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Q3276442 Inglês
TEXT 1

BRAZIL JOINS GROWING LIST OF COUNTRIES BANNING CELLPHONES IN SCHOOLS

Despite questions about the effectiveness of such bans, Brazil is the latest to prohibit the devices amid concerns over impacts on learning and well-being.

A bill that bans students from using cellphones in schools was signed into law in Brazil on Monday, the latest example of lawmakers limiting young people’s use of personal technology in the classroom, amid growing concern about its effect on education and well-being.

Brazil’s Education Ministry said in a statement that the law “aims to safeguard the mental, physical and psychological health of children and adolescents.” The Brazilian President called it an example of “working together for the safety and better learning of our children and young people.”

The law prohibits all students in public and private elementary and secondary schools from using portable electronic devices throughout the school day, the ministry said, though it allows for their educational use and some other exceptions.

Brazil joins several countries that have banned the personal use of cellphones in schools — including the Netherlands, Italy for students up to the third year of middle school, and France for those under 15 — though there are questions as to whether phone bans are effective in achieving their aims.

Excerpt extracted and adapted from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/14/brazil-cellphoneschool-ban/
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Q3276441 Inglês
TEXT 1

BRAZIL JOINS GROWING LIST OF COUNTRIES BANNING CELLPHONES IN SCHOOLS

Despite questions about the effectiveness of such bans, Brazil is the latest to prohibit the devices amid concerns over impacts on learning and well-being.

A bill that bans students from using cellphones in schools was signed into law in Brazil on Monday, the latest example of lawmakers limiting young people’s use of personal technology in the classroom, amid growing concern about its effect on education and well-being.

Brazil’s Education Ministry said in a statement that the law “aims to safeguard the mental, physical and psychological health of children and adolescents.” The Brazilian President called it an example of “working together for the safety and better learning of our children and young people.”

The law prohibits all students in public and private elementary and secondary schools from using portable electronic devices throughout the school day, the ministry said, though it allows for their educational use and some other exceptions.

Brazil joins several countries that have banned the personal use of cellphones in schools — including the Netherlands, Italy for students up to the third year of middle school, and France for those under 15 — though there are questions as to whether phone bans are effective in achieving their aims.

Excerpt extracted and adapted from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/14/brazil-cellphoneschool-ban/
According to the text 1, it is possible to infer that: 
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Q3276440 Inglês
TEXT 1

BRAZIL JOINS GROWING LIST OF COUNTRIES BANNING CELLPHONES IN SCHOOLS

Despite questions about the effectiveness of such bans, Brazil is the latest to prohibit the devices amid concerns over impacts on learning and well-being.

A bill that bans students from using cellphones in schools was signed into law in Brazil on Monday, the latest example of lawmakers limiting young people’s use of personal technology in the classroom, amid growing concern about its effect on education and well-being.

Brazil’s Education Ministry said in a statement that the law “aims to safeguard the mental, physical and psychological health of children and adolescents.” The Brazilian President called it an example of “working together for the safety and better learning of our children and young people.”

The law prohibits all students in public and private elementary and secondary schools from using portable electronic devices throughout the school day, the ministry said, though it allows for their educational use and some other exceptions.

Brazil joins several countries that have banned the personal use of cellphones in schools — including the Netherlands, Italy for students up to the third year of middle school, and France for those under 15 — though there are questions as to whether phone bans are effective in achieving their aims.

Excerpt extracted and adapted from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/14/brazil-cellphoneschool-ban/
Based on text 1, what exceptions exist in Brazil's cellphone ban:
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Q3276439 Inglês
TEXT 1

BRAZIL JOINS GROWING LIST OF COUNTRIES BANNING CELLPHONES IN SCHOOLS

Despite questions about the effectiveness of such bans, Brazil is the latest to prohibit the devices amid concerns over impacts on learning and well-being.

A bill that bans students from using cellphones in schools was signed into law in Brazil on Monday, the latest example of lawmakers limiting young people’s use of personal technology in the classroom, amid growing concern about its effect on education and well-being.

Brazil’s Education Ministry said in a statement that the law “aims to safeguard the mental, physical and psychological health of children and adolescents.” The Brazilian President called it an example of “working together for the safety and better learning of our children and young people.”

The law prohibits all students in public and private elementary and secondary schools from using portable electronic devices throughout the school day, the ministry said, though it allows for their educational use and some other exceptions.

Brazil joins several countries that have banned the personal use of cellphones in schools — including the Netherlands, Italy for students up to the third year of middle school, and France for those under 15 — though there are questions as to whether phone bans are effective in achieving their aims.

Excerpt extracted and adapted from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/14/brazil-cellphoneschool-ban/
According to text 1, what is the primary reason Brazil implemented the cellphone ban in Brazilian schools recently?
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Q3259818 Inglês
Read the following text.

“This approach / method is based on the idea that learning language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning.
When learners are involved in real communication, their natural strategies for language acquisition will be used, and this will allow them to learn to use the language.
Classroom activities guided by this approach / method are characterised by trying to produce meaningful and real communication, at all levels. As a result there may be more emphasis on skills than systems, lessons are more learnercentred, and there may be use of authentic materials.”
Adapted from: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk

The approach or method referred to in the text is the ...
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Q3259817 Inglês
Read the following paragraph about ESP.

“ESP is teaching with the aim of assisting learners’ study or research in the particular variety of English they may need. It has emerged from over 50 years of research and classroom practice and has become a major influence in university and workplace classrooms in many parts of the world. The basic idea behind ESP is that learners’ needs differ enormously according to future academic or occupational goals, and this is why ESP has become so influential in universities around the world in recent years.”
Adapted from: https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2022.10.2.1

ESP stands for: 
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Q3259816 Inglês
Read the following text about reading strategies.

“Using reading strategies should help you to read more effectively, and to engage with the texts to question them and extract relevant ideas.
This strategy refers to the process of speed reading to get a general overview of the meaning of a text.
You can do this by reading through the introduction, conclusion, the headings, and the beginning and end of paragraphs to get the main ideas and build up a general overview. Focus on identifying the main ideas rather than trying to read the details. Identify which parts you need to read in depth when you go over the text again more slowly. You may decide you need to read it all again, but you will now know which are the most relevant parts.”
Adapted from: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1401/academicskills/207/reading/2

The reading strategy referred to in the text is:
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Q3259815 Inglês
Read the following text about language skills.

“Language skills are the abilities that enable you to express your thoughts coherently and communicate with others. These skills provide structure and relevance to the information you wish to convey to the recipient. There are four essential skills that comprise basic language competency. While communicating, people usually use a combination of these skills simultaneously. Choosing the right skills usually depends on various factors, such as the urgency of the message, the number of people targeted and whether it is a formal or informal communication.”
Adapted from: https://in.indeed.com/career-advice/resumes-coverletters/language-skills

The four language skills referred to in the text are:
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Q3259803 Inglês

Read the text below and answer the questions that follow.


Text


Should schools just say no to pupils using phones?


14th July 2024

Natalie Grice – BBC News


“I wouldn’t say it’s a good thing for a child never to have a smartphone. I think it’s part of a balanced life. You’ve got to live in your own time.”


These are not the words you might expect to hear from a teacher at a school that has never in its history allowed pupils under sixth form age to use a mobile phone on the premises.


But Sarah Owen, deputy head at Stanwell School in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, was simply expressing a personal opinion, rather than the school’s view about a young person’s wider life.


It is clear that she and the school have very firm opinions on what is best for children while they are on school grounds.


For Stanwell pupils in years 7 to 11, that has always meant no phones. Not in lessons, not in the corridor, not at breaktimes.


It is such a long-established rule that it presumably comes as no surprise to pupils and parents when they join the school, which is starting to seem as if it may have been ahead of a growing curve.


In the past few years, a number of schools across Wales and further afield have introduced total bans on mobiles. While Stanwell only asks pupils to keep phones switched off in their bags, others require the devices to be handed in at the start of the day.


Llanidloes High School in Powys is one which has implemented this policy in the past few years and Ysgol Penrhyn Dewi in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, followed suit at the start of this year.


Sarah Owen has been at Stanwell School since 2000 and says that there has always been a no phone policy in the school. For Sarah, it is a question not of trying to impinge on their students’ freedom, but of giving them vital time away from mobile life, for welfare as well as educational reasons.


“We genuinely believe this is in their best interests,” she said. “Phone addiction and screen addiction and scrolling, the loss of concentration, the loss of soft skills around listening and interacting with others, that’s something we need to be concerned about as a society generally.”


“We want children to be interacting with each other, having conversations, playing football, having those connections and interactions with other people.”


Sarah also believes it gives pupils relief from the possibility of being “photographed, filmed, mocked in some way – that’s not a nice way for children to live”. She said she wanted her pupils to have “some sanctuary from the anxiety of feeling so scrutinised and looked at”. 


Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles



Sarah Owen said to her students: “Don’t use your mobiles in the classroom.” Choose the option that correctly expresses the sentence above in reported speech:
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Q3259799 Inglês

Read the text below and answer the questions that follow.


Text


Should schools just say no to pupils using phones?


14th July 2024

Natalie Grice – BBC News


“I wouldn’t say it’s a good thing for a child never to have a smartphone. I think it’s part of a balanced life. You’ve got to live in your own time.”


These are not the words you might expect to hear from a teacher at a school that has never in its history allowed pupils under sixth form age to use a mobile phone on the premises.


But Sarah Owen, deputy head at Stanwell School in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, was simply expressing a personal opinion, rather than the school’s view about a young person’s wider life.


It is clear that she and the school have very firm opinions on what is best for children while they are on school grounds.


For Stanwell pupils in years 7 to 11, that has always meant no phones. Not in lessons, not in the corridor, not at breaktimes.


It is such a long-established rule that it presumably comes as no surprise to pupils and parents when they join the school, which is starting to seem as if it may have been ahead of a growing curve.


In the past few years, a number of schools across Wales and further afield have introduced total bans on mobiles. While Stanwell only asks pupils to keep phones switched off in their bags, others require the devices to be handed in at the start of the day.


Llanidloes High School in Powys is one which has implemented this policy in the past few years and Ysgol Penrhyn Dewi in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, followed suit at the start of this year.


Sarah Owen has been at Stanwell School since 2000 and says that there has always been a no phone policy in the school. For Sarah, it is a question not of trying to impinge on their students’ freedom, but of giving them vital time away from mobile life, for welfare as well as educational reasons.


“We genuinely believe this is in their best interests,” she said. “Phone addiction and screen addiction and scrolling, the loss of concentration, the loss of soft skills around listening and interacting with others, that’s something we need to be concerned about as a society generally.”


“We want children to be interacting with each other, having conversations, playing football, having those connections and interactions with other people.”


Sarah also believes it gives pupils relief from the possibility of being “photographed, filmed, mocked in some way – that’s not a nice way for children to live”. She said she wanted her pupils to have “some sanctuary from the anxiety of feeling so scrutinised and looked at”. 


Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles



Consider the following statements about the text.

1. The pupils at Stanwell School are allowed to use their mobiles in the corridor and at breaktimes, but they are not allowed to use the mobiles in the classroom.
2. Few schools in Wales have banned their students from using their mobile phones on their premises.
3. The pupils at Stanwell school are supposed to hand in their mobile phones at the start of the day.
4. Sarah Owen has implemented the no phone policy not only at Stanwell School but also at Llanidloes High School.

Choose the right option:
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Q3257226 Inglês
    Innovation is crucial for the food industry to address several critical challenges. Firstly, it is essential to meet the rising demand for food products driven by a growing global population. By implementing new technologies and improving production processes, companies can significantly increase output. Secondly, innovation plays a vital role in enhancing the efficiency and reducing the costs associated with food production. This allows companies to remain competitive by offering affordable prices while maintaining profitability. Finally, innovation empowers companies to adapt to evolving consumer preferences. This includes developing new products that cater to specific dietary needs and preferences, such as healthier options or products with unique flavor combinations.
     Innovation in the food industry can be broadly categorized into four key areas: product innovation, process innovation, packaging innovation, and marketing/branding innovation. Product innovation focuses on creating new or improved food products with unique features and benefits for consumers. This may involve developing new flavors, textures, and incorporating healthier ingredients. Process innovation aims to optimize production processes by implementing new technologies and methods to increase output while maintaining or improving quality standards. Packaging innovation explores innovative ways to package and present food products to consumers, such as using eco-friendly materials, implementing unique designs, and incorporating features that extend shelf life. Finally, marketing/branding innovation involves developing creative strategies to promote food products to consumers, leveraging social media, influencer marketing, and engaging campaigns to build brand loyalty. 
Internet: <tastewise.io> (adapted).


Based on the text above, judge the following item. 

The word “leveraging” as used in the second paragraph implies the act of taking as much advantage or profit as possible from something. 
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Q3252432 Inglês

Considere a seguinte postagem para responder à questão.


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Fonte: https ://www.weareteachers .com/. Acesso em: 08 nov. 2024.

A postagem enfatiza que o professor é alguém que
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Q3252431 Inglês

Considere o seguinte cartum para responder à questão.


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Fonte: https ://andertoons .com/cartoons /teacher?page=1. Acesso em: 03 nov. 2024. 

O tom do personagem ao comparar o seu comportamento com os remakes de Hollywood é
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Q3252430 Inglês

Considere o seguinte cartum para responder à questão.


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Fonte: https ://andertoons .com/cartoons /teacher?page=1. Acesso em: 03 nov. 2024. 

Sobre a atitude das pessoas em relação aos remakes de Hollywood, a expressão nobody bats an eye sugere que elas
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Q3252429 Inglês

Considere o seguinte cartum para responder à questão.


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Fonte: https ://andertoons .com/cartoons /teacher?page=1. Acesso em: 03 nov. 2024. 

No texto do cartum, o personagem está comparando
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Q3252428 Inglês

Considere o seguinte cartum para responder à questão.


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Fonte: https ://andertoons .com/cartoons /teacher?page=1. Acesso em: 03 nov. 2024. 

O tema do cartum faz referência
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Q3252424 Inglês
Considere o seguinte trecho da obra Through the Looking Glass, de Louis Carroll, para responder à questão.


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Fonte: https ://www.gutenberg.org/files /12/12-h/12-h.htm#link2HCH0006
Sobre a frase The question is, which is to be master—that’s all, entende-se que Humpty Dumpty
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Q3252423 Inglês
Considere o seguinte trecho da obra Through the Looking Glass, de Louis Carroll, para responder à questão.


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Fonte: https ://www.gutenberg.org/files /12/12-h/12-h.htm#link2HCH0006
Alice reage à explicação de Humpty Dumpty sobre a palavra glory
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Q3252422 Inglês
Considere o seguinte trecho da obra Through the Looking Glass, de Louis Carroll, para responder à questão.


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Fonte: https ://www.gutenberg.org/files /12/12-h/12-h.htm#link2HCH0006
A principal ideia expressa por Humpty Dumpty em sua explicação sobre a palavra glory é
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Q3252416 Inglês
Considere o seguinte texto para responder à questão.


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Adaptado de: https ://www.amazon.com/House-Mango-Street-Sandra-Cisneros /dp/0679734775. Acesso em: 11 nov. 2024.
Sobre a experiência dos imigrantes no país de destino, o texto sugere que 
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2461: A
2462: E
2463: C
2464: B
2465: C
2466: B
2467: B
2468: A
2469: A
2470: C
2471: C
2472: A
2473: A
2474: A
2475: A
2476: A
2477: A
2478: A
2479: A
2480: A