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    Inglês

    Imagem da questão de Inglês, FGV 2015, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension


    Adapted from The New Yorker, July 29, 2013. 

    With respect to the act of reading itself, which of the following is most supported by the information in the article?
    Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 4e851f4e-fd
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    Inglês

    Imagem da questão de Inglês, FGV 2015, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension


    Adapted from The New Yorker, July 29, 2013. 

    According to the information in the article, the Codex Group’s research data supports all of the following except
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    Inglês

    Read the film review below and answer the questions that follow.


    INSIDE JOB – REVIEW - 4/5 STARS

    How did the financial crash of 2008 happen? This documentary, narrated by Matt Damon, does a good job of explaining a complex story of credit and discredit.


    (…)
    This film is as gripping as any thriller. Aided by some fascinating interviews, Ferguson lays out an awful story. In the 1980s, the markets and financial services were deregulated, and the driving force for this liberalisation was Alan Greenspan, formidable chairman of the US federal reserve board from 1987 to 2006. Banks and loan companies were freer to gamble with their depositors' money; they were themselves freer to borrow more; they were free to offer investors dizzyingly complex financial instruments, with income streams from different debts bundled up, including high-interest home loans offered to high-risk borrowers – the so-called "sub-prime" market that offered mouthwateringly high returns.

    (…)
    Perhaps the most sensational aspect of this film is Ferguson's contention that the crash corrupted the discipline of economics itself. Distinguished economists from America's Ivy League universities were drafted in by banks to compose reports sycophantically supporting reckless deregulation. They were massively paid for these consultancies. The banks bought the prestige of the academics, and their universities' prestige, too. Ferguson speaks to many of these economists, who clearly thought they were going to be interviewed as wry, dispassionate observers. It is really something to see the expression of shock, outrage and fear on their faces as they realise they're in the dock. One splutters with vexation; another gives vent to a ripe Freudian slip. Asked by Ferguson if he has any regrets about his behaviour, he says: "I have no comments … uh, no regrets."

    This is what Ferguson means by "inside job". There is a revolving door between the banks and the higher reaches of government, and to some extent the groves of academe. Bank CEOs become government officials, creating laws convenient for their once and future employers.

    Perhaps only the pen of Tom Wolfe could do justice to these harassed, bald, middle-aged masters of the universe, as they appear in Ferguson's film. The director shows how their body-language is always the same: somehow more guilty-looking when they are in the White House rose garden in their career pomp, being introduced to the press, than when they are facing openly hostile Senate hearings. They look uneasy, shifty, in weirdly ill-fitting suits, as if they are oppressed by the scrutiny, and worn out, possibly, by the strain of suppressing their own scruples. Their financial capacity far outstrips their capacity for enjoying themselves. They look very unhappy. Occasionally, British figures including Mervyn King and Alistair Darling are to be glimpsed in these photos, reminding us that we Brits have been ardent deregulators, as well.

    (…)
    I was reminded of Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker, his very funny book about the financial mentality of the 80s boom. He noted that if a regular person won the lottery, he might roll around on the floor, kicking his legs up with glee, but when bankers won their arbitrary lottery, they instead became solemn, pompous, overwhelmed with their own importance and stateliness. Their recklessness and excess coexisted with an almost priestly sense of worth. Even more than rich lawyers, rich bankers felt that their money proved their superior cleverness and also moral worthiness as the generators of prosperity. Yet that prosperity didn't trickle down very far.
    Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/17/inside-job-review Access October 10, 2015.
    On the sentence ‘There is a revolving door between the banks and the higher reaches of government.’, the expression underlined and in italic means:
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    Inglês

    Text 2


    Here is a response to a debate on patents and medicine:

    Mr. Przemek Kordasiewicz,
    I agree wholeheartedly with your recommendation of a ban on all patents on all life saving medical discoveries. Again, I would take it a step further. I think that the virtues of a purely capitalist system seem to have fallen apart at this point. In this literal life-anddeath issue, ethics take priority over everything else.
    Just as Congress stepped forward to place a ban on the patenting of surgical procedures, they need to step forward and place a similar ban on these new medical patents (drugs, procedures and human genome work) which are having the identical effect. Additionally, Congress need to heavily legislate in favor of patients worldwide to keep drug patents limited, short, and drug prices at an affordable level. Something in the system is wrong when drug companies are the most profitable of all publicly traded companies and huge populations across the world are living in pain and dying because they are unable to afford the sky-high drug prices, inflated by the patent holders’ monopoly. The government needs to look into the situation independently and take a stand for the well-being of the taxpayers and citizens they suppose to be representing. Thank you, Benjamin (Mako) Hill.
    (Intellectual Property in Cyberspace 2000, http://yukidoke.org)
    As regards capitalist policies for drug patents, the author, according text 2:
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    Text 1:


    Cycling

    What's the furthest you have ever cycled?
    Perhaps you cycle to school or to work, or maybe at most a short cycling trip with friends?
    How would you feel about spending months on the road travelling solo from the UK to China, by bike? For British cyclist Pete Jones, camping rough and cycling long distances through inhospitable terrain are second nature. Mr Jones is currently undertaking a mammoth trip across the Eurasian continent from Britain to China.
    Pete Jones is no stranger to China. But he says many people there are puzzled by his passion for cycling, asking why he would choose to cycle when he can afford a car.
    Indeed, while there are an estimated 400 million bicycles in China, where it has long been the preferred form of transport, rapid economic growth has fuelled an explosive expansion in car ownership.
    Edward Genochio, another British cyclist who completed a 41,000km trip to China and back, said one of his aims was to "promote cycling as a safe, sustainable and environmentally benign means of getting about".
    In the UK, the last few years have seen a rise in the number of people choosing two wheels over four, with some estimates saying the number of people cycling to work has almost doubled in the last five years.
    Politicians also see cycling as a way to boost their eco-credentials, with people such as London mayor Boris Johnson often riding to work under his own steam. But we may have to wait some time before we see him emulating Pete Jones in attempting to cycle all the way to China!
    Fonte: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/...

    According to the information from the text 1, it is correct to say that:


    I. for Pete Jones, camping rough and cycling long distances through inhospitable terrain are the most common activity for british people.

    II. despite cycling has long been the preferred form of transport in China, car ownership has increased a lot because of country’s economic growth.

    III. it’s very important to wear a helmet while cycling.

    IV. in the UK, some estimates say the number of people cycling to work has almost doubled in the last twenty five years.

    V. London mayor often cycles to work.

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    Inglês

    Text 1


    Of prime importance in reading is vocabulary skill. The reader must know the meanings of enough of the words in a sentence for it to make sense and also know how to combine individual word meanings within a sentence. Once the student is past the initial stages of reading, he spends a large percentage of his time encountering new vocabulary, which can be approached in a number of ways. The teacher can give the meaning for each new word, as is common in teaching reading to non-native students.
    Or, also common, the student may spend hours with a dictionary writing native-language glosses into his text. For the native speaker of English, the most common form of vocabulary building is guessing from context and/or word formations.
    In many settings in which English is taught as a foreign language (EFL) there are high degrees of emphasis on rote memorization. Because vocabulary development skills are seldom specifically taught, the student is not aware of the skills or their benefits. Most students have been trained to panic. Their first
    reaction on encountering a new word in a text is to stop and ask for a definition, even if the rest of the sentence defines it. The student of English as a foreign language cannot begin to read with full comprehension until he has been taught to conquer the unknown word by using contextual aids, that is, the formation of the word itself and the environment in which it is found.
    (Adapted from Vocabulary in Context, by Anna Fisher Kruse, in Long, Michael H. and Richards, Jack (eds.), Methodology in TESOL – A Book of Readings. New York: Newbury House, 1987)
    Which of the following quotations below would best conform to the methodological concept expressed in the text 1?
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    Inglês

    Text 1


    Of prime importance in reading is vocabulary skill. The reader must know the meanings of enough of the words in a sentence for it to make sense and also know how to combine individual word meanings within a sentence. Once the student is past the initial stages of reading, he spends a large percentage of his time encountering new vocabulary, which can be approached in a number of ways. The teacher can give the meaning for each new word, as is common in teaching reading to non-native students.
    Or, also common, the student may spend hours with a dictionary writing native-language glosses into his text. For the native speaker of English, the most common form of vocabulary building is guessing from context and/or word formations.
    In many settings in which English is taught as a foreign language (EFL) there are high degrees of emphasis on rote memorization. Because vocabulary development skills are seldom specifically taught, the student is not aware of the skills or their benefits. Most students have been trained to panic. Their first
    reaction on encountering a new word in a text is to stop and ask for a definition, even if the rest of the sentence defines it. The student of English as a foreign language cannot begin to read with full comprehension until he has been taught to conquer the unknown word by using contextual aids, that is, the formation of the word itself and the environment in which it is found.
    (Adapted from Vocabulary in Context, by Anna Fisher Kruse, in Long, Michael H. and Richards, Jack (eds.), Methodology in TESOL – A Book of Readings. New York: Newbury House, 1987)
    In the fragment from the text – The reader must know the meanings of enough of the words… – the modal verb must could be correctly replaced, keeping the same meaning, by:
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    Inglês

    O texto a seguir descreve uma “ghost town”. Considere-o para responder à questão.


        In 1879, Bodie was a bustling gold-mining town and home to 8,500 residents known for gunfi ghting and brawling. Within a decade, the mines had been largely depleted and the population had begun a steady decline that ended in total abandonment. The 150 remaining buildings are much as their residents left them.
    (www.nationalgeographic.com - acesso em 18/08/2015)
    Indique a alternativa que apresenta a referência de their e them, respectivamente, no trecho The 150 remaining buildings are much as their residents left them:
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    Inglês

    O texto a seguir descreve uma “ghost town”. Considere-o para responder à questão.


        In 1879, Bodie was a bustling gold-mining town and home to 8,500 residents known for gunfi ghting and brawling. Within a decade, the mines had been largely depleted and the population had begun a steady decline that ended in total abandonment. The 150 remaining buildings are much as their residents left them.
    (www.nationalgeographic.com - acesso em 18/08/2015)
    Indique a alternativa que apresenta uma afi rmação correta sobre Bodie:
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    Inglês

    Considere a citação a seguir, atribuída ao estilista Yves Saint Laurent (1936 - 2008), para responder à questão.


    It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

    Yves Saint Laurent



    Indique a alternativa que mais bem traduza a ideia da citação de Saint Laurent:

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    Inglês

    Considere a tabela a seguir para responder a questão.


    Imagem da questão de Inglês, Escola Superior de Administração, Marketing e Comunicação 2015, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

    (www.globaledge.msu.edu - acesso em 10/02/2015)

    Considerando somente os dados da tabela, uma possível relação entre o preço da gasolina e o consumo ou produção de energia está corretamente representada na alternativa
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    Inglês

    Considere o excerto a seguir, retirado do site do jornal britânico The Guardian, para responder à questão.


        Homeopaths believe that illness-causing substances can, in minute doses, treat people who are unwell. By diluting these substances in water or alcohol, homeopaths claim the resulting mixture retains a “memory” of the original substance that triggers a healing response in the body.

        These claims have been widely disproven by multiple studies, but the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has for the first time thoroughly reviewed 225 research papers on homeopathy to come up with its position statement, released on Wednesday: Homeopathy is not effective for treating any health condition.

    (Adaptado de www.theguardian.com - acesso em 12/03/2015)

    De acordo com o segundo parágrafo do texto,
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    Inglês

    Considere o excerto a seguir, retirado do site do jornal britânico The Guardian, para responder à questão.


        Homeopaths believe that illness-causing substances can, in minute doses, treat people who are unwell. By diluting these substances in water or alcohol, homeopaths claim the resulting mixture retains a “memory” of the original substance that triggers a healing response in the body.

        These claims have been widely disproven by multiple studies, but the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has for the first time thoroughly reviewed 225 research papers on homeopathy to come up with its position statement, released on Wednesday: Homeopathy is not effective for treating any health condition.

    (Adaptado de www.theguardian.com - acesso em 12/03/2015)

    De acordo com o texto, homeopatas acreditam que:
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    Inglês

    Considere o texto adaptado a seguir para responder à questão.



    The First Solar-Powered Round-the-World Flight Has Begun


        The world's first round-the-world trip on a solar-powered plane got under way Monday with the initial leg from Abu Dhabi to the Omani capital, Muscat.
         Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will pursue a recordshattering five-month journey, spanning 21,750 miles across several continents and two oceans, while using zero conventional fuel.
         The Solar Impulse-2's lightweight construction — weighing a mere 4,600 lb. — combined with its 236-ft. wingspan lined with 17,000 solar cells, makes it the first solar-powered aircraft capable of flying during both day and night. [...]
         The pilots have undergone rigorous preparation drills, and will forgo all sleep longer than 20 minutes while airborne, practicing yoga and selfhypnosis to cope with their airborne ordeal. (Some stints will involve flying continuously for five days.) Rest stops will be spent advocating for their cleantechnology campaign.
    (www.time.com - acesso em 09/03/2015)
    Ainda segundo o texto, os pilotos:
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    Inglês

        Read the text below and answer following four questions according to it.


    Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) 

    Every year, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides emergency medical care to millions of people caught in crises in some 70 countries around the world. MSF provides assistance when catastrophic events—such as armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, or natural disasters—overwhelm local health systems. MSF also assists people who face discrimination or neglect from their local health systems or when populations are otherwise excluded from health care.

    MSF is a neutral and impartial humanitarian organization that aims first and foremost to provide high-quality medical care to the people who need it the most. It does not promote the agenda of any country, political party, or religious faith, and, as such, endeavors to communicate its history, background, and capabilities to all parties in a given situation so that it may gain the necessary access to populations in need.

    On any given day, more than 30,000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other qualified professionals working with MSF can be found providing medical care around the world.

    At its core, the purpose of humanitarian action is to save the lives and ease the suffering of people caught in acute crises, thereby restoring their ability to rebuild their lives and communities.

    In the countries where MSF works, one or more of the following crises is usually occurring or has occurred: armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, natural disasters, or exclusion from health care.

    Adaptado de: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/our-work/howwe-work/types-of-projects Acessado em 1 de maio de 2015.
    The humanitarian action carried out by MSF
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    Inglês

    GLOBALISATION, HUMANISM, MODERNITY: IN SEARCH OF EQUILIBRIUM
    Monica Grigorescu*
    Our time has proved to be amazingly effective in gropingly building up a civilization which it has proved amazingly inept at putting in order. (André Maliaux)

        After so many crises which have followed each other in as many areas, we ought to admit that industrial and technological civilization is creating as many problems as it is capable of resolving. The myth of progress, one of the founding myths of our civilization, also appears to have collapsed as a myth. The development of modern society, spectacular as it is from an economist’s angle of vision, has not been able to society; stop a slide into human and moral underdevelopment. A deterioration of quality in relation to quantity makes only those things that can be actually measured appear to be real; unfortunately, things like poetry, suffering, or love are hardly quantifiable.

        Towards the end of his eventful life, Jean Monnet, a remarkable figure of the twentieth century, reasoned that, had he been able to start all over again, he would have begun with culture. A founding father of what was later to become the European Union, he expressed that belated belief in the pre-eminent role of culture as a part of greater civilization after he had tried for several decades to build a prosperous Europe in economic terms in the aftermath of a devastating war.

    *Director of the House of Latin America of the Ministry of Foreign Affair of Romania.
    Revista Direito Mackenzie
    A alternativa que melhor expressa a idéia da frase “had he been able to start all over again, he would have begun with culture” é:
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    Inglês

    Imagem da questão de Inglês, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie 2015, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

    SIESTA TIME
        Finally, vindication for power nappers. Far from being lazy louts, siesta-takers are actually doing their bit for the firm. According to Sara Mednick and her colleagues at Harvard, just 60 minutes of shut-eye in the middle of the day can make you perform like the fresh daisy you were first thing in the morning. But it has to be bona fide sleep; a mere rest, they found, has no effect.
        Dr. Mednick, whose results have just been published in Nature Neuroscience, wanted to know what effect power napping would have on people’s visual perception. She asked 30 student volunteers to come into her laboratory. Four times on the same day, at 9am, noon, 4pm and 7pm, they were required to stare at a computer screen for an hour. Their task was to pick out a vertical or horizontal bar from a striped background - an established test of visual perceptiveness. The more quickly they picked out the bar, the more acute their perception.
        All the volunteers had slept well in the days before the test, and had been warned off alcohol. During the test day, nicotine addicts were allowed to indulge their habits, but everyone had to remain uncaffeinated. Despite this cosseting, the performance of the ten volunteers who went straight through the day without a nap deteriorated rapidly. Their best scores were first thing in the morning, and it was downhill from there on. By the last session, they were taking 52% longer, on average, to identify the orientation of the bar than they had in the first.
    The Economist
    According to the text, the wrong alternative is
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    Inglês

    Imagem da questão de Inglês, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie 2015, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

    SIESTA TIME
        Finally, vindication for power nappers. Far from being lazy louts, siesta-takers are actually doing their bit for the firm. According to Sara Mednick and her colleagues at Harvard, just 60 minutes of shut-eye in the middle of the day can make you perform like the fresh daisy you were first thing in the morning. But it has to be bona fide sleep; a mere rest, they found, has no effect.
        Dr. Mednick, whose results have just been published in Nature Neuroscience, wanted to know what effect power napping would have on people’s visual perception. She asked 30 student volunteers to come into her laboratory. Four times on the same day, at 9am, noon, 4pm and 7pm, they were required to stare at a computer screen for an hour. Their task was to pick out a vertical or horizontal bar from a striped background - an established test of visual perceptiveness. The more quickly they picked out the bar, the more acute their perception.
        All the volunteers had slept well in the days before the test, and had been warned off alcohol. During the test day, nicotine addicts were allowed to indulge their habits, but everyone had to remain uncaffeinated. Despite this cosseting, the performance of the ten volunteers who went straight through the day without a nap deteriorated rapidly. Their best scores were first thing in the morning, and it was downhill from there on. By the last session, they were taking 52% longer, on average, to identify the orientation of the bar than they had in the first.
    The Economist
    Researchers have found out that
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    Inglês

    Imagem da questão de Inglês, Universidade Estadual do Maranhão 2015, Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension


    The universal language, English is indeed the most prevalent language in the world. Looking at its largest number of speakers, it is acknowledged as the primary language, internationally. English has become the chief language today, for the global trade, social media networks and websites, science and research centers, educational institutions and for maximum number of immigrants and travelers all over the world. In today’s modern era of higher learning and overweening ambitions, when everyone is shooting for a booming and fruitful career, the English language has occupied a more significant position among all the languages of the world. This is due to the fact that it is the globally accepted language and extremely useful for a professional in dealing with the international clients. English language is rapidly spreading worldwide for several crucial purposes and there are multiple reasons why one must learn English.


    file:///j:/top%2010%20reasons%20why%20learning%20english%20is%20mus t%20_%20lists%20trivia.html 



    A expressão que denota o sentido de liderança da Língua Inglesa globalizada é 

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    Inglês

    Read the text below and answer following four questions according to it.


    How stress affects your health

    Stress: We've all felt it. Sometimes stress can be a positive force, motivating you to perform well at your piano recital or job interview. But often — like when you're stuck in traffic — it's a negative force. If you experience stress over a prolonged period of time, it could become chronic — unless you take action.

    Even short-lived, minor stress can have an impact. You might get a stomach-ache before you have to give a presentation, for example. More major acute stress, whether caused by a fight with your spouse or an event like an earthquake or terrorist attack, can have an even bigger impact.

    Multiple studies have shown that these sudden emotional stresses — especially anger — can trigger heart attacks, arrhythmias and even sudden death.

    When stress starts interfering with your ability to live a normal life for an extended period, it becomes even more dangerous. The longer the stress lasts, the worse it is for both your mind and body. You might feel fatigued, unable to concentrate or irritable for no good reason, for example. But chronic stress causes wear and tear on your body, too.

    Stress can make existing problems worse. In one study, for example, about half the participants saw improvements in chronic headaches after learning how to stop the stressproducing habit of “catastrophizing,” or constantly thinking negative thoughts about their pain. Chronic stress may also cause disease, either because of changes in your body or the overeating, smoking and other bad habits people use to cope with stress. Other forms of chronic stress, such as depression and low levels of social support, have also been implicated in increased cardiovascular risk. And once you're sick, stress can also make it harder to recover. One analysis of past studies, for instance, suggests that cardiac patients with so-called “Type D” personalities — characterized by chronic distress — face higher risks of bad outcomes.

    Adaptado de: <http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/stress.aspx>

    Acessado em 01 de maio de 2015.

    When a person gets sick, stress
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