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• 21219528-65

  Inglês

  Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspectsUNESP · 2021MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Examine a tira de Alex Culang e Raynato Castro.
  

  
  

  

  
  

  Para que a história tivesse um desfecho favorável à garota, seria necessário
  

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 21219528-65

  A

  inserir uma vírgula após “Help” (1° quadrinho) e suprimir a vírgula após “Commas” (4° quadrinho).

  B

  inserir uma vírgula após “Help” (1° quadrinho), apenas.

  C

  suprimir a vírgula após “Commas” (4° quadrinho), apenas.

  D

  inserir uma vírgula após “Why” (3° quadrinho) e suprimir a vírgula após “Commas” (4° quadrinho).

  E

  inserir uma vírgula após “Why” (3° quadrinho), apenas.

  Responder
• 7E7AEEE3-92

  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUECE · 2020Muito fácilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Americans May Add Five Times More Plastic to the Oceans Than Thought
  

  
  

  The United States is using more

  plastic than ever, and waste exported for

  recycling is often mishandled, according

  to a new study.

  The United States contribution

  to coastal plastic pollution worldwide is

  significantly larger than previously

  thought, possibly by as much as five

  times, according to a study published

  Friday. The research, published in Science

  Advances, is the sequel to a 2015 paper

  by the same authors. Two factors

  contributed to the sharp increase:

  Americans are using more plastic than

  ever and the current study included

  pollution generated by United States

  exports of plastic waste, while the earlier

  one did not.

  The United States, which does

  not have sufficient infrastructure to

  handle its recycling demands at home,

  exports about half of its recyclable waste.

  Of the total exported, about 88 percent

  ends up in countries considered to have

  inadequate waste management.

  “When you consider how much

  of our plastic waste isn’t actually

  recyclable because it is low-value,

  contaminated or difficult to process, it’s

  not surprising that a lot of it ends up

  polluting the environment,” said the

  study’s lead author, Kara Lavender Law,

  research professor of oceanography at

  Sea Education Association, in a

  statement.

  The study estimates that in

  2016, the United States contributed

  between 1.1 and 2.2 million metric tons of

  plastic waste to the oceans through a

  combination of littering, dumping and 

  mismanaged exports. At a minimum,

  that’s almost double the total estimated

  waste in the team’s previous study. At the

  high end, it would be a fivefold increase

  over the earlier estimate.

  Nicholas Mallos, a senior

  director at the Ocean Conservancy and an

  author of the study, said the upper

  estimate would be equal to a pile of

  plastic covering the area of the White

  House Lawn and reaching as high as the

  Empire State Building.

  The ranges are wide partly

  because “there’s no real standard for

  being able to provide good quality data on

  collection and disposal of waste in

  general,” said Ted Siegler, a resource

  economist at DSM Environmental

  Solutions, a consulting firm, and an

  author of the study. Mr. Siegler said the

  researchers had evaluated waste-disposal

  practices in countries around the world

  and used their “best professional

  judgment” to determine the lowest and

  highest amounts of plastic waste likely to

  escape into the environment. They settled

  on a range of 25 percent to 75 percent.

  Tony Walker, an associate

  professor at the Dalhousie University

  School for Resource and Environmental

  Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that

  analyzing waste data can amount to a

  “data minefield” because there are no

  data standards across municipalities.

  Moreover, once plastic waste is shipped

  overseas, he said, data is often not

  recorded at all.

  Nonetheless, Dr. Walker, who

  was not involved in the study, said it

  could offer a more accurate accounting of

  plastic pollution than the previous study,

  which likely underestimated the United

  States’ contribution. “They’ve put their

  best estimate, as accurate as they can be

  with this data,” he said, and used ranges,

  which underscores that the figures are

  estimates.

  Of the plastics that go into the

  United States recycling system, about 9

  percent of the country’s total plastic

  waste, there is no guarantee that they’ll

  be remade into new consumer goods. New

  plastic is so inexpensive to manufacture

  that only certain expensive, high-grade

  plastics are profitable to recycle within the

  United States, which is why roughly half

  of the country’s plastic waste was shipped

  abroad in 2016, the most recent year for

  which data is available.

  Since 2016, however, the

  recycling landscape has changed. China

  and many countries in Southeast Asia

  have stopped accepting plastic waste

  imports. And lower oil prices have further

  reduced the market for recycled plastic.

  “What the new study really underscores is

  we have to get a handle on source

  reduction at home,” Mr. Mallos said. “That

  starts with eliminating unnecessary and

  problematic single-use plastics.”

  
  

  From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/

  The phrase “The research, published in Science Advances…” (lines 10-11) can be correctly rewritten as

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 7e7aeee3-92

  A

  “The research, that publishes in Science Advances…”.

  B

   “The research, that will publish in Science Advances…”. 

  C

  “The research, that was published in Science Advances…”.

  D

  “The research, that was publishing in Science Advances…”.

  Responder
• 7E78A282-92

  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUECE · 2020FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Americans May Add Five Times More Plastic to the Oceans Than Thought
  

  
  

  The United States is using more

  plastic than ever, and waste exported for

  recycling is often mishandled, according

  to a new study.

  The United States contribution

  to coastal plastic pollution worldwide is

  significantly larger than previously

  thought, possibly by as much as five

  times, according to a study published

  Friday. The research, published in Science

  Advances, is the sequel to a 2015 paper

  by the same authors. Two factors

  contributed to the sharp increase:

  Americans are using more plastic than

  ever and the current study included

  pollution generated by United States

  exports of plastic waste, while the earlier

  one did not.

  The United States, which does

  not have sufficient infrastructure to

  handle its recycling demands at home,

  exports about half of its recyclable waste.

  Of the total exported, about 88 percent

  ends up in countries considered to have

  inadequate waste management.

  “When you consider how much

  of our plastic waste isn’t actually

  recyclable because it is low-value,

  contaminated or difficult to process, it’s

  not surprising that a lot of it ends up

  polluting the environment,” said the

  study’s lead author, Kara Lavender Law,

  research professor of oceanography at

  Sea Education Association, in a

  statement.

  The study estimates that in

  2016, the United States contributed

  between 1.1 and 2.2 million metric tons of

  plastic waste to the oceans through a

  combination of littering, dumping and 

  mismanaged exports. At a minimum,

  that’s almost double the total estimated

  waste in the team’s previous study. At the

  high end, it would be a fivefold increase

  over the earlier estimate.

  Nicholas Mallos, a senior

  director at the Ocean Conservancy and an

  author of the study, said the upper

  estimate would be equal to a pile of

  plastic covering the area of the White

  House Lawn and reaching as high as the

  Empire State Building.

  The ranges are wide partly

  because “there’s no real standard for

  being able to provide good quality data on

  collection and disposal of waste in

  general,” said Ted Siegler, a resource

  economist at DSM Environmental

  Solutions, a consulting firm, and an

  author of the study. Mr. Siegler said the

  researchers had evaluated waste-disposal

  practices in countries around the world

  and used their “best professional

  judgment” to determine the lowest and

  highest amounts of plastic waste likely to

  escape into the environment. They settled

  on a range of 25 percent to 75 percent.

  Tony Walker, an associate

  professor at the Dalhousie University

  School for Resource and Environmental

  Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that

  analyzing waste data can amount to a

  “data minefield” because there are no

  data standards across municipalities.

  Moreover, once plastic waste is shipped

  overseas, he said, data is often not

  recorded at all.

  Nonetheless, Dr. Walker, who

  was not involved in the study, said it

  could offer a more accurate accounting of

  plastic pollution than the previous study,

  which likely underestimated the United

  States’ contribution. “They’ve put their

  best estimate, as accurate as they can be

  with this data,” he said, and used ranges,

  which underscores that the figures are

  estimates.

  Of the plastics that go into the

  United States recycling system, about 9

  percent of the country’s total plastic

  waste, there is no guarantee that they’ll

  be remade into new consumer goods. New

  plastic is so inexpensive to manufacture

  that only certain expensive, high-grade

  plastics are profitable to recycle within the

  United States, which is why roughly half

  of the country’s plastic waste was shipped

  abroad in 2016, the most recent year for

  which data is available.

  Since 2016, however, the

  recycling landscape has changed. China

  and many countries in Southeast Asia

  have stopped accepting plastic waste

  imports. And lower oil prices have further

  reduced the market for recycled plastic.

  “What the new study really underscores is

  we have to get a handle on source

  reduction at home,” Mr. Mallos said. “That

  starts with eliminating unnecessary and

  problematic single-use plastics.”

  
  

  From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/

  “There are no data standards” (lines 73-74) can be correctly rewritten as

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 7e78a282-92

  A

   “There aren't no data standards”.

  B

  “There isn’t no data standards”.

  C

  “There's been any data standards”.

  D

  “There aren't any data standards”.

  Responder
• 7E5A1A6B-92

  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUECE · 2020MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Americans May Add Five Times More Plastic to the Oceans Than Thought
  

  
  

  The United States is using more

  plastic than ever, and waste exported for

  recycling is often mishandled, according

  to a new study.

  The United States contribution

  to coastal plastic pollution worldwide is

  significantly larger than previously

  thought, possibly by as much as five

  times, according to a study published

  Friday. The research, published in Science

  Advances, is the sequel to a 2015 paper

  by the same authors. Two factors

  contributed to the sharp increase:

  Americans are using more plastic than

  ever and the current study included

  pollution generated by United States

  exports of plastic waste, while the earlier

  one did not.

  The United States, which does

  not have sufficient infrastructure to

  handle its recycling demands at home,

  exports about half of its recyclable waste.

  Of the total exported, about 88 percent

  ends up in countries considered to have

  inadequate waste management.

  “When you consider how much

  of our plastic waste isn’t actually

  recyclable because it is low-value,

  contaminated or difficult to process, it’s

  not surprising that a lot of it ends up

  polluting the environment,” said the

  study’s lead author, Kara Lavender Law,

  research professor of oceanography at

  Sea Education Association, in a

  statement.

  The study estimates that in

  2016, the United States contributed

  between 1.1 and 2.2 million metric tons of

  plastic waste to the oceans through a

  combination of littering, dumping and 

  mismanaged exports. At a minimum,

  that’s almost double the total estimated

  waste in the team’s previous study. At the

  high end, it would be a fivefold increase

  over the earlier estimate.

  Nicholas Mallos, a senior

  director at the Ocean Conservancy and an

  author of the study, said the upper

  estimate would be equal to a pile of

  plastic covering the area of the White

  House Lawn and reaching as high as the

  Empire State Building.

  The ranges are wide partly

  because “there’s no real standard for

  being able to provide good quality data on

  collection and disposal of waste in

  general,” said Ted Siegler, a resource

  economist at DSM Environmental

  Solutions, a consulting firm, and an

  author of the study. Mr. Siegler said the

  researchers had evaluated waste-disposal

  practices in countries around the world

  and used their “best professional

  judgment” to determine the lowest and

  highest amounts of plastic waste likely to

  escape into the environment. They settled

  on a range of 25 percent to 75 percent.

  Tony Walker, an associate

  professor at the Dalhousie University

  School for Resource and Environmental

  Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that

  analyzing waste data can amount to a

  “data minefield” because there are no

  data standards across municipalities.

  Moreover, once plastic waste is shipped

  overseas, he said, data is often not

  recorded at all.

  Nonetheless, Dr. Walker, who

  was not involved in the study, said it

  could offer a more accurate accounting of

  plastic pollution than the previous study,

  which likely underestimated the United

  States’ contribution. “They’ve put their

  best estimate, as accurate as they can be

  with this data,” he said, and used ranges,

  which underscores that the figures are

  estimates.

  Of the plastics that go into the

  United States recycling system, about 9

  percent of the country’s total plastic

  waste, there is no guarantee that they’ll

  be remade into new consumer goods. New

  plastic is so inexpensive to manufacture

  that only certain expensive, high-grade

  plastics are profitable to recycle within the

  United States, which is why roughly half

  of the country’s plastic waste was shipped

  abroad in 2016, the most recent year for

  which data is available.

  Since 2016, however, the

  recycling landscape has changed. China

  and many countries in Southeast Asia

  have stopped accepting plastic waste

  imports. And lower oil prices have further

  reduced the market for recycled plastic.

  “What the new study really underscores is

  we have to get a handle on source

  reduction at home,” Mr. Mallos said. “That

  starts with eliminating unnecessary and

  problematic single-use plastics.”

  
  

  From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/

  Considering the information provided in the text, it is clear that of the total plastic waste in the United States

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 7e5a1a6b-92

  A

  almost 100% is recycled.

  B

  less than 10% goes into its recycling system.

  C

  around 80% is shipped to poor countries.

  D

  more and more has been recycled in the last decade. 

  Responder
• 7E57CF21-92

  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUECE · 2020FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Americans May Add Five Times More Plastic to the Oceans Than Thought
  

  
  

  The United States is using more

  plastic than ever, and waste exported for

  recycling is often mishandled, according

  to a new study.

  The United States contribution

  to coastal plastic pollution worldwide is

  significantly larger than previously

  thought, possibly by as much as five

  times, according to a study published

  Friday. The research, published in Science

  Advances, is the sequel to a 2015 paper

  by the same authors. Two factors

  contributed to the sharp increase:

  Americans are using more plastic than

  ever and the current study included

  pollution generated by United States

  exports of plastic waste, while the earlier

  one did not.

  The United States, which does

  not have sufficient infrastructure to

  handle its recycling demands at home,

  exports about half of its recyclable waste.

  Of the total exported, about 88 percent

  ends up in countries considered to have

  inadequate waste management.

  “When you consider how much

  of our plastic waste isn’t actually

  recyclable because it is low-value,

  contaminated or difficult to process, it’s

  not surprising that a lot of it ends up

  polluting the environment,” said the

  study’s lead author, Kara Lavender Law,

  research professor of oceanography at

  Sea Education Association, in a

  statement.

  The study estimates that in

  2016, the United States contributed

  between 1.1 and 2.2 million metric tons of

  plastic waste to the oceans through a

  combination of littering, dumping and 

  mismanaged exports. At a minimum,

  that’s almost double the total estimated

  waste in the team’s previous study. At the

  high end, it would be a fivefold increase

  over the earlier estimate.

  Nicholas Mallos, a senior

  director at the Ocean Conservancy and an

  author of the study, said the upper

  estimate would be equal to a pile of

  plastic covering the area of the White

  House Lawn and reaching as high as the

  Empire State Building.

  The ranges are wide partly

  because “there’s no real standard for

  being able to provide good quality data on

  collection and disposal of waste in

  general,” said Ted Siegler, a resource

  economist at DSM Environmental

  Solutions, a consulting firm, and an

  author of the study. Mr. Siegler said the

  researchers had evaluated waste-disposal

  practices in countries around the world

  and used their “best professional

  judgment” to determine the lowest and

  highest amounts of plastic waste likely to

  escape into the environment. They settled

  on a range of 25 percent to 75 percent.

  Tony Walker, an associate

  professor at the Dalhousie University

  School for Resource and Environmental

  Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that

  analyzing waste data can amount to a

  “data minefield” because there are no

  data standards across municipalities.

  Moreover, once plastic waste is shipped

  overseas, he said, data is often not

  recorded at all.

  Nonetheless, Dr. Walker, who

  was not involved in the study, said it

  could offer a more accurate accounting of

  plastic pollution than the previous study,

  which likely underestimated the United

  States’ contribution. “They’ve put their

  best estimate, as accurate as they can be

  with this data,” he said, and used ranges,

  which underscores that the figures are

  estimates.

  Of the plastics that go into the

  United States recycling system, about 9

  percent of the country’s total plastic

  waste, there is no guarantee that they’ll

  be remade into new consumer goods. New

  plastic is so inexpensive to manufacture

  that only certain expensive, high-grade

  plastics are profitable to recycle within the

  United States, which is why roughly half

  of the country’s plastic waste was shipped

  abroad in 2016, the most recent year for

  which data is available.

  Since 2016, however, the

  recycling landscape has changed. China

  and many countries in Southeast Asia

  have stopped accepting plastic waste

  imports. And lower oil prices have further

  reduced the market for recycled plastic.

  “What the new study really underscores is

  we have to get a handle on source

  reduction at home,” Mr. Mallos said. “That

  starts with eliminating unnecessary and

  problematic single-use plastics.”

  
  

  From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/

  A high percentage of the USA's exported recyclable waste goes to countries that

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 7e57cf21-92

  A

  belong to the Third World.

  B

  don't have a proper waste management.

  C

  have a fine infrastructure to handle it.

  D

  provide good data on disposal of waste.

  Responder
• 7E55A361-92

  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUECE · 2020FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Americans May Add Five Times More Plastic to the Oceans Than Thought
  

  
  

  The United States is using more

  plastic than ever, and waste exported for

  recycling is often mishandled, according

  to a new study.

  The United States contribution

  to coastal plastic pollution worldwide is

  significantly larger than previously

  thought, possibly by as much as five

  times, according to a study published

  Friday. The research, published in Science

  Advances, is the sequel to a 2015 paper

  by the same authors. Two factors

  contributed to the sharp increase:

  Americans are using more plastic than

  ever and the current study included

  pollution generated by United States

  exports of plastic waste, while the earlier

  one did not.

  The United States, which does

  not have sufficient infrastructure to

  handle its recycling demands at home,

  exports about half of its recyclable waste.

  Of the total exported, about 88 percent

  ends up in countries considered to have

  inadequate waste management.

  “When you consider how much

  of our plastic waste isn’t actually

  recyclable because it is low-value,

  contaminated or difficult to process, it’s

  not surprising that a lot of it ends up

  polluting the environment,” said the

  study’s lead author, Kara Lavender Law,

  research professor of oceanography at

  Sea Education Association, in a

  statement.

  The study estimates that in

  2016, the United States contributed

  between 1.1 and 2.2 million metric tons of

  plastic waste to the oceans through a

  combination of littering, dumping and 

  mismanaged exports. At a minimum,

  that’s almost double the total estimated

  waste in the team’s previous study. At the

  high end, it would be a fivefold increase

  over the earlier estimate.

  Nicholas Mallos, a senior

  director at the Ocean Conservancy and an

  author of the study, said the upper

  estimate would be equal to a pile of

  plastic covering the area of the White

  House Lawn and reaching as high as the

  Empire State Building.

  The ranges are wide partly

  because “there’s no real standard for

  being able to provide good quality data on

  collection and disposal of waste in

  general,” said Ted Siegler, a resource

  economist at DSM Environmental

  Solutions, a consulting firm, and an

  author of the study. Mr. Siegler said the

  researchers had evaluated waste-disposal

  practices in countries around the world

  and used their “best professional

  judgment” to determine the lowest and

  highest amounts of plastic waste likely to

  escape into the environment. They settled

  on a range of 25 percent to 75 percent.

  Tony Walker, an associate

  professor at the Dalhousie University

  School for Resource and Environmental

  Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that

  analyzing waste data can amount to a

  “data minefield” because there are no

  data standards across municipalities.

  Moreover, once plastic waste is shipped

  overseas, he said, data is often not

  recorded at all.

  Nonetheless, Dr. Walker, who

  was not involved in the study, said it

  could offer a more accurate accounting of

  plastic pollution than the previous study,

  which likely underestimated the United

  States’ contribution. “They’ve put their

  best estimate, as accurate as they can be

  with this data,” he said, and used ranges,

  which underscores that the figures are

  estimates.

  Of the plastics that go into the

  United States recycling system, about 9

  percent of the country’s total plastic

  waste, there is no guarantee that they’ll

  be remade into new consumer goods. New

  plastic is so inexpensive to manufacture

  that only certain expensive, high-grade

  plastics are profitable to recycle within the

  United States, which is why roughly half

  of the country’s plastic waste was shipped

  abroad in 2016, the most recent year for

  which data is available.

  Since 2016, however, the

  recycling landscape has changed. China

  and many countries in Southeast Asia

  have stopped accepting plastic waste

  imports. And lower oil prices have further

  reduced the market for recycled plastic.

  “What the new study really underscores is

  we have to get a handle on source

  reduction at home,” Mr. Mallos said. “That

  starts with eliminating unnecessary and

  problematic single-use plastics.”

  
  

  From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/

  The article mentions that half of the American recyclable waste is

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 7e55a361-92

  A

  exported to other countries.

  B

  easy to process.

  C

  sent to Mexico.

  D

  not contaminated.

  Responder
• 7E5352FD-92

  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUECE · 2020DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Americans May Add Five Times More Plastic to the Oceans Than Thought
  

  
  

  The United States is using more

  plastic than ever, and waste exported for

  recycling is often mishandled, according

  to a new study.

  The United States contribution

  to coastal plastic pollution worldwide is

  significantly larger than previously

  thought, possibly by as much as five

  times, according to a study published

  Friday. The research, published in Science

  Advances, is the sequel to a 2015 paper

  by the same authors. Two factors

  contributed to the sharp increase:

  Americans are using more plastic than

  ever and the current study included

  pollution generated by United States

  exports of plastic waste, while the earlier

  one did not.

  The United States, which does

  not have sufficient infrastructure to

  handle its recycling demands at home,

  exports about half of its recyclable waste.

  Of the total exported, about 88 percent

  ends up in countries considered to have

  inadequate waste management.

  “When you consider how much

  of our plastic waste isn’t actually

  recyclable because it is low-value,

  contaminated or difficult to process, it’s

  not surprising that a lot of it ends up

  polluting the environment,” said the

  study’s lead author, Kara Lavender Law,

  research professor of oceanography at

  Sea Education Association, in a

  statement.

  The study estimates that in

  2016, the United States contributed

  between 1.1 and 2.2 million metric tons of

  plastic waste to the oceans through a

  combination of littering, dumping and 

  mismanaged exports. At a minimum,

  that’s almost double the total estimated

  waste in the team’s previous study. At the

  high end, it would be a fivefold increase

  over the earlier estimate.

  Nicholas Mallos, a senior

  director at the Ocean Conservancy and an

  author of the study, said the upper

  estimate would be equal to a pile of

  plastic covering the area of the White

  House Lawn and reaching as high as the

  Empire State Building.

  The ranges are wide partly

  because “there’s no real standard for

  being able to provide good quality data on

  collection and disposal of waste in

  general,” said Ted Siegler, a resource

  economist at DSM Environmental

  Solutions, a consulting firm, and an

  author of the study. Mr. Siegler said the

  researchers had evaluated waste-disposal

  practices in countries around the world

  and used their “best professional

  judgment” to determine the lowest and

  highest amounts of plastic waste likely to

  escape into the environment. They settled

  on a range of 25 percent to 75 percent.

  Tony Walker, an associate

  professor at the Dalhousie University

  School for Resource and Environmental

  Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that

  analyzing waste data can amount to a

  “data minefield” because there are no

  data standards across municipalities.

  Moreover, once plastic waste is shipped

  overseas, he said, data is often not

  recorded at all.

  Nonetheless, Dr. Walker, who

  was not involved in the study, said it

  could offer a more accurate accounting of

  plastic pollution than the previous study,

  which likely underestimated the United

  States’ contribution. “They’ve put their

  best estimate, as accurate as they can be

  with this data,” he said, and used ranges,

  which underscores that the figures are

  estimates.

  Of the plastics that go into the

  United States recycling system, about 9

  percent of the country’s total plastic

  waste, there is no guarantee that they’ll

  be remade into new consumer goods. New

  plastic is so inexpensive to manufacture

  that only certain expensive, high-grade

  plastics are profitable to recycle within the

  United States, which is why roughly half

  of the country’s plastic waste was shipped

  abroad in 2016, the most recent year for

  which data is available.

  Since 2016, however, the

  recycling landscape has changed. China

  and many countries in Southeast Asia

  have stopped accepting plastic waste

  imports. And lower oil prices have further

  reduced the market for recycled plastic.

  “What the new study really underscores is

  we have to get a handle on source

  reduction at home,” Mr. Mallos said. “That

  starts with eliminating unnecessary and

  problematic single-use plastics.”

  
  

  From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/

  One of the factors that contributes to the huge amount of plastic waste is the fact that

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 7e5352fd-92

  A

  waste-disposal practices only occur in a few countries.

  B

  scientists do not use a good professional judgement.

  C

  it easily escapes into the environment.

  D

  it is not really recyclable.

  Responder
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  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUECE · 2020MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Americans May Add Five Times More Plastic to the Oceans Than Thought
  

  
  

  The United States is using more

  plastic than ever, and waste exported for

  recycling is often mishandled, according

  to a new study.

  The United States contribution

  to coastal plastic pollution worldwide is

  significantly larger than previously

  thought, possibly by as much as five

  times, according to a study published

  Friday. The research, published in Science

  Advances, is the sequel to a 2015 paper

  by the same authors. Two factors

  contributed to the sharp increase:

  Americans are using more plastic than

  ever and the current study included

  pollution generated by United States

  exports of plastic waste, while the earlier

  one did not.

  The United States, which does

  not have sufficient infrastructure to

  handle its recycling demands at home,

  exports about half of its recyclable waste.

  Of the total exported, about 88 percent

  ends up in countries considered to have

  inadequate waste management.

  “When you consider how much

  of our plastic waste isn’t actually

  recyclable because it is low-value,

  contaminated or difficult to process, it’s

  not surprising that a lot of it ends up

  polluting the environment,” said the

  study’s lead author, Kara Lavender Law,

  research professor of oceanography at

  Sea Education Association, in a

  statement.

  The study estimates that in

  2016, the United States contributed

  between 1.1 and 2.2 million metric tons of

  plastic waste to the oceans through a

  combination of littering, dumping and 

  mismanaged exports. At a minimum,

  that’s almost double the total estimated

  waste in the team’s previous study. At the

  high end, it would be a fivefold increase

  over the earlier estimate.

  Nicholas Mallos, a senior

  director at the Ocean Conservancy and an

  author of the study, said the upper

  estimate would be equal to a pile of

  plastic covering the area of the White

  House Lawn and reaching as high as the

  Empire State Building.

  The ranges are wide partly

  because “there’s no real standard for

  being able to provide good quality data on

  collection and disposal of waste in

  general,” said Ted Siegler, a resource

  economist at DSM Environmental

  Solutions, a consulting firm, and an

  author of the study. Mr. Siegler said the

  researchers had evaluated waste-disposal

  practices in countries around the world

  and used their “best professional

  judgment” to determine the lowest and

  highest amounts of plastic waste likely to

  escape into the environment. They settled

  on a range of 25 percent to 75 percent.

  Tony Walker, an associate

  professor at the Dalhousie University

  School for Resource and Environmental

  Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that

  analyzing waste data can amount to a

  “data minefield” because there are no

  data standards across municipalities.

  Moreover, once plastic waste is shipped

  overseas, he said, data is often not

  recorded at all.

  Nonetheless, Dr. Walker, who

  was not involved in the study, said it

  could offer a more accurate accounting of

  plastic pollution than the previous study,

  which likely underestimated the United

  States’ contribution. “They’ve put their

  best estimate, as accurate as they can be

  with this data,” he said, and used ranges,

  which underscores that the figures are

  estimates.

  Of the plastics that go into the

  United States recycling system, about 9

  percent of the country’s total plastic

  waste, there is no guarantee that they’ll

  be remade into new consumer goods. New

  plastic is so inexpensive to manufacture

  that only certain expensive, high-grade

  plastics are profitable to recycle within the

  United States, which is why roughly half

  of the country’s plastic waste was shipped

  abroad in 2016, the most recent year for

  which data is available.

  Since 2016, however, the

  recycling landscape has changed. China

  and many countries in Southeast Asia

  have stopped accepting plastic waste

  imports. And lower oil prices have further

  reduced the market for recycled plastic.

  “What the new study really underscores is

  we have to get a handle on source

  reduction at home,” Mr. Mallos said. “That

  starts with eliminating unnecessary and

  problematic single-use plastics.”

  
  

  From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/

  According to the text, the United States

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 7e510902-92

  A

  has the best infrastructure to handle recycling materials.

  B

  pollutes even the lawn in the White House.

  C

  is incapable of handling its domestic recycling demands.

  D

  does not have enough quality data on waste disposal.

  Responder
• 7E4D60D4-92

  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUECE · 2020FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Americans May Add Five Times More Plastic to the Oceans Than Thought
  

  
  

  The United States is using more

  plastic than ever, and waste exported for

  recycling is often mishandled, according

  to a new study.

  The United States contribution

  to coastal plastic pollution worldwide is

  significantly larger than previously

  thought, possibly by as much as five

  times, according to a study published

  Friday. The research, published in Science

  Advances, is the sequel to a 2015 paper

  by the same authors. Two factors

  contributed to the sharp increase:

  Americans are using more plastic than

  ever and the current study included

  pollution generated by United States

  exports of plastic waste, while the earlier

  one did not.

  The United States, which does

  not have sufficient infrastructure to

  handle its recycling demands at home,

  exports about half of its recyclable waste.

  Of the total exported, about 88 percent

  ends up in countries considered to have

  inadequate waste management.

  “When you consider how much

  of our plastic waste isn’t actually

  recyclable because it is low-value,

  contaminated or difficult to process, it’s

  not surprising that a lot of it ends up

  polluting the environment,” said the

  study’s lead author, Kara Lavender Law,

  research professor of oceanography at

  Sea Education Association, in a

  statement.

  The study estimates that in

  2016, the United States contributed

  between 1.1 and 2.2 million metric tons of

  plastic waste to the oceans through a

  combination of littering, dumping and 

  mismanaged exports. At a minimum,

  that’s almost double the total estimated

  waste in the team’s previous study. At the

  high end, it would be a fivefold increase

  over the earlier estimate.

  Nicholas Mallos, a senior

  director at the Ocean Conservancy and an

  author of the study, said the upper

  estimate would be equal to a pile of

  plastic covering the area of the White

  House Lawn and reaching as high as the

  Empire State Building.

  The ranges are wide partly

  because “there’s no real standard for

  being able to provide good quality data on

  collection and disposal of waste in

  general,” said Ted Siegler, a resource

  economist at DSM Environmental

  Solutions, a consulting firm, and an

  author of the study. Mr. Siegler said the

  researchers had evaluated waste-disposal

  practices in countries around the world

  and used their “best professional

  judgment” to determine the lowest and

  highest amounts of plastic waste likely to

  escape into the environment. They settled

  on a range of 25 percent to 75 percent.

  Tony Walker, an associate

  professor at the Dalhousie University

  School for Resource and Environmental

  Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that

  analyzing waste data can amount to a

  “data minefield” because there are no

  data standards across municipalities.

  Moreover, once plastic waste is shipped

  overseas, he said, data is often not

  recorded at all.

  Nonetheless, Dr. Walker, who

  was not involved in the study, said it

  could offer a more accurate accounting of

  plastic pollution than the previous study,

  which likely underestimated the United

  States’ contribution. “They’ve put their

  best estimate, as accurate as they can be

  with this data,” he said, and used ranges,

  which underscores that the figures are

  estimates.

  Of the plastics that go into the

  United States recycling system, about 9

  percent of the country’s total plastic

  waste, there is no guarantee that they’ll

  be remade into new consumer goods. New

  plastic is so inexpensive to manufacture

  that only certain expensive, high-grade

  plastics are profitable to recycle within the

  United States, which is why roughly half

  of the country’s plastic waste was shipped

  abroad in 2016, the most recent year for

  which data is available.

  Since 2016, however, the

  recycling landscape has changed. China

  and many countries in Southeast Asia

  have stopped accepting plastic waste

  imports. And lower oil prices have further

  reduced the market for recycled plastic.

  “What the new study really underscores is

  we have to get a handle on source

  reduction at home,” Mr. Mallos said. “That

  starts with eliminating unnecessary and

  problematic single-use plastics.”

  
  

  From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/

  As to the use of plastic by Americans, the text mentions that it

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 7e4d60d4-92

  A

  has been significantly reduced in recent years. 

  B

  is higher than in any other period in history.

  C

  increased in relation to last year, but it is not as high as in the 90s.

  D

  is in a very slow process of descent.

  Responder
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  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionFGV · 2020DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Read the text to answer question.

  
  

       The formula for calculating people’s environmental footprint is simple, but widely misunderstood: Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology (I = PAT). The global rate of consumption growth, before the pandemic, was 3% a year. Population growth is 1%. Some people assume this means that the rise in population bears one-third of the responsibility for increased consumption. But population growth is overwhelmingly concentrated among the world’s poorest people, who have scarcely any A or T to multiply their P.

       Yet it is widely used as a blanket explanation of environment breakdown. Panic about population growth enables the people most responsible for the impacts of rising consumption (the affluent) to blame those who are least responsible.

  
  

  (George Monbiot. www.theguardian.com, 26.08.2020. Adapted.)
  

  The formula for calculating people’s environmental footprint

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 8bead87c-05

  A

  is inadequate because it does not capture all sides of the relation between population growth and environmental degradation.

  B

  has proved inefficient to properly relate world’s population and ecological damage during the present pandemic times.

  C

  has been wrongly used as the only explanation of causes for ecological breakdown.

  D

  has demonstrated that a 3% rise in the world population represents 1% of the responsibility for consumption growth.

  E

  is often too plainly interpreted as equating population growth with an equivalent increase in ecological damage and in consumption.

  Responder
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  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionFGV · 2020MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Read the text to answer question.

  
  

       The formula for calculating people’s environmental footprint is simple, but widely misunderstood: Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology (I = PAT). The global rate of consumption growth, before the pandemic, was 3% a year. Population growth is 1%. Some people assume this means that the rise in population bears one-third of the responsibility for increased consumption. But population growth is overwhelmingly concentrated among the world’s poorest people, who have scarcely any A or T to multiply their P.

       Yet it is widely used as a blanket explanation of environment breakdown. Panic about population growth enables the people most responsible for the impacts of rising consumption (the affluent) to blame those who are least responsible.

  
  

  (George Monbiot. www.theguardian.com, 26.08.2020. Adapted.)
  

  The text states that

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 8be741be-05

  A

  population growth has proven to have overwhelming impact on environmental degradation.

  B

  population growth is the main determinant in consumption growth.

  C

  the wealthy should be most directly accountable for global ecological damage.

  D

  the poor should be most directly accountable for global ecological damage.

  E

  poor access to technology and other resources reduces environmental breakdown.

  Responder
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  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionFGV · 2020MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  
  

  (nytimes.com)

  
  

  Shimmering white and gracefully statuesque, the Mount Washington Hotel is a granite fortress, a manmade anomaly among the raw wilderness of the surrounding White Mountains in remote northern New Hampshire, U.S. Even to this day, the hotel is geographically secured by 800,000 acres of the White Mountain National Forest around it. This was the main reason why the Hotel was chosen for a World War Two meeting – a meeting that shaped present-day global economic policies.

  
  

  (Linda Laban. www.bbc.com, 26.08.2020. Adapted.)

  
  

  The term “this”, which introduces the last sentence in the text, refers to the fact that the Mount Washington Hotel
  

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 8bdf269d-05

  A

  diplays gracefulness and imponence.

  B

  served as home to a crucial World War meeting.

  C

  stands as strong as a granite fortress.

  D

  is isolated and nearly secret.

  E

  marvels visitors with its beautiful surrounding scenery

  Responder
• 8BDC1DA1-05

  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionFGV · 2020MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  The American embassy escaped the blast in Beirut’s port unscathed. Many Western countries either have missions in the city centre or diplomats who live in the area. The wife of the Dutch ambassador was killed, as was a German diplomat. But America’s embassy sits in the mountain village of Awkar, five miles from the port. Security measures are onerous, a hangover from the bombing of the American embassy in Beirut in 1983, which killed 63 people. It took a week before the ambassador, Dorothy Shea, a career diplomat, toured the port. Even on social media it has been far quieter than other foreign powers.

  
  

  (www.economist.com, 13.08.2020. Adapted.)

  
  

  The descriptions in the paragraph

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 8bdc1da1-05

  A

  underscore the extent of the damage brought about by a bombing in Beirut last August.

  B

  display differences in approach between American diplomacy and other countries’ in the moments shortly following the explosion.

  C

  depict covert and behind-the-scenes divergences between the American and the Lebanese governments.

  D

  accuse the American government of omission for fear of a new threat against American citizens.

  E

  point out the low visibility of America’s diplomacy in the Beirut’s event due to both, the Embassy’s location and attitude.

  Responder
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  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionFGV · 2020DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Read the text and the graphs.

  
  

  Bypassed by the rescue

  
  

  In a pandemic that’s wreaked widespread economic havoc, Cleveland has been among the hardesthit cities in the U.S. And at a time when the U.S. is engaged in another conversation about its foundational racial inequalities, not much of Washington’ $2 trillion has reached Cleveland’s predominantly Black neighborhoods.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  (Bloomberg Businessweek, 20.07.2020. Adapted.)

  
  

  By comparing the text and the graphs it is possible to state that
  

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 8bd8a4f6-05

  A

  the help provided by the government has amplified the percentage of American Black families who own their homes.

  B

  racial disparity in Cleveland was not narrowed over the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic.

  C

  the financial aid from Washington has mitigated long-standing racial imbalances in the country.

  D

  minority neighborhoods have been the least penalized of all in Cleveland.

  E

  the government should be made responsible for the high number of Covid-19 cases between Black Americans.

  Responder
• 8BD1B5CE-05

  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionFGV · 2020DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Read the text to answer question.

  
  

  
  

  
  

       We are at the beginning of a long road to rethinking and rebuilding supply chain models to encompass not just financial priorities but also business operations continuity in the most trying of circumstances. Executives from France and Italy, for example, are discussing ways to remake their businesses in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Their specialty is supply chains. They are smart people at the core of the world’s most sophisticated and valuable systems of manufacture, shipment, and inventory, and yet many of their supply systems staggered in the past few months – the byproduct of reliance on old business models.

  (Antonio Gulli. www.forbes.com, 28.07.2020. Adapted.)
  

  One problem concerning supply chains after the outbreak of Covid-19 relates to

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 8bd1b5ce-05

  A

  the way the pandemic has thoroughly affected supply businesses.

  B

  the resistance of top executives to redesign existing business paradigms in novel circumstances.

  C

  the long-term difficulty in establishing financial priorities in the supply chain business.

  D

  the instability of supply systems which still follow old business models.

  E

  the sophistication of supply chain processes, which renders innovation onerous.

  Responder
• 8BCE6AA0-05

  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionFGV · 2020DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Read the text to answer question.

  
  

           It wasn’t the first attempt to deter foreign students, but it could have been the most disruptive. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency sought to bar visas for international students at colleges that offer only virtual instruction. Students on existing visas would have had to transfer to a school that offers at least some in-person teaching if they wanted to remain in the U.S.

       The policy swiftly brought together a broad coalition of colleges, states and businesses that opposed it. “The overwhelming negative reaction to this proposal in a very short period of time shows that the administration really struck a nerve with this,” says Terry Hartle, from the American Council on Education. “It’s unprecedented for that many colleges and universities to file suit against the federal government.”

  
  

  (Bloomberg Businessweek, 20.07.2020. Adapted.)
  

  The expression from the second paragraph “struck a nerve” means, in the context:

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 8bce6aa0-05

  A

  made the wrong decision.

  B

  triggered nervous breakdowns.

  C

  created an unmanageable situation.

  D

  provoked a student uprising.

  E

  stirred anger and outrage.

  Responder
• 8BCA2ADF-05

  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionFGV · 2020DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Read the text to answer question.

  
  

           It wasn’t the first attempt to deter foreign students, but it could have been the most disruptive. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency sought to bar visas for international students at colleges that offer only virtual instruction. Students on existing visas would have had to transfer to a school that offers at least some in-person teaching if they wanted to remain in the U.S.

       The policy swiftly brought together a broad coalition of colleges, states and businesses that opposed it. “The overwhelming negative reaction to this proposal in a very short period of time shows that the administration really struck a nerve with this,” says Terry Hartle, from the American Council on Education. “It’s unprecedented for that many colleges and universities to file suit against the federal government.”

  
  

  (Bloomberg Businessweek, 20.07.2020. Adapted.)
  

  The expressions from the first paragraph “could have been” and “would have had” help understand that, as to exclusively virtual instruction in U.S. universities and colleges,

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 8bca2adf-05

  A

  the government has backed down from its proposal to bar visas for foreign students.

  B

  the barrier against international students is still a possibility.

  C

  foreign students have no alternative but to transfer to a new school.

  D

  impeding foreign students to attend school in the U.S. will disrupt their lives.

  E

  the veto of the proposal resulted from coordinated action by colleges, states and the police.

  Responder
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  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionFGV · 2020DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Read the text to answer question.

  
  

  The aliens among us

  
  

       Humans think of themselves as the world’s apex predators. Hence the silence of sabre-tooth tigers, the absence of moas from New Zealand and the long list of endangered megafauna. But sars-cov-2 shows how people can also end up as prey. Viruses have caused a litany of modern pandemics, from Covid-19, to hiv/aids to the influenza outbreak in 1918-20, which killed many more people than the first world war. Before that, the colonisation of the Americas by Europeans was abetted – and perhaps made possible – by epidemics of smallpox, measles and influenza brought unwittingly by the invaders, which annihilated many of the original inhabitants.

  
  

  (www.economist.com, 22.08.2020. Adapted.)
  

  According to the text,

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 8bc3fa56-05

  A

  humans can be either victims or aggressors, depending on the virus we refer to.

  B

  viruses have always posed a threat, not only to humans but also to the megafauna.

  C

  the absolute silence of viruses contradicts their extensive destructive power.

  D

  pandemics have always existed despite human efforts throughout centuries to control them.

  E

  the settlement of new peoples in the Americas was favoured by the epidemics decimating native populations.

  Responder
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  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionFGV · 2020MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Read the text to answer question.

  
  

       The image depicts a nearly naked man amid a vast area of rainforest, spear pointed at the helicopter hovering above him – a man defending his territory and people from outside influence. This very scene made front-page news some years ago in the UK. It instantly highlighted the loss of ancestral homelands some tribal communities round the world face.

       Bad news has a way of dominating the headlines, so we're of the opinion that all indigenous communities and their culture are in decline – and that's not true. But the allure of propagating the "disappearing tribe" narrative is strong. It’s frustrating to see journalists who go on assignment with a set story in mind and then seek out quotes, experiences or interviews to fit their predetermined angle.

  
  

  (Jonny Bealby. www.newsweek.com, 27.08.2019. Adapted.) 
  

  In the context of the second paragraph, the expression “the allure of” means

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 8bbc69d8-05

  A

  the argument against.

  B

  the justification for.

  C

  the appeal to.

  D

  the motive for.

  E

  the longing for.

  Responder
• 8BB7BBF6-05

  Inglês

  Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionFGV · 2020MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos

  Read the text to answer question.

  
  

       The image depicts a nearly naked man amid a vast area of rainforest, spear pointed at the helicopter hovering above him – a man defending his territory and people from outside influence. This very scene made front-page news some years ago in the UK. It instantly highlighted the loss of ancestral homelands some tribal communities round the world face.

       Bad news has a way of dominating the headlines, so we're of the opinion that all indigenous communities and their culture are in decline – and that's not true. But the allure of propagating the "disappearing tribe" narrative is strong. It’s frustrating to see journalists who go on assignment with a set story in mind and then seek out quotes, experiences or interviews to fit their predetermined angle.

  
  

  (Jonny Bealby. www.newsweek.com, 27.08.2019. Adapted.) 
  

  In the fragment from the second paragraph “so we’re of the opinion that”, the underlined word refers to

  Escolha uma alternativa para a questão 8bb7bbf6-05

  A

  the writers of the text.

  B

  journalists by and large.

  C

  the general public who watch the news about native populations.

  D

  people who do research on indigenous populations.

  E

  journalists worried about the potential loss of lands by their original inhabitants.

  Responder