Questões de Inglês

Examine a tira de Bill Watterson.

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In the comic strip, Calvin, the boy,

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    Dr. Mariangela Hungria will receive the $500,000 award for her work to utilize biological processes to sustainably improve crop¹ nutrition, yields² and productivity. The scientist whose discoveries helped Brazil become a global agricultural powerhouse has been named the 2025 World Food Prize Laureate.

    Dr. Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist from São Paulo, has developed dozens of biological seed and soil treatments that help crops source nutrients through soil bacteria, significantly increasing yields of major crops while also reducing the need for synthetic fertilizer. Her products are estimated to have been used across more than 40 million hectares in Brazil, saving farmers up to US$40 billion a year in costs while avoiding more than 180 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent emissions per year.

    Dr. Hungria’s work has helped improve yields of wheat, corn, rice, common beans, and other major crops, including soybean, which is now Brazil’s top agricultural export. Over her 40-year career with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), national soybean production increased from 15 million tons in 1979 to an anticipated 173 million tons in the next harvest³ in 2025.

    Dr. Hungria, who overcame prejudices against women and young mothers in academia to be named one of the 100 most powerful women in agriculture in Brazil by Forbes magazine in 2021, said she was inspired by Dr. Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution and founder of the World Food Prize. “I like to say that he made the Green Revolution possible, and we had this great opportunity to start a ‘micro green revolution’ — a green revolution, but with microorganisms,” she added. “I can’t quite believe I am now receiving the World Food Prize. Many people questioned me and my abilities throughout my career but I believed in what I was doing and persevered. The role of women in agriculture, from farming to science, deserves more recognition. I hope my achievement inspires others to pursue their passions in science.”

(www.worldfoodprize.org, 13.05.2025. Adaptado.)

 

¹crop: cultivated plant that is grown as food, especially grain, fruit or vegetable.
²yields: the full amounts of an agricultural product.
³harvest: the crops that are cut and collected.

According to the fourth paragraph, Dr. Hungria partly attributes her success toprejudice.

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    Dr. Mariangela Hungria will receive the $500,000 award for her work to utilize biological processes to sustainably improve crop¹ nutrition, yields² and productivity. The scientist whose discoveries helped Brazil become a global agricultural powerhouse has been named the 2025 World Food Prize Laureate.

    Dr. Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist from São Paulo, has developed dozens of biological seed and soil treatments that help crops source nutrients through soil bacteria, significantly increasing yields of major crops while also reducing the need for synthetic fertilizer. Her products are estimated to have been used across more than 40 million hectares in Brazil, saving farmers up to US$40 billion a year in costs while avoiding more than 180 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent emissions per year.

    Dr. Hungria’s work has helped improve yields of wheat, corn, rice, common beans, and other major crops, including soybean, which is now Brazil’s top agricultural export. Over her 40-year career with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), national soybean production increased from 15 million tons in 1979 to an anticipated 173 million tons in the next harvest³ in 2025.

    Dr. Hungria, who overcame prejudices against women and young mothers in academia to be named one of the 100 most powerful women in agriculture in Brazil by Forbes magazine in 2021, said she was inspired by Dr. Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution and founder of the World Food Prize. “I like to say that he made the Green Revolution possible, and we had this great opportunity to start a ‘micro green revolution’ — a green revolution, but with microorganisms,” she added. “I can’t quite believe I am now receiving the World Food Prize. Many people questioned me and my abilities throughout my career but I believed in what I was doing and persevered. The role of women in agriculture, from farming to science, deserves more recognition. I hope my achievement inspires others to pursue their passions in science.”

(www.worldfoodprize.org, 13.05.2025. Adaptado.)

 

¹crop: cultivated plant that is grown as food, especially grain, fruit or vegetable.
²yields: the full amounts of an agricultural product.
³harvest: the crops that are cut and collected.

De acordo com o texto, a cultura agrícola que foi mais impactada pela pesquisa da Dra. Mariangela Hungria é a

Examine o post publicado pela comunidade “The Language Nerds” em sua conta no Facebook em 01.09.2019.

Estereótipo é uma generalização simplificada e preconcebida, que reduz a complexidade de indivíduos a características padronizadas, com base em ideias repetidas sobre determinado grupo.

 

O post explora o estereótipo de que

Match the second column to the first, which relates verb tenses to sentences:

First column: verb tenses

 

1-Simple Present
2-Simple Past
3-Present Perfect

 

Second column: sentences

(__)He traveled to different parts of Brazil last year.

(__)They have enjoyed the perks of being in high school, like making new friends and joining clubs.

(__)She studies math every day after school.

 

Select the alternative that presents the correct association between the columns:

Effective strategies for studying and improving language skills can enhance the learning experience for students of English language.

 

Which of the following statements best describes an effective approach for studying languages?