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Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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Physical appearance has been a concern of human beings for a long time now.
The phrase “people have always had the desire to look” (l.3) can be correctly replaced with people always had the desire to look.
In “to improve the appearance of children” (l.8 and 9), “improve” can be correctly replaced with enhance.
In “took some classes that helped me to have a good career” (l.5 and 6), “that” can be correctly replaced by who.
It is correct to infer that the person who tells of his/her experience in the text is a foreigner in the country in which he/she lives.
The narrator applied for a job at a shoe store and was hired before he/she attended college.
Chronic lateness has spoilt friendships, and it’s a habit that has caused people to lose their jobs. Why, then, are so many people late?
According to some specialists, not arriving on time can be a form of avoidance. You are late for a party, or coming home from work because you don’t want to be where you’re supposed to be. It can also be a habit learned on childhood from a parent or an old brother or sister who also ran late. For others, it’s a result of an inability to judge time.
Whatever reason people have, lateness almost always annoys those of us who are always prompt to attend our commitments.
Diane Washawsky. Spectrum book 4. Ana Veltford. Prentice Hall Regents. p.156 (adapted).
Latecomers are people who hardly ever are on time for their appointments.
Chronic lateness has spoilt friendships, and it’s a habit that has caused people to lose their jobs. Why, then, are so many people late?
According to some specialists, not arriving on time can be a form of avoidance. You are late for a party, or coming home from work because you don’t want to be where you’re supposed to be. It can also be a habit learned on childhood from a parent or an old brother or sister who also ran late. For others, it’s a result of an inability to judge time.
Whatever reason people have, lateness almost always annoys those of us who are always prompt to attend our commitments.
Diane Washawsky. Spectrum book 4. Ana Veltford. Prentice Hall Regents. p.156 (adapted).
Some people lose their jobs because they are habitually late.
Since stress cannot be entirely eliminated from our daily lives, we need to find an effective way to live with it.
The expression “People used to think” (l.4) suggests that they no longer think that way.
The expression “Along with exercise” (l.15) can be correctly replaced with As well as exercising.
“in the first place” (l.7) means basically the same as to start with.
Doing housework cannot be regarded as exercising, because it is not very intense.
“that conventional view” (l.9) refers to the theory that modern humans came from just one single place in Africa.
The text is narrative, as shown in its first paragraph.
“if any” (l.18) refers to the possibility that there is no Neandertal DNA in the author’s genome at all.
“non-Western societies” (l.17) and “Elsewhere in the world” (l.15) refer, in the text, to basically the same thing.
The author used the expression “On the other hand” (l.16) to connect two different ideas.
The author, an exchange student from India, narrates his first day of school.
The narrator’s mother moved to the U.S.A. three years before he did.





