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  • 7ECEFF89-06

    Inglês

    Passado simples | Simple past
    UniCEUB · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    President Obama has outlined a slimmer version of the NSA program that ................... data from millions of Americans’ phone calls in a proposal that ................... phone companies to hold the records, but mandates law enforcement to win a secretive court’s approval to search them.

                                                                                                                                                                                  TIME
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  • 7DD99133-06

    Inglês

    Pronome demonstrativo | Demonstrative pronoun
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    A clever ad for ................... new breakfast options, an aim to hit at McDonald’s domination of the market, includes a bunch of people who share the same name as Ronald McDonald but proclaim ................... love for Taco Bell’s new morning offerings.

                                                                                                                                        TIME
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  • 7CE443CA-06

    Inglês

    Preposições | Prepositions
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    A new report shows the brains of autistic children, ................... suffer from the disorder tied to a combination of contributing factors ................... genes to the environment, have differences in regions that develop during the mother’s second trimester of pregnancy.

                                                                                                                                  TIME
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  • 7AFCE257-06

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    UniCEUB · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
                                  Don’t Think Your Success Is A Matter of Luck

    Richard Hamming argues a major roadblock is thinking your success will be mainly about luck. To do first rate work, you have to drop any modesty and say to yourself: “Yes, I would like to do something significant.” Pasteur said, “Luck favors the prepared mind.” The prepared mind will eventually find something important and then do it. One characteristic of great people is usually “when they were young they had independent thoughts and had the courage to pursue them.” He says: “Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can.”                                                                                                 Psychology Today Magazine

    The phrase “to pursue them” refers to
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  • 7A0B0798-06

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    UniCEUB · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
                                  Don’t Think Your Success Is A Matter of Luck

    Richard Hamming argues a major roadblock is thinking your success will be mainly about luck. To do first rate work, you have to drop any modesty and say to yourself: “Yes, I would like to do something significant.” Pasteur said, “Luck favors the prepared mind.” The prepared mind will eventually find something important and then do it. One characteristic of great people is usually “when they were young they had independent thoughts and had the courage to pursue them.” He says: “Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can.”                                                                                                 Psychology Today Magazine

    Choose the one word or phrase that best keeps the meaning of the original sentence if it is substituted for the underlined word respectively.
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  • 7915ACD9-06

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    UniCEUB · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
                                  Don’t Think Your Success Is A Matter of Luck

    Richard Hamming argues a major roadblock is thinking your success will be mainly about luck. To do first rate work, you have to drop any modesty and say to yourself: “Yes, I would like to do something significant.” Pasteur said, “Luck favors the prepared mind.” The prepared mind will eventually find something important and then do it. One characteristic of great people is usually “when they were young they had independent thoughts and had the courage to pursue them.” He says: “Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can.”                                                                                                 Psychology Today Magazine

    According to the text,
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  • 753C7FC3-06

    Literatura

    Escolas Literárias
    UniCEUB · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Sobre o Modernismo brasileiro, assinale a alternativa incorreta.
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  • 73E5484C-06

    Português

    Artigos
    UniCEUB · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    Observe a charge abaixo e assinale a alternativa que contém assertivas verdadeiras.

                           Imagem da questão de Português, UniCEUB 2014, Artigos


    I – Em “Devido à falta de médicos..." A crase está usada corretamente.
    II – Em “... encaminhando a senhora a uma benzedeira..." nota- se que falta crase nas duas letras “a" grifadas.
    III – Em “... vou estar encaminhando a senhora a uma benzedeira..." observa-se o uso inadequado do gerúndio, ou seja, o gerundismo.
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  • 71FA4528-06

    Português

    Regência
    UniCEUB · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Leia as frases abaixo e assinale a alternativa incorreta em relação à regência nominal.
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  • 71070770-06

    Português

    Regência
    UniCEUB · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Leia as frases abaixo e assinale a alternativa incorreta em relação à regência verbal.
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  • 6E2961FA-06

    Português

    Morfologia
    UniCEUB · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos

    TEXTO IV


    Aí pelas três da tarde


    Nesta sala atulhada de mesas, máquinas e papéis, onde invejáveis escreventes dividiram entre si o bom senso do mundo, aplicando-se em ideias claras apesar do ruído e do mormaço, seguros ao se pronunciarem sobre problemas que afligem o homem moderno (espécie da qual você, milenarmente cansado, talvez se sinta um tanto excluído), largue tudo de repente sob os olhares a sua volta, componha uma cara de louco quieto e perigoso, faça os gestos mais calmos quanto os tais escribas mais severos, dê um largo “ciao” ao trabalho do dia, assim como quem se despede da vida, e surpreenda pouco mais tarde, com sua presença em hora tão insólita, os que estiverem em casa ocupados na limpeza dos armários, que você não sabia antes como era conduzida. Convém não responder aos olhares interrogativos, deixando crescer, por instantes, a intensa expectativa que se instala. Mas não exagere na medida e suba sem demora ao quarto, libertando aí os pés das meias e dos sapatos, tirando a roupa do corpo como se retirasse a importância das coisas, pondo-se enfim em vestes mínimas, quem sabe até em pelo, mas sem ferir o decoro (o seu decoro, está claro), e aceitando ao mesmo tempo, como boa verdade provisória, toda mudança de comportamento. Feito um banhista incerto, assome em seguida no trampolim do patamar e avance dois passos como se fosse beirar um salto, silenciando de vez, embaixo, o surto abafado dos comentários. Nada de grandes lances. Desça, sem pressa, degrau por degrau, sendo tolerante com o espanto (coitados!) dos pobres familiares, que cobrem a boca com a mão enquanto se comprimem ao pé da escada. Passe por eles calado, circule pela casa toda como se andasse numa praia deserta (mas sempre com a mesma cara de louco ainda não precipitado) e se achegue depois, com cuidado e ternura, junto à rede languidamente envergada entre plantas lá no terraço. Largue-se nela como quem se larga na vida, e vá ao fundo nesse mergulho: cerre as abas da rede sobre os olhos e, com um impulso do pé (já não importa em que apoio), goze a fantasia de se sentir embalado pelo mundo.

    Raduan Nassar

    Texto extraído do livro “ Menina a caminho”, Companhia das Letras - São Paulo, 1997, pág. 71.

    Ainda em relação ao texto, assinale a alternativa incorreta.
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  • 6B14BA80-06

    Português

    Figuras de Linguagem
    UniCEUB · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Observe os cincos versos a seguir, retirados de canções da MPB. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta as figuras de linguagem correspondentes, na sequência correta.

    1 - Tudo que você já fez
          É tanta coisa que eu não sei
          Não sei se eu saberia
          Chegar até o final do dia sem você

                                                    (Tudo sobre você /Zélia Duncan)

    2 - Lisa, que me alisa
          Seu suor, o sal que sai do sol
          Da superfície!
                                                          (Alma/Arnaldo Antunes)

    3 - Não somos o
          Que queríamos ser
          Somos um breve pulsar
          Em um silêncio
          Com a idade do céuantigo
                                                                (A idade do céu/Moska)

    4 - Amor que sempre foi meu forte
          Não tenho tido muita sorte
          Estou sozinho e sem saída
          Sem dinheiro e sem comida e feliz da vida
                                                                (Felicidade/Luiz Tatit)


    5 - Sob a janela do quarto
          A cama dorme vazia
          Encaro nosso retrato
          Sorrindo sobre o criado
          No meio da noite fria
                                                    (Noite torta/Itamar Assumpção)

    ( ) aliteração
    ( ) personificação
    ( ) paradoxo
    ( ) metáfora
    ( ) hipérbole
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  • 6926608D-06

    Português

    Interpretação de Textos
    UniCEUB · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    TEXTO III

                            O amor não tem nada a ver com a idade

          Penso saber que o amor não tem nada que ver com a idade, como acontece com qualquer outro sentimento. Quando se fala de uma época a que se chamaria de descoberta do amor, eu penso que essa é uma maneira redutora de ver as relações entre as pessoas vivas. O que acontece é que há toda uma história nem sempre feliz do amor que faz que seja entendido que o amor numa certa idade seja natural, e que noutra idade extrema poderia ser ridículo. Isso é uma ideia que ofende a disponibilidade de entrega de uma pessoa a outra, que é em que consiste o amor.
          Eu não digo isto por ter a minha idade e a relação de amor que vivo. Aprendi que o sentimento do amor não é mais nem menos forte conforme as idades, o amor é uma possibilidade de uma vida inteira, e se acontece, há que recebê-lo. Normalmente, quem tem ideias que não vão neste sentido, e que tendem a menosprezar o amor como fator de realização total e pessoal, são aqueles que não tiveram o privilégio de vivê-lo, aqueles a quem não aconteceu esse mistério.

                                                                                              José Saramago, em “Revista Máxima, Outubro 1990" Baseando-se na leitura do texto do escritor português José Saramago, assinale a alternativa incorreta.
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  • 682FA8A3-06

    Português

    Morfologia
    UniCEUB · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    TEXTO III

                            O amor não tem nada a ver com a idade

          Penso saber que o amor não tem nada que ver com a idade, como acontece com qualquer outro sentimento. Quando se fala de uma época a que se chamaria de descoberta do amor, eu penso que essa é uma maneira redutora de ver as relações entre as pessoas vivas. O que acontece é que há toda uma história nem sempre feliz do amor que faz que seja entendido que o amor numa certa idade seja natural, e que noutra idade extrema poderia ser ridículo. Isso é uma ideia que ofende a disponibilidade de entrega de uma pessoa a outra, que é em que consiste o amor.
          Eu não digo isto por ter a minha idade e a relação de amor que vivo. Aprendi que o sentimento do amor não é mais nem menos forte conforme as idades, o amor é uma possibilidade de uma vida inteira, e se acontece, há que recebê-lo. Normalmente, quem tem ideias que não vão neste sentido, e que tendem a menosprezar o amor como fator de realização total e pessoal, são aqueles que não tiveram o privilégio de vivê-lo, aqueles a quem não aconteceu esse mistério.

                                                                                              José Saramago, em “Revista Máxima, Outubro 1990" Observe os excertos abaixo e a classificação para a palavra em destaque. A seguir assinale a alternativa correta.

    I – Em “Penso saber que o amor não tem nada a ver com a idade, como acontece com qualquer outro sentimento.", a oração apresenta um sujeito indeterminado, indicado pela palavra PENSO.
    II – Em “Isso é uma ideia que ofende a disponibilidade de entrega de uma pessoa a outra,..." QUE é uma preposição.
    III – Em “Eu não digo isto por ter a minha idade e a relação de amor que vivo.", a palavra ISTO classifica-se como pronome demonstrativo.
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  • D7AD2551-FE

    Geografia

    Geografia Econômica
    FGV · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
    Então, reduzir a desigualdade por meio da redistribuição prejudica o crescimento econômico? Não, segundo dois estudos marcantes feitos por economistas do FMI (Fundo Monetário Internacional), que dificilmente é uma organização de esquerda. O primeiro estudo examinou as relações históricas entre desigualdade e crescimento e descobriu que os países com desigualdade de renda relativamente baixa "têm mais êxito em alcançar um crescimento econômico sustentado, em oposição a surtos ocasionais". O segundo, divulgado no mês passado, analisou diretamente o efeito da redistribuição de renda e concluiu que "a redistribuição parece geralmente benigna em termos de seu impacto sobre o crescimento.

                                                                                               http://noticias.uol.com.br/blogs-e-colunas/coluna/...
                                                              /2014/03/11/o-lugar-da-distribuicao-de-renda-no-discurso-publico.htm

    Assinale a afirmativa coerente com os argumentos do texto:
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  • C8F03EC7-FE

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    FGV · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
                                              FIGHTING FAT IN THE DESERT 

                                                      By Rod Nordland 


    1 Qatari officials have been racking their brains to find a way to address their country's epidemic of obesity. They have built sports facilities, parks, and a splendid hillside road in the capital, with a seaside promenade and parkour stations; hosted fun runs with hefty cash prizes; set up free body mass index and blood pressure monitoring stations. Anything money can buy to draw their citizens — said to be first-richest in the world and sixth-fattest — out of a sedentary lifestyle, they seem to have bought.

    2 The only thing is, even Qatar's great wealth has not been able to do anything about the weather, and in a country where highs top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for a large part of the year, getting anyone to go out and walk, let alone do outdoor sports, is a lost cause. About the only pedestrians in the summer, when temperatures are even higher, are expatriates. 

    3 Now the sports health authorities have introduced a new program that aims to reach Qataris where they live, or at least where they shop — the climate-controlled shopping mall. Four of the emirate's major malls are participating in the program, called “Step Into Health: Walk More, Walk the Mall," posting maps and walking routes, along with information about how many calories could be burned in the process. The malls are also opening their halls two hours before and after shopping hours, for those who want their exercise free of consumerism.

    4 “Mall walking is the perfect workout, alongside controlled temperatures; it provides a clean and safe environment to exercise," a promotional brochure for “Step Into Health" reads. The mall walk program is part of a broader effort to encourage Qataris “to walk 10,000 steps and more a day in a noncompetitive, recreational and social way." The organizers hasten to reassure people that mall walking need not be strenuous. “Unlike most community exercise programs, Step Into Health is not about working up a sweat," they say. The walking routes and speeds they have outlined are not likely to do that. 

    5 Obesity is a touchy subject in the emirate. Data from the International Association for the Study of Obesity shows that Qatar has the highest obesity rates in the Middle East. About 34 percent of Qatar's men and 45 percent of its women are obese, defined as a body mass index of more than 30. 

    6 Those figures, however, only begin to tell the tale. They are based on the emirate's total population of about 1.9 million, but most of those are migrant workers. Qatari citizens number only about 250,000. Since most of the migrant workers are construction and other manual laborers, obesity rates among citizens are likely to be far higher than overall figures suggest. 

    7 The first mall walk two weeks ago was pronounced a big success by the government-controlled news media, with some 1,000 people showing up to take part — encouraged by handouts of pedometers (free to anyone who registers for Step Into Health), and free raffles of iPhones, laptops and other Qatari-size baubles. 

    8 After that initial outpouring of interest, however, there was relatively little follow-up — a common phenomenon, as every gym manager knows. Soon after, the participating malls were nearly as empty in those shopping-free hours as ever. 

                                                            Adapted from The International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, July 9, 2013 
    The “common phenomenon” mentioned in the last paragraph most likely refers to the fact that
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  • C7BE28A0-FE

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    FGV · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
                                              FIGHTING FAT IN THE DESERT 

                                                      By Rod Nordland 


    1 Qatari officials have been racking their brains to find a way to address their country's epidemic of obesity. They have built sports facilities, parks, and a splendid hillside road in the capital, with a seaside promenade and parkour stations; hosted fun runs with hefty cash prizes; set up free body mass index and blood pressure monitoring stations. Anything money can buy to draw their citizens — said to be first-richest in the world and sixth-fattest — out of a sedentary lifestyle, they seem to have bought.

    2 The only thing is, even Qatar's great wealth has not been able to do anything about the weather, and in a country where highs top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for a large part of the year, getting anyone to go out and walk, let alone do outdoor sports, is a lost cause. About the only pedestrians in the summer, when temperatures are even higher, are expatriates. 

    3 Now the sports health authorities have introduced a new program that aims to reach Qataris where they live, or at least where they shop — the climate-controlled shopping mall. Four of the emirate's major malls are participating in the program, called “Step Into Health: Walk More, Walk the Mall," posting maps and walking routes, along with information about how many calories could be burned in the process. The malls are also opening their halls two hours before and after shopping hours, for those who want their exercise free of consumerism.

    4 “Mall walking is the perfect workout, alongside controlled temperatures; it provides a clean and safe environment to exercise," a promotional brochure for “Step Into Health" reads. The mall walk program is part of a broader effort to encourage Qataris “to walk 10,000 steps and more a day in a noncompetitive, recreational and social way." The organizers hasten to reassure people that mall walking need not be strenuous. “Unlike most community exercise programs, Step Into Health is not about working up a sweat," they say. The walking routes and speeds they have outlined are not likely to do that. 

    5 Obesity is a touchy subject in the emirate. Data from the International Association for the Study of Obesity shows that Qatar has the highest obesity rates in the Middle East. About 34 percent of Qatar's men and 45 percent of its women are obese, defined as a body mass index of more than 30. 

    6 Those figures, however, only begin to tell the tale. They are based on the emirate's total population of about 1.9 million, but most of those are migrant workers. Qatari citizens number only about 250,000. Since most of the migrant workers are construction and other manual laborers, obesity rates among citizens are likely to be far higher than overall figures suggest. 

    7 The first mall walk two weeks ago was pronounced a big success by the government-controlled news media, with some 1,000 people showing up to take part — encouraged by handouts of pedometers (free to anyone who registers for Step Into Health), and free raffles of iPhones, laptops and other Qatari-size baubles. 

    8 After that initial outpouring of interest, however, there was relatively little follow-up — a common phenomenon, as every gym manager knows. Soon after, the participating malls were nearly as empty in those shopping-free hours as ever. 

                                                            Adapted from The International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, July 9, 2013 
    According to the information in the article, the fact that migrant workers make up the majority of Qatar’s population
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  • C1CF9B63-FE

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    FGV · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
                                              FIGHTING FAT IN THE DESERT 

                                                      By Rod Nordland 


    1 Qatari officials have been racking their brains to find a way to address their country's epidemic of obesity. They have built sports facilities, parks, and a splendid hillside road in the capital, with a seaside promenade and parkour stations; hosted fun runs with hefty cash prizes; set up free body mass index and blood pressure monitoring stations. Anything money can buy to draw their citizens — said to be first-richest in the world and sixth-fattest — out of a sedentary lifestyle, they seem to have bought.

    2 The only thing is, even Qatar's great wealth has not been able to do anything about the weather, and in a country where highs top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for a large part of the year, getting anyone to go out and walk, let alone do outdoor sports, is a lost cause. About the only pedestrians in the summer, when temperatures are even higher, are expatriates. 

    3 Now the sports health authorities have introduced a new program that aims to reach Qataris where they live, or at least where they shop — the climate-controlled shopping mall. Four of the emirate's major malls are participating in the program, called “Step Into Health: Walk More, Walk the Mall," posting maps and walking routes, along with information about how many calories could be burned in the process. The malls are also opening their halls two hours before and after shopping hours, for those who want their exercise free of consumerism.

    4 “Mall walking is the perfect workout, alongside controlled temperatures; it provides a clean and safe environment to exercise," a promotional brochure for “Step Into Health" reads. The mall walk program is part of a broader effort to encourage Qataris “to walk 10,000 steps and more a day in a noncompetitive, recreational and social way." The organizers hasten to reassure people that mall walking need not be strenuous. “Unlike most community exercise programs, Step Into Health is not about working up a sweat," they say. The walking routes and speeds they have outlined are not likely to do that. 

    5 Obesity is a touchy subject in the emirate. Data from the International Association for the Study of Obesity shows that Qatar has the highest obesity rates in the Middle East. About 34 percent of Qatar's men and 45 percent of its women are obese, defined as a body mass index of more than 30. 

    6 Those figures, however, only begin to tell the tale. They are based on the emirate's total population of about 1.9 million, but most of those are migrant workers. Qatari citizens number only about 250,000. Since most of the migrant workers are construction and other manual laborers, obesity rates among citizens are likely to be far higher than overall figures suggest. 

    7 The first mall walk two weeks ago was pronounced a big success by the government-controlled news media, with some 1,000 people showing up to take part — encouraged by handouts of pedometers (free to anyone who registers for Step Into Health), and free raffles of iPhones, laptops and other Qatari-size baubles. 

    8 After that initial outpouring of interest, however, there was relatively little follow-up — a common phenomenon, as every gym manager knows. Soon after, the participating malls were nearly as empty in those shopping-free hours as ever. 

                                                            Adapted from The International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, July 9, 2013 
    At the end of paragraph 1, “they,” in the phrase “…they seem to have bought,” most likely refers to
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  • BF5D008E-FE

    Inglês

    Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
    FGV · 2014MédioEntre para guardar nos favoritos
                                                 FLORIDA HURRICANES

    1 Before Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale's concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida's coastal highway. A month later another series of violent storms hit south Florida, severely eroding Fort Lauderdale's beaches and a section of A1A. Workers are building a new sea wall, mending the highway and adding a couple of pedestrian bridges. Beach erosion forced Fort Lauderdale to buy sand from an inland mine in central Florida; the mine's soft, white sand stands out against the darker, grittier native variety.

    2 Hurricanes and storms are nothing new for Florida. But as the oceans warm, hurricanes are growing more intense. To make matters worse, this is happening against a backdrop of sharply rising sea levels, turning what has been a seasonal annoyance into an existential threat.

    3 For around 2,000 years sea levels remained relatively constant. Between 1880 and 2011, however, they rose by an average of 0.07 inches (1.8mm) a year, and between 1993 and 2011 the average was between 0.11 and 0.13 inches a year. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast that seas could rise by as much as 23 inches by 2100, though since then many scientists have called that forecast conservative. Seas are also expected to warm up, which may make hurricanes and tropical storms more intense.

    4 Even as seas have risen over the past century, Americans have rushed to build homes near the beach. Storms that lash the modern American coastline cause more economic damage than their predecessors because there is more to destroy. The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, a Category 4 storm, caused $1 billion-worth of damage in current dollars. Were it to strike today the insured losses would be $125 billion, reckons Air Worldwide, a catastrophe-modelling firm. In 1992 Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, caused $23 billion in damage; today it would be twice that

    5 Most Floridians live in coastal counties. Buildings cluster on low ground; more people than in any other state live on land less than four feet (1.2 metres) above the high-tide line. Florida's limestone bedrock makes it easy for salt water from surging seas to contaminate its freshwater aquifers. And it relies heavily on canals for flood control, which a sea-level rise of just six inches would devastate.


                                                                                                  Adapted from The Economist, June 15th , 2013

    According to the information in the article,
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                                                 FLORIDA HURRICANES

    1 Before Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale's concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida's coastal highway. A month later another series of violent storms hit south Florida, severely eroding Fort Lauderdale's beaches and a section of A1A. Workers are building a new sea wall, mending the highway and adding a couple of pedestrian bridges. Beach erosion forced Fort Lauderdale to buy sand from an inland mine in central Florida; the mine's soft, white sand stands out against the darker, grittier native variety.

    2 Hurricanes and storms are nothing new for Florida. But as the oceans warm, hurricanes are growing more intense. To make matters worse, this is happening against a backdrop of sharply rising sea levels, turning what has been a seasonal annoyance into an existential threat.

    3 For around 2,000 years sea levels remained relatively constant. Between 1880 and 2011, however, they rose by an average of 0.07 inches (1.8mm) a year, and between 1993 and 2011 the average was between 0.11 and 0.13 inches a year. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast that seas could rise by as much as 23 inches by 2100, though since then many scientists have called that forecast conservative. Seas are also expected to warm up, which may make hurricanes and tropical storms more intense.

    4 Even as seas have risen over the past century, Americans have rushed to build homes near the beach. Storms that lash the modern American coastline cause more economic damage than their predecessors because there is more to destroy. The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, a Category 4 storm, caused $1 billion-worth of damage in current dollars. Were it to strike today the insured losses would be $125 billion, reckons Air Worldwide, a catastrophe-modelling firm. In 1992 Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, caused $23 billion in damage; today it would be twice that

    5 Most Floridians live in coastal counties. Buildings cluster on low ground; more people than in any other state live on land less than four feet (1.2 metres) above the high-tide line. Florida's limestone bedrock makes it easy for salt water from surging seas to contaminate its freshwater aquifers. And it relies heavily on canals for flood control, which a sea-level rise of just six inches would devastate.


                                                                                                  Adapted from The Economist, June 15th , 2013

    With respect to hurricanes in Florida, which of the following statements is most supported by the information in the article?
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