Questões: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC - RJ) — com gabarito

According to the text, technology is “moving the world much closer to a single, large global market for labor, capital, and other inputs to production.” (lines 33-35) despite the.

The two subtitles found in the text (LABOR PAINS and CAPITAL PUNISHMENT).

In Paragraph 3, the authors affirm that “…in the future, ideas will be the real scarce inputs in the world” (lines 27-28) because.

According to the information presented on lines 23 to 26, the referred distribution of income takes the form of a power law, in which.

In paragraph 8 (lines 82-87), the author presents her main argument about what she calls “a rethink of reading".

According to her,

In paragraph 7 (lines 66-81), the author defends the idea that magazine editors should borrow some of the elements that poets have long used to cue readers to pay attention to their poems. Among these elements, the one that is NOT mentioned is:

In the fragment “the effort of navigating text onscreen interferes with the processing of information”, “processing” (lines 29-30) is to “process” as:

                                                    An Italian Holiday Home For One Euro.

Are you looking for a holiday home in Italy? Why not buy a home in the picturesque town of Gangi for one Euro? This offer may seem too good to be true, but there's a catch: you have to promise to renovate the property within three years and this could cost you €20,000. Gangi's mayor came up with the idea to put some life back into the Sicilian town. Poverty caused many inhabitants to leave after World War II. The idea is attracting interest from all over the world. Would you buy one of these homes?

Disponível em: <http://tinytexts.wordpress.com/>. Acesso em: setembro de 2014

These words from the text: picturesque, too good to be true, catch, came up, poverty could be replaced with no change in their meanings for the following words respectively.