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Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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A language function is a purpose you wish to achieve when you say or write something. If you say ‘I invite you’, you are performing the function of inviting. Of course you could also say ‘D’you want to come to the cinema?’ to make an invitation. There are many ways of inviting, apologising, agreeing, giving advice, asking for information etc.
If our students want to express themselves in speaking or writing, they need to know to perform these functions – in other words, how to use grammar and vocabulary to express certain meanings/ purposes.
(Jeremy Harmer. How to teach English, 1998. Adaptado)
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Fog harversting could provide water for arid cities
By Victoria Gill


Fog harversting could provide water for arid cities
By Victoria Gill


Fog harversting could provide water for arid cities
By Victoria Gill


( ) To collect the same amount of water delivered to the slums in Alto Hospicio every week, it would be necessary to install more than ten thousand square meters of mesh.
( ) When calculating how much water can be collected, Dr. Carter’s team also analyzed cloud formation and weather forecasts.
( ) The amount of water collected predicted by the researchers might be incorrect because the fog is not constant in the region.
( ) Dr. Carter’s fog-harvesting system was based on a paper published in a journal about Environmental Science.
The correct order of filling in the parentheses, from top to bottom, is:
Fog harversting could provide water for arid cities
By Victoria Gill


Fog harversting could provide water for arid cities
By Victoria Gill


Considering the text presented above, judge the following items.
From the last paragraph, it is correct to infer that, with the use of models, information gathered in a specific context can be of use and interest to farming communities somewhere else.
Judge the following items about the text above.
The presence of inverted commas (“) in “primitive” and “backward” indicate that the authors agree with the descriptions used by imperial authorities to define some specific peoples.
Judge the following items about the text above.
According to the text, the farming communities in the Global South are no longer under the assumptions typical of the “international development programs” created in the 20th century.
Considering the text presented above, judge the following items.
The text focuses on showing how the advances made in the 20th century were essential to the development of the notion of agricultural systems.
Judge the following items about the text above.
Even though the authors acknowledge the benefits brought to humanity by plant breeding and agronomy, they present a critical view about some aspects of this development, such as the effects of colonialism.