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Q582504
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What Your Tweets Say About You
By Maria Konnikov
How much can your tweets reveal about you? A lot! - would be the answer of psychologists James Pennebaker e Cindy Chung, at the University of Texas, who study how language relates to well-being and personality. One of Pennebaker’s most famous projects is a computer program called Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (L.I.W.C.), which looks at the words we use, and in what frequency and context, and uses this information to study our psychological states and various aspects of our personality.
Since the creation of the L.I.W.C., in 1993, studies utilizing the program have suggested a close connection between our language, our state of mind, and our behavior. They have shown, for instance, that a person’s word choices can reveal her place in a social or professional hierarchy; and that the use of different filler words (“I mean”; “You know”) can suggest whether a speaker is male or female, younger or older, and more or less conscientious. “The words we use in natural language reflect our thoughts and feelings in often unpredictable ways,” Pennebaker and Cindy Chung have written.
The psychologist Johannes Eichstaedt and his colleagues analyzed eight hundred and twenty-six million tweets across fourteen hundred American counties(1). Then, using lists of words that can be reliably associated with positive and negative emotions, they gave each county an emotional profile. Finally, they asked a simple question: Could those profiles help determine which counties were likely to have more deaths from heart disease?
The answer was yes. Counties where residents’ tweets included words related to hostility, aggression, hate, and, fatigue — words such as “jealous,” and “bored”— had significantly higher rates of heart-related deaths. On the other hand, where people’s tweets reflected more positive emotions and engagement, heart disease was less common. The tweet-based model even had more predictive power than other models based on traditional demographic, socioeconomic, and health-risk factors.
(1) Um condado (county/counties) ou província é um aglomerado de cidades, não tão grande quanto um estado.
From: http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/can-tweets-predict-heart-disease
GLOSSARY: conscientious: consciencioso/cuidadoso; reliably: seguramente; profile: perfil; heart disease: doença do coração; hate: ódio; jealous: com ciúmes; bored: entediado; higher rates: taxas mais altas; engagement: comprometimento; predictive: previsível.
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No terceiro parágrafo, o pronome “they" se refere:
Ano: 2014
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Q1370417
Inglês
Observe the excerpt from Text 01 that follows.
Mark the correct alternative about the use of
“where”.
Excerpt 02: “One death was reported in São Paulo state, where a young man was run over by a SUV at an intersection during a demonstration, state police said.”
Excerpt 02: “One death was reported in São Paulo state, where a young man was run over by a SUV at an intersection during a demonstration, state police said.”
Q582683
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Are social networking sites addictive?
1With the increasing popularity of wireless devices like smartphones — devices that can move lots of data very quickly — users have access to their social networks 24 hours a day. Most social networking sites have developed applications for your mobile phone, so logging on is always convenient. Social networks also tap into our human desire to stay connected with others. Besides, the rush of nostalgia as you connect with your former grade-school classmate on Facebook can be quite heady and exciting.
2But what's the main reason we find these sites so addictive? Plain old narcissism. We broadcast our personalities online whenever we publish a thought, photo, YouTube video or answer one of those “25 Things About Me" memes. We put that information out there so people will respond and connect to us. And being part of a social network is sort of like having your own entourage that follows you everywhere, commenting on and applauding everything you do. It's very seductive.
3In 2008, researchers at the University of Georgia studied the correlation between narcissism and Facebook users. Unsurprisingly, they found that the more “friends" and wall posts a user had, the more narcissistic he or she was. They noted that narcissistic people use Facebook in a selfpromoting way, rather than in a connective way. It may be an obvious theory, but it also suggests that social networks bring out the narcissist in all of us.
4Social networks are also a voyeuristic experience for many users. Following exchanges on Twitter or posts on Facebook and MySpace are akin to eavesdropping on someone else's conversation. It's entertaining and allows you to feel like a “fly on the wall" in someone else's life.
5Social networking sites also publicly list your “friends" or “followers" — giving you instant status. How many people do you know online who spend all their time trying to get more friends, more followers, more testimonials? We work hard in real life to elevate our statuses, make friends and search out boosters for our self-esteem. Online social networking provides this to us, and we don't even have to change out of our sweatshirts to get it.
(adapted from http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/socialnetworking/information/social-networking-sites-addictive2.htm)
Glossary
addictive: viciante; tap into: explorar/tirar proveito; broadcast: anunciar; entourage: comitiva/séquito; akin to eavesdropping: parecido com bisbilhotar; booster: aquilo que impulsiona; sweatshirts: camisetas
1With the increasing popularity of wireless devices like smartphones — devices that can move lots of data very quickly — users have access to their social networks 24 hours a day. Most social networking sites have developed applications for your mobile phone, so logging on is always convenient. Social networks also tap into our human desire to stay connected with others. Besides, the rush of nostalgia as you connect with your former grade-school classmate on Facebook can be quite heady and exciting.
2But what's the main reason we find these sites so addictive? Plain old narcissism. We broadcast our personalities online whenever we publish a thought, photo, YouTube video or answer one of those “25 Things About Me" memes. We put that information out there so people will respond and connect to us. And being part of a social network is sort of like having your own entourage that follows you everywhere, commenting on and applauding everything you do. It's very seductive.
3In 2008, researchers at the University of Georgia studied the correlation between narcissism and Facebook users. Unsurprisingly, they found that the more “friends" and wall posts a user had, the more narcissistic he or she was. They noted that narcissistic people use Facebook in a selfpromoting way, rather than in a connective way. It may be an obvious theory, but it also suggests that social networks bring out the narcissist in all of us.
4Social networks are also a voyeuristic experience for many users. Following exchanges on Twitter or posts on Facebook and MySpace are akin to eavesdropping on someone else's conversation. It's entertaining and allows you to feel like a “fly on the wall" in someone else's life.
5Social networking sites also publicly list your “friends" or “followers" — giving you instant status. How many people do you know online who spend all their time trying to get more friends, more followers, more testimonials? We work hard in real life to elevate our statuses, make friends and search out boosters for our self-esteem. Online social networking provides this to us, and we don't even have to change out of our sweatshirts to get it.
(adapted from http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/socialnetworking/information/social-networking-sites-addictive2.htm)
Glossary
addictive: viciante; tap into: explorar/tirar proveito; broadcast: anunciar; entourage: comitiva/séquito; akin to eavesdropping: parecido com bisbilhotar; booster: aquilo que impulsiona; sweatshirts: camisetas
The pronoun 'they' in “They noted that narcissistic
people use Facebook in a self-promoting way, rather than
in a connective way"(paragraph 3) refers to
Q582604
Inglês
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Alice Munro’s road to Nobel literature prize was not easy
Nobel literature prize winner Alice Munro.
Alice Munro has been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature, thus becoming its 13th female recipient. It’s a thrilling honour for a major writer: Munro has long been recognised in North America and the UK, but the Nobel will draw international attention, not only to women’s writing and Canadian writing, but to the short story, Munro’s chosen literary genre and one often neglected.
The road to the Nobel wasn’t an easy one for Munro. She found herself referred to as “some housewife”, and was told that her subject matter, being too “domestic”, was boring. A male writer told her she wrote good stories, but he wouldn’t want to sleep with her. “Nobody invited him,” said Munro. Maybe as a consequence of this initial reaction towards her, when writers occur in Munro stories, they are pretentious, or exploitative of others; or they’re being asked by their relatives why they aren’t famous, or – worse, if female – why they aren’t better-looking.
The chances that a literary star would emerge from her time and place would once have been zero. Munro was born in 1931, and thus experienced the Depression as a child and the Second World War as a teenager. This was in south-western Ontario, Canada, a region that also produced equally talented writers and poets such as Robertson Davies, Graeme Gibson, James Reaney, and Marian Engel. It’s this small-town setting that features most often in her stories – the snobberies, the eccentrics, and the jeering at ambitions, especially artistic ones.
Shame is a common driving force for Munro’s characters just as perfectionism in the writing and courage in her profession have been driving forces for her.
As in much else, Munro is essentially Canadian. Faced with the Nobel, she will be modest, she won’t get a swelled head. The rest of us, on this magnificent occasion, will just have to do that for her.
Adapted from http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/10/alicemunro-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature
Glossary
thrilling: emocionante; subject matter: assunto; better-looking: mais
bonitas; setting: cenário; jeering: deboche; shame: vergonha; driving
force: força propulsora; get a swelled head: ficar convencida, cheia
de si
Answer the following questions:
In the third paragraph, in the sentence “This was in south-western Ontario", the pronoun “this" refers to
In the third paragraph, in the sentence “This was in south-western Ontario", the pronoun “this" refers to
Q545821
Inglês
This sums up autofiction. (l. 31)
The underlined pronoun refers to:
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Q538127
Inglês
The demonstrative “those” (line 64), in the fragment “from
those that are involved in reading your Twitter feed or
thumbing through a paperback romance novel”, makes
reference to
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Q515704
Inglês
A clever ad for ................... new breakfast options, an aim to hit at McDonald’s domination of the market, includes a bunch of people who share the same name as Ronald McDonald but proclaim ................... love for Taco Bell’s new morning offerings.
TIME
TIME
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Q515703
Inglês
A new report shows the brains of autistic children, ................... suffer from the disorder tied to a combination of contributing factors ................... genes to the environment, have differences in regions that develop during the mother’s second trimester of pregnancy.
TIME
TIME
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Q421058
Inglês
Fill in the gaps with the suitable pronouns
Q1362682
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Billboard Campaign
(Disponível em <http://lynnfire.org/web/index.php?option=com_ content&task=view&id=102&Itemid=112>. Acesso em 22/05/2013.)
Em relação aos aspectos linguísticos do texto, é correto afirmar que
“your” (lines 2 and 3) are possessive pronouns also called “possessive determiners”.
“your” (lines 2 and 3) are possessive pronouns also called “possessive determiners”.
Q1264747
Inglês
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Tooth fairy quantum mechanics
The reason I can’t show you a Higgs boson1
is also
the solution to a parental dilemma.
Posted by Jon Butterworth
Sunday 23 December 2012 18.36 GMT, theguardian.com
I do sometimes get asked “If you’ve found a Higgs boson,
can you show me a picture of it?” Unfortunately, the answer
is no. But the reason for this provides a resolution to a severe
parental dilemma, and explains why I am in fact sometimes
the tooth fairy. Bear with me.
I can’t show you something which is definitely the new
boson, but I can show evidence for it, for example in the
picture below. It shows the distribution (black dots) of the
mass you get when you combine the energy and momenta2
of pairs of photons (particles of light) in the ATLAS detector.
The bump shows that there are more of these photon pairs
at masses corresponding to around 125 GeV than would be
expected from the trend. This excess implies the existence
of a particle at about this mass which decays to pairs of
photons.
The bump3
in this plot would not be there unless there
were a new boson (credit, ATLAS experiment and CERN). The
key is that even if I show you a collision event with a pair
of photons which exactly gives the “Higgs mass”, i.e. at the
top of that peak, it is still not possible to be sure that this
exact pair of photons came from a Higgs boson. There may
be several possible ways of producing a set of new particles
from the incoming ones; but if the resulting set is identical,
it is not physically meaningful to say which way occurred.
Now, to the parental dilemma. It is especially acute at this
time of year, but if you have children who are losing their
milk teeth, it is ever-present. Is the tooth fairy real? What
about Father Christmas? Do you spoil the fun or do you lie?
Something in me hates the idea of lying to my kids, and
undermining4
trust. Here’s my way out. Anything which has
the same initial state (tooth) and final state (money) might in
fact be an event in which a tooth fairy was present. To put it
another way, anything which removes the tooth and delivers
money shares such an essential property with a tooth fairy
that it can be said to be one (anything removing both teeth
and money is probably a dentist. Or possibly a mugger5
).
By now, my son doesn’t believe a word of it of course.
But in the early days it was the truth. We managed this
transition without lies, betrayal and tears because actually,
when tiptoeing into the bedroom with a shiny pound coin, I
really am the tooth fairy. I am of course also at the same time
Dad. This seemed to work, and now he’s older, it’s still fun.
It’s not much of stretch to extend this to Father Christmas,
and it also explains why sometimes Father Christmas uses
the same wrapping paper as your parents - he and they are,
in a sense, indistinguishable quantum possibilities for the
delivery process.
(theguardian.com/science/life-and-physics/2012/dec/23/tooth-fairy-quantum-mechanics Acesso em: 26.08.2013. Adaptado)
Glossário
1Higgs boson: partícula subatômica teórica que ficou conhecida
publicamente após ter sido divulgada como a “partícula de Deus”.
Sua existência é associada a pesquisas acerca da origem do universo.
(topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/higgs_boson/index.html
Acesso em 02.10.2013. Adaptado)
2momenta: plural de momentum – conceito físico associado à
quantidade de movimento de uma partícula.
3bump: choque ou elevação.
4undermine: tornar algo gradativamente mais fraco, especialmente
a confiança ou autoridade de alguém.
5mugger: assaltante.
Os pronomes he e they presentes no último parágrafo
do texto – he and they are, in a sense, indistinguishable
quantum possibilities for the delivery process – substituem,
respectivamente, os termos
Q1264746
Inglês
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a questão.
Tooth fairy quantum mechanics
The reason I can’t show you a Higgs boson1
is also
the solution to a parental dilemma.
Posted by Jon Butterworth
Sunday 23 December 2012 18.36 GMT, theguardian.com
I do sometimes get asked “If you’ve found a Higgs boson,
can you show me a picture of it?” Unfortunately, the answer
is no. But the reason for this provides a resolution to a severe
parental dilemma, and explains why I am in fact sometimes
the tooth fairy. Bear with me.
I can’t show you something which is definitely the new
boson, but I can show evidence for it, for example in the
picture below. It shows the distribution (black dots) of the
mass you get when you combine the energy and momenta2
of pairs of photons (particles of light) in the ATLAS detector.
The bump shows that there are more of these photon pairs
at masses corresponding to around 125 GeV than would be
expected from the trend. This excess implies the existence
of a particle at about this mass which decays to pairs of
photons.
The bump3
in this plot would not be there unless there
were a new boson (credit, ATLAS experiment and CERN). The
key is that even if I show you a collision event with a pair
of photons which exactly gives the “Higgs mass”, i.e. at the
top of that peak, it is still not possible to be sure that this
exact pair of photons came from a Higgs boson. There may
be several possible ways of producing a set of new particles
from the incoming ones; but if the resulting set is identical,
it is not physically meaningful to say which way occurred.
Now, to the parental dilemma. It is especially acute at this
time of year, but if you have children who are losing their
milk teeth, it is ever-present. Is the tooth fairy real? What
about Father Christmas? Do you spoil the fun or do you lie?
Something in me hates the idea of lying to my kids, and
undermining4
trust. Here’s my way out. Anything which has
the same initial state (tooth) and final state (money) might in
fact be an event in which a tooth fairy was present. To put it
another way, anything which removes the tooth and delivers
money shares such an essential property with a tooth fairy
that it can be said to be one (anything removing both teeth
and money is probably a dentist. Or possibly a mugger5
).
By now, my son doesn’t believe a word of it of course.
But in the early days it was the truth. We managed this
transition without lies, betrayal and tears because actually,
when tiptoeing into the bedroom with a shiny pound coin, I
really am the tooth fairy. I am of course also at the same time
Dad. This seemed to work, and now he’s older, it’s still fun.
It’s not much of stretch to extend this to Father Christmas,
and it also explains why sometimes Father Christmas uses
the same wrapping paper as your parents - he and they are,
in a sense, indistinguishable quantum possibilities for the
delivery process.
(theguardian.com/science/life-and-physics/2012/dec/23/tooth-fairy-quantum-mechanics Acesso em: 26.08.2013. Adaptado)
Glossário
1Higgs boson: partícula subatômica teórica que ficou conhecida
publicamente após ter sido divulgada como a “partícula de Deus”.
Sua existência é associada a pesquisas acerca da origem do universo.
(topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/higgs_boson/index.html
Acesso em 02.10.2013. Adaptado)
2momenta: plural de momentum – conceito físico associado à
quantidade de movimento de uma partícula.
3bump: choque ou elevação.
4undermine: tornar algo gradativamente mais fraco, especialmente
a confiança ou autoridade de alguém.
5mugger: assaltante.
No segundo parágrafo do texto, o pronome relativo which
em – I can’t show you something which is definitely the new
boson – pode ser substituído, mantendo-se a sentença
gramaticalmente correta, por
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Q1263484
Inglês
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Why the Internet is so addictive
"Checking Facebook should only take a minute." Those are the famous last words of countless people every
day, right before getting sucked into several hours of watching cat videos or commenting on Instagrammed sushi
lunches. That behavior is natural, given how the Internet is structured, experts say. The Internet’s omnipresence
and lack of limits encourage people to lose track of time, making it hard to exercise the self-control to turn it off.
"The Internet is not addictive in the same way as pharmacological substances are," said Tom Stafford, a
cognitive scientist at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. "But it's compulsive; it's compelling; it's distracting."
Humans are social creatures. Therefore, people enjoy the social information available via email and the Web.
The main reason the Internet is so addictive is that it lacks boundaries between tasks, Stafford said.
Someone may set out to "research something, and then accidentally go to Wikipedia, and then wind up trying to
find out what ever happened to Depeche Mode," Stafford said, referring to the music band. Studies suggest
willpower is like a muscle: It can be strengthened, but can also become exhausted. Because the Internet is always
"on," staying on task requires constantly flexing that willpower muscle, which can exhaust a person's self-control.
For those who want to loosen the grip of the Web on their lives, a few simple techniques may do the trick.
Web-blocking tools that limit surfing time can help people regain control over their time. Another method is to plan
ahead, committing to work for 20 minutes, or until a certain task is complete, and then allowing five minutes of Web
surfing, Stafford said.
(Adapted from: http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/computers/stories/why-the-internet-is-so-addictive)
The word It in “It can be strengthened” (paragraph 3) refers to
Q582644
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Why I took up the cello in my 60s
Michelle Hanson
Learning to play a musical instrument at any point in life is good for the brain. Who cares if I sound like a 'sick cow'?
It's exciting to know that I have done something right and rewarding – taking up the cello in my 60s. A new study from St. Andrew's University proves it. Taking up a musical instrument, even late in life, is good for the brain, and “can slow, stop, or even reverse, age or illness-related decline in mental functions". Hurrah!
My efforts have been rewarded, because starting the cello was a bit of a struggle, physically and mentally. Back then, my mother was alive, and rather critical: “You sound like a sick cow," she would cry out in a tormented way, but I persisted, joined an orchestra, and now here I am, with a bigger frontal cortex area than I might have otherwise had, and able to “adjust my behaviour more effectively in conflict-rich situations".
The more you practise the better, suggests the research. Good. It will spur me on, sick cow or not. Because I desperately need to keep my brain in order. Don't we all, if we're going to live to over 100? Last week I went for a walk with an old friend of mine and her dog. She is 92 and browned off.
“How are you?" I asked. “Fed up. I want to die." This was my mother's primary aim once she hit 96. “What do you want for your birthday?" we would ask. “To be dead!", she would say. No wonder. What else did life offer? At least my old friend could walk about. My mother could hardly walk, talk or eat.
If only they had played a musical instrument. You can do it sitting down, on your own, with friends, cheer yourself up, be in control, or wildly emotional. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Fonte: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/ 30/why-i-took-up-cello-in-60s
Glossário
took up: aprendi; struggle: luta/muito esforço; spur me on: encorajar/estimular; browned off: sem entusiasmo
Michelle Hanson
Learning to play a musical instrument at any point in life is good for the brain. Who cares if I sound like a 'sick cow'?
It's exciting to know that I have done something right and rewarding – taking up the cello in my 60s. A new study from St. Andrew's University proves it. Taking up a musical instrument, even late in life, is good for the brain, and “can slow, stop, or even reverse, age or illness-related decline in mental functions". Hurrah!
My efforts have been rewarded, because starting the cello was a bit of a struggle, physically and mentally. Back then, my mother was alive, and rather critical: “You sound like a sick cow," she would cry out in a tormented way, but I persisted, joined an orchestra, and now here I am, with a bigger frontal cortex area than I might have otherwise had, and able to “adjust my behaviour more effectively in conflict-rich situations".
The more you practise the better, suggests the research. Good. It will spur me on, sick cow or not. Because I desperately need to keep my brain in order. Don't we all, if we're going to live to over 100? Last week I went for a walk with an old friend of mine and her dog. She is 92 and browned off.
“How are you?" I asked. “Fed up. I want to die." This was my mother's primary aim once she hit 96. “What do you want for your birthday?" we would ask. “To be dead!", she would say. No wonder. What else did life offer? At least my old friend could walk about. My mother could hardly walk, talk or eat.
If only they had played a musical instrument. You can do it sitting down, on your own, with friends, cheer yourself up, be in control, or wildly emotional. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Fonte: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/ 30/why-i-took-up-cello-in-60s
Glossário
took up: aprendi; struggle: luta/muito esforço; spur me on: encorajar/estimular; browned off: sem entusiasmo
O pronome “they" em “If only they had played a
musical instrument" (parágrafo 5) se refere
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Q538062
Inglês
In terms of pronominal reference,
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Q537988
Inglês
In the fragment, “The ordinary-looking models (…) likely
to be encountered on roads” (. l 74-78), the demonstrative
“These” refers to
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Q537958
Inglês
In the fragment, “The ordinary-looking models (…) likely
to be encountered on roads” (. 74-78), the demonstrative
“These” refers to
Q382416
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Finally, a Billboard That Creates Drinkable Water Out of Thin Air
1Five Man Electrical Band: nome de um grupo de rock canadense.
2gimmick: algo que não é sério, usado para atrair a atenção das pessoas temporariamente, especialmente para fazê-las comprar algo.
3ingenuity: habilidade de pensar em novos meios inteligentes de se fazer algo.
I’ve never cared much for billboards. Not in the city, not out of the city - not anywhere, really. It’s like the saying in that old Five Man Electrical Band1 song. So when the creative director of an ad agency in Peru sent me a picture of what he claimed was the frst billboard that produces potable water from air, my initial reaction was: gotta be a hoax, or at best, a gimmick2
Except it’s neither: the billboard pictured here is real, it’s located in Lima, Peru, and it produces around 100 liters of water a day (about 26 gallons) from nothing more than humidity, a basic fltration system and a little gravitational ingenuity3 .
Let’s talk about Lima for a moment, the largest city in Peru and the ffth largest in all of the Americas, with some 7.6 million people (closer to 9 million when you factor in the surrounding metro area). Because it sits along the southern Pacifc Ocean, the humidity in the city averages 83% (it’s actually closer to 100% in the mornings). But Lima is also part of what’s called a coastal desert: it lies at the northern edge of the Atacama, the driest desert in the world, meaning the city sees perhaps half an inch of precipitation annually (Lima is the second largest desert city in the world after Cairo). Lima thus depends on drainage from the Andes as well as runof from glacier melt - both sources on the decline because of climate change. (...)
Except it’s neither: the billboard pictured here is real, it’s located in Lima, Peru, and it produces around 100 liters of water a day (about 26 gallons) from nothing more than humidity, a basic fltration system and a little gravitational ingenuity3 .
Let’s talk about Lima for a moment, the largest city in Peru and the ffth largest in all of the Americas, with some 7.6 million people (closer to 9 million when you factor in the surrounding metro area). Because it sits along the southern Pacifc Ocean, the humidity in the city averages 83% (it’s actually closer to 100% in the mornings). But Lima is also part of what’s called a coastal desert: it lies at the northern edge of the Atacama, the driest desert in the world, meaning the city sees perhaps half an inch of precipitation annually (Lima is the second largest desert city in the world after Cairo). Lima thus depends on drainage from the Andes as well as runof from glacier melt - both sources on the decline because of climate change. (...)
1Five Man Electrical Band: nome de um grupo de rock canadense.
2gimmick: algo que não é sério, usado para atrair a atenção das pessoas temporariamente, especialmente para fazê-las comprar algo.
3ingenuity: habilidade de pensar em novos meios inteligentes de se fazer algo.
No terceiro parágrafo, o pronome it em – Because it sits along the southern Pacifc Ocean – pode ser substituído, de maneira a manter o sentido original do texto, por
Ano: 2013
Banca:
COPEVE-UFAL
Órgão:
UNEAL
Prova:
COPEVE-UFAL - 2013 - UNEAL - Vestibular - Prova 1 |
Q291758
Inglês
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We may take advantage of this pause in the narrative to make certain statements. Orlando had become a woman – there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity. Their faces remained, as their portraits prove, practically the same. His memory – but in future we must, for convention's sake, say 'her' for 'his,' and 'she' for 'he' – her memory then, went back through all the events of her past life without encountering any obstacle. Some slight haziness there may have been, as if a few dark drops had fallen into the clear pool of memory; certain things had become a little dimmed; but that was all. The change seemed to have been accomplished painlessly and completely and in such a way that Orlando herself showed no surprise at it. Many people, taking this into account, and holding that such a change of sex is against nature, have been at great pains to prove that Orlando had always been a woman, that Orlando is at this moment a man. Let biologists and psychologists determine. It is enough for us to state the simple fact; Orlando was a man till the age of thirty; when he became a woman and
has remained so ever since.
Woolf, Virginia. Orlando – A Biography. Londres. Granada. 1984.
Virginia Woolf foi uma escritora inglesa do século 20. Neste parágrafo de seu romance Orlando – Uma Biografia, ela
We may take advantage of this pause in the narrative to make certain statements. Orlando had become a woman – there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity. Their faces remained, as their portraits prove, practically the same. His memory – but in future we must, for convention's sake, say 'her' for 'his,' and 'she' for 'he' – her memory then, went back through all the events of her past life without encountering any obstacle. Some slight haziness there may have been, as if a few dark drops had fallen into the clear pool of memory; certain things had become a little dimmed; but that was all. The change seemed to have been accomplished painlessly and completely and in such a way that Orlando herself showed no surprise at it. Many people, taking this into account, and holding that such a change of sex is against nature, have been at great pains to prove that Orlando had always been a woman, that Orlando is at this moment a man. Let biologists and psychologists determine. It is enough for us to state the simple fact; Orlando was a man till the age of thirty; when he became a woman and
has remained so ever since.
Woolf, Virginia. Orlando – A Biography. Londres. Granada. 1984.
Virginia Woolf foi uma escritora inglesa do século 20. Neste parágrafo de seu romance Orlando – Uma Biografia, ela
Ano: 2012
Banca:
IF-BA
Órgão:
IF-BA
Prova:
IF-BA - 2012 - IF-BA - Curso Técnico - MODALIDADE SUBSEQUENTE - INGLÊS |
Q1369472
Inglês
Sobre o uso da língua, no Texto I, é correto afirmar que
I. o termo “our” (l.2) é um pronome possessivo e refere-se aos leitores.
II. “which” (l.3) é um pronome relativo, na função de sujeito, e refere-se a “daily activities”.
III. os termos “useless” e “unwanted” (l.5) são formados por afixação.
IV. os modais “can” (l.5) e “may” (l.12) expressam a mesma ideia: possibilidade.
V. os marcadores discursivos “or” (l.3), “and” (l.5) e “but” (l.12) expressam, respectivamente, proporcionalidade, adição e condição.
A alternativa em que todas as afirmativas são verdadeiras é a:
I. o termo “our” (l.2) é um pronome possessivo e refere-se aos leitores.
II. “which” (l.3) é um pronome relativo, na função de sujeito, e refere-se a “daily activities”.
III. os termos “useless” e “unwanted” (l.5) são formados por afixação.
IV. os modais “can” (l.5) e “may” (l.12) expressam a mesma ideia: possibilidade.
V. os marcadores discursivos “or” (l.3), “and” (l.5) e “but” (l.12) expressam, respectivamente, proporcionalidade, adição e condição.
A alternativa em que todas as afirmativas são verdadeiras é a:
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