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Q1790466
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: Instituto Consulplan Órgão: FIMCA Prova: Instituto Consulplan - 2019 - FIMCA - Vestibular de Medicina - Edital nº 01/ 2020 |
Q1790466 Inglês
Science Education in the United States of America

(Audrey B. Champagne.)

    Science education in the United States of America is in the midst of an unprecedented reform movement-unprecedented because the movement is driven by national standards developed with support from the federal government. The standards for science education are redefining the character of science education from kindergarten to the postgraduate education of scientists and science teachers. Unlike the education in most countries of the world, education of students in kindergarten through grade twelve in the United States is not the responsibility of the federal government but is controlled by the individual states. States have the right to regulate all elements of the curriculum-the content all students are expected to learn, the structural organization of programs across all grades, the structural organization of the yearly curriculum in each subject, teaching methods, and textbooks. Historically, and even now, the states jealously guard all their rights and resist efforts by the federal government to exercise control over matters that are the responsibility of the states. The federal government's involvement in education has been to identify matters of national priority and to provide funds and other resources to the states to meet the national priorities. So, for instance, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the United States felt that its perceived preeminence in scientific research and its national safety were threatened, science education was identified as a national priority. The primary purpose of the federal government's initiatives was to encourage and upgrade the science education of young people who would become practicing scientists. This effort was not perceived by the states as an erosion of their rights because it was a response to a threat to the nation and was targeted on the science education of a relatively few students. The current situation is quite different.
    The federal government's underwriting of the development of national standards for education has the potential for shifting the control of the curriculum from the states to the federal government. This initiative, supported by the National Association of Governors, is the result of the concern of political, business and industrial leaders with the poor quality of education across the nation and with the effect this poor quality has on the U.S. position in the world economy. The goal of the standards movement from the prospective of political, business, and industrial leaders is to strengthen education so that the schools will produce graduates with the knowledge and skills required of them to be productive in the workplace.
   The pedagogy and attitudes of many teachers and professors alike has been that science is for the few. So little concern or effort was applied to make science interesting or to make learning it easy. Consequently, only highly motivated and highly intelligent students survived science courses. Thus it appears education in the natural sciences develops individuals who reason well, are critical thinkers, are creative problem solvers-in short, are intelligent. But, we must ask, does education in the natural sciences produce smarter people or do smart people survive science as it is taught? While historically the answer to the question may well have been survival, the national standards are based on the beliefs that science is for all and can produce smarter people.

(Available: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ608194.pdf. Adapted.)
The goal of the standards movement is to:
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Q1790464
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: Instituto Consulplan Órgão: FIMCA Prova: Instituto Consulplan - 2019 - FIMCA - Vestibular de Medicina - Edital nº 01/ 2020 |
Q1790464 Inglês
Science Education in the United States of America

(Audrey B. Champagne.)

    Science education in the United States of America is in the midst of an unprecedented reform movement-unprecedented because the movement is driven by national standards developed with support from the federal government. The standards for science education are redefining the character of science education from kindergarten to the postgraduate education of scientists and science teachers. Unlike the education in most countries of the world, education of students in kindergarten through grade twelve in the United States is not the responsibility of the federal government but is controlled by the individual states. States have the right to regulate all elements of the curriculum-the content all students are expected to learn, the structural organization of programs across all grades, the structural organization of the yearly curriculum in each subject, teaching methods, and textbooks. Historically, and even now, the states jealously guard all their rights and resist efforts by the federal government to exercise control over matters that are the responsibility of the states. The federal government's involvement in education has been to identify matters of national priority and to provide funds and other resources to the states to meet the national priorities. So, for instance, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the United States felt that its perceived preeminence in scientific research and its national safety were threatened, science education was identified as a national priority. The primary purpose of the federal government's initiatives was to encourage and upgrade the science education of young people who would become practicing scientists. This effort was not perceived by the states as an erosion of their rights because it was a response to a threat to the nation and was targeted on the science education of a relatively few students. The current situation is quite different.
    The federal government's underwriting of the development of national standards for education has the potential for shifting the control of the curriculum from the states to the federal government. This initiative, supported by the National Association of Governors, is the result of the concern of political, business and industrial leaders with the poor quality of education across the nation and with the effect this poor quality has on the U.S. position in the world economy. The goal of the standards movement from the prospective of political, business, and industrial leaders is to strengthen education so that the schools will produce graduates with the knowledge and skills required of them to be productive in the workplace.
   The pedagogy and attitudes of many teachers and professors alike has been that science is for the few. So little concern or effort was applied to make science interesting or to make learning it easy. Consequently, only highly motivated and highly intelligent students survived science courses. Thus it appears education in the natural sciences develops individuals who reason well, are critical thinkers, are creative problem solvers-in short, are intelligent. But, we must ask, does education in the natural sciences produce smarter people or do smart people survive science as it is taught? While historically the answer to the question may well have been survival, the national standards are based on the beliefs that science is for all and can produce smarter people.

(Available: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ608194.pdf. Adapted.)
The text states that:
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Q1785730
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: Instituto Consulplan Órgão: FASEH Provas: Instituto Consulplan - 2019 - FASEH - Vestibular de Medicina - Tipo 01 | Instituto Consulplan - 2019 - FASEH - Vestibular de Medicina |
Q1785730 Inglês
Read the dialogue to answer.
Doctor: Have you ever fainted before? Patient: Yes, the last time you told me your fees.
(Available in:https://pages2cool.blogspot.com.)
Mark the item that does NOT match the dialogue:
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Q1785729
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: Instituto Consulplan Órgão: FASEH Provas: Instituto Consulplan - 2019 - FASEH - Vestibular de Medicina - Tipo 01 | Instituto Consulplan - 2019 - FASEH - Vestibular de Medicina |
Q1785729 Inglês
Read the dialogue to answer.
Doctor: Please, take your seat. What is your problem? Patient: Hello Doctor, please, can you give me your certificate? Doctor: Why? Patient: I took two weeks leave in my office. They asked me to get a “Doctor Certificate”.
(Available in: https://pages2cool.blogspot.com.)
We learn from the dialogue that:
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Q1404651
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: UDESC Órgão: UDESC Prova: UDESC - 2019 - UDESC - Vestibular - Biologia, Matemática, Língua Estrangeira e Língua Portuguesa |
Q1404651 Inglês

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Answer the question according to Text.


The expression: “I`m sold, Nate”, in the second picture, means:

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Q1401615
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: INEP Órgão: ENCCEJA Prova: INEP - 2019 - ENCCEJA - Exame - Linguagens e Ciências Humanas - Ensino Médio |
Q1401615 Inglês

Disabled Sports USA


    Since 1967, Disabled Sports USA has focused on one goal: to improve the lives of wounded warriors by providing sports and recreation opportunities.

    These sports opportunities transform the people we serve, highlighting the potential in each of us, embodied in our motto: “If I can do this, I can do anything!”.

    Testimonials Read what our athletes and their families have to say about Disabled Sports USA.

    “The hospital healed John's physical injury but Disabled Sports USA healed the family. Thank you for giving me my husband back!”

    MOLLIE BORDERS — Wife Wounded Warrior John Borders

    “Disabled Sports USA showed me that everything I did before was still possible to do after my injury.”

    DEAN SCHWARTZ Wounded Warrior

Disponível em: www.disabledsportsusa.org. Acesso em: 27 jul. 2014 (adaptado).

Ao publicar depoimentos de pessoas beneficiadas por suas ações, a organização Disabled Sports USA objetiva
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Q1399750
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: COPESE - UFT Órgão: UFT Prova: COPESE - UFT - 2019 - UFT - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre - Língua Portuguesa, Inglês e Matemática |
Q1399750 Inglês

Read the following cartoon in order to answer QUESTION .

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From the cartoon, it is CORRECT to affirm:

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Q1399749
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: COPESE - UFT Órgão: UFT Prova: COPESE - UFT - 2019 - UFT - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre - Língua Portuguesa, Inglês e Matemática |
Q1399749 Inglês
Uncontacted Amazon tribe has been threatened by illegal
loggers

      Remarkable close-up footage that appears to show an uncontacted tribesman in the Amazon rainforest has been released by an indigenous media group that wants to raise awareness of the threat posed by illegal loggers, miners and drug traffickers.
     (...) The Awá have been described as the world’s most threatened tribe by the NGO Survival International, which has tracked killings by loggers, who surround and frequently encroach upon the group’s territory.
     Many of the community have been forced to abandon the forest, but some remain in self-imposed isolation. Their existence has been called into question by commercial interests that want to move into the land, but the new footage has been cited as proof that they remain in the territory.   
      It was recorded by a member of a neighbouring tribe, the Guajajara, which is trying to defend one of the last pockets of intact forest in Maranhão, a massively deforested state in the north-east of Brazil. ―We hope this film produces something positive.
       We hope it makes an impact around the world to help protect our people and our forest,‖ said Flay Guajajara, who shot the image while out hunting and released it through the Mídia Índia platform.
       (...) Olimpio Guajajara, coordinator of the Guardians of the Amazon, said three of the group’s members have been murdered in this activity, which highlighted the need for more long-term support. He said: ―We Guardians are defending our people’s rights, defending the uncontacted Indians, and defending nature for all of us. We need the land to be protected for good."
     Indigenous groups say successive governments have failed to adequately recognise their territorial rights and their role in protecting forests that are globally essential for carbon sequestration and natural habitats.
      According to Survival International, loggers have been emboldened by the government and their camps can now be seen on the edge of Awá land.
     Director Stephen Corry said: ―This video is further proof that the uncontacted Awá people really exist. And a glance at a satellite photo shows just how much danger they’re in. Loggers have already killed many of their relatives and forced others out of the forest".

Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/22/uncontactedtribe-video-amazon-rainforest-awa-people.
According to the NGO Survival International, it is INCORRECT to affirm:
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Q1399748
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: COPESE - UFT Órgão: UFT Prova: COPESE - UFT - 2019 - UFT - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre - Língua Portuguesa, Inglês e Matemática |
Q1399748 Inglês
Uncontacted Amazon tribe has been threatened by illegal
loggers

      Remarkable close-up footage that appears to show an uncontacted tribesman in the Amazon rainforest has been released by an indigenous media group that wants to raise awareness of the threat posed by illegal loggers, miners and drug traffickers.
     (...) The Awá have been described as the world’s most threatened tribe by the NGO Survival International, which has tracked killings by loggers, who surround and frequently encroach upon the group’s territory.
     Many of the community have been forced to abandon the forest, but some remain in self-imposed isolation. Their existence has been called into question by commercial interests that want to move into the land, but the new footage has been cited as proof that they remain in the territory.   
      It was recorded by a member of a neighbouring tribe, the Guajajara, which is trying to defend one of the last pockets of intact forest in Maranhão, a massively deforested state in the north-east of Brazil. ―We hope this film produces something positive.
       We hope it makes an impact around the world to help protect our people and our forest,‖ said Flay Guajajara, who shot the image while out hunting and released it through the Mídia Índia platform.
       (...) Olimpio Guajajara, coordinator of the Guardians of the Amazon, said three of the group’s members have been murdered in this activity, which highlighted the need for more long-term support. He said: ―We Guardians are defending our people’s rights, defending the uncontacted Indians, and defending nature for all of us. We need the land to be protected for good."
     Indigenous groups say successive governments have failed to adequately recognise their territorial rights and their role in protecting forests that are globally essential for carbon sequestration and natural habitats.
      According to Survival International, loggers have been emboldened by the government and their camps can now be seen on the edge of Awá land.
     Director Stephen Corry said: ―This video is further proof that the uncontacted Awá people really exist. And a glance at a satellite photo shows just how much danger they’re in. Loggers have already killed many of their relatives and forced others out of the forest".

Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/22/uncontactedtribe-video-amazon-rainforest-awa-people.
In the first paragraph, the expression “to raise awareness” means:
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Q1399747
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: COPESE - UFT Órgão: UFT Prova: COPESE - UFT - 2019 - UFT - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre - Língua Portuguesa, Inglês e Matemática |
Q1399747 Inglês
Uncontacted Amazon tribe has been threatened by illegal
loggers

      Remarkable close-up footage that appears to show an uncontacted tribesman in the Amazon rainforest has been released by an indigenous media group that wants to raise awareness of the threat posed by illegal loggers, miners and drug traffickers.
     (...) The Awá have been described as the world’s most threatened tribe by the NGO Survival International, which has tracked killings by loggers, who surround and frequently encroach upon the group’s territory.
     Many of the community have been forced to abandon the forest, but some remain in self-imposed isolation. Their existence has been called into question by commercial interests that want to move into the land, but the new footage has been cited as proof that they remain in the territory.   
      It was recorded by a member of a neighbouring tribe, the Guajajara, which is trying to defend one of the last pockets of intact forest in Maranhão, a massively deforested state in the north-east of Brazil. ―We hope this film produces something positive.
       We hope it makes an impact around the world to help protect our people and our forest,‖ said Flay Guajajara, who shot the image while out hunting and released it through the Mídia Índia platform.
       (...) Olimpio Guajajara, coordinator of the Guardians of the Amazon, said three of the group’s members have been murdered in this activity, which highlighted the need for more long-term support. He said: ―We Guardians are defending our people’s rights, defending the uncontacted Indians, and defending nature for all of us. We need the land to be protected for good."
     Indigenous groups say successive governments have failed to adequately recognise their territorial rights and their role in protecting forests that are globally essential for carbon sequestration and natural habitats.
      According to Survival International, loggers have been emboldened by the government and their camps can now be seen on the edge of Awá land.
     Director Stephen Corry said: ―This video is further proof that the uncontacted Awá people really exist. And a glance at a satellite photo shows just how much danger they’re in. Loggers have already killed many of their relatives and forced others out of the forest".

Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/22/uncontactedtribe-video-amazon-rainforest-awa-people.
In agreement with the text, it is CORRECT to affirm:
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Q1399746
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: COPESE - UFT Órgão: UFT Prova: COPESE - UFT - 2019 - UFT - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre - Língua Portuguesa, Inglês e Matemática |
Q1399746 Inglês

Read the following cartoon:

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The cartoon infers the idea:

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Q1399745
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: COPESE - UFT Órgão: UFT Prova: COPESE - UFT - 2019 - UFT - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre - Língua Portuguesa, Inglês e Matemática |
Q1399745 Inglês
Missing Dentures Found Stuck in Man's Throat 8 Days
After Surgery

       Here’s why it’s best to remove false teeth before surgery: You just might swallow them.
    A medical journal is reporting the case of a 72- year-old British man whose partial dentures apparently got stuck in his throat during surgery and weren’t discovered for eight days.
    The man went to the emergency room because he was having a hard time swallowing and was coughing up blood. Doctors ordered a chest X-ray, diagnosed him with what they wrongly thought was pneumonia and sent him home with antibiotics and steroids. It took another hospital visit before another X-ray revealed the problem: His dentures — a metal roof plate and three false teeth — lodged at the top of his throat.
    The man thought his dentures were lost while he was in the hospital for minor surgery. How it happened isn’t exactly clear, but a halfdozen previous cases have been documented of dentures going astray as surgical patients were put to sleep.
     Placing a tube in a patient’s airway can push things where they don’t belong, said Dr. Mary Dale Peterson, an anesthesiologist at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.
     Besides dentures, retainers, loose teeth and tongue piercings can cause problems, said Peterson, who is president-elect of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Before a child’s surgery, she’ll pull a very loose tooth and tell the patient to expect a visit from the tooth fairy. "We can make a nice game of it."
     In the British case, after the dentures were removed, the man had several bouts of bleeding that required more surgery before he recovered. The journal article didn’t identify the man or the hospital involved. […]

Available at: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/man-s-missingdentures-were-found-stuck-his-throat-8-n1041641 (edited).
In accordance with the text, all the following alternatives are correct, EXCEPT:
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Q1399744
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: COPESE - UFT Órgão: UFT Prova: COPESE - UFT - 2019 - UFT - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre - Língua Portuguesa, Inglês e Matemática |
Q1399744 Inglês
Missing Dentures Found Stuck in Man's Throat 8 Days
After Surgery

       Here’s why it’s best to remove false teeth before surgery: You just might swallow them.
    A medical journal is reporting the case of a 72- year-old British man whose partial dentures apparently got stuck in his throat during surgery and weren’t discovered for eight days.
    The man went to the emergency room because he was having a hard time swallowing and was coughing up blood. Doctors ordered a chest X-ray, diagnosed him with what they wrongly thought was pneumonia and sent him home with antibiotics and steroids. It took another hospital visit before another X-ray revealed the problem: His dentures — a metal roof plate and three false teeth — lodged at the top of his throat.
    The man thought his dentures were lost while he was in the hospital for minor surgery. How it happened isn’t exactly clear, but a halfdozen previous cases have been documented of dentures going astray as surgical patients were put to sleep.
     Placing a tube in a patient’s airway can push things where they don’t belong, said Dr. Mary Dale Peterson, an anesthesiologist at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.
     Besides dentures, retainers, loose teeth and tongue piercings can cause problems, said Peterson, who is president-elect of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Before a child’s surgery, she’ll pull a very loose tooth and tell the patient to expect a visit from the tooth fairy. "We can make a nice game of it."
     In the British case, after the dentures were removed, the man had several bouts of bleeding that required more surgery before he recovered. The journal article didn’t identify the man or the hospital involved. […]

Available at: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/man-s-missingdentures-were-found-stuck-his-throat-8-n1041641 (edited).

In reference with the text, it is INCORRECT to affirm that by the time the man went to the emergency room:

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Q1399743
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: COPESE - UFT Órgão: UFT Prova: COPESE - UFT - 2019 - UFT - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre - Língua Portuguesa, Inglês e Matemática |
Q1399743 Inglês
Missing Dentures Found Stuck in Man's Throat 8 Days
After Surgery

       Here’s why it’s best to remove false teeth before surgery: You just might swallow them.
    A medical journal is reporting the case of a 72- year-old British man whose partial dentures apparently got stuck in his throat during surgery and weren’t discovered for eight days.
    The man went to the emergency room because he was having a hard time swallowing and was coughing up blood. Doctors ordered a chest X-ray, diagnosed him with what they wrongly thought was pneumonia and sent him home with antibiotics and steroids. It took another hospital visit before another X-ray revealed the problem: His dentures — a metal roof plate and three false teeth — lodged at the top of his throat.
    The man thought his dentures were lost while he was in the hospital for minor surgery. How it happened isn’t exactly clear, but a halfdozen previous cases have been documented of dentures going astray as surgical patients were put to sleep.
     Placing a tube in a patient’s airway can push things where they don’t belong, said Dr. Mary Dale Peterson, an anesthesiologist at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.
     Besides dentures, retainers, loose teeth and tongue piercings can cause problems, said Peterson, who is president-elect of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Before a child’s surgery, she’ll pull a very loose tooth and tell the patient to expect a visit from the tooth fairy. "We can make a nice game of it."
     In the British case, after the dentures were removed, the man had several bouts of bleeding that required more surgery before he recovered. The journal article didn’t identify the man or the hospital involved. […]

Available at: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/man-s-missingdentures-were-found-stuck-his-throat-8-n1041641 (edited).
According to the text, it is CORRECT to affirm:
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Q1399578
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: VUNESP Órgão: UNIFESP Prova: VUNESP - 2019 - UNIFESP - Vestibular |
Q1399578 Inglês

Leia o texto para responder à questão.


America’s social-media addiction is getting worse



(Sources: Pew Research Centre; e Marketer)


   A survey in January and February 2019 from the Pew Research Centre, a think tank, found that 69% of American adults use Facebook; of these users, more than half visit the site “several times a day”. YouTube is even more popular, with 73% of adults saying they watch videos on the platform. For those aged 18 to 24, the figure is 90%. Instagram, a photo-sharing app, is used by 37% of adults. When Pew first conducted the survey in 2012, only a slim majority of Americans used Facebook. Fewer than one in ten had an Instagram account.

    Americans are also spending more time than ever on social-media sites like Facebook. There is evidence that limiting such services might yield health benefits. A paper published last year by Melissa Hunt, Rachel Marx, Courtney Lipson and Jordyn Young, all of the University of Pennsylvania, found that limiting social-media usage to 10 minutes a day led to reductions in loneliness, depression, anxiety and fear. Another paper from 2014 identified a link between heavy social-media usage and depression, largely due to a “social comparison” phenomenon, whereby users compare themselves to others and come away with lower evaluations of themselves. 

(www.economist.com, 08.08.2019. Adaptado.)

No trecho do segundo parágrafo “a ‘social comparison’ phenomenon, whereby users compare themselves to others and come away with lower evaluations of themselves”, a parte sublinhada tem função, no texto, de
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Q1399577
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Vocabulário | Vocabulary ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: VUNESP Órgão: UNIFESP Prova: VUNESP - 2019 - UNIFESP - Vestibular |
Q1399577 Inglês

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America’s social-media addiction is getting worse



(Sources: Pew Research Centre; e Marketer)


   A survey in January and February 2019 from the Pew Research Centre, a think tank, found that 69% of American adults use Facebook; of these users, more than half visit the site “several times a day”. YouTube is even more popular, with 73% of adults saying they watch videos on the platform. For those aged 18 to 24, the figure is 90%. Instagram, a photo-sharing app, is used by 37% of adults. When Pew first conducted the survey in 2012, only a slim majority of Americans used Facebook. Fewer than one in ten had an Instagram account.

    Americans are also spending more time than ever on social-media sites like Facebook. There is evidence that limiting such services might yield health benefits. A paper published last year by Melissa Hunt, Rachel Marx, Courtney Lipson and Jordyn Young, all of the University of Pennsylvania, found that limiting social-media usage to 10 minutes a day led to reductions in loneliness, depression, anxiety and fear. Another paper from 2014 identified a link between heavy social-media usage and depression, largely due to a “social comparison” phenomenon, whereby users compare themselves to others and come away with lower evaluations of themselves. 

(www.economist.com, 08.08.2019. Adaptado.)

No trecho do segundo parágrafo “largely due to a ‘social comparison’ phenomenon”, a expressão sublinhada pode ser substituída, sem alteração de sentido, por
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Q1399576
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: VUNESP Órgão: UNIFESP Prova: VUNESP - 2019 - UNIFESP - Vestibular |
Q1399576 Inglês

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America’s social-media addiction is getting worse



(Sources: Pew Research Centre; e Marketer)


   A survey in January and February 2019 from the Pew Research Centre, a think tank, found that 69% of American adults use Facebook; of these users, more than half visit the site “several times a day”. YouTube is even more popular, with 73% of adults saying they watch videos on the platform. For those aged 18 to 24, the figure is 90%. Instagram, a photo-sharing app, is used by 37% of adults. When Pew first conducted the survey in 2012, only a slim majority of Americans used Facebook. Fewer than one in ten had an Instagram account.

    Americans are also spending more time than ever on social-media sites like Facebook. There is evidence that limiting such services might yield health benefits. A paper published last year by Melissa Hunt, Rachel Marx, Courtney Lipson and Jordyn Young, all of the University of Pennsylvania, found that limiting social-media usage to 10 minutes a day led to reductions in loneliness, depression, anxiety and fear. Another paper from 2014 identified a link between heavy social-media usage and depression, largely due to a “social comparison” phenomenon, whereby users compare themselves to others and come away with lower evaluations of themselves. 

(www.economist.com, 08.08.2019. Adaptado.)

In the excerpt from the second paragraph “limiting such services might yield health benefits”, the underlined expression may be replaced, without meaning change, by
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Q1399575
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2019 Banca: VUNESP Órgão: UNIFESP Prova: VUNESP - 2019 - UNIFESP - Vestibular |
Q1399575 Inglês

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America’s social-media addiction is getting worse



(Sources: Pew Research Centre; e Marketer)


   A survey in January and February 2019 from the Pew Research Centre, a think tank, found that 69% of American adults use Facebook; of these users, more than half visit the site “several times a day”. YouTube is even more popular, with 73% of adults saying they watch videos on the platform. For those aged 18 to 24, the figure is 90%. Instagram, a photo-sharing app, is used by 37% of adults. When Pew first conducted the survey in 2012, only a slim majority of Americans used Facebook. Fewer than one in ten had an Instagram account.

    Americans are also spending more time than ever on social-media sites like Facebook. There is evidence that limiting such services might yield health benefits. A paper published last year by Melissa Hunt, Rachel Marx, Courtney Lipson and Jordyn Young, all of the University of Pennsylvania, found that limiting social-media usage to 10 minutes a day led to reductions in loneliness, depression, anxiety and fear. Another paper from 2014 identified a link between heavy social-media usage and depression, largely due to a “social comparison” phenomenon, whereby users compare themselves to others and come away with lower evaluations of themselves. 

(www.economist.com, 08.08.2019. Adaptado.)

According to the second paragraph, the paper published by researchers of the University of Pennsylvania showed that
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America’s social-media addiction is getting worse



(Sources: Pew Research Centre; e Marketer)


   A survey in January and February 2019 from the Pew Research Centre, a think tank, found that 69% of American adults use Facebook; of these users, more than half visit the site “several times a day”. YouTube is even more popular, with 73% of adults saying they watch videos on the platform. For those aged 18 to 24, the figure is 90%. Instagram, a photo-sharing app, is used by 37% of adults. When Pew first conducted the survey in 2012, only a slim majority of Americans used Facebook. Fewer than one in ten had an Instagram account.

    Americans are also spending more time than ever on social-media sites like Facebook. There is evidence that limiting such services might yield health benefits. A paper published last year by Melissa Hunt, Rachel Marx, Courtney Lipson and Jordyn Young, all of the University of Pennsylvania, found that limiting social-media usage to 10 minutes a day led to reductions in loneliness, depression, anxiety and fear. Another paper from 2014 identified a link between heavy social-media usage and depression, largely due to a “social comparison” phenomenon, whereby users compare themselves to others and come away with lower evaluations of themselves. 

(www.economist.com, 08.08.2019. Adaptado.)

According to the second paragraph, the excessive use of social-media raises questions about
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America’s social-media addiction is getting worse



(Sources: Pew Research Centre; e Marketer)


   A survey in January and February 2019 from the Pew Research Centre, a think tank, found that 69% of American adults use Facebook; of these users, more than half visit the site “several times a day”. YouTube is even more popular, with 73% of adults saying they watch videos on the platform. For those aged 18 to 24, the figure is 90%. Instagram, a photo-sharing app, is used by 37% of adults. When Pew first conducted the survey in 2012, only a slim majority of Americans used Facebook. Fewer than one in ten had an Instagram account.

    Americans are also spending more time than ever on social-media sites like Facebook. There is evidence that limiting such services might yield health benefits. A paper published last year by Melissa Hunt, Rachel Marx, Courtney Lipson and Jordyn Young, all of the University of Pennsylvania, found that limiting social-media usage to 10 minutes a day led to reductions in loneliness, depression, anxiety and fear. Another paper from 2014 identified a link between heavy social-media usage and depression, largely due to a “social comparison” phenomenon, whereby users compare themselves to others and come away with lower evaluations of themselves. 

(www.economist.com, 08.08.2019. Adaptado.)

O trecho do primeiro parágrafo “Fewer than one in ten had an Instagram account” está ilustrado pela curva correspondente ao Instagram
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