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Q513083 Inglês
                                                                                                                Clues to How an Electric Treatment for Parkinson’s Work

In 1998, Dr. Philip A. Starr started putting electrodes in people’s brains. A neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Starr was treating people with Parkinson’s disease, which slowly destroys essential bits of brain tissue, robbing people of control of their bodies. At first, drugs had given his patients some relief, but now they needed more help. After the surgery, Dr. Starr closed up his patients’ skulls and switched on the electrodes, releasing a steady buzz of electric pulses in their brains. For many patients, the effect was immediate. “We have people who, when they’re not taking their meds, can be frozen,” said Dr. Starr. “When we turn on the stimulator, they start walking.” First developed in the early 1990s, deep brain stimulation, or D.B.S., was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating Parkinson’s disease in 2002. Since its invention, about 100,000 people have received implants. While D.B.S. doesn’t halt Parkinson’s, it can turn back the clock a few years for many patients. Yet despite its clear effectiveness, scientists like Dr. Starr have struggled to understand what D.B.S. actually does to the brain. “We do D.B.S. because it works,” said Dr. Starr, “but we don’t really know how.” In a recent experiment, Dr. Starr and his colleagues believe they found a clue. D.B.S. may counter Parkinson’s disease by liberating the brain from a devastating electrical lock-step.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/science/ (adapted)

The interrogative form of: “For many patients, the effect was immediate.” is:
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Q513082 Inglês
                                                                                                                Clues to How an Electric Treatment for Parkinson’s Work

In 1998, Dr. Philip A. Starr started putting electrodes in people’s brains. A neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Starr was treating people with Parkinson’s disease, which slowly destroys essential bits of brain tissue, robbing people of control of their bodies. At first, drugs had given his patients some relief, but now they needed more help. After the surgery, Dr. Starr closed up his patients’ skulls and switched on the electrodes, releasing a steady buzz of electric pulses in their brains. For many patients, the effect was immediate. “We have people who, when they’re not taking their meds, can be frozen,” said Dr. Starr. “When we turn on the stimulator, they start walking.” First developed in the early 1990s, deep brain stimulation, or D.B.S., was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating Parkinson’s disease in 2002. Since its invention, about 100,000 people have received implants. While D.B.S. doesn’t halt Parkinson’s, it can turn back the clock a few years for many patients. Yet despite its clear effectiveness, scientists like Dr. Starr have struggled to understand what D.B.S. actually does to the brain. “We do D.B.S. because it works,” said Dr. Starr, “but we don’t really know how.” In a recent experiment, Dr. Starr and his colleagues believe they found a clue. D.B.S. may counter Parkinson’s disease by liberating the brain from a devastating electrical lock-step.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/science/ (adapted)

The simple past tense form of: “When we turn on the stimulator, they start walking.” is:
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Q503729 Inglês
Modal verbs can be classified into two major categories of me- aning: epistemic and deontic. Epistemic modals refer to the logical status of events or states. The following alternatives are examples of epistemic modals. The only exception is:
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Q499577 Inglês
A man stepped onto the overnight train and told the conductor, “I need you to wake me up  in Philadelphia. I'm a  deep sleeper and can be angry when I get up, but no matter what, I want you to help me make that stop. Here's $100 to  make sure".

The conductor agreed. The man  fell asleep, and when he awoke he heard  the announcement  that  the  train was  approaching New York, which meant they had passed Philadelphia a long time ago.  Furious, he ran to the conductor. “I gave you $100 to make sure I got off in Philadelphia, you idiot!"  “Wow," another passenger said to his traveling companion. “Is that guy mad!"  “Yeah," his companion replied. “But not half as mad as that guy they forced off the train in Philadelphia." 

                                                      (English2Go, No 7,The Reader's Digest Association, 2005. P. 80.) 

In “ ...the train was approaching New York" a gerund is used as a/an
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Q499576 Inglês
A man stepped onto the overnight train and told the conductor, “I need you to wake me up  in Philadelphia. I'm a  deep sleeper and can be angry when I get up, but no matter what, I want you to help me make that stop. Here's $100 to  make sure".

The conductor agreed. The man  fell asleep, and when he awoke he heard  the announcement  that  the  train was  approaching New York, which meant they had passed Philadelphia a long time ago.  Furious, he ran to the conductor. “I gave you $100 to make sure I got off in Philadelphia, you idiot!"  “Wow," another passenger said to his traveling companion. “Is that guy mad!"  “Yeah," his companion replied. “But not half as mad as that guy they forced off the train in Philadelphia." 

                                                         (English2Go, No 7,The Reader's Digest Association, 2005. P. 80.) 

In “They had passed Philadelphia a long time ago" the verb tense is a:
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Q481070 Inglês
Read the dialogues below:

I- Do you know I’m working at Macy’s now?
    Oh, really? What do you do there?
     I work part-time as a cashier.

II- Are you studying French this semester?
     Yes, I am enjoying the course so much!
     How often do you have classes?
     Twice a week.

III- Where are you having lunch today?
       At Laguna’s. Are you usually going there?
       Yes, almost every day.


IV- What do you do in your free time?
        I often go to the seaside.
       Are you going there this weekend?
       No, because I think it’s raining on Saturday.

Choose the only possible option, according to the correct use of simple present and/or present continuous tense in the dialogues above:
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Q2875951 Inglês

Read the text below and answer the questions that follow.


WELCOME!


And congratulations on your new purchase. You’re now entitled to an unsurpassed service and a number of benefits as part of the Ericsson warranty and service program. Your Ericsson mobile phone was designed to offer you the ultimate in quality, convenience and performance. And of course, we guarantee it. From now on, as the new owner of an Ericsson mobile phone, you’ll have access to a number of exclusive advantages such as: a vast network of Ericsson service centers; a limited 1 year warranty and service agreement, and a toll-free customer service hotline.


WARRANTY CONDITIONS


Dear Customer,


If your Ericsson product needs warranty service, you should send the product to any company authorized service facility. For information contact the store from which you purchased the product. The product in all cases must be accompanied by the following items: your name, address, telephone number, warranty card, bill of sale bearing the serial number, date of delivery, or reasonable proof of these dates, and a detailed description of the problem.


Our warranty


This warranty is extended by Ericsson Inc. (“The Company”) to the original purchaser for use only. Ericsson warrants this product to be free of defects in material and workmanship at the time of its original purchase and for the subsequent period of one (1) year. All accessories for the product are covered for a period of one (1) year from the date of purchase.


What we will do


If, during the period of warranty, this product proves defective under normal use and service due to improper materials or workmanship, the company will repair or replace the defective item with a new or factory rebuilt replacement.

(Taken from Ericsson – One year Warranty and Service Agreement)

The verb PURCHASED in: “contact the store from which you purchased the product” means:

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Ano: 2014 Banca: CETRO Órgão: AEB
Q1197720 Inglês
Read the text below to answer questions 15-17.
Solar System’s Water is Older Than the Sun
Next time you’re swimming in the ocean, consider this: part of the water is older than the sun.
So concludes a team of scientists who ran computer models comparing the ratios of hydrogen isotopes over time. Taking into account new insights that the solar nebula had less ionizing radiation than previously thought, the models show that at least some of the water found in the ocean, as well as in comets, meteorites and on the moon, predate the sun’s birth.
The only other option, the scientists conclude, is that it formed in the cold, intersteller cloud from which the sun itself originated.
The discovery, reported in this week’s Science, stems from the insight of lead author Lauren Ilsedore Cleeves, a doctoral student at the University of Michigan, who realized that planetforming disks around young stars should be shielded from galactic rays by the strong solar winds, dramatically altering the chemistry occurring inside the disks, said Conel Alexander, with the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
“The finding... makes it quite hard for these regions in the disk to synthesize any new molecules. This was an ‘aha’ moment for us – without any new water creation the only place these ices could have come from was the chemically rich interstellar gas out of which the solar system formed originally,” Cleeves wrote in an email to Discovery News.
“It’s remarkable that these ices survived the entire process of stellar birth,” she added.
The finding has implications for the search for life beyond Earth, as water is believed to be necessary for life.
“If the sun’s formation was typical, interstellar ices – including water – are likely common ingredients present during the formation of all planetary systems, which puts a wonderful outlook on the possibility of other life in the universe,” Cleeves said.
In addition, it’s not just water that likely survived the solar system’s birth.
“The same must be true for the organic matter that we know is present in molecular cloud ices. So I think this strengthens the case that we have interstellar organic matter in meteorites and comets too,” Alexander wrote in an email to Discovery News.
Available in: http://news.discovery.com
Read the sentence taken from the text.
“The finding has implications for the search for life beyond Earth, as water is believed to be necessary for life.” 
Choose the alternative in which the underlined word is conjugated in the same verb tense as the one above.
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Q883483 Inglês
O uso de s na expressão another’s computer system (l. 16-17) é o mesmo em: 
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Q819483 Inglês
Complete the sentence (prepositions): When did they __________ the hotel?
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Q819482 Inglês
The phrasal verb “give up” is the same:
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Q819480 Inglês

Complete the sentence (use the present perfect):

Where’s the book I gave you? What _____________ with it?

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Q758719 Inglês
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Marque C,se a proposição é verdadeira; E,se a proposição é falsa. 
As formas verbais “are” (v.1) e “were” (v.1) descrevem, respectivamente, a oposição de tempo presente e de tempo passado.
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Ano: 2014 Banca: IESES Órgão: SCGás Prova: IESES - 2014 - SCGás - Advogado |
Q626166 Inglês
The Phrasal Verb “bring up a topic” is the same of:
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Q501868 Inglês
Assinale a alternativa que preencha CORRETAMENTE as sentenças abaixo de acordo com os verbos dados, respectivamente.

I. _________________ (to lie) in the sun for six hours. That’s why he is sunburnt.
II. Carry is on the phone now. _________________ (to talk) to her sister in Greece.
III. I’m not sure if this is a good book. _________________ (to read) it.
IV. I think I’m a good skier. _________________ (to go skiing) every weekend in the winter.
V. In Middle East the people _________________ (to rise up) against the dictator after the incident.
VI. Americans _________________ (to be) the first to send a man to the moon about fifty years ago.
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Q501865 Inglês
Leia o diálogo abaixo:.

Douglas: It’s good to have you here, cousin! Would you like some wine?
Claudia: Sure. Douglas, remember when we were kids and we used to visit grandma every Sunday for lunch? Douglas: Yes. We would spend the whole day playing in the backyard! Too bad we can’t turn back time…
Claudia: You’re right… I guess I would have spent more time with her. She used to take such good care of us. She would make us those delicious chocolate chip cookies, then she would buy us all Christmas presents.! She has always enjoyed being around her grandchildren!
Douglas: Yeah… If I had grandchildren, I would be exactly like she was to us.
Claudia: So would I! I would rather be like her than being a lonely old lady.

De acordo com o diálogo acima, nas expressões destacadas, o verbo modal would é empregado para indicar, respectivamente,
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Q501863 Inglês
Levando em consideração as diferentes formas de se referir a ações no futuro, analise os itens seguintes:

I. Claire is working at the library on Friday morning.
II. When I retire, I am going to go back to Liverpool to live.
III. The telephone is ringing, but I won’t answer it.
IV. James and Sarah are working two jobs to afford a private school for their children.

O emprego dos termos em destaque está CORRETO apenas em
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Q501862 Inglês
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta os termos que preenchem CORRETAMENTE as lacunas existentes nos enunciados seguintes, de cima para baixo:

I. These bees ___________ kept in a large hive before they were taken out and examined by the beekeeper.
II. A thief came into his house, tied him up, took his money, and left. He ___________ tied up for several hours.
III. John doesn't cook very well. He _____________ helped by his wife.
IV. Amanda is pregnant. She expects her baby ______________ in November.
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Q501860 Inglês
A sentença “Jane _____ cook pasta very well.” é CORRETAMENTE completada com
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Respostas
2101: C
2102: B
2103: B
2104: A
2105: A
2106: E
2107: C
2108: C
2109: B
2110: B
2111: D
2112: D
2113: C
2114: C
2115: D
2116: C
2117: A
2118: C
2119: B
2120: A