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Q3733278 Inglês

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New generation of Indigenous activists battle to save the Amazon


Campaigners in Brazil use drones to document work of self-defence teams trying to stop environmental destruction caused by illegal mining


Batista, who belongs to South America's Macuxi people, is part of a new generation of Indigenous journalists helping chronicle an age-old battle against outside aggression. For centuries, non-Indigenous writers and reporters have flocked to the rainforest region to tell their version of that ancestral fight for survival. Now, a growing cohort of Indigenous communicators are telling their own stories, providing first-hand dispatches from some of the Amazon's most inaccessible and under-reported corners.


"It's dangerous work and we suffer a lot when we're out in the field," said Batista, one of about 26,000 inhabitants of Raposa Serra do Sol, Brazil's second most populous Indigenous territory. "But it really gives me strength because I'm showing the reality of our lives to the world."


"It's my job to monitor the territory: to see who's coming in and who is leaving, to find areas being invaded, and to defend the territory because we cannot live without it," said Batista, who was trained by a local Indigenous association, the Conselho Indígena de Roraima, as part of an initiative called Rede Wakywai, which means "our news" in the local Wapichana language.


The Guardian

Marque o binômio que não enuncia oposição semântica.
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Q3715172 Inglês
Tick the correct phrase as to the use of how much or how many: 
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Q3714267 Inglês
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FUNNY BONE Laughter really is the best medicine and should be prescribed on NHS, scientists say


(1º§) Chuckling along to comedy shows helps boost the organ's ability to pump blood around the body, Brazilian researchers found. They said laughter therapy should be offered more widely on the NHS alongside drugs like statins.


(2º§) Professor Marco Saffi, of the Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, said: "People with heart disease could be invited to comedy evenings. "People should try to do things that make them laugh at least twice a week. "Laughter is good for the brain and good for the heart. Laughter therapy could be used in the future to help patients with heart disease and help reduce dependence on medication."


(3º§) Around 7.6million Brits have heart disease and 160,000 die from it every year. It occurs when the heart's blood supply is blocked or interrupted by a build-up of fatty substances in the coronary arteries, which can lead to heart attacks. Symptoms include chest pain and shortness of breath, and patients are also at risk of heart failure.


(4º§) Drugs like statins can help and some patients need surgery to widen the artery. The study, presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Amsterdam, involved 26 adults with an average age of 64. They had all been diagnosed with coronary artery disease, caused by plaque buildup in the wall of the arteries that supply blood to the heart. Half were asked to watch two different hour-long comedy programmes each week, including popular sitcoms, over three months. The other half watched two different serious documentaries every week, about topics such as politics or the Amazon rainforest.


(5º§) At the end of the study, the comedy group saw a 10 per cent improvement in their VO2 max, a test measuring how much oxygen their heart could pump around the body. Their flow-mediated dilation - a test which measures how well arteries can expand - also improved. They also had blood tests to measure several inflammatory biomarkers, which indicate how much plaque has built up in the blood vessels, and whether people are at risk of heart attack or stroke.


(6º§) The laughter group saw significant reductions in these inflammatory markers, compared to the control group. Professor James Leiper, Associate Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation, said: "While this study reveals the interesting possibility that laughter could in fact be a therapy for coronary artery disease, this small trial will need to be replicated to get a better understanding of how laughter therapy may be helping these patients. "It's encouraging to see that something so simple and widespread could benefit our health, but more research is needed to determine whether laughter alone led to the improvements seen, and how long the effects could last."


The Sun. (2023). Laughter therapy could protect against heart disease. The Sun.

see/ s://www.thesun.co.uk/health/23672400/laughter-therapy-heart-disease/
What synonym could replace "invited" in the sentence "People with heart disease could be invited to comedy evenings" (2º§)?
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Q3701742 Inglês

Text 9 


Becoming


Back in the ancestral homeland of Michelle Obama, black women were rarely granted the honorific Miss or Mrs., but were addressed by their first name, or simply as "gal" or "auntie" or worse. This so openly demeaned them that many black women, long after they had left the South, refused to answer if called by their first name. A mother and father in 1970s Texas named their newborn "Miss" so that white people would have no choice but to address their daughter by that title. Black women were meant for the field, or the kitchen, or for use as they saw fit. They were, by definition, not ladies. The very idea of a black woman as first lady of the land, well, that would have been unthinkable.


Disponível em: www.nytimes.com. Acesso em: 28 dez. 2019 (adaptado).

A crítica do livro de memórias de Michelle Obama, ex-primeira-dama dos EUA, aborda a história das relações humanas na cidade natal da autora. Nesse contexto, o uso do vocábulo “unthinkable” ressalta que
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Q3701733 Inglês

Text 6


“Riding a bicycle wil save you money, create less pollution, make you _______ and let you zip past heavy traffic. Will anything persuade auto owners to hop on a two-wheeler? Absolutely yes, says a new report from Washington’s Worldwatch Institute. In “Taking Bikes Seriously,” senior researcher Gary Gardner shows how cities around the world have increased bike ridership by offering a little encouragement. The city of Copenhagen, _________ , makes 2,300 bicycles available for public use; the $3 rental fee is refunded when the bike is returned. In Lima, Peru, lowincome residents ________ buy bicycles through a special small-loan program. During the 1980s Japan helped bikers by boosting the number of bicycle parking spaces at railway stations about fourfold, to 2.4 million. That strategy _________ both money and land; two bikes can fit into a square meter of parking space, while cars require about 30 sq m each. Bike-friendly policies ______ western Germany have lifted the amount of cycling by 50% since the early 1970s.”


(Source: “Back on the Bike, With a Little Help from the City”, PLANET WATCH, TIME, September 28, 1998, page 12.)

Complete os espaços no texto com as palavras apropriadas: 
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Q3700285 Inglês

Read the following text and answer the question.


What does a sustainable smartphone look like?


            In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

        "This is my phone's camera," says Bas van Abel, holding a small, square component aloft. He has just removed it from his smartphone, using a tiny screwdriver.

        "There's eight components in total which can be removed and replaced," he says, as he meticulously disassembles his entire smartphone, placing the camera alongside his phone battery, USB port, screen and loudspeaker.

        Van Abel is the co-founder of the Dutch social enterprise Fairphone, which claims to have built "the world's most sustainable smartphone". But with a complex product containing rare metals and components from all over the world, just how sustainable can a smartphone be?

        Founded in 2013 in Amsterdam, Fairphone makes Android smartphones which can easily be exchanged, customized and repaired by their owners. By enabling and encouraging people to fix their phones, rather than throwing them away as soon as a component breaks, Fairphone hopes to help reduce electronic waste.


Available at: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231121-whatdoes-a-sustainable-smartphone-look-like.

In the text, it is said that "Van Abel is the co-founder of the Dutch social enterprise Fairphone". Dutch is the nationality of which country?
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Q3700282 Inglês
Read the following text and answer the question.

Birmingham Festival praised in report

        Birmingham Festival 23 had a positive economic and cultural impact on the city, according to a new report.
        The free, nine-day outdoor event this summer saw a footfall of 123,500, the Birmingham City Council document found.
        The festival in Centenary Park was made up of 153 projects and performances from more than 800 artists. It was created to mark the first anniversary of the city hosting the Commonwealth Games.
        About 80% of attendees agreed with the statement the event made them feel proud of their local area, the report said.
        Most people who visited - 85% - were from Birmingham and the surrounding West Midlands.

Available at: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g23892drlo. 
In the sentence "About 80% of attendees agreed with the statement the event made them feel proud of their local area, the report said", the verb "agreed" has the same meaning as
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Q3698432 Inglês

Walk of fame


Even if you have never visited Los Angeles, you have probably heard about the most famous sidewalk in the world: the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Every year, around 10 million tourists visit this street to take pictures with their idol’s star.


Since 1960, the Hollywood Boulevard Avenue attracts visitors to see star-plaques with the names of celebrities: actors, singers, movie directors, stage performers or anyone who has contributed to make Hollywood known worldwide. Each pink star is made of a marble called terrazzo, a bronze shield with the honoree’s name and an icon of the celebrity job, like a camera, television or a microphone, for example.


Fonte:

https://www.wizard.com.br/idiomas/textos-

sem-ingles-para-iniciantes/



The correct abbreviation for the word Avenue according to the standard English grammar is 

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Q3686227 Inglês
This ancient Greek warship ruled the Mediterranean


    Fast, maneuverable, and dangerous, the trireme was the most feared ship in ancient Greece. With powerful bronze rams and the ability to turn on a dime, it would leave enemy ships dead in the water by punching holes in their sides or smashing their oars. In his Histories, Herodotus writes how Greek naval dominance owed so much to the brilliant use of triremes in battle.

    In the fifth century B.C., Athenian shipyards had the capacity for over 300 triremes, the most famous warships of antiquity. The trireme—a term derived from the Greek trieres, “three rows of oars”—was the result of the continuous development of naval technology in the Greek world. The epic poem Iliad (attributed to Homer, and written in the eighth century B.C.) mentions ships called triaconters and penteconters, vessels that were crewed by 30 or 50 men, respectively. Biremes, with two rows of oarsmen, are recorded on eighth-century B.C. reliefs. At the beginning of the seventh century B.C., accumulated experience led to new technical advances, and the much more sophisticated trireme model appeared.


(Fonte: National Geographic - adaptado.)
In “Biremes, with two rows of oarsmen, are recorded on eighth-century B.C. reliefs”, the underlined word can be substituted without loss of meaning by:
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Q3681698 Inglês
Advancing adult age is associated with profound changes in body composition, the principal component of which is a decrease in skeletal muscle mass. This age-related loss in skeletal muscle has been referred to as: 
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Q3679724 Inglês
Read the excerpt to answer question .

October 9th 1942


“Today I have nothing but dismal and depressing news to report. Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they’re sending all the Jews. Miep told us about someone who’d managed to escape from there. It must be terrible in Westerbork. The people get almost nothing to eat, much less to drink, as water is available only one hour a day, and there’s only one toilet and sink for several thousand people. Men and women sleep in the same room, and women and children often have their heads shaved. Escape is almost impossible; many people look Jewish, and they’re branded by their shorn heads. If it’s that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they’re being gassed. Perhaps that’s the quickest way to die. I feel terrible. Miep’s accounts of these horrors are so heartrending… Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I’m actually one of them! No, that’s not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and Jews.”

The Diary of Anne Frank 1942-1944 
In the passage from Anne Frank's diary, what synonym could replace the word "depressing" without altering the meaning of the text?
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Q3678486 Inglês
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(1º§) POSTNATAL depression is rife among parents, affecting more than one in 10 women within a year after they've given birth. But many mums hesitate before speaking out about their battles with mental health in what supposed to be a blissful period for them.

(2º§) Ellie Polly Killah, a YouTuber and mum of two boys aged six and two, said she'd ummed and ahhed about sharing her own experience for two years. In a video uploaded to her channel, she gave a raw account of her postnatal depression and the severe anxiety and intrusive thoughts it triggered in its aftermath. "I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, I'm just gonna say it how it is because it's not a pretty thing to deal with, to go through so I'm not going to try and make it so," she told viewers. "This is my story from the beginning till now and how I learned to live with it - I say live with it not overcome it because I don't think you ever do," the mum went on. She hoped the video might help anyone at the precipice of this process.

(3º§) Ellie said she had no history of mental health struggles when she gave birth to her first son Leo in 2017 at the age of 27. She was the first of her friends to have a kid she recalled feeling lonely. And Ellie became aware of her 'attachment issues' with Leo immediately after he was born. "People love to tell you that when your baby is born you have this immediate rush of love when you look at them," she explained. But Ellie said that isn't the case for everyone and it wasn't the case for her with her first child. "Obviously I was amazed when I saw him, sort of overwhelmed, couldn't believe he was here, but I don't remember feeling that complete love and awe of him."

(4º§) Ellie struggled to feel bonded to Leo, but thought there was just 'something really wrong' with her. "I would cry every day but a lot of the time in secret," she remembered, and the new mum said she locked herself in her room to do so whenever someone came round to visit. "I think I did it secretly because I was embarrassed or ashamed, or I thought if people knew I was struggling that they would just think I was this awful mother, or he'd get taken away from me." "Your brain sends you an all of these imaginary scenarios."

(5º§) In retrospect, Ellie questioned how she thought this was normal. Her fiance Clint went back to work when Leo was two weeks old and he'd often have to travel, meaning that Ellie was on her own a lot. She remembered ringing Clint and saying __ her son: "I feel like I don't like him." She told viewers it was painful to recall feeling that way, but it made her begin to realise something wasn't quite right. "This was the first baby for both of us, so we didn't really recognise post-partum depression or know what we were really looking for.

(6º§) At eight weeks old, Ellie's bond for her baby 'came on quite suddenly'. "I remember it hitting me like a wave, looking at him one day and being like: there it is," Ellie said.


Intrusive thoughts and OCD

(7º§) But the guilt of not experiencing that early attachment lead to the mum being 'extremely anxious' about her son. She explained: "The intense love and responsibility that I had to this baby lead me to constantly, constantly [think] he was going to die." Ellie would have 'hideous, morbid, intrusive thoughts' multiple times a day, particularly triggered when she was driving or Leo was in the bath: "It was intense."

(8º§) She started to get panic attacks and physical side effects from the anxiety she was experiencing, like like a tight chest, stomach pains, nausea and headaches. "I know now that OCD basically goes hand in had with severe anxiety," Ellie went on. At her worst, Ellie was convinced her home would catch fire in the night and would obsessively plan out an escape route in her head before sleeping. She also became gripped by the fear that she would die __ the night and leave her baby on his own.    

(9º§) Ellie asked her mum or fiance text her every morning in case this happened.The new mum had her wake-up call when she confessed this fear to her friends one evening and saw the horror on their faces. She booked a therapist appointment the next day.


What helped?

(10º§) Ellie said therapy was hugely helpful to her recovery journey, as was medication. The mum saw female therapist who specialised in anxiety, who taught her techniques that Ellie said she used to this day. A method deal with with her intrusive thoughts was to take a deep breath when she was taken over by one, soak it in and then weigh up the evidence it is true vs. the evidence it isn't. "The one or two minutes it takes for you to sum up that evidence for and against, you've completely calmed down," Ellie said.

(11º§) Three years later Ellie said she's realised how common her experience with postnatal depression is. "I'll worry about my kids forever, I'll probably always get these horrible thoughts and ideas, but I know how to deal with them so I just get on with it. It doesn't control me at all." She went on: "If you are in a dark place and feel like you need help, just talk to someone." Then it's best you get professional help, as these kinds of feelings are "really hard to master on your own". The mum ended on a happier note. "And if you had a bad experience and you're nervous about your second, let me tell you it was a completely different experience __ me second time round.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/22465978

Translate the following phrasal verb from the text: "get on with" (11º§).
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Q3674175 Inglês
Which item correctly displays the meaning of the underlined word in “Don’t pretend to be asleep, son!”? 
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Q3674172 Inglês
In “The curious cat explored the garden with wide-eyed wonder”, the underlined word can be substituted, without loss of meaning, by:
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Q3674169 Inglês
Pompeii still has many secrets to uncover—but should we keep digging?

    In the last year alone, excavations in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a 2,000-year-old laundromat, a bedroom used by slaves, and a fresco _________ an ancestor of pizza. None of those discoveries, however, stemmed from new digs into the 20-foot layer of ash that encased the city after Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in A.D. 79.
    Pompeii, of course, still has more secrets to reveal. Estimates vary but anywhere between 15 to 25% of the city remains covered. For many archaeologists though, the question isn’t so much what they have left to find—but should they continue digging at all?
    For decades, the Italian government had a moratorium on any new excavations in Pompeii. That means most of the finds are byproducts of efforts to preserve and restore what’s already been unearthed, according to Steven Ellis, a professor of Roman archaeology at the University of Cincinnati who worked on excavating Pompeii’s Porta Sabia _______________. “We have enough of [excavated] Pompeii for the general public. We have enough of Pompeii for the scholarly community to learn from,” Ellis said. “What we really need to be doing is keeping it as well preserved for the future as we __________ can.” Going back over those unearthed areas with new and better technology could yield just as exciting discoveries as digging up new sites without putting the city—and future generations’ ability to see it—at risk, Ellis adds.
(Source: National Geographic — adaptation.)
Check the item that CORRECTLY fills in the gaps in the text:
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Q3671235 Inglês

Consider the following sentences:


I. He caught a big bass fish in the lake.


II. He plays bass in the band.


In the given sentences, the word "bass" in I and "bass" in II are examples of: 

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Q3671229 Inglês
The word "set" is one of the most versatile words in the English language, having multiple meanings and interpretations. Which of the following options provides an accurate representation of one of its nuanced meanings?
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Q3669787 Inglês
Consider the sentence below:

His____explanation of the complex scientific theory made it comprehensible even to those with limited knowledge in the field.

Choose the term that correctly completes the sentence above and accurately characterizes a person who communicates clearly and persuasively with concise language.
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Q3669778 Inglês
Dialogue:
Susan: Hey, have you seen my keys? I can't find them anywhere!
Patrick: Did you check the living room? You might have left them there last night.
Susan: Oh, you're right! I just found them behind the couch. Thanks!
Which phrasal verb in the dialogue means "to discover" or "to locate something that was lost"? 
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Q3668612 Inglês
Colombia deadliest country for environmentalists - report

By Vanessa Buschschlüter
BBC News
Tuesday, September 13, 2023

At least 177 environmental activists were killed across the world last year, a report by the non-governmental organisation Global Witness suggests.
Sixty of the killings took place in Colombia, making it the deadliest country for environmental defenders.
Global Witness says very few of the perpetrators of the killings are ever brought to justice.
The group said in its report that the total number of those killed in the country since it began recording data on attacks on environmentalists in 2012 had amounted to at least 382.
While that makes it the country with the highest number of murders of green activists anywhere in the world, other countries in Latin America also proved deadly.
Brazil recorded 34 murders of defenders of the environment. Mexico 31 and Honduras 11. The Amazon region saw 39 killings, with many of the victims from indigenous communities.
"Research has shown again and again that Indigenous peoples are the best guardians of the forests and therefore play a fundamental role in mitigating the climate crisis," said Global Witness senior adviser Laura Furones.
Global witness said the full scale of the killings was unknown, with a lack of independent monitoring and restrictions on free press in many countries leading to an underreporting of cases.
They have called on governments around the world to urgently address the issue, adding that defenders were also increasingly being subjected to legal efforts to silence them.

(Adapted from washingtonpost.com)
In the 8th paragraph, senior adviser Laura Furones shares about the importance of Indigenous people as guardians of the forests.Without changing the meaning of the sentence, which alternative can replace the word mitigating in the sentence? 
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621: C
622: C
623: B
624: A
625: C
626: E
627: D
628: D
629: B
630: A
631: C
632: C
633: D
634: B
635: D
636: B
637: A
638: B
639: C
640: C