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Ano: 2017
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Q961050
Inglês
Disponível em: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/52/44/12/5244127bd1ca02b0bd30a8f8db96875a--peanuts-cartoon-peanuts-snoopy.jpg Acesso em: 30 de ago. 2017.
Pelo contexto, é possível compreender que:
Ano: 2017
Banca:
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IFN-MG
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Q961049
Inglês
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Nathalie, the swimmer who lost a leg
Nathalie du Toit, the South African swimmer, was only seventeen when she lost her leg in a road accident. She was going to a training session at the swimming pool on her motorbike when a car hit her. Her leg had to be amputated at the knee. At the time she was one of South Africa’s most promising young swimmers. Everybody thought that she would never be able to swim competitively again.
But Nathalie was determined to carry on. She went back into the pool only three months after the accident. And just one year later, at the Commonwalth Games in Manchester, she swam 800 meters in 9 minutes 11:38 seconds and qualified for the final – but not for disabled swimmers, for able-bodied ones! Althought she didn’t win a medal, she still made history.
‘I remember how thrilled I was the first time that I swam after recovering from the operation – it felt like my leg was there. It still does,’ says Nathalie. The water is the gift that gives me back my leg. I’m still the same person I was before the accident. I believe everything happens in life for a reason. You cant go back and change anything. Swimming was my life and still is. My dream is to swim faster than I did before the accident.’
Oxeden, C; KOENIG, C. New English File. Intermediate Student’s Book. OXFORD University Press. (3c-47).
No último parágrafo do TEXTO, na frase “Althought she didn’t win a medal, she still made history”, o termo destacado
indica uma conjunção:
Ano: 2017
Banca:
IFN-MG
Órgão:
IFN-MG
Prova:
IFN-MG - 2017 - IFN-MG - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre |
Q961048
Inglês
Texto associado
Nathalie, the swimmer who lost a leg
Nathalie du Toit, the South African swimmer, was only seventeen when she lost her leg in a road accident. She was going to a training session at the swimming pool on her motorbike when a car hit her. Her leg had to be amputated at the knee. At the time she was one of South Africa’s most promising young swimmers. Everybody thought that she would never be able to swim competitively again.
But Nathalie was determined to carry on. She went back into the pool only three months after the accident. And just one year later, at the Commonwalth Games in Manchester, she swam 800 meters in 9 minutes 11:38 seconds and qualified for the final – but not for disabled swimmers, for able-bodied ones! Althought she didn’t win a medal, she still made history.
‘I remember how thrilled I was the first time that I swam after recovering from the operation – it felt like my leg was there. It still does,’ says Nathalie. The water is the gift that gives me back my leg. I’m still the same person I was before the accident. I believe everything happens in life for a reason. You cant go back and change anything. Swimming was my life and still is. My dream is to swim faster than I did before the accident.’
Oxeden, C; KOENIG, C. New English File. Intermediate Student’s Book. OXFORD University Press. (3c-47).
Os adjetivos possessivos (possessive adjectives) são palavras que têm a função de modificar um substantivo, indicando
propriedade ou posse. Em todas as frases a seguir, retiradas do TEXTO 01, há um adjetivo possessivo, EXCETO:
Ano: 2017
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Q961047
Inglês
Texto associado
Nathalie, the swimmer who lost a leg
Nathalie du Toit, the South African swimmer, was only seventeen when she lost her leg in a road accident. She was going to a training session at the swimming pool on her motorbike when a car hit her. Her leg had to be amputated at the knee. At the time she was one of South Africa’s most promising young swimmers. Everybody thought that she would never be able to swim competitively again.
But Nathalie was determined to carry on. She went back into the pool only three months after the accident. And just one year later, at the Commonwalth Games in Manchester, she swam 800 meters in 9 minutes 11:38 seconds and qualified for the final – but not for disabled swimmers, for able-bodied ones! Althought she didn’t win a medal, she still made history.
‘I remember how thrilled I was the first time that I swam after recovering from the operation – it felt like my leg was there. It still does,’ says Nathalie. The water is the gift that gives me back my leg. I’m still the same person I was before the accident. I believe everything happens in life for a reason. You cant go back and change anything. Swimming was my life and still is. My dream is to swim faster than I did before the accident.’
Oxeden, C; KOENIG, C. New English File. Intermediate Student’s Book. OXFORD University Press. (3c-47).
No TEXTO, a nadadora Natalie menciona a seguinte frase “The water is the gift that gives me back my leg”. O jogo
de palavras utilizado na sentença leva a depreender que:
Ano: 2017
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Órgão:
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Prova:
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Q961046
Inglês
Texto associado
Nathalie, the swimmer who lost a leg
Nathalie du Toit, the South African swimmer, was only seventeen when she lost her leg in a road accident. She was going to a training session at the swimming pool on her motorbike when a car hit her. Her leg had to be amputated at the knee. At the time she was one of South Africa’s most promising young swimmers. Everybody thought that she would never be able to swim competitively again.
But Nathalie was determined to carry on. She went back into the pool only three months after the accident. And just one year later, at the Commonwalth Games in Manchester, she swam 800 meters in 9 minutes 11:38 seconds and qualified for the final – but not for disabled swimmers, for able-bodied ones! Althought she didn’t win a medal, she still made history.
‘I remember how thrilled I was the first time that I swam after recovering from the operation – it felt like my leg was there. It still does,’ says Nathalie. The water is the gift that gives me back my leg. I’m still the same person I was before the accident. I believe everything happens in life for a reason. You cant go back and change anything. Swimming was my life and still is. My dream is to swim faster than I did before the accident.’
Oxeden, C; KOENIG, C. New English File. Intermediate Student’s Book. OXFORD University Press. (3c-47).
Considerando o TEXTO, qual o vocábulo que melhor interpreta o contexto da história:
Q944594
Inglês
Read the editorial cartoon below. Then answer the following question
Q944593
Inglês
Leia o texto a seguir.
Pornography is now only an internet search away, and is becoming ever more immersive. How is it changing people’s behaviour, relationships and desires?
By Jessica Brown
Few things are truly universal. But while people across the world speak different languages, eat different foods and even feel different emotions, millions across the world watch porn. Despite being so widely consumed, porn is maligned as the source of society’s ills. It’s even been labelled a public health hazard by politicians in Utah. Porn has transformed over the past few decades, due to the availability of the internet and faster web connections. It is also becoming more immersive than ever before. Take virtual reality. Earlier this year, researchers from Newcastle University in the UK pointed out that VR changes the experience of porn from detached observer to protagonist. They warned that this has the potential to blur the line between reality and fantasy, perhaps damaging relationships and encouraging harmful behaviour. […] So what does the more recent research say? One review of more than 80 studies in 2009 concluded that evidence of a causal link between porn use and violence is slim, and any findings proving a connection are often exaggerated by the media and politicians. “It is time to discard the hypothesis that pornography contributes to increased sexual assault behaviour”, wrote the authors.
Available in: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170926-is-porn-harmful-theevidence-the-myths-and-the-unknowns. Accessed: Sep. 25, 2017.
According to the text, which is the correct option.
Q944487
Inglês
Examine a tira.
A tira evidencia que
Q944486
Inglês
Texto associado
Mobile milestones: how your phone
became an essential part of your life
Has any device changed our lives as much, and as quickly,
as the mobile phone? There are people today for whom the
world of address books, street atlases and phone boxes
seems very far away, lost in the mists of time. Following, there
are just some of the big milestones from the past 30 years that
have made almost everything we do easier, more public and
very, very fast.
• The first phones arrive – and become status symbols
Few people got the chance to use the very early mobile
phones. The first call was made in New York in 1973, but
handsets with a network to use were not available until 1983
in the US, and 1985 in the UK. That first British mobile phone
was essentially a heavy briefcase with a receiver attached by
a wire. It cost £2,000 (£5,000 in today’s prices), and gave you
half an hour’s chat on an overnight charge. Making a call was
not something you could do subtly, but that wasn’t the point;
the first handsets were there to be seen. They sent a message
that you were bold and confident with new technology, that
you were busy and important enough to need a mobile phone,
and were rich enough to buy one.
• Text messages spawn a whole new language
The first mobiles worked with analogue signals and could
only make phone calls, but the digital ones that followed in
the early 1990s could send SMS messages as well. After the
first message was sent on 3 December 1992, texting took off
like a rocket, even though it was still a pretty cumbersome
procedure. Handsets with predictive text would make things
easier, but in the 1990s you could save a lot of time by
removing all excess letters from a message, often the vowels,
and so txtspk ws brn. Today the average mobile phone sends
more than 100 texts per month.
• Phones turn us all into photographers...
There seemed to be no good reason for the first camera
phones, which began to appear in 2002, with resolutions
of about 0.3 megapixels. They took grainy, blurry pictures
on postage stamp-sized screens, and even these filled the
phone’s memory in no time. Gradually, though, as the quality
improved, the uses followed. As well as the usual photos of
friends and family, they were handy for “saving” pieces of
paper, and in pubs you could take a picture of the specials
board and take it back to your table. Modern camera phones
have changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years. The
new mobile phones boast the highest resolution dual camera
on a smartphone: a 16-megapixel camera and a 20-megapixel
camera side-by-side. The dual camera allows users to focus
on their subjects, while blurring out the background, producing
professional-looking portraits.
• …and we turn ourselves into celebrities
Twenty years ago people would have thought you a little
strange if you took flattering photos of yourself and your
lifestyle and then distributed them to your friends – let alone
to members of the public. If you used printed photographs
rather than a smartphone app, they would still think so today.
Yet sharing our lives on social media is now the norm, not
the exception – and it was the camera phone that made it all
possible. Now, some phones come with an enormous 64GB
of memory, so you can capture, share and store an almost
countless number of videos and pictures – well, certainly
enough to keep up with the Kardashians.
(www.theguardian.com, 07.07.2017. Adaptado.)
No trecho do quinto parágrafo “they would still think so
today”, o termo em destaque se refere ao fato de as pessoas
considerarem que alguém
Q944485
Inglês
Texto associado
Mobile milestones: how your phone
became an essential part of your life
Has any device changed our lives as much, and as quickly,
as the mobile phone? There are people today for whom the
world of address books, street atlases and phone boxes
seems very far away, lost in the mists of time. Following, there
are just some of the big milestones from the past 30 years that
have made almost everything we do easier, more public and
very, very fast.
• The first phones arrive – and become status symbols
Few people got the chance to use the very early mobile
phones. The first call was made in New York in 1973, but
handsets with a network to use were not available until 1983
in the US, and 1985 in the UK. That first British mobile phone
was essentially a heavy briefcase with a receiver attached by
a wire. It cost £2,000 (£5,000 in today’s prices), and gave you
half an hour’s chat on an overnight charge. Making a call was
not something you could do subtly, but that wasn’t the point;
the first handsets were there to be seen. They sent a message
that you were bold and confident with new technology, that
you were busy and important enough to need a mobile phone,
and were rich enough to buy one.
• Text messages spawn a whole new language
The first mobiles worked with analogue signals and could
only make phone calls, but the digital ones that followed in
the early 1990s could send SMS messages as well. After the
first message was sent on 3 December 1992, texting took off
like a rocket, even though it was still a pretty cumbersome
procedure. Handsets with predictive text would make things
easier, but in the 1990s you could save a lot of time by
removing all excess letters from a message, often the vowels,
and so txtspk ws brn. Today the average mobile phone sends
more than 100 texts per month.
• Phones turn us all into photographers...
There seemed to be no good reason for the first camera
phones, which began to appear in 2002, with resolutions
of about 0.3 megapixels. They took grainy, blurry pictures
on postage stamp-sized screens, and even these filled the
phone’s memory in no time. Gradually, though, as the quality
improved, the uses followed. As well as the usual photos of
friends and family, they were handy for “saving” pieces of
paper, and in pubs you could take a picture of the specials
board and take it back to your table. Modern camera phones
have changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years. The
new mobile phones boast the highest resolution dual camera
on a smartphone: a 16-megapixel camera and a 20-megapixel
camera side-by-side. The dual camera allows users to focus
on their subjects, while blurring out the background, producing
professional-looking portraits.
• …and we turn ourselves into celebrities
Twenty years ago people would have thought you a little
strange if you took flattering photos of yourself and your
lifestyle and then distributed them to your friends – let alone
to members of the public. If you used printed photographs
rather than a smartphone app, they would still think so today.
Yet sharing our lives on social media is now the norm, not
the exception – and it was the camera phone that made it all
possible. Now, some phones come with an enormous 64GB
of memory, so you can capture, share and store an almost
countless number of videos and pictures – well, certainly
enough to keep up with the Kardashians.
(www.theguardian.com, 07.07.2017. Adaptado.)
De acordo com as informações do quinto parágrafo,
Q944484
Inglês
Texto associado
Mobile milestones: how your phone
became an essential part of your life
Has any device changed our lives as much, and as quickly,
as the mobile phone? There are people today for whom the
world of address books, street atlases and phone boxes
seems very far away, lost in the mists of time. Following, there
are just some of the big milestones from the past 30 years that
have made almost everything we do easier, more public and
very, very fast.
• The first phones arrive – and become status symbols
Few people got the chance to use the very early mobile
phones. The first call was made in New York in 1973, but
handsets with a network to use were not available until 1983
in the US, and 1985 in the UK. That first British mobile phone
was essentially a heavy briefcase with a receiver attached by
a wire. It cost £2,000 (£5,000 in today’s prices), and gave you
half an hour’s chat on an overnight charge. Making a call was
not something you could do subtly, but that wasn’t the point;
the first handsets were there to be seen. They sent a message
that you were bold and confident with new technology, that
you were busy and important enough to need a mobile phone,
and were rich enough to buy one.
• Text messages spawn a whole new language
The first mobiles worked with analogue signals and could
only make phone calls, but the digital ones that followed in
the early 1990s could send SMS messages as well. After the
first message was sent on 3 December 1992, texting took off
like a rocket, even though it was still a pretty cumbersome
procedure. Handsets with predictive text would make things
easier, but in the 1990s you could save a lot of time by
removing all excess letters from a message, often the vowels,
and so txtspk ws brn. Today the average mobile phone sends
more than 100 texts per month.
• Phones turn us all into photographers...
There seemed to be no good reason for the first camera
phones, which began to appear in 2002, with resolutions
of about 0.3 megapixels. They took grainy, blurry pictures
on postage stamp-sized screens, and even these filled the
phone’s memory in no time. Gradually, though, as the quality
improved, the uses followed. As well as the usual photos of
friends and family, they were handy for “saving” pieces of
paper, and in pubs you could take a picture of the specials
board and take it back to your table. Modern camera phones
have changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years. The
new mobile phones boast the highest resolution dual camera
on a smartphone: a 16-megapixel camera and a 20-megapixel
camera side-by-side. The dual camera allows users to focus
on their subjects, while blurring out the background, producing
professional-looking portraits.
• …and we turn ourselves into celebrities
Twenty years ago people would have thought you a little
strange if you took flattering photos of yourself and your
lifestyle and then distributed them to your friends – let alone
to members of the public. If you used printed photographs
rather than a smartphone app, they would still think so today.
Yet sharing our lives on social media is now the norm, not
the exception – and it was the camera phone that made it all
possible. Now, some phones come with an enormous 64GB
of memory, so you can capture, share and store an almost
countless number of videos and pictures – well, certainly
enough to keep up with the Kardashians.
(www.theguardian.com, 07.07.2017. Adaptado.)
No trecho do quarto parágrafo “The dual camera allows users
to focus on their subjects, while blurring out the background”,
o termo em destaque indica ideia de
Q944483
Inglês
Texto associado
Mobile milestones: how your phone
became an essential part of your life
Has any device changed our lives as much, and as quickly,
as the mobile phone? There are people today for whom the
world of address books, street atlases and phone boxes
seems very far away, lost in the mists of time. Following, there
are just some of the big milestones from the past 30 years that
have made almost everything we do easier, more public and
very, very fast.
• The first phones arrive – and become status symbols
Few people got the chance to use the very early mobile
phones. The first call was made in New York in 1973, but
handsets with a network to use were not available until 1983
in the US, and 1985 in the UK. That first British mobile phone
was essentially a heavy briefcase with a receiver attached by
a wire. It cost £2,000 (£5,000 in today’s prices), and gave you
half an hour’s chat on an overnight charge. Making a call was
not something you could do subtly, but that wasn’t the point;
the first handsets were there to be seen. They sent a message
that you were bold and confident with new technology, that
you were busy and important enough to need a mobile phone,
and were rich enough to buy one.
• Text messages spawn a whole new language
The first mobiles worked with analogue signals and could
only make phone calls, but the digital ones that followed in
the early 1990s could send SMS messages as well. After the
first message was sent on 3 December 1992, texting took off
like a rocket, even though it was still a pretty cumbersome
procedure. Handsets with predictive text would make things
easier, but in the 1990s you could save a lot of time by
removing all excess letters from a message, often the vowels,
and so txtspk ws brn. Today the average mobile phone sends
more than 100 texts per month.
• Phones turn us all into photographers...
There seemed to be no good reason for the first camera
phones, which began to appear in 2002, with resolutions
of about 0.3 megapixels. They took grainy, blurry pictures
on postage stamp-sized screens, and even these filled the
phone’s memory in no time. Gradually, though, as the quality
improved, the uses followed. As well as the usual photos of
friends and family, they were handy for “saving” pieces of
paper, and in pubs you could take a picture of the specials
board and take it back to your table. Modern camera phones
have changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years. The
new mobile phones boast the highest resolution dual camera
on a smartphone: a 16-megapixel camera and a 20-megapixel
camera side-by-side. The dual camera allows users to focus
on their subjects, while blurring out the background, producing
professional-looking portraits.
• …and we turn ourselves into celebrities
Twenty years ago people would have thought you a little
strange if you took flattering photos of yourself and your
lifestyle and then distributed them to your friends – let alone
to members of the public. If you used printed photographs
rather than a smartphone app, they would still think so today.
Yet sharing our lives on social media is now the norm, not
the exception – and it was the camera phone that made it all
possible. Now, some phones come with an enormous 64GB
of memory, so you can capture, share and store an almost
countless number of videos and pictures – well, certainly
enough to keep up with the Kardashians.
(www.theguardian.com, 07.07.2017. Adaptado.)
No trecho do quarto parágrafo “filled the phone’s memory in
no time”, a expressão em destaque equivale, em português,
a
Q944482
Inglês
Texto associado
Mobile milestones: how your phone
became an essential part of your life
Has any device changed our lives as much, and as quickly,
as the mobile phone? There are people today for whom the
world of address books, street atlases and phone boxes
seems very far away, lost in the mists of time. Following, there
are just some of the big milestones from the past 30 years that
have made almost everything we do easier, more public and
very, very fast.
• The first phones arrive – and become status symbols
Few people got the chance to use the very early mobile
phones. The first call was made in New York in 1973, but
handsets with a network to use were not available until 1983
in the US, and 1985 in the UK. That first British mobile phone
was essentially a heavy briefcase with a receiver attached by
a wire. It cost £2,000 (£5,000 in today’s prices), and gave you
half an hour’s chat on an overnight charge. Making a call was
not something you could do subtly, but that wasn’t the point;
the first handsets were there to be seen. They sent a message
that you were bold and confident with new technology, that
you were busy and important enough to need a mobile phone,
and were rich enough to buy one.
• Text messages spawn a whole new language
The first mobiles worked with analogue signals and could
only make phone calls, but the digital ones that followed in
the early 1990s could send SMS messages as well. After the
first message was sent on 3 December 1992, texting took off
like a rocket, even though it was still a pretty cumbersome
procedure. Handsets with predictive text would make things
easier, but in the 1990s you could save a lot of time by
removing all excess letters from a message, often the vowels,
and so txtspk ws brn. Today the average mobile phone sends
more than 100 texts per month.
• Phones turn us all into photographers...
There seemed to be no good reason for the first camera
phones, which began to appear in 2002, with resolutions
of about 0.3 megapixels. They took grainy, blurry pictures
on postage stamp-sized screens, and even these filled the
phone’s memory in no time. Gradually, though, as the quality
improved, the uses followed. As well as the usual photos of
friends and family, they were handy for “saving” pieces of
paper, and in pubs you could take a picture of the specials
board and take it back to your table. Modern camera phones
have changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years. The
new mobile phones boast the highest resolution dual camera
on a smartphone: a 16-megapixel camera and a 20-megapixel
camera side-by-side. The dual camera allows users to focus
on their subjects, while blurring out the background, producing
professional-looking portraits.
• …and we turn ourselves into celebrities
Twenty years ago people would have thought you a little
strange if you took flattering photos of yourself and your
lifestyle and then distributed them to your friends – let alone
to members of the public. If you used printed photographs
rather than a smartphone app, they would still think so today.
Yet sharing our lives on social media is now the norm, not
the exception – and it was the camera phone that made it all
possible. Now, some phones come with an enormous 64GB
of memory, so you can capture, share and store an almost
countless number of videos and pictures – well, certainly
enough to keep up with the Kardashians.
(www.theguardian.com, 07.07.2017. Adaptado.)
No trecho do quarto parágrafo “and even these filled the
phone’s memory”, o termo em destaque se refere a
Q944481
Inglês
Texto associado
Mobile milestones: how your phone
became an essential part of your life
Has any device changed our lives as much, and as quickly,
as the mobile phone? There are people today for whom the
world of address books, street atlases and phone boxes
seems very far away, lost in the mists of time. Following, there
are just some of the big milestones from the past 30 years that
have made almost everything we do easier, more public and
very, very fast.
• The first phones arrive – and become status symbols
Few people got the chance to use the very early mobile
phones. The first call was made in New York in 1973, but
handsets with a network to use were not available until 1983
in the US, and 1985 in the UK. That first British mobile phone
was essentially a heavy briefcase with a receiver attached by
a wire. It cost £2,000 (£5,000 in today’s prices), and gave you
half an hour’s chat on an overnight charge. Making a call was
not something you could do subtly, but that wasn’t the point;
the first handsets were there to be seen. They sent a message
that you were bold and confident with new technology, that
you were busy and important enough to need a mobile phone,
and were rich enough to buy one.
• Text messages spawn a whole new language
The first mobiles worked with analogue signals and could
only make phone calls, but the digital ones that followed in
the early 1990s could send SMS messages as well. After the
first message was sent on 3 December 1992, texting took off
like a rocket, even though it was still a pretty cumbersome
procedure. Handsets with predictive text would make things
easier, but in the 1990s you could save a lot of time by
removing all excess letters from a message, often the vowels,
and so txtspk ws brn. Today the average mobile phone sends
more than 100 texts per month.
• Phones turn us all into photographers...
There seemed to be no good reason for the first camera
phones, which began to appear in 2002, with resolutions
of about 0.3 megapixels. They took grainy, blurry pictures
on postage stamp-sized screens, and even these filled the
phone’s memory in no time. Gradually, though, as the quality
improved, the uses followed. As well as the usual photos of
friends and family, they were handy for “saving” pieces of
paper, and in pubs you could take a picture of the specials
board and take it back to your table. Modern camera phones
have changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years. The
new mobile phones boast the highest resolution dual camera
on a smartphone: a 16-megapixel camera and a 20-megapixel
camera side-by-side. The dual camera allows users to focus
on their subjects, while blurring out the background, producing
professional-looking portraits.
• …and we turn ourselves into celebrities
Twenty years ago people would have thought you a little
strange if you took flattering photos of yourself and your
lifestyle and then distributed them to your friends – let alone
to members of the public. If you used printed photographs
rather than a smartphone app, they would still think so today.
Yet sharing our lives on social media is now the norm, not
the exception – and it was the camera phone that made it all
possible. Now, some phones come with an enormous 64GB
of memory, so you can capture, share and store an almost
countless number of videos and pictures – well, certainly
enough to keep up with the Kardashians.
(www.theguardian.com, 07.07.2017. Adaptado.)
According to the fourth paragraph,
Q944480
Inglês
Texto associado
Mobile milestones: how your phone
became an essential part of your life
Has any device changed our lives as much, and as quickly,
as the mobile phone? There are people today for whom the
world of address books, street atlases and phone boxes
seems very far away, lost in the mists of time. Following, there
are just some of the big milestones from the past 30 years that
have made almost everything we do easier, more public and
very, very fast.
• The first phones arrive – and become status symbols
Few people got the chance to use the very early mobile
phones. The first call was made in New York in 1973, but
handsets with a network to use were not available until 1983
in the US, and 1985 in the UK. That first British mobile phone
was essentially a heavy briefcase with a receiver attached by
a wire. It cost £2,000 (£5,000 in today’s prices), and gave you
half an hour’s chat on an overnight charge. Making a call was
not something you could do subtly, but that wasn’t the point;
the first handsets were there to be seen. They sent a message
that you were bold and confident with new technology, that
you were busy and important enough to need a mobile phone,
and were rich enough to buy one.
• Text messages spawn a whole new language
The first mobiles worked with analogue signals and could
only make phone calls, but the digital ones that followed in
the early 1990s could send SMS messages as well. After the
first message was sent on 3 December 1992, texting took off
like a rocket, even though it was still a pretty cumbersome
procedure. Handsets with predictive text would make things
easier, but in the 1990s you could save a lot of time by
removing all excess letters from a message, often the vowels,
and so txtspk ws brn. Today the average mobile phone sends
more than 100 texts per month.
• Phones turn us all into photographers...
There seemed to be no good reason for the first camera
phones, which began to appear in 2002, with resolutions
of about 0.3 megapixels. They took grainy, blurry pictures
on postage stamp-sized screens, and even these filled the
phone’s memory in no time. Gradually, though, as the quality
improved, the uses followed. As well as the usual photos of
friends and family, they were handy for “saving” pieces of
paper, and in pubs you could take a picture of the specials
board and take it back to your table. Modern camera phones
have changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years. The
new mobile phones boast the highest resolution dual camera
on a smartphone: a 16-megapixel camera and a 20-megapixel
camera side-by-side. The dual camera allows users to focus
on their subjects, while blurring out the background, producing
professional-looking portraits.
• …and we turn ourselves into celebrities
Twenty years ago people would have thought you a little
strange if you took flattering photos of yourself and your
lifestyle and then distributed them to your friends – let alone
to members of the public. If you used printed photographs
rather than a smartphone app, they would still think so today.
Yet sharing our lives on social media is now the norm, not
the exception – and it was the camera phone that made it all
possible. Now, some phones come with an enormous 64GB
of memory, so you can capture, share and store an almost
countless number of videos and pictures – well, certainly
enough to keep up with the Kardashians.
(www.theguardian.com, 07.07.2017. Adaptado.)
No trecho do terceiro parágrafo “by removing all excess letters
from a message, often the vowels, and so txtspk ws brn”, o
termo em destaque indica ideia de
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Mobile milestones: how your phone
became an essential part of your life
Has any device changed our lives as much, and as quickly,
as the mobile phone? There are people today for whom the
world of address books, street atlases and phone boxes
seems very far away, lost in the mists of time. Following, there
are just some of the big milestones from the past 30 years that
have made almost everything we do easier, more public and
very, very fast.
• The first phones arrive – and become status symbols
Few people got the chance to use the very early mobile
phones. The first call was made in New York in 1973, but
handsets with a network to use were not available until 1983
in the US, and 1985 in the UK. That first British mobile phone
was essentially a heavy briefcase with a receiver attached by
a wire. It cost £2,000 (£5,000 in today’s prices), and gave you
half an hour’s chat on an overnight charge. Making a call was
not something you could do subtly, but that wasn’t the point;
the first handsets were there to be seen. They sent a message
that you were bold and confident with new technology, that
you were busy and important enough to need a mobile phone,
and were rich enough to buy one.
• Text messages spawn a whole new language
The first mobiles worked with analogue signals and could
only make phone calls, but the digital ones that followed in
the early 1990s could send SMS messages as well. After the
first message was sent on 3 December 1992, texting took off
like a rocket, even though it was still a pretty cumbersome
procedure. Handsets with predictive text would make things
easier, but in the 1990s you could save a lot of time by
removing all excess letters from a message, often the vowels,
and so txtspk ws brn. Today the average mobile phone sends
more than 100 texts per month.
• Phones turn us all into photographers...
There seemed to be no good reason for the first camera
phones, which began to appear in 2002, with resolutions
of about 0.3 megapixels. They took grainy, blurry pictures
on postage stamp-sized screens, and even these filled the
phone’s memory in no time. Gradually, though, as the quality
improved, the uses followed. As well as the usual photos of
friends and family, they were handy for “saving” pieces of
paper, and in pubs you could take a picture of the specials
board and take it back to your table. Modern camera phones
have changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years. The
new mobile phones boast the highest resolution dual camera
on a smartphone: a 16-megapixel camera and a 20-megapixel
camera side-by-side. The dual camera allows users to focus
on their subjects, while blurring out the background, producing
professional-looking portraits.
• …and we turn ourselves into celebrities
Twenty years ago people would have thought you a little
strange if you took flattering photos of yourself and your
lifestyle and then distributed them to your friends – let alone
to members of the public. If you used printed photographs
rather than a smartphone app, they would still think so today.
Yet sharing our lives on social media is now the norm, not
the exception – and it was the camera phone that made it all
possible. Now, some phones come with an enormous 64GB
of memory, so you can capture, share and store an almost
countless number of videos and pictures – well, certainly
enough to keep up with the Kardashians.
(www.theguardian.com, 07.07.2017. Adaptado.)
According to the third paragraph, people started to shorten
words when writing messages by mobile phone because
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Mobile milestones: how your phone
became an essential part of your life
Has any device changed our lives as much, and as quickly,
as the mobile phone? There are people today for whom the
world of address books, street atlases and phone boxes
seems very far away, lost in the mists of time. Following, there
are just some of the big milestones from the past 30 years that
have made almost everything we do easier, more public and
very, very fast.
• The first phones arrive – and become status symbols
Few people got the chance to use the very early mobile
phones. The first call was made in New York in 1973, but
handsets with a network to use were not available until 1983
in the US, and 1985 in the UK. That first British mobile phone
was essentially a heavy briefcase with a receiver attached by
a wire. It cost £2,000 (£5,000 in today’s prices), and gave you
half an hour’s chat on an overnight charge. Making a call was
not something you could do subtly, but that wasn’t the point;
the first handsets were there to be seen. They sent a message
that you were bold and confident with new technology, that
you were busy and important enough to need a mobile phone,
and were rich enough to buy one.
• Text messages spawn a whole new language
The first mobiles worked with analogue signals and could
only make phone calls, but the digital ones that followed in
the early 1990s could send SMS messages as well. After the
first message was sent on 3 December 1992, texting took off
like a rocket, even though it was still a pretty cumbersome
procedure. Handsets with predictive text would make things
easier, but in the 1990s you could save a lot of time by
removing all excess letters from a message, often the vowels,
and so txtspk ws brn. Today the average mobile phone sends
more than 100 texts per month.
• Phones turn us all into photographers...
There seemed to be no good reason for the first camera
phones, which began to appear in 2002, with resolutions
of about 0.3 megapixels. They took grainy, blurry pictures
on postage stamp-sized screens, and even these filled the
phone’s memory in no time. Gradually, though, as the quality
improved, the uses followed. As well as the usual photos of
friends and family, they were handy for “saving” pieces of
paper, and in pubs you could take a picture of the specials
board and take it back to your table. Modern camera phones
have changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years. The
new mobile phones boast the highest resolution dual camera
on a smartphone: a 16-megapixel camera and a 20-megapixel
camera side-by-side. The dual camera allows users to focus
on their subjects, while blurring out the background, producing
professional-looking portraits.
• …and we turn ourselves into celebrities
Twenty years ago people would have thought you a little
strange if you took flattering photos of yourself and your
lifestyle and then distributed them to your friends – let alone
to members of the public. If you used printed photographs
rather than a smartphone app, they would still think so today.
Yet sharing our lives on social media is now the norm, not
the exception – and it was the camera phone that made it all
possible. Now, some phones come with an enormous 64GB
of memory, so you can capture, share and store an almost
countless number of videos and pictures – well, certainly
enough to keep up with the Kardashians.
(www.theguardian.com, 07.07.2017. Adaptado.)
The mobile phones connected to a network were first
accessible
Q944477
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Mobile milestones: how your phone
became an essential part of your life
Has any device changed our lives as much, and as quickly,
as the mobile phone? There are people today for whom the
world of address books, street atlases and phone boxes
seems very far away, lost in the mists of time. Following, there
are just some of the big milestones from the past 30 years that
have made almost everything we do easier, more public and
very, very fast.
• The first phones arrive – and become status symbols
Few people got the chance to use the very early mobile
phones. The first call was made in New York in 1973, but
handsets with a network to use were not available until 1983
in the US, and 1985 in the UK. That first British mobile phone
was essentially a heavy briefcase with a receiver attached by
a wire. It cost £2,000 (£5,000 in today’s prices), and gave you
half an hour’s chat on an overnight charge. Making a call was
not something you could do subtly, but that wasn’t the point;
the first handsets were there to be seen. They sent a message
that you were bold and confident with new technology, that
you were busy and important enough to need a mobile phone,
and were rich enough to buy one.
• Text messages spawn a whole new language
The first mobiles worked with analogue signals and could
only make phone calls, but the digital ones that followed in
the early 1990s could send SMS messages as well. After the
first message was sent on 3 December 1992, texting took off
like a rocket, even though it was still a pretty cumbersome
procedure. Handsets with predictive text would make things
easier, but in the 1990s you could save a lot of time by
removing all excess letters from a message, often the vowels,
and so txtspk ws brn. Today the average mobile phone sends
more than 100 texts per month.
• Phones turn us all into photographers...
There seemed to be no good reason for the first camera
phones, which began to appear in 2002, with resolutions
of about 0.3 megapixels. They took grainy, blurry pictures
on postage stamp-sized screens, and even these filled the
phone’s memory in no time. Gradually, though, as the quality
improved, the uses followed. As well as the usual photos of
friends and family, they were handy for “saving” pieces of
paper, and in pubs you could take a picture of the specials
board and take it back to your table. Modern camera phones
have changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years. The
new mobile phones boast the highest resolution dual camera
on a smartphone: a 16-megapixel camera and a 20-megapixel
camera side-by-side. The dual camera allows users to focus
on their subjects, while blurring out the background, producing
professional-looking portraits.
• …and we turn ourselves into celebrities
Twenty years ago people would have thought you a little
strange if you took flattering photos of yourself and your
lifestyle and then distributed them to your friends – let alone
to members of the public. If you used printed photographs
rather than a smartphone app, they would still think so today.
Yet sharing our lives on social media is now the norm, not
the exception – and it was the camera phone that made it all
possible. Now, some phones come with an enormous 64GB
of memory, so you can capture, share and store an almost
countless number of videos and pictures – well, certainly
enough to keep up with the Kardashians.
(www.theguardian.com, 07.07.2017. Adaptado.)
No texto, um dos exemplos da expressão “big milestones”
(1o parágrafo) é
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Mobile milestones: how your phone
became an essential part of your life
Has any device changed our lives as much, and as quickly,
as the mobile phone? There are people today for whom the
world of address books, street atlases and phone boxes
seems very far away, lost in the mists of time. Following, there
are just some of the big milestones from the past 30 years that
have made almost everything we do easier, more public and
very, very fast.
• The first phones arrive – and become status symbols
Few people got the chance to use the very early mobile
phones. The first call was made in New York in 1973, but
handsets with a network to use were not available until 1983
in the US, and 1985 in the UK. That first British mobile phone
was essentially a heavy briefcase with a receiver attached by
a wire. It cost £2,000 (£5,000 in today’s prices), and gave you
half an hour’s chat on an overnight charge. Making a call was
not something you could do subtly, but that wasn’t the point;
the first handsets were there to be seen. They sent a message
that you were bold and confident with new technology, that
you were busy and important enough to need a mobile phone,
and were rich enough to buy one.
• Text messages spawn a whole new language
The first mobiles worked with analogue signals and could
only make phone calls, but the digital ones that followed in
the early 1990s could send SMS messages as well. After the
first message was sent on 3 December 1992, texting took off
like a rocket, even though it was still a pretty cumbersome
procedure. Handsets with predictive text would make things
easier, but in the 1990s you could save a lot of time by
removing all excess letters from a message, often the vowels,
and so txtspk ws brn. Today the average mobile phone sends
more than 100 texts per month.
• Phones turn us all into photographers...
There seemed to be no good reason for the first camera
phones, which began to appear in 2002, with resolutions
of about 0.3 megapixels. They took grainy, blurry pictures
on postage stamp-sized screens, and even these filled the
phone’s memory in no time. Gradually, though, as the quality
improved, the uses followed. As well as the usual photos of
friends and family, they were handy for “saving” pieces of
paper, and in pubs you could take a picture of the specials
board and take it back to your table. Modern camera phones
have changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years. The
new mobile phones boast the highest resolution dual camera
on a smartphone: a 16-megapixel camera and a 20-megapixel
camera side-by-side. The dual camera allows users to focus
on their subjects, while blurring out the background, producing
professional-looking portraits.
• …and we turn ourselves into celebrities
Twenty years ago people would have thought you a little
strange if you took flattering photos of yourself and your
lifestyle and then distributed them to your friends – let alone
to members of the public. If you used printed photographs
rather than a smartphone app, they would still think so today.
Yet sharing our lives on social media is now the norm, not
the exception – and it was the camera phone that made it all
possible. Now, some phones come with an enormous 64GB
of memory, so you can capture, share and store an almost
countless number of videos and pictures – well, certainly
enough to keep up with the Kardashians.
(www.theguardian.com, 07.07.2017. Adaptado.)
De acordo com o texto, um dos aspectos positivos dos telefones
celulares é que eles
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