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Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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With the infographic, the World Health Organization wants to inform that two hundred and fifty thousand people will die by 2050.
One of the main goals of the text is to draw attention to the relationship between vector-borne diseases and the lack of clean water.
Judge the items from 23 through 26 based on the preceding infographic.
According to the infographic, the entire population will suffer the effects of the climate change irrespective of where people live.
The passage “to make it free for kids to go to the movies” (third box) can be correctly rewritten as to make kids free to go to the cinema.
In can be inferred from the use of the structure “I’m going to start” (second box) that the kid had already considered the idea of starting a campaign and has decided to go for it.
The kid’s answer indicates that he is not aware of who Greta Thunberg is, nor of what she has done.
The comic strip shows that, for the kid, going to the movies is a way of thinking about something other than climate change.
In the first box, the words in “action against climate change” work together as a way to define the “movement” to which the rabbit is referring.
The expression “16 year old Greta Thunberg”, in the first box, could have been correctly written as 16-year-old Greta Thunberg.
The rabbit is representing an adult who is scared by the action against climate change movement.
The expression “the increased burden”, which closes the second paragraph, refers to women’s difficulties and responsibilities that increase because of the climate crisis in agricultural countries.
The sentence “Across the world (…) resources” (second sentence of the second paragraph) can be correctly rewritten as In the whole world, women are more dependent on natural resources, even though they have less access to.
In the second sentence of the first paragraph, the word “livelihoods” refers to means of support or sources of money people need to survive.
The text states that the combination of gender inequality and climate change is the most serious problem humans face in current time.
Even though climate change increases risks for women around the world, women in poorer countries are faced with more severe scenarios.
Climate change can both worsen existing conflicts between nations and peoples as well as cause new ones.
When the author states “the whole thing is largely an afterthought” (second sentence of the last paragraph), it can be correctly inferred that environmental concerns are not being considered as important as “battles over territorial, political and historic rights” in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
The expression “desalination plants” (third sentence of the first paragraph) refers to aquatic vegetation that is able to take salt out of seawater.
In the first paragraph, the information between parentheses indicate the equivalent values in Farenheit degrees, for temperature, and in square miles, for length, which are usually adopted in the United States of America.
The Haarez newspaper has projected that sea levels in the region of Israel will be one meter high by 2050.

