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Q2006059 Inglês

Education


Education encompasses both the teaching and learning of knowledge, proper conduct, and technical competency. It thus focuses on the cultivation of skills, trades or professions, as well as mental, moral & aesthetic development.

Formal education consists of systematic instruction, teaching and training by professional teachers. This consists of the application of pedagogy and the development of curricula

The right to education is a fundamental human right. Since 1952, Article 2 of the first Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the right to education. At world level, the United Nations’ International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966 guarantees this right under its Article 13. 

Educational systems are established to provide education and training, often for children and the young. A curriculum defines what students should know, understand and be able to do as the result of education. A teaching profession delivers teaching which enables learning, and a system of policies, regulations, examinations, structures and funding enables teachers to teach to the best of their abilities.

Primary (or elementary) education consists of the first years of formal, structured education. In general, primary education consists of six or seven years of schooling starting at the age of 5 or 6, although this varies between, and sometimes within, countries. Globally, around 70% of primary-age children are enrolled in primary education, and this proportion is rising.

In most contemporary educational systems of the world, secondary education consists of the second years of formal education that occur during adolescence. It is characterized by transition from the typically compulsory, comprehensive primary education for minors, to the optional, selective tertiary, “post-secondary”, or “higher” education (e.g., university, vocational school) for adults.

Higher education, also called tertiary, third stage, or post secondary education, is the non-compulsory educational level that follows the completion of a school providing a secondary education, such as a high school or secondary school. Tertiary education is normally taken to include undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well as vocational education and training. Colleges and universities are the main institutions that provide tertiary education. Collectively, these are sometimes known as tertiary institutions. Tertiary education generally results in the receipt of certificates, diplomas, or academic degrees. 

In the sentence “Colleges and universities are the main institutions that provide tertiary education.”, the word in bold has its correct synonym, in which alternative?
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Q2003707 Inglês
All the words bellow are synonyms of improve,EXCEPT:
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Q1875924 Inglês

Text 9A3-I  


      If you were to judge 2018’s most important legal technology by looking at conference agendas and media coverage, you’d probably say it was the continuing development of artificial intelligence. But if you judge the most important technology by its direct impact on the practice of law, then it would have to be analytics. As I suggested in a recent column, we could be nearing the point where it would be malpractice for a lawyer not to use analytics. 


Internet: <lawsitesblog.com> (adapted). 

In the first sentence of text 9A3-I, the word “judge” is synonymous with 
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Q1860931 Inglês
Atenção: Para responder à questão, baseia-se no texto abaixo.


Mobile Devices and Apps for Health Care Professionals: Uses and Benefits

C. Lee Ventola


     The use of mobile devices by health care professionals (HCPs) has transformed many aspects of clinical practice. Mobile devices have become commonplace in health care settings, leading to rapid growth in the development of medical software applications (apps) for these platforms. Numerous apps are now available to assist HCPs with many important tasks, such as: information and time management; health record maintenance and access; communications and consulting; reference and information gathering; patient management and monitoring; clinical decision-making; and medical education and training.
     Mobile devices and apps provide many benefits for health care professionals (HCPs), perhaps most significantly increased access to point-of-care tools, which has been shown to support better clinical decision-making and improved patient outcomes. However, some HCPs remain reluctant to adopt their use. Despite the benefits they offer, better standards and validation practices regarding mobile medical apps need to be established to ensure the proper use and integration of these increasingly sophisticated tools into medical practice. These measures will raise the barrier for entry into the medical app market, increasing the quality and safety of the apps currently available for use by HCPs.
(Adapted from: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)  
No trecho However, some HCPs remain reluctant to adopt their use, a conjunção However pode ser substituída, sem alteração de sentido, por 
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Q1858191 Inglês

Instruction: answer based on the following text.



(Available in: https://www.marthastewart.com/syndication/new-study-dogs-understand-commands-withouttraining – text adapted specially for this test).

Consider the following statements about the word “senior” (l. 01):

I. It can be an adjective.
II. It can be a noun.
III. It could be replaced by “old” in the text.

Which are correct?
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Q1855674 Inglês
Taking into account the following text, judge the subsequent item.

Perspectives on modern data analytics

By Eric Knorr - Editor in Chief, CIO | APR 12, 2021 3:00 AM PDT

Some things don't change, even during a pandemic. Consistent with previous years, in CIO’s 2021 State of the CIO survey, a plurality of the 1,062 IT leaders surveyed chose “data/business analytics” as the No.1 tech initiative expected to drive IT investment.
Unfortunately, analytics initiatives seldom do nearly as well when it comes to stakeholder satisfaction.
Last year, CIO contributor Mary K. Pratt offered an excellent analysis of why data analytics initiatives still fail, including poor-quality or siloed data, vague rather than targeted business objectives, and clunky one-size-fits-all feature sets. But a number of fresh approaches and technologies are making these pratfalls less likely.
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New technology invariably incurs new risks. No advancement has had more momentous impact on analytics than machine learning – from automating data prep to detecting meaningful patterns in data – but it also adds an unforeseen hazard. As CSO Senior Writer Lucian Constantin explains in "How data poisoning attacks corrupt machine learning models," deliberately skewed data injected by malicious hackers can tilt models toward some nefarious goal. The result could be, say, manipulated product recommendations, or even the ability for hackers to infer confidential underlying data.
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In the end, the secret to successful analytics is not in choosing and implementing the perfect technology, but in cultivating a broad understanding that pervasive analytics yields better decisions and superior outcomes. Usually, you can iron out technology kinks or requirements misunderstandings. But if you can't change the mindset, few will use the beautiful analytics machine you just built.

Disponível em: https://www.cio.com/article/3614692/5-perspectiveson-modern-data-analytics.html.
Acesso em: 15 out. 2021. 
The adjective “pervasive” in pervasive analytics could be replaced by the adjective “extensive” without a change in meaning in the aforementioned context.
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Q1854081 Inglês
    Teachers sometimes assume that more outgoing learners will be able to learn pronunciation better than shyer students, and there may be some truth to this. Confident students might speak more and be more willing to try new sounds, and this extra practice could help them improve their pronunciation. However, this improvement is certainly not guaranteed. Some outgoing students may be producing a lot of language, but they may also be jumping ahead without paying attention to the accuracy of their pronunciation. If listeners are impressed by their fluency and accept their imperfect pronunciation, they have no way to know that they need to improve.
    Some more introverted students might actually be thinking carefully about sounds and practicing “within themselves,” even if they don’t speak much in class. Don’t underestimate the quiet students. Appreciate the strengths and possibilities of all your students and encourage everyone. All students can learn and improve in their own way.
    Another aspect of personality that can affect pronunciation is the degree to which a person is willing or able to change the way they sound. Most of us have been speaking and listening to language in the same, familiar way since we learned to talk. Our voice and our pronunciation are a central part of the way we see ourselves. It can be uncomfortable, and possibly even frightening, to try out unfamiliar sounds and melodies of language. For some people this process seems like a small bump on the road, but for others, it’s a serious roadblock. 

M.T. Yoshida. Beyond Repeat After Me: Teaching Pronunciation to
English Learners. Alexandria: TESOL Press, 2016 (adapted).

Based on the text above, judge the following item.


In the sentence “Most of us have been speaking and listening to language in the same, familiar way since we learned to talk” (third paragraph), the word “since” could be correctly replaced with as long as.

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Q1854076 Inglês
    The role of pronunciation in non-native language teaching has been in a state of constant change. In the earlier approaches, foreign language pronunciation was either the result of exposure to the target language or of approaches which used complex sets of drills and repetitions. As suggested, to a large extent, the importance of pronunciation has always been determined by ideology and intuition rather than by research. Teachers have intuitively decided which features have the greatest effect on clarity and which are learnable in a classroom setting. Saito claims that while the morphological and syntactical levels of languages are taught in contextualized meaningful exercises, pronunciation practice is decontextualized due to the use of drills and repetition.
    Pronunciation is one of the aspects of language both native and non-native teachers of English are not keen on teaching, and a lack of adequate teacher training results in an intuitive use of available materials and techniques. Setting pedagogical goals must be based on knowledge of pronunciation issues. Unqualified teachers may have misconceptions about phonological phenomena, cannot evaluate or use teaching materials accurately, and do not set realistic goals when teaching pronunciation. Furthermore, even teaching materials do not reflect the conclusions of current research, and they can be perceived as boring; however, Baker argues that teachers who complete a pronunciation course have, and apply, a wider range of pronunciation activities in their classrooms.

H. Vančová. Current Issues in Pronunciation Teaching to Non-Native Learners of English.
In: Journal of Language and Cultural Education, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2019 (adapted).

Based on the text above, judge the following item.


The expression “keen on” (first sentence of the second paragraph) means skilled at.

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Q1854073 Inglês
    Michelle Phan says she had to quit making her popular makeup and beauty YouTube videos because she was burned out. “It became harder and harder for me to pretend to be happy,” she says. “As a result, I had become toxic with my relationships and friendships. I had my threshold.” 

Internet: <www.bbc.com> (adapted).

Based on the text above, judge the following item.


The expression “to pretend” is synonymous with dissimulate.

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Q1854063 Inglês

Based on the comic strip above, judge the following item.


In “Where would young people be without the sage advice of their elders?”, the word “sage” means meaningful.

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Q1854062 Inglês

Based on the comic strip above, judge the following item.


In ‘never back up any more than you absolutely have to’, the phrasal verb ‘back up’ is synonymous with back down.

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Q1854056 Inglês
    As soon as learners step outside the classroom, they act as users of English who communicate with other speakers of English from a wide variety of linguacultural backgrounds. Given the global spread of English and the fact that the majority of users do not speak English as their mother tongue, learners are likely to be involved in interactions with other non-native speakers. These situations then bear the hallmarks of English as a lingua franca (ELF), which is “any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice, and often the only option”, according to Seidlhofer.
    Since ELF speakers represent various cultures and languages, ELF contexts of use are characterized by diversity and the subsequent unpredictability and variability of communication. Therefore, interactions where English functions as a lingua franca require active engagement in the meaning-making process by the participants.

Éva Illés and Sumru Akcan. Bringing real-life language use into EFL
classrooms. In: ELT Journal, Volume 71, Issue 1, 2017, p. 3-12 (adapted).

Based on the previous text, judge the following item.


The expression to bear the hallmarks of, as used in “These situations then bear the hallmarks of English as a lingua franca” (first paragraph), means to have the typical features of.

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Q1854053 Inglês
    In Tanzania, the national government assigns teachers to schools, which means that they are often sent to teach in faraway regions and then frequently request transfers, trying to get assignments closer to their hometowns. Ms. Njau is lucky to have been assigned to a school in the community where she grew up, and she has taught there since the start of her career.
    At the end of her four years of secondary school, she scored too low on the national exams in mathematics and bookkeeping, which meant she could not study business, as she had intended. However, her results on the English test were better. A teacher encouraged her to follow her strengths and “take the subject that seems simple so you can go far,” advice that Ms. Njau now passes on to her own students. She continued her studies as an English major and passed the difficult national examinations before studying for her teaching diploma.

Internet: <americanenglish.state.gov> (adapted).

Based on the previous text, judge the following item.


In the second paragraph, the word “bookkeeping” could be correctly replaced with librarianship.

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Q1851403 Inglês

Concerning the text above and previous knowledge, judge the item from

Profoundly is a synonym of superficially. 
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Q1851402 Inglês

Concerning the text above and previous knowledge, judge the item from

“greater”, in the sentence “The business value of data has never been greater” (line 32), can be correctly replaced by bigger. 
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Q1851398 Inglês

Concerning the text above and previous knowledge, judge the item from

In the sentence “In addition, computing environments are more complex than they once were” (lines 25 and 26) the expression “In addition” can be correctly replaced by Futhermore.  
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Q1845386 Inglês
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.

NUT SO SIMILAR Squirrels have different personalities and can be shy or right nutters, study finds
(1º§) Psychologists said the furry-tailed rodents have four traits - boldness, aggressiveness, activity level and sociability.
(2º§) Experts observed and recorded squirrel responses to four tests.
(3º§) They were placed in a holed box, presented with their mirror image, approached in the wild to see how long they waited before fleeing, and caught unharmed in a simple trap.
(4º§) Bolder squirrels moved faster, were more aggressive, active and sociable.
(5º§) They may find more food or defend a larger territory - but are at more risk from predators or accidents. Dr Jaclyn Aliperti, ___ the University of California, said the scientific field of animal personality is relatively young but its development is key.
(6º§) She explained: "Accounting ___ personality may be important when predicting wildlife responses to new conditions such as changes or destruction of habitat.
(7º§) "This is a hard science but if it makes you relate to animals more, maybe people will be more interested in conserving them."

Fonte: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16108389/squirrels -have-personalities-a-study-found/?rec_article=true
Consider the sentence below from the text and the following assertives: (1º§) "Psychologists said the furry-tailed rodents have four traits - boldness, aggressiveness, activity level and sociability." I."Furry-tailed rodents" could be translated as "Roedores furiosos de calda longa". II.The word "level" can be a conjunction. III.The word "boldness" could be replaced by "daring". Which one(s) is(are) CORRECT?
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Q1838870 Inglês

Text for the question.

How to Improve Your Work-Life Balance 

Internet: <www.geeksforgeeks.org> (adapted).

Choose the alternative that presents a synonym for the word “tough” (line 2). 
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Q1831659 Inglês
How Africa will be affected by climate change
    The African continent will be hardest hit by climate change. There are four key reasons for this. First, African society is very closely coupled with the climate system; hundreds of millions of people depend on rainfall to grow their food. Second, the African climate system is controlled by an extremely complex mix of large-scale weather systems, many from distant parts of the planet and, in comparison with almost all other inhabited regions, is vastly understudied. It is therefore capable of all sorts of surprises. Third, the degree of expected climate change is large. The two most extensive land-based end-of-century projected decreases in rainfall anywhere on the planet occur over Africa; one over North Africa and the other over southern Africa. Finally, the capacity for adaptation to climate change is low; poverty equates to reduced choice at the individual level while governance generally fails to prioritise and act on climate change.
https://www.bbc.com/... - adapted. 
“Coupled with”, present in the text, means:
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Q1825963 Inglês

Available at:<https://www.ua-magazine.com/2021/05/12/robots-the--next-generation-of-soccer-players>. Retrieved on: July 4th, 2021.

Adapted.

In paragraph 7, the word However in the fragment “In the humanoid league, the players are human-like robots with human-like senses. However, they are rather slow” can be replaced, without change in meaning, by
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Respostas
501: D
502: B
503: C
504: E
505: E
506: C
507: E
508: E
509: C
510: E
511: E
512: C
513: E
514: E
515: C
516: C
517: B
518: A
519: A
520: D