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Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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Based on the text CB1A2-II, judge the following item.
The percentage of actual Internet users in the EU is clouded
by the numbers on 5G preparedness.
Based on the text CB1A2-II, judge the following item.
Digital divide can be understood as the lack of long-term
stable connection to the Internet.
According to the text CB1A2-I, judge the following item.
Based on the text, it is correct to conclude that, Nasa Yuwe
is not classified as a critically endangered language because
it is spoken by more than 50,000 people.
According to the text CB1A2-I, judge the following item.
According to the text, Jxa’h Wejxia Casil is a rural
communications network that aims to promote the spread of
content in Nasa Yuwe.
According to the text CB1A2-I, judge the following item.
According to the text, the disappearance of indigenous
languages is a worrying fact because they represent almost
43% of the world’s spoken languages.
Responsible state fiscal policy requires more than just balancing the current year’s budget. It must also include ensuring that the budget is on a sustainable path. Otherwise, policymakers cannot have the lasting impact they hope for. This risk is especially high in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Record budget surpluses, driven largely by federal pandemic aid, empowered states to adopt historically large tax cuts and spending increases from 2021 to 2023.
State leaders must be able to assess whether their decisions will be affordable over the long term or will jeopardize their ability to solve state problems or even sustain programs and services in the future. Unfortunately, the nature of state budget processes discourages such long-term thinking. State policymakers devote much of their time to developing, enacting, and implementing annual or biennial budgets, a prime opportunity to achieve immediate policy goals.
One key strategy for changing this short-term focus is for states to use long-term budget assessments and budget stress tests to regularly measure risks, anticipate potential shortfalls, and identify ways to address impending challenges. Long-term budget assessments project revenue and spending several years into the future, and stress tests estimate the size of temporary budget shortfalls that would result from recessions or other economic events and gauge whether states are prepared for these events.
Internet: <https://www.pewtrusts.org> (adapted).
Considering the ideas conveyed in the previous text, as well as its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.
It is correct to conclude from the text that long-term budget
assessments and stress tests are two crucial tools for states
that seek to establish more than a short-term approach to
their budgets.
Responsible state fiscal policy requires more than just balancing the current year’s budget. It must also include ensuring that the budget is on a sustainable path. Otherwise, policymakers cannot have the lasting impact they hope for. This risk is especially high in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Record budget surpluses, driven largely by federal pandemic aid, empowered states to adopt historically large tax cuts and spending increases from 2021 to 2023.
State leaders must be able to assess whether their decisions will be affordable over the long term or will jeopardize their ability to solve state problems or even sustain programs and services in the future. Unfortunately, the nature of state budget processes discourages such long-term thinking. State policymakers devote much of their time to developing, enacting, and implementing annual or biennial budgets, a prime opportunity to achieve immediate policy goals.
One key strategy for changing this short-term focus is for states to use long-term budget assessments and budget stress tests to regularly measure risks, anticipate potential shortfalls, and identify ways to address impending challenges. Long-term budget assessments project revenue and spending several years into the future, and stress tests estimate the size of temporary budget shortfalls that would result from recessions or other economic events and gauge whether states are prepared for these events.
Internet: <https://www.pewtrusts.org> (adapted).
Considering the ideas conveyed in the previous text, as well as its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.
The author believes the risk of a fiscal policy not having its
expected long-term impacts is increased in the years
following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Iowa, a small midwestern state, finds itself in the national economic spotlight. For conservative commentators, Iowa has emerged as America’s tax-cutting champion, a paragon of fiscal responsibility. To critics it looks more like an example of economic recklessness.
Either way, Iowa is playing an outsized role in a bigger debate about how American states ought to manage their revenues and spending. Until a few years ago it had one of the highest income-tax rates in America. By 2026 it will be down to a flat tax of 3.9%. Iowa is far from alone. Some 25 states have cut individual income taxes over the past years. A handful, including Georgia and Idaho, are shifting to a flat tax. And a few others want to eliminate their income taxes altogether.
Virtually all states, regardless of political make-up, have lowered their citizens’ tax bills since 2021. Overall, this has been a rough decline in states’ tax revenues during this time, the steepest such reduction in at least four decades. But the most aggressive moves have been cuts to income taxes, and Iowa has been at the forefront of these efforts.
The Economist. A tax-cutting wave is sweeping over America’s states.
Internet:
Based on the ideas of the preceding text and on its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.
Iowa is going to cut down its taxes by a rate of 3.9% in the
next two years.
Iowa, a small midwestern state, finds itself in the national economic spotlight. For conservative commentators, Iowa has emerged as America’s tax-cutting champion, a paragon of fiscal responsibility. To critics it looks more like an example of economic recklessness.
Either way, Iowa is playing an outsized role in a bigger debate about how American states ought to manage their revenues and spending. Until a few years ago it had one of the highest income-tax rates in America. By 2026 it will be down to a flat tax of 3.9%. Iowa is far from alone. Some 25 states have cut individual income taxes over the past years. A handful, including Georgia and Idaho, are shifting to a flat tax. And a few others want to eliminate their income taxes altogether.
Virtually all states, regardless of political make-up, have lowered their citizens’ tax bills since 2021. Overall, this has been a rough decline in states’ tax revenues during this time, the steepest such reduction in at least four decades. But the most aggressive moves have been cuts to income taxes, and Iowa has been at the forefront of these efforts.
The Economist. A tax-cutting wave is sweeping over America’s states.
Internet:
Based on the ideas of the preceding text and on its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.
Iowa, a small midwestern state, finds itself in the national economic spotlight. For conservative commentators, Iowa has emerged as America’s tax-cutting champion, a paragon of fiscal responsibility. To critics it looks more like an example of economic recklessness.
Either way, Iowa is playing an outsized role in a bigger debate about how American states ought to manage their revenues and spending. Until a few years ago it had one of the highest income-tax rates in America. By 2026 it will be down to a flat tax of 3.9%. Iowa is far from alone. Some 25 states have cut individual income taxes over the past years. A handful, including Georgia and Idaho, are shifting to a flat tax. And a few others want to eliminate their income taxes altogether.
Virtually all states, regardless of political make-up, have lowered their citizens’ tax bills since 2021. Overall, this has been a rough decline in states’ tax revenues during this time, the steepest such reduction in at least four decades. But the most aggressive moves have been cuts to income taxes, and Iowa has been at the forefront of these efforts.
The Economist. A tax-cutting wave is sweeping over America’s states.
Internet:
Based on the ideas of the preceding text and on its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.
According to the text, the tax policy of the state of Iowa is
seen by some as being too heavy on taxpayers.
How LEGO Is Being Used to Reduce Stress, Combat Childhood Trauma, and Manage PTSD
(Available at: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-lego-is-being-used-to-reduce-stress-combat-childhoodtrauma-and-manage-ptsd/ – text especially adapted for this test).
I. “Who” (l. 02) refers to “author at Canary Media” (l. 02). II. “Their” (l. 07) refers to “bricks” (l. 06). III. “It” (l. 17) refers to “1,000-piece LEGO set” (l. 17).
Which ones are correct?
How LEGO Is Being Used to Reduce Stress, Combat Childhood Trauma, and Manage PTSD
(Available at: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-lego-is-being-used-to-reduce-stress-combat-childhoodtrauma-and-manage-ptsd/ – text especially adapted for this test).
How LEGO Is Being Used to Reduce Stress, Combat Childhood Trauma, and Manage PTSD
(Available at: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-lego-is-being-used-to-reduce-stress-combat-childhoodtrauma-and-manage-ptsd/ – text especially adapted for this test).
How LEGO Is Being Used to Reduce Stress, Combat Childhood Trauma, and Manage PTSD
(Available at: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-lego-is-being-used-to-reduce-stress-combat-childhoodtrauma-and-manage-ptsd/ – text especially adapted for this test).
How LEGO Is Being Used to Reduce Stress, Combat Childhood Trauma, and Manage PTSD
(Available at: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-lego-is-being-used-to-reduce-stress-combat-childhoodtrauma-and-manage-ptsd/ – text especially adapted for this test).
( ) LEGO has created specialized sets for children undergoing MRI scans. ( ) LEGO was not originally designed as a therapeutic tool.
( ) Playing with LEGO requires strict adherence to instructions to be effective in reducing stress.
The correct order of filling the parentheses, from top to bottom, is:
One day in the next couple of years, everyone in the world will lose a second of their time. Exactly when that will happen is being influenced by humans, according to a new study, as melting polar ice alters the Earth’s rotation and changes time itself.
The hours and minutes that dictate our days are determined by Earth’s rotation. But that rotation is not constant; it can change ever so slightly, depending on what’s happening on Earth’s surface and in its molten core.
These nearly imperceptible changes occasionally mean the world’s clocks need to be adjusted by a “leap second,” which may sound tiny but can have a big impact on computing systems.
Plenty of seconds have been added over the years. But after a long trend of slowing, the Earth’s rotation is now speeding up because of changes in its core. For the first time ever, a second will need to be taken off.
“A negative leap second has never been added or tested, so the problems it could create are without precedent,” Patrizia Tavella, a member of the Time Department at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France, wrote in an article accompanying the study.
But exactly when this will happen is being influenced by global warming, according to the study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Melting polar ice is delaying the leap second by three years, pushing it from 2026 to 2029, the report found.
“Part of figuring out what is going to happen in global timekeeping … is dependent on understanding what is happening with the global warming effect,” said Duncan Agnew, professor of geophysics at the University of California San Diego and the study’s author.
(https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/27/climate/timekeeping-polar-ice-melt-earth-rotation/index.html)
Select the correct alternative, according to the text:
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