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Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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Q670888
Inglês
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Soon enough, say some engineers, miniature wireless sensors will be located in spots where it would be
inconvenient, to say the least, to change their batteries – inside your body, within the steel and concrete
of buildings, in the dangerous innards of chemical plants. But today, even the most robust nodes can be
counted on to last only a few years. Ideally, engineers need wireless sensors that can last forever without
external power sources or battery changes. According to research presented in December at the
International Electron Devices Meeting, in Baltimore, that dream is within reach.
What inconvenience is mentioned in the text?
Q670887
Inglês
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The history of technology is full of breakthroughs in one field that wound up working wonders in a
related one. The 300B vacuum tube, introduced by Western Electric in 1937 to amplify telephone
signals, found a far more enduring use as a high-fidelity audio amplifier. The atomic clocks first used
in the 1960’s by the U.S. military to track Sputnik and later to validate Albert Einstein’s relativity
theories are now the basis of Global Positioning System. And of course, the magnetron, invented in
the 1920’s at General Electric and used in radars during World War II, later found itself repurposed as
the basis for the microwave oven.
According to the text, complete the sentence: “The microwave oven…”
Q670886
Inglês
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The history of technology is full of breakthroughs in one field that wound up working wonders in a
related one. The 300B vacuum tube, introduced by Western Electric in 1937 to amplify telephone
signals, found a far more enduring use as a high-fidelity audio amplifier. The atomic clocks first used
in the 1960’s by the U.S. military to track Sputnik and later to validate Albert Einstein’s relativity
theories are now the basis of Global Positioning System. And of course, the magnetron, invented in
the 1920’s at General Electric and used in radars during World War II, later found itself repurposed as
the basis for the microwave oven.
According to the text, what is correct to say?
Q670885
Inglês
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Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think
and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information. These play to a
primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats. The stimulation provokes excitement
— a dopamine squirt — that researchers say can be addictive. In its absence, people feel bored. The
resulting distractions can have deadly consequences, as when cell phone-wielding drivers and train
engineers cause wrecks. And for millions of people these urges can inflict nicks and cuts on creativity
and deep thought, interrupting work and family life.
The text states that human beings instinctively …
Q670884
Inglês
Texto associado
Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think
and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information. These play to a
primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats. The stimulation provokes excitement
— a dopamine squirt — that researchers say can be addictive. In its absence, people feel bored. The
resulting distractions can have deadly consequences, as when cell phone-wielding drivers and train
engineers cause wrecks. And for millions of people these urges can inflict nicks and cuts on creativity
and deep thought, interrupting work and family life.
What does the passage imply?
Q670883
Inglês
Texto associado
Is ‘Facebook’, the social networking website, making us narcissist? A new book argues we’re much more
self-absorbed nowadays, stating that technology is to blame. I tweet, therefore I am. Or is it, I tweet,
therefore I am insufferable? As if adult celebrities that pop out on the red carpets weren’t clue enough,
we now have statistical evidence that we are a lot more in love with ourselves than we used to be. This
social phenomenon has raised fields of research to academic studies nowadays. In the book ‘The
Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement’, Jean M. Twenge, a professor of psychology at
San Diego State University, and W. Keith Campbell, a social psychologist at the University of Georgia,
look to the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, which measures self-regard, materialism, and lack of
empathy. They found that the number of college students scoring high on the test has risen by 30 percent
since the early 1980’s.
What has NOT been encouraging people to act the way described in the text?
Q670882
Inglês
Texto associado
Is ‘Facebook’, the social networking website, making us narcissist? A new book argues we’re much more
self-absorbed nowadays, stating that technology is to blame. I tweet, therefore I am. Or is it, I tweet,
therefore I am insufferable? As if adult celebrities that pop out on the red carpets weren’t clue enough,
we now have statistical evidence that we are a lot more in love with ourselves than we used to be. This
social phenomenon has raised fields of research to academic studies nowadays. In the book ‘The
Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement’, Jean M. Twenge, a professor of psychology at
San Diego State University, and W. Keith Campbell, a social psychologist at the University of Georgia,
look to the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, which measures self-regard, materialism, and lack of
empathy. They found that the number of college students scoring high on the test has risen by 30 percent
since the early 1980’s.
What kind of human behavior is central to the study mentioned in the text?
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Grupos de Especialidades - I e II (Turma 2) |
Q670091
Inglês
Texto associado
Dear Rosie:
I have just started my first job and would like to move out of my parents’ house and be more independent. My parents are very unhappy and do not want me to leave. What can I do?
OTTO ZERBONI
The paragraph reveals that Otto wants
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Grupos de Especialidades - I e II (Turma 2) |
Q670088
Inglês
According to the text,
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Grupos de Especialidades - I e II (Turma 2) |
Q670086
Inglês
According to the dialog, we can conclude that Evan decides
to make a call before having
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Grupos de Especialidades - I e II (Turma 2) |
Q670080
Inglês
“their”, (line 6), refers to
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Grupos de Especialidades - I e II (Turma 2) |
Q670075
Inglês
Brazil’s image abroad could benefit, underlined in the text,
means that Brazil’s _______ abroad could be better.
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Grupos de Especialidades - I e II (Turma 2) |
Q670071
Inglês
Texto associado
These people have special ways of communicating. One way is
lip reading. With training, people can learn to understand what
someone is saying by looking at the mouth of the speaker.
“These people”, underlined in the paragraph, refers to deaf
people that aren’t able to
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Grupos de Especialidades - I e II (Turma 2) |
Q670068
Inglês
Texto associado
“And now here (1) is my secret, a very (2) simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly (3); what is essential (4) is invisible to the eye.”
“heart”, in bold type in the extract, refers to
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Controle de Tráfego Aéreo (Turma 2) |
Q668189
Inglês
“crucial”, in bold type in the extract, is closest in meaning
to all alternatives, except
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Controle de Tráfego Aéreo (Turma 2) |
Q668188
Inglês
The sentence “That’s about to change.”, (line 13), refers to
the fact that
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Controle de Tráfego Aéreo (Turma 2) |
Q668187
Inglês
In “… we are making huge improvements in developing
more environmentally-friendly operations at airports.” (lines 9-
12), we can conclude that the aviation industry, except
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Controle de Tráfego Aéreo (Turma 2) |
Q668186
Inglês
Reading the extract leads to the conclusion that
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Controle de Tráfego Aéreo (Turma 2) |
Q668185
Inglês
“switch off”, (line 17), can be replaced by
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2010 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Controle de Tráfego Aéreo (Turma 2) |
Q668183
Inglês
In “ …birds each year are killed in the city as a result of
striking glass-fronted buildings.”, (lines 8 and 9), the expression,
in bold type, implies an idea of
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