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Inside the charming city named 'Europe's highest capital' - with no trains or airports


Most of Europe's capital cities are full of tourists wanting to come and see the beautiful scenery and architecture.


But only one can say it's the highest in the continent.


High up in the Pyrenees mountains, 1,023m (3,356ft) above sea level, is Andorra la Vella, in Andorra.


The capital city - also one of the smallest in Europe - spans just five square miles, making London more than 120 times bigger than it.


And it's very hard to get to - due to the fact that no airport or train station can be found throughout the entire country of Andorra.


But that hasn't stopped 8 to 10 million people visiting the tiny place every year.


The best way of getting to Andorra is by flying to Barcelona, Girona or Lleida, in Spain, or Toulouse, France, and driving from any of them.


And while there, you can take advantage of Avinguda Meritxell, the Shopping Mile, filled with huge department stores and duty-free shopping, as Andorra has one of the lowest VATs in Europe.


One person on Tripadvisor described: 'It is a giant duty free shopping haven.


'Selling cigarettes, alcoholic drinks, perfumes and, more cigarettes, alcoholic drinks, perfumes, and even more clothes, shoes and the likes.


'Very good for local economy, very boring.'


Another draw for tourists to Andorra is the Caldea spa, the largest thermal spa in southern Europe - designed in 1987, using the hot springs that naturally flow in the region.


Here, you'll find indoor saunas, hammams and various types of baths, as well as an outdoor lagoon, surrounded by awe-inspiring mountain views.


The basic package for three hours access starts from ?30.50.


One person on Tripadvisor said: 'Fantastic spa with hydro massage pools and overlapping pools with futuristic design.'


Another visitor, who booked the basic entry, added: 'Very clean, very nicely designed and enjoyable. Absolutely worth it, 3 hours is more than enough.'


For the historians, Andorra's Old Town has a pre-Roman church, called Sant Esteve, dating back to the 9th century.


And Andorra La Vella is also an excellent place to stay if you want to head into the Pyrenees mountains.


When it comes to the weather, don't expect too much sun in Andorra.


In the mountains, the highs are as little as 8C in January and February, with the country having an average annual snowfall of 228cm.


Meanwhile, temperatures peak at 24C in July and August.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-15003409/Inside-charming-city -named-Europes-highest-capital-no-trains-airports.html (Adapted) 

English teacher Miguel is focusing on grammatical structures found in the Andorra text, particularly prepositions and conjunctions that connect ideas and show relationships between concepts. Students practice identifying these grammatical elements and understanding their functions in creating coherent and cohesive travel writing. The lesson emphasizes how proper use of connectors enhances text comprehension and production.
Which statements are correct?

I."High up in the Pyrenees mountains" demonstrates the use of prepositions to indicate location and position.
II."But that hasn't stopped..." uses a coordinating conjunction to introduce contrasting information.
III."Due to the fact that" functions as a subordinating conjunction expressing cause and effect relationships.
IV."As Andorra has one of the lowest VATs" introduces a reason using a subordinating conjunction.
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Postclassic Period


The end of the Terminal Classic Period has been viewed as the death knell for the Maya civilization, and the Postclassic Period has traditionally been described as a militaristic, decadent, and degenerate phase in Maya history. But more enlightened views would see that the militarism was part and parcel with other features that suggest a tendency towards secularism and the resultant downplaying of the ceremonial rituals that dominated the Classic Period. Moreover, much of our interpretations of the Postclassic were projected from ethnohistoric accounts of the Spanish intrusions in the region. Very little attention has been directed towards understanding the Postclassic through archaeology, although recent research on the period, particularly at Santa Rita in northern Belize, suggests continuity from the Classic Period.The focus of cultural developments moved from the Central Maya Lowlands north, to the Yucatan, where the Spanish first contacted the Maya culture.

Once the Spanish established their base in northern Yucatan by 1546, they began to impose their views and customs upon the Maya. This was a time of great disruption. The Maya people suffered from introduction of European diseases suppression of native traditions conscription of labor.

Tragically, the vast majority of Maya documents were destroyed by Spanish religious zealots. The Auto de Fe of Fray DeLanda is among the most famed. Credited with providing scraps of information on the Mayan language, in truth he is responsible for burning the majority of the known text at the time. The created a huge void of information about the language and practices of this advanced civilization. The Maya of the Yucatan struggled to maintain their life ways under Spanish rule. The Maya forest garden and milpa strategy, unfamiliar to and unappreciated by the Spanish, was not accepted.

After the conquest of the northern Yucatan, the southern Maya Itza kingdom still dominated the southern lowlands, where Tikal once ruled. Hostile to their neighbors and ensconced in the Maya forest, they were able to maintain their independence for nearly two centuries after the Spanish arrived.





Postclassic Mural

It was not until 1696 that the Spanish conquered the last of the independent Maya city-states, the Itza of Tayasal, the descendants of the ancient Maya realm. The Central Maya Lowlands, which today include most of Belize and the Peten of Guatemala, are still home to Maya who can trace their ancestry back into prehistory as attested by the patronyms of local villagers: Teck, Bacab, Mai, Cocom, and Panti to name a few.


https://www.marc.ucsb.edu/research/maya/ancient-maya-civilization/po stclassic-period
Interpreting temporal prepositions in context, what does "by" convey in the clause "Once the Spanish established their base in northern Yucatan by 1546"?
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Fonte: https://www.portallos.com.br/2011/12/21/tirinhas-garfield-e-onatal/

In “Stop worrying about what to get me…,” about is a(n):
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Q3510311 Inglês

Complete the sentence below with the most appropriate prepositions:


"The professor insisted___the importance of clarity___academic writing and advised students to reflect___their feedback before submitting the final version."


Choose the alternative that correctly and respectively completes the sentence above.

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Q3476976 Inglês
Complete the sentences and choose the correct alternative.

Where is Susan? She is _____ holiday.
I arrived ____ the Hotel after midnight.  
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Q3439617 Inglês
Em uma sala de nono ano com 40 estudantes, o professor está revisando as preposições de tempo in, on, at, um dos temas da prova bimestral. Coloca na lousa cinco frases com lacunas, que devem ser preenchidas com a preposição adequada. Veja a seguir um quadro com as frases dadas pelo professor, e o número de estudantes que escolheu cada opção de resposta: 

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Das intervenções a seguir, que procuram apontar os desvios na execução da tarefa, está correta aquela em que o professor esclarece
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Depending on the preposition you use to fill in the blank in “I am looking ____ the dog”, the meaning of the sentence changes completely. Analyze the sentences below and mark the CORRECT item.

I. “I’m looking at the dog” means you are seeing the dog.
II. “I’m looking after the dog” means you don’t know where the dog is.
III. “I’m looking for the dog” means you are taking care of the dog.
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'Why I want an IVF baby to screen out gene that made me go blind'


Blind content creator and TikTok star Lucy Edwards says she's "so excited" to be on a health kick to undergo IVF, but reveals the dilemma she faced in deciding to screen out the very gene that made her blind.


"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All podcast.


Lucy and her husband Ollie married at Kew Gardens two years ago and are now ready to start a family - but there are complications to consider.


Lucy has the rare genetic condition Incontinentia Pigmenti (IP) and lost her sight due to this aged 17, just months after meeting Ollie.


The condition runs through the female line - Lucy's mum has IP although isn't blind, her Grandma did too and her great-aunt was blind in one eye.


Lucy is totally blind, but, if she had been a boy, she may not have survived.


The abnormal IP gene is located on the X chromosome. Women have two X chromosomes, while males have X and Y, meaning the appearance of the gene can be more catastrophic in male pregnancies.


"My grandma actually had nine miscarriages," Lucy says.


This is one of the facts that played into the complicated decision Lucy and Ollie made to opt for pre-implantation genetic testing, a special type of IVF where embryos are created outside of the body and screened for the genetic condition. Only those embryos which are not affected by the condition are placed back into the womb.


Without medical intervention, Lucy says there would be four potential outcomes to any pregnancy she carried: A healthy and unaffected boy or girl, an affected boy she would likely miscarry or who would be born with severe brain damage or an affected girl.


She pauses, then laughs: "That sounds horrible, doesn't it? That's me."


And that's the quandary. IVF will edit out the very thing that has made Lucy who she is today - a journalist, advocate, author and broadcaster.


It is an emotive topic of debate. The most well-known conversation is around Down's syndrome and the number of women who choose to abort a pregnancy once their baby is tested and diagnosed as having the condition. The question is around the value people place on other peoples' lives which may not look like our own.


In 2021 campaigner Heidi Crowter, who herself has Down's syndrome, challenged legislation allowing foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth. She took her case to the High Court arguing the rules were discriminatory to disabled people who could live a good life. She lost the case and the subsequent argument she made at the Court of Appeal. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) later rejected it as well, but Heidi continues to campaign to have the law overturned.


It is something Lucy is very aware of and she and her husband have spent a long time considering.


"It's understanding that it is removing that part of me that makes me, me," Lucy says. "It's such a personal decision and I know that I'm opening myself up for possible designer baby discussions, but I know I'm doing it for the right reasons."


Lucy says first being diagnosed with IP and then losing her sight as a teenager were both traumatic events and she wants to minimise the likelihood of miscarriage to limit any future traumatic load.


She says she found it impossible to "knowingly" consider having a baby naturally once she knew the science was available to give a baby the healthiest start possible.


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"If I had a baby and, unknowingly, I had a gorgeous, gorgeous baby with disabilities, I would be so thankful, so happy and amazed but knowingly having this gene? That's why we're having IVF."


IP doesn't just cause blindness, it can also cause severe epilepsy and more difficult outcomes. Lucy says having the option to ensure complications were not passed on felt like both a responsibility and a privilege previous generations did not have.


"Whether we like it or not, we have to be responsible here. Maybe a responsible issue for you, if you have IP or another genetic disorder, is to have a child naturally and we are not judging you in any shape or form, this is just our decision."


In response to their openness around this decision comments were overwhelmingly positive from Lucy's fans which she thinks might be because she is so "disability positive" in her everyday life - "I love being blind," she frequently states.


But Lucy says responses have been different around the world. When she was working in Japan and her content was reaching audiences unfamiliar with her story, she faced a lot more trolling.


"I got a lot of abusive comments that go into my spam filter questioning why I would be a mother," she says. "I know that I'm going to get a lot of abuse, but I'm just going to block them.


"I'm going to be OK. All I think about is the other mothers that have come before me who are competent, capable and resilient."


Lucy, who is known for her How Does A Blind Girl... series of videos, is overjoyed by the prospect of IVF but she has also been frank about the fact she currently does not qualify, owing to her current weight, a sensitive element of IVF treatment that many keep to themselves.


NHS guidelines specify your Body Mass Index (BMI) must be 30 or under to qualify - a healthy BMI is considered to be between 18.5 and 24.9.


"I need to be a BMI of 30 and I'm very open that I need to lose 9kg," Lucy says. "I've already lost 15kg." 


Her health journey has involved swimming, lifting weights and many runs with Ollie tethered to her as her sighted guide. She has also found a love for batch cooking nutritious meals which she posts about on all of her channels on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and the workarounds she has developed as a blind cook.


"I wanted a positive representation of losing weight online because it's all about this blinking jab," she says, referring to weight loss injections. "I just wanted to lose it healthily, have lots of nice food, talk about meal prep and just smile and run."


Once she hits the required BMI, Lucy will qualify for three rounds of IVF on the NHS.


She will contact her consultant, after which she has to "spit in a cup" and offer up her DNA for genetic testing and analysis.


Over a period of about three months, a genetics team will "make a bespoke test to find the gene within my eggs," Lucy explains.


Meanwhile Lucy will inject herself with trigger shots to stimulate the follicles within her ovaries to increase the number of eggs produced which will be retrieved, and then made into embryos with Ollie's sperm.


The embryos will then be tested so only ones without the IP gene will be possible candidates. Those embryos will be "shuffled about" so Lucy and Ollie don't know which will be selected in terms of gender or other genetic qualities, and implanted into Lucy, who will carry the baby to term. 


Lucy can't wait for the moment she holds her baby in her arms.


"It will never stop being a thing within my mind that this gene is being eradicated," she admits. "But I am very happy in my decision."


A few days ago Lucy posted on Instagram, her cardigan tightened at the back with a hairband to make it smaller and fit. 


"I've lost so much [weight] that my clothes are too loose now so we had to tie it up with a bobble," she tells her followers.


"Fingers crossed [we're] only a few weeks away from ringing the clinic."


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4v7vj039o 
In the sentence "She has also found a love for batch cooking nutritious meals which she posts about on all of her channels," identify the primary role of the preposition "about." 
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(https://www.simplyieva.com)

Há um erro gramatical no trecho “but for other people its not”. Está adequadamente corrigida a seguinte versão:
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Fog harversting could provide water for arid cities


By Victoria Gill



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Mark the alternative that fills in, correctly and respectively, the blanks in the first paragraph.
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Q3289556 Inglês
Read the following passage:
"Sarah needs to attend several meetings next week. She has a conference call ___ Monday ___ 9 AM, followed by a team lunch ___ noon. The quarterly review is scheduled ___ March 15th ___ 3 PM."
Which sequence of prepositions correctly completes all five gaps in the passage?
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Q3289547 Inglês
Choose the correct article (A, AN or THE) to complete the blanks.
My mother is ___ doctor and my father is ___ author.
Cindy recommended ___ good dentist, but ___ dentist is fully booked.
Mt. Hood is ___ volcano in Oregon. It's ___ beautiful mountain.
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Q3289541 Inglês
Choose the correct preposition to complete the sentence:

"She is very interested ____ learning new languages."
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Q3243925 Inglês

Regarding prepositions, number the second column according to the first one so as to fill in the blanks, and then mark the item that corresponds to the CORRECT sequence.



(1) on


(2) at


(3) in



( ) The day was perfect yesterday. There wasn’t a single cloud ___ the sky!


( ) The game is ___ Friday.


( ) I usually get up ____ half past eight.

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ELF: English as a lingua franca


    The Vienna Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE), a collection of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) currently under construction, defines lingua franca as an additionally acquired language system that serves as a means of communication for speakers from different speech communities, who use it to communicate with each other but for whom it is not their native language.

    Early findings from the VOICE corpus tentatively identify a number of features which point to systematic lexicogrammatical differences between native-speaker English and ELF, for example dropping the third person present tense ‘s’ (e.g. she wear), omitting definite and indefinite articles, insertion of prepositions (e.g. can we discuss about this issue). These features are not a threat to comprehension, as they involve typical errors that most English teachers would correct and remediate. However, Seidlhofer (2004) points out that they appear to be generally unproblematic and do not cause an obstacle to communicative success in ELF. 

    The work of Jenkins (1996, 2000, 2004, 2005) has also been very influential in relation to the teaching of pronunciation for ELF. Her research finds that a number of items common to most native-speaker varieties of English were not necessary in successful ELF interactions; for example, the substitution of voiceless and voiced th with /t/ or /s/ and /d/ or /z/ (e.g. think became sink or tink, and this became dis or zis). Jenkins argues that such features occur regularly in ELF interactions and do not cause intelligibility problems.

    Problems may arise in the (perhaps unfair) equation between a reduced or ‘stripped down’ ELF syllabus and an impoverished experience of the L2. Indeed, it could be argued that learners of any language always end up producing less than the input they are exposed to, and that if that input itself is deliberately restricted, then even less will be the outcome.


(O’KEEFFE, A., MCCARTHY, M. & CARTER, R. From corpus to classroom. Language Use and Language Teaching. Cambridge, CUP. 2007. Adaptado)
The VOICE has identified the insertion of prepositions as an emerging pattern in ELF. An example of such a linguistic deviation is found in alternative
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Q3217352 Inglês
Which of the following contains a prepositional phrase?
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Q3217347 Inglês
In the sentence "He put the book on the table," what is the function of the phrase "on the table"?
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Q3212710 Inglês
Regarding prepositions, number the second column according to the first one so as to fill in the blanks, and then choose the item that correspondsto the CORRECT sequence.
(1) on (2) at (3) in
( ) Wait for me ____ the bus stop!
( ) My grandmother passed away ____  2014.
( ) Come and see us ____  Christmas Day
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Germany's World Cup-winning captain and coach Beckenbauer dies at 78

By Reuters


German soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer died at the age of 78. His remarkable career lasted over 50 years.

  Beckenbauer was an amazing player, coach, a football expert, and he greatly impacted the sport. His commanding presence on the pitch, both with West Germany and Bayern Munich, earned him acclaim. He played a key role in Bayern Munich’s nest years in the mid-1970s. During this time, the club achieved three European Cups and Bundesliga titles. As a manager, Beckenbauer won the 1972 European Championship. In 1974, he was the captain when his team won the World Cup.

   Politicians, fans, colleagues, and football clubs reacted to Beckenbauer’s death. He remains a symbol of German football excellence.


Fonte: Adaptado do site Reuters. Disponível em: https://www.reuters.com/sports/soccer/german-worldcup-winning-captain-coach-beckenbauer-dies-78-2024- 01-08/ Acesso em: 15 jan 2025
In the phrase “He played a key role in Bayern Munich’s nest years in the mid-1970s,” what is the function of the preposition "in"? 
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Q3179428 Inglês
Regarding the use of articles, prepositions, connectors, and adverbs in English, analyze the statements below and select the CORRECT alternative.
I. The definite article "the" is used with both countable and uncountable nouns whenever the noun is specific in context.
II. Prepositions such as "in," "on," and "at" follow strict and unchanging rules for use with expressions of time and place.
III. Connectors like "however" and "nevertheless" introduce contrasting ideas but differ in their degree of formality and intensity.
IV. Adverbs in English often end in "-ly" and can modify verbs, adjectives, or even other adverbs, depending on the context. 
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Respostas
121: A
122: C
123: B
124: C
125: D
126: C
127: A
128: C
129: E
130: D
131: A
132: E
133: A
134: B
135: B
136: A
137: B
138: D
139: A
140: C