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Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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Ano: 2025
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Q3325794
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Fog harversting could provide water for arid cities
By Victoria Gill
According to the text, which of the alternatives below is correct?
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Q3325793
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Fog harversting could provide water for arid cities
By Victoria Gill
Analyze the following statements about the article and mark T, if true, or F, if false.
( ) 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:
( ) 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:
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FUNDATEC
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Prefeitura de Porto Alegre - RS
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Q3325792
Inglês
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Fog harversting could provide water for arid cities
By Victoria Gill
Which of the questions below is NOT answered by the article?
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FUNDATEC
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Prefeitura de Porto Alegre - RS
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Q3325791
Inglês
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Fog harversting could provide water for arid cities
By Victoria Gill
What is the main topic discussed in the article?
Ano: 2025
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FUVEST
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USP
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FUVEST - 2025 - USP - Professor de Educação Infantil (PROFEI) |
Q3321445
Inglês
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Rain Is Coming to Burning Los Angeles and Will Bring Its Own Risks
Rain is forecast to begin as soon as Saturday
afternoon and to continue as late as Monday evening, says
meteorologist Kristan Lund of the National Weather Service’s
Los Angeles office. The area desperately needs the
precipitation, but experts are warily monitoring the situation
because rain poses its own risks in recently burned areas—
most notably the potential occurrence of mudslides and similar
hazards. “Rain is good because we’ve been so dry,” Lund
says. “However, if we get heavier rain rates or we get the
thunderstorms, it’s actually a lot more dangerous because you
can get debris flows.”
Fires do a couple of different things to the landscape
that can increase the risk of burned material, soil and detritus
hurtling out of control. When fires burn hot or long enough, they
leave an invisible layer of waxy material just under the surface
of the ground. This develops from decomposing leaves and
other organic material, which contain naturally hydrophobic or
water-repellent compounds. Fire can vaporize this litter, and
the resulting gas seeps into the upper soil—where it quickly
cools and condenses, forming the slippery layer.
When rain falls on ground that has been affected by
this phenomenon, it can’t sink beyond the hydrophobic layer—
so the water flows away, often hauling debris with it. “All of the
trees, branches, everything that’s been burned—unfortunately,
if it rains, that stuff just floats,” Lund says. “It’s really
concerning.” Even a fire that isn’t severe enough to create a
hydrophobic layer can still cause debris flows, says Danielle
Touma, a climate scientist at the University of Texas at Austin.
Under normal conditions, trees and other plants usually trap
some rain above the surface, slowing the water’s downward
journey. But on freshly burned land there’s much less greenery
to interfere; all the rain immediately hits the ground. [...]
Fortunately, the rain should also help firefighters tame
the blazes that remain active. The largest, the Palisades Fire,
is currently 77 percent contained. The second largest, the
Eaton Fire, is 95 percent contained. The Hughes Fire is third
largest and only 56 percent contained. A fire can be fully
contained but still burning. The containment percentage refers
to the amount of the perimeter that has barriers that firefighters
expect will prevent further spread.
Scientific American. January 27th, 2025. Adaptado.
Com base no primeiro parágrafo e na opinião dos
especialistas, qual das seguintes inferências pode ser feita?
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EMBRAPA
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CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Nanotecnologia – Subárea: Nanotecnologia |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Espectroscopia Aplicada – Subárea: Instrumentação em Ressonância Magnética Nuclear |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Gestão da Informação – Subárea: Engenharia de Dados |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Transferência de Tecnologia e Comunicação – Subárea: Inovação Social |
Q3313576
Inglês
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In the 20th century, we made tremendous advances in discovering fundamental principles in different scientific disciplines that created major breakthroughs in management and technology for agricultural systems, mostly by empirical means. However, as we enter the 21st century, agricultural research has more difficult and complex problems to solve.
The environmental consciousness of the general public is requiring us to modify farm management to protect water, air, and soil quality, while staying economically profitable. At the same time, market-based global competition in agricultural products is challenging economic viability of the traditional agricultural systems, and requires the development of new and dynamic production systems. Fortunately, the new electronic technologies can provide us a vast amount of real-time information about crop conditions and near-term weather via remote sensing by satellites or ground-based instruments and the Internet, that can be utilized to develop a whole new level of management. However, we need the means to capture and make sense of this vast amount of site-specific data.
Our customers, the agricultural producers, are asking for a quicker transfer of research results in an integrated usable form for site-specific management. Such a request can only be met with system models, because system models are indeed the integration and quantification of current knowledge based on fundamental principles and laws. Models enhance understanding of data taken under certain conditions and help extrapolate their applications to other conditions and locations.
Lajpat R. Ahuja; Liwang Ma; Terry A. Howell. Whole System Integration and Modeling — Essential to Agricultural Science and Technology in the 21st Century. In: Lajpat R. Ahuja; Liwang Ma; Terry A. Howell (eds.) Agricultural system models in field research and technology transfer. Boca Raton, CRC Press LLC, 2002 (adapted).
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.
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CESPE / CEBRASPE
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EMBRAPA
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CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Fotônica – Subárea: Instrumentação em Fotônica
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CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Nanotecnologia – Subárea: Nanotecnologia |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Espectroscopia Aplicada – Subárea: Instrumentação em Ressonância Magnética Nuclear |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Gestão da Informação – Subárea: Engenharia de Dados |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Transferência de Tecnologia e Comunicação – Subárea: Inovação Social |
Q3313573
Inglês
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Many studies reveal the contributions of plant breeding
and agronomy to farm productivity and their role in reshaping
global diets. However, historical accounts also implicate these
sciences in the creation of new problems, from novel disease
vulnerabilities propagated through industrial monocrops to the
negative ecological and public health consequences of crops
dependent on chemical inputs and industrialized food systems
more generally.
Increasingly, historical analyses also highlight the
expertise variously usurped, overlooked, abandoned, or
suppressed in the pursuit of “modern” agricultural science.
Experiment stations and “improved” plants were instruments of
colonialism, means of controlling lands and lives of peoples
typically labeled as “primitive” and “backward” by imperial
authorities. In many cases, the assumptions of colonial improvers
persisted in the international development programs that have
sought since the mid-20th century to deliver “modern” science to
farming communities in the Global South.
Awareness of these issues has brought alternative domains
of crop science such as agroecology to the fore in recent decades,
as researchers reconcile the need for robust crop knowledge and
know-how with the imperatives of addressing social and
environmental injustice.
Helen Anne Curry; Ryan Nehring. The history of crop science and the future of food.
Internet:<nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com (adapted)
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.
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CESPE / CEBRASPE
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EMBRAPA
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CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Fotônica – Subárea: Instrumentação em Fotônica
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CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Nanotecnologia – Subárea: Nanotecnologia |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Espectroscopia Aplicada – Subárea: Instrumentação em Ressonância Magnética Nuclear |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Gestão da Informação – Subárea: Engenharia de Dados |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Transferência de Tecnologia e Comunicação – Subárea: Inovação Social |
Q3313571
Inglês
Texto associado
Many studies reveal the contributions of plant breeding
and agronomy to farm productivity and their role in reshaping
global diets. However, historical accounts also implicate these
sciences in the creation of new problems, from novel disease
vulnerabilities propagated through industrial monocrops to the
negative ecological and public health consequences of crops
dependent on chemical inputs and industrialized food systems
more generally.
Increasingly, historical analyses also highlight the
expertise variously usurped, overlooked, abandoned, or
suppressed in the pursuit of “modern” agricultural science.
Experiment stations and “improved” plants were instruments of
colonialism, means of controlling lands and lives of peoples
typically labeled as “primitive” and “backward” by imperial
authorities. In many cases, the assumptions of colonial improvers
persisted in the international development programs that have
sought since the mid-20th century to deliver “modern” science to
farming communities in the Global South.
Awareness of these issues has brought alternative domains
of crop science such as agroecology to the fore in recent decades,
as researchers reconcile the need for robust crop knowledge and
know-how with the imperatives of addressing social and
environmental injustice.
Helen Anne Curry; Ryan Nehring. The history of crop science and the future of food.
Internet:<nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com (adapted)
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.
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CESPE / CEBRASPE
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CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Engenharias – Subárea: Automação e Mecanização
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CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Engenharias – Subárea: Recursos Florestais e Engenharia Florestal |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Engenharias – Subárea: Robótica e Sensoriamento |
Q3313389
Inglês
Texto associado
In the 20th century, we made tremendous advances in
discovering fundamental principles in different scientific
disciplines that created major breakthroughs in management and
technology for agricultural systems, mostly by empirical means.
However, as we enter the 21st century, agricultural research has
more difficult and complex problems to solve.
The environmental consciousness of the general public is
requiring us to modify farm management to protect water, air,
and soil quality, while staying economically profitable. At the
same time, market-based global competition in agricultural
products is challenging economic viability of the traditional
agricultural systems, and requires the development of new and
dynamic production systems. Fortunately, the new electronic
technologies can provide us a vast amount of real-time
information about crop conditions and near-term weather via
remote sensing by satellites or ground-based instruments and the
Internet, that can be utilized to develop a whole new level of
management. However, we need the means to capture and make
sense of this vast amount of site-specific data.
Our customers, the agricultural producers, are asking for a
quicker transfer of research results in an integrated usable form
for site-specific management. Such a request can only be met
with system models, because system models are indeed the
integration and quantification of current knowledge based on
fundamental principles and laws. Models enhance understanding
of data taken under certain conditions and help extrapolate their
applications to other conditions and locations.
Lajpat R. Ahuja; Liwang Ma; Terry A. Howell. Whole System Integration and Modeling — Essential to
Agricultural Science and Technology in the 21st Century. In: Lajpat R. Ahuja; Liwang Ma; Terry A. Howell
(eds.) Agricultural system models in field research and technology transfer.
Boca Raton, CRC Press LLC, 2002 (adapted).
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.
Ano: 2025
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CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
EMBRAPA
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CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Engenharias – Subárea: Automação e Mecanização
|
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Engenharias – Subárea: Recursos Florestais e Engenharia Florestal |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Pesquisador – Área: Engenharias – Subárea: Robótica e Sensoriamento |
Q3313382
Inglês
Texto associado
Many studies reveal the contributions of plant breeding
and agronomy to farm productivity and their role in reshaping
global diets. However, historical accounts also implicate these
sciences in the creation of new problems, from novel disease
vulnerabilities propagated through industrial monocrops to the
negative ecological and public health consequences of crops
dependent on chemical inputs and industrialized food systems
more generally.
Increasingly, historical analyses also highlight the
expertise variously usurped, overlooked, abandoned, or
suppressed in the pursuit of “modern” agricultural science.
Experiment stations and “improved” plants were instruments of
colonialism, means of controlling lands and lives of peoples
typically labeled as “primitive” and “backward” by imperial
authorities. In many cases, the assumptions of colonial improvers
persisted in the international development programs that have
sought since the mid-20th century to deliver “modern” science to
farming communities in the Global South.
Awareness of these issues has brought alternative domains
of crop science such as agroecology to the fore in recent decades,
as researchers reconcile the need for robust crop knowledge and
know-how with the imperatives of addressing social and
environmental injustice.
Helen Anne Curry; Ryan Nehring. The history of crop science and the future of food.
Internet: (adapted)
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.
Ano: 2025
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CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
AEB
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CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - AEB - Analista em Ciência e Tecnologia Júnior – Especialidade: Qualquer Área de Formação
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CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - AEB - Tecnologista Júnior – Especialidade: Desenvolvimento Tecnológico |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - AEB - Tecnologista Júnior – Especialidade: Tecnologia da Informação |
Q3309388
Inglês
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Text CB1A2
Spending time in space and having an unrivalled view of
planet Earth is an experience many of us dream of, but the
human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So fully
recovering from spending time in the weightlessness of space can
take years.
“It’s a fact that space is by far the most extreme
environment that humans have ever encountered and we’ve just
not evolved to handle the extreme conditions,” Professor Damian
Bailey, who studies human physiology, says. To begin with, the
heart and blood vessels have an easier time as they no longer
have to pump blood against gravity — and they start to weaken.
And the bones become weaker and more brittle. There should be
a balance between the cells breaking down old bone and those
making new, but that balance is disrupted without the feedback
and resistance of working against gravity. “Every month, about
1% of bones and muscles are going to wither away — it’s
accelerated ageing,” Professor Bailey says.
Microgravity also distorts the vestibular system, which is
how you balance and sense which way is up. In space, there is no
up, down or sideways. It can be disorientating when you go
up — and again when you return to Earth.
James Gallagher. What nine months in space does to the human body.
Internet: <bbc.com> (adapted).
Considering the second paragraph of text CB1A2, choose
the correct option.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
AEB
Provas:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - AEB - Analista em Ciência e Tecnologia Júnior – Especialidade: Qualquer Área de Formação
|
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - AEB - Tecnologista Júnior – Especialidade: Desenvolvimento Tecnológico |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - AEB - Tecnologista Júnior – Especialidade: Tecnologia da Informação |
Q3309387
Inglês
Texto associado
Text CB1A2
Spending time in space and having an unrivalled view of
planet Earth is an experience many of us dream of, but the
human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So fully
recovering from spending time in the weightlessness of space can
take years.
“It’s a fact that space is by far the most extreme
environment that humans have ever encountered and we’ve just
not evolved to handle the extreme conditions,” Professor Damian
Bailey, who studies human physiology, says. To begin with, the
heart and blood vessels have an easier time as they no longer
have to pump blood against gravity — and they start to weaken.
And the bones become weaker and more brittle. There should be
a balance between the cells breaking down old bone and those
making new, but that balance is disrupted without the feedback
and resistance of working against gravity. “Every month, about
1% of bones and muscles are going to wither away — it’s
accelerated ageing,” Professor Bailey says.
Microgravity also distorts the vestibular system, which is
how you balance and sense which way is up. In space, there is no
up, down or sideways. It can be disorientating when you go
up — and again when you return to Earth.
James Gallagher. What nine months in space does to the human body.
Internet: <bbc.com> (adapted).
It can be inferred from text CB1A2 that
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AEB
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Q3309009
Inglês
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Text 1A4-II
The pursuit of space exploration represents one of the
most captivating undertakings of the human race, serving as a
testament to our inherent drive to comprehend the cosmos and
our position within it. As humanity expands its reach beyond the
confines of Earth, the intricate and essential relationship between
technology and law grows increasingly intricate and
indispensable.
The rapid progress of technology has ushered us into an
era when endeavours in outer space, previously confined to the
realm of science fiction, are now becoming tangible and feasible.
The present circumstances require a comprehensive legal
structure encompassing the existing range of space endeavours
and the flexibility to accommodate dynamic technological
advancements. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 set the
foundational legal principles governing space exploration
activities. However, as humanity continues to explore space and
private companies participate alongside sovereign nations, the
intersection of technology and law serves as both a catalyst for
progress and a cause of disagreement.
Bansi Kaneria; Shivam Pandey. Interplay Between Technology and Law in Space Exploration.
In: IOSR Journal of Environmental Science Toxicology and Food Technology,
2024, 18 (03): 31-46 (adapted).
In the second paragraph of text 1A4-II, the expression “has
ushered”
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Q3309008
Inglês
Texto associado
Text 1A4-II
The pursuit of space exploration represents one of the
most captivating undertakings of the human race, serving as a
testament to our inherent drive to comprehend the cosmos and
our position within it. As humanity expands its reach beyond the
confines of Earth, the intricate and essential relationship between
technology and law grows increasingly intricate and
indispensable.
The rapid progress of technology has ushered us into an
era when endeavours in outer space, previously confined to the
realm of science fiction, are now becoming tangible and feasible.
The present circumstances require a comprehensive legal
structure encompassing the existing range of space endeavours
and the flexibility to accommodate dynamic technological
advancements. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 set the
foundational legal principles governing space exploration
activities. However, as humanity continues to explore space and
private companies participate alongside sovereign nations, the
intersection of technology and law serves as both a catalyst for
progress and a cause of disagreement.
Bansi Kaneria; Shivam Pandey. Interplay Between Technology and Law in Space Exploration.
In: IOSR Journal of Environmental Science Toxicology and Food Technology,
2024, 18 (03): 31-46 (adapted).
Based on the last paragraph of text 1A4-II, it is correct to
conclude that the Outer Space Treaty of 1967
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CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
AEB
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Q3309007
Inglês
Texto associado
Text 1A4-II
The pursuit of space exploration represents one of the
most captivating undertakings of the human race, serving as a
testament to our inherent drive to comprehend the cosmos and
our position within it. As humanity expands its reach beyond the
confines of Earth, the intricate and essential relationship between
technology and law grows increasingly intricate and
indispensable.
The rapid progress of technology has ushered us into an
era when endeavours in outer space, previously confined to the
realm of science fiction, are now becoming tangible and feasible.
The present circumstances require a comprehensive legal
structure encompassing the existing range of space endeavours
and the flexibility to accommodate dynamic technological
advancements. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 set the
foundational legal principles governing space exploration
activities. However, as humanity continues to explore space and
private companies participate alongside sovereign nations, the
intersection of technology and law serves as both a catalyst for
progress and a cause of disagreement.
Bansi Kaneria; Shivam Pandey. Interplay Between Technology and Law in Space Exploration.
In: IOSR Journal of Environmental Science Toxicology and Food Technology,
2024, 18 (03): 31-46 (adapted).
The expression “a comprehensive legal structure” (second
sentence of the second paragraph) could be correctly replaced,
maintaining the original meaning of text 1A4-II, with
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CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
AEB
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CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - AEB - Analista em Ciência e Tecnologia Júnior – Especialidade: Cooperação Internacional |
Q3309006
Inglês
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Text 1A4-I
By the middle years of the 20th century, the optimistic
story of limitless progress through scientific and technological
advance came to be rivalled and sometimes overshadowed by a
much more pessimistic, even apocalyptic vision of the trajectory
of the modern project. It began to seem increasingly possible that
technology would come to master its creators and carry humanity
toward unforeseen and possibly catastrophic outcomes.
Premonitions of technological wizardry leading to
disasters are extremely old, dating back at least to the myth of
Icarus, who is said to have fatally fallen into the sea after flying
too close to the sun on wings his father, Daedalus, constructed.
As the Industrial Revolution gathered steam, dark anticipations
became increasingly widespread, in works such as Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus and Karel
Capek’s R.U.R. Perhaps technology, not man, was “in the
saddle,” as Henry Adams worried. And perhaps machines,
becoming ever more capable and interconnected, were the next
step in the evolution of life, destined to dominate and eventually
eliminate humanity, as Samuel Butler warned. The contours of
the future, H. G. Wells announced in one of his famous lectures,
“The Discovery of the Future,” were difficult to discern but
would surely be unlike the past or the present, and definitely
included disasters of new types and magnitudes.
In the ghastly world wars, technological advances
empowered barbarism on a new scale, destroying the credibility
of the simple modernist faith that more potent tools are a straight
path to human betterment. Rather, technological advance has
produced a cornucopia of double-edged swords, with amplified
possibilities for both progress and disaster. A growing herd of
horsemen of the anthropogenic apocalypse have ominously
appeared on the human horizon of possibility: nuclear weapons,
genetic engineering, total surveillance despotism, runaway
artificial intelligence, and rampant environmental decay.
Daniel Deudney. Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics,
and the Ends of Humanity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020 (adapted).
In the last paragraph of text 1A4-I, the
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CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
AEB
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CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - AEB - Analista em Ciência e Tecnologia Júnior – Especialidade: Cooperação Internacional |
Q3309004
Inglês
Texto associado
Text 1A4-I
By the middle years of the 20th century, the optimistic
story of limitless progress through scientific and technological
advance came to be rivalled and sometimes overshadowed by a
much more pessimistic, even apocalyptic vision of the trajectory
of the modern project. It began to seem increasingly possible that
technology would come to master its creators and carry humanity
toward unforeseen and possibly catastrophic outcomes.
Premonitions of technological wizardry leading to
disasters are extremely old, dating back at least to the myth of
Icarus, who is said to have fatally fallen into the sea after flying
too close to the sun on wings his father, Daedalus, constructed.
As the Industrial Revolution gathered steam, dark anticipations
became increasingly widespread, in works such as Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus and Karel
Capek’s R.U.R. Perhaps technology, not man, was “in the
saddle,” as Henry Adams worried. And perhaps machines,
becoming ever more capable and interconnected, were the next
step in the evolution of life, destined to dominate and eventually
eliminate humanity, as Samuel Butler warned. The contours of
the future, H. G. Wells announced in one of his famous lectures,
“The Discovery of the Future,” were difficult to discern but
would surely be unlike the past or the present, and definitely
included disasters of new types and magnitudes.
In the ghastly world wars, technological advances
empowered barbarism on a new scale, destroying the credibility
of the simple modernist faith that more potent tools are a straight
path to human betterment. Rather, technological advance has
produced a cornucopia of double-edged swords, with amplified
possibilities for both progress and disaster. A growing herd of
horsemen of the anthropogenic apocalypse have ominously
appeared on the human horizon of possibility: nuclear weapons,
genetic engineering, total surveillance despotism, runaway
artificial intelligence, and rampant environmental decay.
Daniel Deudney. Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics,
and the Ends of Humanity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020 (adapted).
In text 1A4-I, the author
Ano: 2025
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CESPE / CEBRASPE
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MPE-CE
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - MPE-CE - Analista Ministerial - Especialidade: Ciências da Computação |
Q3307209
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The business intelligence (BI) industry has been
challenged with poor user adoption for years. Yet, many CIOs
continue to push BI as a core initiative. Billions of dollars have
been spent on traditional BI, but adoption rates are below 30%.
Why? Successfully levering the full capabilities of business
intelligence is still difficult to achieve, and product managers are
searching for more. These individuals are looking for ways to
expand the impact and value of their BI tools but are lost about
where to start.
The overall goal of BI is to provide business teams with
the proper data and information at the right time to create
insightful, data-driven decision-making. However, these
solutions fall short and continually fail the industry through
inefficiency, hefty costs, and an overall lack of value and
insightful data production.
Currently, traditional BI solutions force users to exit their
current workflow to even attempt and secure any valuable data.
When your team is operating in the middle of their workflow and
needs data to inform a decision, they shouldn’t have to exit the
application to enter yet another application, gather data and then
jump back in. The likelihood of delays in report deliverability
also factors into this headache. This process dramatically slows
down any workflow and causes frustration for employees,
especially when the data secured isn’t always useful.
Additionally, many BI tools are not designed for business
users but instead for more technical individuals within the
organization. Traditional vendors often try to cover the
complexity of their solution with self-service options and
features, but users continue to feel like they need an advanced
engineering or computer science degree to navigate them. This
sucks up valuable time for non-technical users as they work to
navigate a difficult platform to get the information they need.
Internet:: <rtinsights.com> (adapted).
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
The text states that many CIOs are abandoning BI initiatives due to reported low user adoption rates and high costs.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
MPE-CE
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - MPE-CE - Analista Ministerial - Especialidade: Ciências da Computação |
Q3307207
Inglês
Texto associado
The business intelligence (BI) industry has been
challenged with poor user adoption for years. Yet, many CIOs
continue to push BI as a core initiative. Billions of dollars have
been spent on traditional BI, but adoption rates are below 30%.
Why? Successfully levering the full capabilities of business
intelligence is still difficult to achieve, and product managers are
searching for more. These individuals are looking for ways to
expand the impact and value of their BI tools but are lost about
where to start.
The overall goal of BI is to provide business teams with
the proper data and information at the right time to create
insightful, data-driven decision-making. However, these
solutions fall short and continually fail the industry through
inefficiency, hefty costs, and an overall lack of value and
insightful data production.
Currently, traditional BI solutions force users to exit their
current workflow to even attempt and secure any valuable data.
When your team is operating in the middle of their workflow and
needs data to inform a decision, they shouldn’t have to exit the
application to enter yet another application, gather data and then
jump back in. The likelihood of delays in report deliverability
also factors into this headache. This process dramatically slows
down any workflow and causes frustration for employees,
especially when the data secured isn’t always useful.
Additionally, many BI tools are not designed for business
users but instead for more technical individuals within the
organization. Traditional vendors often try to cover the
complexity of their solution with self-service options and
features, but users continue to feel like they need an advanced
engineering or computer science degree to navigate them. This
sucks up valuable time for non-technical users as they work to
navigate a difficult platform to get the information they need.
Internet:: <rtinsights.com> (adapted).
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
According to the text, overall, BI solutions are not accomplishing the purpose they were designed for, since they have not been able to provide timely and readily available data to business users within their working cycles.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
MPE-CE
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - MPE-CE - Analista Ministerial - Especialidade: Ciências da Computação |
Q3307206
Inglês
Texto associado
The business intelligence (BI) industry has been
challenged with poor user adoption for years. Yet, many CIOs
continue to push BI as a core initiative. Billions of dollars have
been spent on traditional BI, but adoption rates are below 30%.
Why? Successfully levering the full capabilities of business
intelligence is still difficult to achieve, and product managers are
searching for more. These individuals are looking for ways to
expand the impact and value of their BI tools but are lost about
where to start.
The overall goal of BI is to provide business teams with
the proper data and information at the right time to create
insightful, data-driven decision-making. However, these
solutions fall short and continually fail the industry through
inefficiency, hefty costs, and an overall lack of value and
insightful data production.
Currently, traditional BI solutions force users to exit their
current workflow to even attempt and secure any valuable data.
When your team is operating in the middle of their workflow and
needs data to inform a decision, they shouldn’t have to exit the
application to enter yet another application, gather data and then
jump back in. The likelihood of delays in report deliverability
also factors into this headache. This process dramatically slows
down any workflow and causes frustration for employees,
especially when the data secured isn’t always useful.
Additionally, many BI tools are not designed for business
users but instead for more technical individuals within the
organization. Traditional vendors often try to cover the
complexity of their solution with self-service options and
features, but users continue to feel like they need an advanced
engineering or computer science degree to navigate them. This
sucks up valuable time for non-technical users as they work to
navigate a difficult platform to get the information they need.
Internet:: <rtinsights.com> (adapted).
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
It is correct to conclude from the text that one main hindrance to the successful implementation of BI is the need to stop ongoing operations to gather and secure data.
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