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(Text 1) A Mc Donald’s super-fan has kept a burger and fries in a glass cabinet for 10 years - and it still looks fine to eat.
The so-called "indestructible" McDonald's meal has no sign of mould or decay, despite having been first served up a decade ago.
Back in 2009, McDonald's closed down all three of its restaurants ____ Iceland.
And one man decided to buy the icy nation's final hamburger and fries - so the meal could live on after the chain's closure.
"I had heard that McDonald's never decompose so I just wanted to see if it was true or not," Hjortur Smarason said.
It's now been exactly 10 years since Smarason made his purchase, and the meal barely looks older.
In fact, there's a livestream of the burger and fries available to watch online _____ free.
The not-so-happy meal is housed in a glass cabinet in Snotra House, a hostel in southern Iceland.
You can check out the livestream here <https://snotrahouse.com/last-mcdonalds/>..
"The old guy is still there, feeling quite well," said hostel owner Siggi Sigurdur, speaking to BBC News <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50262547>. .
"It's a fun thing, of course, ______ it makes you think about what you are eating.
"There is no mould, it's only the paper wrapping that looks old.
" Why do McDonald's meals last so long? Here's what you need to know...
· Like many fast food outlets, McDonald's adds chemicals to its ingredients to make them last longer
· This saves McDonald's money and means you can get your meals for cheaper than you would otherwise
· These chemicals are called preservatives, which McDonald's say it adds "only when absolutely necessary, to ensure the food is safe to eat"
· "They will be used, for example, to prevent our bread and cheese from going mouldy and our pickles from spoiling," McDonald's explains
· You can find a full ingredient declaration for all McDonald's foods (including burgers) sold in the UK here
· The hostel says that people visit _____ around the world to see the burger.
· And it claims that the livestream website receives up to 400,000 hits every single day. · The meal hasn't always been kept in a glass cabinet, however.
· At first, Smarason stored the burger and fries in a plastic bag in his garage.
· After three years, he donated the meal to the National Museum of Iceland - and noticing barely any change in its appearance.
· The Museum decided that they weren't equipped to preserve the food, and then returned it to its original owner.
· "I think he was wrong because this hamburger preserves itself," Smarason said.
· The meal was then kept at a different hostel in Reykjavik, before being moved to its current home.
· We've asked McDonald's for a statement and will update this article with any response.
Disponível em: www.thesun.uk
The sentence: “ I had heard that Mc Donald’s never decompose…” taken from the text is in what verb tense?
(Text 1) A Mc Donald’s super-fan has kept a burger and fries in a glass cabinet for 10 years - and it still looks fine to eat.
The so-called "indestructible" McDonald's meal has no sign of mould or decay, despite having been first served up a decade ago.
Back in 2009, McDonald's closed down all three of its restaurants ____ Iceland.
And one man decided to buy the icy nation's final hamburger and fries - so the meal could live on after the chain's closure.
"I had heard that McDonald's never decompose so I just wanted to see if it was true or not," Hjortur Smarason said.
It's now been exactly 10 years since Smarason made his purchase, and the meal barely looks older.
In fact, there's a livestream of the burger and fries available to watch online _____ free.
The not-so-happy meal is housed in a glass cabinet in Snotra House, a hostel in southern Iceland.
You can check out the livestream here <https://snotrahouse.com/last-mcdonalds/>..
"The old guy is still there, feeling quite well," said hostel owner Siggi Sigurdur, speaking to BBC News <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50262547>. .
"It's a fun thing, of course, ______ it makes you think about what you are eating.
"There is no mould, it's only the paper wrapping that looks old.
" Why do McDonald's meals last so long? Here's what you need to know...
· Like many fast food outlets, McDonald's adds chemicals to its ingredients to make them last longer
· This saves McDonald's money and means you can get your meals for cheaper than you would otherwise
· These chemicals are called preservatives, which McDonald's say it adds "only when absolutely necessary, to ensure the food is safe to eat"
· "They will be used, for example, to prevent our bread and cheese from going mouldy and our pickles from spoiling," McDonald's explains
· You can find a full ingredient declaration for all McDonald's foods (including burgers) sold in the UK here
· The hostel says that people visit _____ around the world to see the burger.
· And it claims that the livestream website receives up to 400,000 hits every single day. · The meal hasn't always been kept in a glass cabinet, however.
· At first, Smarason stored the burger and fries in a plastic bag in his garage.
· After three years, he donated the meal to the National Museum of Iceland - and noticing barely any change in its appearance.
· The Museum decided that they weren't equipped to preserve the food, and then returned it to its original owner.
· "I think he was wrong because this hamburger preserves itself," Smarason said.
· The meal was then kept at a different hostel in Reykjavik, before being moved to its current home.
· We've asked McDonald's for a statement and will update this article with any response.
Disponível em: www.thesun.uk
According to the context, what would be the best translation for the words: mould and decay respectively?
Os textos a seguir correspondem a fragmentos de fontes distintas, pertencentes a gêneros textuais diversos. Utilize-os para responder às questões 37 e 38.
Texto A
increase
verb [intransitive or transitive] /In´kri:s/ to become larger in amount or size, or to make something do this:
increase by something Sales have increased by 10%.
increase to something Our gross margin increased to 24%.
increase in price/size/value Over the past two years
the department has increased in size. (...)
increase
noun [countable or uncountable] /´Inkri:s/ a situation in which the number, size, or amount of something gets bigger:
a pay/price/tax increase Customers stocked up,
anticipating a January price increase.
an increase in something Businesses are facing a 12% increase in energy costs.
an increase of something Revenue last year was $347 million, an increase of 26%.
Cambridge English
Texto B
60% OF BRAZILIANS ARE LACKING
AT LEAST ONE BASIC SERVICE
In one year, two million more Brazilians are earning less than US$ 105 a month
Dec.6.2018 | 10:48 AM
Lucas Vettorazz | Érica Fraga
In 2017, six out of ten Brazilians ____ without adequate access to at least one of the crucial services: education, housing, social protection, sanitation, and internet access. When added to an increase ____ poverty, measured as the population income last year, the numbers show the double challenge ahead, if Brazil wants to reach higher development levels. These numbers were released ____ Wednesday (5th) by IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). The rise in unemployment, caused by the recession, made the population living below the line of poverty increase an additional two million last year, making a total of 54.8 million Brazilians, or 26.5% of the total population. In 2016, the percentage was 25.7%. By the indicators established by the World Bank - also adopted by IBGE - a person is considered to be poor when they live with up to US$ 5.5 a day, or US$ 105 a month. The number of Brazilians on extreme poverty also grew, which is a portion of the population even more reasonable. This group increased ____ 1.7 million last year, making it 15.2 million in total, or 7.4% of the people, against 6.6% in 2016.
Folha de S. Paulo
Assinale a alternativa que completa correta e respectivamente as lacunas do Texto B.
Considere parte das COMPETÊNCIAS ESPECÍFICAS DE LÍNGUA INGLESA PARA O ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL:
1. Identificar o lugar de si e o do outro em um mundo plurilíngue e multicultural, refletindo, criticamente, sobre como a aprendizagem da língua inglesa contribui para a inserção dos sujeitos no mundo globalizado, inclusive no que concerne ____________.
2. Comunicar-se na língua inglesa, por meio do uso variado de linguagens __________, reconhecendo-a como ferramenta de acesso ao conhecimento, de ampliação das perspectivas e de possibilidades para a compreensão dos valores e interesses de outras culturas e para o exercício do protagonismo social.
Assinale a alternativa que completa correta e respectivamente as lacunas.
Complete the following sentences with many / much / few / a little.
I. We don´t have _____ juice left.
II. How _____ sisters do you have?
III. We took _____ pictures because we didn´t have enough battery.
All options are correct to complete the sentences with the following sentence, EXCEPT:
“This is the child ___________”
As questões de 31 a 35 foram formuladas e serão respondidas em português. As demais questões foram formuladas e serão respondidas em inglês.
Read this excerpt from one of the previous texts:
“One of the dangers we come across in our educational systems is the loss of a feeling of community, not just the loss of closeness among those with whom we work and with our students, but also the loss of a feeling of connection and closeness with the world beyond the classroom.”
The phrasal verb highlighted above means:
Read this excerpt from one of the previous texts:
“My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is always a vocation rooted in hopefulness.”
The difference in meaning between “hope” and hopefulness in the excerpt above is that:
As questões de 31 a 35 foram formuladas e serão respondidas em português. As demais questões foram formuladas e serão respondidas em inglês.
Read this excerpt from one of the previous texts:
“We must highlight all the positive, life-transforming rewards that have been the outcome of collective efforts to change our society, especially education, so that it is not a site for the enactment of domination in any form.
” Without changing the meaning of the sentences, it is correct to substitute the modal must in the beginning of the sentence for:
As questões de 31 a 35 foram formuladas e serão respondidas em português. As demais questões foram formuladas e serão respondidas em inglês.
When learning / teaching reading and writing skills we must focus on coherence and cohesion, which means:
Mrs. Ellington was last night recovering ____ her injuries in hospital.
Consider the following sentence:
Some schools use therapeutic strategies such as anger management, skill-building, empathy-building and self-esteem building to reach the bully.
Which expression CANNOT substitute “such as”?
Consider the following words/verbs:
1. Enable – 2. State – 3. Produce – 4. Employ – 5. Bury.
Mark the alternative in which the suffixes form correct NOUNS from the above verbs.
Read the news below.
“There's no doubt about it, I was robbed tonight,” a distraught Rasmus said after storming out of the ring without speaking to Fox.
According to the context, the bold verb expresses:
Observe the following sentence.
We noted that the man was absorbed at his work last night.
There is a mistake related to a or an:
Read the paragraph below.
A new exhibit of miniature books ___ on display at the Grolier Club in New York City. One of them seems so small that it ___ as an imperceptible piece.
Identify the best alternatives the completes the context above.
Read the sentence below.
At the same time, the lore of lost countries have shaped public perceptions of the ancient society.
There is a mistake in the context above related to a o an:
Choose the sentence in which the article A was also correctly used.
Some children is more likely to develop teeth cavities.
In the context above there is mistake related to a or an:
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