, generally” amplian las posibilidades de hacer las frases más exactas. Hacen las afirmaciones más modestas, más parecidas a la realidad, y normalmente son respuestas “verdaderas”.

Las palabras “absolutas” limitan las posibilidades.

“no, never, none, always, every, entirely, only” implican que la frase debe ser totalmente verdadera todo el tiempo y normalmente indican respuestas “falsas”

Las frases largas a menudo incluyen grupos de palabras separadas por algún signo de puntuación. Presta atención a la “verdad” de cada una de sus partes. Si una de ellas es falsa, entonces normalmente indica que la respuesta es “falsa”

Ejemplo:

La pregunta que te hacen es la siguiente:

Once Laura has achieved her goal, there will be no more objections from the Dutch government organisations.

Aquí tienes que justificar que Laura ha alcanzado su objetivo y que el gobierno no pondrá más objeciones.

En el texto esta información aparece en el último párrafo:

"Now, after sailing around the world, with difficult port approaches, storms, dangerous reefs, and the full responsibility of keeping myself and Guppy safe, I feel that the nightmares the Dutch government organisations put me through, were totally unfair," Miss Dekker wrote. I hear now that the Dutch government organisations have started causing problems again. I am seriously thinking about not returning to the Netherlands.”

Y la justificación sería la siguiente:

“Now, after sailing around the world ........ .I hear now that the Dutch government organisations have started causing problems again.”

Como ves, la información que damos viene en dos partes separadas del párrafo y no lo hemos copiado todo entero, ya que nos penalizarían porque estaríamos añadiendo datos que no son necesarios.