Inglês
- Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
- Prova de 2019
- Faculdade Governador Ozanam Coelho
- Dificuldade: Médio
- Código da questão: 73F56616-D8
Disciplina · Linguagens
Questões de Inglês, da área de Linguagens, com gabarito em cada página.






Machiavellianism" is a ...... used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described in The Prince. The book itself gained enormous notoriety and wide readership because most readers assumed the author was teaching and endorsing evil and immoral behavior. Because of this, the term "Machiavellian" is often associated with deceit, deviousness, ambition, and brutality. However that was Machiavelli's stylistic device to gain the reader's attention for his close analysis of the actual techniques used by rulers.
(Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3% B2_Machiavelli)
The word that correctly fills in the blank is

The texts “Três teses sobre o avanço da febre amarela” and “The effect of climate change on epidemic risk” mention possible reasons for disease outbreaks.
The reason which is presented in both texts is:

For example, unusually heavy rains may predispose regions to ebola outbreaks (ℓ. 18-19)
The fragment that contains an expression with the same function as the one underlined above is:
According to the Chinese ambassador, traditional Chinese medicine is.
One of the marked characteristics of scientific texts is the presence of passive voice.
An example from the text that illustrates this characteristic is indicated in:

The global health community has largely come to realize that public health preparedness is crucial (ℓ. 23-24)
Another word from the text that may replace the underlined one above without significant change in meaning is:

the question is not if another outbreak will happen, but when, (l. 28-29)
The underlined words present the health community’s opinion concerning new outbreaks of epidemics.
According to their opinion, future outbreaks are seen as: