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  • 8E515423-75

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension    Faculdades de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo · 2025Entre para guardar nos favoritos
    Leia a resenha crítica do filme Joker, publicada no website da Rodgers Memorial Library, para responder à questão.


    Imagem da questão de Inglês, da prova de 2025


        Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is a mentally ill man who laughs uncontrollably. He works as a clown, gets help from a social assistant, lives with his mother, and wants to be a comedian. As the movie progresses, Arthur feels betrayal from everyone around him, pushing him to a breaking point as his support system collapses.

       Joker is an unusual comic book movie in the sense that it is a character study. Inspired in part by Martin Scorsese films like King of Comedy and Taxi Driver, Joker looks at the need for affection and identity. This contrasts heavily with action-packed superhero movies. It’s a serious, disturbing movie that opens itself to critical thinking, not all of it pleasant as exemplified when Arthur, in a moment of exasperation, tells his social assistant “All I have are negative thoughts.”

       Usually, the Joker is defined by his relationship with Batman. Bruce Wayne (Batman’s real self) and his family play an important part in Joker, yet another rich family could be substituted without changing the plot much. Fleck’s journey is not as connected to his traditional comic book role as in other movies and the audience is challenged to ask if he is a villain or a victim.


    (Rodgers Memorial Library. https://sites.google.com. Adaptado.)
    No trecho do terceiro parágrafo “Fleck’s journey is not as connected to his traditional comic book role as in other movies and the audience is challenged to ask if he is a villain or a victim”, os termos sublinhados expressam
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  • 52C91244-75

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension    Faculdades de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo · 2025Entre para guardar nos favoritos
    Read the quote by Louisa May Alcott to answer question.


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    (https://quotefancy.com)
    In the quote “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship”, the term “for” is used with the same meaning as the underlined term in:
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  • 52BCB8ED-75

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension    Faculdades de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo · 2025Entre para guardar nos favoritos
    Read the text to answer question.


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        New York Giants1 wide receiver Malik Nabers has not practiced while recovering from a persisting toe injury. While the concussion has affected his availability thus far, Giants coach Brian Daboll said there were no concerns about Nabers potentially missing training camp. Nabers’ toe injury dates back to his days at Louisiana State University (LSU), though it does not require a procedural fix. It didn’t cause him to miss any time as a rookie2 with the Giants in 2024. He was sidelined for two games while recovering from a concussion. In spite of that, Nabers still made the All-Rookie Team and earned a Pro Bowl3 bid after catching 109 passes for 1,204 yards and seven touchdowns. He broke New York’s single-season receptions record in the process, surpassing Steve Smith, and set the National Football League (NFL) record for most receptions by a rookie.


    (Will Backus. www.cbssports.com, 18.06.2025. Adapted.)


    1New York Giants: a professional American football team.

    2 rookie: any player who is in their first season playing professional football, having never signed a contract with a professional team before.

    3Pro Bowl: the NFL’s annual all-star game, showcasing the league’s top players. 
    In the excerpt from the text “While the concussion has affected his availability thus far, Giants coach Brian Daboll said there were no concerns about Nabers potentially missing training camp”, the underlined word expresses 
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  • 4B5A17E6-2D

    Inglês

    Palavras conectivas | Connective words    Centro Universitário Padre Albino - UNIFIPA · 2025MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Leia o texto e analise o gráfico para responder à questão.


    Life Expectancy (1900-2023)


        People are living longer. In 1900, the average life expectancy of a newborn was 32 years. By 2021 this had more than doubled to 71 years.

        The large reduction in child mortality has played an important role in increasing life expectancy. But life expectancy has increased at all ages. Infants, children, adults, and the elderly are all less likely to die than in the past, and death is being delayed. This remarkable shift results from advances in medicine, public health, and living standards. Along with it, many predictions of the “limit” of life expectancy have been broken.


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    (Saloni Dattani et al. https://ourworldindata.org, 2023. Adaptado.)
    In the excerpt from the second paragraph, “Along with it, many predictions of the ‘limit’ of life expectancy have been broken”, the underlined expression can be replaced, without meaning change, by:
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  • 4B48B57F-2D

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension    Centro Universitário Padre Albino - UNIFIPA · 2025MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Leia o texto para responder à questão.


    Admixture’s impact on Brazilian population evolution and health


        Brazil is a vast continental country home to the largest population in Latin America and boasts the world’s largest recently admixed population1 . The colonization process brought approximately 5 million Europeans to Brazil, alongside the forced migration of at least 5 million Africans and the decimation of Indigenous populations, which once included more than 10 million people speaking more than 1000 languages. This distinctive historical interplay shaped a complex mosaic of genetic diversity, underscoring the importance of detailed genomic studies. Nevertheless, similar to other populations in the Global South2 , the Brazilian population remains notably underrepresented in genomic research, where there is a lack of studies investigating the effects of this population’s admixture on its evolution, diversity, and health status.

        To address these gaps, a research group generated 2723 high-coverage whole-genome sequences of the Brazilian population, encompassing urban, rural, and riverine communities from all five geographical regions of Brazil. This dataset reflects a diverse group of ethnic backgrounds, including Afro-Brazilians and descendants of Indigenous people, and provides a comprehensive representation of Brazilian genomic diversity.


    (Kelly Nunes et al. www.science.org, 15.05.2025. Adaptado.)


    1admixed population: group of individuals formed through interbreeding of two or more previously isolated populations.

    2Global South: a group of countries mainly located in the Southern Hemisphere that are often characterized as developing, less developed or underdeveloped.
    In the excerpt from the first paragraph “Nevertheless, similar to other populations in the Global South”, the underlined word expresses
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  • F8BCA942-13

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension    Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Maricá (FACMAR) · 2025MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    TEXTO 1


    THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON SELF-IDENTITY FORMATION: A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE


    Berumen Victoria




    Imagem da questão de Inglês, da prova de 2025



    Available at: https://www.stasson.org/the-impact-of-social-media-on-self-identity-formation-a-psychological-and-sociological-perspective/. Accessed August 30th, 2025. (Adapted).

    Still, this virtual social landscape can also lead to shallow interactions, with the quantity of connections often overshadowing the quality of relationships. (l. 12-14)


    The discourse marker “still” that opens this sentence helps convey the following idea:
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  • AFEADE0F-00

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension    UNESP · 2025MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    Leia o texto para responder à questão.



    Dr. Mariangela Hungria will receive the $500,000 award for her work to utilize biological processes to sustainably improve crop1 nutrition, yields2 and productivity. The scientist whose discoveries helped Brazil become a global agricultural powerhouse has been named the 2025 World Food Prize Laureate.



    Dr. Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist from São Paulo, has developed dozens of biological seed and soil treatments that help crops source nutrients through soil bacteria, significantly increasing yields of major crops while also reducing the need for synthetic fertilizer. Her products are estimated to have been used across more than 40 million hectares in Brazil, saving farmers up to US$40 billion a year in costs while avoiding more than 180 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions per year.



    Dr. Hungria’s work has helped improve yields of wheat, corn, rice, common beans, and other major crops, including soybean, which is now Brazil’s top agricultural export. Over her 40-year career with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), national soybean production increased from 15 million tons in 1979 to an anticipated 173 million tons in the next harvest3 in 2025.



    Dr. Hungria, who overcame prejudices against women and young mothers in academia to be named one of the 100 most powerful women in agriculture in Brazil by Forbes magazine in 2021, said she was inspired by Dr. Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution and founder of the World Food Prize. “I like to say that he made the Green Revolution possible, and we had this great opportunity to start a ‘micro green revolution’ — a green revolution, but with microorganisms,” she added. “I can’t quite believe I am now receiving the World Food Prize. Many people questioned me and my abilities throughout my career but I believed in what I was doing and persevered. The role of women in agriculture, from farming to science, deserves more recognition. I hope my achievement inspires others to pursue their passions in science.”



    (www.worldfoodprize.org, 13.05.2025. Adaptado.)


    1crop: cultivated plant that is grown as food, especially grain, fruit or vegetable.


    2yields: the full amounts of an agricultural product.


    3harvest: the crops that are cut and collected.

    No trecho do segundo parágrafo “saving farmers up to US$40 billion a year in costs while avoiding more than 180 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions per year”, o termo sublinhado indica


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  • B4C630B0-F9

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension    Faculdade Evangélica Mackenzie do Paraná · 2025MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Read Text I below and answer the  question that follow it.


    Text I


    Jonathan Haidt: How to make the 'anxious generation' happy again


    Academics researching wellbeing have for a long time almost unanimously agreed on one thing: over the typical lifetime, happiness tends to follow a U-shaped curve, peaking at 30, plummeting at age 50, before spiking again after 70. It’s a pattern replicated using data going back as far as the 1970s in almost 150 countries.

    But around 2011, researchers noticed an astonishing reversal in this trend. “This empirical regularity has been replaced by a monotonic decrease in ill-being by age,” they reported in an NBER working paper. In plain English, younger people today are unhappier, both compared to previous generations and to their older peers. Or, to quote the title of the most recent book from Jonathan Haidt, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University, they are the anxious generation […].

    Today, rather than playing with their friends, kids stay at home on their devices. Instead of hearing chatter and laughter in the corridor of schools, we hear the gentle tapping of screens. The social isolation many of us experienced during pandemic-induced lockdowns was nothing new for children, Haidt said. “They began social distancing as soon as they got smartphones.”

    The good news for parents is that, while this trend is worrying, it is not inevitable. There are things we can do. “We can turn this around with four new norms,” Haidt proposed.

    The first norm is a commitment to not give our children a smartphone until they are at least 14. “Give them a flip-phone if you want to, so they can call and text you,” he said. “But don’t give the entire world access to your child.” The second is to not allow our children to use social media until they are at least 16. “Social media is wildly inappropriate for children — you have strangers trying to talk to them, cyberbullying, explosive drama.”

    The third norm is that schools should be a phone-free environment. “All schools need to be phone free from bell to bell — from the morning when kids arrive to the end when they leave,” Haidt explained.

    And finally, the fourth norm involves going back to a time where parents felt more comfortable letting their kids walk to the shops or play outside with friends. “The fourth norm is to give them much more independence in the real world,” he said. “Ultimately, our mission is to restore childhood: the kind of wonderful, fun, exciting childhood we all had, which was full of conflicts, failures, exploration, adventure, risk-taking, thrills and all those emotions that you experienced not with your parents, but when you were out, away from your secure home base.”


    Adapted from https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/jonathan-haidt-digitaltechnology-social-media-childhood/
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  • 7949506A-DF

    Inglês

    Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions    CEDERJ · 2025MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Bill Gates and his vision of the future of jobs with AI

    By Clément Pessaux

    April 29, 2025


    According to Bill Gates, artificial intelligence is about to redefine the job market. Among the professions likely to be widely replaced, Gates directly mentions doctors and teachers. Why these specific sectors? AI has the ability to take on complex tasks such as medical diagnosis or personalized learning, making these services more accessible. In fact, in some developing countries where access to education and healthcare remains limited, such advancements could transform daily life.

    But this progress raises concerns. Can we really do without human empathy in these fields? And what about the judgment or sensitivity that a machine can never fully reproduce?

    On the other hand, there are professions that AI does not seem ready to replace. Gates specifically mentions energy experts, biologists, and developers. These jobs require specialized expertise, as well as creativity and constant adaptability in the face of environmental or technological challenges.

    Creativity, strategic thinking, and empathy remain areas where humans will always have the upper hand. Although he recognizes the immense potential of AI, Gates also emphasizes the limits and the need to think about its deployment by keeping humans at the center of priorities.


    Available at: https://3dvf.com/en/bill-gates-predicts-ai-willreplace-humans-in-almost-all-fields-except-these-jobs/ Access: 03 may 2025. Adapted.
    In the sentence “But this progress raises concerns.”, the connector “but” expresses:
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  • EC73C3EC-CC

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension    FAME · 2025Muito fácilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    INSTRUCTION: Read the following text to answer the questions.

    What is fatal familial insomnia?

    In the mid‑1980s, a family with a mysterious problem lived in a small town in Italy. For many years, members of this family had trouble sleeping, but no one knew why. One day, a family member named Silvano decided to find out what was causing this strange problem. Silvano traveled to the city of Bologna to meet with the best sleep doctors. He told them all about his family’s mystery.
    The doctors were intrigued by Silvano’s story and immediately began to study his case. After much research, the doctors discovered something never seen before: a tiny change in a special gene passed down from generation to generation in Silvano’s family, which stopped them from sleeping. They called this disease fatal familial insomnia (FFI).
    Fatal familial insomnia is an extremely rare disease. Like many other rare diseases, FFI is passed on through the DNA from parents to their children. The symptoms of FFI start slowly and get worse over time. People with FFI start to have difficulty falling and / or staying asleep, and then, as it gets worse, they may suddenly fall asleep without warning. People with FFI also tend to develop other problems like a fast heartbeat; high blood pressure; hormonal, mood and behavior swings; anxiety; excessive sweating; and trouble thinking clearly and moving their bodies. The symptoms usually start between the ages of 51 and 60, although rarely they can start as early as 18 – 20 years old. FFI affects both men and women equally. To date, more than 70 families around the world have been found to have FFI.
    [...]
    Although there is still no cure for FFI, research is happening all over the world. Researchers are working to find new pieces to help them solve the complex puzzle of FFI and to develop treatments that can improve the lives of those affected. Ongoing research aims to understand the underlying mechanisms of FFI, especially how genetic mutations change healthy prion proteins into abnormal ones and how the buildup of abnormal prions in the brain causes FFI symptoms. This understanding is essential for developing effective therapies.
    Additionally, researchers are searching for biomarkers of FFI. Biomarkers are things that can be measured through blood tests or brain scans, for example, that indicate the presence of a disease or the risk of developing it. Biomarkers could help doctors to diagnose FFI earlier and to track how it changes over time.
    In terms of developing therapies for FFI, gene therapy is a promising approach that aims to fix or replace defective genes. Gene therapy could eventually improve patients’ quality of life. Researchers are also studying drugs that might stop or slow down the buildup of PrPSc in the brain. New drugs are first tested on animals to see if they work and are safe, and drugs that pass these initial tests are then tested on people. With effective new medicines, it might be possible to slow down or even stop FFI.

    Available at: https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1523273. Accessed on: Aug 4th, 2025. [Adapted]
    The word although in the sentence “Although there is still no cure for FFI, research is happening all over the world.” refers to
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  • 1ACACC73-71

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension    Faculdade Evangélica Mackenzie do Paraná · 2024Entre para guardar nos favoritos
    Read Text III and answer the question that follow it.

    Text III

    How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the story of civilisation

        Try to imagine an environment largely untouched by humans and the Amazon rainforest might spring to mind. After all, large swathes of this South American landscape are blanketed in thick vegetation, suggesting it is one corner of the world that humans never managed to tame. Here, there must have been no deforestation, no agricultural revolution and no cities. It seems like a pristine environment.
        Or so we thought. But a very different picture is emerging. Archaeologists working with Indigenous communities have been shown crumbling urban remains and remote sensing technologies such as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) are revealing the footprints of vast ghost cities. With so much evidence of ancient human activity, it is now thought the pre-Columbian Amazon was inhabited by millions of people – some living in large built-up areas complete with road networks, temples and pyramids.
        But that’s not all this research reveals. Paradoxically, it also provides evidence that the traditional view of the Amazon isn’t completely wide of the mark. For instance, while the ancient Amazonians managed their landscape intensively, they didn’t deforest it. And although they developed complex societies, they never went through a wholesale agricultural revolution. This might suggest that the pre-Columbian Amazonians broke the mould of human cultural development, which is traditionally seen as a relentless march from hunting and gathering to farming to urban complexity. The truth is more surprising. In fact, we are now coming to understand that there was no such mould – civilisation arose in myriad ways. What looks like an anomaly in the Amazon is actually a shining example of a process that was as vibrant and diverse as the rainforest itself.

    Adapted from: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26334980-500-how-ghostcities-in-the-amazon-are-rewriting-the-story-of-civilisation/
    The extract This might suggest (3rd paragraph) indicates 
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  • D2A47F1B-CC

    Inglês

    Palavras conectivas | Connective words    Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA · 2024DifícilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Leia o texto a seguir para responder à questão.


        “In recent years, no more than a week goes by without news of a cosmic discovery worthy of banner headlines. While media gatekeepers may have developed an interest in the universe, this rise in coverage likely comes from a genuine increase in the public’s appetite for science. Evidence for this abounds, from hit television shows inspired or informed by science, to the success of science fiction films starring marquee actors, and brought to the screens by celebrated producers and directors. And lately, theatrical release biopics featuring important scientists have become a genre unto itself. There´s also widespread interest around the world in science festivals, science fiction conventions, and documentaries for television.


        The highest grossing film of all time is by a famous director who set his story on a planet orbiting a distant star. And it features a famous actress who plays an astrobiologist. While most branches of science have ascended in this era, the field of astrophysics persistently rises to the top. I think I know why. At one time or another every one of us has looked up at night sky and wondered: What does it all mean? How does it all work? And, what is my place in the universe? [...]”


    Fonte: TYSON, Neil DeGrasse. Astrophysics for people in a hurry. United States of America: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2017.

    No excerto retirado do segundo parágrafo do texto, “While most branches of science have ascended in this era, the field of astrophysics persistently rises to the top”, o termo WHILE estabelece, entre as orações, a ideia de

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  • AB13D534-31

    Inglês

    Palavras conectivas | Connective words    Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto · 2024FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    Leia o texto e examine o gráfico para responder à questão.



       When Tinder (a mobile dating app) was launched on college campuses in America in 2012, it quickly became a hit. Although online dating had been around since Match.com, a website for lonely hearts, launched in 1995, it had long struggled to shed1 an image of desperation. But Tinder, by letting users sift through photos of countless potential dates with a simple swipe, made it easy and fun.


       Soon Tinder and its rivals had transformed dating. A report found that 30% of American adults had used an online dating service, including more than half of those aged between 18 and 29. One in five couples of that age had met through such a service. Usage surged during the pandemic, as lonely locked- -down singles searched for partners. The market capitalisation of Bumble, a rival to Tinder, surged to $13 billion on its first day of trading2 in February 2021. Later that year the value of Match Group, which owns Tinder, Hinge and scores of other dating services, reached nearly $50 billion.


       Today roughly 350 million people around the world have a dating app on their phone, up from 250 million in 2018, according to a research firm. In June 2024 Tokyo’s government even said it would launch a matchmaking app of its own to pair up singles in the city. Yet lately online dating has lost its spark. The apps were downloaded 237 million times globally in 2023, down from 287 million in 2020. According to a research firm, the number of people who use them at least once a month has dwindled from 154 million in 2021 to 137 million in the second quarter of 2024.


    Imagem da questão de Inglês, da prova de 2024

    (www.economist.com, 08.08.2024. Adaptado.)


    1 to shed: to get rid of something that is no longer wanted.


    2 trading: the activity of buying and selling things. 

    No trecho do primeiro parágrafo “But Tinder, by letting users sift through photos of countless potential dates with a simple swipe, made it easy and fun”, o termo sublinhado é empregado com o mesmo sentido do termo sublinhado em:
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  • 9B6D667B-31

    Inglês

    Palavras conectivas | Connective words    UNESP · 2024FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Leia o texto e examine os gráficos para responder à questão.


        If you’re a chocoholic you may have noticed that your habit has lately become more expensive. The price of cocoa began creeping up in the second half of 2022. Since then it has doubled, reaching an all-time high in January 2024. That steep rise spells trouble for the chocolate business and sweet-toothed consumers alike. 


    Imagem da questão de Inglês, da prova de 2024


        Climate patterns are partly to blame for rising costs. Cocoa is mostly produced by small farmers in West Africa. Ghana and Ivory Coast grow about 60% of the world’s crop. Last season, in 2023, the El Niño weather pattern led to unseasonably high temperatures and rainfall that ravaged crops. Total rainfall in Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing areas in 2023 was the highest in 20 years, according to Gro Intelligence, a data firm.

        This year El Niño has brought severe drought to the cocoa farms, reducing production further. ING, a bank, estimates that this year the gap between global production and consumption will be at its widest since at least 2014. Extreme weather patterns have hit other commodities, too. Droughts in Thailand and India are affecting rice plantations. Torrential rain in Brazil, the world’s biggest sugar exporter, has affected its exports. Besides, other price pressures are specific to the cocoa industry. Swollen-shoot virus and black-pod disease — killers of cocoa trees — spread across Ghana and Ivory Coast during heavy rainfall last year. Tropical Research Services, a research company, estimates that by the end of 2023 the swollen-shoot virus had infected around 20% of Ivory Coast’s cocoa trees.

    (www.economist.com, 28.02.2024. Adaptado.)
    No trecho do terceiro parágrafo “Besides, other price pressures are specific to the cocoa industry”, o termo sublinhado pode ser substituído, sem alteração de sentido, por:
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  • 5D76D453-D8

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension    ENEM · 2024FácilEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Holy War

    Oh, so we can hate each other and fear each other
    We can build these walls between each other
    Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick
    Keep yourself locked in, yourself locked in
    […]
    Oh, maybe we should love somebody
    Oh, maybe we could care a little more
    So maybe we should love somebody
    Instead of polishing the bombs of holy war

    KEYS, A. Here. Estados Unidos: RCA Records, 2016.

    Nessa letra de canção, que aborda um contexto de ódio e intolerância, o marcador “instead of ” introduz a ideia de 
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  • 5E3C2FFB-7A

    Inglês

    Palavras conectivas | Connective words    UFRGS · 2023Entre para guardar nos favoritos

    Instrução: A questão está relacionada ao texto abaixo.



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    Adapted from: DEHAENE, Stanislas. How we learn: Why brains learn better than any machine… for now. New York: Viking Press, 2020. 

    Select the alternative that adequately fills in the blank in line 30.
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  • 4ADC0A71-75

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension    Faculdades de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo · 2023Entre para guardar nos favoritos
       British workers are increasingly likely to work into their 70s, according to a research that found the cost of living crisis has left older people with little choice but to stay in employment. There were 446,601 people above the age of 70 still in work in 2022, a rise of 61% compared with 277,926 in 2012, said Rest Less, an online community for the over-50s that offers advice to older workers.
       While most of the over-70s workforce is male, the rise has been more significant among women, most likely in response to the gradual equalisation of pension ages between 2010 and 2020. Women were previously able to retire five years earlier. The number of women working beyond the age of 70 is up 66% since 2012, compared with an increase of 58% for men.
        Stuart Lewis, the chief executive of Rest Less, drew a comparison between older workers and King Charles, but acknowledged that most continue working “for very different reasons” to the hereditary monarch. “At the age of 74, King Charles is a fantastic example of someone who both enjoys, and benefits from, continuing to work post-state pension1 age,” said Lewis. “Our latest analysis shows that there are far more over-70s in the workplace today than a decade ago. Until Covid hit and life expectancy dropped for the first time in a decade, there were more people reaching their state pension age than ever before, which meant there were more experienced people in the workplace than ever before too.”
        Lewis said many of those reaching the theoretical age of retirement were staying in the workplace for lack of any other option. “Like King Charles, many of these people will have no choice but to work, although for very different reasons to the king. We see many older workers today who are struggling to survive amidst the cost of living crisis, with inadequate retirement savings meaning they must work in order to survive financially.” The state pension age in the United Kingdom (UK) is 66 for men and women but is due to start rising from 2026.

    (Rob Davies. www.theguardian.com, 30.04.2023. Adaptado.)

    1      state pension: a regular payment from the government to someone who does not work anymore.
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  • CA29B2A0-75

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension    Faculdades de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo · 2023Entre para guardar nos favoritos
         Some of the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) researchers are calling for a pause on research into AI, claiming that safety issues must first be urgently addressed. If not, the outcomes could be devastating for humanity. Others say any pause in development would not only be impractical to enforce on a global scale, but could also stand in the way of advances that could both improve and save lives.
         The AI that is currently available already has the power to radically alter society, in new ways that we are seeing every day. So how might it progress over the coming years? Are we on the brink of an artificial intelligence-powered utopia or dystopia?
         Firstly, technology has been automating jobs since the Industrial Revolution, though never before has it happened on this scale. Everyone from truck drivers to voice over artists are at risk of being replaced by AI. A recent study found that just over 30 jobs are considered safe from automation in the near future. They range from mechanics to athletes, though they represent just a sliver of the current labour market. While new jobs will be created, there is a significant chance that the majority of the population will be left jobless. This could either lead to:
         Utopia: A new leisure class emerges, living off a universal basic income funded by taxes on robots and the companies that operate them.
        Dystopia: Mass unemployment results in social unrest, similar to the way laid off factory workers trashed the machines that replaced them. With so many jobs at risk and the potential for huge wealth inequality, some fear it could ultimately result in societal collapse.
        Secondly, artificial intelligence is already contributing to major scientific advances, dramatically accelerating the time it takes to make discoveries. It has been used to invent millions of materials that did not previously exist, find potential drug molecules 1,000 times faster than previous methods, and improve our understanding of the universe. This could either lead to:
          Utopia: Cancer and all other life-threatening diseases are cured, leading to a new age of health and prosperity. Scientists are already using AI tools to make breakthroughs in longevity medicine, which aims to end or even reverse ageing.
         Dystopia: The same AI-enabled technology could be used for malevolent purposes, creating entirely new diseases and viruses. These could be used as bioweapons, capable of devastating populations that don’t have access to cures or the tech needed to develop them.


    (Anthony Cuthbertson. www.independent.co.uk, 03.05.2023. Adaptado.)
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            Discoveries of aquifers — underground earth formations that hold water — often create excitement around their ability to ease water scarcity in a region. The United States recently announced the discovery of five aquifers in Niger, one of Africa’s most water scarce countries, containing over 600 billion cubic metres of water. To put it into perspective, Egypt’s current water demand is 114 billion cubic metres of water per year.


            These are welcome announcements. Due to a changing climate and the increasing demands of a growing population, many of Africa’s surface water resources — such as dams and rivers — are facing serious risks. They’re being overused and slowly decreasing.


            Alternative water sources, like aquifers, need to be explored. They are highly prevalent across the African continent, but they’re not always going to help address water scarcity. For instance, early research findings deemed Kenya’s Turkana aquifer water unfit for use due to high salinity. It’s important to bear these challenges in mind so that expectations can be managed. It is also useful for planners and governments, as they need to think of other ways around the water scarcity problem.


    (Gaathier Mahed. https://theconversation.com, 21.03.2023. Adaptado.)

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