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Ano: 2025
Banca:
Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC
Prova:
Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC - Professor de Ensino Fundamental II - Inglês |
Q3369477
Inglês
Texto associado
Read and answer the questions:
Millennials are giving Gen Z advice for their first potential recession
Many of the generation were young adults when the Great Recession began, and to this day, they struggle to buy homes and pay off student debt. Now these jaded millennials are sharing their wisdom with Gen Z on TikTok, posting preparation tips and no-buy lists to ease the minds of young people who could be entering their first major recession as adults.President Donald Trump’s whiplash-inducing policy changes have everyone warning about dire consequences for the US economy, from Fed Chair Jerome Powell to Goldman Sachs analysts. The Trump administration’s tit-for-tat escalation in the global trade war could lead to a recession for both the US and the world this year, JPMorgan said this month. It comes during an already unprecedented string of events for young people — people in their early 20s are earning less and have more debt, already battered by the Covid-19 pandemic and an onslaught of inflation.
So, the United States might not be in a recession right now, but its youngest working adults are still anxious — and seeking advice from their older peers. When scrolling through TikTok, Sasha Whitney, 37, noticed Gen Z users shared the same feelings over an impending recession: “downtrodden, frustrated, very bleak and hopeless about the future.”
It’s a stark difference from when Whitney graduated from college in 2009 during the Great Recession, before social media became as pervasive and when Barack Obama, who ran his campaign on the concept of hope, just took office.
(https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/27/business/millennials-genz-recession-advice/index.html)
Select the incorrect alternative, according to the
text:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Instituto Consulplan
Órgão:
ARCE
Provas:
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista Econômico-financeiro
|
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista em Gás Canalizado |
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista em Gestão Governamental e Administração Pública |
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista em Saneamento Básico |
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista em Transportes |
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista Contábil-financeiro |
Q3362551
Inglês
Texto associado
The environment
In our modern world, there are many factors that place the wellbeing of the planet in jeopardy. While some people have
the opinion that environmental problems are just a natural occurrence, others believe that human beings have a huge impact
on the environment. Regardless of your viewpoint, take into consideration the following factors that place our environment as
well as the planet Earth in danger.
Global warming or climate change is a major contributing factor to environmental damage. Because of global warming, we
have seen an increase in melting ice caps, a rise in sea levels, and the formation of new weather patterns. These weather
patterns have caused stronger storms, droughts, and flooding in places that they formerly did not occur.
Air pollution is primarily caused as a result of excessive and unregulated emissions of carbon dioxide into the air. Pollutants
mostly emerge from the burning of fossil fuels in addition to chemicals, toxic substances, and improper waste disposal. Air
pollutants are absorbed into the atmosphere, and they can cause smog, a combination of smoke and fog, in valleys as well as
produce acidic precipitation in areas far away from the pollution source.
In many areas, people and local governments do not sustainably use their natural resources. Mining for natural gases,
deforestation, and even improper use of water resources can have tremendous effects on the environment.
Ultimately, the effects of the modern world on the environment can lead to many problems. Human beings need to
consider the repercussions of their actions, trying to reduce, reuse, and recycle materials while establishing environmentally
sustainable habits. If measures are not taken to protect the environment, we can potentially witness the extinction of more
endangered species, worldwide pollution, and a completely uninhabitable planet.
(Available in: www.lingua.com/English/environment. March, 2025.)
According to the text, air pollution is caused primarily as a result of excessive and unregulated emissions of carbon dioxide
into the air. Based on this information in the text, what can air pollutants cause/produce?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Instituto Consulplan
Órgão:
ARCE
Provas:
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista Econômico-financeiro
|
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista em Gás Canalizado |
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista em Gestão Governamental e Administração Pública |
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista em Saneamento Básico |
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista em Transportes |
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista Contábil-financeiro |
Q3362550
Inglês
Texto associado
The environment
In our modern world, there are many factors that place the wellbeing of the planet in jeopardy. While some people have
the opinion that environmental problems are just a natural occurrence, others believe that human beings have a huge impact
on the environment. Regardless of your viewpoint, take into consideration the following factors that place our environment as
well as the planet Earth in danger.
Global warming or climate change is a major contributing factor to environmental damage. Because of global warming, we
have seen an increase in melting ice caps, a rise in sea levels, and the formation of new weather patterns. These weather
patterns have caused stronger storms, droughts, and flooding in places that they formerly did not occur.
Air pollution is primarily caused as a result of excessive and unregulated emissions of carbon dioxide into the air. Pollutants
mostly emerge from the burning of fossil fuels in addition to chemicals, toxic substances, and improper waste disposal. Air
pollutants are absorbed into the atmosphere, and they can cause smog, a combination of smoke and fog, in valleys as well as
produce acidic precipitation in areas far away from the pollution source.
In many areas, people and local governments do not sustainably use their natural resources. Mining for natural gases,
deforestation, and even improper use of water resources can have tremendous effects on the environment.
Ultimately, the effects of the modern world on the environment can lead to many problems. Human beings need to
consider the repercussions of their actions, trying to reduce, reuse, and recycle materials while establishing environmentally
sustainable habits. If measures are not taken to protect the environment, we can potentially witness the extinction of more
endangered species, worldwide pollution, and a completely uninhabitable planet.
(Available in: www.lingua.com/English/environment. March, 2025.)
The text to be interpreted, which talks about the environment and its current problems, presents in its content:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Instituto Consulplan
Órgão:
ARCE
Provas:
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista Econômico-financeiro
|
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista em Gás Canalizado |
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista em Gestão Governamental e Administração Pública |
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista em Saneamento Básico |
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista em Transportes |
Instituto Consulplan - 2025 - ARCE - Analista de Regulação – Especialista Contábil-financeiro |
Q3362549
Inglês
Texto associado
The environment
In our modern world, there are many factors that place the wellbeing of the planet in jeopardy. While some people have
the opinion that environmental problems are just a natural occurrence, others believe that human beings have a huge impact
on the environment. Regardless of your viewpoint, take into consideration the following factors that place our environment as
well as the planet Earth in danger.
Global warming or climate change is a major contributing factor to environmental damage. Because of global warming, we
have seen an increase in melting ice caps, a rise in sea levels, and the formation of new weather patterns. These weather
patterns have caused stronger storms, droughts, and flooding in places that they formerly did not occur.
Air pollution is primarily caused as a result of excessive and unregulated emissions of carbon dioxide into the air. Pollutants
mostly emerge from the burning of fossil fuels in addition to chemicals, toxic substances, and improper waste disposal. Air
pollutants are absorbed into the atmosphere, and they can cause smog, a combination of smoke and fog, in valleys as well as
produce acidic precipitation in areas far away from the pollution source.
In many areas, people and local governments do not sustainably use their natural resources. Mining for natural gases,
deforestation, and even improper use of water resources can have tremendous effects on the environment.
Ultimately, the effects of the modern world on the environment can lead to many problems. Human beings need to
consider the repercussions of their actions, trying to reduce, reuse, and recycle materials while establishing environmentally
sustainable habits. If measures are not taken to protect the environment, we can potentially witness the extinction of more
endangered species, worldwide pollution, and a completely uninhabitable planet.
(Available in: www.lingua.com/English/environment. March, 2025.)
English phonetics and phonology are fields of linguistics that deal with speech’s sounds. Phonetics deals with articulation,
acoustic properties, perception, and sound combinations, while phonology focuses on the study of phonemes and sound
patterns. In the first sentence of the text, the word wellbeing is found. According to the pronunciation of the English
language, which alternative presents a word that produces the same sound of E in the highlighted part?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3361780
Inglês
Effective language instruction often incorporates a variety
of materials beyond textbooks to create dynamic learning
environments and foster student engagement. Which
resource best complements textbook-based English
learning?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3361777
Inglês
When adopting the Communicative Language Teaching
(CLT) approach, teachers prioritize real-world
communication and functional language use. Activities
focus on meaning rather than form.
Which technique best reflects the CLT principles?
Which technique best reflects the CLT principles?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3361773
Inglês
In cases where students fail to reach expected language
outcomes, recovery strategies must be implemented to
ensure that all learners have a chance to succeed. Which
practice best reflects a recovery strategy in English
teaching?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3361770
Inglês
Texto associado
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.
'Why I want an IVF baby to screen out gene that
made me go blind'
Blind content creator and TikTok star Lucy Edwards says
she's "so excited" to be on a health kick to undergo IVF,
but reveals the dilemma she faced in deciding to screen
out the very gene that made her blind.
"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All
podcast.
Lucy and her husband Ollie married at Kew Gardens two
years ago and are now ready to start a family - but there
are complications to consider.
Lucy has the rare genetic condition Incontinentia
Pigmenti (IP) and lost her sight due to this aged 17, just
months after meeting Ollie.
The condition runs through the female line - Lucy's mum
has IP although isn't blind, her Grandma did too and her
great-aunt was blind in one eye.
Lucy is totally blind, but, if she had been a boy, she may
not have survived.
The abnormal IP gene is located on the X chromosome.
Women have two X chromosomes, while males have X
and Y, meaning the appearance of the gene can be more
catastrophic in male pregnancies.
"My grandma actually had nine miscarriages," Lucy says.
This is one of the facts that played into the complicated
decision Lucy and Ollie made to opt for pre-implantation
genetic testing, a special type of IVF where embryos are
created outside of the body and screened for the genetic
condition. Only those embryos which are not affected by
the condition are placed back into the womb.
Without medical intervention, Lucy says there would be
four potential outcomes to any pregnancy she carried: A
healthy and unaffected boy or girl, an affected boy she
would likely miscarry or who would be born with severe
brain damage or an affected girl.
She pauses, then laughs: "That sounds horrible, doesn't
it? That's me."
And that's the quandary. IVF will edit out the very thing
that has made Lucy who she is today - a journalist,
advocate, author and broadcaster.
It is an emotive topic of debate. The most well-known
conversation is around Down's syndrome and the
number of women who choose to abort a pregnancy
once their baby is tested and diagnosed as having the
condition. The question is around the value people place
on other peoples' lives which may not look like our own.
In 2021 campaigner Heidi Crowter, who herself has
Down's syndrome, challenged legislation allowing
foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth.
She took her case to the High Court arguing the rules were discriminatory to disabled people who could live a
good life. She lost the case and the subsequent
argument she made at the Court of Appeal. The
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) later rejected it
as well, but Heidi continues to campaign to have the law
overturned.
It is something Lucy is very aware of and she and her
husband have spent a long time considering.
"It's understanding that it is removing that part of me that
makes me, me," Lucy says. "It's such a personal decision
and I know that I'm opening myself up for possible
designer baby discussions, but I know I'm doing it for the
right reasons."
Lucy says first being diagnosed with IP and then losing
her sight as a teenager were both traumatic events and
she wants to minimise the likelihood of miscarriage to
limit any future traumatic load.
She says she found it impossible to "knowingly" consider
having a baby naturally once she knew the science was
available to give a baby the healthiest start possible.
"If I had a baby and, unknowingly, I had a gorgeous,
gorgeous baby with disabilities, I would be so thankful, so
happy and amazed but knowingly having this gene?
That's why we're having IVF."
IP doesn't just cause blindness, it can also cause severe
epilepsy and more difficult outcomes. Lucy says having
the option to ensure complications were not passed on
felt like both a responsibility and a privilege previous
generations did not have.
"Whether we like it or not, we have to be responsible
here. Maybe a responsible issue for you, if you have IP
or another genetic disorder, is to have a child naturally
and we are not judging you in any shape or form, this is
just our decision."
In response to their openness around this decision
comments were overwhelmingly positive from Lucy's fans
which she thinks might be because she is so "disability
positive" in her everyday life - "I love being blind," she
frequently states.
But Lucy says responses have been different around the
world. When she was working in Japan and her content
was reaching audiences unfamiliar with her story, she faced a lot more trolling.
"I got a lot of abusive comments that go into my spam
filter questioning why I would be a mother," she says. "I
know that I'm going to get a lot of abuse, but I'm just
going to block them.
"I'm going to be OK. All I think about is the other mothers
that have come before me who are competent, capable
and resilient."
Lucy, who is known for her How Does A Blind Girl...
series of videos, is overjoyed by the prospect of IVF but
she has also been frank about the fact she currently does
not qualify, owing to her current weight, a sensitive
element of IVF treatment that many keep to themselves.
NHS guidelines specify your Body Mass Index (BMI)
must be 30 or under to qualify - a healthy BMI is
considered to be between 18.5 and 24.9.
"I need to be a BMI of 30 and I'm very open that I need to
lose 9kg," Lucy says. "I've already lost 15kg."
Her health journey has involved swimming, lifting weights
and many runs with Ollie tethered to her as her sighted
guide. She has also found a love for batch cooking
nutritious meals which she posts about on all of her
channels on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and the
workarounds she has developed as a blind cook.
"I wanted a positive representation of losing weight online
because it's all about this blinking jab," she says,
referring to weight loss injections. "I just wanted to lose it
healthily, have lots of nice food, talk about meal prep and
just smile and run."
Once she hits the required BMI, Lucy will qualify for three
rounds of IVF on the NHS.
She will contact her consultant, after which she has to
"spit in a cup" and offer up her DNA for genetic testing
and analysis.
Over a period of about three months, a genetics team will
"make a bespoke test to find the gene within my eggs,"
Lucy explains.
Meanwhile Lucy will inject herself with trigger shots to
stimulate the follicles within her ovaries to increase the
number of eggs produced which will be retrieved, and
then made into embryos with Ollie's sperm.
The embryos will then be tested so only ones without the
IP gene will be possible candidates. Those embryos will
be "shuffled about" so Lucy and Ollie don't know which
will be selected in terms of gender or other genetic
qualities, and implanted into Lucy, who will carry the baby
to term.
Lucy can't wait for the moment she holds her baby in her
arms.
"It will never stop being a thing within my mind that this
gene is being eradicated," she admits. "But I am very
happy in my decision."
A few days ago Lucy posted on Instagram, her cardigan
tightened at the back with a hairband to make it smaller
and fit.
"I've lost so much [weight] that my clothes are too loose
now so we had to tie it up with a bobble," she tells her
followers.
"Fingers crossed [we're] only a few weeks away from
ringing the clinic."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4v7vj039o
In the text, Lucy is described as "so excited" to undergo
IVF and "very open" about her health journey. Which
statement best explains the grammatical role of "so" and
"very" in these examples?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3361769
Inglês
Texto associado
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.
'Why I want an IVF baby to screen out gene that
made me go blind'
Blind content creator and TikTok star Lucy Edwards says
she's "so excited" to be on a health kick to undergo IVF,
but reveals the dilemma she faced in deciding to screen
out the very gene that made her blind.
"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All
podcast.
Lucy and her husband Ollie married at Kew Gardens two
years ago and are now ready to start a family - but there
are complications to consider.
Lucy has the rare genetic condition Incontinentia
Pigmenti (IP) and lost her sight due to this aged 17, just
months after meeting Ollie.
The condition runs through the female line - Lucy's mum
has IP although isn't blind, her Grandma did too and her
great-aunt was blind in one eye.
Lucy is totally blind, but, if she had been a boy, she may
not have survived.
The abnormal IP gene is located on the X chromosome.
Women have two X chromosomes, while males have X
and Y, meaning the appearance of the gene can be more
catastrophic in male pregnancies.
"My grandma actually had nine miscarriages," Lucy says.
This is one of the facts that played into the complicated
decision Lucy and Ollie made to opt for pre-implantation
genetic testing, a special type of IVF where embryos are
created outside of the body and screened for the genetic
condition. Only those embryos which are not affected by
the condition are placed back into the womb.
Without medical intervention, Lucy says there would be
four potential outcomes to any pregnancy she carried: A
healthy and unaffected boy or girl, an affected boy she
would likely miscarry or who would be born with severe
brain damage or an affected girl.
She pauses, then laughs: "That sounds horrible, doesn't
it? That's me."
And that's the quandary. IVF will edit out the very thing
that has made Lucy who she is today - a journalist,
advocate, author and broadcaster.
It is an emotive topic of debate. The most well-known
conversation is around Down's syndrome and the
number of women who choose to abort a pregnancy
once their baby is tested and diagnosed as having the
condition. The question is around the value people place
on other peoples' lives which may not look like our own.
In 2021 campaigner Heidi Crowter, who herself has
Down's syndrome, challenged legislation allowing
foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth.
She took her case to the High Court arguing the rules were discriminatory to disabled people who could live a
good life. She lost the case and the subsequent
argument she made at the Court of Appeal. The
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) later rejected it
as well, but Heidi continues to campaign to have the law
overturned.
It is something Lucy is very aware of and she and her
husband have spent a long time considering.
"It's understanding that it is removing that part of me that
makes me, me," Lucy says. "It's such a personal decision
and I know that I'm opening myself up for possible
designer baby discussions, but I know I'm doing it for the
right reasons."
Lucy says first being diagnosed with IP and then losing
her sight as a teenager were both traumatic events and
she wants to minimise the likelihood of miscarriage to
limit any future traumatic load.
She says she found it impossible to "knowingly" consider
having a baby naturally once she knew the science was
available to give a baby the healthiest start possible.
"If I had a baby and, unknowingly, I had a gorgeous,
gorgeous baby with disabilities, I would be so thankful, so
happy and amazed but knowingly having this gene?
That's why we're having IVF."
IP doesn't just cause blindness, it can also cause severe
epilepsy and more difficult outcomes. Lucy says having
the option to ensure complications were not passed on
felt like both a responsibility and a privilege previous
generations did not have.
"Whether we like it or not, we have to be responsible
here. Maybe a responsible issue for you, if you have IP
or another genetic disorder, is to have a child naturally
and we are not judging you in any shape or form, this is
just our decision."
In response to their openness around this decision
comments were overwhelmingly positive from Lucy's fans
which she thinks might be because she is so "disability
positive" in her everyday life - "I love being blind," she
frequently states.
But Lucy says responses have been different around the
world. When she was working in Japan and her content
was reaching audiences unfamiliar with her story, she faced a lot more trolling.
"I got a lot of abusive comments that go into my spam
filter questioning why I would be a mother," she says. "I
know that I'm going to get a lot of abuse, but I'm just
going to block them.
"I'm going to be OK. All I think about is the other mothers
that have come before me who are competent, capable
and resilient."
Lucy, who is known for her How Does A Blind Girl...
series of videos, is overjoyed by the prospect of IVF but
she has also been frank about the fact she currently does
not qualify, owing to her current weight, a sensitive
element of IVF treatment that many keep to themselves.
NHS guidelines specify your Body Mass Index (BMI)
must be 30 or under to qualify - a healthy BMI is
considered to be between 18.5 and 24.9.
"I need to be a BMI of 30 and I'm very open that I need to
lose 9kg," Lucy says. "I've already lost 15kg."
Her health journey has involved swimming, lifting weights
and many runs with Ollie tethered to her as her sighted
guide. She has also found a love for batch cooking
nutritious meals which she posts about on all of her
channels on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and the
workarounds she has developed as a blind cook.
"I wanted a positive representation of losing weight online
because it's all about this blinking jab," she says,
referring to weight loss injections. "I just wanted to lose it
healthily, have lots of nice food, talk about meal prep and
just smile and run."
Once she hits the required BMI, Lucy will qualify for three
rounds of IVF on the NHS.
She will contact her consultant, after which she has to
"spit in a cup" and offer up her DNA for genetic testing
and analysis.
Over a period of about three months, a genetics team will
"make a bespoke test to find the gene within my eggs,"
Lucy explains.
Meanwhile Lucy will inject herself with trigger shots to
stimulate the follicles within her ovaries to increase the
number of eggs produced which will be retrieved, and
then made into embryos with Ollie's sperm.
The embryos will then be tested so only ones without the
IP gene will be possible candidates. Those embryos will
be "shuffled about" so Lucy and Ollie don't know which
will be selected in terms of gender or other genetic
qualities, and implanted into Lucy, who will carry the baby
to term.
Lucy can't wait for the moment she holds her baby in her
arms.
"It will never stop being a thing within my mind that this
gene is being eradicated," she admits. "But I am very
happy in my decision."
A few days ago Lucy posted on Instagram, her cardigan
tightened at the back with a hairband to make it smaller
and fit.
"I've lost so much [weight] that my clothes are too loose
now so we had to tie it up with a bobble," she tells her
followers.
"Fingers crossed [we're] only a few weeks away from
ringing the clinic."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4v7vj039o
In the sentence "She has also found a love for batch
cooking nutritious meals which she posts about on all of
her channels," identify the primary role of the preposition
"about."
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3361768
Inglês
Texto associado
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.
'Why I want an IVF baby to screen out gene that
made me go blind'
Blind content creator and TikTok star Lucy Edwards says
she's "so excited" to be on a health kick to undergo IVF,
but reveals the dilemma she faced in deciding to screen
out the very gene that made her blind.
"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All
podcast.
Lucy and her husband Ollie married at Kew Gardens two
years ago and are now ready to start a family - but there
are complications to consider.
Lucy has the rare genetic condition Incontinentia
Pigmenti (IP) and lost her sight due to this aged 17, just
months after meeting Ollie.
The condition runs through the female line - Lucy's mum
has IP although isn't blind, her Grandma did too and her
great-aunt was blind in one eye.
Lucy is totally blind, but, if she had been a boy, she may
not have survived.
The abnormal IP gene is located on the X chromosome.
Women have two X chromosomes, while males have X
and Y, meaning the appearance of the gene can be more
catastrophic in male pregnancies.
"My grandma actually had nine miscarriages," Lucy says.
This is one of the facts that played into the complicated
decision Lucy and Ollie made to opt for pre-implantation
genetic testing, a special type of IVF where embryos are
created outside of the body and screened for the genetic
condition. Only those embryos which are not affected by
the condition are placed back into the womb.
Without medical intervention, Lucy says there would be
four potential outcomes to any pregnancy she carried: A
healthy and unaffected boy or girl, an affected boy she
would likely miscarry or who would be born with severe
brain damage or an affected girl.
She pauses, then laughs: "That sounds horrible, doesn't
it? That's me."
And that's the quandary. IVF will edit out the very thing
that has made Lucy who she is today - a journalist,
advocate, author and broadcaster.
It is an emotive topic of debate. The most well-known
conversation is around Down's syndrome and the
number of women who choose to abort a pregnancy
once their baby is tested and diagnosed as having the
condition. The question is around the value people place
on other peoples' lives which may not look like our own.
In 2021 campaigner Heidi Crowter, who herself has
Down's syndrome, challenged legislation allowing
foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth.
She took her case to the High Court arguing the rules were discriminatory to disabled people who could live a
good life. She lost the case and the subsequent
argument she made at the Court of Appeal. The
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) later rejected it
as well, but Heidi continues to campaign to have the law
overturned.
It is something Lucy is very aware of and she and her
husband have spent a long time considering.
"It's understanding that it is removing that part of me that
makes me, me," Lucy says. "It's such a personal decision
and I know that I'm opening myself up for possible
designer baby discussions, but I know I'm doing it for the
right reasons."
Lucy says first being diagnosed with IP and then losing
her sight as a teenager were both traumatic events and
she wants to minimise the likelihood of miscarriage to
limit any future traumatic load.
She says she found it impossible to "knowingly" consider
having a baby naturally once she knew the science was
available to give a baby the healthiest start possible.
"If I had a baby and, unknowingly, I had a gorgeous,
gorgeous baby with disabilities, I would be so thankful, so
happy and amazed but knowingly having this gene?
That's why we're having IVF."
IP doesn't just cause blindness, it can also cause severe
epilepsy and more difficult outcomes. Lucy says having
the option to ensure complications were not passed on
felt like both a responsibility and a privilege previous
generations did not have.
"Whether we like it or not, we have to be responsible
here. Maybe a responsible issue for you, if you have IP
or another genetic disorder, is to have a child naturally
and we are not judging you in any shape or form, this is
just our decision."
In response to their openness around this decision
comments were overwhelmingly positive from Lucy's fans
which she thinks might be because she is so "disability
positive" in her everyday life - "I love being blind," she
frequently states.
But Lucy says responses have been different around the
world. When she was working in Japan and her content
was reaching audiences unfamiliar with her story, she faced a lot more trolling.
"I got a lot of abusive comments that go into my spam
filter questioning why I would be a mother," she says. "I
know that I'm going to get a lot of abuse, but I'm just
going to block them.
"I'm going to be OK. All I think about is the other mothers
that have come before me who are competent, capable
and resilient."
Lucy, who is known for her How Does A Blind Girl...
series of videos, is overjoyed by the prospect of IVF but
she has also been frank about the fact she currently does
not qualify, owing to her current weight, a sensitive
element of IVF treatment that many keep to themselves.
NHS guidelines specify your Body Mass Index (BMI)
must be 30 or under to qualify - a healthy BMI is
considered to be between 18.5 and 24.9.
"I need to be a BMI of 30 and I'm very open that I need to
lose 9kg," Lucy says. "I've already lost 15kg."
Her health journey has involved swimming, lifting weights
and many runs with Ollie tethered to her as her sighted
guide. She has also found a love for batch cooking
nutritious meals which she posts about on all of her
channels on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and the
workarounds she has developed as a blind cook.
"I wanted a positive representation of losing weight online
because it's all about this blinking jab," she says,
referring to weight loss injections. "I just wanted to lose it
healthily, have lots of nice food, talk about meal prep and
just smile and run."
Once she hits the required BMI, Lucy will qualify for three
rounds of IVF on the NHS.
She will contact her consultant, after which she has to
"spit in a cup" and offer up her DNA for genetic testing
and analysis.
Over a period of about three months, a genetics team will
"make a bespoke test to find the gene within my eggs,"
Lucy explains.
Meanwhile Lucy will inject herself with trigger shots to
stimulate the follicles within her ovaries to increase the
number of eggs produced which will be retrieved, and
then made into embryos with Ollie's sperm.
The embryos will then be tested so only ones without the
IP gene will be possible candidates. Those embryos will
be "shuffled about" so Lucy and Ollie don't know which
will be selected in terms of gender or other genetic
qualities, and implanted into Lucy, who will carry the baby
to term.
Lucy can't wait for the moment she holds her baby in her
arms.
"It will never stop being a thing within my mind that this
gene is being eradicated," she admits. "But I am very
happy in my decision."
A few days ago Lucy posted on Instagram, her cardigan
tightened at the back with a hairband to make it smaller
and fit.
"I've lost so much [weight] that my clothes are too loose
now so we had to tie it up with a bobble," she tells her
followers.
"Fingers crossed [we're] only a few weeks away from
ringing the clinic."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4v7vj039o
Analyze the following excerpt from the text: "Lucy and her
husband Ollie married at Kew Gardens two years ago
and are now ready to start a family." Which explanation
correctly identifies the concordance between subject and
verb?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3361767
Inglês
Texto associado
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.
'Why I want an IVF baby to screen out gene that
made me go blind'
Blind content creator and TikTok star Lucy Edwards says
she's "so excited" to be on a health kick to undergo IVF,
but reveals the dilemma she faced in deciding to screen
out the very gene that made her blind.
"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All
podcast.
Lucy and her husband Ollie married at Kew Gardens two
years ago and are now ready to start a family - but there
are complications to consider.
Lucy has the rare genetic condition Incontinentia
Pigmenti (IP) and lost her sight due to this aged 17, just
months after meeting Ollie.
The condition runs through the female line - Lucy's mum
has IP although isn't blind, her Grandma did too and her
great-aunt was blind in one eye.
Lucy is totally blind, but, if she had been a boy, she may
not have survived.
The abnormal IP gene is located on the X chromosome.
Women have two X chromosomes, while males have X
and Y, meaning the appearance of the gene can be more
catastrophic in male pregnancies.
"My grandma actually had nine miscarriages," Lucy says.
This is one of the facts that played into the complicated
decision Lucy and Ollie made to opt for pre-implantation
genetic testing, a special type of IVF where embryos are
created outside of the body and screened for the genetic
condition. Only those embryos which are not affected by
the condition are placed back into the womb.
Without medical intervention, Lucy says there would be
four potential outcomes to any pregnancy she carried: A
healthy and unaffected boy or girl, an affected boy she
would likely miscarry or who would be born with severe
brain damage or an affected girl.
She pauses, then laughs: "That sounds horrible, doesn't
it? That's me."
And that's the quandary. IVF will edit out the very thing
that has made Lucy who she is today - a journalist,
advocate, author and broadcaster.
It is an emotive topic of debate. The most well-known
conversation is around Down's syndrome and the
number of women who choose to abort a pregnancy
once their baby is tested and diagnosed as having the
condition. The question is around the value people place
on other peoples' lives which may not look like our own.
In 2021 campaigner Heidi Crowter, who herself has
Down's syndrome, challenged legislation allowing
foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth.
She took her case to the High Court arguing the rules were discriminatory to disabled people who could live a
good life. She lost the case and the subsequent
argument she made at the Court of Appeal. The
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) later rejected it
as well, but Heidi continues to campaign to have the law
overturned.
It is something Lucy is very aware of and she and her
husband have spent a long time considering.
"It's understanding that it is removing that part of me that
makes me, me," Lucy says. "It's such a personal decision
and I know that I'm opening myself up for possible
designer baby discussions, but I know I'm doing it for the
right reasons."
Lucy says first being diagnosed with IP and then losing
her sight as a teenager were both traumatic events and
she wants to minimise the likelihood of miscarriage to
limit any future traumatic load.
She says she found it impossible to "knowingly" consider
having a baby naturally once she knew the science was
available to give a baby the healthiest start possible.
"If I had a baby and, unknowingly, I had a gorgeous,
gorgeous baby with disabilities, I would be so thankful, so
happy and amazed but knowingly having this gene?
That's why we're having IVF."
IP doesn't just cause blindness, it can also cause severe
epilepsy and more difficult outcomes. Lucy says having
the option to ensure complications were not passed on
felt like both a responsibility and a privilege previous
generations did not have.
"Whether we like it or not, we have to be responsible
here. Maybe a responsible issue for you, if you have IP
or another genetic disorder, is to have a child naturally
and we are not judging you in any shape or form, this is
just our decision."
In response to their openness around this decision
comments were overwhelmingly positive from Lucy's fans
which she thinks might be because she is so "disability
positive" in her everyday life - "I love being blind," she
frequently states.
But Lucy says responses have been different around the
world. When she was working in Japan and her content
was reaching audiences unfamiliar with her story, she faced a lot more trolling.
"I got a lot of abusive comments that go into my spam
filter questioning why I would be a mother," she says. "I
know that I'm going to get a lot of abuse, but I'm just
going to block them.
"I'm going to be OK. All I think about is the other mothers
that have come before me who are competent, capable
and resilient."
Lucy, who is known for her How Does A Blind Girl...
series of videos, is overjoyed by the prospect of IVF but
she has also been frank about the fact she currently does
not qualify, owing to her current weight, a sensitive
element of IVF treatment that many keep to themselves.
NHS guidelines specify your Body Mass Index (BMI)
must be 30 or under to qualify - a healthy BMI is
considered to be between 18.5 and 24.9.
"I need to be a BMI of 30 and I'm very open that I need to
lose 9kg," Lucy says. "I've already lost 15kg."
Her health journey has involved swimming, lifting weights
and many runs with Ollie tethered to her as her sighted
guide. She has also found a love for batch cooking
nutritious meals which she posts about on all of her
channels on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and the
workarounds she has developed as a blind cook.
"I wanted a positive representation of losing weight online
because it's all about this blinking jab," she says,
referring to weight loss injections. "I just wanted to lose it
healthily, have lots of nice food, talk about meal prep and
just smile and run."
Once she hits the required BMI, Lucy will qualify for three
rounds of IVF on the NHS.
She will contact her consultant, after which she has to
"spit in a cup" and offer up her DNA for genetic testing
and analysis.
Over a period of about three months, a genetics team will
"make a bespoke test to find the gene within my eggs,"
Lucy explains.
Meanwhile Lucy will inject herself with trigger shots to
stimulate the follicles within her ovaries to increase the
number of eggs produced which will be retrieved, and
then made into embryos with Ollie's sperm.
The embryos will then be tested so only ones without the
IP gene will be possible candidates. Those embryos will
be "shuffled about" so Lucy and Ollie don't know which
will be selected in terms of gender or other genetic
qualities, and implanted into Lucy, who will carry the baby
to term.
Lucy can't wait for the moment she holds her baby in her
arms.
"It will never stop being a thing within my mind that this
gene is being eradicated," she admits. "But I am very
happy in my decision."
A few days ago Lucy posted on Instagram, her cardigan
tightened at the back with a hairband to make it smaller
and fit.
"I've lost so much [weight] that my clothes are too loose
now so we had to tie it up with a bobble," she tells her
followers.
"Fingers crossed [we're] only a few weeks away from
ringing the clinic."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4v7vj039o
Lucy Edwards faces a profound emotional and ethical
dilemma as she chooses to undergo IVF to screen out a
gene responsible for her blindness. Despite her advocacy
for disability positivity, she wishes to minimize future
trauma related to genetic conditions. What is the primary
motivation behind Lucy's decision to use genetic testing
during IVF?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3361766
Inglês
Texto associado
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.
'Why I want an IVF baby to screen out gene that
made me go blind'
Blind content creator and TikTok star Lucy Edwards says
she's "so excited" to be on a health kick to undergo IVF,
but reveals the dilemma she faced in deciding to screen
out the very gene that made her blind.
"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All
podcast.
Lucy and her husband Ollie married at Kew Gardens two
years ago and are now ready to start a family - but there
are complications to consider.
Lucy has the rare genetic condition Incontinentia
Pigmenti (IP) and lost her sight due to this aged 17, just
months after meeting Ollie.
The condition runs through the female line - Lucy's mum
has IP although isn't blind, her Grandma did too and her
great-aunt was blind in one eye.
Lucy is totally blind, but, if she had been a boy, she may
not have survived.
The abnormal IP gene is located on the X chromosome.
Women have two X chromosomes, while males have X
and Y, meaning the appearance of the gene can be more
catastrophic in male pregnancies.
"My grandma actually had nine miscarriages," Lucy says.
This is one of the facts that played into the complicated
decision Lucy and Ollie made to opt for pre-implantation
genetic testing, a special type of IVF where embryos are
created outside of the body and screened for the genetic
condition. Only those embryos which are not affected by
the condition are placed back into the womb.
Without medical intervention, Lucy says there would be
four potential outcomes to any pregnancy she carried: A
healthy and unaffected boy or girl, an affected boy she
would likely miscarry or who would be born with severe
brain damage or an affected girl.
She pauses, then laughs: "That sounds horrible, doesn't
it? That's me."
And that's the quandary. IVF will edit out the very thing
that has made Lucy who she is today - a journalist,
advocate, author and broadcaster.
It is an emotive topic of debate. The most well-known
conversation is around Down's syndrome and the
number of women who choose to abort a pregnancy
once their baby is tested and diagnosed as having the
condition. The question is around the value people place
on other peoples' lives which may not look like our own.
In 2021 campaigner Heidi Crowter, who herself has
Down's syndrome, challenged legislation allowing
foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth.
She took her case to the High Court arguing the rules were discriminatory to disabled people who could live a
good life. She lost the case and the subsequent
argument she made at the Court of Appeal. The
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) later rejected it
as well, but Heidi continues to campaign to have the law
overturned.
It is something Lucy is very aware of and she and her
husband have spent a long time considering.
"It's understanding that it is removing that part of me that
makes me, me," Lucy says. "It's such a personal decision
and I know that I'm opening myself up for possible
designer baby discussions, but I know I'm doing it for the
right reasons."
Lucy says first being diagnosed with IP and then losing
her sight as a teenager were both traumatic events and
she wants to minimise the likelihood of miscarriage to
limit any future traumatic load.
She says she found it impossible to "knowingly" consider
having a baby naturally once she knew the science was
available to give a baby the healthiest start possible.
"If I had a baby and, unknowingly, I had a gorgeous,
gorgeous baby with disabilities, I would be so thankful, so
happy and amazed but knowingly having this gene?
That's why we're having IVF."
IP doesn't just cause blindness, it can also cause severe
epilepsy and more difficult outcomes. Lucy says having
the option to ensure complications were not passed on
felt like both a responsibility and a privilege previous
generations did not have.
"Whether we like it or not, we have to be responsible
here. Maybe a responsible issue for you, if you have IP
or another genetic disorder, is to have a child naturally
and we are not judging you in any shape or form, this is
just our decision."
In response to their openness around this decision
comments were overwhelmingly positive from Lucy's fans
which she thinks might be because she is so "disability
positive" in her everyday life - "I love being blind," she
frequently states.
But Lucy says responses have been different around the
world. When she was working in Japan and her content
was reaching audiences unfamiliar with her story, she faced a lot more trolling.
"I got a lot of abusive comments that go into my spam
filter questioning why I would be a mother," she says. "I
know that I'm going to get a lot of abuse, but I'm just
going to block them.
"I'm going to be OK. All I think about is the other mothers
that have come before me who are competent, capable
and resilient."
Lucy, who is known for her How Does A Blind Girl...
series of videos, is overjoyed by the prospect of IVF but
she has also been frank about the fact she currently does
not qualify, owing to her current weight, a sensitive
element of IVF treatment that many keep to themselves.
NHS guidelines specify your Body Mass Index (BMI)
must be 30 or under to qualify - a healthy BMI is
considered to be between 18.5 and 24.9.
"I need to be a BMI of 30 and I'm very open that I need to
lose 9kg," Lucy says. "I've already lost 15kg."
Her health journey has involved swimming, lifting weights
and many runs with Ollie tethered to her as her sighted
guide. She has also found a love for batch cooking
nutritious meals which she posts about on all of her
channels on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and the
workarounds she has developed as a blind cook.
"I wanted a positive representation of losing weight online
because it's all about this blinking jab," she says,
referring to weight loss injections. "I just wanted to lose it
healthily, have lots of nice food, talk about meal prep and
just smile and run."
Once she hits the required BMI, Lucy will qualify for three
rounds of IVF on the NHS.
She will contact her consultant, after which she has to
"spit in a cup" and offer up her DNA for genetic testing
and analysis.
Over a period of about three months, a genetics team will
"make a bespoke test to find the gene within my eggs,"
Lucy explains.
Meanwhile Lucy will inject herself with trigger shots to
stimulate the follicles within her ovaries to increase the
number of eggs produced which will be retrieved, and
then made into embryos with Ollie's sperm.
The embryos will then be tested so only ones without the
IP gene will be possible candidates. Those embryos will
be "shuffled about" so Lucy and Ollie don't know which
will be selected in terms of gender or other genetic
qualities, and implanted into Lucy, who will carry the baby
to term.
Lucy can't wait for the moment she holds her baby in her
arms.
"It will never stop being a thing within my mind that this
gene is being eradicated," she admits. "But I am very
happy in my decision."
A few days ago Lucy posted on Instagram, her cardigan
tightened at the back with a hairband to make it smaller
and fit.
"I've lost so much [weight] that my clothes are too loose
now so we had to tie it up with a bobble," she tells her
followers.
"Fingers crossed [we're] only a few weeks away from
ringing the clinic."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4v7vj039o
In the sentence, "She has found a love for batch cooking
nutritious meals," the term "batch cooking" can best be
understood as:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3361765
Inglês
Texto associado
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.
'Why I want an IVF baby to screen out gene that
made me go blind'
Blind content creator and TikTok star Lucy Edwards says
she's "so excited" to be on a health kick to undergo IVF,
but reveals the dilemma she faced in deciding to screen
out the very gene that made her blind.
"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All
podcast.
Lucy and her husband Ollie married at Kew Gardens two
years ago and are now ready to start a family - but there
are complications to consider.
Lucy has the rare genetic condition Incontinentia
Pigmenti (IP) and lost her sight due to this aged 17, just
months after meeting Ollie.
The condition runs through the female line - Lucy's mum
has IP although isn't blind, her Grandma did too and her
great-aunt was blind in one eye.
Lucy is totally blind, but, if she had been a boy, she may
not have survived.
The abnormal IP gene is located on the X chromosome.
Women have two X chromosomes, while males have X
and Y, meaning the appearance of the gene can be more
catastrophic in male pregnancies.
"My grandma actually had nine miscarriages," Lucy says.
This is one of the facts that played into the complicated
decision Lucy and Ollie made to opt for pre-implantation
genetic testing, a special type of IVF where embryos are
created outside of the body and screened for the genetic
condition. Only those embryos which are not affected by
the condition are placed back into the womb.
Without medical intervention, Lucy says there would be
four potential outcomes to any pregnancy she carried: A
healthy and unaffected boy or girl, an affected boy she
would likely miscarry or who would be born with severe
brain damage or an affected girl.
She pauses, then laughs: "That sounds horrible, doesn't
it? That's me."
And that's the quandary. IVF will edit out the very thing
that has made Lucy who she is today - a journalist,
advocate, author and broadcaster.
It is an emotive topic of debate. The most well-known
conversation is around Down's syndrome and the
number of women who choose to abort a pregnancy
once their baby is tested and diagnosed as having the
condition. The question is around the value people place
on other peoples' lives which may not look like our own.
In 2021 campaigner Heidi Crowter, who herself has
Down's syndrome, challenged legislation allowing
foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth.
She took her case to the High Court arguing the rules were discriminatory to disabled people who could live a
good life. She lost the case and the subsequent
argument she made at the Court of Appeal. The
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) later rejected it
as well, but Heidi continues to campaign to have the law
overturned.
It is something Lucy is very aware of and she and her
husband have spent a long time considering.
"It's understanding that it is removing that part of me that
makes me, me," Lucy says. "It's such a personal decision
and I know that I'm opening myself up for possible
designer baby discussions, but I know I'm doing it for the
right reasons."
Lucy says first being diagnosed with IP and then losing
her sight as a teenager were both traumatic events and
she wants to minimise the likelihood of miscarriage to
limit any future traumatic load.
She says she found it impossible to "knowingly" consider
having a baby naturally once she knew the science was
available to give a baby the healthiest start possible.
"If I had a baby and, unknowingly, I had a gorgeous,
gorgeous baby with disabilities, I would be so thankful, so
happy and amazed but knowingly having this gene?
That's why we're having IVF."
IP doesn't just cause blindness, it can also cause severe
epilepsy and more difficult outcomes. Lucy says having
the option to ensure complications were not passed on
felt like both a responsibility and a privilege previous
generations did not have.
"Whether we like it or not, we have to be responsible
here. Maybe a responsible issue for you, if you have IP
or another genetic disorder, is to have a child naturally
and we are not judging you in any shape or form, this is
just our decision."
In response to their openness around this decision
comments were overwhelmingly positive from Lucy's fans
which she thinks might be because she is so "disability
positive" in her everyday life - "I love being blind," she
frequently states.
But Lucy says responses have been different around the
world. When she was working in Japan and her content
was reaching audiences unfamiliar with her story, she faced a lot more trolling.
"I got a lot of abusive comments that go into my spam
filter questioning why I would be a mother," she says. "I
know that I'm going to get a lot of abuse, but I'm just
going to block them.
"I'm going to be OK. All I think about is the other mothers
that have come before me who are competent, capable
and resilient."
Lucy, who is known for her How Does A Blind Girl...
series of videos, is overjoyed by the prospect of IVF but
she has also been frank about the fact she currently does
not qualify, owing to her current weight, a sensitive
element of IVF treatment that many keep to themselves.
NHS guidelines specify your Body Mass Index (BMI)
must be 30 or under to qualify - a healthy BMI is
considered to be between 18.5 and 24.9.
"I need to be a BMI of 30 and I'm very open that I need to
lose 9kg," Lucy says. "I've already lost 15kg."
Her health journey has involved swimming, lifting weights
and many runs with Ollie tethered to her as her sighted
guide. She has also found a love for batch cooking
nutritious meals which she posts about on all of her
channels on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and the
workarounds she has developed as a blind cook.
"I wanted a positive representation of losing weight online
because it's all about this blinking jab," she says,
referring to weight loss injections. "I just wanted to lose it
healthily, have lots of nice food, talk about meal prep and
just smile and run."
Once she hits the required BMI, Lucy will qualify for three
rounds of IVF on the NHS.
She will contact her consultant, after which she has to
"spit in a cup" and offer up her DNA for genetic testing
and analysis.
Over a period of about three months, a genetics team will
"make a bespoke test to find the gene within my eggs,"
Lucy explains.
Meanwhile Lucy will inject herself with trigger shots to
stimulate the follicles within her ovaries to increase the
number of eggs produced which will be retrieved, and
then made into embryos with Ollie's sperm.
The embryos will then be tested so only ones without the
IP gene will be possible candidates. Those embryos will
be "shuffled about" so Lucy and Ollie don't know which
will be selected in terms of gender or other genetic
qualities, and implanted into Lucy, who will carry the baby
to term.
Lucy can't wait for the moment she holds her baby in her
arms.
"It will never stop being a thing within my mind that this
gene is being eradicated," she admits. "But I am very
happy in my decision."
A few days ago Lucy posted on Instagram, her cardigan
tightened at the back with a hairband to make it smaller
and fit.
"I've lost so much [weight] that my clothes are too loose
now so we had to tie it up with a bobble," she tells her
followers.
"Fingers crossed [we're] only a few weeks away from
ringing the clinic."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4v7vj039o
Imagine using this text in an English classroom to teach reading comprehension. According to contemporary
methodology, what would be the most effective strategy?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3361764
Inglês
Texto associado
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.
'Why I want an IVF baby to screen out gene that
made me go blind'
Blind content creator and TikTok star Lucy Edwards says
she's "so excited" to be on a health kick to undergo IVF,
but reveals the dilemma she faced in deciding to screen
out the very gene that made her blind.
"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All
podcast.
Lucy and her husband Ollie married at Kew Gardens two
years ago and are now ready to start a family - but there
are complications to consider.
Lucy has the rare genetic condition Incontinentia
Pigmenti (IP) and lost her sight due to this aged 17, just
months after meeting Ollie.
The condition runs through the female line - Lucy's mum
has IP although isn't blind, her Grandma did too and her
great-aunt was blind in one eye.
Lucy is totally blind, but, if she had been a boy, she may
not have survived.
The abnormal IP gene is located on the X chromosome.
Women have two X chromosomes, while males have X
and Y, meaning the appearance of the gene can be more
catastrophic in male pregnancies.
"My grandma actually had nine miscarriages," Lucy says.
This is one of the facts that played into the complicated
decision Lucy and Ollie made to opt for pre-implantation
genetic testing, a special type of IVF where embryos are
created outside of the body and screened for the genetic
condition. Only those embryos which are not affected by
the condition are placed back into the womb.
Without medical intervention, Lucy says there would be
four potential outcomes to any pregnancy she carried: A
healthy and unaffected boy or girl, an affected boy she
would likely miscarry or who would be born with severe
brain damage or an affected girl.
She pauses, then laughs: "That sounds horrible, doesn't
it? That's me."
And that's the quandary. IVF will edit out the very thing
that has made Lucy who she is today - a journalist,
advocate, author and broadcaster.
It is an emotive topic of debate. The most well-known
conversation is around Down's syndrome and the
number of women who choose to abort a pregnancy
once their baby is tested and diagnosed as having the
condition. The question is around the value people place
on other peoples' lives which may not look like our own.
In 2021 campaigner Heidi Crowter, who herself has
Down's syndrome, challenged legislation allowing
foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth.
She took her case to the High Court arguing the rules were discriminatory to disabled people who could live a
good life. She lost the case and the subsequent
argument she made at the Court of Appeal. The
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) later rejected it
as well, but Heidi continues to campaign to have the law
overturned.
It is something Lucy is very aware of and she and her
husband have spent a long time considering.
"It's understanding that it is removing that part of me that
makes me, me," Lucy says. "It's such a personal decision
and I know that I'm opening myself up for possible
designer baby discussions, but I know I'm doing it for the
right reasons."
Lucy says first being diagnosed with IP and then losing
her sight as a teenager were both traumatic events and
she wants to minimise the likelihood of miscarriage to
limit any future traumatic load.
She says she found it impossible to "knowingly" consider
having a baby naturally once she knew the science was
available to give a baby the healthiest start possible.
"If I had a baby and, unknowingly, I had a gorgeous,
gorgeous baby with disabilities, I would be so thankful, so
happy and amazed but knowingly having this gene?
That's why we're having IVF."
IP doesn't just cause blindness, it can also cause severe
epilepsy and more difficult outcomes. Lucy says having
the option to ensure complications were not passed on
felt like both a responsibility and a privilege previous
generations did not have.
"Whether we like it or not, we have to be responsible
here. Maybe a responsible issue for you, if you have IP
or another genetic disorder, is to have a child naturally
and we are not judging you in any shape or form, this is
just our decision."
In response to their openness around this decision
comments were overwhelmingly positive from Lucy's fans
which she thinks might be because she is so "disability
positive" in her everyday life - "I love being blind," she
frequently states.
But Lucy says responses have been different around the
world. When she was working in Japan and her content
was reaching audiences unfamiliar with her story, she faced a lot more trolling.
"I got a lot of abusive comments that go into my spam
filter questioning why I would be a mother," she says. "I
know that I'm going to get a lot of abuse, but I'm just
going to block them.
"I'm going to be OK. All I think about is the other mothers
that have come before me who are competent, capable
and resilient."
Lucy, who is known for her How Does A Blind Girl...
series of videos, is overjoyed by the prospect of IVF but
she has also been frank about the fact she currently does
not qualify, owing to her current weight, a sensitive
element of IVF treatment that many keep to themselves.
NHS guidelines specify your Body Mass Index (BMI)
must be 30 or under to qualify - a healthy BMI is
considered to be between 18.5 and 24.9.
"I need to be a BMI of 30 and I'm very open that I need to
lose 9kg," Lucy says. "I've already lost 15kg."
Her health journey has involved swimming, lifting weights
and many runs with Ollie tethered to her as her sighted
guide. She has also found a love for batch cooking
nutritious meals which she posts about on all of her
channels on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and the
workarounds she has developed as a blind cook.
"I wanted a positive representation of losing weight online
because it's all about this blinking jab," she says,
referring to weight loss injections. "I just wanted to lose it
healthily, have lots of nice food, talk about meal prep and
just smile and run."
Once she hits the required BMI, Lucy will qualify for three
rounds of IVF on the NHS.
She will contact her consultant, after which she has to
"spit in a cup" and offer up her DNA for genetic testing
and analysis.
Over a period of about three months, a genetics team will
"make a bespoke test to find the gene within my eggs,"
Lucy explains.
Meanwhile Lucy will inject herself with trigger shots to
stimulate the follicles within her ovaries to increase the
number of eggs produced which will be retrieved, and
then made into embryos with Ollie's sperm.
The embryos will then be tested so only ones without the
IP gene will be possible candidates. Those embryos will
be "shuffled about" so Lucy and Ollie don't know which
will be selected in terms of gender or other genetic
qualities, and implanted into Lucy, who will carry the baby
to term.
Lucy can't wait for the moment she holds her baby in her
arms.
"It will never stop being a thing within my mind that this
gene is being eradicated," she admits. "But I am very
happy in my decision."
A few days ago Lucy posted on Instagram, her cardigan
tightened at the back with a hairband to make it smaller
and fit.
"I've lost so much [weight] that my clothes are too loose
now so we had to tie it up with a bobble," she tells her
followers.
"Fingers crossed [we're] only a few weeks away from
ringing the clinic."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4v7vj039o
Throughout the text, Lucy emphasizes both her pride in
her identity as a blind woman and her desire to minimize
the genetic risks for her child. Considering this, what is
the most accurate inference about Lucy's values?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3361763
Inglês
Texto associado
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.
'Why I want an IVF baby to screen out gene that
made me go blind'
Blind content creator and TikTok star Lucy Edwards says
she's "so excited" to be on a health kick to undergo IVF,
but reveals the dilemma she faced in deciding to screen
out the very gene that made her blind.
"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All
podcast.
Lucy and her husband Ollie married at Kew Gardens two
years ago and are now ready to start a family - but there
are complications to consider.
Lucy has the rare genetic condition Incontinentia
Pigmenti (IP) and lost her sight due to this aged 17, just
months after meeting Ollie.
The condition runs through the female line - Lucy's mum
has IP although isn't blind, her Grandma did too and her
great-aunt was blind in one eye.
Lucy is totally blind, but, if she had been a boy, she may
not have survived.
The abnormal IP gene is located on the X chromosome.
Women have two X chromosomes, while males have X
and Y, meaning the appearance of the gene can be more
catastrophic in male pregnancies.
"My grandma actually had nine miscarriages," Lucy says.
This is one of the facts that played into the complicated
decision Lucy and Ollie made to opt for pre-implantation
genetic testing, a special type of IVF where embryos are
created outside of the body and screened for the genetic
condition. Only those embryos which are not affected by
the condition are placed back into the womb.
Without medical intervention, Lucy says there would be
four potential outcomes to any pregnancy she carried: A
healthy and unaffected boy or girl, an affected boy she
would likely miscarry or who would be born with severe
brain damage or an affected girl.
She pauses, then laughs: "That sounds horrible, doesn't
it? That's me."
And that's the quandary. IVF will edit out the very thing
that has made Lucy who she is today - a journalist,
advocate, author and broadcaster.
It is an emotive topic of debate. The most well-known
conversation is around Down's syndrome and the
number of women who choose to abort a pregnancy
once their baby is tested and diagnosed as having the
condition. The question is around the value people place
on other peoples' lives which may not look like our own.
In 2021 campaigner Heidi Crowter, who herself has
Down's syndrome, challenged legislation allowing
foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth.
She took her case to the High Court arguing the rules were discriminatory to disabled people who could live a
good life. She lost the case and the subsequent
argument she made at the Court of Appeal. The
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) later rejected it
as well, but Heidi continues to campaign to have the law
overturned.
It is something Lucy is very aware of and she and her
husband have spent a long time considering.
"It's understanding that it is removing that part of me that
makes me, me," Lucy says. "It's such a personal decision
and I know that I'm opening myself up for possible
designer baby discussions, but I know I'm doing it for the
right reasons."
Lucy says first being diagnosed with IP and then losing
her sight as a teenager were both traumatic events and
she wants to minimise the likelihood of miscarriage to
limit any future traumatic load.
She says she found it impossible to "knowingly" consider
having a baby naturally once she knew the science was
available to give a baby the healthiest start possible.
"If I had a baby and, unknowingly, I had a gorgeous,
gorgeous baby with disabilities, I would be so thankful, so
happy and amazed but knowingly having this gene?
That's why we're having IVF."
IP doesn't just cause blindness, it can also cause severe
epilepsy and more difficult outcomes. Lucy says having
the option to ensure complications were not passed on
felt like both a responsibility and a privilege previous
generations did not have.
"Whether we like it or not, we have to be responsible
here. Maybe a responsible issue for you, if you have IP
or another genetic disorder, is to have a child naturally
and we are not judging you in any shape or form, this is
just our decision."
In response to their openness around this decision
comments were overwhelmingly positive from Lucy's fans
which she thinks might be because she is so "disability
positive" in her everyday life - "I love being blind," she
frequently states.
But Lucy says responses have been different around the
world. When she was working in Japan and her content
was reaching audiences unfamiliar with her story, she faced a lot more trolling.
"I got a lot of abusive comments that go into my spam
filter questioning why I would be a mother," she says. "I
know that I'm going to get a lot of abuse, but I'm just
going to block them.
"I'm going to be OK. All I think about is the other mothers
that have come before me who are competent, capable
and resilient."
Lucy, who is known for her How Does A Blind Girl...
series of videos, is overjoyed by the prospect of IVF but
she has also been frank about the fact she currently does
not qualify, owing to her current weight, a sensitive
element of IVF treatment that many keep to themselves.
NHS guidelines specify your Body Mass Index (BMI)
must be 30 or under to qualify - a healthy BMI is
considered to be between 18.5 and 24.9.
"I need to be a BMI of 30 and I'm very open that I need to
lose 9kg," Lucy says. "I've already lost 15kg."
Her health journey has involved swimming, lifting weights
and many runs with Ollie tethered to her as her sighted
guide. She has also found a love for batch cooking
nutritious meals which she posts about on all of her
channels on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and the
workarounds she has developed as a blind cook.
"I wanted a positive representation of losing weight online
because it's all about this blinking jab," she says,
referring to weight loss injections. "I just wanted to lose it
healthily, have lots of nice food, talk about meal prep and
just smile and run."
Once she hits the required BMI, Lucy will qualify for three
rounds of IVF on the NHS.
She will contact her consultant, after which she has to
"spit in a cup" and offer up her DNA for genetic testing
and analysis.
Over a period of about three months, a genetics team will
"make a bespoke test to find the gene within my eggs,"
Lucy explains.
Meanwhile Lucy will inject herself with trigger shots to
stimulate the follicles within her ovaries to increase the
number of eggs produced which will be retrieved, and
then made into embryos with Ollie's sperm.
The embryos will then be tested so only ones without the
IP gene will be possible candidates. Those embryos will
be "shuffled about" so Lucy and Ollie don't know which
will be selected in terms of gender or other genetic
qualities, and implanted into Lucy, who will carry the baby
to term.
Lucy can't wait for the moment she holds her baby in her
arms.
"It will never stop being a thing within my mind that this
gene is being eradicated," she admits. "But I am very
happy in my decision."
A few days ago Lucy posted on Instagram, her cardigan
tightened at the back with a hairband to make it smaller
and fit.
"I've lost so much [weight] that my clothes are too loose
now so we had to tie it up with a bobble," she tells her
followers.
"Fingers crossed [we're] only a few weeks away from
ringing the clinic."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4v7vj039o
Analyze the sentence from the text: "Lucy says she found
it impossible to 'knowingly' consider having a baby
naturally once she knew the science was available."
Which option maintains the correct tense consistency if rephrased?
Which option maintains the correct tense consistency if rephrased?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
EMBRAPA
Provas:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Analista – Área: Gestão de Pessoas – Subárea: Administração de Pessoas
|
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Analista – Área: Gestão de Pessoas – Subárea: Folha de Pagamento |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Analista – Área: Gestão de Pessoas – Subárea: Desenvolvimento Humano |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Analista – Área: Gestão de Pessoas – Subárea: Saúde Ocupacional |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Analista – Área: Gestão de Pessoas – Subárea: Segurança e Saúde do Trabalho |
Q3344462
Inglês
Texto associado
Climate change poses significant challenges to cattle
farming, a sector vital to global food security. Among the most
pressing concerns is the increasing frequency and intensity
of droughts. Reduced rainfall diminishes pasture quality and
availability, limiting feed for livestock and increasing water
scarcity. This can lead to decreased animal growth rates, reduced
milk production, and increased mortality rates. Moreover,
prolonged droughts can contribute to desertification, shrinking
available grazing land and forcing farmers to adopt costly
alternative feeding strategies.
Beyond drought, other climate-related impacts include
heat stress, which can significantly impact animal health and
productivity. Rising temperatures can exacerbate heat stress,
leading to decreased feed intake, reduced fertility, and increased
mortality in livestock. Furthermore, extreme weather events, such
as heavy rainfall and flooding, can cause infrastructure damage,
contaminate water sources, and lead to the loss of livestock.
The cattle farming sector itself contributes to climate
change through greenhouse gas emissions, primarily methane
produced during animal digestion and nitrous oxide from manure
management. Deforestation for pasture expansion also releases
significant amounts of carbon dioxide.
To address these challenges, a multi-pronged approach is
crucial.
• Genetic selection: Breeding programs focused on
developing drought-resistant and heat-tolerant
livestock breeds are vital.
• Sustainable feeding strategies: Implementing precision
feeding techniques, improving feed efficiency, and
exploring alternative feed sources, such as
drought-resistant forage varieties, can enhance
livestock resilience.
• Integrated farming systems: Integrating crop and
livestock production, such as through agroforestry
systems, can improve soil health, enhance water
retention, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Technological innovations: Utilizing technologies
such as precision livestock farming, remote sensing for
pasture monitoring, and renewable energy sources can
improve resource efficiency and reduce the
environmental footprint of cattle production.
Furthermore, strong policy support, including incentives
for sustainable farming practices, investments in research and
development, and improved access to climate information
services, are essential for the long-term sustainability of the cattle
farming sector.
Addressing the challenges posed by climate change
requires a collaborative effort involving farmers, researchers,
policymakers, and consumers. By embracing innovative
solutions, prioritizing sustainable practices, and fostering a
collective understanding of the importance of climate-resilient
livestock production, we can ensure a future when this vital
sector continues to thrive while minimizing its environmental
impact.
Internet:<conafer.org.br> (adapted).
Judge the following items based on the text above.
Heat stress has become one of the important issues in cattle farming, especially in those areas where temperature has started to increase steadily.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
EMBRAPA
Provas:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Analista – Área: Gestão de Pessoas – Subárea: Administração de Pessoas
|
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Analista – Área: Gestão de Pessoas – Subárea: Folha de Pagamento |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Analista – Área: Gestão de Pessoas – Subárea: Desenvolvimento Humano |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Analista – Área: Gestão de Pessoas – Subárea: Saúde Ocupacional |
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - EMBRAPA - Analista – Área: Gestão de Pessoas – Subárea: Segurança e Saúde do Trabalho |
Q3344461
Inglês
Texto associado
Climate change poses significant challenges to cattle
farming, a sector vital to global food security. Among the most
pressing concerns is the increasing frequency and intensity
of droughts. Reduced rainfall diminishes pasture quality and
availability, limiting feed for livestock and increasing water
scarcity. This can lead to decreased animal growth rates, reduced
milk production, and increased mortality rates. Moreover,
prolonged droughts can contribute to desertification, shrinking
available grazing land and forcing farmers to adopt costly
alternative feeding strategies.
Beyond drought, other climate-related impacts include
heat stress, which can significantly impact animal health and
productivity. Rising temperatures can exacerbate heat stress,
leading to decreased feed intake, reduced fertility, and increased
mortality in livestock. Furthermore, extreme weather events, such
as heavy rainfall and flooding, can cause infrastructure damage,
contaminate water sources, and lead to the loss of livestock.
The cattle farming sector itself contributes to climate
change through greenhouse gas emissions, primarily methane
produced during animal digestion and nitrous oxide from manure
management. Deforestation for pasture expansion also releases
significant amounts of carbon dioxide.
To address these challenges, a multi-pronged approach is
crucial.
• Genetic selection: Breeding programs focused on
developing drought-resistant and heat-tolerant
livestock breeds are vital.
• Sustainable feeding strategies: Implementing precision
feeding techniques, improving feed efficiency, and
exploring alternative feed sources, such as
drought-resistant forage varieties, can enhance
livestock resilience.
• Integrated farming systems: Integrating crop and
livestock production, such as through agroforestry
systems, can improve soil health, enhance water
retention, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Technological innovations: Utilizing technologies
such as precision livestock farming, remote sensing for
pasture monitoring, and renewable energy sources can
improve resource efficiency and reduce the
environmental footprint of cattle production.
Furthermore, strong policy support, including incentives
for sustainable farming practices, investments in research and
development, and improved access to climate information
services, are essential for the long-term sustainability of the cattle
farming sector.
Addressing the challenges posed by climate change
requires a collaborative effort involving farmers, researchers,
policymakers, and consumers. By embracing innovative
solutions, prioritizing sustainable practices, and fostering a
collective understanding of the importance of climate-resilient
livestock production, we can ensure a future when this vital
sector continues to thrive while minimizing its environmental
impact.
Internet:<conafer.org.br> (adapted).
Judge the following items based on the text above.
Crop-livestock-forest integration systems do not influence water conservation.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
UNIVESP
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - UNIVESP - Supervisor Pedagógico - Área de Atuação 7: Letras, Linguística e Áreas de Língua Inglesa |
Q3340714
Inglês
Texto associado
Text 7A3-II
400 million people speak English as their first language; another 1.4 billion as a second tongue. Born 1,600 years ago among the Germanic tribes of northern Europe, English became global. A new exhibition at the British Library, named Evolving English, traces for the first time the incredible journey launched by the Frisians, Saxons, Angles and Jutes who sailed to southeast England, and whose descendants created the Vespasian Psalter in the eighth century. From the Vespasian Psalter the journey moves on through England’s early literary heroes, Beowulf, Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight, and on to Jonathan Swift.
The curators of Evolving English have been clever to focus not just on English at school and English at work, but English at play, from spoonerisms to malapropisms, puns and palindromes and the 1,800 words invented by William Shakespeare — among them “green-eyed”, “go-between”, “well-read” and “zany”. Not only was Shakespeare the greatest English writer, he could have been no other kind.
Internet:
Lecture strategies might include teaching reading strategies. In order to answer the question “How many words did Shakespeare create?”, the reading strategy required, in approaching text 7A3-II, would be
Ano: 2025
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
UNIVESP
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - UNIVESP - Supervisor Pedagógico - Área de Atuação 7: Letras, Linguística e Áreas de Língua Inglesa |
Q3340713
Inglês
Texto associado
Text 7A3-II
400 million people speak English as their first language; another 1.4 billion as a second tongue. Born 1,600 years ago among the Germanic tribes of northern Europe, English became global. A new exhibition at the British Library, named Evolving English, traces for the first time the incredible journey launched by the Frisians, Saxons, Angles and Jutes who sailed to southeast England, and whose descendants created the Vespasian Psalter in the eighth century. From the Vespasian Psalter the journey moves on through England’s early literary heroes, Beowulf, Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight, and on to Jonathan Swift.
The curators of Evolving English have been clever to focus not just on English at school and English at work, but English at play, from spoonerisms to malapropisms, puns and palindromes and the 1,800 words invented by William Shakespeare — among them “green-eyed”, “go-between”, “well-read” and “zany”. Not only was Shakespeare the greatest English writer, he could have been no other kind.
Internet:
Beowulf, mentioned in text 7A3-II, is notoriously considered
Ano: 2025
Banca:
CESPE / CEBRASPE
Órgão:
UNIVESP
Prova:
CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2025 - UNIVESP - Supervisor Pedagógico - Área de Atuação 7: Letras, Linguística e Áreas de Língua Inglesa |
Q3340712
Inglês
• Classes are taught in the mother tongue, with little active use of the target language.
• Much vocabulary is taught in the form of lists of isolated words.
• Long elaborate explanations of the intricacies of grammar are given.
• Grammar provides the rules for putting words together.
• Reading of difficult classical texts is begun early.
• Little attention is paid to the content of texts, which are treated as exercises in translating disconnected sentences from the target language into the mother tongue.
• Little or no attention is given to pronunciation.
Aaron Ugwu Ifeanyi. Language Teaching Methods: A Conceptual Approach. 2015 (adapted).
Considering the language teaching methods, it is correct to affirm that the aspects presented in the previous text correspond to the
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