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Q742103 Inglês

Text 4 to answer question.

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According to your knowledge of English and to the context of the text, the word “yarn” (line 7) means
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Q742061 Inglês

Text 6 to answer question.

Internet: <http://joshuareich.org/2013/08/20/its-tuesday-afternoon-yourmotivation-is-low/>. Access: 12 Dec. 2015.

The sentence with the underlined verb(s) with the same grammar structure and purpose of the underlined verbs in the sentence “drop dead and let the flies eat you” is
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Q742060 Inglês

Text 6 to answer question.

Internet: <http://joshuareich.org/2013/08/20/its-tuesday-afternoon-yourmotivation-is-low/>. Access: 12 Dec. 2015.

According to the comic strip above, “attaboy” means
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Q742056 Inglês
According to the context and to your knowledge of English, the sentence “So it’s a race to stop the bleeding” (line 13) means
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Q742054 Inglês
In the first paragraph, the word “rejiggered” (line 8) can be replaced by
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Q737157 Inglês

      Donald Trump on Monday proposed collapsing the federal income tax rate from seven brackets down to three and called for allowing child-care expenses to be exempt from taxation in a speech allies hope will help the GOP presidential nominee turn the page on a tumultuous period some Republicans fear has severely damaged his campaign.

      Overall, Trump offered few new details behind his economic vision, which he unveiled as a candidate last year. One notable exception was his call to enable families to "fully deduct" child-care expenses from their taxes. Some such expenses are already deductible; experts say that the additional amounts will largely benefit middle- and upper middle-class families.

      On tax rates, business mogul said he would work with House Republicans and use the same three brackets they have proposed: 12 percent, 25 percent and 33 percent. Previously, Trump proposed tax brackets of 0 percent, 10 percent, 20 percent and 25 percent.

      "For many American workers, their tax rate will be zero," said Trump.

      The GOP nominee continued to leave large question marks about how he would pay for his plans and avoid ballooning the federal budget deficit. He included no new details on how he would limit the cost of his tax reform plan, which analysts have estimated would reduce federal revenues by as much as $10 trillion over a decade. His child-care expense plan would presumably raise that cost even further.

      Trump released a tax plan last year that would reduce the top income tax rate from 39.6 percent to 25 percent and bring down the top corporate rate from 35 percent to 15 percent. The plan would eliminate the estate tax and reduce tax rates to 10 percent for households earning $100,000 or less.

      Trump also did not spell out any federal spending cuts. In his remarks, Trump said he would offer more details in the coming weeks.

(Adapted from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/08/trump-to-call-for-excluding-child-care-costs-from-taxation-as- hetries-to-turn-the-page-on-a-bruising-week/?wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

Um sinônimo para unveiled (2° parágrafo), conforme usado no texto, é
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Q737156 Inglês

      Donald Trump on Monday proposed collapsing the federal income tax rate from seven brackets down to three and called for allowing child-care expenses to be exempt from taxation in a speech allies hope will help the GOP presidential nominee turn the page on a tumultuous period some Republicans fear has severely damaged his campaign.

      Overall, Trump offered few new details behind his economic vision, which he unveiled as a candidate last year. One notable exception was his call to enable families to "fully deduct" child-care expenses from their taxes. Some such expenses are already deductible; experts say that the additional amounts will largely benefit middle- and upper middle-class families.

      On tax rates, business mogul said he would work with House Republicans and use the same three brackets they have proposed: 12 percent, 25 percent and 33 percent. Previously, Trump proposed tax brackets of 0 percent, 10 percent, 20 percent and 25 percent.

      "For many American workers, their tax rate will be zero," said Trump.

      The GOP nominee continued to leave large question marks about how he would pay for his plans and avoid ballooning the federal budget deficit. He included no new details on how he would limit the cost of his tax reform plan, which analysts have estimated would reduce federal revenues by as much as $10 trillion over a decade. His child-care expense plan would presumably raise that cost even further.

      Trump released a tax plan last year that would reduce the top income tax rate from 39.6 percent to 25 percent and bring down the top corporate rate from 35 percent to 15 percent. The plan would eliminate the estate tax and reduce tax rates to 10 percent for households earning $100,000 or less.

      Trump also did not spell out any federal spending cuts. In his remarks, Trump said he would offer more details in the coming weeks.

(Adapted from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/08/trump-to-call-for-excluding-child-care-costs-from-taxation-as- hetries-to-turn-the-page-on-a-bruising-week/?wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

O significado do verbo collapsing (1° parágrafo), conforme empregado no texto, é
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Q735514 Inglês

      

    

In the fragment of the text “The physical design of RockFLEET was in part driven by the security challenges faced by vessels facing the issues of modern piracy” (lines 60-62), driven by can be replaced, without change in meaning, by
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Q735513 Inglês

      

    

Based on the meanings in the text, one notices that the words
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Q731030 Inglês

Atenção: As questões de números 56 a 60 referem-se ao texto apresentado abaixo. As cores originais dos mapas 2, 3 e 4 foram alteradas para visualização em tons de cinza. 

Using analysis, we can feel confident in the spatial patterns we see, and in the decisions that we make.

Putting your data on a map is an important first step for finding patterns and understanding trends. Here we’re looking at crimes that happened in San Francisco, about 37,000 of them. Looking at the points on a map, can you find the clusters or patterns in this point data? Can you decide where the police department should allocate its resources? Just looking at points on a map is often not enough to answer questions or make decisions using this kind of point data. That’s where the spatial analysis tools in ArcGIS come in. 

                                     

We’ve all seen heat maps on TV or in web application-beautiful maps that show high-density areas in bright red, and low-density areas in blue. These maps are used to visualize crime, disease, and a whole host of other types of data and information. These heat maps can be a great first step in a visual analysis of your data  they can also be very subjective. What does that mean? Well, the two heat maps shown below reflect the same San Francisco Crime data, and were created using the same tool. The only difference is the criteria that were used to decide what appears very dark (high density) and what appears very light (low density). These types of cartographic elements that we incorporate into our maps can have a huge impact on the story that the map tells. 

                                           

If the decisions that you’re trying to make as a result of your analyses are important, and they usually are, you’ll want to minimize subjectivity as much . A great way to minimize the subjectivity in your pattern analysis is to use a hot spot analysis, which incorporates a simple spatial statistic to determine if the patterns that you’re seeing are statistically significant or not. The hot spot map is shown here.

                                                    

So what makes this type of map any less subjective than density-based heat maps? The very dark areas on hot spot maps are statistically significant clusters of high values (hot spots), and the very light areas are statistically significant clusters of low values (cold spots). What’s dark and what’s light is always based on statistical significance. Using hot spot analysis, we can feel confident in the spatial patterns that we see, and in the decisions that we make.(Adapted from: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/analysis/017z00000015000000.htm


Um sinônimo para ‘huge’, no trecho ‘can have a huge impact on the story that the map tells’, é
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Q731029 Inglês

Atenção: As questões de números 56 a 60 referem-se ao texto apresentado abaixo. As cores originais dos mapas 2, 3 e 4 foram alteradas para visualização em tons de cinza. 

Using analysis, we can feel confident in the spatial patterns we see, and in the decisions that we make.

Putting your data on a map is an important first step for finding patterns and understanding trends. Here we’re looking at crimes that happened in San Francisco, about 37,000 of them. Looking at the points on a map, can you find the clusters or patterns in this point data? Can you decide where the police department should allocate its resources? Just looking at points on a map is often not enough to answer questions or make decisions using this kind of point data. That’s where the spatial analysis tools in ArcGIS come in. 

                                     

We’ve all seen heat maps on TV or in web application-beautiful maps that show high-density areas in bright red, and low-density areas in blue. These maps are used to visualize crime, disease, and a whole host of other types of data and information. These heat maps can be a great first step in a visual analysis of your data  they can also be very subjective. What does that mean? Well, the two heat maps shown below reflect the same San Francisco Crime data, and were created using the same tool. The only difference is the criteria that were used to decide what appears very dark (high density) and what appears very light (low density). These types of cartographic elements that we incorporate into our maps can have a huge impact on the story that the map tells. 

                                           

If the decisions that you’re trying to make as a result of your analyses are important, and they usually are, you’ll want to minimize subjectivity as much . A great way to minimize the subjectivity in your pattern analysis is to use a hot spot analysis, which incorporates a simple spatial statistic to determine if the patterns that you’re seeing are statistically significant or not. The hot spot map is shown here.

                                                    

So what makes this type of map any less subjective than density-based heat maps? The very dark areas on hot spot maps are statistically significant clusters of high values (hot spots), and the very light areas are statistically significant clusters of low values (cold spots). What’s dark and what’s light is always based on statistical significance. Using hot spot analysis, we can feel confident in the spatial patterns that we see, and in the decisions that we make.(Adapted from: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/analysis/017z00000015000000.htm


Completa o período, indicado pela lacuna II:

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Q730357 Inglês

Lime is very popular binding material in civil engineering constructions. Properly slaked lime slurry or putty is used as binding material in lime mortar and lime concrete.

Na afirmação os termos lime e mortar podem ser traduzidos, correta e respectivamente, como

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Q730073 Inglês

Jeannie Dugger This is VERY TRUE! I grew up in communities with persons of many races, nationalities and cultures. In effect myself and other military are "color-blind". Our parents teach us that our value as a human being is not based on...See more
15 May 2013 at 14:05 · Like · 3
Source: adapted from:
https://www.facebook.com/sntrofficial/?fref=ts. Access: March 2 
In the following passage of the text 07 “This photo is fantastic!!”, all the words are synonyms of “fantastic”, with the exception of:
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Q730064 Inglês
TEXT 05
What is English as a Lingua Franca
What students need most from their language classes affects how we teach. But to what extent do we consider students' needs when it comes to pronunciation? How often do we stop to consider the needs of students who are learning English to mainly communicate with other non-native speakers? In this situation, English is used as a Lingua Franca ( henceforth ELF) - a common language between people who do not share the same native language. So their needs are quite different to students who go to the UK, for example, and want to integrate within that culture and so may want to sound as much like a native speaker as possible. The priority for students using ELF, on the other hand, is to be as intelligible as possible to the people they are communicating with. This does not necessarily mean sounding like a native speaker.
Source: adapted from https://www.britishcouncil.org/voicesmagazine/how-teach-english-lingua-franca-elf. Access: March 24th , 2016.  
The same type of underlined comparative of the excerpt taken from the text 05 "The priority for students using ELF, on the other hand, is to be as intelligible as possible to the people they are communicating with." (lines 16 to 18), is:
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Q730060 Inglês

Identify the item that best replaces the phrasal verb in bold type.  

I’ve finally got over the problem.  

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Q730059 Inglês
Identify the item that best replaces the phrasal verb in bold type.  
  I’ve just ran into your sister on the mall.  
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Q730058 Inglês
Identify the item that best replaces the phrasal verb in bold type.  

He tore up all her letters when she decided to move. 
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Q730053 Inglês
TEXT 04
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     As (1) ______ result of the new information technologies and computer-mediated communications, contemporary communication has become highly multimodal moving, particularly, towards the extensive use of (2) _______image, while meaning is inevitably derived from ways that are multimodal. Nowadays, almost all texts consist of visual elements, which in combination with language hold a prominent role in conveying the essential information. In this context, people, especially youths, are exposed to (3) _______ variety of multimodal texts, such as video games, websites, picture books, school textbooks, magazine articles, advertisements, and graphic novels - that involve a complex interplay of written text, visual images, graphics, and design elements.
    As a consequence of (4) _______ above social changes, the field of education, in particular, the teaching and learning of languages has been influenced, as the traditional literacy pedagogy, which emphasizes language as a central means of meaning, has been challenged to expand beyond the skills of encoding and decoding texts. In this way, educators should draw on the Multiliteracies framework and reconsider their instructional approaches in order to familiarize students, especially, foreign language learners, with the multimodal approach by accentuating the interplay of language and image that are present in conventional and electronic texts.
Source: adapted from https://www.academia.edu/6247350/Strategic_re ading_in_multimodal_EFL_texts. Access: March 24th , 2016.
Considering the excerpt taken from the text 04 "In this way, educators should draw on the Multiliteracies framework and reconsider their instructional approaches in order to familiarize students..." (lines 28 to 31), answer the question.
The word "framework" can be substituted, without changing of meaning by:
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Q730048 Inglês
In the sentence “They intend to finish the English course and eventually study another language” the word “eventually” can be substituted, without changes in meaning by
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Q730043 Inglês
“Mr. Preaud and his wife, who is pregnant, hit the ground as people screamed, “Get down, get down!” After the second explosion, he looked up to see a giant fan — part of an air-conditioning unit — that had landed near them. They had been eating at a Délifrance, talking about Salah Abdeslam, the terrorism suspect who was arrested in Brussels on Friday after a four-month global manhunt.”
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/world/europe /brussels (adapted). Access: March 23rd, 2016.  
The word “manhunt” in the sentence “the terrorism suspect who was arrested in Brussels on Friday after a four-month global manhunt” is a synonym with
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Respostas
2321: E
2322: E
2323: A
2324: B
2325: A
2326: A
2327: A
2328: B
2329: C
2330: C
2331: A
2332: D
2333: E
2334: C
2335: E
2336: B
2337: C
2338: A
2339: E
2340: C