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For the question use the poem below:
Eating Poetry
(Mark Strand)
Available at: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52959/eating-poetry Accessed on December 30th, 2019.
About the poem use TRUE (T) or FALSE (F):
( ) Describes a speaker who is literally eating poetry.
( )The most important aspect to consider in understanding this poem is the metaphor behind the act of eating a poem.
( ) The action of eating poetry is for the poet something that makes him happy.
( ) Strand uses short sentences and highlights one of the most common types of simple English sentences: subject, verb, object.
Respectively, the order is:
The text below is the introduction from a book on sports.
SPORTSWRITING
Offices and bars are full of casual obscenity, but most British newspapers are ... well, not necessarily careful about language, but careful about bad words anyway. The phrase 'family newspaper' is an ineluctable part of our lives. Newspapers are not in the business of giving gratuitous offence. It is a limitation of newspaper writing, and one everybody in the business, whether writing or reading, understands and accepts. There are many other necessary limitations, and most of these concern time and space.
Newspapers have dominated sportswriting in Britain for years, and have produced their own totem figures and doyens. But ten years ago, a new player entered the game. This was the phenomenon of men's magazines; monthly magazines for men that had actual words in them - words for actually reading. GQ was the pioneer and, in my totally unbiased opinion as the long-term author of the magazine's sports column, it leads the way still, leaving the rest panting distantly in its wake.
Sport, is of course, a blindingly obvious subject for a men's magazine - but it could not be tacked in a blindingly obvious way. Certainly, one of the first things GQ was able to offer was a new way of writing about sport, but this was not so much a cunning plan as a necessity. The magazine was doomed, as it were, to offer a whole new range of freedoms to its sportwriters. Heady and rather alarming freedoms. Freedom of vocabulary was simply the most obvious one and, inevitably, it appealed to the schoolboy within us. But space and time were the others, and these possibilities meant that the craft of sportswriting had to be reinvented.
Unlike newspapers, a magazine can offer a decent length of time to research and to write. These are, you would think, luxuries - especially to those of us who are often required to read an 800-word match report over the telephone the instant the final whistle has gone. Such a discipline is nerve-racking, but as long as you can get it done at all, you have done a good job. No one expects a masterpiece under such circumstances. In some ways the ferocious restrictions make the job easier. But a long magazine deadline gives you the disconcerting and agoraphobic freedom to research, to write, to think.
To write a piece for a newspaper, at about a quarter of the massive GQ length, you require a single thought. The best method is to find a really good idea, and then to pursue it remorselessly to the end, where ideally you make a nice joke and bale out stylishly. If it is an interview piece, you look for a few good quotes, and if you get them, that's your piece written for you. For a longer piece, you must seek the non-obvious. This is a good quality in the best of newspaper writing, but an absolute essential for any writer who hopes to complete the terrifying amount of words that GQ requires. If you write for GQ you are condemned to try and join the best. There is no other way.
GQ is not restricted by the same conventions of reader expectation as a newspaper. You need not worry about offending people or alienating them; the whole ethos of the magazine is that readers are there to be challenged. There will be readers who would find some of its pieces offensive or even impossible in a newspaper, or even in a different magazine. But the same readers will read the piece in GQ and find it enthralling.
That is because the magazine is always slightly uncomfortable to be with. It is not like a cosy member of the family, nor even like a friend. It is the strong, self-opinionated person that you can never quite make up your mind whether you like or not. You admire him, but you are slightly uneasy with him. The people around him might not altogether approve of everything he says; some might not care for him at all. But they feel compelled to listen. The self-confidence is too compelling. And just when you think he is beginning to become rather a bore, he surprises you with his genuine intelligence. He makes a broad joke, and then suddenly he is demanding you follow him in the turning of an intellectual somersault.
Source: Adapted from (Pre-2013 Revision) CPE Handbook.
Choose the correct alternative that provides the correct answer for the question: Why were sportswriters for
GQ given new freedoms?
( ) According to Mikhail Bakhtin, textual genres are defined mainly by their social function. ( ) Textual genres are texts that are used for a particular reason in a communicative situation to promote a specific interaction. ( ) As they serve the need to communicate, textual genres are transmuted by presenting new forms from existing ones. The email address, for example, is a variation of the letter's communicative function. ( ) Textual genres define what kind of literature will be read by men and what type will be read by women. ( ) A textual genre is any one of the several linear sequences of elements of some specific kind whose combination constitutes a phonological representation.
Choose the alternative with the correct sequence:
I. In the past, insulin was artificially produced from animals such as pigs and cows. II. Today oxen and horses are often used for agricultural, travelling, horseback riding and racing purposes III. Doctors can still prescribe animal insulin. IV. A sick child can improve his/her mood by caressing a poney. V. Many plants are no longer pollinated because many animals have become extinct.
Answers the question according to the text below.
Organ Donation and Transplant
Choose the CORRECT alternative.
When you’re in a long line waiting for your turn with a bunch of other cranky people, a good wallet is essential. For everyone’s benefit, you want to be able to find the right card or bills, make your transaction, and get out of there as quickly as possible. Mobile payments, vendor apps, and the decline of cash have lessened the amount of space you need for library cards and twenties, and they’ve lessened the need for bulky, old-school leather cash carriers. There’s never been a better time to trim down your wallet and your carbon footprint in turn by choosing a wallet made from recycled or eco-friendly materials.
When you’re in a long line waiting for your turn with a bunch of other cranky people, a good wallet is essential. For everyone’s benefit, you want to be able to find the right card or bills, make your transaction, and get out of there as quickly as possible. Mobile payments, vendor apps, and the decline of cash have lessened the amount of space you need for library cards and twenties, and they’ve lessened the need for bulky, old-school leather cash carriers. There’s never been a better time to trim down your wallet and your carbon footprint in turn by choosing a wallet made from recycled or eco-friendly materials.
I. It is time to reduce our carbon production by using environmentally friendly or recyclable materials. II. Internet payment culture, vendor application usage, and non-use of currency money have reduced the card space required in our wallet. III. Despite the encouragement that we should use recyclable and environmentally friendly materials, a good leather wallet is still indispensable. IV. The text encourages us to use green or recyclable materials which inevitably diminish our carbon footprint. V. A quality billfold is essential for us to organize our accounts, cards, carry out other transactions and reduce our carbon production.
Answers the question according to the text below.
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THE SCIENCE OF PERSUASION
Persuasion is key to business and to much more besides. In many walks of life and in many situations, persuading people to do what you want them to do is the key to success. Is persuasion a science with rules that can be taught and learnt, or is it simply a matter of instinct and personal experience? Researchers have looked into different aspects of persuasion and come up with some interesting results.
One advertising copywriter, for example, came up with an approach to selling a product on a TV shopping channel via phones sales that differed from the norm for such advertising. Instead of being instructed: ‘Operators are waiting, please call now’, viewers were told ‘If operators are busy, please call again’. This might appear to have been a risky tactic, putting potential buyers off by suggesting that they would have to waste their time calling repeatedly until they finally got through to someone to take their order. But the results were extraordinary and an unprecedented number of sales resulted. The advert suggested that instead of there being lots of operators sitting there and hoping people would call, there were so many people who wanted the product that people might have to wait until they could get it. This showed just how desirable the product was. Potential customers decided that, if so many other people wanted it, they definitely wanted it too.
What role does choice have in persuading
people to buy or get something? One study looked
at the choices employees made when offered
different retirement programmes. This showed that
the more choices people were given, the less likely
they were to choose anything at all. Another study
in a supermarket revealed a similar effect of choice.
A particular supermarket displayed either 6 or 24
different kinds of jam. When there were 24 jams to
choose from, 3% of customers went to the display
and bought one of the jams. When there were 6
jams on display, 30% of customers did so. […]
THE SCIENCE OF PERSUASION
Persuasion is key to business and to much more besides. In many walks of life and in many situations, persuading people to do what you want them to do is the key to success. Is persuasion a science with rules that can be taught and learnt, or is it simply a matter of instinct and personal experience? Researchers have looked into different aspects of persuasion and come up with some interesting results.
One advertising copywriter, for example, came up with an approach to selling a product on a TV shopping channel via phones sales that differed from the norm for such advertising. Instead of being instructed: ‘Operators are waiting, please call now’, viewers were told ‘If operators are busy, please call again’. This might appear to have been a risky tactic, putting potential buyers off by suggesting that they would have to waste their time calling repeatedly until they finally got through to someone to take their order. But the results were extraordinary and an unprecedented number of sales resulted. The advert suggested that instead of there being lots of operators sitting there and hoping people would call, there were so many people who wanted the product that people might have to wait until they could get it. This showed just how desirable the product was. Potential customers decided that, if so many other people wanted it, they definitely wanted it too.
What role does choice have in persuading
people to buy or get something? One study looked
at the choices employees made when offered
different retirement programmes. This showed that
the more choices people were given, the less likely
they were to choose anything at all. Another study
in a supermarket revealed a similar effect of choice.
A particular supermarket displayed either 6 or 24
different kinds of jam. When there were 24 jams to
choose from, 3% of customers went to the display
and bought one of the jams. When there were 6
jams on display, 30% of customers did so. […]
THE SCIENCE OF PERSUASION
Persuasion is key to business and to much more besides. In many walks of life and in many situations, persuading people to do what you want them to do is the key to success. Is persuasion a science with rules that can be taught and learnt, or is it simply a matter of instinct and personal experience? Researchers have looked into different aspects of persuasion and come up with some interesting results.
One advertising copywriter, for example, came up with an approach to selling a product on a TV shopping channel via phones sales that differed from the norm for such advertising. Instead of being instructed: ‘Operators are waiting, please call now’, viewers were told ‘If operators are busy, please call again’. This might appear to have been a risky tactic, putting potential buyers off by suggesting that they would have to waste their time calling repeatedly until they finally got through to someone to take their order. But the results were extraordinary and an unprecedented number of sales resulted. The advert suggested that instead of there being lots of operators sitting there and hoping people would call, there were so many people who wanted the product that people might have to wait until they could get it. This showed just how desirable the product was. Potential customers decided that, if so many other people wanted it, they definitely wanted it too.
What role does choice have in persuading
people to buy or get something? One study looked
at the choices employees made when offered
different retirement programmes. This showed that
the more choices people were given, the less likely
they were to choose anything at all. Another study
in a supermarket revealed a similar effect of choice.
A particular supermarket displayed either 6 or 24
different kinds of jam. When there were 24 jams to
choose from, 3% of customers went to the display
and bought one of the jams. When there were 6
jams on display, 30% of customers did so. […]
THE SCIENCE OF PERSUASION
Persuasion is key to business and to much more besides. In many walks of life and in many situations, persuading people to do what you want them to do is the key to success. Is persuasion a science with rules that can be taught and learnt, or is it simply a matter of instinct and personal experience? Researchers have looked into different aspects of persuasion and come up with some interesting results.
One advertising copywriter, for example, came up with an approach to selling a product on a TV shopping channel via phones sales that differed from the norm for such advertising. Instead of being instructed: ‘Operators are waiting, please call now’, viewers were told ‘If operators are busy, please call again’. This might appear to have been a risky tactic, putting potential buyers off by suggesting that they would have to waste their time calling repeatedly until they finally got through to someone to take their order. But the results were extraordinary and an unprecedented number of sales resulted. The advert suggested that instead of there being lots of operators sitting there and hoping people would call, there were so many people who wanted the product that people might have to wait until they could get it. This showed just how desirable the product was. Potential customers decided that, if so many other people wanted it, they definitely wanted it too.
What role does choice have in persuading
people to buy or get something? One study looked
at the choices employees made when offered
different retirement programmes. This showed that
the more choices people were given, the less likely
they were to choose anything at all. Another study
in a supermarket revealed a similar effect of choice.
A particular supermarket displayed either 6 or 24
different kinds of jam. When there were 24 jams to
choose from, 3% of customers went to the display
and bought one of the jams. When there were 6
jams on display, 30% of customers did so. […]
English Language Day
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De acordo com o artigo, analise as assertivas a seguir:
I. A Língua Portuguesa é uma das línguas oficiais da ONU.
II. Acredita-se que Shakespeare nasceu e morreu na mesma data.
III. Shakespeare cunhou os termos “quebrar o gelo” e “o amor é cego”.
IV. No século XI, francês era a língua oficial no Reino Unido.
É correto apenas o que se afirma em: