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Q1363155
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: FPS Órgão: FPS Prova: FPS - 2015 - FPS - Vestibular |
Q1363155 Inglês

Read the text below and answer question

Treating Alzheimer’s Disease

Are scientists close to finding a cure?

The number of Americans suffering from Alzheimer's, a degenerative brain disease, is projected to more than double by 2050, from 5.3 million today to 13.8 million. At the same time, as Baby Boomers age and medical expenses rise, the cost of treating and caring for people with the disease is expected to rise fivefold to $1.1 trillion. No treatment can yet prevent or cure Alzheimer's. However, advances in brain science and diagnostic technologies are creating breakthroughs unimagined even a few years ago. Rapidly expanding knowledge in genetics, neuroscience, biology and computing is leading to clinical trials on potential new drug therapies, research on how to prevent the disease and new tests to help diagnose it — perhaps even before symptoms appear. Scientists are debating whether the main hypothesis of what causes the disease — a buildup of amyloid protein into plaques that kill nerve cells in the brain — is correct. Patient advocates say federal Alzheimer's research is underfunded, but Congress is clearing the way for more research funds.


Disponível em: <http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/static.php?page=docnotfound> Acessado em 15 de outubro de 2015.

Progress towards prevention or control of the Alzheimer’s disease is
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Q1363154
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: FPS Órgão: FPS Prova: FPS - 2015 - FPS - Vestibular |
Q1363154 Inglês

Read the text below and answer question

Treating Alzheimer’s Disease

Are scientists close to finding a cure?

The number of Americans suffering from Alzheimer's, a degenerative brain disease, is projected to more than double by 2050, from 5.3 million today to 13.8 million. At the same time, as Baby Boomers age and medical expenses rise, the cost of treating and caring for people with the disease is expected to rise fivefold to $1.1 trillion. No treatment can yet prevent or cure Alzheimer's. However, advances in brain science and diagnostic technologies are creating breakthroughs unimagined even a few years ago. Rapidly expanding knowledge in genetics, neuroscience, biology and computing is leading to clinical trials on potential new drug therapies, research on how to prevent the disease and new tests to help diagnose it — perhaps even before symptoms appear. Scientists are debating whether the main hypothesis of what causes the disease — a buildup of amyloid protein into plaques that kill nerve cells in the brain — is correct. Patient advocates say federal Alzheimer's research is underfunded, but Congress is clearing the way for more research funds.


Disponível em: <http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/static.php?page=docnotfound> Acessado em 15 de outubro de 2015.

By 2050, the amount of money spent on treatment and care of Alzheimer’s patients
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Q1363153
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: FPS Órgão: FPS Prova: FPS - 2015 - FPS - Vestibular |
Q1363153 Inglês

Read the text below and answer question

Treating Alzheimer’s Disease

Are scientists close to finding a cure?

The number of Americans suffering from Alzheimer's, a degenerative brain disease, is projected to more than double by 2050, from 5.3 million today to 13.8 million. At the same time, as Baby Boomers age and medical expenses rise, the cost of treating and caring for people with the disease is expected to rise fivefold to $1.1 trillion. No treatment can yet prevent or cure Alzheimer's. However, advances in brain science and diagnostic technologies are creating breakthroughs unimagined even a few years ago. Rapidly expanding knowledge in genetics, neuroscience, biology and computing is leading to clinical trials on potential new drug therapies, research on how to prevent the disease and new tests to help diagnose it — perhaps even before symptoms appear. Scientists are debating whether the main hypothesis of what causes the disease — a buildup of amyloid protein into plaques that kill nerve cells in the brain — is correct. Patient advocates say federal Alzheimer's research is underfunded, but Congress is clearing the way for more research funds.


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By 2050

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Q1356854
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: FAG Órgão: FAG Prova: FAG - 2015 - FAG - Vestibular - Segundo Semestre |
Q1356854 Inglês
Text 2


Facebook is a social networking service and Web site launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of July 2011, Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Really Good Friends". The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the site.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The Web site's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. However, based on ConsumersReports.org on May 2011, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts, violating the site's terms of service.
A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace. Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-thedecade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?" Quantcast estimates Facebook has 138.9 million monthly unique U.S. visitors in May 2011. According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account. Nevertheless, Facebook's Market growth started to stall in some regions, with the site losing 7 million active users in the United States and Canada in May 2011.
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According to the text 2:

I. Facebook is a website created merely for chatting. II. Everyone is allowed to have an account according to the site´s terms of service. III. The website is actively growing in North America. IV. Facebook was created by a Harvard student.

The alternative that shows the correct items is:
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Q1356852
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: FAG Órgão: FAG Prova: FAG - 2015 - FAG - Vestibular - Segundo Semestre |
Q1356852 Inglês
Text 1:


Cycling

What's the furthest you have ever cycled?
Perhaps you cycle to school or to work, or maybe at most a short cycling trip with friends?
How would you feel about spending months on the road travelling solo from the UK to China, by bike? For British cyclist Pete Jones, camping rough and cycling long distances through inhospitable terrain are second nature. Mr Jones is currently undertaking a mammoth trip across the Eurasian continent from Britain to China.
Pete Jones is no stranger to China. But he says many people there are puzzled by his passion for cycling, asking why he would choose to cycle when he can afford a car.
Indeed, while there are an estimated 400 million bicycles in China, where it has long been the preferred form of transport, rapid economic growth has fuelled an explosive expansion in car ownership.
Edward Genochio, another British cyclist who completed a 41,000km trip to China and back, said one of his aims was to "promote cycling as a safe, sustainable and environmentally benign means of getting about".
In the UK, the last few years have seen a rise in the number of people choosing two wheels over four, with some estimates saying the number of people cycling to work has almost doubled in the last five years.
Politicians also see cycling as a way to boost their eco-credentials, with people such as London mayor Boris Johnson often riding to work under his own steam. But we may have to wait some time before we see him emulating Pete Jones in attempting to cycle all the way to China!
Fonte: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/...

According to the information from the text 1, it is correct to say that:


I. for Pete Jones, camping rough and cycling long distances through inhospitable terrain are the most common activity for british people.

II. despite cycling has long been the preferred form of transport in China, car ownership has increased a lot because of country’s economic growth.

III. it’s very important to wear a helmet while cycling.

IV. in the UK, some estimates say the number of people cycling to work has almost doubled in the last twenty five years.

V. London mayor often cycles to work.

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Q1355631
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: FAG Órgão: FAG Provas: FAG - 2015 - FAG - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre | FAG - 2015 - FAG - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre - Medicina |
Q1355631 Inglês
Text 1


Of prime importance in reading is vocabulary skill. The reader must know the meanings of enough of the words in a sentence for it to make sense and also know how to combine individual word meanings within a sentence. Once the student is past the initial stages of reading, he spends a large percentage of his time encountering new vocabulary, which can be approached in a number of ways. The teacher can give the meaning for each new word, as is common in teaching reading to non-native students.
Or, also common, the student may spend hours with a dictionary writing native-language glosses into his text. For the native speaker of English, the most common form of vocabulary building is guessing from context and/or word formations.
In many settings in which English is taught as a foreign language (EFL) there are high degrees of emphasis on rote memorization. Because vocabulary development skills are seldom specifically taught, the student is not aware of the skills or their benefits. Most students have been trained to panic. Their first
reaction on encountering a new word in a text is to stop and ask for a definition, even if the rest of the sentence defines it. The student of English as a foreign language cannot begin to read with full comprehension until he has been taught to conquer the unknown word by using contextual aids, that is, the formation of the word itself and the environment in which it is found.
(Adapted from Vocabulary in Context, by Anna Fisher Kruse, in Long, Michael H. and Richards, Jack (eds.), Methodology in TESOL – A Book of Readings. New York: Newbury House, 1987)
Which of the following quotations below would best conform to the methodological concept expressed in the text 1?
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Q1355630
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension , Verbos | Verbs , Verbos modais | Modal verbs , Sinônimos | Synonyms
Ano: 2015 Banca: FAG Órgão: FAG Prova: FAG - 2015 - FAG - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre |
Q1355630 Inglês
Text 1


Of prime importance in reading is vocabulary skill. The reader must know the meanings of enough of the words in a sentence for it to make sense and also know how to combine individual word meanings within a sentence. Once the student is past the initial stages of reading, he spends a large percentage of his time encountering new vocabulary, which can be approached in a number of ways. The teacher can give the meaning for each new word, as is common in teaching reading to non-native students.
Or, also common, the student may spend hours with a dictionary writing native-language glosses into his text. For the native speaker of English, the most common form of vocabulary building is guessing from context and/or word formations.
In many settings in which English is taught as a foreign language (EFL) there are high degrees of emphasis on rote memorization. Because vocabulary development skills are seldom specifically taught, the student is not aware of the skills or their benefits. Most students have been trained to panic. Their first
reaction on encountering a new word in a text is to stop and ask for a definition, even if the rest of the sentence defines it. The student of English as a foreign language cannot begin to read with full comprehension until he has been taught to conquer the unknown word by using contextual aids, that is, the formation of the word itself and the environment in which it is found.
(Adapted from Vocabulary in Context, by Anna Fisher Kruse, in Long, Michael H. and Richards, Jack (eds.), Methodology in TESOL – A Book of Readings. New York: Newbury House, 1987)
In the fragment from the text – The reader must know the meanings of enough of the words… – the modal verb must could be correctly replaced, keeping the same meaning, by:
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Q1354408
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: Esamc Órgão: Esamc Prova: Esamc - 2015 - Esamc - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre |
Q1354408 Inglês
O texto a seguir descreve uma “ghost town”. Considere-o para responder à questão.


    In 1879, Bodie was a bustling gold-mining town and home to 8,500 residents known for gunfi ghting and brawling. Within a decade, the mines had been largely depleted and the population had begun a steady decline that ended in total abandonment. The 150 remaining buildings are much as their residents left them.
(www.nationalgeographic.com - acesso em 18/08/2015)
Indique a alternativa que apresenta a referência de their e them, respectivamente, no trecho The 150 remaining buildings are much as their residents left them:
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Q1354407
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: Esamc Órgão: Esamc Prova: Esamc - 2015 - Esamc - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre |
Q1354407 Inglês
O texto a seguir descreve uma “ghost town”. Considere-o para responder à questão.


    In 1879, Bodie was a bustling gold-mining town and home to 8,500 residents known for gunfi ghting and brawling. Within a decade, the mines had been largely depleted and the population had begun a steady decline that ended in total abandonment. The 150 remaining buildings are much as their residents left them.
(www.nationalgeographic.com - acesso em 18/08/2015)
Indique a alternativa que apresenta uma afi rmação correta sobre Bodie:
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Q1354406
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: Esamc Órgão: Esamc Prova: Esamc - 2015 - Esamc - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre |
Q1354406 Inglês
Considere o texto a seguir para responder à questão.


How governments should help those on the dole


    “Active labour market programmes” are schemes meant to help people to fi nd work. They grew out of the American public works programmes of the 1930s, where the government spent billions of dollars busying its citizens with building schools, hospitals and bridges. Today programmes also take the form of training, subsidised private work, or help with fi nding a job. But alongside these programmes, some worry that overly generous welfare benefi ts make people lazy. They say that threats to cut people’s benefi ts if they do not join such programmes could also boost employment, by prodding people off the sofa and into work.
(Adaptado de www.economist.com - acesso em 23/08/2015)
Segundo o texto:
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Q1354405
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: Esamc Órgão: Esamc Prova: Esamc - 2015 - Esamc - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre |
Q1354405 Inglês
Considere o texto a seguir para responder à questão.


How governments should help those on the dole


    “Active labour market programmes” are schemes meant to help people to fi nd work. They grew out of the American public works programmes of the 1930s, where the government spent billions of dollars busying its citizens with building schools, hospitals and bridges. Today programmes also take the form of training, subsidised private work, or help with fi nding a job. But alongside these programmes, some worry that overly generous welfare benefi ts make people lazy. They say that threats to cut people’s benefi ts if they do not join such programmes could also boost employment, by prodding people off the sofa and into work.
(Adaptado de www.economist.com - acesso em 23/08/2015)
O que eram os public works programmes of the 1930s?
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Q1354404
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: Esamc Órgão: Esamc Prova: Esamc - 2015 - Esamc - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre |
Q1354404 Inglês
Considere a introdução de uma crítica a filmes de animação para responder à questão.


Agitating With Animation

     No one, post-Charlie Hebdo, can doubt a cartoon’s capacity to change the world - R. Crumb’s breezy remonstrance “It’s only lines on paper, folks!” notwithstanding. Animated cartoons are generally more circumspect than static drawings, but some have been agitators as well. [...]

(www.nytimes.com - acesso em 19/08/2015)
O trecho R. Crumb’s breezy remonstrance “It’s only lines on paper, folks!” notwithstanding. poderia ser substituído, com mínima perda de sentido, por:
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Q1354403
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: Esamc Órgão: Esamc Prova: Esamc - 2015 - Esamc - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre |
Q1354403 Inglês
Considere a introdução de uma crítica a filmes de animação para responder à questão.


Agitating With Animation

     No one, post-Charlie Hebdo, can doubt a cartoon’s capacity to change the world - R. Crumb’s breezy remonstrance “It’s only lines on paper, folks!” notwithstanding. Animated cartoons are generally more circumspect than static drawings, but some have been agitators as well. [...]

(www.nytimes.com - acesso em 19/08/2015)
De acordo com o texto, em relação aos desenhos estáticos, desenhos animados:
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Q1354402
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: Esamc Órgão: Esamc Prova: Esamc - 2015 - Esamc - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre |
Q1354402 Inglês
Considere a introdução de uma crítica a filmes de animação para responder à questão.


Agitating With Animation

     No one, post-Charlie Hebdo, can doubt a cartoon’s capacity to change the world - R. Crumb’s breezy remonstrance “It’s only lines on paper, folks!” notwithstanding. Animated cartoons are generally more circumspect than static drawings, but some have been agitators as well. [...]

(www.nytimes.com - acesso em 19/08/2015)
Segundo o texto:
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Q1354401
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: Esamc Órgão: Esamc Prova: Esamc - 2015 - Esamc - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre |
Q1354401 Inglês

Considere a citação a seguir, atribuída ao estilista Yves Saint Laurent (1936 - 2008), para responder à questão.


It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

Yves Saint Laurent



Indique a alternativa que mais bem traduza a ideia da citação de Saint Laurent:

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Q1353105
Inglês Adjetivos | Adjectives , Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions , Substantivos e compostos | Nouns and compounds , Substantivos contáveis e incontáveis | Countable and uncountable , Vocabulário | Vocabulary
Ano: 2015 Banca: Esamc Órgão: Esamc Prova: Esamc - 2015 - Esamc - Vestibular |
Q1353105 Inglês

Considere o excerto a seguir, retirado do site do jornal britânico The Guardian, para responder à questão.


    Homeopaths believe that illness-causing substances can, in minute doses, treat people who are unwell. By diluting these substances in water or alcohol, homeopaths claim the resulting mixture retains a “memory” of the original substance that triggers a healing response in the body.

    These claims have been widely disproven by multiple studies, but the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has for the first time thoroughly reviewed 225 research papers on homeopathy to come up with its position statement, released on Wednesday: Homeopathy is not effective for treating any health condition.

(Adaptado de www.theguardian.com - acesso em 12/03/2015)

Considere o segundo parágrafo do texto. As palavras claims, studies, thoroughly, effective são classificadas, respectivamente, como
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Q1353104
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: Esamc Órgão: Esamc Prova: Esamc - 2015 - Esamc - Vestibular |
Q1353104 Inglês

Considere o excerto a seguir, retirado do site do jornal britânico The Guardian, para responder à questão.


    Homeopaths believe that illness-causing substances can, in minute doses, treat people who are unwell. By diluting these substances in water or alcohol, homeopaths claim the resulting mixture retains a “memory” of the original substance that triggers a healing response in the body.

    These claims have been widely disproven by multiple studies, but the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has for the first time thoroughly reviewed 225 research papers on homeopathy to come up with its position statement, released on Wednesday: Homeopathy is not effective for treating any health condition.

(Adaptado de www.theguardian.com - acesso em 12/03/2015)

De acordo com o segundo parágrafo do texto,
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Q1353103
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: Esamc Órgão: Esamc Prova: Esamc - 2015 - Esamc - Vestibular |
Q1353103 Inglês

Considere o excerto a seguir, retirado do site do jornal britânico The Guardian, para responder à questão.


    Homeopaths believe that illness-causing substances can, in minute doses, treat people who are unwell. By diluting these substances in water or alcohol, homeopaths claim the resulting mixture retains a “memory” of the original substance that triggers a healing response in the body.

    These claims have been widely disproven by multiple studies, but the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has for the first time thoroughly reviewed 225 research papers on homeopathy to come up with its position statement, released on Wednesday: Homeopathy is not effective for treating any health condition.

(Adaptado de www.theguardian.com - acesso em 12/03/2015)

De acordo com o texto, homeopatas acreditam que:
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Q1353102
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: Esamc Órgão: Esamc Prova: Esamc - 2015 - Esamc - Vestibular |
Q1353102 Inglês
Considere os fragmentos "to cope with their airborne ordeal" e "advocating for their clean-technology campaign" contextualizados acima. A palavra their em cada trecho refere-se, respectivamente, a
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Q1353101
Inglês Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension ,
Ano: 2015 Banca: Esamc Órgão: Esamc Prova: Esamc - 2015 - Esamc - Vestibular |
Q1353101 Inglês
Considere o texto adaptado a seguir para responder à questão.



The First Solar-Powered Round-the-World Flight Has Begun


    The world's first round-the-world trip on a solar-powered plane got under way Monday with the initial leg from Abu Dhabi to the Omani capital, Muscat.
     Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will pursue a recordshattering five-month journey, spanning 21,750 miles across several continents and two oceans, while using zero conventional fuel.
     The Solar Impulse-2's lightweight construction — weighing a mere 4,600 lb. — combined with its 236-ft. wingspan lined with 17,000 solar cells, makes it the first solar-powered aircraft capable of flying during both day and night. [...]
     The pilots have undergone rigorous preparation drills, and will forgo all sleep longer than 20 minutes while airborne, practicing yoga and selfhypnosis to cope with their airborne ordeal. (Some stints will involve flying continuously for five days.) Rest stops will be spent advocating for their cleantechnology campaign.
(www.time.com - acesso em 09/03/2015)
Ainda segundo o texto, os pilotos:
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Respostas
1781: A
1782: B
1783: D
1784: E
1785: C
1786: D
1787: E
1788: B
1789: B
1790: D
1791: A
1792: E
1793: C
1794: D
1795: E
1796: E
1797: E
1798: D
1799: A
1800: B
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