Questões de EFAF Inglês

A clean water crisis

    While the amount of freshwater on the planet has remained fairly constant over time – continually recycled through the atmosphere and back into our cups – the population has exploded. This means that every year competition for a clean, copious supply of water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and sustaining life intensifies.

Disponível em: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-crisis/. Acesso em: 16 mai. 2019.

De acordo com o texto, a quantidade de água doce no mundo

Interview with a famous actor

Interviewer: Thank you for taking some time off from your busy schedule to answer a few questions about your life!

Brad: It’s my pleasure.

Interviewer: Could you tell us about an average day in your life?

Brad: Sure, I get up early - at 7 in the morning. Then I have breakfast. After breakfast, I go to the gym.

Interviewer: Are you studying anything now?

Brad: Yes, I’m learning a new film called “The Man About Town”.

Interviewer: What do you do in the afternoon?

Brad: First I have lunch, then I go to the studio and shoot some scenes.

Disponível em: https://www.thoughtco.com/dialogue-interview-with-a-famous-actor-1210081. Acesso em: 18 abr. 2019 (adaptado).

A finalidade desse texto é

The rules for playing “Memory”

Mix up the cards.

Lay them in rows, face down.

Turn over any two cards.

If the two cards match, keep them.

If they don’t match, turn them back over.

Remember what was on each card and where it was.

Watch and remember during the other player’s turn.

The game is over when all the cards have been matched.

The player with the most matches wins.

Disponível em: https://www.eduplace.com/ss/act/rules.html. Acesso em: 18 abr. 2019.

A terceira regra do jogo Memory solicita ao jogador que

Based on the text below, mark the correct option.

Russian jet intercepts US Navy plane

    A Russian Su-27 fighter jet performed an "unprofessional" intercept of a US Navy P-8 surveillance plane while it was flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea Tuesday, two defense officials told CNN.
    The Russian jet came within about 20 feet of the US aircraft, one official said, adding that the encounter lasted about nine minutes.
   The intercept was described by officials as safe but unprofessional, though a US Navy official told CNN that the Navy does not officially classify aerial encounters that way. The Navy classifies aviation intercepts simply as either safe or unsafe.
    Lt. Cdr. Zach Harrell, a spokesman for US Naval Forces Europe, declined to comment on the specific incident, saying, "US Navy ships and aircraft routinely interact with military units from other countries.". He added that the Navy would provide information on unsafe interactions.
   The last unsafe intercept of a US Navy aircraft by a Russian jet occurred in January when a Russian Su-27 jet flew within five feet of a US Navy EP-3, forcing the Navy plane to fly through its jet wash. The US Navy deemed that intercept unsafe and unprofessional.
    Following that incident, the US State Department issued a statement accusing the Russians of "flagrantly violating existing agreements and international law.".

(Adapted from: http://www.cnn.com)

Considering the text, the word “declined” in “[...] a spokesman for US Naval Forces Europe, declined to comment on the specific incident [...] (4thparagraph) means “______”.

Choose the correct alternative.

Read the text and mark the correct option.

The Radar

    The word RADAR stands for Radio Detection and Ranging. It is a technology which was properly used for the first time during the Second World War by the allied troops against the Germans. Basically, a radar is an anti-collision tool and can measure the bearing and the distance of a selected target. It is therefore a vital aid on ships and airplanes, especially in case of low or blind-visibility navigation. To detect a target’s position, the radar dish or antenna sends out pulses of electromagnetic waves. When these waves hit the target their echo is returned to the aerial and transformed into visual signals shown on a screen called PPI (Plan Position Indicator) or display. The capacity of the antenna to concentrate the irradiation energy in the dish is called gain. The whole process is based on the principle that radio waves bounce off solid surfaces. It is therefore possible to determine the bearings and distances of far away targets and deduce infonnation about potential hazards. The Radar can also be used to find out the position of a ship at sea, but only in the case in which a fix (a fixed point of reference on the land) is available. For this, other more precise, handy and faster tools, like the GPS, are used.

(Adapted from: Flash on English for Transport and Logistics)