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The Most Important Skill For 21st–Century Success
By Kevin H. Johnson
The world of work is changing so rapidly, as emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine
learning, and automation change job requirements. As technologies continue to evolve and business
conditions shift, employees must stay in learning mode so their skills don’t lose currency.
It’s one thing to keep up with skills as they’re changing in the here and now. It’s a whole different
challenge to prepare yourself for tools and technologies that may exist only in the minds of engineers,
if at all.
There’s so much uncertainty and ambiguity around the future of work, it doesn’t matter your industry
or job function. That’s why, when anyone asks what the next “hot” skill will be, I say it’s the same skill
that will serve people today, tomorrow, and far into the future — the ability to learn.
When people embrace lifelong learning, assimilating new skills isn’t a source of fear and stress — it’s
just another part of their career journey. Separating process from outcome will make you a better
learner too, as you get less fixated on immediate mastery of a skill and more appreciative of how
moving outside your comfort zone helps you grow as a person.
A learning mindset also makes it less likely you’ll be thrown off or immobilized when a project changes
scope or a job function undergoes transformation. While others scramble to figure out where to go
from here, lifelong learners maintain momentum and productivity.
<https://tinyurl.com/ya42xtrr> Acesso em: 15.03.2019. Adaptado. Original colorido.
No texto, a expressão lifelong learning, presente no quarto parágrafo do texto, significa a habilidade de
Q1266060
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The Most Important Skill For 21st–Century Success
By Kevin H. Johnson
The world of work is changing so rapidly, as emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine
learning, and automation change job requirements. As technologies continue to evolve and business
conditions shift, employees must stay in learning mode so their skills don’t lose currency.
It’s one thing to keep up with skills as they’re changing in the here and now. It’s a whole different
challenge to prepare yourself for tools and technologies that may exist only in the minds of engineers,
if at all.
There’s so much uncertainty and ambiguity around the future of work, it doesn’t matter your industry
or job function. That’s why, when anyone asks what the next “hot” skill will be, I say it’s the same skill
that will serve people today, tomorrow, and far into the future — the ability to learn.
When people embrace lifelong learning, assimilating new skills isn’t a source of fear and stress — it’s
just another part of their career journey. Separating process from outcome will make you a better
learner too, as you get less fixated on immediate mastery of a skill and more appreciative of how
moving outside your comfort zone helps you grow as a person.
A learning mindset also makes it less likely you’ll be thrown off or immobilized when a project changes
scope or a job function undergoes transformation. While others scramble to figure out where to go
from here, lifelong learners maintain momentum and productivity.
<https://tinyurl.com/ya42xtrr> Acesso em: 15.03.2019. Adaptado. Original colorido.
Na oração do terceiro parágrafo “... when anyone asks what the next ‘hot’ skill will be”, entende-se a expressão grifada como
Q1266059
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The Most Important Skill For 21st–Century Success
By Kevin H. Johnson
The world of work is changing so rapidly, as emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine
learning, and automation change job requirements. As technologies continue to evolve and business
conditions shift, employees must stay in learning mode so their skills don’t lose currency.
It’s one thing to keep up with skills as they’re changing in the here and now. It’s a whole different
challenge to prepare yourself for tools and technologies that may exist only in the minds of engineers,
if at all.
There’s so much uncertainty and ambiguity around the future of work, it doesn’t matter your industry
or job function. That’s why, when anyone asks what the next “hot” skill will be, I say it’s the same skill
that will serve people today, tomorrow, and far into the future — the ability to learn.
When people embrace lifelong learning, assimilating new skills isn’t a source of fear and stress — it’s
just another part of their career journey. Separating process from outcome will make you a better
learner too, as you get less fixated on immediate mastery of a skill and more appreciative of how
moving outside your comfort zone helps you grow as a person.
A learning mindset also makes it less likely you’ll be thrown off or immobilized when a project changes
scope or a job function undergoes transformation. While others scramble to figure out where to go
from here, lifelong learners maintain momentum and productivity.
<https://tinyurl.com/ya42xtrr> Acesso em: 15.03.2019. Adaptado. Original colorido.
O verbo may, na oração do segundo parágrafo “It’s a whole different challenge to prepare yourself for tools and technologies
that may exist only in the minds of engineers, if at all”, indica
Q1266058
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The Most Important Skill For 21st–Century Success
By Kevin H. Johnson
The world of work is changing so rapidly, as emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine
learning, and automation change job requirements. As technologies continue to evolve and business
conditions shift, employees must stay in learning mode so their skills don’t lose currency.
It’s one thing to keep up with skills as they’re changing in the here and now. It’s a whole different
challenge to prepare yourself for tools and technologies that may exist only in the minds of engineers,
if at all.
There’s so much uncertainty and ambiguity around the future of work, it doesn’t matter your industry
or job function. That’s why, when anyone asks what the next “hot” skill will be, I say it’s the same skill
that will serve people today, tomorrow, and far into the future — the ability to learn.
When people embrace lifelong learning, assimilating new skills isn’t a source of fear and stress — it’s
just another part of their career journey. Separating process from outcome will make you a better
learner too, as you get less fixated on immediate mastery of a skill and more appreciative of how
moving outside your comfort zone helps you grow as a person.
A learning mindset also makes it less likely you’ll be thrown off or immobilized when a project changes
scope or a job function undergoes transformation. While others scramble to figure out where to go
from here, lifelong learners maintain momentum and productivity.
<https://tinyurl.com/ya42xtrr> Acesso em: 15.03.2019. Adaptado. Original colorido.
Para o autor, devido à contínua evolução da tecnologia e às mudanças constantes no mundo do trabalho, os profissionais
do século XXI precisam permanecer em modo de aprendizagem para
Q1266037
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<https://tinyurl.com/y6fbtptu> Acesso em: 15.03.2019. Original colorido
Nos quadrinhos, pode-se observar que Alice se sente um tanto quanto decepcionada com a formação do novo líder
porque ele
Q1169894
Inglês
Harlem
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (1990). Disponível em http://www.poetryfoundation.org/.
As tentativas de resposta do poeta à pergunta “What happens to a dream deferred?” evocam imagens de
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (1990). Disponível em http://www.poetryfoundation.org/.
As tentativas de resposta do poeta à pergunta “What happens to a dream deferred?” evocam imagens de
Q1169893
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Scientists have long touted DNA’s potential as an ideal
storage medium; it’s dense, easy to replicate, and stable over
millennia. But in order to replace existing silicon‐chip or
magnetic‐tape storage technologies, DNA will have to get a lot
cheaper to predictably read, write, and package.
That’s where scientists like Hyunjun Park come in. He and
the other cofounders of Catalog, an MIT DNA‐storage spinoff
emerging out of stealth on Tuesday, are building a machine
that will write a terabyte of data a day, using 500 trillion
molecules of DNA.
If successful, DNA storage could be the answer to a
uniquely 21st‐century problem: information overload. Five
years ago humans had produced 4.4 zettabytes of data; that's
set to explode to 160 zettabytes (each year!) by 2025. Current
infrastructure can handle only a fraction of the coming data
deluge, which is expected to consume all the world's
microchip‐grade silicon by 2040.
“Today’s technology is already close to the physical limits
of scaling,” says Victor Zhirnov, chief scientist of the
Semiconductor Research Corporation. “DNA has an
information‐storage density several orders of magnitude
higher than any other known storage technology.”
How dense exactly? Imagine formatting every movie ever
made into DNA; it would be smaller than the size of a sugar
cube. And it would last for 10,000 years.
Wired, June, 2018. Disponível em https://www.wired.com/. Adaptado.
Conforme o texto, cientistas preveem que, em pouco mais de
20 anos,
Q1169892
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Scientists have long touted DNA’s potential as an ideal
storage medium; it’s dense, easy to replicate, and stable over
millennia. But in order to replace existing silicon‐chip or
magnetic‐tape storage technologies, DNA will have to get a lot
cheaper to predictably read, write, and package.
That’s where scientists like Hyunjun Park come in. He and
the other cofounders of Catalog, an MIT DNA‐storage spinoff
emerging out of stealth on Tuesday, are building a machine
that will write a terabyte of data a day, using 500 trillion
molecules of DNA.
If successful, DNA storage could be the answer to a
uniquely 21st‐century problem: information overload. Five
years ago humans had produced 4.4 zettabytes of data; that's
set to explode to 160 zettabytes (each year!) by 2025. Current
infrastructure can handle only a fraction of the coming data
deluge, which is expected to consume all the world's
microchip‐grade silicon by 2040.
“Today’s technology is already close to the physical limits
of scaling,” says Victor Zhirnov, chief scientist of the
Semiconductor Research Corporation. “DNA has an
information‐storage density several orders of magnitude
higher than any other known storage technology.”
How dense exactly? Imagine formatting every movie ever
made into DNA; it would be smaller than the size of a sugar
cube. And it would last for 10,000 years.
Wired, June, 2018. Disponível em https://www.wired.com/. Adaptado.
Afirma‐se no texto que, no futuro, a tecnologia de gravação
em moléculas de DNA
Q1169891
Inglês
Disponível em https://www.facebook.com/groups/englishmemes/.
O efeito de comicidade que se obtém do meme decorre, sobretudo, da
Q1169890
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Assigning female genders to digital assistants such as
Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa is helping entrench harmful
gender biases, according to a UN agency.
Research released by Unesco claims that the often
submissive and flirty responses offered by the systemsto many
queries – including outright abusive ones – reinforce ideas of
women as subservient.
“Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it
sends a signal that women are obliging, docile and eager‐to‐
please helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a
blunt voice command like ‘hey’ or ‘OK’”, the report said.
“The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the
commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to
queries regardless of their tone or hostility. In many
communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biases
that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.”
The Unesco publication was entitled “I’d Blush if I Could”;
a reference to the response Apple’s Siri assistant offers to the
phrase: “You’re a slut.” Amazon’s Alexa will respond: “Well,
thanks for the feedback.”
The paper said such firms were “staffed by overwhelmingly
male engineering teams” and have built AI (Artificial
Intelligence) systems that “cause their feminised digital
assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch‐me‐if‐you‐can
flirtation”.
Saniye Gülser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality,
said: “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how,
when and whether AI technologies are gendered and,
crucially, who is gendering them.”
The Guardian, May, 2019. Adaptado.
De acordo com o texto, na opinião de Saniye Gülser Corat,
tecnologias que envolvem Inteligência Artificial, entre outros
aspectos,
Q1169889
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Assigning female genders to digital assistants such as
Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa is helping entrench harmful
gender biases, according to a UN agency.
Research released by Unesco claims that the often
submissive and flirty responses offered by the systemsto many
queries – including outright abusive ones – reinforce ideas of
women as subservient.
“Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it
sends a signal that women are obliging, docile and eager‐to‐
please helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a
blunt voice command like ‘hey’ or ‘OK’”, the report said.
“The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the
commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to
queries regardless of their tone or hostility. In many
communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biases
that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.”
The Unesco publication was entitled “I’d Blush if I Could”;
a reference to the response Apple’s Siri assistant offers to the
phrase: “You’re a slut.” Amazon’s Alexa will respond: “Well,
thanks for the feedback.”
The paper said such firms were “staffed by overwhelmingly
male engineering teams” and have built AI (Artificial
Intelligence) systems that “cause their feminised digital
assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch‐me‐if‐you‐can
flirtation”.
Saniye Gülser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality,
said: “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how,
when and whether AI technologies are gendered and,
crucially, who is gendering them.”
The Guardian, May, 2019. Adaptado.
Segundo o texto, o título do relatório publicado pela
Unesco ‐ “I´d Blush if I Could” ‐, no que diz respeito aos
assistentes digitais, indica
Q1169888
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Assigning female genders to digital assistants such as
Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa is helping entrench harmful
gender biases, according to a UN agency.
Research released by Unesco claims that the often
submissive and flirty responses offered by the systemsto many
queries – including outright abusive ones – reinforce ideas of
women as subservient.
“Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it
sends a signal that women are obliging, docile and eager‐to‐
please helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a
blunt voice command like ‘hey’ or ‘OK’”, the report said.
“The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the
commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to
queries regardless of their tone or hostility. In many
communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biases
that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.”
The Unesco publication was entitled “I’d Blush if I Could”;
a reference to the response Apple’s Siri assistant offers to the
phrase: “You’re a slut.” Amazon’s Alexa will respond: “Well,
thanks for the feedback.”
The paper said such firms were “staffed by overwhelmingly
male engineering teams” and have built AI (Artificial
Intelligence) systems that “cause their feminised digital
assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch‐me‐if‐you‐can
flirtation”.
Saniye Gülser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality,
said: “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how,
when and whether AI technologies are gendered and,
crucially, who is gendering them.”
The Guardian, May, 2019. Adaptado.
Conforme o texto, em relação às mulheres, um efeito
decorrente do fato de assistentes digitais reforçarem
estereótipos de gênero é
Q1041046
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Metaphors aren’t just used for flowery speech. They shape the conversation for things we’re trying to explain and figure out. (ℓ. 29-30)
In order to clarify the meaning relation between the two sentences above, the following word can be inserted in the underlined one:
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test subjects were asked to read short paragraphs (ℓ. 14)
The reason for the omission of the agent in the sentence above is:
Q1041044
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we didn’t know the extent to which these metaphors influence people. (ℓ. 12-13)
In the fragment above, the doubt expressed by the researcher can be formulated by the following question:
Q1041043
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The author of the text introduces the topic by making use of the following strategy:
Q1041042
Inglês
The power of metaphors discusses the use of metaphors in daily life, as well as the text O que nossas metáforas dizem de nós.
The following metaphor is present in both texts:
Q1013795
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Consider the following sentence.
It is only when some irrelevant memory makes us prejudiced that we should search our mind for the reason for the aversion.
Select the alternative with the proposition that best rephrases it.
Q1013794
Inglês
Select the alternative that could replace the
segment are bound to (l. 25) without
changing the literal meaning of the sentence.
Q1013793
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Consider the following propositions for rephrasing the sentence All of us, when we see a painting, are bound to be reminded of a hundred-and-one things which influence our likes and dislikes (l. 24-27).
I - When we see a painting, all of us are bound to be reminded of a hundred-and-one things which influence our likes and dislikes.
II - All of us are bound to be reminded of a hundred-and-one things which influence our likes and dislikes when we see a painting.
III- A hundred-and-one things which influence our likes and dislikes are bound to be reminded by all of us when we see a painting.
If applied to the text, which ones would be correct and keep the literal meaning?
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