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Comentadas sobre pronomes | pronouns em inglês
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Ano: 2023
Banca:
CONSULPAM
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Araraquara - SP
Prova:
CONSULPAM - 2023 - Prefeitura de Araraquara - SP - Professor II - Inglês |
Q2298709
Inglês
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Two US banks collapse
Last week, Silicon Valley Bank failed, and it left customers in a tough spot as the government took ______ 1 .
The so-called bank run happened because there ______ 2 news that the bank couldn’t meet its deposit obligations. It means that it had invested the money in various things that weren’t making the money back. Typically, that’s the point where the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, ______ 3 insures deposits ______ 4 250,000 dollars, comes in. However, 98% of Silicon Valley Bank customers didn’t have 250,000 dollars but billions of dollars. The government announced that it would step in and secure the depositors, with US president Joe Biden ______ 5 that the US banking system was safe.
Shortly after the fall of Silicon Valley Bank, regulators closed New York-based Signature Bank, too, citing systemic risk. Experts said that these stories would continue repeating themselves because many corporations were overleveraged in dollar debt.
After the collapse, European banks lost 100 billion dollars in value in a week, and despite tough regulations that should make a similar banking failure in Europe unlikely, the contagion is accelerating.
Source: https://www.newsinlevels.com/products/two-usbanks-collapse-level-3/
The blanks numbered as “3” and “4” could be
CORRECTLY filled with, RESPECTIVELY:
Ano: 2023
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
TBG
Provas:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Analista Júnior – Ênfase: Auditoria e Compliance
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CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Analista Júnior – Ênfase: Contábil |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Analista Júnior – Ênfase: Comercialização |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Engenheiro Júnior – Ênfase: Inspeção |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Ênfase: Desenvolvimento de Software |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Analista Júnior – Ênfase: Gestão |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Analista Júnior – Ênfase: Gestão, Comunicação |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Engenheiro Júnior – Ênfase: Projetos e Obras, Elétrica |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Engenheiro Júnior – Ênfase: Manutenção, Mecânica |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Engenheiro Júnior – Ênfase: Operações |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Analista Júnior – Ênfase: Gestão, Meio Ambiente |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Engenheiro de Segurança Júnior |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Engenheiro Júnior – Ênfase: Projetos e Obras |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Engenheiro Júnior – Ênfase: Projetos e Obras, Civil |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Engenheiro Júnior – Ênfase: Integridade de Dutos |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - TBG - Engenheiro Júnior – Ênfase: Manutenção |
Q2281245
Inglês
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Text CB1A2-I
Oppenheimer’s brief advance into astrophysics began with
a 1938 paper about neutron stars, which continued in a 1939
installment that further incorporated the principles of Einstein’s
general theory of relativity. He then published a third paper on
black holes on September 1st, 1939—but at the time, it was
scarcely noticed because this was the very day Germany invaded
Poland, launching World War II. Oppenheimer never wrote on
the topic again.
Even if it hadn’t been overshadowed by war,
Oppenheimer’s work on neutron stars and black holes “was not
understood to be terribly significant at the time,” says Cathryn
Carson, a historian of science at the University of California,
Berkeley.
Each paper was written with a different member of the
swarm of graduate students that Oppenheimer carefully
cultivated. These protégés facilitated his ability to jump between
research topics—and ultimately, helped him develop some of his
most important contributions to physics.
Oppenheimer’s climactic third paper, written with his
student Hartland Snyder, explores the implications of general
relativity on the universe’s most massive stars. Although the
physicists needed to include some assumptions to simplify the
question, they determined that a large enough star would
gravitationally collapse indefinitely—and within a finite amount
of time, meaning that the objects we now know as black holes
could exist.
Internet: <scientificamerican.com> (adapted)
Based on the vocabulary and linguistic aspects of text CB1A2-I, judge the following item.
The pronoun “they” (last sentence of the last paragraph) refers to the word “assumptions”.
The pronoun “they” (last sentence of the last paragraph) refers to the word “assumptions”.
Ano: 2023
Banca:
CPCON
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Dona Inês - PB
Prova:
CPCON - 2023 - Prefeitura de Dona Inês - PB - Professor B - Nível - 1 (Licenciatura em Inglês) |
Q2273301
Inglês
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TEXT I – Tema: O papel da Língua Inglesa na BNCC
IS THE BNCC REALLY GOING TO AFFECT MY CLASSES?
(by Lúcia Rodrigues Alves)
(Adapted from: https://www.luciarodriguesalves.com.br/is-the-bncc-really-going-to-affect-my-classes/. Accessed on July 1 , 2023)
In the sentence “[…] in terms of the necessary teacher development which is the base for the implementation of this new curriculum base” (lines 2 and 2 ), the word in bold:
Ano: 2023
Banca:
CETREDE
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Guaiúba - CE
Prova:
CETREDE - 2023 - Prefeitura de Guaiúba - CE - Professor Peb II - Língua Inglesa |
Q2267405
Inglês
Choose the CORRECT answer.
Talking to my child: “I know that this situation is difficult. _________ me just a little longer. Soon it will be over!”
Talking to my child: “I know that this situation is difficult. _________ me just a little longer. Soon it will be over!”
Ano: 2023
Banca:
CETREDE
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Guaiúba - CE
Prova:
CETREDE - 2023 - Prefeitura de Guaiúba - CE - Professor Peb II - Língua Inglesa |
Q2267402
Inglês
Choose the CORRECT answer.
“John works with another mate _________ name I can't remember.”
“John works with another mate _________ name I can't remember.”
Ano: 2023
Banca:
CETREDE
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Guaiúba - CE
Prova:
CETREDE - 2023 - Prefeitura de Guaiúba - CE - Professor Peb II - Língua Inglesa |
Q2267391
Inglês
Choose the CORRECT answer.
“That bird has broken _________ wing.”
“That bird has broken _________ wing.”
Ano: 2007
Banca:
FCC
Órgão:
Câmara dos Deputados
Prova:
FCC - 2007 - Câmara dos Deputados - Analista Legislativo - Informática Legislativa |
Q2256150
Inglês
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Google Adds a Safeguard on Privacy for Searchers
By MIGUEL HELFT
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 — Web search companies
collect records of the searches that people conduct, a fact that
has long generated …16… among privacy advocates and some
Internet users that valuable personal data could be misused.
Now Google is taking a step to ease those concerns. The
company keeps logs of all searches, along with digital identifiers
linking them to specific computers and Internet browsers. It said
on Wednesday that it would start to make those logs anonymous
after 18 to 24 months, making it much harder to connect search
records to a person. Under current practices, the company
keeps the logs intact indefinitely.
“We have decided to make this change with feedback
from privacy advocates, regulators worldwide and, of course,
from our users,” said Nicole Wong, Google’s deputy general
counsel.
But it is unclear whether the change will have its intended
effect. Privacy advocates reacted with a mix of praise and
dismay to it.
“This is really the first time we have seen them make a
decision to try and work out the conflict between wanting to be
pro-privacy and collecting all the world’s information,” said Ari
Schwartz, deputy director of the Center for Democracy and
Technology, an advocacy group. “They are not going to keep a
profile on you indefinitely.”
Others were less enthusiastic. “I think it is an absolute
disaster for online privacy,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive
director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Ms. Wong said Google uses the search data internally
only to improve its search engine and other services. She added
that Google would release search data only if compelled by a
subpoena. Even so, Google was the only major search engine to
resist a Justice Department subpoena for vast amounts of
search data last year — a move that drew praise from privacy
advocates.
Just how personally revealing such data can be became
evident last year, when AOL released records of the searches
conducted by 657,000 Americans for the benefit of researchers.
…17… AOL did not identify the people behind the searches,
reporters from The New York Times were able to track down
some of them quickly through their search requests.
The ensuing flap caused AOL to tighten its privacy
policies. The company now keeps search histories for only 13
months and does not link them to Internet protocol addresses —
digital tags that can identify a specific computer.
For its part, Yahoo keeps search data for “as long as it is
useful,” said a spokeswoman, Nissa Anklesaria. And Microsoft
said that while it does not keep search histories alongside I.P.
addresses, it can connect the two if law enforcement requests it.
(Adapted from
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/technology/15googles.html_r=1&ore
f=login)
No texto, o pronome sublinhado them refere-se a
Ano: 2006
Banca:
FCC
Órgão:
BACEN
Provas:
FCC - 2006 - BACEN - Analista do Banco Central - Área 1 - Prova 2 - Conhecimentos Específicos
|
FCC - 2006 - BACEN - Analista do Banco Central - Área 2 - Conhecimentos Específicos |
Q2254270
Inglês
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The Internet at Risk
Some 12,000 people convened last week in Tunisia for
a United Nations conference about the Internet. Many delegates
want an end to the U.S. Commerce Department's control over
the assignment of Web site addresses (for example,
http://www.washington-%20post.com/ ) and e-mail accounts (for
example, [email protected]). The delegates' argument is that
unilateral U.S. control over these domain names reflects no
more than the historical accident of the Internet's origins. Why
should the United States continue to control the registration of
French and Chinese Internet addresses? It doesn't control the
registration of French and Chinese cars, whatever Henry Ford's
historic role in democratizing travel was.
The reformers' argument is attractive in theory and
dangerous in practice. In an ideal world, unilateralism should be
avoided. But in an imperfect world, unilateral solutions that run
efficiently can be better than multilateral ones that ....51....
The job of assigning domain names offers huge
opportunities for abuse. ....52.... controls this function can decide to
keep certain types of individuals or organizations offline
(dissidents or opposition political groups, for example). Or it can
allow them on in exchange for large fees. The striking feature of
U.S. oversight of the Internet is that such abuses have not
occurred.
It's possible that a multilateral overseer of the Internet
might be just as efficient. But the ponderous International
Telecommunication Union, the U.N. body that would be a
leading candidate to take over the domain registry, has a record
of resisting innovation - including the advent of the Internet.
Moreover, a multilateral domain-registering body would
be caught between the different visions of its members: on the
one side, autocratic regimes such as Saudi Arabia and China
that want to restrict access to the Internet; on the other side,
open societies that want low barriers to entry. These clashes of
vision would probably make multilateral regulation inefficiently
political.
You may say that this is a fair price to pay to uphold the
principle of sovereignty. If a country wants to keep certain users
from registering domain names (Nazi groups, child
pornographers, criminals), then perhaps it has a right to do so.
But the clinching argument is that countries can exercise that
sovereignty to a reasonable degree without controlling domain
names. They can order Internet users in their territory to take
offensive material down. They can order their banks or credit
card companies to refuse to process payments to unsavory Web sites based abroad. Indeed, governments' ample ability to
regulate the Internet has already been demonstrated by some of
the countries pushing for reform, such as authoritarian China.
The sovereign nations of the world have no need to wrest
control of the Internet from the United States, because they
already have it.
(Adapted from Washington Post, November 21, 2005; A14)
O pronome it, no final do texto, refere-se a
Ano: 2006
Banca:
FCC
Órgão:
BACEN
Provas:
FCC - 2006 - BACEN - Analista do Banco Central - Área 1 - Prova 2 - Conhecimentos Específicos
|
FCC - 2006 - BACEN - Analista do Banco Central - Área 2 - Conhecimentos Específicos |
Q2254263
Inglês
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The Internet at Risk
Some 12,000 people convened last week in Tunisia for
a United Nations conference about the Internet. Many delegates
want an end to the U.S. Commerce Department's control over
the assignment of Web site addresses (for example,
http://www.washington-%20post.com/ ) and e-mail accounts (for
example, [email protected]). The delegates' argument is that
unilateral U.S. control over these domain names reflects no
more than the historical accident of the Internet's origins. Why
should the United States continue to control the registration of
French and Chinese Internet addresses? It doesn't control the
registration of French and Chinese cars, whatever Henry Ford's
historic role in democratizing travel was.
The reformers' argument is attractive in theory and
dangerous in practice. In an ideal world, unilateralism should be
avoided. But in an imperfect world, unilateral solutions that run
efficiently can be better than multilateral ones that ....51....
The job of assigning domain names offers huge
opportunities for abuse. ....52.... controls this function can decide to
keep certain types of individuals or organizations offline
(dissidents or opposition political groups, for example). Or it can
allow them on in exchange for large fees. The striking feature of
U.S. oversight of the Internet is that such abuses have not
occurred.
It's possible that a multilateral overseer of the Internet
might be just as efficient. But the ponderous International
Telecommunication Union, the U.N. body that would be a
leading candidate to take over the domain registry, has a record
of resisting innovation - including the advent of the Internet.
Moreover, a multilateral domain-registering body would
be caught between the different visions of its members: on the
one side, autocratic regimes such as Saudi Arabia and China
that want to restrict access to the Internet; on the other side,
open societies that want low barriers to entry. These clashes of
vision would probably make multilateral regulation inefficiently
political.
You may say that this is a fair price to pay to uphold the
principle of sovereignty. If a country wants to keep certain users
from registering domain names (Nazi groups, child
pornographers, criminals), then perhaps it has a right to do so.
But the clinching argument is that countries can exercise that
sovereignty to a reasonable degree without controlling domain
names. They can order Internet users in their territory to take
offensive material down. They can order their banks or credit
card companies to refuse to process payments to unsavory Web sites based abroad. Indeed, governments' ample ability to
regulate the Internet has already been demonstrated by some of
the countries pushing for reform, such as authoritarian China.
The sovereign nations of the world have no need to wrest
control of the Internet from the United States, because they
already have it.
(Adapted from Washington Post, November 21, 2005; A14)
No texto, a palavra que preenche corretamente a lacuna é
Q2244803
Inglês
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From the IPO to the First Trade: Is Underpricing Related to the
Trading Mechanism?
Sonia Falconieri, Albert Murphy and Daniel Weaver
As documented by a vast empirical literature, IPOs are
characterized by underpricing. Most of the theoretical literature
has linked the size of underpricing to the IPO procedure used on
the primary market. In this paper, by using a matched sample of
NYSE and Nasdaq IPOs, we show that the size of underpricing
also depends on the trading method used in the IPO
aftermarket.
There are two major methods of opening trading of initial
public offerings (IPOs) in the U.S. The NYSE is an order-driven
market ...56... a call auction allows supply and demand to be
aggregated (at one location) prior to the start of trading. ...57... ,
Nasdaq is a quote-driven market. Dealers can only specify their
best quotes, and participants have ...58... idea of supply and
demand away from the inside quotes.
We propose a new proxy for ex ante uncertainty of firm
value and test it. Our results show that there is a larger level of
uncertainty at the beginning of trading on Nasdaq than on the
NYSE. This in turn is associated with larger levels of
underpricing for Nasdaq IPOs. We suggest that this may be due
to the different informational efficiency of the two trading
systems.
(http://www.nyse.com/marketinfo/p1020656068262.html?displayPage=%
2Fmarketinfo%2Fmarketinfo.html)
Para responder à questão, assinale, na folha de resposta, a letra correspondente à alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna do texto apresentado (...58...).
Ano: 2003
Banca:
FCC
Órgão:
CVM
Prova:
FCC - 2003 - CVM - Analista - Normas Contábeis e de Auditoria |
Q2243760
Inglês
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Michael R. Bloomberg is the 108th Mayor of the City of
New York. He was born on February 14, 1942 to middle class
parents in Medford, Massachusetts, where his father was the
bookkeeper at a local dairy. Mayor Bloomberg's thirst for
information and fascination with technology was evident at an
early age, and led him to Johns Hopkins University, where he
parked cars and took out loans to finance his education. After
his college graduation, he gained an MBA from Harvard and in
the summer of 1966, he was hired by Salomon Brothers to work
on Wall Street.
He quickly advanced through the ranks, and became a
partner in 1972. Soon after, he was supervising all of Salomon's
stock trading, sales and later, its information systems. He was
fired in 1981 after another company acquired Salomon. Michael
Bloomberg used his stake from the Salomon sale to start his
...39... company, an endeavor that would revolutionize the way
that Wall Street ....40.... business. As a young trader, he had been
amazed at the archaic nature in which information was stored.
When he needed to see how a stock had been trading three
weeks earlier, he had to find a copy of the Wall Street Journal
from the date in question, and the records system consisted of
clerks penciling trades in oversize ledgers. ...41... , he created a
financial information computer that would collect and analyze
different combinations of past and present securities data and
deliver it immediately to the user.
In 1982, Bloomberg LP sold 20 subscriptions to its
service; 20 years ....42... , Bloomberg LP has over 165,000
subscribers worldwide. As the business proved its viability, the company branched out and in 1990 Bloomberg LP entered the
media business, launching a news service, and then radio,
television, Internet, and publishing operations.
Nearly 20 years after its founding, Bloomberg LP now
employs more than 8,000 people − including 2,500 in New York
City − in more than 100 offices worldwide. As the company
enjoyed tremendous growth, Michael Bloomberg dedicated more
of his time and energy to philanthropy and civic affairs. His
desire to improve education, advance medical research and
increase access to the arts, has provided the motivation for
much of his philanthropy.
The Mayor served as the Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Johns Hopkins University until May 2002. Recently,
he was honored by Johns Hopkins University, when its School of
Hygiene and Public Health was renamed "The Bloomberg
School of Public Health," a tribute to his leadership and use of
philanthropy to improve the human ....43... .
In 1997, Michael Bloomberg published his autobiography,
Bloomberg by Bloomberg. All of the royalties from sales of the
book are donated to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
(Adapted from
http://home.nyc.gov/portal/index.jsp?pageID=nyc_mayor_bio&catID=119
4&cc=unused1196&rc=1194&ndi=-1)
In the text, 5th paragraph, the underlined pronoun its refers
to
Ano: 2003
Banca:
FCC
Órgão:
CVM
Prova:
FCC - 2003 - CVM - Analista - Normas Contábeis e de Auditoria |
Q2243754
Inglês
Texto associado
Michael R. Bloomberg is the 108th Mayor of the City of
New York. He was born on February 14, 1942 to middle class
parents in Medford, Massachusetts, where his father was the
bookkeeper at a local dairy. Mayor Bloomberg's thirst for
information and fascination with technology was evident at an
early age, and led him to Johns Hopkins University, where he
parked cars and took out loans to finance his education. After
his college graduation, he gained an MBA from Harvard and in
the summer of 1966, he was hired by Salomon Brothers to work
on Wall Street.
He quickly advanced through the ranks, and became a
partner in 1972. Soon after, he was supervising all of Salomon's
stock trading, sales and later, its information systems. He was
fired in 1981 after another company acquired Salomon. Michael
Bloomberg used his stake from the Salomon sale to start his
...39... company, an endeavor that would revolutionize the way
that Wall Street ....40.... business. As a young trader, he had been
amazed at the archaic nature in which information was stored.
When he needed to see how a stock had been trading three
weeks earlier, he had to find a copy of the Wall Street Journal
from the date in question, and the records system consisted of
clerks penciling trades in oversize ledgers. ...41... , he created a
financial information computer that would collect and analyze
different combinations of past and present securities data and
deliver it immediately to the user.
In 1982, Bloomberg LP sold 20 subscriptions to its
service; 20 years ....42... , Bloomberg LP has over 165,000
subscribers worldwide. As the business proved its viability, the company branched out and in 1990 Bloomberg LP entered the
media business, launching a news service, and then radio,
television, Internet, and publishing operations.
Nearly 20 years after its founding, Bloomberg LP now
employs more than 8,000 people − including 2,500 in New York
City − in more than 100 offices worldwide. As the company
enjoyed tremendous growth, Michael Bloomberg dedicated more
of his time and energy to philanthropy and civic affairs. His
desire to improve education, advance medical research and
increase access to the arts, has provided the motivation for
much of his philanthropy.
The Mayor served as the Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Johns Hopkins University until May 2002. Recently,
he was honored by Johns Hopkins University, when its School of
Hygiene and Public Health was renamed "The Bloomberg
School of Public Health," a tribute to his leadership and use of
philanthropy to improve the human ....43... .
In 1997, Michael Bloomberg published his autobiography,
Bloomberg by Bloomberg. All of the royalties from sales of the
book are donated to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
(Adapted from
http://home.nyc.gov/portal/index.jsp?pageID=nyc_mayor_bio&catID=119
4&cc=unused1196&rc=1194&ndi=-1)
Para responder à questão,
assinale, na folha de respostas, a letra correspondente à alternativa que preencha corretamente a
lacuna do texto apresentado (...39...).
Ano: 2023
Banca:
OBJETIVA
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Pinto Bandeira - RS
Prova:
OBJETIVA - 2023 - Prefeitura de Pinto Bandeira - RS - Professor (Letras/Inglês) |
Q2243146
Inglês
Maya Angelou, known in literature for her
autobiographical works, is the author of:
Ano: 2003
Banca:
FCC
Órgão:
CVM
Prova:
FCC - 2003 - CVM - Analista - Planejamento e Execução Financeira |
Q2242137
Inglês
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The hard cell
The hard cell
Thanks to politics, stem cell research in the United States is
suffering. But not so in Sweden, which is poised to capture what
could be the biggest new market to hit biotech in a decade.
By Stephan Herrera
February 13, 2003
New York, January 1, 2006:
Sweden announces that one of its biotechnology companies is the first in
the world to enter clinical trials with a new drug that could cure
Alzheimer's disease. Four years ago this type of research was all but
stopped in the United States by political and ethical questions − which is ____ (61) Sweden now seems in the best position to capture a $25 billion
market.
Any day now, the U.S. Congress is expected to pass a
sweeping new law that could dramatically inhibit researchers from working with stem cells taken from human embryos. Such
cells, which can be used to grow a whole host of new cells and
organs, could fundamentally change the way we treat heretofore
intractable maladies like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's
disease, cancer, stroke, liver failure, and heart disease. The only
problem is that these cells by definition are derived from human
embryos, many of which are cloned or come from unused
fetuses collected at fertility clinics. The argument, from a certain
segment of the American political spectrum, is that ____ (62) methods are morally wrong. They are _____ (63) a form of abortion or
an activity that could eventually lead to human cloning.
Those working in stem cell research say the short-term
effect of the legislation will be to further chill all forms of scientific
inquiry and commercialization efforts in the field. Entrepreneurs
and investors are already eschewing such research − in large
part because of the additional uncertainty and risk that politics
introduce.
Of the nearly 50 private stem cell companies in the
United States, only a handful are still viable. Meanwhile, across
the Atlantic, Sweden has avoided many of the political and
ethical quagmires surrounding this type of research. It currently
has 40 private stem cell companies, a number that's growing.
Sweden's leading research universities have 32 percent of the
world's stem cell inventory, close on the heels of the United
States' 35 percent.
Sweden, say analysts, is now in the best position to
capture a worldwide market for drugs based on stem cell
therapies that could grow to $25 billion in the next three to five
years − nearly equal to the whole biotech industry at present.
This estimate doesn't even address the market for stem cells
capable of repairing damaged vital organs like the brain, heart,
and kidneys. If the United States offers an object lesson of what
can happen when scientific inquiry and investment capital fall victim to politics, Sweden and its leading stem cell startup,
NeuroNova, offer the opposite example. How odd that the
United States, which for generations has been the envy of the
world for its progressive views of science and commercialization,
should now have a biomedical climate chillier than a Swedish
winter.
One company feeling a lot of pain is StemCells, which at
first glance seems to have it all: founding scientists include
Stanford's Dr. Weissman and Fred Gage of the Salk Institute in
La Jolla, California. An equally well-regarded expert in the
treatment of Alzheimer's, Dr. Gage spent five years in Sweden
as a researcher and now sits on a national committee on stem
cell research there. The firm's chairman is Roger Perlmutter,
Amgen's head of research.
Yet over the past two years, none of management's
efforts to help investors and even critics reconsider the stem cell
field have worked. At press time, the stock was thinly traded and
sitting in the neighborhood of 50 cents. With less than $15
million in cash, the company likely won't exist at this time next
year. (CEO Martin McGlynn, who joined the firm in January
2001, would not talk to Red Herring, despite repeated efforts.)
Some observers on Wall Street are asking, If StemCells
can't make it, who can? Geron, the only other publicly held stem
cell firm to speak of, is in a fix, too. The company's stock price is
also moribund, at $3.85 per share. Thanks to some capital
infusions a few years ago, when money came easy, Geron still
has $40 million on hand, but by the end of next year, that too will
likely be gone. Once a media darling, Geron focuses on
diagnostic tests and drugs derived from stem cells, a strategy
that's not going well. For the nine months ended last September,
revenue fell 68 percent to $955,000 and net loss widened 18
percent to $26.7 million. The company's financials were also hit
hard after it terminated an agreement with Pharmacia and acquired research technology from Lynx Therapeutics, which
Geron bought in a desperate attempt to be seen as something
more than just a stem cell company.
The situation is quite different, however, for Sweden's
NeuroNova, which has 30 academic partners and a staff of 20.
NeuroNova is working on ways to inject stem cells into the
human brain to trigger a process called neurogenesis (the
growth of new neural cells), which could combat diseases like
Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and even schizophrenia.
If NeuroNova is the first to develop a drug capable of
treating one of several central nervous system disorders − by far
the most lucrative after heart disease products − it will have
done so not because it raised more money or got more media
buzz than the rest. It will have succeeded because the science
is solid, and academe, government, and the investment
community are supportive. Meanwhile, the United States will
look on with envy and wonder how it, a country known for its
entrepreneurial innovation, ever got so short-sighted.
(Adapted from
http://www.redherring.com/investor/2003/02/biotech021303.html)
Instruções: Para responder a questão, assinale, na folha de respostas, a letra correspondente a alternativa que preenche corretamente a lacuna do texto apresentado.
Ano: 2023
Banca:
FURB
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Doutor Pedrinho - SC
Prova:
FURB - 2023 - Prefeitura de Doutor Pedrinho - SC - Professor (Inglês) |
Q2231441
Inglês
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(§1º)Budelli Island is part of the La Maddalena
Archipelago and is home to Spiaggia Rosa - a stretch of
pink sand that's been protected by the Italian government
since 1992.
(§2º)The pink shade is caused by the crushed shells of a
micro-organism mixing with the sand when it dies. But
when the beach started to lose its rose-tinted hue
because of over-tourism, visitors were banned in a bit to
protect the pink sand.
(§3º)The colour has since returned but a new wave of
unauthorised daytrippers are threatening the pink shores.
While it is strictly forbidden to step foot on the beach,
holidaymakers are able to admire the pink sand from the
safety of a boat. But according to one expert, some
holidaymakers are flouting the ban.
(§4º)In an article in the Times, Fabrizio Fonnesu, director
of the Maddalena archipelago national park said: "The
beach is again in danger as people arrive by boat,
clamber up the beach, then post photos, which allow us
to fine them up to 500 euros (£430)."
(§5º)Tourists who've attempted to take Sardinia's pink
sand away as a souvenir can up fined up to 3,500 euros (£3,007). And according to the Guardian, a couple were
fined 1,000 euros (£860) in 2001 after they were caught
filling a plastic bottle with sand.
(§6º)Brits who want to visit the island will need to book
themself onto a private boat tour or a ferry service to
glimpse this secluded spot from afar. Other beaches on
the island have also brought in measures to minimise the
impact of tourists. Only 1,600 people can visit Cala Sisine
while Santa Maria Navarrese only permits 1,300 euros.
(§7º)Fewer still are able to visit Cala Mariolu, with only
550 people allowed in per day and each having to pay a
1 euro fee. Elsewhere, Pelosa Beach has banned towels
and asked visitors to instead bring mats which gather
less sand. Anyone visiting will have to pay 3.50 euros.
(§8º)Meanwhile, tourists wanting to visit the beaches of
Cala Coticcio and Cala Brigantina in the archipelago of
La Maddalena will have to pay 3 euros per person for
access each day after new rules were brought in. The
archipelago itself is a national park and only accessible
with a guide, which will cost 25 euros for five hours.
(§9º)And anyone caught visiting the archipelago without a
guide could face prosecution. Just 60 people will be
permitted on each beach per day, as the local authorities
look at ways to protect the sites from the impact of
tourism.
(§10º)Slots must be booked in advance by contacting a
local guide but it is hoped that an app will be launched
soon. Here are several other pink beaches
holidaymakers can visit across Europe - and one's in the
UK. And a beach in the Canary Islands even has sand
that looks like popcorn, due to the shape of the coral.
itssfnneed
w.thesun.co.uk/travel/22667535/pink-beach-italy-bundelli-tourists-fined/
Identify the grammatical class of the word "unauthorised"
(§3º) in the text:
Ano: 2023
Banca:
CESGRANRIO
Órgão:
Banco do Brasil
Prova:
CESGRANRIO - 2023 - Banco do Brasil - Agente Comercial - Prova C |
Q2217913
Inglês
Texto associado
Available at: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance/
how-to-teach-your-kids-good-money-habits/ Retrieved on: Jan.
2, 2023. Adapted.
In the segment of paragraph 2, “Saving teaches goalsetting and planning. It emphasizes being prepared, and
it builds security and independence.” the word “it” is a
reference to
Ano: 2023
Banca:
FUNDATEC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Espumoso - RS
Prova:
FUNDATEC - 2023 - Prefeitura de Espumoso - RS - Professor de Séries Finais - Língua Inglesa |
Q2210441
Inglês
Fill out the gaps below with one the following words: that / where / which / who.
1. That’s the store ___ they buy their shoes.
2. The book, ___ we’ve been reading at school, was written long ago.
3. These are the directors and movies ___ I like.
4. Marie Curie is the woman ___ discovered radium.
Mark the alternative that fills out, correctly and respectively, the gaps in the sentences above.
Ano: 2023
Banca:
FUNDATEC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Espumoso - RS
Prova:
FUNDATEC - 2023 - Prefeitura de Espumoso - RS - Professor de Séries Finais - Língua Inglesa |
Q2210429
Inglês
Texto associado
Stop Wasting Time: A 15-minute Planning Session That Will Save You Hours
(Available at: https://www.classycareergirl.com/5-simple-time-management-tips-for-a-great-week/– textespecially adapted for this test).
Mark the alternative that shows to what the highlighted pronouns are referring to, in
the order they appear in the text: “it” (l. 15), “These” (l. 21), and “This” (l. 23).
Ano: 2023
Banca:
FUNDATEC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Maçambará - RS
Prova:
FUNDATEC - 2023 - Prefeitura de Maçambara - RS - Professor Anos Finais do Ensino Fundamental – Inglês |
Q2209847
Inglês
Texto associado
Try these expert tips for a safer solo trip
(Available at: https://news.airbnb.com/try-these-expert-tips-for-a-safer-solo-trip/ – text especially adapted for
this text).
Mark the alternative that shows what the highlighted pronouns are referring to, in
the order they appear in the text: “which” (l. 21), “it” (l. 23), and “them” (l. 25).
Ano: 2023
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de São Lourenço da Serra - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2023 - Prefeitura de São Lourenço da Serra - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Língua Inglesa |
Q2209568
Inglês
"Call me Ishmael." - Herman Melville, Moby Dick
What is the grammatical function of "me" in the opening sentence of Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick"?
What is the grammatical function of "me" in the opening sentence of Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick"?
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