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Caso genitivo | Genitive caseUFT · 2011MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
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Read the statements below and mark the CORRECT answer:BF03B6DB-E7 Inglês
Vocabulário | VocabularyUniversidade Estadual de Feira de Santana · 2010FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
The correct sign for the number “three thousand seven hundred” (l. 23) is inBEB85D36-E7 Inglês
Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUniversidade Estadual de Feira de Santana · 2010MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
The word or expression from the text can be grammatically and semantically replaced by the one on the right inE7D20D88-DF Inglês
Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspectsUniversidade Estadual de Feira de Santana · 2010DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritosTEXTO:
BRYANT, Nick. Record blow for teenage sailor. Disponível em:<www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2010/05/100505_witn_sailing.shtml>. Acesso em: 5 jun. 2010.
“We don’t want to take away from what the kid’s done” (l. 20-21). The ’s in this sentence is theE7AEDEA2-DF Inglês
Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUniversidade Estadual de Feira de Santana · 2010MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
LONG, Gideon. Earthquake science. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2010/03/100405_witn_earthquake_science.shtml>. Acesso em: 6 jun. 2010.
“the ground shaking was crescendoing” (l.17-18) means that the shake was58746FEF-D7 Inglês
Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctionsUniversidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie · 2010MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
The Boom Is Nigh
Why the coming recovery will hurt like hell.By Gregg Easterbrook
Home prices keep falling, but productivity is rising fast. GDP grew 5.6 percent in the fourth quarter, yet unemployment remains stubbornly high. Inflation is nonexistent, while the consumer confidence index just rose to 55.9 from 53.6—whatever that means. Can’t make sense of these economic indicators? Don’t worry, because nobody else can, either.
Here is what you really need to know: a Sonic Boom is coming. It will be caused by globalization. And while globalization may be driving you crazy, it’s just getting started. Thirty years ago, Shenzhen, China, did not exist; today, it has nearly 9 million residents, roughly the same as New York City. In a single generation, it has grown from a village of tarpaper shacks into an important urban center. It has become the world’s fourth-busiest port, busier than Los Angeles and Long Beach combined. Never before has a great city been built so fast, nor a productive economy established from so little.
The international recession that began in 2008 has made the Sonic Boom quieter, but history shows that when a crisis ends, the larger trends in place before the crisis usually resume. Shenzhen represents the larger trend of growth, change, and transformation at unprecedented velocity. Thanks to vast increases in productivity, worldwide economic growth soon will pick up, creating rising prosperity and higher living standards for most people in most nations. The world will be far more interconnected, leading to better and more affordable products, as well as ever better communication among nations.
But there’s a big catch: just as favorable economic and social trends are likely to resume, many problems that have characterized recent decades are likely to get worse, too. Job instability, economic insecurity, a sense of turmoil, the fear that even when things seem good a hammer is about to fall—these are also part of the larger trend. As world economies become ever more linked by computers, job stress will become a 24/7 affair. Frequent shakeups in industries will cause increasing uncertainty. The horizon has never been brighter, but we may not feel particularly happy about it.www.newsweek.comIn the title of the article, the word nighB6A650E3-B5 Inglês
Falso Cognatos | False CognatesIF-TM · 2010DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritosGOOGLE TV: BOOM OR BUST
By: Tim Bajarin (10.18.2010)
The industry has been trying to bring IPTV to your TV since 1997. What makes Google and its partners think they'll be successful?
I have a question for you. Do you want to view the Internet on your TV? With all of the activity in IPTV these days, this is one of the key questions that is at the heart of whether IPTV eventually succeeds or fails. Since TVs were invented, we have been trained to sit in front of them and consume not interact with them. And only recently have we had to multitask with our TV. Even though we've had picture in picture for years, it took news scrolls at the bottom of our TV screens to train our brains. So, how will consumers integrate the new and even more complex IPTV features into their TV viewing experience?
One of the traits of consumers that has emboldened the IPTV crowd to push forward is the fact that many people sit on their couch and use their laptops or tablets while watching TV. They reason that if they multi-task in this fashion, they may be willing do it on the bigger screen. While I accept the fact that people may want Internet content, such as movies, TV shows, YouTube, etc. on their TV screens, it is quite a leap to assume that people also want to read their newspapers and magazines or view Web sites on a big-screen TV.
Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370894,00.asp, accessed on November 4, 2010.
Push is a false cognate. In which of the sentences isn’t there another one?4758F8DE-B4 Inglês
Vocabulário | VocabularyUniversidade Estadual de Feira de Santana · 2010FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritosTEXTO:
Multitasking harmful to productivity
MULTITASKING, harmful to productivity. Disponível em: <http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/worldsinthenews/2009/08/090831_witn_multitasking.shtml>. Acesso em: 2 jan. 2010.The expression “In fact” (l. 4) can be suitably replaced by4755522C-B4 Inglês
Aspectos linguísticos | Linguistic aspectsUniversidade Estadual de Feira de Santana · 2010MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritosTEXTO:
Multitasking harmful to productivity
MULTITASKING, harmful to productivity. Disponível em: <http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/worldsinthenews/2009/08/090831_witn_multitasking.shtml>. Acesso em: 2 jan. 2010.The word or expression from the text expresses what is stated on the right in alternative47276D4D-B4 Inglês
Vocabulário | VocabularyUniversidade Estadual de Feira de Santana · 2010DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritosTEXTO:
Can animals predict natural disasters?
CAN, animals predict natural disasters? Disponível em: <http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/8178-1/Adaptado. Acesso em: 20 dez.2009.
The only alternative in which there is not a pair of opposites is520BCC0F-B1 Inglês
Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUEMG · 2010MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritosThe Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill on the U.S.
www.freewebs.com/mathewstolte/oilspills.html. 21/06/2010
Although the oil has been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico for months, the consequences of this larger than ever environmental disaster have yet to be fully examined and determined. Scientists and researchers have started to put together some of the puzzle pieces, and the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are likely to be big.
North Americans will have fewer choices on the store shelves. The Gulf of Mexico is a huge shipping lane through which products of all shapes and sizes come into North America. From toys to clothes to cars to building materials, you may find that the selection at your local store begins to shrink as shipping lanes slow down as a result of the oil spill.
Whether you’re taking a vacation or hoping to walk along the shore, you may be disappointed. Many beaches in the U.S.A. are now closing as clean-up efforts on removing oil slick from the sands. But the impact may be felt for quite some time as oil continues to wash up on shore.
Many wildlife animals will be impacted by the oil spill. Oiled birds, otter, bald eagles, pelicans, turtles, fish, and dolphins are already washing up on shore, making the beach sights less than palatable for someone looking to see some pristine nature.
Over time, molluscs like clams incorporate calcium into their shells throughout their lifetimes. But the heavy metals like nickel and vanadium from the petroleum industry and the resulting oil spill may be incorporated into the shells of these creatures. As other wildlife consumes these clams, they incorporate the toxins into their bodies, and on it goes as the heavy metals bio-accumulate in the food chain. This could have serious, long-term consequences for human health.
Environmentalists have been working on restoring the populations of oysters by reseeding certain reefs to boost their numbers. The Gulf of Mexico has been home-working on some of these projects, but with the massive oil spilling into that environment, the oysters could soon become tainted with chemicals, making them unsafe to eat.
The Gulf of Mexico is also a nursery for species like shrimp that grow up in the estuaries. The oil that is taking over this natural environment will choke out the plants that make the estuaries so nutritious to shrimp.
According to the National Weather Service, a hurricane like Hurricane Katrina could have a devastating impact on New Orleans. Researchers expect 15 named storms to develop into 8 hurricanes, and with a well-placed hurricane, the oil could be pushed onto New Orleans shores, further impacting the already devastated region.
Adapted from http://www.thenewecologist.com (21/06/2010)
In the sentence, “…the selection at your local store begins to shrink”, the verb to shrink means6FB71FE8-B0 Inglês
Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUDESC · 2010MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritosRead Text 2 and answer the question.
The words: “plainly” (line 1), “motley” (line 2) and “jocund” (line 14) are used in the text as:
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Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUDESC · 2010MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritosRead the Text 1 and answer the question.
Mark a correct synonym for “forever” (line 14).
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Vocabulário | VocabularyPUC-GO · 2010DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritosFrom the lists presented below, select the only one that has a sequence of different kinds of meat:5D47AB91-B0 Inglês
Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehensionUNICENTRO · 2010Muito difícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
BLACK, Richard. Arctic warmest in two millennia. Disponível em:<www.bbc.co.uk/ worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2009/09/090904_witn_arctic.shtml>. Acesso em: 10 jun. 2010.
The only alternative in which the word or expression from the text IS NOT correctly defined is5D312BF4-B0 Inglês
Vocabulário | VocabularyUNICENTRO · 2010DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
COLLYNS, Dan. Peruvian mummy found. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2009/09/090916_witn_peru_mummy.shtm>. Acesso em: 10 jun. 2010.
__________ the mummy was very old, the dead body _______
Based on the text, the alternative that completes the blanks correctly is
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Vocabulário | VocabularyPUC - RS · 2010DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritosINSTRUCTION: Answer question with information from text 1.
TEXT 1
(Source: The New England Journal of Medicine,
Number 7, August 13, 2009)
The respective meaning of the verbs to prompt and to carve, according to their use in the text (line 13) is04C150BF-8D Inglês
Vocabulário | VocabularyUNESP · 2010MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritosInstrução: Leia o texto Status of same-sex marriage para responder a questão.Status of same-sex marriageSouth AmericaArgentina
The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (a federal district and capital city of the republic) allows same-sex civil unions.The province of Rio Negro allows same-sex civil unions, too.Legislation to enact same-sex marriage across all of Argentina was approved on July 15, 2010.BrazilA law that would allow same-sex civil unions throughout the nation has been debated. Until the end of the first semester of 2010 the Supremo Tribunal Federal had not decided about it.ColombiaThe Colombian Constitutional Court ruled in February 2007 that same-sex couples are entitled to the same inheritance rights as heterosexuals in common-law marriages. This ruling made Colombia the first South American nation to legally recognize gay couples. Furthermore, in January 2009, the Court ruled that same-sex couples must be extended all of the rights offered to cohabitating heterosexual couples.EcuadorThe Ecuadorian new constitution has made Ecuador stand out in the region. Ecuador has become the first country in South America where same sex civil union couples are legally recognized as a family and share the same rights of marriedheterosexual couples.UruguayUruguay became the first country in South America to allow civil unions (for both opposite-sex and same-sexcouples) in a national platform on January 1, 2008. Children can be adopted by same-sex couples since 2009.(http://en.wikipedia.org/. Adaptado.)Assinale a alternativa na qual todos os termos se caracterizam como vocabulário específico da área legislativa.049FD52E-8D Inglês
Tradução | TranslationUNESP · 2010FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritosInstrução: Leia a história em quadrinhos de Archie, What goes up, para responder a questão.
(Tales from…Riverdale. Archie Comic Publications, dezembro de 2006.)
Qual o significado, na história, dos termos cable bill, a good time e report card, respectivamente ?F2BE62C1-E4 Inglês
Tradução | TranslationUFGD · 2010FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritosFOR CATS, A BIG GULP WITH A TOUCH OF THE TONGUE
It has taken four highly qualified engineers and a bunch of integral equations to figure it out, but we now know how cats drink. The answer is: very elegantly, and not at all the way you might suppose. Cats lap water so fast that the human eye cannot follow what is happening, which is why the trick had apparently escaped attention until now. With the use of high-speed photography, the neatness of the feline solution has been captured. The act of drinking may seem like no big deal for anyone who can fully close his mouth to create suction, as people can. But the various species that cannot do so - and that includes most adult carnivores - must resort to some other mechanism. Dog owners are familiar with the unseemly lapping noises that ensue when their thirsty pet meets a bowl of water. The dog is thrusting its tongue into the water, forming a crude cup with it and hauling the liquid back into the muzzle.
Cats, both big and little, are so much classier, according to new research by Pedro M. Reis and Roman Stocker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined by Sunghwan Jung of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Jeffrey M. Aristoff of Princeton. Writing in the Thursday issue of Science, the four engineers report that the cat’s lapping method depends on its instinctive ability to calculate the balance between opposing gravitational and inertial forces. What happens is that the cat darts its tongue, curving the upper side downward so that the tip lightly touches the surface of the water.
The tongue is then pulled upward at high speed, drawing a column of water behind it. Just at the moment that gravity finally overcomes the rush of the water and starts to pull the column down - snap! The cat’s jaws have closed over the jet of water and swallowed it. The cat laps four times a second - too fast for the human eye to see anything but a blur - and its tongue moves at a speed of one meter per second. Being engineers, the cat-lapping team next tested its findings with a machine that mimicked a cat’s tongue, using a glass disk at the end of a piston to serve as the tip. After calculating things like the Froude number and the aspect ratio, they were able to figure out how fast a cat should lap to get the greatest amount of water into its mouth. The cats, it turns out, were way ahead of them - they lap at just that speed. To the scientific mind, the next obvious question is whether bigger cats should lap at different speeds.
WADE, Nicholas. For cats, a big gulp with a touch of the tongue. Disponível em: Acesso em: 20 nov. 2010.
Qual é o significado do substantivo sublinhado na seguinte oração?
"The neatness of the feline solution has been captured".