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Q1395576
Inglês Pronomes | Pronouns , Pronome demonstrativo | Demonstrative pronoun , Tag questions , Formação de palavras (prefixos e sufixos) | Word formation (prefix and suffix) , Sinônimos | Synonyms , Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects
Ano: 2017 Banca: UEG Órgão: UEG Prova: UEG - 2017 - UEG - Vestibular - Língua Inglesa |
Q1395576 Inglês

The true potential of technology to change behavior


    Technology could successfully change behaviours where decades of campaigns and legislation have failed. With the quantified self already walking among us and the internet of things within easy reach, digital technology is creating unprecedented opportunities to encourage, enable and empower more sustainable behaviours.

     If we are to unlock the power of technology we must be more ambitious than simply digitising analogue strategies or creating another communications channel.

    The true potential of technology lies in its ability to do things that nothing else can do. In behaviour change terms, the potential to succeed where decades of education programmes, awareness campaigns and product innovation have failed; to make a difference where government policy and legislation has had limited impact.

    Using behavioural insights, it is possible to highlight the bottlenecks, drop out points and achilles heels of traditional behaviour change efforts — the reasons why we have failed in the past — and apply the unique possibilities of technology to these specific challenges.

    Overcoming our limitations

    Luckily, the history of the human race is almost defined by its ability to invent stuff that bolsters its feeble capabilities. That stuff is, of course, what we generically refer to as 'technology'. And in the same way that the internal combustion engine and the light bulb allow us to overcome our relatively feeble powers of motion and perception, so digital technology can be directed to overcoming our relatively feeble powers of reasoning, selfcontrol, motivation, self-awareness and agency—the factors that make behaviour change so difficult.

    Herein lies the true potential of technology: not in the laboratory or the workshop, but in an understanding of the behavioural dynamics that define the human condition, both generally and within the context of a specific user-group, market segment or community.

Fonte: JOHNSON, Steven. Recognising the true potential of technology to change behaviour. Disponível em:<https://www.theguardian.com/sustainablebusiness/behavioural-insights/true-potential-technology-change-behaviour> . Acesso em: 23 ago. 2017. (Adaptado). 

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Q1391457
Inglês Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: UEG Órgão: UEG Prova: UEG - 2019 - UEG - Vestibular - Inglês |
Q1391457 Inglês
This is how UN scientists are preparing for the end of capitalism


           Capitalism as we know it is over. So suggests a new report commissioned by a group of scientists appointed by the UN secretary general. The main reason? We’re transitioning rapidly to a radically different global economy, due to our increasingly unsustainable exploitation of the planet’s environmental resources and the shift to less efficient energy sources .
    Climate change and species extinctions are accelerating even as societies are experiencing rising inequality, unemployment, slow economic growth, rising debt levels, and impotent governments. Contrary to the way policymakers usually think about these problems these are not really separate crises at all.
        These crises are part of the same fundamental transition. The new era is characterized by inefficient fossil fuel production and escalating costs of climate change. Conventional capitalist economic thinking can no longer explain, predict or solve the workings of the global economy in this new age.

Energy shift

       Those are the implications of a new background paper prepared by a team of Finnish biophysicists who were asked to provide research that would feed into the drafting of the UN Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), which will be released in 2019.
          For the “first time in human history”, the paper says, capitalist economies are “shifting to energy sources that are less energy efficient.” Producing usable energy (“exergy”) to keep powering “both basic and non-basic human activities” in industrial civilisation “will require more, not less, effort”.
        At the same time, our hunger for energy is driving what the paper refers to as “sink costs.” The greater our energy and material use, the more waste we generate, and so the greater the environmental costs. Though they can be ignored for a while, eventually those environmental costs translate directly into economic costs as it becomes more and more difficult to ignore their impacts on our societies.
         Overall, the amount of energy we can extract, compared to the energy we are using to extract it, is decreasing across the spectrum – unconventional oils, nuclear and renewables return less energy in generation than conventional oils, whose production has peaked – and societies need to abandon fossil fuels because of their impact on the climate.
         Whether or not this system still comprises a form of capitalism is ultimately a semantic question. It depends on how you define capitalism.
          Economic activity is driven by meaning – maintaining equal possibilities for the good life while lowering emissions dramatically – rather than profit, and the meaning is politically, collectively constructed. Well, this is the best conceivable case in terms of modern state and market institutions. It can’t happen without considerable reframing of economic-political thinking, in short words: rethinking capitalism as it is nowadays.



Disponível em: <https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/capitalism-un-scientists-preparing-end-fossil-fuels-warning-demise-a8523856.html>. Acesso em: 12 mar. 2019. (Adaptado).

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Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects ,
Ano: 2014 Banca: FADBA Órgão: Fadba Prova: FADBA - 2014 - Fadba - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre |
Q1388777 Inglês
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Leia o texto e responda a questão, apenas uma alternativa.
I_____________late for work if the bus doesn’t arrive soon.
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Q1388776
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Verbos | Verbs , Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects ,
Ano: 2014 Banca: FADBA Órgão: Fadba Prova: FADBA - 2014 - Fadba - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre |
Q1388776 Inglês
Read the questions. Look at the return-and-refund policy. Circle the answers. Return-and-Refund Policy

Full refunds:

We will refund 100% of the price for all books and for other new,

Unopened merchandise that is returned within 30 days. Items should be returned in their original product packaging. You will receive your refund check in six weeks.

Partial refunds:

We will refund less than 100% of the price for:

  •  Any items that are returned after more than 30 days.
  •  Any CD, DVD, or video game that is not in its plastic wrapping.
  •  Any item not in perfect condition.
How to send your return:


1.Call 1-800-555-3132 and ask for a shipping label.
2.Pack the items along with the receipt in a box. You can use the box that the arrived in or another box.
3.Put the shipping label on the outside of the box.
4.Bring the package to the post office.


Leia o texto e responda a questão, apenas uma alternativa.
I’d rather____________the movie. It’s supposed to be good.
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Q1388775
Inglês Vocabulário | Vocabulary , Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspects ,
Ano: 2014 Banca: FADBA Órgão: Fadba Prova: FADBA - 2014 - Fadba - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre |
Q1388775 Inglês
Read the questions. Look at the return-and-refund policy. Circle the answers. Return-and-Refund Policy

Full refunds:

We will refund 100% of the price for all books and for other new,

Unopened merchandise that is returned within 30 days. Items should be returned in their original product packaging. You will receive your refund check in six weeks.

Partial refunds:

We will refund less than 100% of the price for:

  •  Any items that are returned after more than 30 days.
  •  Any CD, DVD, or video game that is not in its plastic wrapping.
  •  Any item not in perfect condition.
How to send your return:


1.Call 1-800-555-3132 and ask for a shipping label.
2.Pack the items along with the receipt in a box. You can use the box that the arrived in or another box.
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4.Bring the package to the post office.


Leia o texto e responda a questão, apenas uma alternativa.

Circle the letter of the correct answer to complete each sentence.

1. Maria often goes to the movies by____________.

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6: B
7: D
8: C
9: A
10: D
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