Questões de EFAF Inglês

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Once upon a time there was a man called Mwananchi. Now this guy had one talent. As a youngster, he would stand on a street corner at Booroo housing estate and tell stories. Booroo estate was the newest and largest estate in Nairobi, built to house the new generation of forward-moving Kenyans.

Kids from one to four of the housing estate would pass by his “joint” ${}^1$when sent to the shops by their parents. His joint was an abandoned old car, which sat next to a lampshade he had decorated himself in Manchester United football team’s colours. He told his stories sometimes in Sheng, the version of Swahili that all the cool people spoke, or sometimes in that hip Nairobi English teachers laughed at.

Parents hated him. They wanted him to be exiled to some small village somewhere: whatever it took to get him away from their children, who would come home with all sorts of crazy ideas, funny new slang. Some ${}^2$ tried to get hold of his parents to complain about him, but his parents seemed elusive - promising to come to meetings and never showing up, or sometimes not picking up the telephone.

(Source: WAINAINA, B. According to Mwangi. In: New Writing. Picador, 2003. p.120.)

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Once upon a time there was a man called Mwananchi. Now this guy had one talent. As a youngster, he would stand on a street corner at Booroo housing estate and tell stories. Booroo estate was the newest and largest estate in Nairobi, built to house the new generation of forward-moving Kenyans.

Kids from one to four of the housing estate would pass by his “joint” ${}^1$when sent to the shops by their parents. His joint was an abandoned old car, which sat next to a lampshade he had decorated himself in Manchester United football team’s colours. He told his stories sometimes in Sheng, the version of Swahili that all the cool people spoke, or sometimes in that hip Nairobi English teachers laughed at.

Parents hated him. They wanted him to be exiled to some small village somewhere: whatever it took to get him away from their children, who would come home with all sorts of crazy ideas, funny new slang. Some ${}^2$ tried to get hold of his parents to complain about him, but his parents seemed elusive - promising to come to meetings and never showing up, or sometimes not picking up the telephone.

(Source: WAINAINA, B. According to Mwangi. In: New Writing. Picador, 2003. p.120.)

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Whatever ${}^1$ else people do when they come together – Whether ${}^1$ they play, fight, make love, or make automobiles - they talk. We live in a world of languages. We talk to our friends, our associates, our wives and husbands, our lovers,${}^2$ our teachers,${}^2$ our parents, our rivals, and even our enemies. We talk to bus drivers and total strangers. We talk face-to-face and over the telephone, and everyone responds with more talk. Television and radio further swell this torrent of words. Hardly a moment of our waking lives is free from words, and even in our dreams we talk and are talked to. We also talk when there is no one to answer. Some of us talk aloud in our sleep. We talk to our pets and sometimes to ourselves.

The possession of language, perhaps more than any other attribute, distinguishes humans from other animals. To understand our humanity, one must understand the nature of language that makes us human.

(Source: FROMKIN, V.; RODMAN, R.; HYAMS, N. (2003) An introduction to language. Thomson & Wadsworth, p. 3)

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Whatever ${}^1$ else people do when they come together – Whether ${}^1$ they play, fight, make love, or make automobiles - they talk. We live in a world of languages. We talk to our friends, our associates, our wives and husbands, our lovers,${}^2$ our teachers,${}^2$ our parents, our rivals, and even our enemies. We talk to bus drivers and total strangers. We talk face-to-face and over the telephone, and everyone responds with more talk. Television and radio further swell this torrent of words. Hardly a moment of our waking lives is free from words, and even in our dreams we talk and are talked to. We also talk when there is no one to answer. Some of us talk aloud in our sleep. We talk to our pets and sometimes to ourselves.

The possession of language, perhaps more than any other attribute, distinguishes humans from other animals. To understand our humanity, one must understand the nature of language that makes us human.

(Source: FROMKIN, V.; RODMAN, R.; HYAMS, N. (2003) An introduction to language. Thomson & Wadsworth, p. 3)

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Whatever ${}^1$ else people do when they come together – Whether ${}^1$ they play, fight, make love, or make automobiles - they talk. We live in a world of languages. We talk to our friends, our associates, our wives and husbands, our lovers,${}^2$ our teachers,${}^2$ our parents, our rivals, and even our enemies. We talk to bus drivers and total strangers. We talk face-to-face and over the telephone, and everyone responds with more talk. Television and radio further swell this torrent of words. Hardly a moment of our waking lives is free from words, and even in our dreams we talk and are talked to. We also talk when there is no one to answer. Some of us talk aloud in our sleep. We talk to our pets and sometimes to ourselves.

The possession of language, perhaps more than any other attribute, distinguishes humans from other animals. To understand our humanity, one must understand the nature of language that makes us human.

(Source: FROMKIN, V.; RODMAN, R.; HYAMS, N. (2003) An introduction to language. Thomson & Wadsworth, p. 3)

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What is a prepaid water meter?

There are several types of prepaid water meters but the idea behind them is the same. If you cannot pay upfront, (01) you are unable to access water. Water from prepaid water meters typically costs more than water billed from the utility. (02). As a result, those in most need are denied access to water.

In the United States, the typical prepaid water meter is used in areas without access to water infrastructure. The users are poor, often immigrant workers, who travel long distances to collect water from the meters. (03) To get water you drop quarters into the slot (04) and place your bucket (01) at the faucet.

A similar type of meter has been used in South Africa where prepaid water meters replaced previous free communal standpipes in rural townships. The meter worked by inserting a plastic card with a chip that could be bought for R60 (US$9). In order to get more water, money can be added to the card at a store.

Other types of prepaid water meters are used in individual homes - this system was used in the United Kingdom some time ago.

(Source: <www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/humanright/ meter/index.cfm>)