Todo empezó porque las máquinas hacían....
Read the following story, then indicate the letter that best completes the statements that follow.
«Apocalipsis, I», de Marco Denevi
La extinción de la raza de los hombres se sitúa aproximadamente a fines del siglo XXXI.a La cosa sucedió así:b las máquinas habían alcanzadoc tal perfección que los hombres no necesitaban comer, ni dormir, ni leer, ni escribir, ni siquierad pensar. Les bastaba apretare un botón y las máquinas lo hacían todo por ellos.
Gradualmente fueron desapareciendo las mesas, los teléfonos, los Leonardo da Vinci, las rosas té, las tiendas de antigüedades,f los discos con las nueve sinfonías de Beethoven, el vino de Burdeos, las golondrinas,g los cuadros de Salvador Dalí, los relojes, los sellosh postales, los alfileres,i el Museo del Prado, la sopa de cebolla, los transatlánticos, las pirámides de Egipto, las Obras Completas de don Benito Pérez Galdós.j Sólo había máquinas.
Después, los hombres empezaron a notar que ellos mismos iban desapareciendo paulatinamentek y que en cambiol las máquinas se multiplicaban. Bastó poco tiempo para que el número de los hombres quedase reducido a la mitadm y eln de las máquinas aumentase al doble y luego al décuplo.ñ Las máquinas terminarono por ocupar todo el espacio disponible.p Nadie podía dar un paso, hacer un simple ademánq sin tropezarse conr una de ellas. Finalmente los hombres se extinguieron.s
Comot el último se olvidó de desconectar las máquinas, desde entoncesu seguimos funcionando.
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aa… at the end of the 31st century ? bLa… It happened like this ? chabían… had achieved ? dni… not even ? eLes… It was enough to push ? fantiques ? gswallows ? hstamps ? ipins ? j19th century Spanish novelist ? klittle by little ? len… in contrast ? mBastó… It only took a little while for the number of men to be reduced to half ? nthat ( the number )? ñtenfold oended up ? pavailable ? qgesture ? rsin… without running into ? sse… died out ? tSince ? udesde… since then
a) solamente los quehaceres domésticos.
b) solamente los trabajos electrónicos.
c) todos los trabajos necesarios.
c) todos los trabajos necesarios.
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