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Q1705162 Inglês

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The Literary Influences of Superstar Musician David Bowie

BY JOHN O'CONNELL ON 10/31/19 AT 5:00 AM EDT


David Bowie was a pop star for most of his career from the 1960s until his death in 2016. He was known for his flamboyant style, songwriting and the ability to artistically turn on a dime. But Bowie, who died of cancer at 69, was more than a multi-platinum rock and roller. He was also one of the more literate composers in the business.

So much so, in fact, that in conjunction with a career retrospective in 2013 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Bowie issued a list of the one hundred books he considered the most important and influential. British music columnist John O'Connell linked this list to Bowie's prolific music. The result? A book called Bowie's Bookshelf out this month from Gallery Books.

William S. Burroughs first made the link between Bowie's lyrics and T. S. Eliot's poetry. In a Rolling Stone interview, Burroughs asked if Hunky Dory's "Eight Line Poem" had been influenced by Eliot's "The Hollow Men." Bowie's reply: "Never read him." But Bowie was definitely exposed to Eliot's influence. "Goodnight Ladies" on Transformer, the album Bowie produced for Lou Reed in 1972, is a riff on the end of the second section, "A Game of Chess," from Eliot's poem "The Waste Land." Eliot, for his part, is deliberately quoting Ophelia's "Good night, sweet ladies" speech from Hamlet. Eliot's method established a new protocol for artistic theft—the modern poet in dialogue with his or her predecessors. Bowie, too, was candid about how much he took from other artists. "You can't steal from a thief," he said when LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy admitted to stealing from Bowie's songs.


Avaiable in : https://www.newsweek.com/2019/11/15, accessed on February 20th, 2020. Adapted.
The tense used in “British music columnist John O'Connell linked this list to Bowie's prolific music.”
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Q1705149 Inglês

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Lessons for Americans, From a Chines Classroom


Observing how Chinese 2- and 3-year-olds navigated a second language, I wondered whether I could have done this for my children.

SHANGHAI — We sat in toddler-size wooden chairs around an orderly circle of Chinese 2-year-olds, busy with circle time. As a parent of three children who collectively spent 15 years in American day care, I am very familiar with circle time.

But I was in this Shanghai classroom as a professor, with college students from many different countries in a class I’m teaching here on children and childhood.

We were observing in a private kindergarten, designed to provide young children — starting at age 2 — with a carefully structured, fully bilingual curriculum, especially important because English language skills are vital for educational success in China.

Visits to Chinese educational institutions allow the college students in my course to get a look at real children and the ways that they learn, while also thinking about Chinese society today. They get windows onto certain slices of this complex country: a high-end private bilingual program that starts with toddlers; a city high school for academically gifted students; a middle school created for the children of the rural migrants who have come by the millions from China’s poorer provinces to work in Shanghai, but whose rights to social benefits are severely limited in the city.

These visits offer the college students insights into many of the social issues facing China, and we spend time in class discussing questions like the huge role that the annual gaokao college entrance exam plays in determining a child’s educational destiny (English is one of the required subjects), the pressures on families that create a culture of cram schools, and the controversies over reserving spots in colleges for kids from rural areas.

But all of those questions have powerful resonances when you think about the issues of childhood education and child development, which have to be addressed in every country. As my college students discuss the different facets of childhood around the world, visiting the Chinese schools also helps them in remembering and thinking about what children look like at different ages, and how they play and interact and learn.


Available in : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/, accessed on February 26th, 2020. Adapted

Read the sentences below and choose one which has a verb in the Simple Past.
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Q1696787 Inglês
Read the following sentences and complete, respectively, with the appropriate verbs/adjectives.

I. “If we don’t drink ______ water, it affects our concentration.”
II. “But our level of happiness is also _______ by the choices we make.”
III. However, the weather and the coming darkness _____ her feel sorry for the lady.”
IV. “He was ______ to meet me back there at Mickley.”
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Q1696786 Inglês
Read the following sentences and complete, respectively, with the appropriate verbs/adjectives.

I. “If something happened, ______ it and propose a fresh start.”
II. “I’m sorry for ______ this out, but you don’t look so good.”
III. “A recent report has ______ that more and more people have been feeling stressed”
IV. “I can’t talk to you because I’m ______ late for work”
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Q1696777 Inglês

Read the following sentences and complete, respectively, with the appropriate verbs.



I. “The way to get _____ is to quit talking and begin doing.”


II. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not _____ defeated.”


III. “Today’s accomplishments _____ yesterday’s impossibilities.”


IV. “People who are crazy enough to ______ they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

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Q1696776 Inglês
Read the following sentences and complete, respectively, with the appropriate verbs.

I. “At the touch of love everyone ______ a poet.”
II. “Don’t let yesterday ______ up too much of today.”
III. “Blessed are the curious for they ______ have adventures.”
IV. “The journey, not the arrival _______.”
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Q1694827 Inglês
Analyze the excerpts below regarding verb tenses respectively in the order they appear:
i. “[…] that’s how we’re going to meet those targets.” (line 12) ii. The Aichi biodiversity goals for 2020 included removing all incentives or subsidies harmful to nature (line 19, 20) iii. […] which will now be opened to signatories worldwide […] (line 24) iv. […] but the UK is not yet meeting the targets […] (lines 34, 35)
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Q1694818 Inglês
The document was drafted for the latest round of talks on the Convention of Biological Diversity, which had been due to take place this autumn in China but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. It has been rescheduled for next year. (lines 17, 18, 19)
The extract has four (4) underlined elements, analyze them carefully and choose the alternative that best describe them:
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Q1694815 Inglês
“The current approach is bust,” said Prof Des Thompson, principal science adviser at NatureScot, Scotland’s conservation agency, which contributed to the declaration process run by the Scottish government. “What we need to do is work with local communities, local governments and local communities – that’s how we’re going to meet those targets.” (lines 9 – 12) 
Analyze the items below and choose the appropriate alternative:
i. Scotland’s conservation agency ii. that’s how iii. we’re
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Q1694814 Inglês
“The current approach is bust,” said Prof Des Thompson, principal science adviser at NatureScot, Scotland’s conservation agency, which contributed to the declaration process run by the Scottish government. “What we need to do is work with local communities, local governments and local communities – that’s how we’re going to meet those targets.” (lines 9 – 12) 
After reading the extract, choose the best option:
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Q1694812 Inglês
Analyze the following sentences regarding the verb tenses and direct or reported speech. Choose the alternative that best describes them and in the correct order:
i. None of them were, leaving global biodiversity in a parlous state, the statement says. (line 4) ii. Thompson said Scotland was set to meet nine of the Aichi goals. (line 34)
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Q1694810 Inglês
The worldwide effort to combat critical levels of biodiversity loss will fail without far greater involvement from local communities, according to an international declaration. (lines 1, 2)
Which verb tense is seen in the excerpt?
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Q1694636 Inglês
Considere a frase abaixo: He is a music teacher. A negação está corretamente apresentada em:
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Q1694634 Inglês

Analise as tabelas abaixo:


TABELA 1

I Water boils at 100°C.
II Mary heard the sound of a bell.
III I will drive the car tomorrow.


TABELA 2

A Passado
B Presente
C Futuro


Assinale a alternativa que relaciona a frase da “Tabela 1” ao tempo verbal correto da “Tabela 2”:


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Q1694244 Inglês

Newly discovered primate 'already facing extinction'


   The Popa langur, named after its home on Mount Popa, is critically endangered with numbers down to about 200 individuals.
   Langurs are a group of leaf-eating monkeys that are found across south east Asia.
   The newly described animal is known for its distinctive spectacle-like eye patches and greyish-coloured fur. It is at risk from habitat loss and hunting.
   Scientists have long suspected there might be a new species in Myanmar, based on DNA extracted from the droppings of wild monkeys, but evidence has been hard to find. 

(Adaptado de https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54894681)

O negativo da frase “Scientists have long suspected” é:
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Q1694106 Inglês

Read the text below to answer the question.


Parker Solar Probe: How Nasa is trying to 'touch' the Sun


   Nasa is all set to launch one of the most ambitious missions in its history. It's sending a satellite called the Parker Solar Probe into the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. Scheduled for launch on Saturday, the spacecraft promises to crack some longstanding mysteries about our star's behaviour.

(Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-45113552).

In the text, the verbal tense of “the spacecraft promises” is:
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Q1694103 Inglês

Read the text below to answer the question.


How octopuses ‘taste’ things by touching


   Octopus arms have minds of their own. Each of these eight supple yet powerful limbs can explore the seafloor in search of prey, snatching crabs from hiding spots without direction from the octopus’ brain. But how each arm can tell what it’s grasping has remained a mystery.

   Now, researchers have identified specialized cells not seen in other animals that allow octopuses to “taste” with their arms. Embedded in the suckers, these cells enable the arms to do double duty of touch and taste by detecting chemicals produced by many aquatic creatures. This may help an arm quickly distinguish food from rocks or poisonous prey, Harvard University molecular biologist Nicholas Bellono and his colleagues report online October 29 in Cell.

   The findings provide another clue about the unique evolutionary path octopuses have taken toward intelligence. Instead of being concentrated in the brain, two-thirds of the nerve cells in an octopus are distributed among the arms, allowing the flexible appendages to operate semiindependently.


(Adapted from: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/octopus-taste-touch-arm-suckers). 

The negative form of the phrase “Octopus arms have minds of their own” is:
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Q1694102 Inglês

Read the text below to answer the question.


How octopuses ‘taste’ things by touching


   Octopus arms have minds of their own. Each of these eight supple yet powerful limbs can explore the seafloor in search of prey, snatching crabs from hiding spots without direction from the octopus’ brain. But how each arm can tell what it’s grasping has remained a mystery.

   Now, researchers have identified specialized cells not seen in other animals that allow octopuses to “taste” with their arms. Embedded in the suckers, these cells enable the arms to do double duty of touch and taste by detecting chemicals produced by many aquatic creatures. This may help an arm quickly distinguish food from rocks or poisonous prey, Harvard University molecular biologist Nicholas Bellono and his colleagues report online October 29 in Cell.

   The findings provide another clue about the unique evolutionary path octopuses have taken toward intelligence. Instead of being concentrated in the brain, two-thirds of the nerve cells in an octopus are distributed among the arms, allowing the flexible appendages to operate semiindependently.


(Adapted from: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/octopus-taste-touch-arm-suckers). 

The contracted form presented in the phrase “But how each arm can tell what it’s grasping has remained a mystery” is correctly replaced by: 
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Q1692845 Inglês
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta uma frase no tempo verbal futuro:
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Q1692844 Inglês

Considere a frase abaixo:

Jonathan collects golden coins.


A forma negativa é:


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1501: C
1502: E
1503: A
1504: A
1505: A
1506: D
1507: D
1508: A
1509: E
1510: D
1511: A
1512: D
1513: C
1514: D
1515: B
1516: A
1517: B
1518: B
1519: D
1520: C