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Q2453840
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Ano: 2024 Banca: FEPESE Órgão: Prefeitura de Caçador - SC Prova: FEPESE - 2024 - Prefeitura de Caçador - SC - Professor Ensino Fundamental II - Inglês |
Q2453840 Inglês
Predicting the unpredictable


Some years ago, a devastating earthquake struck the Italian town of L’Aquila. More than 300 people lost their lives, over 1,500 people were injured, and many buildings were destroyed. Two years later, seven earthquake experts were involved in a court case: Did they adequately warn the public after the initial tremors began? At the heart of the debate is whether they could have predicted a disaster like this.


Although a lot of scientists are working to improve our ability to predict natural disasters, so far no one has come up with a reliable method to forecast earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, days or weeks beforehand. Most of the research focuses on the areas most likely to experience seismic activity – but even our knowledge about where these areas are, is very limited. One reason for this is that human beings have only been around for a very small part of the Earth’s history. In geological terms, we all arrived on the scene very recently. Records from the past 2,000 years are incomplete, and the biggest earthquakes nearly always happen in areas where there have been no earthquakes in recorded history.


So, is there any hope for improving our ability to predict disasters? A solution may come from an unexpected source. Four years ago, a team of US physicists at Rutgers University in New Jersey were studying why pharmaceutical powders stick together. They observed that the powder stuck together when placed in a spinning cylinder, but then developed cracks and collapsed. Just before the cracks developed, an electric signal, like a small bolt of lightning, was created. The scientists repeated the experiment with a wide range of different materials, and they got similar results every time.


This phenomenon might also exist in nature. Some scientists believe that rocks may become electrically charged under unusual pressure, such as before an earthquake. This electric charge then causes changes in the surrounding air or water, which animals may be able to sense before humans do. For example, while biologists were studying a colony of frogs in a pond near L’Aquila, they noticed that nearly all the animals left the water days before the earthquake. A similar thing happened in China, when snakes were hibernating for the winter in caves, but escaped just before a large earthquake. The same kind of electric charge, like the small bolt of lightning felt in the experiment at Rutgers, may have been responsible.


At the moment, there is no reliable way ............ using such findings to predict earthquakes, and further studies may be necessary to give us a better understanding of the interactions involved, but one day, the technology may be used ............ predict future catastrophes. For example, two science institutions in Russia and Britain are already developing a new micro-satellite, which could detect these electric signals and help rescue people ................ natural disasters in time. Scientists are planning to launch the first of these satellites ............... space. Will these satellites be the solution? Only time will tell. For the time being, the best defense is to be prepared.
Mark the alternative which contains the correct meaning of the underlined words from the text.
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Q2443648
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Sinônimos | Synonyms ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: FUNDATEC Órgão: Prefeitura de Paraí - RS Prova: FUNDATEC - 2024 - Prefeitura de Paraí - RS - Professor de Inglês |
Q2443648 Inglês

Planes top 800 mph as near-record winds sweep high over Mid-Atlantic









(Available at: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/02/18/record-jet-stream-winds-dc-flights/ – text specially adapted for this test)

In which of the following excerpts from the text the structure in bold means “the same”? 
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Q2439428
Inglês Sinônimos | Synonyms ,
Ano: 2024 Banca: FUNDATEC Órgão: Prefeitura de Santo Augusto - RS Prova: FUNDATEC - 2024 - Prefeitura de Santo Augusto - RS - Professor III - Língua Inglesa |
Q2439428 Inglês
Fire up your taste buds … it’s International Hot and Spicy Food Day!



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(Available at: www.hillstreetgrocer.com – text especially adapted for this test).
Mark the best option below to replace "advisable" (l. 24) with no significant changes in meaning. 
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Q2430547
Inglês Sinônimos | Synonyms ,
Ano: 2023 Banca: FGV Órgão: Câmara dos Deputados Provas: FGV - 2023 - Câmara dos Deputados - Consultor Legislativo - Área IV - Manhã | FGV - 2023 - Câmara dos Deputados - Consultor Legislativo - Área IX - Manhã | FGV - 2023 - Câmara dos Deputados - Consultor Legislativo - Área VII - Manhã | FGV - 2023 - Câmara dos Deputados - Consultor Legislativo - Área X | FGV - 2023 - Câmara dos Deputados - Consultor Legislativo - Área XII - Manhã | FGV - 2023 - Câmara dos Deputados - Consultor Legislativo - Área XIII - Manhã | FGV - 2023 - Câmara dos Deputados - Consultor Legislativo - Área XIV - Manhã | FGV - 2023 - Câmara dos Deputados - Consultor Legislativo - Área XX - Manhã | FGV - 2023 - Câmara dos Deputados - Consultor Legislativo - Área XXII - Manhã |
Q2430547 Inglês

Read Text II and answer the three questions that follow it.

Text II


June 15, 2023 - Debates over Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts are currently thriving, including debates over the degree to which corporate diversity efforts are valuable, whether chief diversity officers can succeed, and whether corporate diversity commitments can produce lasting change.

Over the past year, at least a dozen U.S. state legislatures have proposed or passed laws targeting DEI efforts, including laws aimed at limiting DEI roles and efforts in businesses and higher education and laws eliminating DEI spending, trainings, and statements at public institutions. Moreover, with the U.S. Supreme Court poised to address affirmative action in two cases involving the consideration of race in higher education admissions this summer, debates in the U.S. regarding DEI initiatives are likely far from over.

At the same time, DEI-related legal requirements continue to grow in other jurisdictions, and with global financial institutions facing expanding environmental, social, and governance (ESG)- related trends and regulations in the EU and other jurisdictions, as well as global expectations regarding their role in ESG, including DEI-related corporate developments and initiatives, these matters are likely to continue to work their way into capital allocations and the costs of doing business, as well as into the expectations of certain stakeholders.

This widening gap between global expectations and regulation regarding DEI-related matters and the concerns of some constituents in the U.S. over the role of DEI in corporate decision-making is likely to continue growing for the foreseeable future, putting companies between the proverbial rock and hard place.

What these developments make clear is that corporate DEI efforts are, and likely have been for some time, riskier than many companies may initially appreciate. And the risks associated with DEI initiatives are only positioned to grow and expand as companies look to thread the DEI needle and make a broader and potentially more divergent set of stakeholders happy, or at least less annoyed, with their DEI-related commitments and initiatives. In this article, we discuss the top four legal risks that companies often fail to address in their DEI efforts.

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(From https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/diversity-matters-four-scarylegal-risks-hiding-your-dei-program-2023-06-15/

The word “poised” in “with the U.S. Supreme Court poised to address affirmative action” (2nd paragraph) is equivalent to

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Q2423526
Inglês Sinônimos | Synonyms ,
Ano: 2021 Banca: Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC Órgão: Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC Prova: Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC - 2021 - Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC - Professor de Ensino Fundamental II- Inglês |
Q2423526 Inglês

The word can in “I can write this letter if you need” expresses:

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1: E
2: E
3: D
4: E
5: B
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