Questões de EFAF Inglês

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How much can schools do?

In the fall of $2005$, some $17$ months before Cho Seung-Hui went on his killing spree${}^1$ at Virginia Tech, his behavior was so disturbing that his creative-writing professor had him removed${}^2$ from her class. Later that semester, two female students complained separately about what one called his “annoying” advances, and after an acquaintance warned that Cho might be suicidal, he was detained for several hours, evaluated at a local mental-health facility and released.

When it comes to the complex intersection of campus safety and mental health, the questions of what counts as sufficient warning signs and how universities should respond to them often end up in court. Move too quickly by, say, suspending a depressed student for posing a threat upon himself or others, and schools can - and do${}^3$ – get sued for discriminating against the disabled.

(Julie Rawe. Time Magazine, April 30, 2007.)

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Global warming

On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change (01) declared that the evidence of a warming trend is “unequivocal”, and that human activity has “very likely” been the driving force in that change over the last 50 years. The last report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2001, had found that humanity had “likely” (02) played a role.

The greenhouse effect has been part of the earth’s workings since its earliest days. Gases like carbon dioxide and methane allow sunlight to reach the earth, but prevent some of the resulting heat from radiating back out into space. Without the greenhouse effect, the planet would never have warmed enough to allow life to form. But as ever larger amounts of carbon dioxide have been released along with the development of industrial economies, the atmosphere has grown warmer at an accelerating rate. Since 1970, temperatures have gone up at nearly three times the average for the 20${}^{\mathrm{\text{th}}}$ century.

(Global Warming Science - The New York Times, May 6, 2007)

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Global warming

On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change (01) declared that the evidence of a warming trend is “unequivocal”, and that human activity has “very likely” been the driving force in that change over the last 50 years. The last report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2001, had found that humanity had “likely” (02) played a role.

The greenhouse effect has been part of the earth’s workings since its earliest days. Gases like carbon dioxide and methane allow sunlight to reach the earth, but prevent some of the resulting heat from radiating back out into space. Without the greenhouse effect, the planet would never have warmed enough to allow life to form. But as ever larger amounts of carbon dioxide have been released along with the development of industrial economies, the atmosphere has grown warmer at an accelerating rate. Since 1970, temperatures have gone up at nearly three times the average for the 20${}^{\mathrm{\text{th}}}$ century.

(Global Warming Science - The New York Times, May 6, 2007)

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Global warming

On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change (01) declared that the evidence of a warming trend is “unequivocal”, and that human activity has “very likely” been the driving force in that change over the last 50 years. The last report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2001, had found that humanity had “likely” (02) played a role.

The greenhouse effect has been part of the earth’s workings since its earliest days. Gases like carbon dioxide and methane allow sunlight to reach the earth, but prevent some of the resulting heat from radiating back out into space. Without the greenhouse effect, the planet would never have warmed enough to allow life to form. But as ever larger amounts of carbon dioxide have been released along with the development of industrial economies, the atmosphere has grown warmer at an accelerating rate. Since 1970, temperatures have gone up at nearly three times the average for the 20${}^{\mathrm{\text{th}}}$ century.

(Global Warming Science - The New York Times, May 6, 2007)

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Global warming

On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change (01) declared that the evidence of a warming trend is “unequivocal”, and that human activity has “very likely” been the driving force in that change over the last 50 years. The last report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2001, had found that humanity had “likely” (02) played a role.

The greenhouse effect has been part of the earth’s workings since its earliest days. Gases like carbon dioxide and methane allow sunlight to reach the earth, but prevent some of the resulting heat from radiating back out into space. Without the greenhouse effect, the planet would never have warmed enough to allow life to form. But as ever larger amounts of carbon dioxide have been released along with the development of industrial economies, the atmosphere has grown warmer at an accelerating rate. Since 1970, temperatures have gone up at nearly three times the average for the 20${}^{\mathrm{\text{th}}}$ century.

(Global Warming Science - The New York Times, May 6, 2007)