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SCIENTISTS FIGURED OUT A WAY TO GROW MEAT IN A LAB WITHOUT RELYING ON ANY PRODUCTS FROM SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS.

A handful of startups are racing to create real pieces of meat out of animal cells in a lab.

But for the most part, the food that's used to coax those cells to proliferate is an animal product called fetal bovine serum, which comes from slaughtered cows. That means the lab-grown meat isn't yet cruelty-free.

However, the Dutch startup Meatable claims to have solved that problem by using only stem cells from animals' umbilical cords "This way, we don't harm the animals at all, and it's material that would otherwise get thrown away," Krijn De Nood, Meatable's CEO, told Business Insider in September.

The company aims to begin serving its slaughterfree burgers and sausages to restaurants in roughly four years.

Available in: https://amp.businessinsider.com/biggest-scientific-discoveriesof-2018-2018-12. Access in: 17 aug. 2019

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HONG KONG AND TAIWAN ARE CULTURAL POWERHOUSES. THAT TERRIFIES BEIJING.

    The successes of Hong Kong, Taiwan and the rest of the Chinese diaspora have always been an embarrassment for Beijing. Not only are they reminders of China’s historical failures, but they also represent an alternative way of life, where peoples of the same origin could somehow thrive outside of the watchful eye of the Communist Party.

Disponível em: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/29/hong-kong-taiwan-are-cultural-powerhouses-that-terrifies-beijing/. Acesso em: 6 abr.2020.

To Beijing, that’s an irreconcilable insult, a memory that needs to be murdered.

Choose the option with the same verb tense as the first sentence of the text.

In the comic strip, Haggar tries to convince his daughter to do something.

How is his argument correct?

CORONAVIRUS: AFRICA WILL NOT BE TESTING GROUND FOR VACCINE, SAYS WHO

    The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned as ‘racist’ the comments by two French doctors who suggested a vaccine for the coronavirus could be tested in Africa. “Africa can’t and won’t be a testing ground for any vaccine”, said Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The doctors’ remarks during a TV debate sparked outrage, and they were accused of treating Africans like “human guinea pigs”.

Disponível em: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52192184. Acesso em: 6 abr. 2020.

When asked about the doctors’ suggestion during the WHO’s coronavirus briefing, Dr Tedros became visibly angry, calling it a hangover from the “colonial mentality.”

Based on the text above, choose the option with the correct verb form as “a vaccine for the coronavirus could be tested in Africa”.

WE’RE THINKING ABOUT THE AMAZON FIRES ALL WRONG.

For weeks, we’ve seen headlines saying the Amazon rainforest is burning. But something unexpected happens when you map satellite data showing both the fires this year and those that have burned in the previous four years: The bulk of the forest remains almost entirely intact. Confused? That’s because the heart of the Amazon is not actually on fire. Inst ead, most of the fires are burning at the fringes of the forest. They are mostly a man -made event. These fires are set in areas that had already been deforested in previous years and are now being cleared for agriculture. Brazil nearly doubled its arable land for intensive row cropping between 2000 and 2014, according to a recent study by researchers from the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland. Much of the new cultivable land is a result of deforestation.

Disponível em: https://www.washingtonpost.com/. (adapted) Acesso em: 20 jul 2020

No início desta década, o desmatamento no Brasil diminuiu consideravelmente, porém, mais recentemente, o desmatamento e os incêndios que o acompanham aumentaram. Os incêndios foram tão massivos, que, em São Paulo, nuvens de fumaça originadas na Amazônia transformaram o dia em noite.

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    Pesquisa realizada pelo Datafolha mostra que os médicos têm 35% de aprovação como aqueles em quem a população mais deposita confiança e credibilidade. Em seguida, vêm os professores (21%) e os bombeiros (11%). Segundo o levantamento, 57% dos brasileiros avaliam o trabalho dos médicos como ótimo ou bom; 32% como regular; e 10% como ruim ou péssimo Quando a pergunta é especificamente sobre a atuação desses profissionais no período da pandemia, o porcentual dos que avaliam o trabalho como ótimo ou bom sobe para 77%, 17% consideram regular, e 6% consideram ruim ou péssimo.

    O levantamento mostrou que, atrás de médicos, professores e bombeiros, os que têm melhor avaliação são policiais (5%), militares e juízes (4% para cada categoria), e advogados, jornalistas e engenheiros (3%, cada).

Disponível em:  https://noticias.uol.com.br/ . (adapted) - Acesso em: 20 jul. 2020.

A situação atual provocada pela pandemia da Covid-19 tem ocasionado mudanças no que se refere à confiabilidade depositada pela população em diferentes profissionais.

Assinale a opção que melhor resume a ideia principal do texto.