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As the Olympics Approaches, a Lesson in Overcoming Adversity

Bert R. Mandelbaum, MD

July 20, 2016

 

    I've known a lot of athletes who qualified for the Olympic Games            injuries. But I know of only one who qualified because of an injury.

    Cliff Meidi's story captures the spirit of the Olympics.

    In November 1986, Cliff, a 20-year-old plumber's apprentice, hit three buried high-voltage electrical cables with a jackhammer. An estimated 30,000 volts surged through his body, exploding bone and cartilage from the inside all the way up to his head. To put that into perspective, electric chairs use only 1500-2000 volts for executions. So it's safe to say that Cliff should have died.

    And he nearly did. His heart stopped. Paramedics were able to get it going again, but they had to resuscitate him on the way to the hospital.

    As part of a team with renowned plastic surgeon Malcolm Lesavoy, MD, and others, I got to work reconstructing Cliffs legs. Our best hope was to avoid amputation.

    But very quickly, we noticed something else going on - something that had nothing to do with our expertise. Through every step of his painful rehabilitation, Cliff grew more and more determined. He never complained. He just asked, "What's next?"

    Before he had even finished the rehabilitation, Cliff started paddling various watercrafts. The days spent on crutches had already strengthened his upper body, and he took naturally to the sport. The same year in which he was injured, he began competing in canoe and kayak events, and in 1996 he qualified for the Olympics - not the Paralympic Games, the Olympic Games.

    Four years later, in Sydney, Australia, I was overseeing the sports medicine team at the Olympic soccer tournament. I was sitting in the stands during the opening ceremonies when Cliff walked into the Olympic Stadium carrying the Stars and Stripes.

    It's a long-standing tradition for delegations of athletes to select one among their number to bear the flag, and the choice often symbolizes some extraordinary accomplishment. I had no idea that Cliff would be selected. So when he strode into the stadium with a normal gait, I nearly broke down.

    Moments like that reinforce what I have always believed: that sport can bring out the best in us all.

    The Olympic Games (...) are devoted to celebrating the human capacity to improve body, mind, and soul.

    They are about taking part - not necessarily about winning. Cliffs peers in the US delegation of 2000 recognized that when they elected him to bear the nation's colors. He never won a medal at the games, but the spirit with which he overcame adversity inspired all of them.

    The Olympic motto - faster, higher, stronger - can help our patients realize that the real victory is the “win within.” The Win Within: Capturing Your Victorious Spint is the name of the book I wrote to show people that coming back from adversity is part of our heritage - that we as human beings are more adapted to adversity than we are to success.

    Adversity is the engine of unimagined opportunity. It can unleash our energy and stimulate our will. It moves us to succeed. If I dont have food, I have to go get some. If lim cold, I have to build a shelter.

    I remind patients who don't participate in sports that they have the heritage of athletes. We all have the genes of pursuit-hunters who survived by running down their prey and running away from their predators. That's why even now, in 2016, when we go out and take a run, we feel good. We get an endorphin surge and our lipids go down. Our hearts and brains become clear.

    The life of sport and sport of life are intertinked. Exercise is our birthright; its our legacy; its why we are here.

    We no longer have to fear saber-toothed tigers or cave bears. But when you look today at how people can be successful in 2016, its by avoiding the predators in our urban life: overeating, inactivity, and smoking. And it's by rising to meet adversity.

(Adapted from http :/Awww.medscape.com/viewarticle/866279)

According to the text, which statement is correct?

Based on the text below, answer question.

 

As the Olympics Approaches, a Lesson in Overcoming Adversity

Bert R. Mandelbaum, MD

July 20, 2016

 

    I've known a lot of athletes who qualified for the Olympic Games            injuries. But I know of only one who qualified because of an injury.

    Cliff Meidi's story captures the spirit of the Olympics.

    In November 1986, Cliff, a 20-year-old plumber's apprentice, hit three buried high-voltage electrical cables with a jackhammer. An estimated 30,000 volts surged through his body, exploding bone and cartilage from the inside all the way up to his head. To put that into perspective, electric chairs use only 1500-2000 volts for executions. So it's safe to say that Cliff should have died.

    And he nearly did. His heart stopped. Paramedics were able to get it going again, but they had to resuscitate him on the way to the hospital.

    As part of a team with renowned plastic surgeon Malcolm Lesavoy, MD, and others, I got to work reconstructing Cliffs legs. Our best hope was to avoid amputation.

    But very quickly, we noticed something else going on - something that had nothing to do with our expertise. Through every step of his painful rehabilitation, Cliff grew more and more determined. He never complained. He just asked, "What's next?"

    Before he had even finished the rehabilitation, Cliff started paddling various watercrafts. The days spent on crutches had already strengthened his upper body, and he took naturally to the sport. The same year in which he was injured, he began competing in canoe and kayak events, and in 1996 he qualified for the Olympics - not the Paralympic Games, the Olympic Games.

    Four years later, in Sydney, Australia, I was overseeing the sports medicine team at the Olympic soccer tournament. I was sitting in the stands during the opening ceremonies when Cliff walked into the Olympic Stadium carrying the Stars and Stripes.

    It's a long-standing tradition for delegations of athletes to select one among their number to bear the flag, and the choice often symbolizes some extraordinary accomplishment. I had no idea that Cliff would be selected. So when he strode into the stadium with a normal gait, I nearly broke down.

    Moments like that reinforce what I have always believed: that sport can bring out the best in us all.

    The Olympic Games (...) are devoted to celebrating the human capacity to improve body, mind, and soul.

    They are about taking part - not necessarily about winning. Cliffs peers in the US delegation of 2000 recognized that when they elected him to bear the nation's colors. He never won a medal at the games, but the spirit with which he overcame adversity inspired all of them.

    The Olympic motto - faster, higher, stronger - can help our patients realize that the real victory is the “win within.” The Win Within: Capturing Your Victorious Spint is the name of the book I wrote to show people that coming back from adversity is part of our heritage - that we as human beings are more adapted to adversity than we are to success.

    Adversity is the engine of unimagined opportunity. It can unleash our energy and stimulate our will. It moves us to succeed. If I dont have food, I have to go get some. If lim cold, I have to build a shelter.

    I remind patients who don't participate in sports that they have the heritage of athletes. We all have the genes of pursuit-hunters who survived by running down their prey and running away from their predators. That's why even now, in 2016, when we go out and take a run, we feel good. We get an endorphin surge and our lipids go down. Our hearts and brains become clear.

    The life of sport and sport of life are intertinked. Exercise is our birthright; its our legacy; its why we are here.

    We no longer have to fear saber-toothed tigers or cave bears. But when you look today at how people can be successful in 2016, its by avoiding the predators in our urban life: overeating, inactivity, and smoking. And it's by rising to meet adversity.

(Adapted from http :/Awww.medscape.com/viewarticle/866279)

Considering the text, the words “nearly” (4^th and 9^th paragraphs) and “overseeing” (8^th paragraph) mean, respectively, "            " and é "            ",

Develop Good Study Habits Early On

    Here are some simple tips to help you improve your study habits:
    Have a routine for where and when you study.
    Decide in advance what you’ll study, choosing reasonable and specific goals that you can accomplish
    Do things that are harder or require more intense thought earlier in the day.
   Take breaks so that you stay fresh and don’t waste time by looking at material but not absorbing it.
   Make use of “dead” time right before and after class and during breaks between other activities.

Disponível em: www.education.com. Acesso em: 27 jun. 2012.

 

Desenvolver as próprias estratégias de estudo pode ajudar estudantes a obter melhores resultados.

 

Com o propósito de auxiliá-los nessa tarefa, o texto lista dicas de hábitos de estudo que compreendem

Turn Off Your TV!

_{AUGUST 17, 2011}
 

By Alice Park

 

    Sitting in front of the television may be relaxing, but spending too much time in front of the tube may take years off your life.
    That’s what Australian researchers found when they collected TV viewing information from more than 11,000 people older than 25. The study found that people who watched an average six hours of TV a day lived an average 4.8 years less than those who didn’t watch any television. Also, every hour of TV that participants watched after age 25 was associated with a 22-minute reduction in their life expectancy.

PARK, A. Disponível em: www.timeforkids.com. Acesso em: 5 dez. 2012.

 

A televisão faz parte da vida diária de boa parte das pessoas em todo o mundo.

 

O texto, cujo título traz um conselho ao leitor, centra-se em

No diálogo entre mãe e filho, o uso do verbo fake pelo garoto indica que ele

Facebook and Google Are Going To War Against Hate Speech

Offending posts will be deleted within 24 hours

 

    Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft have agreed to work with European officials to crack down on hateful speech published on their respective platforms. Each company has agreed to review potentially problematic posts and remove offending content within 24 hours.

    “The recent terror attacks have reminded us of the urgent need to address illegal online hate speech,” Vĕra Jourová, EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, said in a joint statement from the European Commission and the participating companies. “Social media is unfortunately one of the tools that terrorist groups use to radicalize young people and racist use to spread violence and hatred.”

    The new partnership comes after Facebook, Twitter, and Google agreed to erase hate speech from their platforms within 24 hours in Germany, an attempt to address racism following the refugee crisis. That agreement, which Reuters reported last year, also made it easier for individual users to report hateful speech.

    Under the new code of conduct, technology companies will have clear rules in place for reviewing content that may be deemed malicious or hateful. The document also says the companies should be responsible for educating their users on the types of content that are disallowed.

    Tech companies assure that the recently announced code of conduct won’t interfere with freedom of speech. “We remain committed to letting the Tweets flow,” Karen White, Twitter’s head of public policy for Europe, said in the statement. “However, there is a clear distinction between freedom of expression and conduct that incites violence and hate.”

(Time Magazine, May 31, 2016)

 

Glossary: hate speech – discurso de ódio; to agree: concordar; to erase: apagar; partnership – parceria.

Assinale a expressão que se encontra no plural.