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Q3482694 Patologia
A hepatite é considerada uma inflamação do fígado podendo ter várias causas, dentre elas, a ingestão abusiva de álcool, as doenças autoimunes e metabólicas, as infecções virais e além disso, aquelas que possam ser relacionadas à veiculação hídrica. Portanto, dentre os tipos de hepatite, identifique aquelas que são de veiculação hídrica e, marque a alternativa CORRETA.
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Q3482693 Ciências
As abelhas são casos especiais da genética, pois assim como em outros insetos sociais, elas não apresentam cromossomos sexuais. Sobre as abelhas, identifique-as em relação em relação à sua genética:
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Q3482692 Biologia
Sobre o ciclo do fósforo (P) julgue as afirmativas a seguir como Verdadeiras (V) ou Falsas (F):

I.(__)Semelhante ao que ocorre no ciclo do nitrogênio, no ciclo do P, a maior fonte global deste elemento é proveniente de atividade microbiana.
II.(__)Quase totalidade do P nos ecossistemas naturais é proveniente do intemperismo de minerais à base de fosfato de cálcio, tendo a apatita, um lugar de destaque.
III.(__)Existe no ciclo do fósforo um sistema equivalente à fixação biológica do nitrogênio que é capaz de suprir a falta do fósforo em ambientes carentes desse elemento.

Assinale a alternativa CORRETA
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Q3482688 Pedagogia
Para que ocorra a inclusão é necessária a criação de uma rede de apoio e ajuda mútua entre escolas, pais e serviços especializados da comunidade para a elaboração do projeto pedagógico, portanto, a inclusão significa transformação da prática pedagógica com relações interpessoais positivas, interação e sintonia entre os atores abaixo, discriminados, EXCETO:
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Q3482616 Inglês
A primeira língua franca de que se tem conhecimento é do século XVII, utilizada na região do Mediterrâneo devido à necessidade de comunicação para o comércio na região. Atualmente, o contexto sociolinguístico mundial apresenta a língua inglesa como língua franca, e esta aparece de forma linguística e culturalmente diversa. Com o acesso às novas tecnologias, o inglês se tornou a língua escolhida para aflorar em primeiro plano em muitas das atividades da sociedade atual. Sobre a definição do Inglês como Língua Franca (ILF), assinale a alternativa CORRETA.
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Q3482615 Pedagogia
teoria histórico-cultural, desenvolvida por Lev Semenovick Vygostky (1896-1934), apresentou uma visão inovadora sobre a constituição do indivíduo. Nesta teoria, a psicologia e a pedagogia se utilizam da perspectiva histórico-cultural para compreender o desenvolvimento psicológico e cognitivo do sujeito − dentro desta abordagem, o indivíduo não pode ser considerado alheio ao seu contexto histórico e cultural. Sendo agente da cultura e da história, o sujeito é, ao mesmo tempo, produtor e produto destas. Sobre a perspectiva histórico-cultural da linguagem, assinale a alternativa CORRETA.
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Q3482614 Inglês
A Base Comum Curricular da área de Linguagens e suas Tecnologias do Ensino Médio tem como objetivo de consolidar e ampliar os conhecimentos do nível do Ensino Fundamental. Além da Língua Portuguesa, a área de Linguagens abarca também a Língua Inglesa, a Educação Física e a Arte − diferentes expressões que permitem "uma participação mais plena dos jovens nas diferentes práticas socioculturais que envolvem o uso das linguagens" (BNCC, 2017). Sobre a língua inglesa na etapa do Ensino Médio, assinale a alternativa INCORRETA.
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Q3482613 Pedagogia
A necessidade de saber se comunicar através da língua inglesa, atualmente, deixou de ser um adicional no currículo e se transformou em uma necessidade. Entretanto, nem todos os brasileiros têm acesso a escolas de idiomas, e neste contexto o papel da escola pública se mostra imprescindível. Além da possibilidade de comunicação em outro idioma, a exposição de crianças e adolescentes às duas línguas lhes permite uma maior flexibilidade mental. Sobre a importância do ensino de língua inglesa no Brasil, analise as afirmações abaixo.

(__)O conhecimento de inglês conecta os estudantes com informações valiosas, especialmente com a realidade de um mundo globalizado através da internet.
(__)O fato de saber inglês é apenas um diferencial para o mercado de trabalho, tendo pouca aplicação prática na vida de estudantes fora deste mercado.
(__)O ensino da língua inglesa acaba por, também, estimular o desenvolvimento cognitivo dos estudantes.

Após análise, diferencie as afirmações entre VERDADEIRO (V) ou FALSO (F), e assinale a alternativa com a ordem CORRETA, de cima para baixo.
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Q3482612 Inglês
Para Diana Brydon: "O mundo contemporâneo requer habilidades de letramento avançadas e isto inclui a capacidade de pensar criticamente, incluindo contextualização, análise, adaptação, tradução de informação e interação entre os indivíduos dentro e além de sua comunidade" (BRYDON, 2011, p. 105). Quando se fala em alfabetização e letramento, é necessário observar uma das principais diferenças entre estes dois processos educativos: basicamente, a alfabetização ensina a codificar e decodificar o sistema de escrita; enquanto o letramento instrui o domínio e o uso da linguagem como prática social. Desta forma, o processo de alfabetização pode ser visto como um processo finito, na medida em que o letramento pode ser continuamente desenvolvido. Apesar dessas diferenças, os dois processos interagem entre si, e podem ser utilizados de maneira eficaz no ensino de linguagens no meio educacional. Sobre o letramento em língua inglesa, e seguindo a teoria do Letramento Crítico, assinale a alternativa CORRETA.
BRYDON, D. 2011. Local Needs, Global Contexts: Learning New Literacies. In: MACIEL, R. F. e ARAÚJO, V. A. (Orgs). Formação de professores de línguas: ampliando perspectivas. Jundiaí, Paco Editora. Pp.105.

I.A linguagem é neutra e transparente, não sendo perpassada por influências históricas e culturais, então o processo de letramento em língua inglesa diz respeito somente ao aprendizado do alfabeto estrangeiro.
II.A linguagem exerce um papel fundamental na formação crítica dos cidadãos, e o ensino de língua inglesa pode possibilitar a construção da visão crítica dos estudantes.
III.O letramento crítico pode ser fomentado a partir do trabalho dos professores de língua inglesa, na construção, com os estudantes, das várias interpretações possíveis dos discursos contidos em textos (orais e/ou escritos).
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Q3482611 Inglês
O British Council, instituição que realiza avaliações de proficiência em língua inglesa, define as quatro habilidades de comunicação necessárias para compreensão do idioma. Estas habilidades são: ler, ouvir, falar e escrever. Alguns estudiosos apontam que, em um modelo tradicional de educação, o ensino de cada uma das habilidades era realizado de maneira segmentada, ou até mesmo priorizando apenas uma ou duas em detrimento das outras. Atualmente, se acredita que estas quatro habilidades estão conectadas e são melhor desenvolvidas de forma conjunta. Sobre a definição de cada uma das quatro habilidades de comunicação, assinale a alternativa INCORRETA.
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Q3482610 Pedagogia
A sociedade contemporânea está marcada pelo uso das novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação, isso é certo. O acesso facilitado às novas tecnologias, segundo alguns autores, acabou por criar outros espaços do conhecimento − entretanto, para que isso se concretize, o papel do educador é fundamental. No contexto educacional, este acesso pode ser aproveitado de forma a transformar as novas tecnologias em instrumentos para a aprendizagem de língua estrangeira. Sobre o uso de tecnologias nas aulas de língua inglesa, assinale a alternativa INCORRETA.
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Q3482609 Inglês
Teoricamente, quando se aprende um idioma se aprende também a cultura, entretanto, o status da língua inglesa como língua franca acabou por mudar um pouco este conceito. O International English não é uma linguagem diferente do Inglês, mas alguns aspectos são característicos dessa forma de comunicação global. Sobre a formação do International English, assinale a alternativa CORRETA.
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Q3482608 Pedagogia
Segundo Maria Inêz Probst Lucena, a "avaliação é uma das práticas mais relevantes do processo de ensino-aprendizagem" (LUCENA, 2004). Para a autora, em uma visão clássica de educação, a língua alvo é vista "como um conjunto de regras que devem ser dominadas e aplicadas em diferentes contextos" (idem) e, neste modelo, a avaliação é realizada através de exames escritos, exclusivamente, sem a necessidade da utilização de questionamento crítico em algum nível mais abstrato. "A avaliação de línguas tende a refletir crenças dominantes sobre a natureza da linguagem" (idem) e, em uma perspectiva mais atual, a linguagem está sendo percebida enquanto ferramenta de comunicação e interação social − uma criação conjunta de seus interlocutores. Sobre as formas de avaliação de língua estrangeira do paradigma sociocultural, analise as afirmações abaixo.

(__)Para o paradigma sociocultural, a avaliação deve ser processual e autêntica, visando a independência, responsabilidades e o envolvimento do estudante.
(__)A avalição neste paradigma deve conter desafios reais para os estudantes, mas não devem apresentar oportunidades para produção de algo criativo por parte dos estudantes.
(__)É sugerido que as tarefas sejam comunicativas e enfatizem os objetivos da aprendizagem da língua estrangeira.

Após análise das afirmações, diferencie entre VERDADEIRO ou FALSO e assinale a alternativa com a ordem CORRETA, de cima para baixo. 
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Q3482607 Linguística
O Glossário Ceale, na definição de "Interação verbal", afirma que a linguagem verbal tem sido compreendida de três maneiras. A primeira delas é enquanto expressão do pensamento; a segunda, como código; e, por fim a terceira, como forma de ação social. Percebendo a linguagem verbal enquanto forma de ação social, e localizada em um contexto específico, surge disto o conceito de interação verbal − conceito no qual o locutor sempre age sobre o interlocutor, orientando sua produção discursiva. Desta forma acontece a interação: ação de um sobre o outro. Sobre a língua como instrumento de interação comunicativa, assinale a alternativa CORRETA.
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Q3482606 Inglês
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.


Gigantic skull of prehistoric sea monster found on England's 'Jurassic Coast' 


The remarkably well-preserved skull of a gigantic pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, has been discovered on a beach in the county of Dorset in southern England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.


Pliosaurs dominated the oceans at a time when dinosaurs roamed the land. The unearthed fossil is about 150 million years old, almost 3 million years younger than any other pliosaur fins. Researchers are analyzing the specimen to determine whether it could even be a species new to science.


Originally spotted in spring 2022, the fossil, along with its complicated excavation and ongoing scientific investigation, are now detailed in the upcoming BBC documentary "Attenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster" presented by legendary naturalist Sir David Attenborough, that will air February 14 on PBS.


Such was the enormous size of the carnivorous marine reptile that the skull, excavated from a cliff along Dorset's "Jurassic Coast", is almost 2 meters (6.6 feet) ling. In its fossilized form, the specimen weighs over half a metric ton. Pliosaurs species could grow to 15 meters (50 feet) in length, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.


The fossil was buried deep in the cliff, about 11 meters (36 feet) above the ground and 15 meters (49 feet) down the cliff, local paleontologist Steve Etches, who helped uncover it, told the CNN in a video call.


Extracting it proved a perilous task, one fraught with danger as a crew raced against the clock during a window of good weather before summer storms closed in and the cliff eroded, possibly taking the rare and significant fossil with it.


Etches first learned of the fossil's existence when his friend Philip Jacobs called him after coming across the pliosaur's snout on the beach. Right from the start, they were "quite excited, because its jaws closed together which indicates (the fossil) is complete," Etches said. 


After using drones to map the cliff and identify the rest of the pliosaur's precise position, Etches and his team embarked on a three-week operation, chiseling into the cliff while suspended in midair.


"It's a miracle we got it out," he said, "because we had one last day to get this thing out, which we did at 9:30 p.m."


Etches took on the task of painstakingly restoring the skull. There was a time he found "very disillusioning" as the mud, and bone, had cracked, but "over the following days and weeks, it was a case of ..., like a jigsaw, putting it all back. It took a long time but every bit of bone we got back in."


It's a "freak of nature" that this fossil remains in such good condition, Etches added. "It died in the right environment, there was a lot of sedimentation ... so when it died and went down to the seafloor, it got buried quite quickly."


Fearsome top predator of the seas


The nearly intact fossil illuminates the characteristics that made the pliosaur a truly fearsome predator, hunting prey such as the dolphinlike ichthyosaur. The apex predator with huge razor-sharp teeth used as a variety of senses, including sensory pits still visible on its skull that may have allowed it to detect changes in water pressure, according to the documentary.


The pliosaur had a bite twice as powerful as a saltwater crocodile, which has the world's most powerful jaws today, according to Emily Rayfield, a professor of paleobiology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who appeared in the documentary. The prehistoric marine predator would have been able to cut into a car, she said.


Andre Rowe, a postdoctoral research associate of paleobiology at the University of Bristol, added that "the animal would have been so massive that I think it would have been able to prey effectively on anything that was unfortunate enough to be in its space."


By Issy Ronald, CNN

Published December 11, 2023

Available on https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/world/skull-pliosaur-fo
What's the main subject of the presented text? Mark the CORRECT answer.
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Q3482605 Inglês
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.


Gigantic skull of prehistoric sea monster found on England's 'Jurassic Coast' 


The remarkably well-preserved skull of a gigantic pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, has been discovered on a beach in the county of Dorset in southern England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.


Pliosaurs dominated the oceans at a time when dinosaurs roamed the land. The unearthed fossil is about 150 million years old, almost 3 million years younger than any other pliosaur fins. Researchers are analyzing the specimen to determine whether it could even be a species new to science.


Originally spotted in spring 2022, the fossil, along with its complicated excavation and ongoing scientific investigation, are now detailed in the upcoming BBC documentary "Attenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster" presented by legendary naturalist Sir David Attenborough, that will air February 14 on PBS.


Such was the enormous size of the carnivorous marine reptile that the skull, excavated from a cliff along Dorset's "Jurassic Coast", is almost 2 meters (6.6 feet) ling. In its fossilized form, the specimen weighs over half a metric ton. Pliosaurs species could grow to 15 meters (50 feet) in length, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.


The fossil was buried deep in the cliff, about 11 meters (36 feet) above the ground and 15 meters (49 feet) down the cliff, local paleontologist Steve Etches, who helped uncover it, told the CNN in a video call.


Extracting it proved a perilous task, one fraught with danger as a crew raced against the clock during a window of good weather before summer storms closed in and the cliff eroded, possibly taking the rare and significant fossil with it.


Etches first learned of the fossil's existence when his friend Philip Jacobs called him after coming across the pliosaur's snout on the beach. Right from the start, they were "quite excited, because its jaws closed together which indicates (the fossil) is complete," Etches said. 


After using drones to map the cliff and identify the rest of the pliosaur's precise position, Etches and his team embarked on a three-week operation, chiseling into the cliff while suspended in midair.


"It's a miracle we got it out," he said, "because we had one last day to get this thing out, which we did at 9:30 p.m."


Etches took on the task of painstakingly restoring the skull. There was a time he found "very disillusioning" as the mud, and bone, had cracked, but "over the following days and weeks, it was a case of ..., like a jigsaw, putting it all back. It took a long time but every bit of bone we got back in."


It's a "freak of nature" that this fossil remains in such good condition, Etches added. "It died in the right environment, there was a lot of sedimentation ... so when it died and went down to the seafloor, it got buried quite quickly."


Fearsome top predator of the seas


The nearly intact fossil illuminates the characteristics that made the pliosaur a truly fearsome predator, hunting prey such as the dolphinlike ichthyosaur. The apex predator with huge razor-sharp teeth used as a variety of senses, including sensory pits still visible on its skull that may have allowed it to detect changes in water pressure, according to the documentary.


The pliosaur had a bite twice as powerful as a saltwater crocodile, which has the world's most powerful jaws today, according to Emily Rayfield, a professor of paleobiology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who appeared in the documentary. The prehistoric marine predator would have been able to cut into a car, she said.


Andre Rowe, a postdoctoral research associate of paleobiology at the University of Bristol, added that "the animal would have been so massive that I think it would have been able to prey effectively on anything that was unfortunate enough to be in its space."


By Issy Ronald, CNN

Published December 11, 2023

Available on https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/world/skull-pliosaur-fo
Os gêneros textuais são classificados enquanto unidades produtoras de sentido, através de seus propósitos e/ou intencionalidades discursivas. Sobre o gênero discursivo do texto, assinale a alternativa CORRETA.
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Q3482604 Inglês
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.


Gigantic skull of prehistoric sea monster found on England's 'Jurassic Coast' 


The remarkably well-preserved skull of a gigantic pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, has been discovered on a beach in the county of Dorset in southern England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.


Pliosaurs dominated the oceans at a time when dinosaurs roamed the land. The unearthed fossil is about 150 million years old, almost 3 million years younger than any other pliosaur fins. Researchers are analyzing the specimen to determine whether it could even be a species new to science.


Originally spotted in spring 2022, the fossil, along with its complicated excavation and ongoing scientific investigation, are now detailed in the upcoming BBC documentary "Attenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster" presented by legendary naturalist Sir David Attenborough, that will air February 14 on PBS.


Such was the enormous size of the carnivorous marine reptile that the skull, excavated from a cliff along Dorset's "Jurassic Coast", is almost 2 meters (6.6 feet) ling. In its fossilized form, the specimen weighs over half a metric ton. Pliosaurs species could grow to 15 meters (50 feet) in length, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.


The fossil was buried deep in the cliff, about 11 meters (36 feet) above the ground and 15 meters (49 feet) down the cliff, local paleontologist Steve Etches, who helped uncover it, told the CNN in a video call.


Extracting it proved a perilous task, one fraught with danger as a crew raced against the clock during a window of good weather before summer storms closed in and the cliff eroded, possibly taking the rare and significant fossil with it.


Etches first learned of the fossil's existence when his friend Philip Jacobs called him after coming across the pliosaur's snout on the beach. Right from the start, they were "quite excited, because its jaws closed together which indicates (the fossil) is complete," Etches said. 


After using drones to map the cliff and identify the rest of the pliosaur's precise position, Etches and his team embarked on a three-week operation, chiseling into the cliff while suspended in midair.


"It's a miracle we got it out," he said, "because we had one last day to get this thing out, which we did at 9:30 p.m."


Etches took on the task of painstakingly restoring the skull. There was a time he found "very disillusioning" as the mud, and bone, had cracked, but "over the following days and weeks, it was a case of ..., like a jigsaw, putting it all back. It took a long time but every bit of bone we got back in."


It's a "freak of nature" that this fossil remains in such good condition, Etches added. "It died in the right environment, there was a lot of sedimentation ... so when it died and went down to the seafloor, it got buried quite quickly."


Fearsome top predator of the seas


The nearly intact fossil illuminates the characteristics that made the pliosaur a truly fearsome predator, hunting prey such as the dolphinlike ichthyosaur. The apex predator with huge razor-sharp teeth used as a variety of senses, including sensory pits still visible on its skull that may have allowed it to detect changes in water pressure, according to the documentary.


The pliosaur had a bite twice as powerful as a saltwater crocodile, which has the world's most powerful jaws today, according to Emily Rayfield, a professor of paleobiology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who appeared in the documentary. The prehistoric marine predator would have been able to cut into a car, she said.


Andre Rowe, a postdoctoral research associate of paleobiology at the University of Bristol, added that "the animal would have been so massive that I think it would have been able to prey effectively on anything that was unfortunate enough to be in its space."


By Issy Ronald, CNN

Published December 11, 2023

Available on https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/world/skull-pliosaur-fo
Look at the following words and sort them in the corresponding grammatical classes as they were used on the presented text. Mark the CORRECT answer.

I.Gigantic
II.Said
III.He
IV.Jigsaw
V.Quickly
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Q3482603 Inglês
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.


Gigantic skull of prehistoric sea monster found on England's 'Jurassic Coast' 


The remarkably well-preserved skull of a gigantic pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, has been discovered on a beach in the county of Dorset in southern England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.


Pliosaurs dominated the oceans at a time when dinosaurs roamed the land. The unearthed fossil is about 150 million years old, almost 3 million years younger than any other pliosaur fins. Researchers are analyzing the specimen to determine whether it could even be a species new to science.


Originally spotted in spring 2022, the fossil, along with its complicated excavation and ongoing scientific investigation, are now detailed in the upcoming BBC documentary "Attenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster" presented by legendary naturalist Sir David Attenborough, that will air February 14 on PBS.


Such was the enormous size of the carnivorous marine reptile that the skull, excavated from a cliff along Dorset's "Jurassic Coast", is almost 2 meters (6.6 feet) ling. In its fossilized form, the specimen weighs over half a metric ton. Pliosaurs species could grow to 15 meters (50 feet) in length, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.


The fossil was buried deep in the cliff, about 11 meters (36 feet) above the ground and 15 meters (49 feet) down the cliff, local paleontologist Steve Etches, who helped uncover it, told the CNN in a video call.


Extracting it proved a perilous task, one fraught with danger as a crew raced against the clock during a window of good weather before summer storms closed in and the cliff eroded, possibly taking the rare and significant fossil with it.


Etches first learned of the fossil's existence when his friend Philip Jacobs called him after coming across the pliosaur's snout on the beach. Right from the start, they were "quite excited, because its jaws closed together which indicates (the fossil) is complete," Etches said. 


After using drones to map the cliff and identify the rest of the pliosaur's precise position, Etches and his team embarked on a three-week operation, chiseling into the cliff while suspended in midair.


"It's a miracle we got it out," he said, "because we had one last day to get this thing out, which we did at 9:30 p.m."


Etches took on the task of painstakingly restoring the skull. There was a time he found "very disillusioning" as the mud, and bone, had cracked, but "over the following days and weeks, it was a case of ..., like a jigsaw, putting it all back. It took a long time but every bit of bone we got back in."


It's a "freak of nature" that this fossil remains in such good condition, Etches added. "It died in the right environment, there was a lot of sedimentation ... so when it died and went down to the seafloor, it got buried quite quickly."


Fearsome top predator of the seas


The nearly intact fossil illuminates the characteristics that made the pliosaur a truly fearsome predator, hunting prey such as the dolphinlike ichthyosaur. The apex predator with huge razor-sharp teeth used as a variety of senses, including sensory pits still visible on its skull that may have allowed it to detect changes in water pressure, according to the documentary.


The pliosaur had a bite twice as powerful as a saltwater crocodile, which has the world's most powerful jaws today, according to Emily Rayfield, a professor of paleobiology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who appeared in the documentary. The prehistoric marine predator would have been able to cut into a car, she said.


Andre Rowe, a postdoctoral research associate of paleobiology at the University of Bristol, added that "the animal would have been so massive that I think it would have been able to prey effectively on anything that was unfortunate enough to be in its space."


By Issy Ronald, CNN

Published December 11, 2023

Available on https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/world/skull-pliosaur-fo
Look at the following words and relate them with their respective synonymous words in the context of the presented article. Mark the alternative with the CORRECT answer.

I.Roam.
II.Ongoing
III.Unearth.
IV.Snout.
V.Chisel.
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Q3482602 Inglês
O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão.


Gigantic skull of prehistoric sea monster found on England's 'Jurassic Coast' 


The remarkably well-preserved skull of a gigantic pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, has been discovered on a beach in the county of Dorset in southern England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.


Pliosaurs dominated the oceans at a time when dinosaurs roamed the land. The unearthed fossil is about 150 million years old, almost 3 million years younger than any other pliosaur fins. Researchers are analyzing the specimen to determine whether it could even be a species new to science.


Originally spotted in spring 2022, the fossil, along with its complicated excavation and ongoing scientific investigation, are now detailed in the upcoming BBC documentary "Attenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster" presented by legendary naturalist Sir David Attenborough, that will air February 14 on PBS.


Such was the enormous size of the carnivorous marine reptile that the skull, excavated from a cliff along Dorset's "Jurassic Coast", is almost 2 meters (6.6 feet) ling. In its fossilized form, the specimen weighs over half a metric ton. Pliosaurs species could grow to 15 meters (50 feet) in length, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.


The fossil was buried deep in the cliff, about 11 meters (36 feet) above the ground and 15 meters (49 feet) down the cliff, local paleontologist Steve Etches, who helped uncover it, told the CNN in a video call.


Extracting it proved a perilous task, one fraught with danger as a crew raced against the clock during a window of good weather before summer storms closed in and the cliff eroded, possibly taking the rare and significant fossil with it.


Etches first learned of the fossil's existence when his friend Philip Jacobs called him after coming across the pliosaur's snout on the beach. Right from the start, they were "quite excited, because its jaws closed together which indicates (the fossil) is complete," Etches said. 


After using drones to map the cliff and identify the rest of the pliosaur's precise position, Etches and his team embarked on a three-week operation, chiseling into the cliff while suspended in midair.


"It's a miracle we got it out," he said, "because we had one last day to get this thing out, which we did at 9:30 p.m."


Etches took on the task of painstakingly restoring the skull. There was a time he found "very disillusioning" as the mud, and bone, had cracked, but "over the following days and weeks, it was a case of ..., like a jigsaw, putting it all back. It took a long time but every bit of bone we got back in."


It's a "freak of nature" that this fossil remains in such good condition, Etches added. "It died in the right environment, there was a lot of sedimentation ... so when it died and went down to the seafloor, it got buried quite quickly."


Fearsome top predator of the seas


The nearly intact fossil illuminates the characteristics that made the pliosaur a truly fearsome predator, hunting prey such as the dolphinlike ichthyosaur. The apex predator with huge razor-sharp teeth used as a variety of senses, including sensory pits still visible on its skull that may have allowed it to detect changes in water pressure, according to the documentary.


The pliosaur had a bite twice as powerful as a saltwater crocodile, which has the world's most powerful jaws today, according to Emily Rayfield, a professor of paleobiology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who appeared in the documentary. The prehistoric marine predator would have been able to cut into a car, she said.


Andre Rowe, a postdoctoral research associate of paleobiology at the University of Bristol, added that "the animal would have been so massive that I think it would have been able to prey effectively on anything that was unfortunate enough to be in its space."


By Issy Ronald, CNN

Published December 11, 2023

Available on https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/world/skull-pliosaur-fo
Look at the following conjunctions and sort them in the right categories, as seen on the article. Mark the alternative with the CORRECT order of answers.

I.Because.
II.But.
III.When.
Alternativas
Q3482595 Pedagogia
Além de recursos, metodologia e currículos, a formação dos professores para o ensino na diversidade, é essencial para o desenvolvimento do trabalho em equipe e efetivação da inclusão. Diante disso, o professor deverá ter alguns atributos, dentre eles, julgue os itens como Verdadeiros (V) ou Falsos (F):

I.(__)Perceber as necessidades educacionais especiais dos alunos.
II.(__)Enrijecer a ação pedagógica nas diferentes áreas de conhecimento.
III.(__)Avaliar continuamente a eficácia do processo educativo.

Assinale a alternativa CORRETA.
Alternativas
Respostas
721: D
722: C
723: C
724: C
725: B
726: D
727: C
728: C
729: C
730: A
731: A
732: A
733: D
734: B
735: C
736: D
737: A
738: A
739: D
740: A