Questões de Inglês

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London: the city that ate itself

 

London is a city ruled by money. The things that
make it special – the markets, pubs, high streets and
communities – are becoming unrecognisable. The
city is suffering a form of entropy whereby anything
[5] distinctive is converted into property value. Can the
capital save itself?

 

London is without question the most popular city
for investors,” says Gavin Sung of the international
property agents Savills. “There is a trust factor. It
[10] has a strong government, a great legal system, the
currency is relatively safe. It has a really nice lifestyle”.
There are parks, museums and nice houses. Its arts
of hedonism are reaching unprecedented levels: its
restaurants get better or at least more ambitious and
[15] its bars offer cocktails previously unknown to man. In
some ways, the city has never been better. It has a
buzz. Its population keeps growing and investment
keeps ______, both signs of its desirability. As its
mayor likes to boast: “London is to the billionaire as
[20] the jungles of Sumatra are to the orangutans. It is their
natural habitat.”

 

At the same time, to use a commonly heard phrase,
the city is eating itself. Most obviously, its provision of
housing is failing to ______ its popularity, with effects
[25] on price that breed bizarre reactions at the top end
of the market and misery at the bottom. Thousands
are being forced to leave London because their local
authorities can’t find them homes and people on middle
incomes can’t acquire a place where anyone would
[30] want to raise a family.

 

There are also effects beyond housing, although often
driven by residential property prices. The spaces for
work that are an essential part of the city’s economy
are being squeezed, its high streets diminished, its
[35] pubs and other everyday places closing. It is suffering
a form of entropy whereby the distinctive or special is
converted into property values. Its essential qualities,
which are that it was not polarised on the basis
of income, and that its best places were common
[40] property, are being eroded. (…)

 

This would matter less if the city were making new
places with the qualities of those now packaged up
and commodified – if the supply of good stuff _____
expanding – but it _____ not. Although the cranes
[45] swing, much of the new living zones now _____ created
range from the ho-hum to the outright catastrophic. The
skyline _____ plundered for profit, but without creating
towers to be proud of or making new neighbourhoods
with any positive qualities whatsoever. If London is an
[50] enormous party, millions of people are on the wrong
side of its velvet rope.

 

In the rest of Britain, a common view of London is
that it is a parasitic monster or, as Alex Salmond
put it, quoting Tony Travers of the London School of
[55] Economics: “The dark star of the economy, inexorably
sucking in resources, people and energy. Nobody quite
knows how to control it.” Both the SNP and Ukip can
be seen as anti-London parties, as expressions of a
feeling that national decisions are made in the capital,
[60] by the capital, for the capital. Those Scots who want
independence are less concerned about being part of
the same country as Middlesbrough or Ipswich than
they are about London. But these views overlook the
extent to which the city is feeding on its own.

Adapted from: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/ jun/28/london-the-city-that-ate-itself-rowan-moore

The word “eroded” (line 40) refers to

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London: the city that ate itself

 

London is a city ruled by money. The things that
make it special – the markets, pubs, high streets and
communities – are becoming unrecognisable. The
city is suffering a form of entropy whereby anything
[5] distinctive is converted into property value. Can the
capital save itself?

 

London is without question the most popular city
for investors,” says Gavin Sung of the international
property agents Savills. “There is a trust factor. It
[10] has a strong government, a great legal system, the
currency is relatively safe. It has a really nice lifestyle”.
There are parks, museums and nice houses. Its arts
of hedonism are reaching unprecedented levels: its
restaurants get better or at least more ambitious and
[15] its bars offer cocktails previously unknown to man. In
some ways, the city has never been better. It has a
buzz. Its population keeps growing and investment
keeps ______, both signs of its desirability. As its
mayor likes to boast: “London is to the billionaire as
[20] the jungles of Sumatra are to the orangutans. It is their
natural habitat.”

 

At the same time, to use a commonly heard phrase,
the city is eating itself. Most obviously, its provision of
housing is failing to ______ its popularity, with effects
[25] on price that breed bizarre reactions at the top end
of the market and misery at the bottom. Thousands
are being forced to leave London because their local
authorities can’t find them homes and people on middle
incomes can’t acquire a place where anyone would
[30] want to raise a family.

 

There are also effects beyond housing, although often
driven by residential property prices. The spaces for
work that are an essential part of the city’s economy
are being squeezed, its high streets diminished, its
[35] pubs and other everyday places closing. It is suffering
a form of entropy whereby the distinctive or special is
converted into property values. Its essential qualities,
which are that it was not polarised on the basis
of income, and that its best places were common
[40] property, are being eroded. (…)

 

This would matter less if the city were making new
places with the qualities of those now packaged up
and commodified – if the supply of good stuff _____
expanding – but it _____ not. Although the cranes
[45] swing, much of the new living zones now _____ created
range from the ho-hum to the outright catastrophic. The
skyline _____ plundered for profit, but without creating
towers to be proud of or making new neighbourhoods
with any positive qualities whatsoever. If London is an
[50] enormous party, millions of people are on the wrong
side of its velvet rope.

 

In the rest of Britain, a common view of London is
that it is a parasitic monster or, as Alex Salmond
put it, quoting Tony Travers of the London School of
[55] Economics: “The dark star of the economy, inexorably
sucking in resources, people and energy. Nobody quite
knows how to control it.” Both the SNP and Ukip can
be seen as anti-London parties, as expressions of a
feeling that national decisions are made in the capital,
[60] by the capital, for the capital. Those Scots who want
independence are less concerned about being part of
the same country as Middlesbrough or Ipswich than
they are about London. But these views overlook the
extent to which the city is feeding on its own.

Adapted from: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/ jun/28/london-the-city-that-ate-itself-rowan-moore

The phrasal verb forms that fill in the blanks in lines 18 and 24 are, respectively,

  Most people today have a mobile phone. In fact, many people can't imagine how they ever got along without a portable phone. However, many people also complain about cell phone users. People complain about other people loudly discussing personal matters in public places. They complain when cell phones ring in movie theaters and concert halls. They complain about people driving too slow, and not paying attention to where they are going because they are talking on a cell phone. And they complain about people walking around talking to people who aren't there.

  Whenever a new communications technology becomes popular, it changes the way society is organized. Society has to invent rules for the polite way to use the new devices. Our social etiquette, our rules of politeness for cell phones, is still evolving.

Disponível em: www.indianchild.com. Acesso em: 28 fev. 2012 (adaptado).

 

O uso de celulares em lugares públicos tem sido prática corrente. O texto aponta que essa prática tem gerado

Tendo em vista a procura por atividades de lazer em períodos de recesso escolar, esse fôlder

Monks embrace web to reach recruits

Stew Milne for The New York Times

 

  The Benedictine monks at the Portsmouth Abbey in Portsmouth have a problem. They are aging and their numbers have fallen to 12, from a peak of about 24 in 1969. So the monks have taken to the Internet with an elaborate ad campaign featuring videos, a blog and even a Gregorian chant ringtone. “If this is the way the younger generation are looking things up and are communicating, then this is the place to be”, said Abbot Caedmon Holmes, who has been in charge of the abbey since 2007. That place is far from the solitary lives that some may think monks live. In fact, in this age of social media, the monks have embraced what may be the most popular form of public self-expression: a Facebook page, where they have uploaded photos and video testimonials. Some monks will even write blogs.

MILNE, S. Disponível em: www.nytimes.com. Acesso em: 19 jun. 2012 (adaptado).

 

A internet costuma ser um veículo de comunicação associado às camadas mais jovens da população, embora não exclusivamente a elas. Segundo o texto, a razão que levou os religiosos a fazerem uma campanha publicitária na internet foi o(a)

Which skin colour are you? The human swatch chart that confronts racism

 

  In 1933, in a book called The Masters and the Slaves, the Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Freyre wrote: “Every Brazilian, even the light-skinned, fair-haired one, carries about him on his soul, when not on soul and body alike, the shadow, or at least the birthmark, of the aborigine or the negro.” This was forefront in the mind of the French artist Pierre David when he moved to Brazil in 2009. “When I was in the streets, I could see so many skin colours”, he says. He decided to make a human colour chart, like one you would find in the paint section of B&Q shop, but showing the gradations and shades of our skin colour. The project, called Nuancier or “swatches”, was first shown at the Museu de Arte Moderna in Salvador – Bahia, and is now on show in his native France. “Brazil has a better attitude to skin colour than other developed nations”, he says. “There's no doubt, because the concept of skin colour difference was recognised very early in their history. Now, it even appears on identity documents.”

  Yet Nuancier, David says, is still a critique of racism, in Brazil and around the world. “This work may seem provocative – to classify men by colour, to industrially produce the colour of an individual so it can be store-bought. But this is a demonstration of the commodification of bodies. It denounces racism anywhere it is found in the world.”

SEYMOUR, T. Disponível em: www.theguardian.com. Acesso em: 21 out. 2015 (adaptado).

 

O artista francês Pierre David, ao evidenciar seu encantamento com a diversidade de cores de peles no Brasil, no projeto Nuancier, também