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Q1335858 Inglês

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    There is nothing conventional about 17-year-old Michael Fuller’s relationship with music. As someone with high-functioning autism who sees the world through sound, creating melodies from the bustle of the high street or trains on the tracks feels more natural than any social interaction. This hardwired connection to sound has been with him for as long as he can remember.

    By the age of 11, Michael could play Mozart by ear, having taught himself to play the piano through a mobile phone app. The app highlighted notes on a keyboard as classical music played. He describes his unusual musical talent as “downloading” music into his head. His mother, Nadine, remembers that as a child Michael would “suddenly pop up and say: ‘I’ve got a symphony’”. Michael took to the piano and found he could quickly perform complex pieces from memory.

    “I liked what I was hearing, sought more music and began studying through Google and YouTube,” he remembers. “It was very organic. I would listen in great depth and the music would be implanted in my mind. I could then just play it on the piano – all without being taught.”

    Growing up in a family that listened to reggae over classical music, Michael feels “very much aware” of how different his approach is to music – symbolised by the way he taught himself piano as a child. This, his mother says, came as a “surprise to the family and myself – I’d never listened to classical music in my life”.

    It was not long after learning to play the piano that Michael started composing his own works. Describing this process as “making music with my mind”, Michael says composing classical symphonies “helps me to express myself through music – it makes me calm”. Michael wants to nurture his song writing to achieve his ambition of becoming a modern mainstream classical artist. He wants to control the creative process, unlike typical modern-day composers, who he says “write blobs on a page, hand it over to the musicians – then say bye-bye and stay in the background and get no recognition”. Instead, Michael is determined to take centre stage.


(Alex Taylor. www.bbc.com, 27.03.2018. Adaptado.)

O trecho do quarto parágrafo “Michael feels ‘very much aware’ of how different his approach is to music” indica que Michael Fuller
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Q1335857 Inglês

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    There is nothing conventional about 17-year-old Michael Fuller’s relationship with music. As someone with high-functioning autism who sees the world through sound, creating melodies from the bustle of the high street or trains on the tracks feels more natural than any social interaction. This hardwired connection to sound has been with him for as long as he can remember.

    By the age of 11, Michael could play Mozart by ear, having taught himself to play the piano through a mobile phone app. The app highlighted notes on a keyboard as classical music played. He describes his unusual musical talent as “downloading” music into his head. His mother, Nadine, remembers that as a child Michael would “suddenly pop up and say: ‘I’ve got a symphony’”. Michael took to the piano and found he could quickly perform complex pieces from memory.

    “I liked what I was hearing, sought more music and began studying through Google and YouTube,” he remembers. “It was very organic. I would listen in great depth and the music would be implanted in my mind. I could then just play it on the piano – all without being taught.”

    Growing up in a family that listened to reggae over classical music, Michael feels “very much aware” of how different his approach is to music – symbolised by the way he taught himself piano as a child. This, his mother says, came as a “surprise to the family and myself – I’d never listened to classical music in my life”.

    It was not long after learning to play the piano that Michael started composing his own works. Describing this process as “making music with my mind”, Michael says composing classical symphonies “helps me to express myself through music – it makes me calm”. Michael wants to nurture his song writing to achieve his ambition of becoming a modern mainstream classical artist. He wants to control the creative process, unlike typical modern-day composers, who he says “write blobs on a page, hand it over to the musicians – then say bye-bye and stay in the background and get no recognition”. Instead, Michael is determined to take centre stage.


(Alex Taylor. www.bbc.com, 27.03.2018. Adaptado.)

No trecho do terceiro parágrafo “sought more music”, o termo sublinhado tem sentido semelhante, em português, a
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    There is nothing conventional about 17-year-old Michael Fuller’s relationship with music. As someone with high-functioning autism who sees the world through sound, creating melodies from the bustle of the high street or trains on the tracks feels more natural than any social interaction. This hardwired connection to sound has been with him for as long as he can remember.

    By the age of 11, Michael could play Mozart by ear, having taught himself to play the piano through a mobile phone app. The app highlighted notes on a keyboard as classical music played. He describes his unusual musical talent as “downloading” music into his head. His mother, Nadine, remembers that as a child Michael would “suddenly pop up and say: ‘I’ve got a symphony’”. Michael took to the piano and found he could quickly perform complex pieces from memory.

    “I liked what I was hearing, sought more music and began studying through Google and YouTube,” he remembers. “It was very organic. I would listen in great depth and the music would be implanted in my mind. I could then just play it on the piano – all without being taught.”

    Growing up in a family that listened to reggae over classical music, Michael feels “very much aware” of how different his approach is to music – symbolised by the way he taught himself piano as a child. This, his mother says, came as a “surprise to the family and myself – I’d never listened to classical music in my life”.

    It was not long after learning to play the piano that Michael started composing his own works. Describing this process as “making music with my mind”, Michael says composing classical symphonies “helps me to express myself through music – it makes me calm”. Michael wants to nurture his song writing to achieve his ambition of becoming a modern mainstream classical artist. He wants to control the creative process, unlike typical modern-day composers, who he says “write blobs on a page, hand it over to the musicians – then say bye-bye and stay in the background and get no recognition”. Instead, Michael is determined to take centre stage.


(Alex Taylor. www.bbc.com, 27.03.2018. Adaptado.)

De acordo com o terceiro parágrafo, Michael Fuller
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Q1335855 Inglês

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    There is nothing conventional about 17-year-old Michael Fuller’s relationship with music. As someone with high-functioning autism who sees the world through sound, creating melodies from the bustle of the high street or trains on the tracks feels more natural than any social interaction. This hardwired connection to sound has been with him for as long as he can remember.

    By the age of 11, Michael could play Mozart by ear, having taught himself to play the piano through a mobile phone app. The app highlighted notes on a keyboard as classical music played. He describes his unusual musical talent as “downloading” music into his head. His mother, Nadine, remembers that as a child Michael would “suddenly pop up and say: ‘I’ve got a symphony’”. Michael took to the piano and found he could quickly perform complex pieces from memory.

    “I liked what I was hearing, sought more music and began studying through Google and YouTube,” he remembers. “It was very organic. I would listen in great depth and the music would be implanted in my mind. I could then just play it on the piano – all without being taught.”

    Growing up in a family that listened to reggae over classical music, Michael feels “very much aware” of how different his approach is to music – symbolised by the way he taught himself piano as a child. This, his mother says, came as a “surprise to the family and myself – I’d never listened to classical music in my life”.

    It was not long after learning to play the piano that Michael started composing his own works. Describing this process as “making music with my mind”, Michael says composing classical symphonies “helps me to express myself through music – it makes me calm”. Michael wants to nurture his song writing to achieve his ambition of becoming a modern mainstream classical artist. He wants to control the creative process, unlike typical modern-day composers, who he says “write blobs on a page, hand it over to the musicians – then say bye-bye and stay in the background and get no recognition”. Instead, Michael is determined to take centre stage.


(Alex Taylor. www.bbc.com, 27.03.2018. Adaptado.)

In the excerpt from the second paragraph “he could quickly perform complex pieces”, the underlined word indicates
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    There is nothing conventional about 17-year-old Michael Fuller’s relationship with music. As someone with high-functioning autism who sees the world through sound, creating melodies from the bustle of the high street or trains on the tracks feels more natural than any social interaction. This hardwired connection to sound has been with him for as long as he can remember.

    By the age of 11, Michael could play Mozart by ear, having taught himself to play the piano through a mobile phone app. The app highlighted notes on a keyboard as classical music played. He describes his unusual musical talent as “downloading” music into his head. His mother, Nadine, remembers that as a child Michael would “suddenly pop up and say: ‘I’ve got a symphony’”. Michael took to the piano and found he could quickly perform complex pieces from memory.

    “I liked what I was hearing, sought more music and began studying through Google and YouTube,” he remembers. “It was very organic. I would listen in great depth and the music would be implanted in my mind. I could then just play it on the piano – all without being taught.”

    Growing up in a family that listened to reggae over classical music, Michael feels “very much aware” of how different his approach is to music – symbolised by the way he taught himself piano as a child. This, his mother says, came as a “surprise to the family and myself – I’d never listened to classical music in my life”.

    It was not long after learning to play the piano that Michael started composing his own works. Describing this process as “making music with my mind”, Michael says composing classical symphonies “helps me to express myself through music – it makes me calm”. Michael wants to nurture his song writing to achieve his ambition of becoming a modern mainstream classical artist. He wants to control the creative process, unlike typical modern-day composers, who he says “write blobs on a page, hand it over to the musicians – then say bye-bye and stay in the background and get no recognition”. Instead, Michael is determined to take centre stage.


(Alex Taylor. www.bbc.com, 27.03.2018. Adaptado.)

De acordo com o primeiro e segundo parágrafos, Michael Fuller
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Q1335853 Inglês

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    There is nothing conventional about 17-year-old Michael Fuller’s relationship with music. As someone with high-functioning autism who sees the world through sound, creating melodies from the bustle of the high street or trains on the tracks feels more natural than any social interaction. This hardwired connection to sound has been with him for as long as he can remember.

    By the age of 11, Michael could play Mozart by ear, having taught himself to play the piano through a mobile phone app. The app highlighted notes on a keyboard as classical music played. He describes his unusual musical talent as “downloading” music into his head. His mother, Nadine, remembers that as a child Michael would “suddenly pop up and say: ‘I’ve got a symphony’”. Michael took to the piano and found he could quickly perform complex pieces from memory.

    “I liked what I was hearing, sought more music and began studying through Google and YouTube,” he remembers. “It was very organic. I would listen in great depth and the music would be implanted in my mind. I could then just play it on the piano – all without being taught.”

    Growing up in a family that listened to reggae over classical music, Michael feels “very much aware” of how different his approach is to music – symbolised by the way he taught himself piano as a child. This, his mother says, came as a “surprise to the family and myself – I’d never listened to classical music in my life”.

    It was not long after learning to play the piano that Michael started composing his own works. Describing this process as “making music with my mind”, Michael says composing classical symphonies “helps me to express myself through music – it makes me calm”. Michael wants to nurture his song writing to achieve his ambition of becoming a modern mainstream classical artist. He wants to control the creative process, unlike typical modern-day composers, who he says “write blobs on a page, hand it over to the musicians – then say bye-bye and stay in the background and get no recognition”. Instead, Michael is determined to take centre stage.


(Alex Taylor. www.bbc.com, 27.03.2018. Adaptado.)

In the excerpt from the first paragraph “has been with him for as long as he can remember”, the underlined expression indicates
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    There is nothing conventional about 17-year-old Michael Fuller’s relationship with music. As someone with high-functioning autism who sees the world through sound, creating melodies from the bustle of the high street or trains on the tracks feels more natural than any social interaction. This hardwired connection to sound has been with him for as long as he can remember.

    By the age of 11, Michael could play Mozart by ear, having taught himself to play the piano through a mobile phone app. The app highlighted notes on a keyboard as classical music played. He describes his unusual musical talent as “downloading” music into his head. His mother, Nadine, remembers that as a child Michael would “suddenly pop up and say: ‘I’ve got a symphony’”. Michael took to the piano and found he could quickly perform complex pieces from memory.

    “I liked what I was hearing, sought more music and began studying through Google and YouTube,” he remembers. “It was very organic. I would listen in great depth and the music would be implanted in my mind. I could then just play it on the piano – all without being taught.”

    Growing up in a family that listened to reggae over classical music, Michael feels “very much aware” of how different his approach is to music – symbolised by the way he taught himself piano as a child. This, his mother says, came as a “surprise to the family and myself – I’d never listened to classical music in my life”.

    It was not long after learning to play the piano that Michael started composing his own works. Describing this process as “making music with my mind”, Michael says composing classical symphonies “helps me to express myself through music – it makes me calm”. Michael wants to nurture his song writing to achieve his ambition of becoming a modern mainstream classical artist. He wants to control the creative process, unlike typical modern-day composers, who he says “write blobs on a page, hand it over to the musicians – then say bye-bye and stay in the background and get no recognition”. Instead, Michael is determined to take centre stage.


(Alex Taylor. www.bbc.com, 27.03.2018. Adaptado.)

The text is mainly about
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Q1335823 Inglês
    Can our technological connectedness trump the risks of our biological and geographic connectedness? That’s one reason Nathan Wolfe has pushed GVF (Globe Viral Forecasting) to pioneer what he calls digital epidemiology, which uses the resources of the Internet to make predictive sense of the viral chatter picked up in the field. He and his team are setting up a bioinformatics strategy that could mine data from Internet searches and social media to pinpoint new outbreaks as they dawn – and potentially predict which newly discovered viruses might pose real threats to humanity. That work is culminating in a project called Epidemic IQ that will, Wolfe hopes, provide the ability to predict new pandemics the way the CIA might predict a terrorist attack.
    Current global disease control efforts focus largely on attempting to stop pandemics after they have already emerged. This fire brigade approach, which generally involves drugs, vaccines, and behavioral change, has severe limitations. Just as we discovered in the 1960s that it is better to prevent heart attacks than try to treat them, we realize that it’s better to stop pandemics before they spread and that effort should increasingly be focused on viral forecasting and pandemic prevention.
    “We’re finally beginning to understand why pandemics happen instead of just reacting to them”, Wolfe says. What’s needed is a global effort to scale up that kind of proactive work to ensure that every hot spot has surveillance running for new pathogens in animals and in human beings and that it has its own GVF-type group to do the work. Viruses don’t respect borders – whether between nations or between species – and in a world where airlines act like bloodlines, global health is only as strong as its weakest link. We got lucky with the relatively weak swine-flu pandemic in 2009, but history tells us our luck won’t last. “We sit here dodging bullets left and right, assuming we have an invisible shield”, says Wolfe. “But you can’t dodge bullets forever.”

WALSH, Bryan.Virus hunter. Disponível em: <content.time.com/time/subscriber/l>. Acesso em: mai. 2018. Adaptado.
The expression in bold in the sentence “But you can’t dodge bullets forever.” means that you can’t
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    Can our technological connectedness trump the risks of our biological and geographic connectedness? That’s one reason Nathan Wolfe has pushed GVF (Globe Viral Forecasting) to pioneer what he calls digital epidemiology, which uses the resources of the Internet to make predictive sense of the viral chatter picked up in the field. He and his team are setting up a bioinformatics strategy that could mine data from Internet searches and social media to pinpoint new outbreaks as they dawn – and potentially predict which newly discovered viruses might pose real threats to humanity. That work is culminating in a project called Epidemic IQ that will, Wolfe hopes, provide the ability to predict new pandemics the way the CIA might predict a terrorist attack.
    Current global disease control efforts focus largely on attempting to stop pandemics after they have already emerged. This fire brigade approach, which generally involves drugs, vaccines, and behavioral change, has severe limitations. Just as we discovered in the 1960s that it is better to prevent heart attacks than try to treat them, we realize that it’s better to stop pandemics before they spread and that effort should increasingly be focused on viral forecasting and pandemic prevention.
    “We’re finally beginning to understand why pandemics happen instead of just reacting to them”, Wolfe says. What’s needed is a global effort to scale up that kind of proactive work to ensure that every hot spot has surveillance running for new pathogens in animals and in human beings and that it has its own GVF-type group to do the work. Viruses don’t respect borders – whether between nations or between species – and in a world where airlines act like bloodlines, global health is only as strong as its weakest link. We got lucky with the relatively weak swine-flu pandemic in 2009, but history tells us our luck won’t last. “We sit here dodging bullets left and right, assuming we have an invisible shield”, says Wolfe. “But you can’t dodge bullets forever.”

WALSH, Bryan.Virus hunter. Disponível em: <content.time.com/time/subscriber/l>. Acesso em: mai. 2018. Adaptado.
According to Wolfe, the most important thing to do when dealing with pandemics is to
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Q1335821 Inglês
    Can our technological connectedness trump the risks of our biological and geographic connectedness? That’s one reason Nathan Wolfe has pushed GVF (Globe Viral Forecasting) to pioneer what he calls digital epidemiology, which uses the resources of the Internet to make predictive sense of the viral chatter picked up in the field. He and his team are setting up a bioinformatics strategy that could mine data from Internet searches and social media to pinpoint new outbreaks as they dawn – and potentially predict which newly discovered viruses might pose real threats to humanity. That work is culminating in a project called Epidemic IQ that will, Wolfe hopes, provide the ability to predict new pandemics the way the CIA might predict a terrorist attack.
    Current global disease control efforts focus largely on attempting to stop pandemics after they have already emerged. This fire brigade approach, which generally involves drugs, vaccines, and behavioral change, has severe limitations. Just as we discovered in the 1960s that it is better to prevent heart attacks than try to treat them, we realize that it’s better to stop pandemics before they spread and that effort should increasingly be focused on viral forecasting and pandemic prevention.
    “We’re finally beginning to understand why pandemics happen instead of just reacting to them”, Wolfe says. What’s needed is a global effort to scale up that kind of proactive work to ensure that every hot spot has surveillance running for new pathogens in animals and in human beings and that it has its own GVF-type group to do the work. Viruses don’t respect borders – whether between nations or between species – and in a world where airlines act like bloodlines, global health is only as strong as its weakest link. We got lucky with the relatively weak swine-flu pandemic in 2009, but history tells us our luck won’t last. “We sit here dodging bullets left and right, assuming we have an invisible shield”, says Wolfe. “But you can’t dodge bullets forever.”

WALSH, Bryan.Virus hunter. Disponível em: <content.time.com/time/subscriber/l>. Acesso em: mai. 2018. Adaptado.
The text says that, when dealing with pandemics nowadays, public health officials try to
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    Can our technological connectedness trump the risks of our biological and geographic connectedness? That’s one reason Nathan Wolfe has pushed GVF (Globe Viral Forecasting) to pioneer what he calls digital epidemiology, which uses the resources of the Internet to make predictive sense of the viral chatter picked up in the field. He and his team are setting up a bioinformatics strategy that could mine data from Internet searches and social media to pinpoint new outbreaks as they dawn – and potentially predict which newly discovered viruses might pose real threats to humanity. That work is culminating in a project called Epidemic IQ that will, Wolfe hopes, provide the ability to predict new pandemics the way the CIA might predict a terrorist attack.
    Current global disease control efforts focus largely on attempting to stop pandemics after they have already emerged. This fire brigade approach, which generally involves drugs, vaccines, and behavioral change, has severe limitations. Just as we discovered in the 1960s that it is better to prevent heart attacks than try to treat them, we realize that it’s better to stop pandemics before they spread and that effort should increasingly be focused on viral forecasting and pandemic prevention.
    “We’re finally beginning to understand why pandemics happen instead of just reacting to them”, Wolfe says. What’s needed is a global effort to scale up that kind of proactive work to ensure that every hot spot has surveillance running for new pathogens in animals and in human beings and that it has its own GVF-type group to do the work. Viruses don’t respect borders – whether between nations or between species – and in a world where airlines act like bloodlines, global health is only as strong as its weakest link. We got lucky with the relatively weak swine-flu pandemic in 2009, but history tells us our luck won’t last. “We sit here dodging bullets left and right, assuming we have an invisible shield”, says Wolfe. “But you can’t dodge bullets forever.”

WALSH, Bryan.Virus hunter. Disponível em: <content.time.com/time/subscriber/l>. Acesso em: mai. 2018. Adaptado.
Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False). Considering the strategy set up by Nathan Wolfe and his team to handle the problem of pandemics, it’s correct to say that they aim to
( ) ignore the next pandemics before it happens. ( ) make the most of the Internet resources so as to better deal with them. ( ) detect potential lethal viruses at their source. ( ) disregard any information gotten through social media.
The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is
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    The aim of mindfulness is not quieting the mind, or attempting to achieve a state of eternal calm. The goal is simple: we’re aiming to pay attention to the present moment, without judgment. Easier said than done, we know. When we notice judgments arise during our practice, we can make a mental note of them, and let them pass. Return to observing the present moment as it is. That’s the practice. The work is to just keep doing it. Results will accrue.

Disponível em:<https://www.mindful.org/what-is-mindfulness/> . Acesso em: abr. 2018. Adaptado.
The suitable definition of the phrase “Easier said than done” is
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Questão

    The aim of mindfulness is not quieting the mind, or attempting to achieve a state of eternal calm. The goal is simple: we’re aiming to pay attention to the present moment, without judgment. Easier said than done, we know. When we notice judgments arise during our practice, we can make a mental note of them, and let them pass. Return to observing the present moment as it is. That’s the practice. The work is to just keep doing it. Results will accrue.

Disponível em:<https://www.mindful.org/what-is-mindfulness/> . Acesso em: abr. 2018. Adaptado.
According to the text, mindfulness emphasizes that we should try to
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Questão

    Big U.S. tobacco companies are all developing e-cigarettes. The battery-powered gadgets feature a glowing tip and a heating element that turns liquid nicotine and flavorings into a cloud of vapor that users inhale. Some past research has suggested that using e-cigarettes may help smokers cut down on use of traditional tobacco products, or even transition entirely away from tobacco – an idea aggressively marketed by e-cigarette and tobacco companies.
     But a recent European study says that smokers who also use e-cigarettes may be half as likely to give up tobacco as smokers who never vape at all.
    Researchers analyzed data from a 2014 survey of more than 13,000 current or former smokers in the European Union. About 2,500 had tried vaping at least once; 46% of the participants were former smokers and 19% currently or previously used e-cigarettes. The study revealed that people smoked an average of about 14 cigarettes a day when they didn’t vape, and around 16 cigarettes a day when they did.
     “This is important because e-cigarettes are widely promoted as a smoking cessation tool”, said senior author Stanton Glantz of California, San Francisco. “And, while there is no question that some smokers do successfully quit with e-cigarettes, they keep many more people smoking”, he added.
     “Most adult smokers express a desire to quit, and many try and fail”, said Samir Soneji, a health policy researcher in New Hampshire. “E-cigarettes might seem like an appealing cessation tool because the devices in some ways mimic the smoking, but nicotine gum or patches may be more effective.”

RAPAPORT, Lisa. Disponível em: <http://www.foxnews.com>. Acesso em: abr. 2018. Adaptado.
About the role of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation tool, the study has found out that e-cigarette users
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Questão

    Big U.S. tobacco companies are all developing e-cigarettes. The battery-powered gadgets feature a glowing tip and a heating element that turns liquid nicotine and flavorings into a cloud of vapor that users inhale. Some past research has suggested that using e-cigarettes may help smokers cut down on use of traditional tobacco products, or even transition entirely away from tobacco – an idea aggressively marketed by e-cigarette and tobacco companies.
     But a recent European study says that smokers who also use e-cigarettes may be half as likely to give up tobacco as smokers who never vape at all.
    Researchers analyzed data from a 2014 survey of more than 13,000 current or former smokers in the European Union. About 2,500 had tried vaping at least once; 46% of the participants were former smokers and 19% currently or previously used e-cigarettes. The study revealed that people smoked an average of about 14 cigarettes a day when they didn’t vape, and around 16 cigarettes a day when they did.
     “This is important because e-cigarettes are widely promoted as a smoking cessation tool”, said senior author Stanton Glantz of California, San Francisco. “And, while there is no question that some smokers do successfully quit with e-cigarettes, they keep many more people smoking”, he added.
     “Most adult smokers express a desire to quit, and many try and fail”, said Samir Soneji, a health policy researcher in New Hampshire. “E-cigarettes might seem like an appealing cessation tool because the devices in some ways mimic the smoking, but nicotine gum or patches may be more effective.”

RAPAPORT, Lisa. Disponível em: <http://www.foxnews.com>. Acesso em: abr. 2018. Adaptado.
Considering the recent European study about e-cigarettes, fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).
( ) Over thirteen thousand people took part in the survey. ( ) All the participants had been cigarette smokers at some point. ( ) The smokers in the study used more cigarettes a day when they vaped. ( ) None of the participants had tried e-cigarettes before the survey.
The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is
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Questão

    Big U.S. tobacco companies are all developing e-cigarettes. The battery-powered gadgets feature a glowing tip and a heating element that turns liquid nicotine and flavorings into a cloud of vapor that users inhale. Some past research has suggested that using e-cigarettes may help smokers cut down on use of traditional tobacco products, or even transition entirely away from tobacco – an idea aggressively marketed by e-cigarette and tobacco companies.
     But a recent European study says that smokers who also use e-cigarettes may be half as likely to give up tobacco as smokers who never vape at all.
    Researchers analyzed data from a 2014 survey of more than 13,000 current or former smokers in the European Union. About 2,500 had tried vaping at least once; 46% of the participants were former smokers and 19% currently or previously used e-cigarettes. The study revealed that people smoked an average of about 14 cigarettes a day when they didn’t vape, and around 16 cigarettes a day when they did.
     “This is important because e-cigarettes are widely promoted as a smoking cessation tool”, said senior author Stanton Glantz of California, San Francisco. “And, while there is no question that some smokers do successfully quit with e-cigarettes, they keep many more people smoking”, he added.
     “Most adult smokers express a desire to quit, and many try and fail”, said Samir Soneji, a health policy researcher in New Hampshire. “E-cigarettes might seem like an appealing cessation tool because the devices in some ways mimic the smoking, but nicotine gum or patches may be more effective.”

RAPAPORT, Lisa. Disponível em: <http://www.foxnews.com>. Acesso em: abr. 2018. Adaptado.
About e-cigarettes, it’s correct to say that they
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Q1334850 Inglês

Imagem associada para resolução da questão Disponível em: <https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/26963-if-you-can-t-flythen-run-if-you-can-t-run>. Acesso em: set. 2018.

According to this quote by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Ano: 2018 Banca: Cepros Órgão: CESMAC Prova: Cepros - 2018 - CESMAC - Processo Seletivo Tradicional- 2019.1- AGRESTE |
Q1331563 Inglês
All of the following are a synonym of shrink except for
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Ano: 2018 Banca: Cepros Órgão: CESMAC Prova: Cepros - 2018 - CESMAC - Processo Seletivo Tradicional- 2019.1- AGRESTE |
Q1331562 Inglês
Read the text below and answer the following question.


Redefining the Kilogram


The kilogram is shrinking.

The official object that defines the mass of a kilogram is a tiny, 139-year-old cylinder of platinum and iridium that resides in a triple-locked vault near Paris. Because it is so important, scientists almost never take it out; instead they use copies called working standards. But the last time they did inspect the real kilogram, they found it is roughly five parts in 100 million heavier than all the working standards, which have been leaving behind a few atoms of metal every time they are put on scales. This is one of the reasons the kilogram may soon be redefined not by a physical object but through calculations based on fundamental constants.

“This [shrinking] is the kind of thing that happens when you have an object that needs to be conserved in order to have a standard,” says Peter Mohr, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), who serves on the committee that oversees the International System of Units (SI). “Fundamental constants, on the other hand, are not going to change over time.”

The redefinition of the kilogram will be part of a planned larger overhaul to make SI units fully dependent on constants of nature. Representatives from 57 countries will vote on the proposed change this month at a conference in Versailles, France, and the new rules are expected to pass.

What will happen to the old kilogram artifacts after the redefinition? Rather than packing them off to museums, scientists plan to keep studying how they fare over time. “There is so much measurement history on these,” says physicist Stephan Schlamminger of NIST. “It would be irresponsible to not continue to measure them.”

Adaptado de: <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/redefining-thekilogram/>  Acessado em 10 de outubro de 2018.
The artifact that represents the kilogram
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Ano: 2018 Banca: Cepros Órgão: CESMAC Prova: Cepros - 2018 - CESMAC - Processo Seletivo Tradicional- 2019.1- AGRESTE |
Q1331561 Inglês
Read the text below and answer the following question.


Redefining the Kilogram


The kilogram is shrinking.

The official object that defines the mass of a kilogram is a tiny, 139-year-old cylinder of platinum and iridium that resides in a triple-locked vault near Paris. Because it is so important, scientists almost never take it out; instead they use copies called working standards. But the last time they did inspect the real kilogram, they found it is roughly five parts in 100 million heavier than all the working standards, which have been leaving behind a few atoms of metal every time they are put on scales. This is one of the reasons the kilogram may soon be redefined not by a physical object but through calculations based on fundamental constants.

“This [shrinking] is the kind of thing that happens when you have an object that needs to be conserved in order to have a standard,” says Peter Mohr, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), who serves on the committee that oversees the International System of Units (SI). “Fundamental constants, on the other hand, are not going to change over time.”

The redefinition of the kilogram will be part of a planned larger overhaul to make SI units fully dependent on constants of nature. Representatives from 57 countries will vote on the proposed change this month at a conference in Versailles, France, and the new rules are expected to pass.

What will happen to the old kilogram artifacts after the redefinition? Rather than packing them off to museums, scientists plan to keep studying how they fare over time. “There is so much measurement history on these,” says physicist Stephan Schlamminger of NIST. “It would be irresponsible to not continue to measure them.”

Adaptado de: <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/redefining-thekilogram/>  Acessado em 10 de outubro de 2018.
The Kilogram as we know it
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Respostas
901: E
902: B
903: A
904: B
905: D
906: A
907: B
908: A
909: E
910: D
911: A
912: C
913: E
914: B
915: E
916: A
917: B
918: D
919: A
920: B