Questões de Inglês

Read the text below. Fill in the blanks with the right conjunctions.

 

  In today's world, (I) _________ just about everything is more convenient and accessible due to advances in technology across almost all sectors, it may seem (II)_________ it's a misnomer to even mention any disadvantages of technological advances. (III) __________, despite how far technology has taken humans and no matter (IV) ______ convenient it may make things, there are some disadvantages accompanying this level of access.

  Technology advances show people a more efficient way to do things, and these processes get results. For example, education has been greatly advanced by the technological advances of computers. Students are able to learn on a global scale without ever leaving their classrooms. Agricultural processes (V)_______ once required dozens upon dozens of human workers can now be automated, thanks to advances in technology, which means cost-efficiency for farmers. Medical discoveries occur at a much more rapid rate, thanks to machines and computers that aid in the research process and allow for more intense educational research into medical matters.

  Cost efficiency is an advantage in some ways and a disadvantage in others. (VI) _______ technology improves on existing processes and showcases new ways to accomplish tasks, machines are able to produce the same -- if not more -- output (VII) _______ humans in certain industries. This results in cost savings for business owners, allowing them to invest in growth in other areas of the business, (VIII) _________ contributes on a positive level to the economy as a whole.

Available at: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-disadvantages-technology-advances-12579.html..

 

Mark the correct alternative.

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The methodological suggestions presented by the official documents about education in Brazil, the National Curriculum Parameters, point to a socio-interactionist practice regarding the language teaching. To produce texts, therefore, is to act symbolically for the world, producing meanings for the other. In this production, the man, as a social being, acts in an ordered and organized manner in relation to the other. It is, thus, established what is called social interaction about which Marcuschi claims not to be "a chaotic activity, neither random or mechanical, but directed, coordinated and intentional." Social interaction is one of the most important devices for the social construction of reality, because the participants of the interaction are social constructors who use language as a facilitator way in this relationship to reach their various purposes and objectives. In this social practice, considering the different forms of language manifestation, one can not deny the undoubted presence of technology, which advances in the relations of interaction, especially among young people, through the social networks at the Internet. PRIETO, Sandra. A importância dos gêneros digitais na escola.

Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro. São Paulo, São Paulo, 05658-080, Brasil. (adaptado, tradução nossa). Disponível em: <http://www.iiisci.org/journal/CV$/risci/pdfs/CB844PO14.pdf >.

 

According to this text, consider the following statements.

 

I - Technology, especially with the arise of the Internet, redefined an immense virtual social network, that connects the most diverse individuals by the most diversified forms at an astonishing speed.

II - The new scenery of digital technology relativized the need for physical presence at human beings’ relations and at their social life. This gives a new notion of social interaction, which can be achieved in digital media, through, among other, social media. In addition to this new format of social interaction, it brings to reflection a new way of using as the language in writing as an interactive practice.

III - The spaces of learning in the digital age are integrated not only between the social spaces (home, family, friends, leisure, physical community in general), but also with all virtual space and, so that one can live better into the society of knowledge, information and communication, it isn’t necessary to develop specific skills for the written interaction that allows the individual to pass through, occupy and interact, efficiently all these social contexts.

IV - There are the need and the importance of the school's role in relation to these new textual supports that emerge new digital genres, which should be incorporated into the academic context for a formation for the whole life.

 

It is correct what is stated on:

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  Over the 19^th century, since the rupture of the colonial statute and the beginning of the construction of the national state in Brazil, put the need of developing a literary historiography, able not only to justify the existence of a Brazilian literature, how to think and point out their characters and specificities. From Ferdinand Denis to Ferdinand Wolf, from Gonçalves Magalhães to Joaquim Norberto, passing by Santiago Nunes Ribeiro and Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen with the collaboration of many other, a historical-literary tradition was conceived with an important ideological role in the national construction. Collective construct, this operation involved many intellectuals and a decisive action of the state for a few decades.

  This critical collection was re-elaborated in the last decades of the 19^th century and in the beginning of the 20^th century, by several other intellectuals, in their studies about the history of Brazilian literature, among them, Sílvio Romero, Araripe Júnior and José Veríssimo. Absorbing conceptions of the positivism, the naturalism and the evolutionism - especially by Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer and Hippolyte Taine -, their formulations are impregnated with notions of race, language and culture. Notwithstanding the determinism of analysis and elaboration, these Brazilian authors become a basic or even paradigmatic reference for literary histories, until at least, the middle of the twentieth century.

  It was only in the fifties of that century, that these references were to be reworked and surpassed by Antonio Candido, in the book Formation of Brazilian Literature, in 1959. In this study, the author, starting from the previous historical-critical heritage and incorporating many of its elements, rethought the chronological and cultural frame of the emergence of literature in Brazil, that is, its decisive moments – 18^th century (Arcadism) and XIX (Romanticism) - together with the establishment of a literary system.

  Fifty years after the publication of the important study by Antonio Candido, it is opportune and necessary to rediscuss and redefine the historical limits of the creation or formation of the national or Brazilian literature, through a various reading about the process of the State and nation organization in Brazil.

LEONEL, M. C.; SEGATTO, J. A. Organização do Estado e formação da literatura – Fev. 2009. Disponível em: <http://www.acessa.com/gramsci/?page=visualizar&id=1042>. Adaptado. Versão nossa.

 

Choose the alternative that represents the correct time-frame from the Brazilian Literary Schools.

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   09     a bar of soap transmit infection?

  Are there any health risks to using a communal bar of soap? No. Bar soap does not appear to transmit diseases. The most rigorous study of this question was published in 1965.

  Scientists conducted a series of experiments in which they intentionally contaminated their hands with about five billion bacteria. The bacteria were disease-causing strains, such as Staphylococcus and E. coli. The scientists then washed their hands with a bar of soap and had a second person wash with the same bar of soap. They found that bacteria were not transferred to the second user.

  The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends hand washing with soap as the primary defence against infection and gives the same approval to bar soap as it does to liquid soap. Therefore, the only mistake one could make would be not to wash one’s hands because of an unfounded fear of contamination.
(Richard Klasco. www.nytimes.com, 22.06.2018. Adaptado.)

No trecho do terceiro parágrafo “Therefore, the only mistake one could make would be not to wash one’s hands”, o termo sublinhado equivale, em português, a

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   09     a bar of soap transmit infection?

  Are there any health risks to using a communal bar of soap? No. Bar soap does not appear to transmit diseases. The most rigorous study of this question was published in 1965.

  Scientists conducted a series of experiments in which they intentionally contaminated their hands with about five billion bacteria. The bacteria were disease-causing strains, such as Staphylococcus and E. coli. The scientists then washed their hands with a bar of soap and had a second person wash with the same bar of soap. They found that bacteria were not transferred to the second user.

  The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends hand washing with soap as the primary defence against infection and gives the same approval to bar soap as it does to liquid soap. Therefore, the only mistake one could make would be not to wash one’s hands because of an unfounded fear of contamination.
(Richard Klasco. www.nytimes.com, 22.06.2018. Adaptado.)

De acordo com o segundo parágrafo, Staphylococcus e E. coli são exemplos de

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   09     a bar of soap transmit infection?

  Are there any health risks to using a communal bar of soap? No. Bar soap does not appear to transmit diseases. The most rigorous study of this question was published in 1965.

  Scientists conducted a series of experiments in which they intentionally contaminated their hands with about five billion bacteria. The bacteria were disease-causing strains, such as Staphylococcus and E. coli. The scientists then washed their hands with a bar of soap and had a second person wash with the same bar of soap. They found that bacteria were not transferred to the second user.

  The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends hand washing with soap as the primary defence against infection and gives the same approval to bar soap as it does to liquid soap. Therefore, the only mistake one could make would be not to wash one’s hands because of an unfounded fear of contamination.
(Richard Klasco. www.nytimes.com, 22.06.2018. Adaptado.)

De acordo com o texto, lavar as mãos com um sabonete em barra que já tenha sido utilizado