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Q2384540 Inglês

Surge in spirit exports as ‘spectacular’ growth of Irish whiskey continues







(https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/08/11/surge-in-spirit-exports-as-spectacular-growth-of-irishwhiskey-continues/– text specially adapted for this test)

Analyse the statements below about the article and mark T, if TRUE, or F, if FALSE.

( ) There was a 5.7 percent improvement in sales volumes of Irish whiskey only.
( ) The United States is the country that most imports Irish beverages.
( ) The United Kingdom became the second-biggest market for Irish whiskey due to changes in the ranking of international markets and Russia falling out of the top five.

The correct order of filling the parentheses, from top to bottom, is:
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Q2383641 Inglês

Text 18A3-I 


    The roar of a waterfall suggests the power of water. Rampaging floodwaters can uproot strong trees and twist railroad tracks. When the power of water is harnessed, however, it can do useful work for humans. 


    Since ancient times, people have put the energy in the flow of water to work. They first made water work for them with the waterwheel, a wheel with paddles around its rim. Flowing water rotated the waterwheel, which in turn ran machinery that was linked to it. Today, new kinds of waterwheels — turbines — spin generators that produce electricity. Electricity from water-turned generators is known as hydroelectricity. 


    By building a dam across a river, the natural upstream water level is elevated and a difference in head is created that can be used to drive turbines and generate electricity. A large upstream reservoir may balance seasonal water flow; rain or melted snow can be stored in the reservoir during the wet season to provide electricity during dry seasons. 


    Waterpower is distributed unevenly among the continents and nations of the world. Europe and North America have developed much of their waterpower. Asia, South America, and Africa have abundant waterpower potential, but while countries such as China and Brazil have become leading hydroelectric producers, much of the waterpower resource on those continents remains undeveloped. 



Elizabeth Lachner. Hydroelectricity. Rosen Publishing Group, 2018 (adapted). 

In the first paragraph of text 18A3-I, the expression which best suggests an image of the power of man over rivers is 
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Q2383640 Inglês

Text 18A3-I 


    The roar of a waterfall suggests the power of water. Rampaging floodwaters can uproot strong trees and twist railroad tracks. When the power of water is harnessed, however, it can do useful work for humans. 


    Since ancient times, people have put the energy in the flow of water to work. They first made water work for them with the waterwheel, a wheel with paddles around its rim. Flowing water rotated the waterwheel, which in turn ran machinery that was linked to it. Today, new kinds of waterwheels — turbines — spin generators that produce electricity. Electricity from water-turned generators is known as hydroelectricity. 


    By building a dam across a river, the natural upstream water level is elevated and a difference in head is created that can be used to drive turbines and generate electricity. A large upstream reservoir may balance seasonal water flow; rain or melted snow can be stored in the reservoir during the wet season to provide electricity during dry seasons. 


    Waterpower is distributed unevenly among the continents and nations of the world. Europe and North America have developed much of their waterpower. Asia, South America, and Africa have abundant waterpower potential, but while countries such as China and Brazil have become leading hydroelectric producers, much of the waterpower resource on those continents remains undeveloped. 



Elizabeth Lachner. Hydroelectricity. Rosen Publishing Group, 2018 (adapted). 

Based on the fragment “much of the waterpower resource on those continents remains undeveloped” (last sentence of text 18A3), it can be concluded that 
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Q2383638 Inglês

Text 18A3-I 


    The roar of a waterfall suggests the power of water. Rampaging floodwaters can uproot strong trees and twist railroad tracks. When the power of water is harnessed, however, it can do useful work for humans. 


    Since ancient times, people have put the energy in the flow of water to work. They first made water work for them with the waterwheel, a wheel with paddles around its rim. Flowing water rotated the waterwheel, which in turn ran machinery that was linked to it. Today, new kinds of waterwheels — turbines — spin generators that produce electricity. Electricity from water-turned generators is known as hydroelectricity. 


    By building a dam across a river, the natural upstream water level is elevated and a difference in head is created that can be used to drive turbines and generate electricity. A large upstream reservoir may balance seasonal water flow; rain or melted snow can be stored in the reservoir during the wet season to provide electricity during dry seasons. 


    Waterpower is distributed unevenly among the continents and nations of the world. Europe and North America have developed much of their waterpower. Asia, South America, and Africa have abundant waterpower potential, but while countries such as China and Brazil have become leading hydroelectric producers, much of the waterpower resource on those continents remains undeveloped. 



Elizabeth Lachner. Hydroelectricity. Rosen Publishing Group, 2018 (adapted). 

The expression “The roar of a waterfall” (first sentence of text 18A3-I), is more closely related to the sense of 
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Q2382860 Inglês

Text 19A4-I 


        It is a universal fact that cinema is a visual medium. Films have the power to overwhelm our senses as well as our minds, subjecting us to a variety of experiences that can range from the sublime to the devastating. Colours play a crucial role in this interesting phenomenon, forming an integral part of the composition of each frame and dictating how the viewer perceives the spectacle on the screen. Apart from the cinematic medium, colours have always been a part of our experience and how we make sense of the vastly nuanced world around us. Although science has definitively explained what colours are in terms of light, they have always mystified artists and philosophers like Arthur Schopenhauer and Ludwig Wittgenstein, who tried to understand their importance in anthropological frameworks. 


        More notably, the famous German poet and artist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published a seminal exploration of colours in his 1810 work Theory of Colours. In it, he examined how each colour corresponds to various psychological states in the minds of human beings. He wrote, “Light and darkness, brightness and obscurity, or if a more general expression is preferred, light and its absence, are necessary to the production of colour… Colour itself is a degree of darkness.” Goethe’s theories might seem baselessly romantic in the 21st century but the underlying ideas have been implemented by filmmakers and cinematographers to curate the voyeuristic experiences of their audiences. Famed cinematographer Vittorio Storaro has based his artistic vision on Goethe’s work, insisting that colours do have a direct connection to the mind of the viewer. 



Internet: <https://faroutmagazine.co.uk> (adapted).

Maintaining the original meaning of text 19A4-I, the excerpt “Vittorio Storaro has based his artistic vision on Goethe’s work”, in the last sentence of the last paragraph, can be correctly rephrased as 
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Respostas
1: E
2: C
3: E
4: B
5: B