Questões de Inglês

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Brazil’s first homemade satellite will put an extra eye on dwindling Amazon forests

A new Brazilian satellite would allow near-real-time monitoring of Amazonian deforestation.

 

    The fate of Brazil’s satellite program — and the country’s capacity to monitor disappearing Amazon forest — will be decided in 17 minutes and 30 seconds on February 28. That’s the time it will take to launch Amazonia-1, the first satellite entirely developed by the country. If the mission goes well, Brazil will join about 20 countries that have managed the whole chain of design, production, and operation of a satellite. Amazonia-1 will give researchers more frequent updates on deforestation and agricultural activity in the world’s largest tropical rainforest. Nevertheless, other challenges await, since Brazilian scientists deal with increasing cuts in research funding.

    The satellite represents “a milestone for Brazil,” says Adenilson Silva, an engineer at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) who leads the mission and will oversee the launch at the Indian space center on the island of Sriharikota. The satellite’s development, which began in 2008, has involved more than a dozen Brazilian companies and an investment of 360 million reais ($60 million) — about one-sixth what it would cost to import ready-to-use equipment, Silva says. Amazonia-1 is the first of three Amazon-monitoring satellites INPE aims to build with the same manufacturing platform.

    The new satellite is a 2.5-meter-long metallic cuboid weighing 640 kilograms. It’s loaded with 6 kilometers of cables and three wide-angle cameras capable of detecting any area of deforestation bigger than four soccer fields. A planned launch in 2018 was postponed because of a lack of funding and delays in the supply of key components from collaborating companies.

(Sofia Moutinho. www.sciencemag.org, 26.02.2021. Adapted.)

In the excerpt from the first paragraph “Nevertheless, other challenges await”, the underlined expression refers to

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Brazil’s first homemade satellite will put an extra eye on dwindling Amazon forests

A new Brazilian satellite would allow near-real-time monitoring of Amazonian deforestation.

 

    The fate of Brazil’s satellite program — and the country’s capacity to monitor disappearing Amazon forest — will be decided in 17 minutes and 30 seconds on February 28. That’s the time it will take to launch Amazonia-1, the first satellite entirely developed by the country. If the mission goes well, Brazil will join about 20 countries that have managed the whole chain of design, production, and operation of a satellite. Amazonia-1 will give researchers more frequent updates on deforestation and agricultural activity in the world’s largest tropical rainforest. Nevertheless, other challenges await, since Brazilian scientists deal with increasing cuts in research funding.

    The satellite represents “a milestone for Brazil,” says Adenilson Silva, an engineer at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) who leads the mission and will oversee the launch at the Indian space center on the island of Sriharikota. The satellite’s development, which began in 2008, has involved more than a dozen Brazilian companies and an investment of 360 million reais ($60 million) — about one-sixth what it would cost to import ready-to-use equipment, Silva says. Amazonia-1 is the first of three Amazon-monitoring satellites INPE aims to build with the same manufacturing platform.

    The new satellite is a 2.5-meter-long metallic cuboid weighing 640 kilograms. It’s loaded with 6 kilometers of cables and three wide-angle cameras capable of detecting any area of deforestation bigger than four soccer fields. A planned launch in 2018 was postponed because of a lack of funding and delays in the supply of key components from collaborating companies.

(Sofia Moutinho. www.sciencemag.org, 26.02.2021. Adapted.)

One of the aims of the satellite Amazonia-1 is to

Read the text to answer question.

 

Brazil’s first homemade satellite will put an extra eye on dwindling Amazon forests

A new Brazilian satellite would allow near-real-time monitoring of Amazonian deforestation.

 

    The fate of Brazil’s satellite program — and the country’s capacity to monitor disappearing Amazon forest — will be decided in 17 minutes and 30 seconds on February 28. That’s the time it will take to launch Amazonia-1, the first satellite entirely developed by the country. If the mission goes well, Brazil will join about 20 countries that have managed the whole chain of design, production, and operation of a satellite. Amazonia-1 will give researchers more frequent updates on deforestation and agricultural activity in the world’s largest tropical rainforest. Nevertheless, other challenges await, since Brazilian scientists deal with increasing cuts in research funding.

    The satellite represents “a milestone for Brazil,” says Adenilson Silva, an engineer at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) who leads the mission and will oversee the launch at the Indian space center on the island of Sriharikota. The satellite’s development, which began in 2008, has involved more than a dozen Brazilian companies and an investment of 360 million reais ($60 million) — about one-sixth what it would cost to import ready-to-use equipment, Silva says. Amazonia-1 is the first of three Amazon-monitoring satellites INPE aims to build with the same manufacturing platform.

    The new satellite is a 2.5-meter-long metallic cuboid weighing 640 kilograms. It’s loaded with 6 kilometers of cables and three wide-angle cameras capable of detecting any area of deforestation bigger than four soccer fields. A planned launch in 2018 was postponed because of a lack of funding and delays in the supply of key components from collaborating companies.

(Sofia Moutinho. www.sciencemag.org, 26.02.2021. Adapted.)

The Brazilian satellite Amazonia-1

Analyse Text and the assumptions I to VI that follow.

Texto

 

“THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE"

Before you examine the body of a patient,
Be patient to learn his story.
For once you learn his story,
[5] You will also come to know
His body.
Before you diagnose any sickness,
Make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart.
For the emotions in a man’s moon or sun,
[10] Can point to the sickness in
Any one of his other parts.
Before you treat a man with a condition,
Know that not all cures can heal all people.
For the chemistry that works on one patient,
[15] May not work for the next,
Because even medicine has its own
Conditions.
Before asserting a prognosis on any patient,
Always be objective and never subjective.
[20] For telling a man that he will win the treasure of life,
But then later discovering that he will lose,
Will harm him more than by telling him
That he may lose,
But then he wins

THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE by Suzy Kassem” ―Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem (Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/medicine, retrieved on May5th, 2021)

 

I. The words patient (line 2) and patient (line3) are a noun and an adverb respectively in those lines.

II. For once you learn his story (line 4) can be paraphrased as In spite of learning his story.

III. Any one (line 11) can also be written Anyone without changing the idea of the sentence.

IV. A condition (line 12) has the same meaning as a medication or a remedy.

V. The words cures and heal (line 13) function as a verb and a noun respectively.

VI. Asserting (line 18) means rejecting.

 

Now, mark the correct alternative

Which of the words in parentheses completes each sentence correctly? Mark the alternative that corresponds to the correct sequence from I to VI, respectively.

 

I. Her chest was too tight for her to .................. deeply. (breath - breathe)

II. It doesn´t taste like my ....................... coffee. (everyday - every day)

III. Why don´t you ............... on the bed for a short while? (lie - lay)

IV. Sarah found a ................... of the Eiffel Tower in a famous French magazine. (figure - picture) V. The ................... is expected to remain clear for the next few days. (weather - whether)

VI. Paul's daughter ...................... the job in 2019. (took after - took over)

Analyse the advertisement that follows and choose the correct alternative which respectively defines how the words "Produce", "dairy" and "shelf-stable food" are used in the ad: