Questões do ENEM: Linguagens

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    Quando eu ainda não sabia nadar, meu pai me levava para ali, segurava-me um braço e atirava-me num lugar fundo. Puxava-me para cima e deixava-me respirar um instante. Em seguida repetia a tortura. Com o correr do tempo aprendi natação com os bichos e livrei-me disso.Mais tarde, na escola de mestre Antônio Justino, li a história de um pintor e de um cachorro que morria afogado. Pois para mim era no poço da Pedra que se dava o desastre. Sempre imaginei o pintor com a cara de Camilo Pereira da Silva, e o cachorro parecia-se comigo.

    Se eu pudesse fazer o mesmo com Marina, afogá-la devagar, trazendo-a para a superfície quando ela estivesse perdendo o fôlego, prolongar o suplício um dia inteiro...

   Debaixo da chuva, a mangueira do quintal está toda branca. O papagaio na cozinha bate as asas, sacudindo os salpicos que vêm da biqueira. Afago o pelo macio do meu gato mourisco, que dorme enroscado numa cadeira. As ideias ruins desaparecem. Marina desaparece.

   Ponho-me a vagabundear em pensamento pela vila distante, entro na igreja, escuto os sermões e os desaforos que padre Inácio pregava aos matutos: – “Arreda, povo, raça de cachorro com porco.” Sento-me no paredão do açude, ouço a cantilena dos sapos. Vejo a figura sinistra de seu Evaristo enforcado e os homens que iam para a cadeia amarrados de cordas. Lembro-me de um fato, de outro fato anterior ou posterior ao primeiro, mas os dois vêm juntos. E os tipos que evoco não têm relevo. Tudo empastado, confuso. Em seguida os dois acontecimentos se distanciam e entre eles nascem outros acontecimentos que vão crescendo até me darem sofrível noção de realidade. As feições das pessoas ganham nitidez. De toda aquela vida havia no meu espírito vagos indícios. Saíram do entorpecimento recordações que a imaginação completou.

   A escola era triste. Mas, durante as lições, em pé, de braços cruzados, escutando as emboanças de mestre Antônio Justino, eu via, no outro lado da rua, uma casa que tinha sempre a porta escancarada mostrando a sala, o corredor e o quintal cheio de roseiras. Moravam ali três mulheres velhas que pareciam formigas.

Relacione os trechos retirados do livro Angústia, de Graciliano Ramos, às afirmações a seguir.

1. “Era como se a gente houvesse deixado a Terra. De repente surgiam vozes estranhas. Que eram? Ainda hoje não sei. Vozes que iam crescendo, monótonas, e me causavam medo”.

2. “Ia cheio de satisfação maluca. Não tirava a mão do bolso, apalpava as caixinhas, sentia através do papel de seda a macieza do veludo. Na alvura do braço roliço a fita do relógio faria uma cinta negra; a pedrinha branca faiscaria no dedo miúdo”.

3. “E Julião Tavares parado. Minutos antes andava na maciota, o cigarro aceso, o pensamento na cama da mocinha sardenta. Agora ali junto da cerca, estirado. Inconveniente ficar ao lado dele. Inconveniente”.

4. “Não haveria desatino: as duas mulheres eram fatalistas e queixavam-se da sorte. Malucas. Revoltava-me o recurso infantil de se xingarem, arrancarem os cabelos. Era evidente que Julião Tavares devia morrer. Não procurei investigar as razões desta necessidade. Ela se impunha, entravame na cabeça como um prego. Um prego me atravessava os miolos.”

5. “– D. Aurora, tenha paciência. Veja se me arranja um quarto mais barato. Os tempos andam safados, d. Aurora

[...]

Tudo pela hora da morte, seu Luís.

– É verdade, tudo pela hora da morte, d. Adélia.

– A senhora já reparou nos preços dos remédios? A farmácia tem uma goela!”

( ) O Brasil sentia os reflexos econômicos da queda da bolsa de Nova York, em 1929, e da revolução de 1930.

( ) Luís da Silva é um homem atormentado e sua narrativa revela confusão.

( ) Após o homicídio, a memória de Luís da Silva é fragmentada, passado e presente se confundem.

( ) Empolgado com o noivado, Luís da Silva se vê desejando entregar à Marina o presente que tanto lhe custara.

( ) Luís da Silva alimenta ódio por Julião Tavares. A gravidez e o abandono de Marina são a mola propulsora para o assassinato.

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a numeração em sequência CORRETA, de cima para baixo.

Leia o texto a seguir e responda a questão:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/hurricane-irma (acessado em 07 de setembro de 2017)

Barbuda, the first island to feel the force of Hurricane Irma was devastated by its high winds, with Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, saying 90% of buildings had been destroyed and 50% of the population of around 1,000 people left homeless. Critical facilities including roads and communications systems were ravaged, with the recovery effort set to take months or years. Some residents are expected to be evacuated to the larger sister island of Antigua – where damage was less severe – as part of relief efforts and ahead of the prospective arrival of Hurricane Jose this weekend. At least eight people were killed in St Martin, according to French officials. The number of victims on the Dutch half of the island, St Maarteen, is unknown. Netherlands prime minister Mark Rutte says there has been “enormous material damage” to St Maarten. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, earlier said he expected Irma-related damage to St Martin and another French overseas collectivity, Saint Barthélemy (St Barts), would be “considerable”. France’s overseas minister, Annick Girardin, was travelling to the Caribbean with emergency teams and supplies. The most recent island to be hit was Puerto Rico, where lashing winds and rains have left most of the population without power and tens of thousands without water. Images from the island showed flash flooding, and hospitals were forced to rely on generators. Irma is the worst hurricane to hit the island since 1928, when Hurricane San Felipe killed more than 2,700 people across Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe and Florida .More than two thirds of homes in Puerto Rico are without electricity, and 17% are without water, officials have said.. Florida’s governor, Rick Scott, warned that the arrival of Irma’s lifethreatening wind field and storm surge was imminent, and urged residents in coastal areas to leave immediately. About 250,000 people were ordered to evacuate, making it of the largest evacuations in US history as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) placed south Florida, including the southernmost counties of Monroe, Miami-Dade and Broward, under a hurricane watch. Preparations were escalating at a furious pace as the storm’s forecast path narrowed in on the south-eastern portion of the state, home to 7 million residents. Philip Levine, the mayor of Miami Beach, ordered a mandatory evacuation of the barrier island beginning at daybreak on Thursday. “This is a nuclear hurricane,” he said. “I’ll do anything in my power to convince them to leave. Get off Miami Beach.”Scott warned that that effects of the storm could begin to be felt later on Friday, with the NHC predicting Irma’s full wrath would strike the south-east coast near Miami sometime late Saturday or early Sunday morning then move north.“Look at the size of the storm,” Scott said. “It’s huge, it’s wider than our entire state right now. If you are under an evacuation order do not wait. Leave and get out. We can rebuild your home but you can’t get your life back.”

Leia o texto a seguir e responda a questão:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/hurricane-irma (acessado em 07 de setembro de 2017)

Barbuda, the first island to feel the force of Hurricane Irma was devastated by its high winds, with Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, saying 90% of buildings had been destroyed and 50% of the population of around 1,000 people left homeless. Critical facilities including roads and communications systems were ravaged, with the recovery effort set to take months or years. Some residents are expected to be evacuated to the larger sister island of Antigua – where damage was less severe – as part of relief efforts and ahead of the prospective arrival of Hurricane Jose this weekend. At least eight people were killed in St Martin, according to French officials. The number of victims on the Dutch half of the island, St Maarteen, is unknown. Netherlands prime minister Mark Rutte says there has been “enormous material damage” to St Maarten. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, earlier said he expected Irma-related damage to St Martin and another French overseas collectivity, Saint Barthélemy (St Barts), would be “considerable”. France’s overseas minister, Annick Girardin, was travelling to the Caribbean with emergency teams and supplies. The most recent island to be hit was Puerto Rico, where lashing winds and rains have left most of the population without power and tens of thousands without water. Images from the island showed flash flooding, and hospitals were forced to rely on generators. Irma is the worst hurricane to hit the island since 1928, when Hurricane San Felipe killed more than 2,700 people across Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe and Florida .More than two thirds of homes in Puerto Rico are without electricity, and 17% are without water, officials have said.. Florida’s governor, Rick Scott, warned that the arrival of Irma’s lifethreatening wind field and storm surge was imminent, and urged residents in coastal areas to leave immediately. About 250,000 people were ordered to evacuate, making it of the largest evacuations in US history as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) placed south Florida, including the southernmost counties of Monroe, Miami-Dade and Broward, under a hurricane watch. Preparations were escalating at a furious pace as the storm’s forecast path narrowed in on the south-eastern portion of the state, home to 7 million residents. Philip Levine, the mayor of Miami Beach, ordered a mandatory evacuation of the barrier island beginning at daybreak on Thursday. “This is a nuclear hurricane,” he said. “I’ll do anything in my power to convince them to leave. Get off Miami Beach.”Scott warned that that effects of the storm could begin to be felt later on Friday, with the NHC predicting Irma’s full wrath would strike the south-east coast near Miami sometime late Saturday or early Sunday morning then move north.“Look at the size of the storm,” Scott said. “It’s huge, it’s wider than our entire state right now. If you are under an evacuation order do not wait. Leave and get out. We can rebuild your home but you can’t get your life back.”

Leia o texto a seguir e responda a questão:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/hurricane-irma (acessado em 07 de setembro de 2017)

Barbuda, the first island to feel the force of Hurricane Irma was devastated by its high winds, with Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, saying 90% of buildings had been destroyed and 50% of the population of around 1,000 people left homeless. Critical facilities including roads and communications systems were ravaged, with the recovery effort set to take months or years. Some residents are expected to be evacuated to the larger sister island of Antigua – where damage was less severe – as part of relief efforts and ahead of the prospective arrival of Hurricane Jose this weekend. At least eight people were killed in St Martin, according to French officials. The number of victims on the Dutch half of the island, St Maarteen, is unknown. Netherlands prime minister Mark Rutte says there has been “enormous material damage” to St Maarten. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, earlier said he expected Irma-related damage to St Martin and another French overseas collectivity, Saint Barthélemy (St Barts), would be “considerable”. France’s overseas minister, Annick Girardin, was travelling to the Caribbean with emergency teams and supplies. The most recent island to be hit was Puerto Rico, where lashing winds and rains have left most of the population without power and tens of thousands without water. Images from the island showed flash flooding, and hospitals were forced to rely on generators. Irma is the worst hurricane to hit the island since 1928, when Hurricane San Felipe killed more than 2,700 people across Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe and Florida .More than two thirds of homes in Puerto Rico are without electricity, and 17% are without water, officials have said.. Florida’s governor, Rick Scott, warned that the arrival of Irma’s lifethreatening wind field and storm surge was imminent, and urged residents in coastal areas to leave immediately. About 250,000 people were ordered to evacuate, making it of the largest evacuations in US history as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) placed south Florida, including the southernmost counties of Monroe, Miami-Dade and Broward, under a hurricane watch. Preparations were escalating at a furious pace as the storm’s forecast path narrowed in on the south-eastern portion of the state, home to 7 million residents. Philip Levine, the mayor of Miami Beach, ordered a mandatory evacuation of the barrier island beginning at daybreak on Thursday. “This is a nuclear hurricane,” he said. “I’ll do anything in my power to convince them to leave. Get off Miami Beach.”Scott warned that that effects of the storm could begin to be felt later on Friday, with the NHC predicting Irma’s full wrath would strike the south-east coast near Miami sometime late Saturday or early Sunday morning then move north.“Look at the size of the storm,” Scott said. “It’s huge, it’s wider than our entire state right now. If you are under an evacuation order do not wait. Leave and get out. We can rebuild your home but you can’t get your life back.”

Leia o texto a seguir e responda a questão:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/hurricane-irma (acessado em 07 de setembro de 2017)

Barbuda, the first island to feel the force of Hurricane Irma was devastated by its high winds, with Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, saying 90% of buildings had been destroyed and 50% of the population of around 1,000 people left homeless. Critical facilities including roads and communications systems were ravaged, with the recovery effort set to take months or years. Some residents are expected to be evacuated to the larger sister island of Antigua – where damage was less severe – as part of relief efforts and ahead of the prospective arrival of Hurricane Jose this weekend. At least eight people were killed in St Martin, according to French officials. The number of victims on the Dutch half of the island, St Maarteen, is unknown. Netherlands prime minister Mark Rutte says there has been “enormous material damage” to St Maarten. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, earlier said he expected Irma-related damage to St Martin and another French overseas collectivity, Saint Barthélemy (St Barts), would be “considerable”. France’s overseas minister, Annick Girardin, was travelling to the Caribbean with emergency teams and supplies. The most recent island to be hit was Puerto Rico, where lashing winds and rains have left most of the population without power and tens of thousands without water. Images from the island showed flash flooding, and hospitals were forced to rely on generators. Irma is the worst hurricane to hit the island since 1928, when Hurricane San Felipe killed more than 2,700 people across Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe and Florida .More than two thirds of homes in Puerto Rico are without electricity, and 17% are without water, officials have said.. Florida’s governor, Rick Scott, warned that the arrival of Irma’s lifethreatening wind field and storm surge was imminent, and urged residents in coastal areas to leave immediately. About 250,000 people were ordered to evacuate, making it of the largest evacuations in US history as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) placed south Florida, including the southernmost counties of Monroe, Miami-Dade and Broward, under a hurricane watch. Preparations were escalating at a furious pace as the storm’s forecast path narrowed in on the south-eastern portion of the state, home to 7 million residents. Philip Levine, the mayor of Miami Beach, ordered a mandatory evacuation of the barrier island beginning at daybreak on Thursday. “This is a nuclear hurricane,” he said. “I’ll do anything in my power to convince them to leave. Get off Miami Beach.”Scott warned that that effects of the storm could begin to be felt later on Friday, with the NHC predicting Irma’s full wrath would strike the south-east coast near Miami sometime late Saturday or early Sunday morning then move north.“Look at the size of the storm,” Scott said. “It’s huge, it’s wider than our entire state right now. If you are under an evacuation order do not wait. Leave and get out. We can rebuild your home but you can’t get your life back.”

Leia o texto a seguir e responda a questão:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/hurricane-irma (acessado em 07 de setembro de 2017)

Barbuda, the first island to feel the force of Hurricane Irma was devastated by its high winds, with Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, saying 90% of buildings had been destroyed and 50% of the population of around 1,000 people left homeless. Critical facilities including roads and communications systems were ravaged, with the recovery effort set to take months or years. Some residents are expected to be evacuated to the larger sister island of Antigua – where damage was less severe – as part of relief efforts and ahead of the prospective arrival of Hurricane Jose this weekend. At least eight people were killed in St Martin, according to French officials. The number of victims on the Dutch half of the island, St Maarteen, is unknown. Netherlands prime minister Mark Rutte says there has been “enormous material damage” to St Maarten. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, earlier said he expected Irma-related damage to St Martin and another French overseas collectivity, Saint Barthélemy (St Barts), would be “considerable”. France’s overseas minister, Annick Girardin, was travelling to the Caribbean with emergency teams and supplies. The most recent island to be hit was Puerto Rico, where lashing winds and rains have left most of the population without power and tens of thousands without water. Images from the island showed flash flooding, and hospitals were forced to rely on generators. Irma is the worst hurricane to hit the island since 1928, when Hurricane San Felipe killed more than 2,700 people across Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe and Florida .More than two thirds of homes in Puerto Rico are without electricity, and 17% are without water, officials have said.. Florida’s governor, Rick Scott, warned that the arrival of Irma’s lifethreatening wind field and storm surge was imminent, and urged residents in coastal areas to leave immediately. About 250,000 people were ordered to evacuate, making it of the largest evacuations in US history as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) placed south Florida, including the southernmost counties of Monroe, Miami-Dade and Broward, under a hurricane watch. Preparations were escalating at a furious pace as the storm’s forecast path narrowed in on the south-eastern portion of the state, home to 7 million residents. Philip Levine, the mayor of Miami Beach, ordered a mandatory evacuation of the barrier island beginning at daybreak on Thursday. “This is a nuclear hurricane,” he said. “I’ll do anything in my power to convince them to leave. Get off Miami Beach.”Scott warned that that effects of the storm could begin to be felt later on Friday, with the NHC predicting Irma’s full wrath would strike the south-east coast near Miami sometime late Saturday or early Sunday morning then move north.“Look at the size of the storm,” Scott said. “It’s huge, it’s wider than our entire state right now. If you are under an evacuation order do not wait. Leave and get out. We can rebuild your home but you can’t get your life back.”

Leia o trecho do relato de um imigrante ao jornal britânico The Guardian.

I’ve never thought of myself as an immigrant, although I suppose technically I am one. I’m a British citizen, and happy to be, although, in a deeper sense, I might describe myself, nationally speaking, as homeless – and proud of it. There’s much to be said for the philosophical notion of homelessness or the “other”. I’m committed to my family, to certain moral values, to people who share them, to my work, less so to nations or flags as such.

I left Israel for the first time as a boy, in 1967, after the six-day war. I lived in Berkeley, in the US, came back to Israel, left for good as a graduate student and came to study classics in Oxford.

<https://tinyurl.com/zemyaac> Acesso em: 15.02.2017. Adaptado.

De acordo com o texto, o imigrante

Recentemente, a agência de notícias BBC publicou uma reportagem sobre o controle imigratório no Canadá, com o seguinte título: 

Atraindo cada vez mais brasileiros, Canadá se firma como destino global de imigrantes

<https://tinyurl.com/m83b8bg> Acesso em: 17.02.2017.

A relação entre as duas orações que compõem o título da notícia é de

Uma pesquisa foi realizada com alguns alunos da Fatec–São Paulo sobre a participação em um Projeto de Iniciação Científica (PIC) e a participação na reunião anual da Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC).Dos 75 alunos entrevistados:

• 17 não participaram de nenhuma dessas duas atividades;

• 36 participaram da reunião da SBPC e

• 42 participaram do PIC.

Nessas condições, o número de alunos entrevistados que participaram do PIC e da reunião da SBPC é

     Eu, Robô (I, Robot) é uma coletânea de contos escritos por Isaac Asimov que procura descrever, sob o ponto de vista do autor, o hipotético aumento da presença e da atuação dos robôs na sociedade.

    Leia o texto, que apresenta uma entrevista com a personagem Susan Calvin, uma “robopsicóloga”, e responda à questão.

Susan Calvin had been born in the year 1982, they said, which made her seventy five now. Everyone knew that. Appropriately enough, U. S. Robot and Mechanical Men, Inc. was seventy-five also, since it had been in the year of Dr. Calvin’s birth that Lawrence Robertson had first taken out incorporation papers for what eventually became the strangest industrial giant in man’s history. Well, everyone knew that, too. (…)

She went back to her desk and sat down. She didn’t need expression on her face to look sad, somehow.

“How old are you?” she wanted to know.

“Thirty-two,” I said. 

“Then you don’t remember a world without robots. There was a time when humanity faced the universe alone and without a friend. Now he has creatures to help him; stronger creatures than himself, more faithful, more useful, and absolutely devoted to him. Mankind is no longer alone. Have you ever thought of it that way?”

“I’m afraid I haven’t. May I quote you?”

“You may. To you, a robot is a robot. Gears and metal; electricity and positrons. Mind and iron! Human-made! If necessary, human-destroyed! But you haven’t worked with them, so you don’t know them. They’re a cleaner, better breed than we are.”

(ASIMOV, I. I, Robot. Greenwich, Conn: Fawcett Publications,1950. p. 2-3.)

O termo may em May I quote you? expressa a ideia de

     “Não havia um segundo a perder. Tirou o machado de sob o capote, levantando-o com as duas mãos e, com um gesto seco, quase mecânico, deixou-o cair na cabeça da velha. Suas mãos pareciam-lhe não ter mais forças. Entretanto, readquiriu-as assim que vibrou o primeiro golpe.

     A velha estava com a cabeça descoberta, como de hábito. Os cabelos claros, grisalhos e escassos, abundantemente oleados, formavam uma pequena trança, presa à nuca por um fragmento de pente. Como era baixa, o golpe atingiu-a nas têmporas. Deu um grito fraco e caiu, tendo tido, no entanto, tempo de levar as mãos à cabeça.”

(DOSTOIÉVSKI, F. Crime e Castigo. São Paulo: Abril, 2010. p.111.)

Na passagem “Entretanto, readquiriu-as assim que vibrou o primeiro golpe.”, a palavra as

     “Não havia um segundo a perder. Tirou o machado de sob o capote, levantando-o com as duas mãos e, com um gesto seco, quase mecânico, deixou-o cair na cabeça da velha. Suas mãos pareciam-lhe não ter mais forças. Entretanto, readquiriu-as assim que vibrou o primeiro golpe.

     A velha estava com a cabeça descoberta, como de hábito. Os cabelos claros, grisalhos e escassos, abundantemente oleados, formavam uma pequena trança, presa à nuca por um fragmento de pente. Como era baixa, o golpe atingiu-a nas têmporas. Deu um grito fraco e caiu, tendo tido, no entanto, tempo de levar as mãos à cabeça.”

(DOSTOIÉVSKI, F. Crime e Castigo. São Paulo: Abril, 2010. p.111.)

No trecho “Deu um grito fraco e caiu.”, o sujeito dos verbos destacados é

Paixão sem grita, amor sem agonia, Que não oprime nem magoa o peito, Que nada mais do que possui queria, E com tão pouco vive satisfeito...

Amor, que os exageros repudia, Misturado de estima e de respeito, E, tirando das mágoas alegria, Fica farto, ficando sem proveito...

Viva sempre a paixão que me consome, Sem uma queixa, sem um só lamento! Arda sempre este amor que desanimas!

Eu, eu tenha sempre, ao murmurar teu nome, O coração, malgrado o sofrimento, Como um rosal desabrochado em rimas.

<https://tinyurl.com/nxwg9mp> Acesso em: 17.02.2017. 

Dentre as características do texto Incontentado, de Olavo Bilac, temos

Paixão sem grita, amor sem agonia, Que não oprime nem magoa o peito, Que nada mais do que possui queria, E com tão pouco vive satisfeito...

Amor, que os exageros repudia, Misturado de estima e de respeito, E, tirando das mágoas alegria, Fica farto, ficando sem proveito...

Viva sempre a paixão que me consome, Sem uma queixa, sem um só lamento! Arda sempre este amor que desanimas!

Eu, eu tenha sempre, ao murmurar teu nome, O coração, malgrado o sofrimento, Como um rosal desabrochado em rimas.

<https://tinyurl.com/nxwg9mp> Acesso em: 17.02.2017. 

Olavo Bilac foi poeta brasileiro, identificado com o movimento literário intitulado Parnasianismo. Uma das características literárias desse movimento é o uso de rimas ricas, ou seja, rimas entre palavras de classes gramaticais diferentes.

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta uma rima rica entre um verbo e um substantivo.

Paixão sem grita, amor sem agonia, Que não oprime nem magoa o peito, Que nada mais do que possui queria, E com tão pouco vive satisfeito...

Amor, que os exageros repudia, Misturado de estima e de respeito, E, tirando das mágoas alegria, Fica farto, ficando sem proveito...

Viva sempre a paixão que me consome, Sem uma queixa, sem um só lamento! Arda sempre este amor que desanimas!

Eu, eu tenha sempre, ao murmurar teu nome, O coração, malgrado o sofrimento, Como um rosal desabrochado em rimas.

<https://tinyurl.com/nxwg9mp> Acesso em: 17.02.2017. 

O eu lírico do poema está em busca de um amor específico.

Esse amor deve

O título do artigo – Mais escolarizadas, mulheres ainda ganham menos e têm dificuldades de subir na carreira – poderia ser substituído, sem causar prejuízo de sentido, por:

Considere o cartum.

De acordo com o texto do cartum,

    I’m having a hard time starting this article. According to research out of the University of Melbourne, that might be because I’m middle-aged and work too much. Economists determined that burning the midnight oil makes you, well, dumber.” Our study highlights that too much work can have adverse effects on cognitive functioning,” they conclude.

    Tell us something we didn’t know. Who hasn’t, at the end of a seemingly endless workweek, found themselves staring blankly at their computer screen or into space unable to remember what they had for lunch, let alone form a coherent thought about the task at hand?

      For some employees, of course – the average resident 2 physician or, these days, that “3 gig economy” worker who makes ends meet by banging away at multiple projects – long hours are a fact of modern working life. And there’s a cost. Medical researchers have shown that working too much can affect employees’ physical and mental health.

      So how much is too much? For people age 40 and older, working up to roughly 25 hours per week boosts memory, the ability to quickly process information and other aspects of cognitive function, according to the study, which drew on a longitudinal survey that tracks the well-being of 6,000 Australians. Beyond 25 hours a week, the middle-aged brain doesn’t work as well, the study indicates, noting that the findings apply to both men and women.

<http://tinyurl.com/j4os8ck> Acesso em: 24.08.2016. Adaptado.

    I’m having a hard time starting this article. According to research out of the University of Melbourne, that might be because I’m middle-aged and work too much. Economists determined that burning the midnight oil makes you, well, dumber.” Our study highlights that too much work can have adverse effects on cognitive functioning,” they conclude.

    Tell us something we didn’t know. Who hasn’t, at the end of a seemingly endless workweek, found themselves staring blankly at their computer screen or into space unable to remember what they had for lunch, let alone form a coherent thought about the task at hand?

      For some employees, of course – the average resident 2 physician or, these days, that “3 gig economy” worker who makes ends meet by banging away at multiple projects – long hours are a fact of modern working life. And there’s a cost. Medical researchers have shown that working too much can affect employees’ physical and mental health.

      So how much is too much? For people age 40 and older, working up to roughly 25 hours per week boosts memory, the ability to quickly process information and other aspects of cognitive function, according to the study, which drew on a longitudinal survey that tracks the well-being of 6,000 Australians. Beyond 25 hours a week, the middle-aged brain doesn’t work as well, the study indicates, noting that the findings apply to both men and women.

<http://tinyurl.com/j4os8ck> Acesso em: 24.08.2016. Adaptado.

    I’m having a hard time starting this article. According to research out of the University of Melbourne, that might be because I’m middle-aged and work too much. Economists determined that burning the midnight oil makes you, well, dumber.” Our study highlights that too much work can have adverse effects on cognitive functioning,” they conclude.

    Tell us something we didn’t know. Who hasn’t, at the end of a seemingly endless workweek, found themselves staring blankly at their computer screen or into space unable to remember what they had for lunch, let alone form a coherent thought about the task at hand?

      For some employees, of course – the average resident 2 physician or, these days, that “3 gig economy” worker who makes ends meet by banging away at multiple projects – long hours are a fact of modern working life. And there’s a cost. Medical researchers have shown that working too much can affect employees’ physical and mental health.

      So how much is too much? For people age 40 and older, working up to roughly 25 hours per week boosts memory, the ability to quickly process information and other aspects of cognitive function, according to the study, which drew on a longitudinal survey that tracks the well-being of 6,000 Australians. Beyond 25 hours a week, the middle-aged brain doesn’t work as well, the study indicates, noting that the findings apply to both men and women.

<http://tinyurl.com/j4os8ck> Acesso em: 24.08.2016. Adaptado.

Considere a afirmação: “Our study highlights that too much work can have adverse effects on cognitive functioning.”

Um dos efeitos adversos do trabalho excessivo apresentado pelo autor é