Questões de Concurso Militar IME 2010 para Aluno - Português e Inglês
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Q670882
Inglês
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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?
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?
Q670884
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.
What does the passage imply?
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 …
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?