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Read the quote from basketball player Michael Jordan.


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According to the quote, Michael Jordan

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    Of every 1,000 children born in Kenya, a country in East Africa, 32 don’t make it to their first birthdays. Study after study has explored how to improve those impressive numbers, in Kenya and elsewhere. But a decade-long study on alleviating poverty found a simple solution. Giving $1,000 to poor families lowered infant mortality rates by nearly half, and deaths in children under 5 by 45 percent. Those are much bigger drops than have been credited to routine immunizations, for example, or bed nets to prevent malaria.
    “This is easily the biggest impact on child survival that I’ve seen from an intervention that was designed to alleviate poverty,” said Harsha Thirumurthy, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the work. The decline in infant mortality is a “showstopping result,” he said.
    The outcomes suggest that delivering even smaller amounts of money to families — especially those that live near a hospital — immediately before or after the birth of a child might allow women to seek medical care and drastically improve their children’s chances of survival. More than 100 low- and middle-income countries have explored so-called cash transfers, especially after the pandemic began. Generally, the experiments have found that giving money to poor families improves school attendance, nutrition and use of health services.

(Apoorva Mandavilli. www.nytimes.com, 18.08.2025. Adaptado.)
De acordo com o texto, o subsídio financeiro destinado a pessoas em situação de vulnerabilidade econômica no Quênia demonstrou ter um impacto para além da redução no índice de mortalidade infantil. O trecho do texto que confirma essa afirmação é:
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    Of every 1,000 children born in Kenya, a country in East Africa, 32 don’t make it to their first birthdays. Study after study has explored how to improve those impressive numbers, in Kenya and elsewhere. But a decade-long study on alleviating poverty found a simple solution. Giving $1,000 to poor families lowered infant mortality rates by nearly half, and deaths in children under 5 by 45 percent. Those are much bigger drops than have been credited to routine immunizations, for example, or bed nets to prevent malaria.
    “This is easily the biggest impact on child survival that I’ve seen from an intervention that was designed to alleviate poverty,” said Harsha Thirumurthy, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the work. The decline in infant mortality is a “showstopping result,” he said.
    The outcomes suggest that delivering even smaller amounts of money to families — especially those that live near a hospital — immediately before or after the birth of a child might allow women to seek medical care and drastically improve their children’s chances of survival. More than 100 low- and middle-income countries have explored so-called cash transfers, especially after the pandemic began. Generally, the experiments have found that giving money to poor families improves school attendance, nutrition and use of health services.

(Apoorva Mandavilli. www.nytimes.com, 18.08.2025. Adaptado.)
In the excerpt from the third paragraph “The outcomes suggest that delivering even smaller amounts of money to families — especially those that live near a hospital — immediately before or after the birth of a child might allow women to seek medical care and drastically improve their children’s chances of survival”, the underlined word expresses a 
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    Of every 1,000 children born in Kenya, a country in East Africa, 32 don’t make it to their first birthdays. Study after study has explored how to improve those impressive numbers, in Kenya and elsewhere. But a decade-long study on alleviating poverty found a simple solution. Giving $1,000 to poor families lowered infant mortality rates by nearly half, and deaths in children under 5 by 45 percent. Those are much bigger drops than have been credited to routine immunizations, for example, or bed nets to prevent malaria.
    “This is easily the biggest impact on child survival that I’ve seen from an intervention that was designed to alleviate poverty,” said Harsha Thirumurthy, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the work. The decline in infant mortality is a “showstopping result,” he said.
    The outcomes suggest that delivering even smaller amounts of money to families — especially those that live near a hospital — immediately before or after the birth of a child might allow women to seek medical care and drastically improve their children’s chances of survival. More than 100 low- and middle-income countries have explored so-called cash transfers, especially after the pandemic began. Generally, the experiments have found that giving money to poor families improves school attendance, nutrition and use of health services.

(Apoorva Mandavilli. www.nytimes.com, 18.08.2025. Adaptado.)
No trecho do segundo parágrafo “The decline in infant mortality is a ‘showstopping result,’ he said”, o termo sublinhado pode ser substituído, sem alteração de sentido para o texto, por:
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    Of every 1,000 children born in Kenya, a country in East Africa, 32 don’t make it to their first birthdays. Study after study has explored how to improve those impressive numbers, in Kenya and elsewhere. But a decade-long study on alleviating poverty found a simple solution. Giving $1,000 to poor families lowered infant mortality rates by nearly half, and deaths in children under 5 by 45 percent. Those are much bigger drops than have been credited to routine immunizations, for example, or bed nets to prevent malaria.
    “This is easily the biggest impact on child survival that I’ve seen from an intervention that was designed to alleviate poverty,” said Harsha Thirumurthy, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the work. The decline in infant mortality is a “showstopping result,” he said.
    The outcomes suggest that delivering even smaller amounts of money to families — especially those that live near a hospital — immediately before or after the birth of a child might allow women to seek medical care and drastically improve their children’s chances of survival. More than 100 low- and middle-income countries have explored so-called cash transfers, especially after the pandemic began. Generally, the experiments have found that giving money to poor families improves school attendance, nutrition and use of health services.

(Apoorva Mandavilli. www.nytimes.com, 18.08.2025. Adaptado.)
In the excerpt from the first paragraph “Those are much bigger drops than have been credited”, the underlined word refers to
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Q4143779 Inglês
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    Of every 1,000 children born in Kenya, a country in East Africa, 32 don’t make it to their first birthdays. Study after study has explored how to improve those impressive numbers, in Kenya and elsewhere. But a decade-long study on alleviating poverty found a simple solution. Giving $1,000 to poor families lowered infant mortality rates by nearly half, and deaths in children under 5 by 45 percent. Those are much bigger drops than have been credited to routine immunizations, for example, or bed nets to prevent malaria.
    “This is easily the biggest impact on child survival that I’ve seen from an intervention that was designed to alleviate poverty,” said Harsha Thirumurthy, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the work. The decline in infant mortality is a “showstopping result,” he said.
    The outcomes suggest that delivering even smaller amounts of money to families — especially those that live near a hospital — immediately before or after the birth of a child might allow women to seek medical care and drastically improve their children’s chances of survival. More than 100 low- and middle-income countries have explored so-called cash transfers, especially after the pandemic began. Generally, the experiments have found that giving money to poor families improves school attendance, nutrition and use of health services.

(Apoorva Mandavilli. www.nytimes.com, 18.08.2025. Adaptado.)
The main purpose of the text is to
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Q4130709 Inglês
Instrução: A questão está relacionada ao texto abaixo.

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Adapted from: TANASĂ, Matei. The Unlovable Parts of a Loving Society. 2022. Retrieved from: . Accessed: 18 Sep. 2025.
Consider the following propositions for rephrasing the sentence Furthermore, it is rather well known how rare perfection in humans is, and if one reaches perfection then they should be called God rather than human; so we will say that no human is entirely perfect; so all humans are in part bad (l. 56-61).

I - Moreover, everyone knows human perfection is rare. If someone were perfect, they would be our God, not human. So, no human is completely perfect, and all people have some flaws.
II - Aditionally, because perfection in humans is so rare that anyone who attains it would be more God than human, we can say that all humans are at least partly imperfect.
III- Furthermore, most people believe human perfection is rare. Still, some people come close to it and may be compared to God; so, not all humans are bad.

If applied to the text, which ones would be correct and keep the original meaning?
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Q4130707 Inglês
Instrução: A questão está relacionada ao texto abaixo.

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Adapted from: TANASĂ, Matei. The Unlovable Parts of a Loving Society. 2022. Retrieved from: . Accessed: 18 Sep. 2025.
Select the alternative that adequately replaces the expression Counting all this in (l. 22) without altering the sentence’s original meaning.
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Q4130706 Inglês
Instrução: A questão está relacionada ao texto abaixo.

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Adapted from: TANASĂ, Matei. The Unlovable Parts of a Loving Society. 2022. Retrieved from: . Accessed: 18 Sep. 2025.
Select the sequence of phrasal verbs that replaces the single verbs satisfy (l. 18), promotes (l. 37), and arrived at (l. 87) adequately and without changes in meaning.
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Instrução: A questão está relacionada ao texto abaixo.

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Adapted from: TANASĂ, Matei. The Unlovable Parts of a Loving Society. 2022. Retrieved from: . Accessed: 18 Sep. 2025.
Mark the statements below with T (true) or F (false), according to the text.

( ) The phrase ‘Love is love’ is based on the assumption that love is always good, so it does not make sense because it might be bad.
( ) The term ‘self-love’ is deceiving because it suggests one should love oneself instead of the good that is within one.
( ) Love, as an intrinsic virtue, may be harmful when directed to something or someone undeserving.
( ) If someone enjoys evil, it is a sign that they are morally flawed and in need of change.

The sequence should read, from top to bottom, is
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Q4130704 Inglês
Instrução: A questão está relacionada ao texto abaixo.

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Adapted from: TANASĂ, Matei. The Unlovable Parts of a Loving Society. 2022. Retrieved from: . Accessed: 18 Sep. 2025.
Consider the statements below.

I - In Phaedo and Symposium, Plato suggests that love is a desire for beauty and that when we love something or someone we want it as it is.
II - St. Augustine suggests we should not love people, but instead love the good that is in each person.
III- Meister Eckhart suggests that God contains all the good and all the beauty and thus loves us all.

Which ones are correct according to the text?
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Q4130703 Inglês
Instrução: A questão está relacionada ao texto abaixo.

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Adapted from: TANASĂ, Matei. The Unlovable Parts of a Loving Society. 2022. Retrieved from: . Accessed: 18 Sep. 2025.
Select the alternative that adequately fills in the blanks in lines 02, 30, 63 and 84.
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Instrução: A questão está relacionada ao texto abaixo.


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Extraído de: BRADY, Kathleen. Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball. Hyperion, 1994.
Considere as seguintes possibilidades de reescrita da frase How did so apparently ordinary a performer discover her great genius? (l. 17-18).

I - How did a performer who seemed to be so ordinary discover her great genius?
II - How did a performer of so ordinary appearance discover her genius?
III- How did a performer whose ordinary work was so apparent discover her great genius?

Quais poderiam substituir a frase, sem prejuízo do sentido original e da correção gramatical? 
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Q4130700 Inglês
Instrução: A questão está relacionada ao texto abaixo.


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Extraído de: BRADY, Kathleen. Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball. Hyperion, 1994.
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta termos que, conforme empregados no texto, operam como adjetivos.
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Instrução: A questão está relacionada ao texto abaixo.


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Extraído de: BRADY, Kathleen. Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball. Hyperion, 1994.
Associe as palavras da coluna da esquerda às suas respectivas traduções, na coluna da direita, de acordo com o sentido que têm no texto.

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A sequência correta de preenchimento dos parênteses, de cima para baixo, é 
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Instrução: A questão está relacionada ao texto abaixo.


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Extraído de: BRADY, Kathleen. Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball. Hyperion, 1994.
Assinale com V (verdadeiro) ou F (falso) as afirmações abaixo, acerca do texto.

( ) As palavras she (l. 01), she (l. 45), her (l. 57) e herself (l. 60) têm o mesmo referente.
( ) A palavra did (l. 30) substitui o segmento direct her own material (l. 30-31), evitando portanto a repetição desse segmento.
( ) O pronome his (l. 35) refere-se a Chaplin’s Little Tramp (l. 34-35).
( ) O segmento reason and judgment, propriety and the prudent course (l. 50-51) é um aposto que se refere à palavra imperatives (l. 49).

A sequência correta de preenchimento dos parênteses, de cima para baixo, é
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Read the informational guide provided by Biosphere 2.


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The guide informs potential visitors to the Biosphere 2 project about

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        In the middle of the vast Arizona desert, in the United States, there’s a structure that seems taken straight out of the pages of science fiction. Inside a massive complex of glass pyramids and towers, spread across 1.2 hectares, stands a tropical rainforest topped by a 7.6-meter-high waterfall, a savannah and a fog desert. It’s seemingly a little capsule of Earth, which is why the structure is called Biosphere 2 — named after our own planet, Biosphere 1.

        The scenery forms the perfect background for the futuristic experiment that once took place here. In the early 1990s, eight people locked themselves inside, sealed off from the outside world for two years, to explore the challenges of living in a self-contained system — a prerequisite for building colonies in outer space. They fed themselves from the crops they grew, they recycled their own wastewater and they cared for the plants that produced their oxygen.

        In terms of sustaining human life, the experiment did not go well. Oxygen levels fell significantly, making the inhabitants sick, while carbon dioxide (CO2) levels increased. Countless animals died, including the pollinators the plants needed to reproduce. And although the “biospherians” did survive on their homegrown food, they lost weight to the point where they became a case study for calorie restriction. When supplementary oxygen needed to be brought in, commentators blamed the project as a failure, calling it a “new-age silliness masquerading as science”. In recent years, however, many experts have come to see the Biosphere 2 experiment in a new light, with valuable lessons about ecology, atmospheric science and importantly, the irreplaceability of our own planet.

(Katarina Zimmer. www.bbc.com, 05.07.2025. Adapted.)
According to the third paragraph, one major ecological imbalance that compromised human habitability in Biosphere 2 was the
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        In the middle of the vast Arizona desert, in the United States, there’s a structure that seems taken straight out of the pages of science fiction. Inside a massive complex of glass pyramids and towers, spread across 1.2 hectares, stands a tropical rainforest topped by a 7.6-meter-high waterfall, a savannah and a fog desert. It’s seemingly a little capsule of Earth, which is why the structure is called Biosphere 2 — named after our own planet, Biosphere 1.

        The scenery forms the perfect background for the futuristic experiment that once took place here. In the early 1990s, eight people locked themselves inside, sealed off from the outside world for two years, to explore the challenges of living in a self-contained system — a prerequisite for building colonies in outer space. They fed themselves from the crops they grew, they recycled their own wastewater and they cared for the plants that produced their oxygen.

        In terms of sustaining human life, the experiment did not go well. Oxygen levels fell significantly, making the inhabitants sick, while carbon dioxide (CO2) levels increased. Countless animals died, including the pollinators the plants needed to reproduce. And although the “biospherians” did survive on their homegrown food, they lost weight to the point where they became a case study for calorie restriction. When supplementary oxygen needed to be brought in, commentators blamed the project as a failure, calling it a “new-age silliness masquerading as science”. In recent years, however, many experts have come to see the Biosphere 2 experiment in a new light, with valuable lessons about ecology, atmospheric science and importantly, the irreplaceability of our own planet.

(Katarina Zimmer. www.bbc.com, 05.07.2025. Adapted.)
In the excerpt from the second paragraph “The scenery forms the perfect background for the futuristic experiment that once took place here”, the underlined term refers to
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        In the middle of the vast Arizona desert, in the United States, there’s a structure that seems taken straight out of the pages of science fiction. Inside a massive complex of glass pyramids and towers, spread across 1.2 hectares, stands a tropical rainforest topped by a 7.6-meter-high waterfall, a savannah and a fog desert. It’s seemingly a little capsule of Earth, which is why the structure is called Biosphere 2 — named after our own planet, Biosphere 1.

        The scenery forms the perfect background for the futuristic experiment that once took place here. In the early 1990s, eight people locked themselves inside, sealed off from the outside world for two years, to explore the challenges of living in a self-contained system — a prerequisite for building colonies in outer space. They fed themselves from the crops they grew, they recycled their own wastewater and they cared for the plants that produced their oxygen.

        In terms of sustaining human life, the experiment did not go well. Oxygen levels fell significantly, making the inhabitants sick, while carbon dioxide (CO2) levels increased. Countless animals died, including the pollinators the plants needed to reproduce. And although the “biospherians” did survive on their homegrown food, they lost weight to the point where they became a case study for calorie restriction. When supplementary oxygen needed to be brought in, commentators blamed the project as a failure, calling it a “new-age silliness masquerading as science”. In recent years, however, many experts have come to see the Biosphere 2 experiment in a new light, with valuable lessons about ecology, atmospheric science and importantly, the irreplaceability of our own planet.

(Katarina Zimmer. www.bbc.com, 05.07.2025. Adapted.)
In the fragment from the first paragraph “It’s seemingly a little capsule of Earth”, the underlined expression means 
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41: E
42: C
43: D
44: A
45: A
46: B
47: B
48: A
49: B
50: D
51: C
52: C
53: A
54: C
55: A
56: B
57: D
58: E
59: C
60: A