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Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões 48, 49 e 50.
Cornelius Ryan, the Irish D-Day Reporter Who Re-Invented Journalism
The father of modern literary journalism is Cornelius Ryan, whose massive “I was there” coverage of D-Day and its aftermath led to two incredible books and movies, The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far. He was an unlikely war correspondent.
Ryan was on a boat that ditched on Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944. He followed the Allied invasion attached to General Patton’s army. Years later he put together perhaps the best book about war ever written. It was exquisite writing and research, and as Michael Shapiro wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review in 2010, “it broke completely new ground”.
Shapiro wrote, “The book (The Longest Day) was a triumph, earning rave reviews and sales that, within a few years, would stretch into the tens of millions in eighteen different languages. I opened the book on the eve of a long weekend. I was hooked after a single page. Something was taking place in the telling of this story that transcended journalism.”
The book was written when Ryan placed an ad in several newspapers in 1957 which went, “June 6th, 1944: Were You There?” One thousand, one hundred, and fifty people wrote back. And of that group, he interviewed 172 alone or with his assistants. Out of that came a book that puts you at the heart of the greatest invasion of all time. You are there as the invasion forces first gain the beaches and the Germans, taken by surprise, fight back furiously.
Ryan died at just 54 from prostate cancer. On his gravestone in Connecticut is his name and one word: “Reporter.” No one has earned that title more. He deserves to be remembered.
Adapted from https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/cornelius-ryan-irish-dday-reporter.
How many people wrote back when Ryan placed an ad in the newspapers in 1957 (paragraph 4)?
Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões 48, 49 e 50.
Cornelius Ryan, the Irish D-Day Reporter Who Re-Invented Journalism
The father of modern literary journalism is Cornelius Ryan, whose massive “I was there” coverage of D-Day and its aftermath led to two incredible books and movies, The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far. He was an unlikely war correspondent.
Ryan was on a boat that ditched on Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944. He followed the Allied invasion attached to General Patton’s army. Years later he put together perhaps the best book about war ever written. It was exquisite writing and research, and as Michael Shapiro wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review in 2010, “it broke completely new ground”.
Shapiro wrote, “The book (The Longest Day) was a triumph, earning rave reviews and sales that, within a few years, would stretch into the tens of millions in eighteen different languages. I opened the book on the eve of a long weekend. I was hooked after a single page. Something was taking place in the telling of this story that transcended journalism.”
The book was written when Ryan placed an ad in several newspapers in 1957 which went, “June 6th, 1944: Were You There?” One thousand, one hundred, and fifty people wrote back. And of that group, he interviewed 172 alone or with his assistants. Out of that came a book that puts you at the heart of the greatest invasion of all time. You are there as the invasion forces first gain the beaches and the Germans, taken by surprise, fight back furiously.
Ryan died at just 54 from prostate cancer. On his gravestone in Connecticut is his name and one word: “Reporter.” No one has earned that title more. He deserves to be remembered.
Adapted from https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/cornelius-ryan-irish-dday-reporter.
In the sentence “...whose massive ‘I was there’ coverage of D-Day…” (paragraph 1), the word whose refers to
Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões 45, 46 e 47.
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Often when mentoring, in a one-to-one session, it will be clear that the mentee’s worst critic is the one they see very regularly – daily, in fact. Often when they are tired and stressed. Often when they are at a low point. It’s the one they look (1)________ the mirror.
I mean most of the time, the worst critic lives inside people’s head. It might be the criticism that you heard at school or college. It might be the voice of so-called friends. It might be a parent or guardian, sibling or perfect cousin. You can’t always shut those voices up. No matter how much you want to. You can, however, recognise that they are internal voices and cultivate a strategy to counteract them.
If you can have an internal critic, you can also have an internal cheerleader. One technique is to give yourself advice that you would give your best friend in that situation. If you’re worrying about not being good (2)________ something, what would you say to your best friend in that state? You’d probably tell them that it would be alright, they’ll sail through it, that you believe (3)________ them. If you can do it for your best friend, you can do it for yourself.
Adapted from https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article.
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Read the text below and answer the question:
1 Speech is one of the most important ways of communicating. It consists of far more that just
2 making noises. To talk and also to be understood by other people, we have to speak a language,
3 that is, we have to use combinations of sounds that everyone agrees stand for a particular
4 object or idea. Learning a language properly is very important. The basic vocabulary of English is not
5 very large, and only about 2,000 words are needed to speak it quite well. But the more words you
6 know, the more ideas you can express, and the more precise you can be about their exact meaning.
7 Words are the main thing we use in communicating what we want to say. The way we say the
8 words is also very important. Our tone of voice can express many emotions and shows whether we
9 are pleased or angry, for instance.
Read the text below and answer the question:
1 Speech is one of the most important ways of communicating. It consists of far more that just
2 making noises. To talk and also to be understood by other people, we have to speak a language,
3 that is, we have to use combinations of sounds that everyone agrees stand for a particular
4 object or idea. Learning a language properly is very important. The basic vocabulary of English is not
5 very large, and only about 2,000 words are needed to speak it quite well. But the more words you
6 know, the more ideas you can express, and the more precise you can be about their exact meaning.
7 Words are the main thing we use in communicating what we want to say. The way we say the
8 words is also very important. Our tone of voice can express many emotions and shows whether we
9 are pleased or angry, for instance.
Read the text below and answer the question:
1 Speech is one of the most important ways of communicating. It consists of far more that just
2 making noises. To talk and also to be understood by other people, we have to speak a language,
3 that is, we have to use combinations of sounds that everyone agrees stand for a particular
4 object or idea. Learning a language properly is very important. The basic vocabulary of English is not
5 very large, and only about 2,000 words are needed to speak it quite well. But the more words you
6 know, the more ideas you can express, and the more precise you can be about their exact meaning.
7 Words are the main thing we use in communicating what we want to say. The way we say the
8 words is also very important. Our tone of voice can express many emotions and shows whether we
9 are pleased or angry, for instance.
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
The excerpt ‘the most disadvantaged pupils are most likely
to have been negatively affected by the impact of Covid-19’
(third paragraph) would be correctly rewritten in indirect
speech as: Dr Ian Collen said that the most disadvantaged
pupils were most likely to had been negatively affected by
the impact of Covid-19.

Based on the comic strip above, judge the following item.
The humorous effect of the strip is caused by the attempt of
one of the doctors to empower her patient by giving him a
very obvious tip.

Based on the infographic above, judge the following item.
Up to 2003, JK Rowling has married twice and has lived in
three different countries.