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Q1266037 Inglês

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<https://tinyurl.com/y6fbtptu> Acesso em: 15.03.2019. Original colorido


Nos quadrinhos, pode-se observar que Alice se sente um tanto quanto decepcionada com a formação do novo líder porque ele

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Q1169894 Inglês
Harlem
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (1990). Disponível em http://www.poetryfoundation.org/.
As tentativas de resposta do poeta à pergunta “What happens to a dream deferred?” evocam imagens de
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Q1169893 Inglês
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    Scientists have long touted DNA’s potential as an ideal storage medium; it’s dense, easy to replicate, and stable over millennia. But in order to replace existing silicon‐chip or magnetic‐tape storage technologies, DNA will have to get a lot cheaper to predictably read, write, and package.
    That’s where scientists like Hyunjun Park come in. He and the other cofounders of Catalog, an MIT DNA‐storage spinoff emerging out of stealth on Tuesday, are building a machine that will write a terabyte of data a day, using 500 trillion molecules of DNA.  
    If successful, DNA storage could be the answer to a uniquely 21st‐century problem: information overload. Five years ago humans had produced 4.4 zettabytes of data; that's set to explode to 160 zettabytes (each year!) by 2025. Current infrastructure can handle only a fraction of the coming data deluge, which is expected to consume all the world's microchip‐grade silicon by 2040.
    “Today’s technology is already close to the physical limits of scaling,” says Victor Zhirnov, chief scientist of the Semiconductor Research Corporation. “DNA has an information‐storage density several orders of magnitude higher than any other known storage technology.”
    How dense exactly? Imagine formatting every movie ever made into DNA; it would be smaller than the size of a sugar cube. And it would last for 10,000 years.
Wired, June, 2018. Disponível em https://www.wired.com/. Adaptado.
Conforme o texto, cientistas preveem que, em pouco mais de 20 anos,
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Q1169892 Inglês
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    Scientists have long touted DNA’s potential as an ideal storage medium; it’s dense, easy to replicate, and stable over millennia. But in order to replace existing silicon‐chip or magnetic‐tape storage technologies, DNA will have to get a lot cheaper to predictably read, write, and package.
    That’s where scientists like Hyunjun Park come in. He and the other cofounders of Catalog, an MIT DNA‐storage spinoff emerging out of stealth on Tuesday, are building a machine that will write a terabyte of data a day, using 500 trillion molecules of DNA.  
    If successful, DNA storage could be the answer to a uniquely 21st‐century problem: information overload. Five years ago humans had produced 4.4 zettabytes of data; that's set to explode to 160 zettabytes (each year!) by 2025. Current infrastructure can handle only a fraction of the coming data deluge, which is expected to consume all the world's microchip‐grade silicon by 2040.
    “Today’s technology is already close to the physical limits of scaling,” says Victor Zhirnov, chief scientist of the Semiconductor Research Corporation. “DNA has an information‐storage density several orders of magnitude higher than any other known storage technology.”
    How dense exactly? Imagine formatting every movie ever made into DNA; it would be smaller than the size of a sugar cube. And it would last for 10,000 years.
Wired, June, 2018. Disponível em https://www.wired.com/. Adaptado.
Afirma‐se no texto que, no futuro, a tecnologia de gravação em moléculas de DNA
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Q1169891 Inglês
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O efeito de comicidade que se obtém do meme decorre, sobretudo, da
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Q1169890 Inglês
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    Assigning female genders to digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa is helping entrench harmful gender biases, according to a UN agency.
    Research released by Unesco claims that the often submissive and flirty responses offered by the systemsto many queries – including outright abusive ones – reinforce ideas of women as subservient.
    “Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it sends a signal that women are obliging, docile and eager‐to‐ please helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a blunt voice command like ‘hey’ or ‘OK’”, the report said.
    “The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to queries regardless of their tone or hostility. In many communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biases that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.”
    The Unesco publication was entitled “I’d Blush if I Could”; a reference to the response Apple’s Siri assistant offers to the phrase: “You’re a slut.” Amazon’s Alexa will respond: “Well, thanks for the feedback.”
    The paper said such firms were “staffed by overwhelmingly male engineering teams” and have built AI (Artificial Intelligence) systems that “cause their feminised digital assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch‐me‐if‐you‐can flirtation”.
    Saniye Gülser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said: “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether AI technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them.”
The Guardian, May, 2019. Adaptado.
De acordo com o texto, na opinião de Saniye Gülser Corat, tecnologias que envolvem Inteligência Artificial, entre outros aspectos,
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Q1169889 Inglês
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    Assigning female genders to digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa is helping entrench harmful gender biases, according to a UN agency.
    Research released by Unesco claims that the often submissive and flirty responses offered by the systemsto many queries – including outright abusive ones – reinforce ideas of women as subservient.
    “Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it sends a signal that women are obliging, docile and eager‐to‐ please helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a blunt voice command like ‘hey’ or ‘OK’”, the report said.
    “The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to queries regardless of their tone or hostility. In many communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biases that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.”
    The Unesco publication was entitled “I’d Blush if I Could”; a reference to the response Apple’s Siri assistant offers to the phrase: “You’re a slut.” Amazon’s Alexa will respond: “Well, thanks for the feedback.”
    The paper said such firms were “staffed by overwhelmingly male engineering teams” and have built AI (Artificial Intelligence) systems that “cause their feminised digital assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch‐me‐if‐you‐can flirtation”.
    Saniye Gülser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said: “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether AI technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them.”
The Guardian, May, 2019. Adaptado.
Segundo o texto, o título do relatório publicado pela Unesco ‐ “I´d Blush if I Could” ‐, no que diz respeito aos assistentes digitais, indica
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Q1169888 Inglês
TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO

    Assigning female genders to digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa is helping entrench harmful gender biases, according to a UN agency.
    Research released by Unesco claims that the often submissive and flirty responses offered by the systemsto many queries – including outright abusive ones – reinforce ideas of women as subservient.
    “Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it sends a signal that women are obliging, docile and eager‐to‐ please helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a blunt voice command like ‘hey’ or ‘OK’”, the report said.
    “The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to queries regardless of their tone or hostility. In many communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biases that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.”
    The Unesco publication was entitled “I’d Blush if I Could”; a reference to the response Apple’s Siri assistant offers to the phrase: “You’re a slut.” Amazon’s Alexa will respond: “Well, thanks for the feedback.”
    The paper said such firms were “staffed by overwhelmingly male engineering teams” and have built AI (Artificial Intelligence) systems that “cause their feminised digital assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch‐me‐if‐you‐can flirtation”.
    Saniye Gülser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said: “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether AI technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them.”
The Guardian, May, 2019. Adaptado.
Conforme o texto, em relação às mulheres, um efeito decorrente do fato de assistentes digitais reforçarem estereótipos de gênero é
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Q1041044 Inglês

we didn’t know the extent to which these metaphors influence people. (ℓ. 12-13)


In the fragment above, the doubt expressed by the researcher can be formulated by the following question:

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Q1041043 Inglês
The author of the text introduces the topic by making use of the following strategy:
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Q1041042 Inglês

The power of metaphors discusses the use of metaphors in daily life, as well as the text O que nossas metáforas dizem de nós.

The following metaphor is present in both texts:

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Q1013795 Inglês

Consider the following sentence.


It is only when some irrelevant memory makes us prejudiced that we should search our mind for the reason for the aversion.


Select the alternative with the proposition that best rephrases it.

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Q1013794 Inglês
Select the alternative that could replace the segment are bound to (l. 25) without changing the literal meaning of the sentence.
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Q1013793 Inglês

Consider the following propositions for rephrasing the sentence All of us, when we see a painting, are bound to be reminded of a hundred-and-one things which influence our likes and dislikes (l. 24-27).


I - When we see a painting, all of us are bound to be reminded of a hundred-and-one things which influence our likes and dislikes.

II - All of us are bound to be reminded of a hundred-and-one things which influence our likes and dislikes when we see a painting.

III- A hundred-and-one things which influence our likes and dislikes are bound to be reminded by all of us when we see a painting.


If applied to the text, which ones would be correct and keep the literal meaning?

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Q1013792 Inglês

Consider the following statements.


I - The pronoun Its (l. 15) refers to what he has just done (l. 14).

II - The pronoun It (l. 23) refers to Someone (l. 21).

III- The pronoun It (l. 29) refers to when some irrelevant memory makes us prejudiced (l. 29-30).


Which ones are correct?

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Q1013790 Inglês
Consider the segment you may crush an artist by telling him that what he has just done may be quite good (l. 13-15). If the word artist were replaced by its plural form, how many additional alterations would have to be made to keep the segment grammatically correct?
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Q1013789 Inglês

Mark the statements below with T (true) or F (false), according to the text.


( ) The indefinition of what Art is allows different interpretations of what is beautiful or not.

( ) The author believes that liking an artwork needs no justification, but disliking it does.

( ) Representations of beautiful things are easily perceived as good art.

( ) An artist can make a great picture out of a repugnant subject-matter.


The correct sequence of filling in the parentheses, from top to bottom, is

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Q1013788 Inglês
According to the text,
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Q1013787 Inglês
Select the alternative that adequately fills in the gaps in lines 07, 11 and 18.
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Q1013786 Inglês

Considere as possibilidades de reescrita do segmento The new division between best picture and popular picture may be Ill-judged, but it reflects a pre-existing dichotomy between arthouse and multiplex fare (l. 63-66).


I - Ill-judged as the new division between best picture and popular picture may be, it reflects a pre-existing dichotomy between arthouse and multiplex fare.

II - Despite the fact that the new division between best picture and popular picture may be ill-judged, it reflects a pre-existing dichotomy between arthouse and multiplex fare.

III- Despite the possibility of being ill-judged, the new division between best picture and popular picture reflects a pre-existing dichotomy between arthouse and multiplex fare.


Quais poderiam substituir o segmento, sem prejuízo do sentido original e da correção gramatical?

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Respostas
1161: E
1162: C
1163: B
1164: E
1165: B
1166: E
1167: A
1168: B
1169: A
1170: D
1171: C
1172: E
1173: B
1174: D
1175: A
1176: B
1177: D
1178: C
1179: A
1180: E