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Ano: 2014 Banca: VUNESP Órgão: UEA Prova: VUNESP - 2014 - UEA - Vestibular |
Q466661 Inglês
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       Mr. Day was a teacher at a school in a big city in the north of England. He usually went to France or Germany for a few weeks during his summer holidays, and he spoke French and German quite well.
       But one year Mr. Day said to one of his friends, “I’m going to have a holiday in Athens. But I don’t speak Greek, so I’ll go to evening classes and have Greek lessons for a
month before I go.”
       He studied very hard for a month, and then 10 holidays began and he went to Greece.
       When he came back a few weeks later, his friend said to him, “Did you have any trouble with your Greek when you were in Athens, Dick?”
       “No, I didn’t have any trouble with it,” answered Mr. Day. “But the Greeks did!”

                                          (L. A. Hill. Elementary Stories for Reproduction, 1977.)

No trecho do quarto parágrafo “When he came back a few weeks later”, a palavra “weeks” é precedida por “a few” para indicar quantidade. Uma outra palavra que também pode ser precedida por “a few”, para indicar quantidade, é
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Ano: 2013 Banca: FATEC Órgão: FATEC Prova: FATEC - 2013 - FATEC - Vestibular - Prova 01 |
Q382413 Inglês
Finally, a Billboard That Creates Drinkable Water Out of Thin Air

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I’ve never cared much for billboards. Not in the city, not out of the city - not anywhere, really. It’s like the saying in that old Five Man Electrical Band1 song. So when the creative director of an ad agency in Peru sent me a picture of what he claimed was the frst billboard that produces potable water from air, my initial reaction was: gotta be a hoax, or at best, a gimmick2

Except it’s neither: the billboard pictured here is real, it’s located in Lima, Peru, and it produces around 100 liters of water a day (about 26 gallons) from nothing more than humidity, a basic fltration system and a little gravitational ingenuity3 .

Let’s talk about Lima for a moment, the largest city in Peru and the ffth largest in all of the Americas, with some 7.6 million people (closer to 9 million when you factor in the surrounding metro area). Because it sits along the southern Pacifc Ocean, the humidity in the city averages 83% (it’s actually closer to 100% in the mornings). But Lima is also part of what’s called a coastal desert: it lies at the northern edge of the Atacama, the driest desert in the world, meaning the city sees perhaps half an inch of precipitation annually (Lima is the second largest desert city in the world after Cairo). Lima thus depends on drainage from the Andes as well as runof from glacier melt - both sources on the decline because of climate change. (...)

1Five Man Electrical Band: nome de um grupo de rock canadense.

2
gimmick: algo que não é sério, usado para atrair a atenção das pessoas temporariamente, especialmente para fazê-las comprar algo.

3
ingenuity: habilidade de pensar em novos meios inteligentes de se fazer algo.



A forma verbal gotta, presente ao fnal do primeiro parágrafo, é
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Ano: 2011 Banca: PUC - RJ Órgão: PUC - RJ Prova: PUC - RJ - 2011 - PUC - RJ - Vestibular - Inglês |
Q341052 Inglês
The sentence “Unless, of course, that a European country buys the rights to such medicines, WHO cannot grant its approval.” (lines 43-45) is appropriately paraphrased in.

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Ano: 2013 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: UNB Prova: CESPE - 2013 - UNB - Vestibular - Língua Inglesa |
Q335097 Inglês
Which alternative below could substitute the man’s question — on the second speech balloon — without substantial change in meaning?
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Ano: 2011 Banca: UNICENTRO Órgão: UNICENTRO Prova: UNICENTRO - 2011 - UNICENTRO - Vestibular - Inglês 1 |
Q266583 Inglês
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________property prices ________ in China.

According to the text, the alternative that completes these blanks correctly is

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Respostas
21: D
22: C
23: C
24: C
25: A