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Sinônimos | SynonymsPUC - RS · 2016DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritosIn the text, the word “scribbled” (line 40) is closest in meaning to6114A20C-30 Inglês
Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionPUC - RS · 2016DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritosThe word “except” (line 23) could be replaced, without a change in its meaning, byD1BAFE30-E4 Inglês
Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspectsPUC-GO · 2016MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritosTEXTO 8
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Horas depois, teve Rubião um pensamento horrível. Podiam crer que ele próprio incitara o amigo à viagem, para o fim de o matar mais depressa, e entrar na posse do legado, se é que realmente estava incluso no testamento. Sentiu remorsos. Por que não empregou todas as forças, para contê-lo? Viu o cadáver do Quincas Borba, pálido, hediondo, fitando nele um olhar vingativo; resolveu, se acaso o fatal desfecho se desse em viagem, abrir mão do legado.
Pela sua parte o cão vivia farejando, ganindo, querendo fugir; não podia dormir quieto, levantava-se muitas vezes, à noite, percorria a casa, e tornava ao seu canto. De manhã, Rubião chamava-o à cama, e o cão acudia alegre; imaginava que era o próprio dono; via depois que não era, mas aceitava as carícias, e fazia-lhe outras, como se Rubião tivesse de levar as suas ao amigo, ou trazê-lo para ali. Demais, havia-se-lhe afeiçoado também, e para ele era a ponte que o ligava à existência anterior. Não comeu durante os primeiros dias. Suportando menos a sede, Rubião pôde alcançar que bebesse leite; foi a única alimentação por algum tempo. Mais tarde, passava as horas, calado, triste, enrolado em si mesmo, ou então com o corpo estendido e a cabeça entre as mãos.
Quando o médico voltou, ficou espantado da temeridade do doente; deviam tê-lo impedido de sair; a morte era certa.
— Certa?
— Mais tarde ou mais cedo. Levou o tal cachorro?
— Não, senhor, está comigo; pediu que cuidasse dele, e chorou, olhe que chorou que foi um nunca acabar. Verdade é, disse ainda Rubião para defender o enfermo, verdade é que o cachorro merece a estima do dono; parece gente.
O médico tirou o largo chapéu de palha para concertar a fita; depois sorriu. Gente? Com que então parecia gente? Rubião insistia, depois explicava; não era gente como a outra gente, mas tinha coisas de sentimento, e até de juízo. Olhe, ia contar-lhe uma...
— Não, homem, não, logo, logo, vou a um doente de erisipela... Se vierem cartas dele, e não forem reservadas, desejo vê-las, ouviu? E lembranças ao cachorro, concluiu saindo.
Algumas pessoas começaram a mofar do Rubião e da singular incumbência de guardar um cão em vez de ser o cão que o guardasse a ele. Vinha a risota, choviam as alcunhas. Em que havia de dar o professor! sentinela de cachorro! Rubião tinha medo da opinião pública. Com efeito, parecia-lhe ridículo; fugia aos olhos estranhos, olhava com fastio para o animal, dava-se ao diabo, arrenegava da vida. Não tivesse a esperança de um legado, pequeno que fosse. Era impossível que lhe não deixasse uma lembrança.
(ASSIS, Machado de. Quincas Borba. São Paulo: Ática, 2011. p. 30-31.)
The Text 8 mentions a disease called erysipelas. Read the dictionary entry below and complete it with the words from the box:a hemolytic streptococcus / febrile / Function / inflammation / Main Entry / Pronunciation / Definition1 - _____________: er·y·sip·e·las2 - _____________: ˌer-ə-ˈsip-(ə-)ləs, ˌir-3 - _____________: noun4 - _____________: an acute 5 - __________ disease that is associated with intense often vesicular and edematous local 6 - ____________of the skin and subcutaneous tissues and that is caused by 7 - ______________________.(Available at http://c.merriam-webster.com/medlineplus/erysipelas., accessed on July 14th, 2016.)Choose the appropriate alternative:D1632B34-E4 Inglês
Vocabulário | VocabularyPUC-GO · 2016DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritosTEXTO 4
Não desejei a morte de minha filha. Ou desejei? Aí é que reside a dúvida, é onde habita o nó que nada nem ninguém no mundo tem o poder de desatar. O inconsciente, desculpe-me a vulgaridade do termo, minha filha, é uma merda. Sendo autônomo, o inconsciente age por si, sem pedir licença nem se revelar. Desejei ou não a morte de minha filha, hein? Você pode responder a essa pergunta? Alguém pode? Eu não posso. Busquei na fonte a resposta e ela não veio. Como minha filha havia feito, busquei nas águas do Cristal a cura imediata para uma dor que parecia infinda. A ferida tinha sido cavada pelas águas, então elas que tratassem de cicatrizá-la. O rio recusou meu corpo, mas não a dor. Nem o aconselhamento. Pediu tempo, apenas. Permaneci plantada no barranco, juntando ao seu caudal minhas lágrimas secas. Disseram que eu tinha enlouquecido, talvez tivesse mesmo. Em diálogo profundo, as águas me fizeram compreender verdades para as quais eu nunca havia me atinado. Todo rio tem seu leito, suas margens, seu limite, toda vez que ele avança além de seu leito original provoca estragos, descalabros. O rio de nossa vida não é diferente. Ele também está sujeito a limitações intransponíveis. Existe você e você; seu campo de visão, a capacidade de administrar o próprio caudal. Tem a hora de abrir e a hora de fechar as comportas. Felicidade ou dor, a escolha é sua, depende do grau de intensidade que você der a cada coisa. Hoje posso dizer que me conheço um pouquinho, mesmo assim, perguntas continuam sem resposta.
(BARROS, Adelice da Silveira. Mesa dos inocentes. Goiânia: Kelps, 2010. p. 23.)
In Barros’s paragraph, there is a lot of emphasis on liquidity, that is, the state of being liquid. For example, tear, water, river. Read the sentences below:
I - There are lots of water lilies on the surface of river and lakes.
II - The village is famous for its spectacular waterfalls.
III - Can you tell me where the water fountain is? I am thirsty.
IV - According to authorities, the water supply for the summer will be normal.
Choose the ones which are related to this state. The best alternative is:
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Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionPUC - RS · 2016MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
In the text, the word “hunch” (line 13) is related to an idea ofC237F990-C2 Inglês
Sinônimos | SynonymsUNESPAR · 2016MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritosQuestion based on Text.
Adapted from: <http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/oct/13/fighting-corruptionzombies-development-anti-corruption >.Access on: 03/11/2015.
Read the hook (síntese para mostrar a relevância do texto) attentively and answer questionIf only we had magical blasters that could get rid of corruption, says Dr. Heather Marquete. Sadly, more realistic approaches are need.Which word can appropriately replace get rid of in the sentence above?
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Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionPUC - RJ · 2016MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
In the fragment “Parents also need to be tuned into opportunities for physical activity and set hard-and-fast rules about television and time spent on electronics ” (lines 93-95), the expression “be tuned into” can be replaced, without change in meaning, by847E1F8C-B6 Inglês
Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionPUC - RJ · 2016DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
In the context of the article, the word “heady” (line 15 ) can be replaced with no change in meaning by171D071C-A5 Inglês
Sinônimos | SynonymsUERJ · 2016MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
I do not dispute the fact that the tourism industry brings in much needed revenue to the state (l. 25-26)In the sentence above, the word that can replace dispute, without significant change of meaning, is:CE549AE6-29 Inglês
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Disparity in life spans of the rich and the poor is growing
Sabrina Tavernise
February 12, 2016
Experts have long known that rich people generally live longer than poor people. But a growing body of data shows a more disturbing pattern: Despite big advances in medicine, technology and education, the longevity gap between high-income and low-income Americans has been widening sharply.
The poor are losing ground not only in income, but also in years of life, the most basic measure of well-being. In the early 1970s, a 60-year-old man in the top half of the earnings ladder could expect to live 1.2 years longer than a man of the same age in the bottom half, according to an analysis by the Social Security Administration. Fast-forward to 2001, and he could expect to live 5.8 years longer than his poorer counterpart.
New research released this month contains even more jarring numbers. Looking at the extreme ends of the income spectrum, economists at the Brookings Institution found that for men born in 1920, there was a six-year difference in life expectancy between the top 10 percent of earners and the bottom 10 percent. For men born in 1950, that difference had more than doubled, to 14 years. For women, the gap grew to 13 years, from 4.7 years. “There has been this huge spreading out,” said Gary Burtless, one of the authors of the study.
The growing chasm is alarming policy makers, and has surfaced in the presidential campaign. During a Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton expressed concern over shortening life spans for some Americans. “This may be the next frontier of the inequality discussion,” said Peter Orszag, a former Obama administration official now at Citigroup, who was among the first to highlight the pattern. The causes are still being investigated, but public health researchers say that deep declines in smoking among the affluent and educated may partly explain the difference.
Overall, according to the Brookings study, life expectancy for the bottom 10 percent of wage earners improved by just 3 percent for men born in 1950 compared with those born in 1920. For the top 10 percent, though, it jumped by about 28 percent. (The researchers used a common measure – life expectancy at age 50 – and included data from 1984 to 2012.)
(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)
No título do texto, o termo “disparity” tem sentido semelhante ao termo do texto6FF30624-06 Inglês
Vocabulário | VocabularyUNIFESP · 2015FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritosLeia o texto para responder à questão.
Nobel winner Malala opens school for Syrian refugees
Sylvia Westall
July 13, 2015
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon on Sunday by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls and called on world leaders to invest in “books not bullets”. Malala became a symbol of defiance after she was shot on a school bus in Pakistan in 2012 by the Taliban for advocating girls’ rights to education. She continued campaigning and won the Nobel in 2014.
“I decided to be in Lebanon because I believe that the voices of the Syrian refugees need to be heard and they have been ignored for so long,” Malala told Reuters in a schoolroom decorated with drawings of butterflies. The Malala Fund, a non-profit organization that supports local education projects, provided most of the funding for the school, set up by Lebanon’s Kayany Foundation in the Bekaa Valley, close to the Syrian border. The Kayany Foundation, established by Syrian Nora Joumblatt in response to Syria’s refugee crisis, has already completed three other new schools to give free education to Syrian children in Lebanon. The Malala school can welcome up to 200 girls aged 14 to 18.
“Today on my first day as an adult, on behalf of the world’s children, I demand of leaders we must invest in books instead of bullets,” Malala said in a speech. Lebanon is home to at least 1.2 million of the 4 million refugees that have fled Syria’s war to neighboring countries. There are about 500,000 Syrian school-age children in Lebanon, but only a fifth are in formal education. “We are in danger of losing generations of young Syrian girls due to the lack of education,” Joumblatt said in a speech at the opening of the school. “Desperate and displaced Syrians are increasingly seeing early marriage as a way to secure the social and financial future of their daughters. We need to provide an alternative: Keep young girls in school instead of being pressured into wedlock.”
Lebanon, which allows informal settlements on land rented by refugees, says it can no longer cope with the influx from Syria’s four-year conflict. More than one in four people living in Lebanon is a refugee. The United Nations says the number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries is expected to reach 4.27 million by the end of the year. “In Lebanon as well as in Jordan, an increasing number of refugees are being turned back at the border,” Malala said. “This is inhuman and this is shameful.”
Her father Ziauddin said he was proud she was carrying on her activism into adulthood. “This is the mission we have taken for the last 8-9 years. A small moment for the education of girls in Swat Valley: it is spreading now all over the world,” he said.
(www.reuters.com. Adaptado.)
Analise o trecho do terceiro parágrafo “I demand of leaders we must invest in books instead of bullets”, para responder à questão.A expressão “instead of” indica uma ideia de
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Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionFaculdade Cásper Líbero · 2015DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritosRead the film review below and answer the questions that follow.INSIDE JOB – REVIEW - 4/5 STARSHow 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:77677445-DE Inglês
Adjetivos | AdjectivesEscola Superior de Administração, Marketing e Comunicação · 2015MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritosConsidere 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)
Considere o segundo parágrafo do texto. As palavras claims, studies, thoroughly, effective são classificadas, respectivamente, comoB246BA21-DD Inglês
Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUniversidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie · 2015MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritosGLOBALISATION, HUMANISM, MODERNITY: IN SEARCH OF EQUILIBRIUMMonica 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 MackenzieNa sentença, “…he expressed that belated belief in the pre-eminent role of culture…” a palavra grifada pode ser substituída porFCF867C8-DC Inglês
Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUniversidade Estadual do Maranhão · 2015MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
A friend is someone who brings out the best in you;
Good friends are always happy to help when you run into a problem;
A friend is someone who cheers you up when you’re feeling bad;
True friends don’t drift apart even after many years of separation;
A real friend will always stand up for you when others are putting you down;
Never be afraid to open up and ask a friend for advice. A true friend will never turn you down;
Make new friends but hang on to the old ones;
Good friends are hard to come by, harder to leave, and impossible to do without.file:///j:/top%2010%20reasons%20why%20learning%20english
É extremamente comum em inglês combinações de verbos com partículas adverbiais ou preposicionais. Essas combinações são geralmente chamadas de verbos frasais (phrasal verbs), preposicionados ou de duas palavras. No texto, encontram-se vários exemplos de verbos frasais negritados. A correlação correta entre o verbo e seu sentido está contemplada em
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Vocabulário | VocabularyUniversidade Estadual do Maranhão · 2015FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
A figura do Uncle Sam sempre está relacionada à convocação de soldados americanos para a guerra. As duas figuras acima estão fazendo essa convocação, porém de maneiras diferentes. Considerando que os dois cartazes indicam uma ordem, a expressão utilizada em um desses cartazes que torna a ordem mais educada é
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Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUniversidade Estadual de Roraima · 2015FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritosText 3
Al Capone
Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to poor immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. In 1920 during the height of Prohibition, Capone’s multi-million dollar Chicago operation in bootlegging, prostitution and gambling dominated the organized crime scene. Capone was responsible for many brutal acts of violence, mainly against other gangsters. The most famous of these was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929, in which he ordered the assassination of seven rivals. Capone was never indicted for his racketeering but was finally brought to justice for income-tax evasion in 1931. After serving six-and-a-half years, Capone was released. He died in 1947 in Miami. Capone’s life captured the public imagination, and his gangster persona has been immortalized in the many movies and books inspired by his exploits.
(Excerpt from the site: http://www.history.com/topics/alcapone. Researched on: October 2015)
Mark the option that correctly completes the meaning of the sentence: Sharks don't __________ their food; they rip off __________of meat and swallow ________whole.F6101C1E-D8 Inglês
Passado simples | Simple pastUniversidade Estadual de Roraima · 2015MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritosText 3
Al Capone
Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to poor immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. In 1920 during the height of Prohibition, Capone’s multi-million dollar Chicago operation in bootlegging, prostitution and gambling dominated the organized crime scene. Capone was responsible for many brutal acts of violence, mainly against other gangsters. The most famous of these was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929, in which he ordered the assassination of seven rivals. Capone was never indicted for his racketeering but was finally brought to justice for income-tax evasion in 1931. After serving six-and-a-half years, Capone was released. He died in 1947 in Miami. Capone’s life captured the public imagination, and his gangster persona has been immortalized in the many movies and books inspired by his exploits.
(Excerpt from the site: http://www.history.com/topics/alcapone. Researched on: October 2015)
In the sentence “Capone was responsible for many brutal acts of violence, mainly against other gangsters”. The verb “was” is the Simple Past of:D9248965-D8 Inglês
Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionFaculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto · 2015FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritosLeia o texto para responder à questão.
W.H.O. calls ‘vaccine hesitancy’ an increasing concern globally
Rick Gladstone
August 18, 2015
The World Health Organization warned Tuesday of what it called the growing problem of “vaccine hesitancy,” when people delay or refuse vaccines for themselves or their children. In a statement on its website, the organization called the problem “a growing challenge for countries seeking to close the immunization gap.” Globally, the organization said, one in five children still do not receive routine lifesaving immunizations, and 1.5 million children die each year of diseases that could have been thwarted by vaccines.
(www.nytimes.com)
No trecho do texto “1.5 million children die each year of diseases that could have been thwarted by vaccines”, o termo em destaque indica uma ideia de