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  • Linguagens

    Português

    Leia o conto “A moça rica”, de Rubem Braga (1913-1990), para responder à questão.


          A madrugada era escura nas moitas de mangue, e eu avançava no batelão1 velho; remava cansado, com um resto de sono. De longe veio um rincho2 de cavalo; depois, numa choça de pescador, junto do morro, tremulou a luz de uma lamparina.

          Aquele rincho de cavalo me fez lembrar a moça que eu encontrara galopando na praia. Ela era corada, forte. Viera do Rio, sabíamos que era muito rica, filha de um irmão de um homem de nossa terra. A princípio a olhei com espanto, quase desgosto: ela usava calças compridas, fazia caçadas, dava tiros, saía de barco com os pescadores. Mas na segunda noite, quando nos juntamos todos na casa de Joaquim Pescador, ela cantou; tinha bebido cachaça, como todos nós, e cantou primeiro uma coisa em inglês, depois o Luar do sertão e uma canção antiga que dizia assim: “Esse alguém que logo encanta deve ser alguma santa”. Era uma canção triste.

          Cantando, ela parou de me assustar; cantando, ela deixou que eu a adorasse com essa adoração súbita, mas tímida, esse fervor confuso da adolescência – adoração sem esperança, ela devia ter dois anos mais do que eu. E amaria o rapaz de suéter e sapato de basquete, que costuma ir ao Rio, ou (murmurava-se) o homem casado, que já tinha ido até à Europa e tinha um automóvel e uma coleção de espingardas magníficas. Não a mim, com minha pobre flaubert 3 , não a mim, de calça e camisa, descalço, não a mim, que não sabia lidar nem com um motor de popa, apenas tocar um batelão com meu remo.

          Duas semanas depois que ela chegou é que a encontrei na praia solitária; eu vinha a pé, ela veio galopando a cavalo; vi-a de longe, meu coração bateu adivinhando quem poderia estar galopando sozinha a cavalo, ao longo da praia, na manhã fria. Pensei que ela fosse passar me dando apenas um adeus, esse “bom-dia” que no interior a gente dá a quem encontra; mas parou, o animal resfolegando e ela respirando forte, com os seios agitados dentro da blusa fina, branca. São as duas imagens que se gravaram na minha memória, desse encontro: a pele escura e suada do cavalo e a seda branca da blusa; aquela dupla respiração animal no ar fino da manhã.

          E saltou, me chamando pelo nome, conversou comigo. Séria, como se eu fosse um rapaz mais velho do que ela, um homem como os de sua roda, com calças de “palm-beach”, relógio de pulso. Perguntou coisas sobre peixes; fiquei com vergonha de não saber quase nada, não sabia os nomes dos peixes que ela dizia, deviam ser peixes de outros lugares mais importantes, com certeza mais bonitos. Perguntou se a gente comia aqueles cocos dos coqueirinhos junto da praia – e falou de minha irmã, que conhecera, quis saber se era verdade que eu nadara desde a ponta do Boi até perto da lagoa.

          De repente me fulminou: “Por que você não gosta de mim? Você me trata sempre de um modo esquisito...” Respondi, estúpido, com a voz rouca: “Eu não”.

          Ela então riu, disse que eu confessara que não gostava mesmo dela, e eu disse: “Não é isso.” Montou o cavalo, perguntou se eu não queria ir na garupa. Inventei que precisava passar na casa dos Lisboa. Não insistiu, me deu um adeus muito alegre; no dia seguinte foi-se embora.

          Agora eu estava ali remando no batelão, para ir no Severone apanhar uns camarões vivos para isca; e o relincho distante de um cavalo me fez lembrar a moça bonita e rica. Eu disse comigo – rema, bobalhão! – e fui remando com força, sem ligar para os respingos de água fria, cada vez com mais força, como se isto adiantasse alguma coisa.

                                                                     (Os melhores contos, 1997.)


    1 batelão: embarcação movida a remo.

    2 rincho: relincho.

    3 flaubert: um tipo de espingarda.

    Ao se converter o trecho “Ela então riu, disse que eu confessara que não gostava mesmo dela” (7° parágrafo) para o discurso direto, o verbo “confessara” assume a forma:
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  • Linguagens

    Inglês

    Leia o texto para responder à questão.

    New crab species honors Harry Potter

         A recently discovered crab species has been somewhat tenuously named in honor of characters from the magical world of Harry Potter.
        The crab’s official name is Harryplax severus, with the genus Harryplax named after the crab’s collector, the late researcher and former marine Harry Conley, who died from a gunshot in 2002, as well as the protagonist in J. K. Rowling’s novels. Conley dug up many specimens in Guam’s coral reef rubble almost 20 years ago.
          The latter species part of its name is inspired by the character Severus Snape, who “despite being a central character in the series, keeps his background and agenda mysterious until the very end,” the statement announcing the naming said. The authors note this is “just like the present new species, which has eluded discovery until now, nearly 20 years after it was first collected”.
          Even though Conley found the specimen long ago, its status as a new species and genus was only realized recently by Dr Peter Ng and Dr Jose Cristopher E. Mendoza from the National University of Singapore.
         The crab is tiny, measuring just 7.9 by 5.6 millimeters (0.3 by 0.2 inches), and known only to herald from the island of Guam. It’s found deep in coral rubble or under subtidal rocks, and survives at dark depths with reduced eyes, ones that are not used extensively. Instead, it has antennae to probe the depths, and gets around on long thin legs.
         In the statement, Dr Mendoza was said to be a self-confessed “Potterhead”, hence the somewhat unusual moniker. But it’s not the first time Potter has inspired the naming of a new species – The magazine Popular Science notes that a dinosaur species was named after Hogwarts in 2006 (Dracorex hogwartsia), a wasp in Thailand was named Ampulex dementor in 2014, and a spider was named Eriovixia gryffindori last year.

    (Jonathan O’Callaghan. www.iflscience.com, 24.01.17. Adaptado.)
    De acordo com o sexto parágrafo,
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  • Linguagens

    Inglês

    Leia o texto para responder à questão.

    New crab species honors Harry Potter

         A recently discovered crab species has been somewhat tenuously named in honor of characters from the magical world of Harry Potter.
        The crab’s official name is Harryplax severus, with the genus Harryplax named after the crab’s collector, the late researcher and former marine Harry Conley, who died from a gunshot in 2002, as well as the protagonist in J. K. Rowling’s novels. Conley dug up many specimens in Guam’s coral reef rubble almost 20 years ago.
          The latter species part of its name is inspired by the character Severus Snape, who “despite being a central character in the series, keeps his background and agenda mysterious until the very end,” the statement announcing the naming said. The authors note this is “just like the present new species, which has eluded discovery until now, nearly 20 years after it was first collected”.
          Even though Conley found the specimen long ago, its status as a new species and genus was only realized recently by Dr Peter Ng and Dr Jose Cristopher E. Mendoza from the National University of Singapore.
         The crab is tiny, measuring just 7.9 by 5.6 millimeters (0.3 by 0.2 inches), and known only to herald from the island of Guam. It’s found deep in coral rubble or under subtidal rocks, and survives at dark depths with reduced eyes, ones that are not used extensively. Instead, it has antennae to probe the depths, and gets around on long thin legs.
         In the statement, Dr Mendoza was said to be a self-confessed “Potterhead”, hence the somewhat unusual moniker. But it’s not the first time Potter has inspired the naming of a new species – The magazine Popular Science notes that a dinosaur species was named after Hogwarts in 2006 (Dracorex hogwartsia), a wasp in Thailand was named Ampulex dementor in 2014, and a spider was named Eriovixia gryffindori last year.

    (Jonathan O’Callaghan. www.iflscience.com, 24.01.17. Adaptado.)
    No trecho do quarto parágrafo “a new species and genus was only realized”, o termo em destaque pode ser substituído, sem alteração de sentido, por
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  • Linguagens

    Inglês

    Leia o texto para responder à questão.

    New crab species honors Harry Potter

         A recently discovered crab species has been somewhat tenuously named in honor of characters from the magical world of Harry Potter.
        The crab’s official name is Harryplax severus, with the genus Harryplax named after the crab’s collector, the late researcher and former marine Harry Conley, who died from a gunshot in 2002, as well as the protagonist in J. K. Rowling’s novels. Conley dug up many specimens in Guam’s coral reef rubble almost 20 years ago.
          The latter species part of its name is inspired by the character Severus Snape, who “despite being a central character in the series, keeps his background and agenda mysterious until the very end,” the statement announcing the naming said. The authors note this is “just like the present new species, which has eluded discovery until now, nearly 20 years after it was first collected”.
          Even though Conley found the specimen long ago, its status as a new species and genus was only realized recently by Dr Peter Ng and Dr Jose Cristopher E. Mendoza from the National University of Singapore.
         The crab is tiny, measuring just 7.9 by 5.6 millimeters (0.3 by 0.2 inches), and known only to herald from the island of Guam. It’s found deep in coral rubble or under subtidal rocks, and survives at dark depths with reduced eyes, ones that are not used extensively. Instead, it has antennae to probe the depths, and gets around on long thin legs.
         In the statement, Dr Mendoza was said to be a self-confessed “Potterhead”, hence the somewhat unusual moniker. But it’s not the first time Potter has inspired the naming of a new species – The magazine Popular Science notes that a dinosaur species was named after Hogwarts in 2006 (Dracorex hogwartsia), a wasp in Thailand was named Ampulex dementor in 2014, and a spider was named Eriovixia gryffindori last year.

    (Jonathan O’Callaghan. www.iflscience.com, 24.01.17. Adaptado.)
    No trecho do terceiro parágrafo “The latter species part of its name”, o termo em destaque refere-se a
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  • Linguagens

    Português

    Leia o texto de Eliane Brum para responder à questão.

         Hannah Arendt alcançou o conceito de “a banalidade do mal” ao testemunhar o julgamento do nazista Adolf Eichmann, em Jerusalém, e perceber que ele não era um monstro com um cérebro deformado, nem demonstrava um ódio pessoal e profundo pelos judeus. Eichmann era um homem decepcionantemente comezinho que acreditava apenas ter seguido as regras do Estado e obedecido à lei vigente ao desempenhar seu papel no assassinato de milhões de seres humanos. Eichmann seria só mais um burocrata cumprindo ordens que não lhe ocorreu questionar. A banalidade do mal se instala na ausência do pensamento.
          A boçalidade do mal, uma das explicações possíveis para o atual momento, é um fenômeno gerado pela experiência da internet. Ou pelo menos ligado a ela. Desde que as redes sociais abriram a possibilidade de que cada um expressasse livremente, digamos, o seu “eu mais profundo”, a sua “verdade mais intrínseca”, descobrimos a extensão da cloaca humana. O que se passou foi que descobrimos não apenas o que cada um faz entre quatro paredes, mas também o que acontece entre as duas orelhas de cada um. Descobrimos o que cada um de fato pensa sem nenhuma mediação ou freio. E descobrimos que a barbárie íntima e cotidiana sempre esteve lá, aqui, para além do que poderíamos supor, em dimensões da realidade que só a ficção tinha dado conta até então.
          Descobrimos, por exemplo, que aquele vizinho simpático com quem trocávamos amenidades bem educadas no elevador defende o linchamento de homossexuais. E que mesmo os mais comedidos são capazes de exercer sua crueldade e travesti-la de liberdade de expressão. Nas postagens e comentários das redes sociais, seus autores deixam claro o orgulho do seu ódio e muitas vezes também da sua ignorância. Com frequência reivindicam uma condição de “cidadãos de bem” como justificativa para cometer todo o tipo de maldade, assim como para exercer com desenvoltura seu racismo, sua coleção de preconceitos e sua abissal intolerância com qualquer diferença.
        Ainda temos muito a investigar sobre como a internet, uma das poucas coisas que de fato merecem ser chamadas de revolucionárias, transformou a nossa vida e o nosso modo de pensar e a forma como nos enxergamos. A mesma possibilidade de se mostrar, que nos revelou o ódio, gerou também experiências maravilhosas, inclusive de negação do ódio. Do mesmo modo, a internet ampliou a denúncia de atrocidades e a transformação de realidades injustas, tanto quanto tornou o embate no campo da política muito mais democrático.
          Meu objetivo aqui é chamar a atenção para um aspecto que me parece muito profundo e definidor de nossas relações atuais. A sociedade brasileira, assim como outras, mas da sua forma particular, sempre foi atravessada pela violência. Fundada na eliminação do outro, primeiro dos povos indígenas, depois dos negros escravizados, sua base foi o esvaziamento do diferente como pessoa, e seus ecos continuam fortes. A internet trouxe um novo elemento a esse contexto. Quero entender como indivíduos se apropriaram de suas possibilidades para exercer seu ódio – e como essa experiência alterou nosso cotidiano para muito além da rede.

    (“A boçalidade do mal”. http://brasil.elpais.com, 02.03.2015. Adaptado.)
    Segundo a autora, a “boçalidade do mal”
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  • Linguagens

    Português

    Para responder à questão, leia o poema “pobre alimária” de Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954), publicado em 1925. 

    pobre alimária1 

    O cavalo e a carroça
    Estavam atravancados nos trilhos
    E como o motorneiro² se impacientasse
    Porque levava os advogados para os escritórios
    Desatravancaram o veículo
    E o animal disparou Mas o lesto³ carroceiro
    Trepou na boleia
    E castigou o fugitivo atrelado
    Com um grandioso chicote

    (Obras completas, vol 7, 1974.)

    ¹ alimária: animal quadrúpede.
    ² motorneiro: indivíduo que dirige bonde.
    ³ lesto: ágil, ligeiro.

    É correto afirmar que o poema
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  • Linguagens

    Português

    Leia com atenção o texto a seguir para responder à questão.

    Imagem da questão de Português, UEG 2017, Interpretação de Textos
    SIBILIA, Paula. O homem pós-orgânico: a alquimia dos corpos e das almas à luz das tecnologias digitais. 2. ed. Rio de Janeiro:
    Contraponto, 2015. p. 34-36. (Adaptado). 
    O quarto parágrafo do texto desempenha a seguinte função argumentativa:
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  • Linguagens

    Inglês

    Leia com atenção o texto a seguir para responder à questão.

    'Post-truth' named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries

    In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” to be its international word of the year.

    Defined by the dictionary as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”, editors said that use of the term “post-truth” had increased by around 2,000% in 2016 compared to last year. The spike in usage, it said, is “in the context of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States”. 

    Contenders for the title had included the noun “alt-right”, shortened from the fuller form “alternative right” and defined as “an ideological grouping associated with extreme conservative or reactionary viewpoints, characterised by a rejection of mainstream politics and by the use of online media to disseminate deliberately controversial content”. First used in 2008, its use “surged” this spring and summer, said the dictionary, with 30% of usage in August alone.

    But the increase in usage of post-truth saw the term eventually emerge ahead of the pack. “We first saw the frequency really spike this year in June with buzz over the Brexit vote and Donald Trump securing the Republican presidential nomination. Given that usage of the term hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down, I wouldn’t be surprised if post-truth becomes one of the defining words of our time,” predicted Oxford Dictionaries president Casper Grathwohl.

    “It’s not surprising that our choice reflects a year dominated by highly-charged political and social discourse. Fuelled by the rise of social media as a news source and a growing distrust of facts offered up by the establishment, post-truth as a concept has been finding its linguistic footing for some time.” 

    Disponível em:<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/15/post-truth-named-word-of-the-year-by-oxford-dictionaries>.Acesso em: 21 fev. 2017. (Adaptado).
    Considerando-se o contexto de uso dos termos deliberately, eventually e really, a palavra que completa adequadamente a sentença: post-truth as a concept has _________ been finding its linguistic footing for some time é a seguinte:
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  • Linguagens

    Inglês

    Leia com atenção o texto a seguir para responder à questão.

    'Post-truth' named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries

    In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” to be its international word of the year.

    Defined by the dictionary as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”, editors said that use of the term “post-truth” had increased by around 2,000% in 2016 compared to last year. The spike in usage, it said, is “in the context of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States”. 

    Contenders for the title had included the noun “alt-right”, shortened from the fuller form “alternative right” and defined as “an ideological grouping associated with extreme conservative or reactionary viewpoints, characterised by a rejection of mainstream politics and by the use of online media to disseminate deliberately controversial content”. First used in 2008, its use “surged” this spring and summer, said the dictionary, with 30% of usage in August alone.

    But the increase in usage of post-truth saw the term eventually emerge ahead of the pack. “We first saw the frequency really spike this year in June with buzz over the Brexit vote and Donald Trump securing the Republican presidential nomination. Given that usage of the term hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down, I wouldn’t be surprised if post-truth becomes one of the defining words of our time,” predicted Oxford Dictionaries president Casper Grathwohl.

    “It’s not surprising that our choice reflects a year dominated by highly-charged political and social discourse. Fuelled by the rise of social media as a news source and a growing distrust of facts offered up by the establishment, post-truth as a concept has been finding its linguistic footing for some time.” 

    Disponível em:<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/15/post-truth-named-word-of-the-year-by-oxford-dictionaries>.Acesso em: 21 fev. 2017. (Adaptado).
    Considerando-se a estrutura linguística do texto, verifica-se que
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  • Linguagens

    Inglês

    Which recipe is an example of a vegan dish?

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  • Linguagens

    Literatura

    Também faz parte da obra de Eça de Queirós:
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  • Linguagens

    Literatura

    Ainda sobre o romance de Eça de Queirós é correto afirmar:
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  • Linguagens

    Inglês

    Opportunity Cost


    This phenomenon goes by the name of ‘opportunity cost,’ since by not investing in more equipment and a more rigid production flow, the company is forgoing the opportunity to earn increased profits. These costs are every bite as real as the payment of dollars out-of-pocket.


    This notion _______ opportunity cost can be reinforced _________ a famous saying ______ Benjamin Franklin, no slouch himself _________ operations management. To make the point, however, we must make a brief excursion into logic. One truth of logic is the validity of the so-called contrapositive, which says simply that if the statement “If A, then B” is true, then it is also true that “If not B, then not A.” That is, of every time A occurs B follows, then we can be sure that if B does not occur, then A did not occur as well. Enough logic then, and back to Ben Franklin.


    One of his Poor Richard sayings is that “A penny saved is a penny earned.” We have all recognized the truth of that since childhood, but I assert that by this saying Ben showed us he knows everything about opportunity cost. After all, what is the contrapositive of “A penny not earned is a penny not saved (i.e., a penny sent). All we are saying by this notion of opportunity cost is that “a penny not earned (an opportunity forgone) is a penny spent.” We shall often have occasion to consider opportunity costs, in analyzing and deciding various operations issues.


    SCHMENNER, Roger W. Production/Operations Management. 5th Edition. Prentice-Hall, 1993.

    How much does a ‘penny’ worth?
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  • Linguagens

    Inglês

    Opportunity Cost


    This phenomenon goes by the name of ‘opportunity cost,’ since by not investing in more equipment and a more rigid production flow, the company is forgoing the opportunity to earn increased profits. These costs are every bite as real as the payment of dollars out-of-pocket.


    This notion _______ opportunity cost can be reinforced _________ a famous saying ______ Benjamin Franklin, no slouch himself _________ operations management. To make the point, however, we must make a brief excursion into logic. One truth of logic is the validity of the so-called contrapositive, which says simply that if the statement “If A, then B” is true, then it is also true that “If not B, then not A.” That is, of every time A occurs B follows, then we can be sure that if B does not occur, then A did not occur as well. Enough logic then, and back to Ben Franklin.


    One of his Poor Richard sayings is that “A penny saved is a penny earned.” We have all recognized the truth of that since childhood, but I assert that by this saying Ben showed us he knows everything about opportunity cost. After all, what is the contrapositive of “A penny not earned is a penny not saved (i.e., a penny sent). All we are saying by this notion of opportunity cost is that “a penny not earned (an opportunity forgone) is a penny spent.” We shall often have occasion to consider opportunity costs, in analyzing and deciding various operations issues.


    SCHMENNER, Roger W. Production/Operations Management. 5th Edition. Prentice-Hall, 1993.

    The word childhood has its synonym in which alternative?
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  • Linguagens

    Inglês

    Opportunity Cost


    This phenomenon goes by the name of ‘opportunity cost,’ since by not investing in more equipment and a more rigid production flow, the company is forgoing the opportunity to earn increased profits. These costs are every bite as real as the payment of dollars out-of-pocket.


    This notion _______ opportunity cost can be reinforced _________ a famous saying ______ Benjamin Franklin, no slouch himself _________ operations management. To make the point, however, we must make a brief excursion into logic. One truth of logic is the validity of the so-called contrapositive, which says simply that if the statement “If A, then B” is true, then it is also true that “If not B, then not A.” That is, of every time A occurs B follows, then we can be sure that if B does not occur, then A did not occur as well. Enough logic then, and back to Ben Franklin.


    One of his Poor Richard sayings is that “A penny saved is a penny earned.” We have all recognized the truth of that since childhood, but I assert that by this saying Ben showed us he knows everything about opportunity cost. After all, what is the contrapositive of “A penny not earned is a penny not saved (i.e., a penny sent). All we are saying by this notion of opportunity cost is that “a penny not earned (an opportunity forgone) is a penny spent.” We shall often have occasion to consider opportunity costs, in analyzing and deciding various operations issues.


    SCHMENNER, Roger W. Production/Operations Management. 5th Edition. Prentice-Hall, 1993.

    What’s the meaning of the phrase ‘A penny saved is a penny earned’?
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  • Linguagens

    Inglês

    Opportunity Cost


    This phenomenon goes by the name of ‘opportunity cost,’ since by not investing in more equipment and a more rigid production flow, the company is forgoing the opportunity to earn increased profits. These costs are every bite as real as the payment of dollars out-of-pocket.


    This notion _______ opportunity cost can be reinforced _________ a famous saying ______ Benjamin Franklin, no slouch himself _________ operations management. To make the point, however, we must make a brief excursion into logic. One truth of logic is the validity of the so-called contrapositive, which says simply that if the statement “If A, then B” is true, then it is also true that “If not B, then not A.” That is, of every time A occurs B follows, then we can be sure that if B does not occur, then A did not occur as well. Enough logic then, and back to Ben Franklin.


    One of his Poor Richard sayings is that “A penny saved is a penny earned.” We have all recognized the truth of that since childhood, but I assert that by this saying Ben showed us he knows everything about opportunity cost. After all, what is the contrapositive of “A penny not earned is a penny not saved (i.e., a penny sent). All we are saying by this notion of opportunity cost is that “a penny not earned (an opportunity forgone) is a penny spent.” We shall often have occasion to consider opportunity costs, in analyzing and deciding various operations issues.


    SCHMENNER, Roger W. Production/Operations Management. 5th Edition. Prentice-Hall, 1993.

    The word reinforce (2nd paragraph) is closest in meaning to:
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  • Linguagens

    Inglês

    Opportunity Cost


    This phenomenon goes by the name of ‘opportunity cost,’ since by not investing in more equipment and a more rigid production flow, the company is forgoing the opportunity to earn increased profits. These costs are every bite as real as the payment of dollars out-of-pocket.


    This notion _______ opportunity cost can be reinforced _________ a famous saying ______ Benjamin Franklin, no slouch himself _________ operations management. To make the point, however, we must make a brief excursion into logic. One truth of logic is the validity of the so-called contrapositive, which says simply that if the statement “If A, then B” is true, then it is also true that “If not B, then not A.” That is, of every time A occurs B follows, then we can be sure that if B does not occur, then A did not occur as well. Enough logic then, and back to Ben Franklin.


    One of his Poor Richard sayings is that “A penny saved is a penny earned.” We have all recognized the truth of that since childhood, but I assert that by this saying Ben showed us he knows everything about opportunity cost. After all, what is the contrapositive of “A penny not earned is a penny not saved (i.e., a penny sent). All we are saying by this notion of opportunity cost is that “a penny not earned (an opportunity forgone) is a penny spent.” We shall often have occasion to consider opportunity costs, in analyzing and deciding various operations issues.


    SCHMENNER, Roger W. Production/Operations Management. 5th Edition. Prentice-Hall, 1993.

    According to the text, the notion stated in the first paragraph can be reinforced by:
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  • Linguagens

    Inglês

    Opportunity Cost


    This phenomenon goes by the name of ‘opportunity cost,’ since by not investing in more equipment and a more rigid production flow, the company is forgoing the opportunity to earn increased profits. These costs are every bite as real as the payment of dollars out-of-pocket.


    This notion _______ opportunity cost can be reinforced _________ a famous saying ______ Benjamin Franklin, no slouch himself _________ operations management. To make the point, however, we must make a brief excursion into logic. One truth of logic is the validity of the so-called contrapositive, which says simply that if the statement “If A, then B” is true, then it is also true that “If not B, then not A.” That is, of every time A occurs B follows, then we can be sure that if B does not occur, then A did not occur as well. Enough logic then, and back to Ben Franklin.


    One of his Poor Richard sayings is that “A penny saved is a penny earned.” We have all recognized the truth of that since childhood, but I assert that by this saying Ben showed us he knows everything about opportunity cost. After all, what is the contrapositive of “A penny not earned is a penny not saved (i.e., a penny sent). All we are saying by this notion of opportunity cost is that “a penny not earned (an opportunity forgone) is a penny spent.” We shall often have occasion to consider opportunity costs, in analyzing and deciding various operations issues.


    SCHMENNER, Roger W. Production/Operations Management. 5th Edition. Prentice-Hall, 1993.

    Study the following sentence:


    “This phenomenon goes by the name of ‘opportunity cost,’ since by not investing in more equipment and a more rigid production flow, the company is forgoing the opportunity to earn increased profits.”


    Analyze the sentences bellow:


    1. the word ‘investing’ is being used in the sentence as a continuous verb.

    2. the tense used in: ‘goes, is the simple present.

    3. the word ‘phenomenon’ is the singular form of ‘phenomena’.

    4. the words ‘not investing’ is being used in the present continuous tense.


    Choose the alternative which presents the correct ones:

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    Inglês

    Opportunity Cost


    This phenomenon goes by the name of ‘opportunity cost,’ since by not investing in more equipment and a more rigid production flow, the company is forgoing the opportunity to earn increased profits. These costs are every bite as real as the payment of dollars out-of-pocket.


    This notion _______ opportunity cost can be reinforced _________ a famous saying ______ Benjamin Franklin, no slouch himself _________ operations management. To make the point, however, we must make a brief excursion into logic. One truth of logic is the validity of the so-called contrapositive, which says simply that if the statement “If A, then B” is true, then it is also true that “If not B, then not A.” That is, of every time A occurs B follows, then we can be sure that if B does not occur, then A did not occur as well. Enough logic then, and back to Ben Franklin.


    One of his Poor Richard sayings is that “A penny saved is a penny earned.” We have all recognized the truth of that since childhood, but I assert that by this saying Ben showed us he knows everything about opportunity cost. After all, what is the contrapositive of “A penny not earned is a penny not saved (i.e., a penny sent). All we are saying by this notion of opportunity cost is that “a penny not earned (an opportunity forgone) is a penny spent.” We shall often have occasion to consider opportunity costs, in analyzing and deciding various operations issues.


    SCHMENNER, Roger W. Production/Operations Management. 5th Edition. Prentice-Hall, 1993.

    According to the 4th rule of the text, the term ‘dollars out-of-pocket’ has its meaning correctly explained in which alternative?
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  • Linguagens

    Inglês

    Opportunity Cost


    This phenomenon goes by the name of ‘opportunity cost,’ since by not investing in more equipment and a more rigid production flow, the company is forgoing the opportunity to earn increased profits. These costs are every bite as real as the payment of dollars out-of-pocket.


    This notion _______ opportunity cost can be reinforced _________ a famous saying ______ Benjamin Franklin, no slouch himself _________ operations management. To make the point, however, we must make a brief excursion into logic. One truth of logic is the validity of the so-called contrapositive, which says simply that if the statement “If A, then B” is true, then it is also true that “If not B, then not A.” That is, of every time A occurs B follows, then we can be sure that if B does not occur, then A did not occur as well. Enough logic then, and back to Ben Franklin.


    One of his Poor Richard sayings is that “A penny saved is a penny earned.” We have all recognized the truth of that since childhood, but I assert that by this saying Ben showed us he knows everything about opportunity cost. After all, what is the contrapositive of “A penny not earned is a penny not saved (i.e., a penny sent). All we are saying by this notion of opportunity cost is that “a penny not earned (an opportunity forgone) is a penny spent.” We shall often have occasion to consider opportunity costs, in analyzing and deciding various operations issues.


    SCHMENNER, Roger W. Production/Operations Management. 5th Edition. Prentice-Hall, 1993.

    Match the words in column 1 to their definitions in column 2:


    Column 1 Words

    1. profits

    2. slouch

    3. issue(s)

    4. flow

    5. validity


    Column 2 Definitions

    ( ) the continuous production or supply of something.

    ( ) the state of being legally or officially acceptable.

    ( ) the money you make in business or by selling things.

    ( ) to stand, sit or move in a lazy way, often with your shoulders and head bent forward.

    ( ) important topics that people are discussing or arguing about.


    Choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.

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