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Politics of attributing extreme events to climate change
Climate change shapes weather events. However, describing it as the cause of disasters can be misleading, since disasters are caused by pre-existing fragilities and inequalities on the ground. Attribution is not neutral. Hence, analytic frames that attribute disaster to climate can divert attention from place-based vulnerabilities and their sociopolitical causes. While politicians may blame climate change, the public may hold the government accountable for inadequate investments in flood or drought prevention. To be strategic and moral, framing choices must therefore be sensitive to context and to how the values implicit within analytic frames about the causes of disasters shape policy responses. Such sensitivity requires multicausal analysis of weather-linked disasters to reduce the damages. Through examples from around the world, especially Brazil, we discuss how and why climate-centric disaster framing can erase from view—and, thus, from policy agendas—the very socioeconomic and political factors that centrally cause vulnerability and suffering in weather extremes.
(Adaptado de https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcc.750. Acesso em 15/05/2024.)
Qual alternativa expressa corretamente os argumentos dos autores do texto?
No post, a argumentação é articulada a partir dos diferentes sentidos das palavras
“Parable of the Talents” (Octavia E. Butler)
“To survive, Let the past Teach you-- Past customs, Struggles, Leaders and thinkers. Let These Help you. Let them inspire you, Warn you, Give you strength. But beware: God is Change. Past is past. What was Cannot Come again. To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let The past Go.”
(BUTLER, Octavia E. Parable of the Talents. New York, Durham and London: Open Road, 1998.)
O texto 2 toca em um aspecto central do afrofuturismo e remete ao tema do questionamento do texto 1. Assim, pode-se dizer que o poema reconhece que
Images generated with artificial intelligence (AI) are often not faithful representations of reality. The chart illustrates the level of disparity between a realistic representation of race and gender in various professions and the images generated by AI. The center line in this graph means equal representation. In one case, AI-generated images exclusively represented a certain profession as being held by white males, even though it is actually held by a range of men, women, white, and non-white people. In another case, although more than half of the people holding this position self-identified as white, AI represented it as being held solely by women who were primarily non-white.
Considerando as informações da figura, quais as duas profissões referidas no texto?
A imagem a seguir apresenta a transcrição de um diálogo em um vídeo publicado no Instagram.

No diálogo, a principal característica da reformulação da fala da médica é a inserção de
Leia o texto a seguir.
Police under fire after threat to arrest
‘openly Jewish’ man near pro-Palestinian
protest
Scotland Yard criticised after suggesting Gideon Falter’s presence was ‘provocative’ and he was ‘antagonising’ protesters
(https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/19/. Acesso em 20/04/2024.)
Depreende-se, da leitura desse texto, que


Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.
I - Had Galois and his predecessors not been obsessed with understanding the conditions under which an equation can be solved by radicals, humanity’s discovery of group theory would have been greatly delayed.
II - Humanity’s discovery of group theory would have been greatly delayed had Galois and his predecessors not been obsessed with understanding the conditions under which an equation can be solved by radicals.
III- Had Galois and his predecessors been obsessed with understanding the conditions under which an equation can be solved by radicals, humanity´s discovery of group theory would not have been greatly delayed.
If applied to the text, which one(s) would be correct and keep the original meaning?


Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.
I - It surely matters to humanity as a whole, however it may not matter directly for everyday life.
II - Though it may not matter directly for everyday life, it surely matters to humanity as a whole.
III- Despite it may matter directly for everyday life, it surely matters to humanity as a whole.
If applied to the text, which ones would be correct and keep the original meaning?


Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.


Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.
I - By using the phrase philosophical conundrum of the highest order (l. 07-08), the author expresses ethical issues related to the relationship between mathematics and physics.
II - By stating that Mathematics is not some disembodied version of the ultimate truth (l. 18-19), the author states mathematics is fallible just like the other social sciences.
III- By using the term unequivocal (l. 42), the author states that the importance of mathematics is not under question regardless of whether people agree on its importance.
Which ones are correct according to the text?


Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.


Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.
( ) Mathematics is not an area detached from human experience. Nevertheless, the text fails to provide practical examples of how it contributes to improve aspects of our daily life.
( ) The word could (l. 62) may be replaced by must, without causing changes to grammar accuracy or to the original meaning of the sentence.
( ) Mathematics unequivocally relates to social processes, history, logic, and philosophy.
( ) The segment Research on deep mathematical issues should not be rejected or besmirched (l. 67-68) may be rephrased as One should not reject or besmirch research on deep mathematical issues, without causing changes to grammar accuracy or to the original meaning of the sentence.
The correct sequence of filling in the parentheses, from top to bottom, is


Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.


Adapted from: STEWART, I. Why Beauty is Truth – The History of Symmetry. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2007. p. 275-276.


Adaptado de: O’DONOGHUE, C. The Rachel Incident. New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 2023. p. 10-11.
I - O pronome they (l. 21) refere-se a livros, como os escritos pelas atrizes Dawn French e Julie Walters.
II - O pronome they (l. 46) denota que James supõe que mais de uma pessoa precisou da loção que ele encontrou no banheiro.
III- As ocorrências do pronome it nas linhas 47, 48 e 51 têm o mesmo referente.
Quais estão corretas?


Adaptado de: O’DONOGHUE, C. The Rachel Incident. New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 2023. p. 10-11.
( ) charred (l. 21) ( ) sated (l. 22) ( ) blighted (l. 53)
1. saciado 2. iluminado 3. carbonizado 4. satisfeito 5. destruído 6. arruinado
A sequência correta de preenchimento dos parênteses, de cima para baixo, é


Adaptado de: O’DONOGHUE, C. The Rachel Incident. New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 2023. p. 10-11.
I - O segmento Later, he would say that he was so inundated with new faces and names on his first shift (l. 35-37) adiciona humor ao texto pelo claro exagero empregado.
II - O segmento The first shift with Sabrina must have been fun – puzzling, considering how little craic Sabrina was generally understood to be (l. 40-42) confere um tom irônico à narrativa.
III- A comparação entre James e Poirot (l. 51-53) deixa implícita a admiração da narradora pelo colega.
Quais estão corretas?


Adaptado de: O’DONOGHUE, C. The Rachel Incident. New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 2023. p. 10-11.
I - Substituição de like it’s (l. 05) por as if it were.
II - Substituição de he would say (l. 35) por he used to saying.
III- Substituição de it (l. 55) por them.
Quais resultariam gramaticalmente corretas, se aplicadas ao texto?


Adaptado de: O’DONOGHUE, C. The Rachel Incident. New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 2023. p. 10-11.