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    Evie Kalo is what you might call a serial home-swapper. She and her husband are among the millions of global workers who became fully remote during the pandemic. Ever since, they’ve swapped their apartment in Amsterdam for a series of “workcations” across Europe, in places such as a beach in Barcelona and a French Riviera resort town. “What we love about it is that we trust people to be at our home because they are trusting us to be at theirs,” says Kalo.

    The couple tries to stay in each place for about two weeks so they can have enough time to explore sites around their busy work schedules. Home swaps allow people to attain the kind of journeying lifestyle they desire at a fraction of the cost of purchasing a pricey holiday — or second home. By capitalising on their own most valuable asset — a house or apartment — they’re able to stay in other people’s comfortable accommodations around the world.

    So far, people are finding their homes informally through work colleagues or friends. Others have turned to social media. Yet, the most popular method is the search on online marketplaces.

    Globally, the number of swaps finalised per day on Home Exchange (an online marketplace) in August 2022 was up 50% from August 2019, according to statistics provided by the company. The company has also seen the average trip length increase well beyond the standard seven days in 2019. Some 59% of its members now want to stay for 10 days or more, and many are opting for locations closer to home. Domestic travel is 25% higher than it was is 2019, which is attributed to workcation deals to a great extent.

(Mark Johanson. www.bbc.com, 30.08.2022. Adaptado.)

In the fragment from the second paragraph “they’re able to stay in other people’s comfortable accommodations around the world”, the underlined word refers most specifically to

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    Evie Kalo is what you might call a serial home-swapper. She and her husband are among the millions of global workers who became fully remote during the pandemic. Ever since, they’ve swapped their apartment in Amsterdam for a series of “workcations” across Europe, in places such as a beach in Barcelona and a French Riviera resort town. “What we love about it is that we trust people to be at our home because they are trusting us to be at theirs,” says Kalo.

    The couple tries to stay in each place for about two weeks so they can have enough time to explore sites around their busy work schedules. Home swaps allow people to attain the kind of journeying lifestyle they desire at a fraction of the cost of purchasing a pricey holiday — or second home. By capitalising on their own most valuable asset — a house or apartment — they’re able to stay in other people’s comfortable accommodations around the world.

    So far, people are finding their homes informally through work colleagues or friends. Others have turned to social media. Yet, the most popular method is the search on online marketplaces.

    Globally, the number of swaps finalised per day on Home Exchange (an online marketplace) in August 2022 was up 50% from August 2019, according to statistics provided by the company. The company has also seen the average trip length increase well beyond the standard seven days in 2019. Some 59% of its members now want to stay for 10 days or more, and many are opting for locations closer to home. Domestic travel is 25% higher than it was is 2019, which is attributed to workcation deals to a great extent.

(Mark Johanson. www.bbc.com, 30.08.2022. Adaptado.)

Na opinião de Evie Kalo, é um aspecto positivo da experiência relatada no primeiro parágrafo:

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"Straw¹ is actually very popular right now."

¹straw: palha.

A análise contextualizada do cartum permite caracterizar o lobo como

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    At the beginning of March 1898, a Belgian research ship became stuck in the ice of Antarctica’s Bellingshausen sea. The Belgica ship and its crew — which included Roald Amundsen, who later became the first man to reach the South Pole — remained there for a year. Scientists aboard Polarstern, a German research ship currently in the same place, have a very different view: in the beginning of February 2023, the expedition leader said he had never seen the sea so destituted of ice. In 2023, on February 13^th, sea ice across the Antarctic as a whole reached 1.91 million square kilometres (m km²), the lowest level since satellite records began in 1979.

    The world is now, on average, 1.0-1.3 ºC hotter than it was before the Industrial Revolution. However, that change has not occurred evenly: the poles are warming faster than regions in the middle of the globe.

    Sea-ice extent around Antarctica was relatively stable until 2014. It has been declining sharply since then. One study by a climatologist at America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) considers that between 2014 and 2017 Antarctic sea ice receded three times as quickly as during any comparable period in the Arctic. Antarctic sea ice shrinks to a minimum during late February and early March, during the southern hemisphere’s summer. It hit record lows in 2022 and again now in 2023.

    These changes have prompted much research into how global warming is affecting Antarctica. The biggest concern is over the enormous West Antarctic ice sheet, which is smaller but less stable than its eastern counterpart. Scientists say that it risks collapse if it melts beyond a certain point, which could result in a global sea-level rise of up to three metres. It is unlikely to happen any time soon, but increasing evidence of instability in Antarctica’s ice sheets is cause for concern.

(www.economist.com, 20.02.2023. Adaptado.)

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Disponível em: https://br.pinterest.com/pin/326511041705887079/. Acesso em: 5 dez. 2022.

 

Chose the correct alternative according to the cartoon.

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What is hunger?

 

Hunger is an uncomfortable or painful physical sensation caused by insufficient consumption of dietary energy. It becomes chronic when the person does not consume a sufficient amount of calories (dietary energy) on a regular basis to lead a normal, active and healthy life. For decades, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has used the Prevalence of Undernourishment indicator to estimate the extent of hunger in the world, thus “hunger” may also be referred to as undernourishment.

 

What is food insecurity?

 

A person is food insecure when they lack regular access to enough safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life. This may be due to unavailability of food and/or lack of resources to obtain food. Food insecurity can be experienced at different levels of severity. FAO measures food insecurity using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) shown below:

Fonte de dados: https://tinyurl.com/4hbsa9yr Acesso em: 04.03.2023.

O vocábulo “lack”, na sentença destacada em negrito no texto, significa