Questões de Inglês

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Madina, Russia, 2013

  “These strange, feral children are often a source of shame and secrecy within a family or community”, writes MaryAnn Ochota on her website. “These aren’t Jungle Book stories, they’re often harrowing cases of neglect and abuse. And it’s all too likely because of a tragic combination of addiction, domestic violence and poverty. These are kids who fell through the cracks, who were forgotten, or ignored, or hidden”. According to Fullerton-Batten, “Madina lived with dogs from birth until she was three years old, sharing their food, playing with them, and sleeping with them when it was cold in winter. When social workers found her in 2013, she was naked, walking on all fours and growling like a dog. Madina’s father had left soon after her birth. Her mother, 23 years old, took to alcohol. She was frequently too drunk to look after for her child and… would sit at the table to eat while her daughter gnawed bones on the floor with the dogs”. Madina was taken into care and doctors found her to be mentally and physically healthy despite what she had been through.

(http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151012-feral-the-children-raised-by-wolves)

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Bled by emigration, abandoned Portuguese villages lose hope of surviving

  The villages of Agracoes and Povoa de Agracoes in northern Portugal look little alike – one is a run-down cluster of dilapidated old stone houses, the other has a cosier feel, with a flowerbedecked wayside shrine and chapel.

  But the one thing they have in common is the “slow agony” of abandonment, as some villagers say.

  The steady drip-drip of emigration has brought down their numbers from more than 50 residents to fewer than a dozen each. These remaining villagers share the same glum acceptance that, after they have gone, their villages will die out too.

  It is the same desolate picture in scores of other backwater settlements in Portugal’s interior, north to south.

  There are no shops. A grocery truck comes once a week and elderly residents taxi pool to see a doctor miles away.

  “This place will get overgrown with woods for wildfires to burn, that’s what will happen... My daughters won’t come to live here, so my land will disappear”, said Antonio Goncalves Fontes, at 62 one of the youngest residents of Agracoes, where mountain waters gurgle next to crumbling stone houses.

  He and his wife Maria grow chestnuts, vegetables and have a small flock of sheep and five donkeys.

  Mass emigration to wealthier countries like France and Switzerland, high unemployment and poorly-paid local jobs, combined with falling birth rates, have caused some parishes like Loivos, which encompasses Agracoes, to lose about three-quarters of the population in the past few decades.

  The remote Trans-Mountain region of western Europe’s poorest country, near the Spanish border, is one of the worst affected. As the population has dwindled, schools and medical outposts have been shut down, causing a vicious circle of ever greater abandonment.

(http://www.reuters.com/article/us-portugal-villages-widerimage-idUSKCN0XP1HC)

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Bled by emigration, abandoned Portuguese villages lose hope of surviving

  The villages of Agracoes and Povoa de Agracoes in northern Portugal look little alike – one is a run-down cluster of dilapidated old stone houses, the other has a cosier feel, with a flowerbedecked wayside shrine and chapel.

  But the one thing they have in common is the “slow agony” of abandonment, as some villagers say.

  The steady drip-drip of emigration has brought down their numbers from more than 50 residents to fewer than a dozen each. These remaining villagers share the same glum acceptance that, after they have gone, their villages will die out too.

  It is the same desolate picture in scores of other backwater settlements in Portugal’s interior, north to south.

  There are no shops. A grocery truck comes once a week and elderly residents taxi pool to see a doctor miles away.

  “This place will get overgrown with woods for wildfires to burn, that’s what will happen... My daughters won’t come to live here, so my land will disappear”, said Antonio Goncalves Fontes, at 62 one of the youngest residents of Agracoes, where mountain waters gurgle next to crumbling stone houses.

  He and his wife Maria grow chestnuts, vegetables and have a small flock of sheep and five donkeys.

  Mass emigration to wealthier countries like France and Switzerland, high unemployment and poorly-paid local jobs, combined with falling birth rates, have caused some parishes like Loivos, which encompasses Agracoes, to lose about three-quarters of the population in the past few decades.

  The remote Trans-Mountain region of western Europe’s poorest country, near the Spanish border, is one of the worst affected. As the population has dwindled, schools and medical outposts have been shut down, causing a vicious circle of ever greater abandonment.

(http://www.reuters.com/article/us-portugal-villages-widerimage-idUSKCN0XP1HC)

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Bled by emigration, abandoned Portuguese villages lose hope of surviving

  The villages of Agracoes and Povoa de Agracoes in northern Portugal look little alike – one is a run-down cluster of dilapidated old stone houses, the other has a cosier feel, with a flowerbedecked wayside shrine and chapel.

  But the one thing they have in common is the “slow agony” of abandonment, as some villagers say.

  The steady drip-drip of emigration has brought down their numbers from more than 50 residents to fewer than a dozen each. These remaining villagers share the same glum acceptance that, after they have gone, their villages will die out too.

  It is the same desolate picture in scores of other backwater settlements in Portugal’s interior, north to south.

  There are no shops. A grocery truck comes once a week and elderly residents taxi pool to see a doctor miles away.

  “This place will get overgrown with woods for wildfires to burn, that’s what will happen... My daughters won’t come to live here, so my land will disappear”, said Antonio Goncalves Fontes, at 62 one of the youngest residents of Agracoes, where mountain waters gurgle next to crumbling stone houses.

  He and his wife Maria grow chestnuts, vegetables and have a small flock of sheep and five donkeys.

  Mass emigration to wealthier countries like France and Switzerland, high unemployment and poorly-paid local jobs, combined with falling birth rates, have caused some parishes like Loivos, which encompasses Agracoes, to lose about three-quarters of the population in the past few decades.

  The remote Trans-Mountain region of western Europe’s poorest country, near the Spanish border, is one of the worst affected. As the population has dwindled, schools and medical outposts have been shut down, causing a vicious circle of ever greater abandonment.

(http://www.reuters.com/article/us-portugal-villages-widerimage-idUSKCN0XP1HC)

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Mother-of-one left ‘disgusted’ by what she found when biting into her Chinese takeaway

  A mother-of-one was left disgusted after she bit into her Chinese takeaway and found what she claims was an earring in her rice.

  Abbie Lee was eating fried rice when she felt something hit her tooth before she pulled out a heart-shaped stud out of her mouth.

  The 21-year-old from Denbighshire, North East Wales, had even fed some of the rice to her 10-month-old daughter before making the grim discovery, the Daily Post reported.

  She explained she had ordered the takeaway on a Saturday night with her partner from the Ocean City in Rhyl.

  “I was eating my Yeung chow fried rice. I felt something hard against my tooth”, she said. “When I realised what it was, I was horrified and disgusted. It’s been in someone’s ear and was in my food which then went into my mouth. I couldn’t eat any more after that. It put me off my whole meal so we ended up throwing it all in the bin”.

  Abbie said she called the takeaway to complain and asked for a full refund.

  But, when the delivery driver returned to the address, she says she was only given £4 to cover the cost of the rice.

  “When I called up to complain, I spoke to a man who was very rude and refused to give me my money back in full”, she said.

  He even said he wanted the earring back after I’d been given a refund of £4.

  “I was so appalled that I contacted the Food Standards Agency and Denbighshire Council’s hygiene department”. “This has put me off Chinese food for life”.

(http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mother-one-left-disgusted-what-7832960)

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Mother-of-one left ‘disgusted’ by what she found when biting into her Chinese takeaway

  A mother-of-one was left disgusted after she bit into her Chinese takeaway and found what she claims was an earring in her rice.

  Abbie Lee was eating fried rice when she felt something hit her tooth before she pulled out a heart-shaped stud out of her mouth.

  The 21-year-old from Denbighshire, North East Wales, had even fed some of the rice to her 10-month-old daughter before making the grim discovery, the Daily Post reported.

  She explained she had ordered the takeaway on a Saturday night with her partner from the Ocean City in Rhyl.

  “I was eating my Yeung chow fried rice. I felt something hard against my tooth”, she said. “When I realised what it was, I was horrified and disgusted. It’s been in someone’s ear and was in my food which then went into my mouth. I couldn’t eat any more after that. It put me off my whole meal so we ended up throwing it all in the bin”.

  Abbie said she called the takeaway to complain and asked for a full refund.

  But, when the delivery driver returned to the address, she says she was only given £4 to cover the cost of the rice.

  “When I called up to complain, I spoke to a man who was very rude and refused to give me my money back in full”, she said.

  He even said he wanted the earring back after I’d been given a refund of £4.

  “I was so appalled that I contacted the Food Standards Agency and Denbighshire Council’s hygiene department”. “This has put me off Chinese food for life”.

(http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mother-one-left-disgusted-what-7832960)