Questões de Inglês

Why is Trash a Problem?

 

    Trash is becoming a larger and larger problem for us and for the environment. As we continue to waste more and more, we use more natural resources and increase pollution in our world.

    About 900 million trees are cut down each year to create raw materials for American paper and paper mills. The average American uses 18 tons of paper, 23 tons of wood, 16 tons of metal, and 32 tons of organic chemicals in one lifetime. The oil from an oil change in a car can end up in oceans, sewers, and landfills, contaminating millions of gallons of water. These and other facts show us that our world cannot continue to sustain this amount of waste. Conservation and recycling need to become more frequent actions. (Clean Air Council Waste Facts and Figures, 2006)

 

What Happens to Our Trash?

 

    America accounts for over one-third of the world’s waste. Most of that trash ends up in landfills. In the United States, one ton of waste per person ends up in landfills each year. Also, about seventy percent of U.S. municipal waste is buried in landfills. The Fresh Kills landfill in New York City is one of the only man-made structures visible from space! (Clean Air Council Waste Facts and Figures, 2006)

    Much of our garbage also is dumped into the ocean. About ten percent of all the world’s plastic waste ends up in the ocean. Due to ocean currents, most of this plastic gathers in the Pacific Ocean. It also greatly affects marine life. Over a million seabirds and 100 thousand marine mammals die every year from trying to eat these plastics which they mistake for food. (Marks and Howden, 2008)

    Recycling and composting are other ways to deal with trash. Both recycling and composting can decrease the use of resources, the amount of pollution in the atmosphere, and the amount of trash which would end up in landfills or the ocean. Recycling can save trees, landfill space, water, energy, oil, and greatly reduce pollution. For example, recycling an aluminum soda can saves 96% of the energy used to make a can from ore, and also decreases by about 96% the amount of air and water pollution emitted from the production of cans from ore. And 1,500 aluminum cans are recycled every second in the     U.S. (Clean Air Council Waste Facts and Figures, 2006)

Even though more than thirty percent of household wastes are compostable, most of these go to landfills. Composting can greatly reduce the volume of waste sent to landfills, reduce the amount of pollution created from landfills, and is also an inexpensive way of creating natural fertilizer for plants. Despite these advantages, composting is rarely done by most families. (Clean Air Council Waste Facts and Figures, 2006)

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According to this text, paragraph three. Where does most of the America’s waste end up?

Complete as cinco frases com os verbos entre parênteses no tempo verbal Passado Perfeito e, então, assinale a alternativa correta.

 

(1) She got dressed after she_____________(wash)
(2) They _____________(clean) the room before I called them.
(3) I was sorry that I__________________(hurt) him.
(4) The old ladies____________________(leave) before we arrived.
(5) The student___________________(write) two poems before the teacher entered the room. 

Leia o Texto  para responder a questão.

 

    “Most villages and towns on the British Isles
came into being because of their favorable
situation for trade. Rather more than a hundred
years ago, a great change came over the land.
Many machines were invented about that time.
Spinning and weaving, for example, which had
previously been done by hand, were done by
machinery that were driven by water or steam-

power. The work which usually was done in the
houses of the people began to be carried on in
large mills or factories, and workers found it
convenient to live near them. More and more
factories were built and men and women left
the country districts in great numbers and
crowded into towns.”

(Disponível em: https://www.conversacional.com/resources/G1_x5/M aterial/Conver_II/LAB.%2000.%20%20TextsProverbs.pdf. Acesso em: 24 out. 2021)

Leia a seguinte frase e escolha a alternativa correta que expressa o que as palavras, respectivamente, são.

 

“Spinning and weaving, for example, which had previously been done by hand, were done by machinery that were driven by water or steampower”.

Leia o Texto  para responder a questão.

 

    “Most villages and towns on the British Isles
came into being because of their favorable
situation for trade. Rather more than a hundred
years ago, a great change came over the land.
Many machines were invented about that time.
Spinning and weaving, for example, which had
previously been done by hand, were done by
machinery that were driven by water or steam-

power. The work which usually was done in the
houses of the people began to be carried on in
large mills or factories, and workers found it
convenient to live near them. More and more
factories were built and men and women left
the country districts in great numbers and
crowded into towns.”

(Disponível em: https://www.conversacional.com/resources/G1_x5/M aterial/Conver_II/LAB.%2000.%20%20TextsProverbs.pdf. Acesso em: 24 out. 2021)

Observe os verbos sublinhados no texto e, então, assinale a alternativa que representa corretamente o tempo verbal em que eles se encontram.

Text

LEARN 3000 WORDS with NEWS IN LEVELS

 

1. If you read and listen to two articles every day, your reading and listening skills can
improve fast. You can learn quickly and after some time you will not have to translate
crcrrecco ++ YOUr OWN language. You will simply understand. Why should you do this?

 

When you listen to people in your native language, you do not translate. You simply
5. understand. The same has to be in English. When you learn English, you have to learn the
whole sentences ................ context.

 

Students, who translate English texts, do exercises and do tests are very good ........
translating, doing exercises and doing tests, but they have problems with understanding
English in real life. In real life, nobody waits .......... your translation. People usually use
10. simple English when they speak but they use it fast. You have to understand with no
translation to your native language. If you translate, you cannot be part of communication
because you are thinking about the language too much. These words are maybe hard to
read but they are true.

 

You also have to hear every new word 5 to 10 times if you want to remember it. That's why
15. we use the same words in one level. If you read and hear the same words again and
again, you will understand them and remember them. If you know words .......... one level,
you can go to a higher level and learn new words. It is important to go step by step, and
read and listen to words which are used in English often. This is what we do with our
news. In our short news, we use words which are used in English often. Level 1 has the
20. 1000 most important words. Level 2 has the 2000 most important words, Level 3 has the
3000 most important words.

 

So, if you want to understand English fast and learn fast, read two articles or more a day.
You can improve your reading and listening quickly when you read easy English news. We
will help you leam English fast and understand it. When you use this website every day,
25. you can learn 3000 words which you need for communication with anybody in English.

www .newsinlevels.com/products/new-discovery-in-luxor-level-1. Accessed on September 1^st, 2018.

The respective pronouns refers to:
 

I. It (line 10)

Il. They (line 08)

III. Our (line 18)

IV. Them (line 16)

 

( ) students

( ) we

( ) English

( ) words

 

The right sequence from top to bottom is:

Text

LEARN 3000 WORDS with NEWS IN LEVELS

 

1. If you read and listen to two articles every day, your reading and listening skills can
improve fast. You can learn quickly and after some time you will not have to translate
crcrrecco ++ YOUr OWN language. You will simply understand. Why should you do this?

 

When you listen to people in your native language, you do not translate. You simply
5. understand. The same has to be in English. When you learn English, you have to learn the
whole sentences ................ context.

 

Students, who translate English texts, do exercises and do tests are very good ........
translating, doing exercises and doing tests, but they have problems with understanding
English in real life. In real life, nobody waits .......... your translation. People usually use
10. simple English when they speak but they use it fast. You have to understand with no
translation to your native language. If you translate, you cannot be part of communication
because you are thinking about the language too much. These words are maybe hard to
read but they are true.

 

You also have to hear every new word 5 to 10 times if you want to remember it. That's why
15. we use the same words in one level. If you read and hear the same words again and
again, you will understand them and remember them. If you know words .......... one level,
you can go to a higher level and learn new words. It is important to go step by step, and
read and listen to words which are used in English often. This is what we do with our
news. In our short news, we use words which are used in English often. Level 1 has the
20. 1000 most important words. Level 2 has the 2000 most important words, Level 3 has the
3000 most important words.

 

So, if you want to understand English fast and learn fast, read two articles or more a day.
You can improve your reading and listening quickly when you read easy English news. We
will help you leam English fast and understand it. When you use this website every day,
25. you can learn 3000 words which you need for communication with anybody in English.

www .newsinlevels.com/products/new-discovery-in-luxor-level-1. Accessed on September 1^st, 2018.

The Text says that: