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World's largest intelligent container ship sets sail



The delivery of the nation's first and the world's largest intelligent container ship powered entirely by electricity marks the transition toward a greener and more intelligent future by China's shipping industry, experts said.


Following the successful completion of various tests, the vessel, named Ning Yuan Dian Kun, was delivered in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday.


"From the initial project approval to the final delivery, the vessel showcased the full life-cycle development of zero carbon ships, characterized by pure electric propulsion, autonomous navigation and high operational efficiency, achieved by China's shipping industry," said Ma Hongmeng, a senior engineer at Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute and the person in charge of the intelligent container ship.


According to Ma, the ship is proof that China's coastal container transportation segment is entering a new era marked by zero-emissions, intelligent operations and high efficiency, a prerequisite for achieving carbon neutrality and shipping energy transformation. 


With a capacity of over 740 twenty-foot equivalent units, the vessel was independently developed and designed by SDARI. Its electric propulsion system was provided by Shanghai Marine Equipment Research Institute. Both companies are subsidiaries of China State Shipbuilding Corp.


"Independently developed by SMERI, the innovative electric propulsion system has undergone maritime navigation tests, which fully proved its reliability, superiority and adaptability," said Wu Guodong, a senior engineer at the institute.


He added that with all performance indicators meeting expectations, the technological breakthrough from design to application highlighted China's leading position in pure electric ship power system integration worldwide, and laid a solid foundation for the transformation of China's shipping industry to a greener and carbon neutral one.


With a length of 127.8 meters and a width of 21.6 meters, the ship has been tailor-made for Ningbo Ocean Shipping Co and will run on the coastal shipping route between Ningbo and Jiaxing in Zhejiang province.


A senior official from the Ningbo Maritime Safety Administration said that due to the distinctive features of new-generation intelligent vessels, a dedicated service team has been established to provide comprehensive support. The team will conduct continuous tracking and precise assessments throughout the entire process — from design and construction to navigation — ensuring a thorough grasp of the vessels' technical characteristics and effective control of operational risks.


The vessel is equipped with 10 container-shaped power units with a total power supply capacity of about 19,600 kilowatt-hours.


"This allows the ship to achieve zero-emission and zero-noise green operation throughout the entire voyage, while perfectly adapting to the practical operational needs of coastal container transportation," Ma said.


Wang Ting, captain of Ning Yuan Dian Kun, also confirmed this view. "Compared with traditional fuel-powered vessels, the most noticeable change in a fully electric seagoing ship is the lack of noise. In the past, the engine room would be filled by the roar of the main engine, whereas voyages nowadays are almost silent. This creates a more relaxed working environment and allows crew members to concentrate better on operations — a significant improvement brought about by green energy," he said.


He added that in terms of power response, the torque output of electric propulsion motors is linear and instantaneous. Acceleration and deceleration are smooth and highly responsive, with virtually no delay, making operations more straightforward. However, this also places new demands on operators — they must learn to manage energy efficiently, closely monitor power consumption, and plan vessel speed in a more rational manner.


The ship has also adopted two permanent magnet synchronous propulsion motors, capable of cutting carbon emissions by 1,462 tons per year, and completely eliminating emissions of sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides and fine particles.


"In this way, we manage to achieve zero pollution throughout the entire process of transportation, ranging from navigation and berthing to loading and unloading," Ma from SDARI said.


Currently, Ningbo Ocean Shipping Co operates 32 green and energy-efficient vessels, accounting for 57 percent of its self-owned fleet, marking the initial formation of a sizable green fleet.


Chen Xiaofeng, chairman of the company, said: "We hope to achieve breakthroughs in key areas through Ning Yuan Dian Kun. We aim to build the country's first demonstration model of a fully electric seagoing vessel, promoting the expansion of pure electric technology from inland waterways to maritime transport. We seek to establish a complete, replicable technical and operational system for 'zero-carbon transportation'."



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Read the sentence below.



"Following the successful completion of various tests, the vessel, named Ning Yuan Dian Kun, was delivered in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday."



In the sentence, the structure "was delivered" is in the: 

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Q4349670 Inglês
Consider the distribution below:

• They turned down the proposal. • They turned the proposal down. • They turned it down. • *They turned down it. • They looked after the student. • *They looked the student after.

Which analysis accounts for the contrast?
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Q4347984 Inglês
A student writes the following sentence in an academic assignment:
"The researchers made attention to several inconsistencies and later looked into their possible causes.
The teacher wants to correct the lexical problem without changing the intended meaning.
Which revision is appropriate?
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Q4347983 Inglês
A school introduced a language laboratory two years ago. Teachers did not receive training at the time, and they are still having difficulty using the laboratory effectively.
Which sentence correctly expresses a past unreal condition with a present result? 
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Q4347977 Inglês
On Monday, a teacher said:
"I may send the revised material tomorrow, but I haven't finished checking it yet."
On Wednesday, another teacher reports what was said.
Which sentence accurately reports the original statement from the later temporal perspective? 
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Q4345133 Inglês
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English Language Teaching in Brazil: A Gap in Policy, Problems in Practice


Only three percent of Brazilians are estimated to speak English despite the status of this language as a mandatory subject. This fact relates to a gap in foreign language teaching policy documents: the National Education Guidelines and Framework Law (LDB), and the National Curriculum Parameters (PCN). These documents for many years did not prescribe the necessary conditions for English Language Teaching (ELT) to take place effectively, often focusing on reading due to a lack of resources or large classes.

LDB mandated the teaching of a foreign language chosen locally from grades 5 to 12. A recent reform in 2017 has added that English will be the foreign language taught in secondary school (from grade 6 up) throughout the country. Previous versions of LDB, however, did not mandate the teaching of English, leading to the perception that only in private language centers could students learn the language.

The effectiveness of ELT in basic education remains low because policies impact the quality of teacher education, the availability of pedagogical resources, and the number of students in the classroom. Most schools are equipped with basic materials like blackboards and chairs, but few have audiovisual equipment installed in every classroom. This reality shows why many teachers stick to the textbook most of the time.

Many English teachers in Brazil do not speak the language fluently because most undergraduate programs offer a dual major (English and Portuguese). Often, aspiring teachers enroll because they actually want to teach Portuguese. Consequently, these teachers reproduce in their classrooms the approaches in which they were taught as students, focusing on grammar-translation rather than modern communicative methods.

Misconceptions about the language also contribute to a lack of motivation. Some believe English is only from England or the USA. To correct this, BNCC (National Common Curriculum Base) suggests an intercultural approach to make the study of a foreign language more socially and culturally relevant. BNCC aims to raise awareness of the global web in which English is involved, and it is treating it as a tool for citizenship.


(Adapted from: BATISTA, F. C. A. English Language Teaching in Brazil: A Gap in Policy, Problems in Practice. English Language Teaching, v. 13, n. 8, p. 135- 145, 2020. Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v13n8p135. Acesso em: 30 maio 2026.)
Number the following Verb Tenses (in Column B) according to the sentences (in Column A). Choose the option that corresponds to the correct sequence.

Column A

( 1 ) This fact relates to a gap in foreign language teaching policy documents.
( 2 ) […] and it is treating it as a tool for citizenship.
( 3 ) A recent reform in 2017 has added that English […]
( 4 ) Previous versions of LDB, however, did not mandate the teaching of English […]

Column B

( ) Present Perfect
( ) Present Continuous
( ) Present Simple
( ) Past Simple
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Q4345129 Inglês
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The Future of Language Education: Teachers’ Perceptions About the Surge of Large Language Models like ChatGPT


(1) Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have been described as a disruptive technology — an innovation that significantly alters or even revolutionises an existing industry, often introducing new approaches, challenging established methodologies, or interpreting older methods as obsolete.

(2) LLMs are computational models that have the capability to understand and generate human language. This capacity to generate human language has the potential to transform language teaching and learning.

(3) Teachers can use LLM tools to personalise learning, plan lessons, create quizzes or other learning activities, and to provide feedback. In second language (L2) classes, teachers could use these models to explain grammar, propose improvements in grammar and style, and facilitate conversational practice. These affordances are an advantage to instructors, saving them time and providing personalised instructional support, and many educators are excited to try working with LLMs.

(4) But, as it is common with any new technology, many others are fearful of LLMs’ potential to disturb the way that students approach classroom learning. Fear of new technologies is not uncommon because they require educators to adapt, which can be intimidating; educators may question their pedagogical effectiveness or the loss of human interaction.

(5) The results of a survey conducted with 65 language instructors showed mixed feelings: ranging from excitement for the pedagogical potential of ChatGPT to fear of potential academic dishonesty and job security.

(6) Importantly, those who had previously engaged with the tool expressed greater enthusiasm for its wider application compared to their counterparts with no such experience. This suggests that familiarity may mitigate apprehension and foster a more optimistic outlook on the potential of ChatGPT in educational settings. Whether language instructors are in admiration or fear of ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are here to stay — rather than ignore them, we must quickly learn to use them, understand the challenges and benefits, and develop both instructional approaches and policies.


(Adapted from: ZIMOTTI, G.; FRANCES, C.; WHITAKER, L. Technology in Language Teaching & Learning. Technology in Language Teaching & Learning, v. 6, n. 2, p. 1-24, 2024. Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.29140/tltl.v6n2.1136. Acesso em: 30 maio 2026.)
In paragraph 6, the sentence “[…] we must quickly learn to use them […]” could be correctly transformed into a question without changing its meaning in the option:
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Q4345126 Inglês
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The Future of Language Education: Teachers’ Perceptions About the Surge of Large Language Models like ChatGPT


(1) Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have been described as a disruptive technology — an innovation that significantly alters or even revolutionises an existing industry, often introducing new approaches, challenging established methodologies, or interpreting older methods as obsolete.

(2) LLMs are computational models that have the capability to understand and generate human language. This capacity to generate human language has the potential to transform language teaching and learning.

(3) Teachers can use LLM tools to personalise learning, plan lessons, create quizzes or other learning activities, and to provide feedback. In second language (L2) classes, teachers could use these models to explain grammar, propose improvements in grammar and style, and facilitate conversational practice. These affordances are an advantage to instructors, saving them time and providing personalised instructional support, and many educators are excited to try working with LLMs.

(4) But, as it is common with any new technology, many others are fearful of LLMs’ potential to disturb the way that students approach classroom learning. Fear of new technologies is not uncommon because they require educators to adapt, which can be intimidating; educators may question their pedagogical effectiveness or the loss of human interaction.

(5) The results of a survey conducted with 65 language instructors showed mixed feelings: ranging from excitement for the pedagogical potential of ChatGPT to fear of potential academic dishonesty and job security.

(6) Importantly, those who had previously engaged with the tool expressed greater enthusiasm for its wider application compared to their counterparts with no such experience. This suggests that familiarity may mitigate apprehension and foster a more optimistic outlook on the potential of ChatGPT in educational settings. Whether language instructors are in admiration or fear of ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are here to stay — rather than ignore them, we must quickly learn to use them, understand the challenges and benefits, and develop both instructional approaches and policies.


(Adapted from: ZIMOTTI, G.; FRANCES, C.; WHITAKER, L. Technology in Language Teaching & Learning. Technology in Language Teaching & Learning, v. 6, n. 2, p. 1-24, 2024. Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.29140/tltl.v6n2.1136. Acesso em: 30 maio 2026.)
In paragraph 3, the text states: "Teachers can use LLM tools to personalise learning, plan lessons, create quizzes or other learning activities, and to provide feedback." What does the modal verb ‘can’ express in this context? 
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Q4342763 Inglês
Xbox caps cloud gaming at 15 hours a month for Game Pass subscribers


Xbox is introducing strict monthly time limits for Game Pass subscribers who stream games online through its cloud gaming service.

The changes, which come into effect in November, will see a subscriber to the £16.99 Ultimate monthly plan able to stream games for up to 15 hours a month - before having to purchase additional cloud play time.

Xbox said the limits were due to the rising cost of cloud gaming, and they would allow the firm to "continue to invest" in the service's "reliability and performance".

While some questioned whether the service was used by many to begin with, others called out the additional limits for subscribers.

Cloud gaming allows players to stream and play games online from a remote server using a phone, tablet or controller, rather than downloading and running it on a PC or console at home.

Different tiers of subscription to Game Pass will have different limits.

Premium users will get 10 hours, while those on the basic Essential tier will get five hours a month before they have to pay for extra time.

Xbox claimed just 4% of the people who use Games Pass - its Netflix-style subscription plan for games - use its cloud gaming service.

A recent Wall Street Journal article reported Game Pass has 30 million subscribers, which would leave the number of people affected by the cloud gaming changes at roughly 1.2 million.

"This is a pretty awful change, hopefully Xbox adds an extra zero on the end cause 15hrs is abysmal. 30 minutes a day, really?" posted one commenter on X. 

Jez Corden of Windows Central told the BBC the announcement showed that "absolutely nothing is safe from the AI-driven component crisis," but he added it also highlighted "where Microsoft's priorities are".

Both cloud gaming and AI use the same infrastructure - data centres - to process information.

"For them to continue to offer unlimited access to Microsoft Copilot [AI] for free but restrict paid cloud gaming in this way shows some contradiction," he added.

Xbox said in a blog post that from November, users would also be able to use the company's cloud gaming feature without subscribing to Game Pass, but by buying "cloud playtime hours" through the Xbox store.

It has not revealed how much extra hours of cloud gaming would cost.

Xbox's 'reset'

The news comes as Asha Sharma, Xbox's chief executive, told the BBC in an exclusive recent interview that the company and the industry as a whole needed to "start to innovate on affordability and efficiency," amid a "crisis" in computing prices.

"As an industry, we're in the middle of 'Rampocalypse'. We're in the middle of people coming back from Covid and the patterns changing," she said.

"Rampocalypse" refers to the fact that the cost of a previously cheap hardware component, random access memory (Ram), has shot up in price with the expansion of compute-hungry data centres. Some people also call it "Ramageddon".

Sharma added: "Within Xbox, we haven't been healthy. And so a lot of the reset that will take us throughout the year is really meant to help ensure that we are here for the next 25 years and we're continuing to serve our purpose and our mission."

According to Xbox owner Microsoft's July financial filings, annual Xbox revenue dropped by $1.7bn to roughly $21.8bn (£16.1bn) - a 7% decline from 2025.

Part of Sharma's reset has seen 3,200 people let go at the company - with 1,600 job losses announced in July, and the remaining posts to go gradually over the course of Microsoft's 2027 financial year.

Studios which had been acquired by Xbox - including Compulsion Games, which made the Bafta-winning South of Midnight and Double Fine Productions, makers of Psychonauts - were also made independent again.

Sharma is betting these changes can reverse its fortunes despite concerns over its subscription strategy and rising AI-related costs.

"Sometimes you have to restructure a business when it's not doing well, and that was true with our Xbox business," Microsoft's president Brad Smith recently told the BBC.

Cloud gaming

In an interview in July, Jeff Gattiss, Amazon's head of gaming, told the BBC he believed the rising cost of tech would mean people will turn to streaming games online rather than buying new consoles.

However, despite some big names investing in the technology, it has never fully reached the mainstream.

Google launched its own cloud gaming service Stadia in November 2019, positioning it as a "Netflix for games".

The service was discontinued in January 2023 after the company said it had not attracted as many users as hoped.

For many gamers, cloud gaming remains too unreliable for regular use due to its reliance on high-speed internet - and an additional fee may further limit its appeal.


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 A student has a monthly entertainment budget and is comparing online services. After reading the article, the student wants to ask whether exceeding the included cloud-gaming limit will create an additional expense.
Which question is CORRECT for this practical situation?
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Q4342432 Inglês
Two teachers are discussing a report that was completed earlier than expected: "We needn't have stayed at school until 9 p.m. The principal had already sent the final version at six." Which interpretation accurately describes the modal construction in the first sentence?
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Q4342427 Inglês

A department coordinator asks about the progress of a curriculum revision. The teacher answers:


"I ___________ three units so far, and I ___________ the fourth one since early this morning."


Select the option that correctly fills in the blanks:

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Q4342424 Inglês

A student is revising a formal academic paragraph and wants to emphasize that the contradiction became evident immediately after the two versions were compared.


Which sentence presents appropriate word order?

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Q4337369 Inglês
Consider the sentence below.

"Only after the second interview did the researchers realize how strongly the wording had influenced the responses."

The sentence combines marked word order with different tense and clause relationships.

Analyze the statements below.

I.The initial restrictive adverbial expression is associated with subject-auxiliary inversion in the main clause.
II.The auxiliary "did" carries past-tense marking, while "realize" remains in its base form.
III.The past perfect in "had influenced" places the influence after the researchers' realization.
IV.The clause introduced by "how strongly" functions as a complement of "realize."

It is CORRECT what is stated in:
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Q4337358 Inglês
Consider the sentence below.

"By the time the inspectors arrived, the team had been testing the system for three hours, and they have since revised the protocol twice."

The forms establish different temporal reference points rather than merely identifying past and present events.

Analyze the statements below.

I."Had been testing" represents an activity already in progress before the inspectors arrived and emphasizes its preceding duration.
II."Have since revised" relates subsequent revisions to a period extending to the speaker's present reference point.
III."Arrived" establishes an event that occurred before the beginning of the testing process.

It is CORRECT what is stated in:
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Q4337356 Inglês
A teacher asks students to rewrite a sentence in the passive while preserving the temporal relationship established by the original verb phrase. The task requires more than exchanging the positions of two noun phrases.

Original sentence: 

"The school had already uploaded the materials before parents received the link."

Which transformation preserves the tense, aspect, and basic propositional meaning of the first clause?
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'Simply astonishing': Experts just found a massive lost civilisation hiding in the Amazon


A civilisation that may have once numbered up to 3 million people has been uncovered beneath the Amazon rainforest's dense canopy, according to a new study.

Researchers used LIDAR − a technology that fires pulses of laser light through gaps in the forest canopy to map the ground below − to survey more than 4,400km of the southwestern Amazon Basin. The findings were published in Nature.

Archaeologists now believe the Aquiry civilisation, which lived in the region from roughly 600BCE to 850CE, may have been around three times larger than previously expected. At its peak, their society may have numbered 1.25 −3 million people.

The survey uncovered thousands of geometric patterns built into the Earth, known as geoglyphs, which take various shapes including circles and squares and appear to be connected by straight roads or pathways.

"The scale and precision of these constructions are simply astonishing," lead author and University of Helsinki archaeologist, Prof Martti Pärssinen, told BBC Science Focus.

"Based on LiDAR surveys covering 4,500 km², we estimate that the entire 183,000 km² Aquiry region may contain approximately 24,000 to 30,000 earthworks linked by hundreds of roads, revealing a scale of landscape modification previously unimaginable for this part of Amazonia."

Before LIDAR technology was able to peek through the trees, experts could only investigate deforested areas of the Amazon − fuelling a mistaken belief that only the rainforest's sparser regions had been settled by humans, and not its denser parts.

"These findings suggest that many other regions across Amazonia may likewise have been far more densely populated and intensively modified than previously assumed, challenging the long-standing view of the rainforest as a largely untouched wilderness," Pärssinen said.

The next phase of the project is to use the same laser technology to identify tree species that early societies domesticated − such as those bearing nuts or fruit, and which continue to grow in the region today.

"We will then investigate how their distribution relates to different ecosystems, as well as to the locations of earthworks and ancient road networks," Pärssinen said. "Simply put, one cannot help but wonder: what else remains hidden beneath the forest canopy?"


https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/amazon-civilisation-lidar
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Q4337327 Inglês
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Entrepreneurship is booming in the U.S. Gen Zers are leading the way.


For Melanie Herbert, years of hospital treatments for a serious medical condition fueled an early interest in how healthcare providers communicate and address their patients' needs.

The experience informed her decision years later to launch Sync Labs, a health technology startup that aims to improve care for older Americans, while she was still a student at the University of Pennsylvania.

"I feel like it's unfortunately a very neglected space where a lot of the technology and tools are really behind," Herbert, 23, told CBS News.

Although such entrepreneurship is clearly unusual for young people, it is by no means unheard of these days. Research from the Bank of America Institute shows that Generation Z members are contributing "disproportionately" to a recent surge in business formation.

In a trend that highlights how younger Americans are helping catalyze economic growth, the number of new business applications filed by Gen Zers jumped 66% in June compared with a year ago. That far outpaced applications filed by other generations, the Bank of America Institute found.

Young Americans are helping fuel a broader jump in applications to form businesses. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Americans filed more than 531,000 business applications in June, more than double the 2020 figure.

Scott Issen, CEO of Future Founders, a nonprofit group that helps nurture entrepreneurial skills, said demand for the organization's services is surging — a shift he attributes to a change in many young people's attitude toward employment.

"Macroeconomically, I think there's less interest year over year for young people to work for others," he told CBS News. "They would prefer to be their own bosses and create their own opportunity."

The burst in entrepreneurship among younger Americans isn't limited to graduates of prestigious universities. Lower-income households now account for 25% of all new businesses getting off the ground, up from 20% in 2020, the Bank of America Institute found.

"In a lot of ways, I think entrepreneurship is democratizing right now," said Angela Lee, co-director of the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School. "So I'm not at all surprised to see younger, lower-income founders start companies."

AI lowers barriers to entry

Experts attribute part of the surge in Gen Z founders to the advent of artificial intelligence, which is helping young people get their businesses off the ground by automating basic tasks and reducing startup costs.

"The barriers to entry are getting much lower," Lori Rosenkopf, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, told CBS News. "It's pretty easy for anyone to start building some content, making themselves a content creator or doing a little bit of vibe coding."

AI can also help young business founders save money. Lee, a serial entrepreneur, said she paid roughly $15,000 for a single web developer when she started her first company.

"Now with AI, something that would have taken an app developer three months and $15,000, you can vibe code over the weekend," she said.

AI is integral to Herbert's company, which uses the technology to streamline information from health providers' notes, staff observations, lab results and other data. For example, Sync Labs' tech can "ambiently listen" to staff meetings when activated, creating a fuller picture of patient needs and offering clinically backed recommendations from the company's generative AI models, she said.

Herbert also said AI has been a "game changer" for daily operations at the San Francisco-based company, noting that it helps speed up tasks and reduce expenses. "As a startup, time is everything," she said. "We're trying to get our product out to as many people as possible as quickly as possible."

"There is a lot of job dislocation right now"

Today's challenging economic backdrop — and the rise of AI — also helps explain why more young Americans are choosing to launch their own businesses, experts said.

"There is a lot of job dislocation right now, and younger people are finding it hard to secure traditional employment given our current economic conditions," Wharton's Rosenkopf said.

Although U.S. unemployment remains low and job growth has been solid, research shows that recent college graduates are struggling to find work, especially as AI starts to automate certain functions normally reserved for entry-level workers. A recent ZipRecruiter survey of 1,000 recruiters found that 38% of employers have shifted basic data-processing tasks away from entry-level workers and onto AI.

Herbert said she didn't start Sync Labs due to concerns about the labor market, but noted that the stress of finding a job has weighed heavily on her friends.

"Being in this generation, it's probably one of the most talked about things," she said.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gen-z-business-applications-surge-ai/
Near the end of the article, apparently positive macroeconomic indicators are contrasted with the difficulties experienced by recent graduates. The writer uses different tense and aspect choices to situate these conditions in relation to the present.

Consider the sentence.

"Although U.S. unemployment remains low and job growth has been solid, research shows that recent college graduates are struggling to find work."

What meaning does "has been solid" contribute?
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Q4337320 Inglês
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Entrepreneurship is booming in the U.S. Gen Zers are leading the way.


For Melanie Herbert, years of hospital treatments for a serious medical condition fueled an early interest in how healthcare providers communicate and address their patients' needs.

The experience informed her decision years later to launch Sync Labs, a health technology startup that aims to improve care for older Americans, while she was still a student at the University of Pennsylvania.

"I feel like it's unfortunately a very neglected space where a lot of the technology and tools are really behind," Herbert, 23, told CBS News.

Although such entrepreneurship is clearly unusual for young people, it is by no means unheard of these days. Research from the Bank of America Institute shows that Generation Z members are contributing "disproportionately" to a recent surge in business formation.

In a trend that highlights how younger Americans are helping catalyze economic growth, the number of new business applications filed by Gen Zers jumped 66% in June compared with a year ago. That far outpaced applications filed by other generations, the Bank of America Institute found.

Young Americans are helping fuel a broader jump in applications to form businesses. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Americans filed more than 531,000 business applications in June, more than double the 2020 figure.

Scott Issen, CEO of Future Founders, a nonprofit group that helps nurture entrepreneurial skills, said demand for the organization's services is surging — a shift he attributes to a change in many young people's attitude toward employment.

"Macroeconomically, I think there's less interest year over year for young people to work for others," he told CBS News. "They would prefer to be their own bosses and create their own opportunity."

The burst in entrepreneurship among younger Americans isn't limited to graduates of prestigious universities. Lower-income households now account for 25% of all new businesses getting off the ground, up from 20% in 2020, the Bank of America Institute found.

"In a lot of ways, I think entrepreneurship is democratizing right now," said Angela Lee, co-director of the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School. "So I'm not at all surprised to see younger, lower-income founders start companies."

AI lowers barriers to entry

Experts attribute part of the surge in Gen Z founders to the advent of artificial intelligence, which is helping young people get their businesses off the ground by automating basic tasks and reducing startup costs.

"The barriers to entry are getting much lower," Lori Rosenkopf, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, told CBS News. "It's pretty easy for anyone to start building some content, making themselves a content creator or doing a little bit of vibe coding."

AI can also help young business founders save money. Lee, a serial entrepreneur, said she paid roughly $15,000 for a single web developer when she started her first company.

"Now with AI, something that would have taken an app developer three months and $15,000, you can vibe code over the weekend," she said.

AI is integral to Herbert's company, which uses the technology to streamline information from health providers' notes, staff observations, lab results and other data. For example, Sync Labs' tech can "ambiently listen" to staff meetings when activated, creating a fuller picture of patient needs and offering clinically backed recommendations from the company's generative AI models, she said.

Herbert also said AI has been a "game changer" for daily operations at the San Francisco-based company, noting that it helps speed up tasks and reduce expenses. "As a startup, time is everything," she said. "We're trying to get our product out to as many people as possible as quickly as possible."

"There is a lot of job dislocation right now"

Today's challenging economic backdrop — and the rise of AI — also helps explain why more young Americans are choosing to launch their own businesses, experts said.

"There is a lot of job dislocation right now, and younger people are finding it hard to secure traditional employment given our current economic conditions," Wharton's Rosenkopf said.

Although U.S. unemployment remains low and job growth has been solid, research shows that recent college graduates are struggling to find work, especially as AI starts to automate certain functions normally reserved for entry-level workers. A recent ZipRecruiter survey of 1,000 recruiters found that 38% of employers have shifted basic data-processing tasks away from entry-level workers and onto AI.

Herbert said she didn't start Sync Labs due to concerns about the labor market, but noted that the stress of finding a job has weighed heavily on her friends.

"Being in this generation, it's probably one of the most talked about things," she said.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gen-z-business-applications-surge-ai/
In discussing the financial implications of artificial intelligence, the article states that AI "can also help young business founders save money." The modal verb contributes a specific type of meaning to the proposition.

Which interpretation best accounts for "can" in this context?
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The world cup debutants determined to prove nothing is impossible



    When the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 11 in Mexico City, it will set in motion a flurry of historic firsts.

    A newly expanded 48-team tournament, three countries: the US, Canada and Mexico as hosts and we’ll also get to see four debutants in the shape of Curaçao, Jordan, Uzbekistan and Cape Verde.

    It was in October of last year that Cape Verde, the African archipelago nation — with a population of just over half a million people — qualified for its first ever World Cup after beating Eswatini 3-0 to become the third-smallest country after Curaçao and Iceland eight years ago to make it through to football’s biggest stage.

    It was a feat made even more impressive by the fact the Blue Sharks ended up four points ahead of traditional continental powerhouse Cameroon, topping their Confederation of African Football qualifying group in the process.

    It’s no wonder the team’s head coach Pedro Leitão Brito — better known as Bubista — was beaming with pride when he dropped by the CNN studios in Atlanta recently as part of a visit to Mercedes-Benz stadium, where Cape Verde will begin their World Cup campaign on June 15 against the 2010 winners and reigning European champions, Spain.

    “We are so excited. I think the people are so excited and we’re going to do our best for our people,” Bubista — a distinguished former captain and defender on the national team — told CNN Sports.

    Bubista oversaw a truly history-making qualifying campaign. A sequence of results that included a highly impressive five straight wins, the highlight of which featured a never-to-be-forgotten 1-0 triumph over the Cameroonians in September 2025.

    But it’s October 13, 2025, that will be indelibly etched into the memory of all who witnessed Cape Verde’s historic win against Eswatini. A victory that would spark frenzied celebrations of joy in the country’s capital city Praia.

    “Our people are so excited and so happy. Our people in the world, it’s just so great for our qualification and now our people are so grateful for everything,” Bubista added.

    Cape Verde may be about to play in a first ever World Cup, but the national team is no stranger to success when it comes to competing in the Africa Cup of Nations having reached the quarterfinals in 2013 and then again, a decade later. Bubista oversaw the latter campaign but now the head coach’s focus is fully on his team’s tournament opener against Spain.

    “We know it’s a very difficult match … They have very good players. We will respect them but anything is possible. We’re going to do our best to show the world what we can do in football,” Bubista reflected.

    “We know it’s a hard game, but we have our heart and team spirit and this is important for us. Our unity is our strength,” he added.

    The Blue Sharks will arrive in the US with a talented squad including Villarreal’s Logan Costa, Paris Saint-Germain 18-year-old Fabio Domingos and 36-year-old Ryan Mendes, who is the country’s most-capped player — with more than 90 appearances for the national team — and is Cape Verde’s all-time leading goalscorer.

    And then there’s the remarkable story of the Shamrock Rovers forward Roberto “Pico” Lopes who was born in Ireland, but when it comes to international football, represents Cape Verde, currently ranked 69th in the world. 

    Lopes had always wanted to play for Ireland but when that didn’t materialize, he ended up playing for his father’shomeland after famously being recruited through a LinkedIn message from then-team head coach Rui Águas. Initially Lopes ignored the first message sent in Portuguese as spam but not the second one sent a few months later in English.



Fonte: https://edition.cnn.com/sport/cape-verde-world-cup-debutants-nothing-isimpossible-spc. Excerto. Acessado em: 07/06/2026.

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The world cup debutants determined to prove nothing is impossible



    When the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 11 in Mexico City, it will set in motion a flurry of historic firsts.

    A newly expanded 48-team tournament, three countries: the US, Canada and Mexico as hosts and we’ll also get to see four debutants in the shape of Curaçao, Jordan, Uzbekistan and Cape Verde.

    It was in October of last year that Cape Verde, the African archipelago nation — with a population of just over half a million people — qualified for its first ever World Cup after beating Eswatini 3-0 to become the third-smallest country after Curaçao and Iceland eight years ago to make it through to football’s biggest stage.

    It was a feat made even more impressive by the fact the Blue Sharks ended up four points ahead of traditional continental powerhouse Cameroon, topping their Confederation of African Football qualifying group in the process.

    It’s no wonder the team’s head coach Pedro Leitão Brito — better known as Bubista — was beaming with pride when he dropped by the CNN studios in Atlanta recently as part of a visit to Mercedes-Benz stadium, where Cape Verde will begin their World Cup campaign on June 15 against the 2010 winners and reigning European champions, Spain.

    “We are so excited. I think the people are so excited and we’re going to do our best for our people,” Bubista — a distinguished former captain and defender on the national team — told CNN Sports.

    Bubista oversaw a truly history-making qualifying campaign. A sequence of results that included a highly impressive five straight wins, the highlight of which featured a never-to-be-forgotten 1-0 triumph over the Cameroonians in September 2025.

    But it’s October 13, 2025, that will be indelibly etched into the memory of all who witnessed Cape Verde’s historic win against Eswatini. A victory that would spark frenzied celebrations of joy in the country’s capital city Praia.

    “Our people are so excited and so happy. Our people in the world, it’s just so great for our qualification and now our people are so grateful for everything,” Bubista added.

    Cape Verde may be about to play in a first ever World Cup, but the national team is no stranger to success when it comes to competing in the Africa Cup of Nations having reached the quarterfinals in 2013 and then again, a decade later. Bubista oversaw the latter campaign but now the head coach’s focus is fully on his team’s tournament opener against Spain.

    “We know it’s a very difficult match … They have very good players. We will respect them but anything is possible. We’re going to do our best to show the world what we can do in football,” Bubista reflected.

    “We know it’s a hard game, but we have our heart and team spirit and this is important for us. Our unity is our strength,” he added.

    The Blue Sharks will arrive in the US with a talented squad including Villarreal’s Logan Costa, Paris Saint-Germain 18-year-old Fabio Domingos and 36-year-old Ryan Mendes, who is the country’s most-capped player — with more than 90 appearances for the national team — and is Cape Verde’s all-time leading goalscorer.

    And then there’s the remarkable story of the Shamrock Rovers forward Roberto “Pico” Lopes who was born in Ireland, but when it comes to international football, represents Cape Verde, currently ranked 69th in the world. 

    Lopes had always wanted to play for Ireland but when that didn’t materialize, he ended up playing for his father’shomeland after famously being recruited through a LinkedIn message from then-team head coach Rui Águas. Initially Lopes ignored the first message sent in Portuguese as spam but not the second one sent a few months later in English.



Fonte: https://edition.cnn.com/sport/cape-verde-world-cup-debutants-nothing-isimpossible-spc. Excerto. Acessado em: 07/06/2026.

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