Questões de Inglês do ENEM

regulate their breathing as an automatic response both to extreme climatic conditions and to the presence of strong physical stimuli.

cannot breathe through the pneumostome after they leave oxygen-rich water.

By physically manipulating the snails’ pneumostomes at the right moment, the team trained the snails to modify their breathing habits.

By incapacitating the snails’ breathing orifices at the right moment, the team was able to test the snails’ ability to remember.

By stimulating several parts of the snails’ respiratory systems at the right moment, the team strengthened the snails’ ability to remember.

By touching the snails’ pneumostomes at the right moment, the team trained the snails to breathe through their skin when out of water.

By putting the snails in epi-infused water at the right moment, the team trained the snails to spend more time breathing at the surface of the water.

they could modify the snails’ breathing habits by stimulating the snails’ lungs rather than their pneumostomes.

a group of snails could stay below the surface of epi-infused water for three days in a row.

the modified breathing behavior of snails in epi-infused water lasted more than 20 hours longer than did that of snails in plain water.

it was possible to train two groups of snails to breathe less frequently both underwater and at the surface of the water.

As global weather conditions are becoming more and more severe, an inaccurate weather forecast could be disastrous. 

Someone who suffers because of an inaccurate weather forecast is less likely to make jokes about extreme weather.

The world’s increasing tendency to suffer from extreme weather conditions has made weather forecasting even more vulnerable to inaccuracies.

ruined his reputation as a meteorologist by forecasting a terrible storm that, in the end, did not occur.

was famous for committing a number of mistakes when he forecast the weather on British television.

assured his television audience that there was no need to worry because hurricanes never reach England.

once issued a television weather forecast that has since been unequalled in terms of inaccuracy.

must confront a number of hidden factors that make accurate weather predictions impossible.

must deal with a factor that, by its very nature, can act in unpredictable ways after a certain period of time.

is working to achieve a reasonable degree of accuracy for predictions dealing with periods of two weeks or more.

There are good reasons to believe that the laws of mathematics rule weather patterns.

It’s surprising that some people used to believe that God controlled the various aspects of the weather.

It’s understandable that, for a big period of time, many believed the weather’s various elements were subject to the will of some kind of god.

It is recognized that, for a big period of time, many believed the weather’s various elements were controlled by a kind of divine mathematical construction.

It’s understandable that for many years most people believed that the causes and effects of the weather were beyond the limit of human knowledge.

the name of the new pope was chosen taking into consideration the fact that he is a Jesuit and a Christian from the new Catholic Church.

religious heroes have been more and more common in Latin America, and since Pope Peter II no other pope has been encouraged to use unusual names.

popes have never wanted to look down on people. On the contrary, they have always served as apostles of Christ and have been able to reach high posts in the Vatican.

Pope Ignatius would never have chosen a different name due to his intentions of breaking with the past and of cleaning up the name of the Catholic Church in the modern world.

the new pope has been praised for having chosen a brand new name, which has never been adopted before in the history of the Catholic Church and which will likely bring high hopes of future changes in the same Church.

a person or animal that seeks out and kills or captures other people or animals; lacking moral sensibility; characterized by, feeling, or showing sympathy or understanding.

one who travels throughout the country in search of money stolen from him/ her; a fugitive; someone who is regularly wearing a hat as protection from the sun.

a person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in criminal or amoral behavior; pleasing or distinctive; a variable color that lies beyond red in the spectrum.

one who pursues a criminal or fugitive for whom a reward is offered; not special or outstanding; a poor uneducated white farm worker.

an officer of a county or an administrative region, charged mainly with judicial duties; causing repugnance or aversion, disgusting; a person serving as an agent for another by carrying out specified orders or functions.

had the passenger turned on his laptop computer during takeoff, nothing would have happened.

if the plane had already landed, the passenger’s computer would have been turned on by him already.