Questões de Inglês

TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO.

  For most, The Gateway International Bridge functions as
it should, allowing people to get between the U.S. and
Mexico. But on a hot Sunday afternoon, a dozen migrants at
the mouth of the bridge weren’t getting anywhere at all.
[5] They had been told, once again, to wait.
  At a press conference the next day, President Trump once
again touted the border wall he has promised supporters.
“The wall is getting longer and taller and stronger each and
every day”, he said, even though construction has not
[10] begun. The President’s characterization of the physical wall
was false, but his Administration has effectively erected an
invisible one.
  It is built, in part, from situations like the one at the
bridge, which illustrates the problem with this kind of
[15] barrier. The practices that Trump praises for keeping out
criminals also punish those who are trying to follow the
rules.
  Those migrants who spoke to TIME at the bridge had
varied stories but shared a determination to cross. Some
[20] understood a bit of what could happen to them next. How
long could it take to get processed? And if they did
ultimately apply for asylum, it remained to be seen whether
their stories would qualify. The regulations governing such
matters are complicated, and the vast majority who apply
[20] are rejected. But in theory, their fates would be decided at
immigration courts, not at the border.
TIME, August 23, 2018. Adaptado.

TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO.

  For most, The Gateway International Bridge functions as
it should, allowing people to get between the U.S. and
Mexico. But on a hot Sunday afternoon, a dozen migrants at
the mouth of the bridge weren’t getting anywhere at all.
[5] They had been told, once again, to wait.
  At a press conference the next day, President Trump once
again touted the border wall he has promised supporters.
“The wall is getting longer and taller and stronger each and
every day”, he said, even though construction has not
[10] begun. The President’s characterization of the physical wall
was false, but his Administration has effectively erected an
invisible one.
  It is built, in part, from situations like the one at the
bridge, which illustrates the problem with this kind of
[15] barrier. The practices that Trump praises for keeping out
criminals also punish those who are trying to follow the
rules.
  Those migrants who spoke to TIME at the bridge had
varied stories but shared a determination to cross. Some
[20] understood a bit of what could happen to them next. How
long could it take to get processed? And if they did
ultimately apply for asylum, it remained to be seen whether
their stories would qualify. The regulations governing such
matters are complicated, and the vast majority who apply
[20] are rejected. But in theory, their fates would be decided at
immigration courts, not at the border.
TIME, August 23, 2018. Adaptado.

TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO.

  For most, The Gateway International Bridge functions as
it should, allowing people to get between the U.S. and
Mexico. But on a hot Sunday afternoon, a dozen migrants at
the mouth of the bridge weren’t getting anywhere at all.
[5] They had been told, once again, to wait.
  At a press conference the next day, President Trump once
again touted the border wall he has promised supporters.
“The wall is getting longer and taller and stronger each and
every day”, he said, even though construction has not
[10] begun. The President’s characterization of the physical wall
was false, but his Administration has effectively erected an
invisible one.
  It is built, in part, from situations like the one at the
bridge, which illustrates the problem with this kind of
[15] barrier. The practices that Trump praises for keeping out
criminals also punish those who are trying to follow the
rules.
  Those migrants who spoke to TIME at the bridge had
varied stories but shared a determination to cross. Some
[20] understood a bit of what could happen to them next. How
long could it take to get processed? And if they did
ultimately apply for asylum, it remained to be seen whether
their stories would qualify. The regulations governing such
matters are complicated, and the vast majority who apply
[20] are rejected. But in theory, their fates would be decided at
immigration courts, not at the border.
TIME, August 23, 2018. Adaptado.

TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO.

  What time is it? That simple question probably is asked more
often today than ever. In our clock‐studded, cell‐phone society,
the answer is never more than a glance away, and so we can
blissfully partition our days into ever smaller increments for ever
[5] more tightly scheduled tasks, confident that we will always
know it is 7:03 P.M.

  Modern scientific revelations about time, however, make
the question endlessly frustrating. If we seek a precise
knowledge of the time, the elusive infinitesimal of “now”
[10] dissolves into a scattering flock of nanoseconds. Bound by the
speed of light and the velocity of nerve impulses, our
perceptions of the present sketch the world as it was an instant
ago—for all that our consciousness pretends otherwise, we can
never catch up.

[15]  Even in principle, perfect synchronicity escapes us. Relativity
dictates that, like a strange syrup, time flows slower on moving
trains than in the stations and faster in the mountains than in
the valleys. The time for our wristwatch or digital screen is not
exactly the same as the time for our head.

[20]  Our intuitions are deeply paradoxical. Time heals all
wounds, but it is also the great destroyer. Time is relative but
also relentless. There is time for every purpose under heaven,
but there is never enough.
Scientific American, October 24, 2014. Adaptado.

TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO.

  What time is it? That simple question probably is asked more
often today than ever. In our clock‐studded, cell‐phone society,
the answer is never more than a glance away, and so we can
blissfully partition our days into ever smaller increments for ever
[5] more tightly scheduled tasks, confident that we will always
know it is 7:03 P.M.

  Modern scientific revelations about time, however, make
the question endlessly frustrating. If we seek a precise
knowledge of the time, the elusive infinitesimal of “now”
[10] dissolves into a scattering flock of nanoseconds. Bound by the
speed of light and the velocity of nerve impulses, our
perceptions of the present sketch the world as it was an instant
ago—for all that our consciousness pretends otherwise, we can
never catch up.

[15]  Even in principle, perfect synchronicity escapes us. Relativity
dictates that, like a strange syrup, time flows slower on moving
trains than in the stations and faster in the mountains than in
the valleys. The time for our wristwatch or digital screen is not
exactly the same as the time for our head.

[20]  Our intuitions are deeply paradoxical. Time heals all
wounds, but it is also the great destroyer. Time is relative but
also relentless. There is time for every purpose under heaven,
but there is never enough.
Scientific American, October 24, 2014. Adaptado.

TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO.

  What time is it? That simple question probably is asked more
often today than ever. In our clock‐studded, cell‐phone society,
the answer is never more than a glance away, and so we can
blissfully partition our days into ever smaller increments for ever
[5] more tightly scheduled tasks, confident that we will always
know it is 7:03 P.M.

  Modern scientific revelations about time, however, make
the question endlessly frustrating. If we seek a precise
knowledge of the time, the elusive infinitesimal of “now”
[10] dissolves into a scattering flock of nanoseconds. Bound by the
speed of light and the velocity of nerve impulses, our
perceptions of the present sketch the world as it was an instant
ago—for all that our consciousness pretends otherwise, we can
never catch up.

[15]  Even in principle, perfect synchronicity escapes us. Relativity
dictates that, like a strange syrup, time flows slower on moving
trains than in the stations and faster in the mountains than in
the valleys. The time for our wristwatch or digital screen is not
exactly the same as the time for our head.

[20]  Our intuitions are deeply paradoxical. Time heals all
wounds, but it is also the great destroyer. Time is relative but
also relentless. There is time for every purpose under heaven,
but there is never enough.
Scientific American, October 24, 2014. Adaptado.