Questões de Inglês

TIME 100 ICONS
Malala Yousafzai
By Mezon Almellehan
April 16, 2015

 

Champion of education

    I’M 16 years old and from Dara’a in Syria. I fled to Jordan with my Family two years ago.

    Spending time with Malala Yousafzai made me stronger. I didn’t know her before meeting her in Za’atari camp last year, but I understand she suffered, and yet continues to fight for what she believes in – for rights of children and for their education. She is an inspiration for me.

    When it comes to continuing our education as refugees, I am on the front lines with my friends, speaking to other girls throughout the camp on the importance of going to school. My mother and father are always encouraging me. I saw this in Malala too, and her close relationship with her mother and father.

    I’ve always loved learning and education, but since I fled with my Family, these views have grown stronger. I have seen too much wrong to not use my voice. Malala has shown that education is crucial for laying a foundation for girls and boys to have secure lives.

    I know no matter what I go through today, it will make me a stronger person for tomorrow. Rather than giving up, my friends and I will continue to think positively and try to make our community better. Girls need to learn to take care of themselves, because if they don’t, nobody will. Our lives are completely diferente now – we’ve gone from living in homes to surviving in tents in refugees camps. Education is the only way to regain our spirit and control over our lives.

    I was so honored to be in Oslo to watch Malala be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. To see a Young woman recognized with such an award made me realize that yes, I can make a difference, and I have to continue to fight for what I believe in – that all girls and boys can bring change to our world.

Almellehan is an education activist and student. (fonte: http://time.com/3822637/malala-yousafzi-2015-time-100/ acessado dia 03/11/15 17:44)

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TIME 100 ICONS
Malala Yousafzai
By Mezon Almellehan
April 16, 2015

 

Champion of education

    I’M 16 years old and from Dara’a in Syria. I fled to Jordan with my Family two years ago.

    Spending time with Malala Yousafzai made me stronger. I didn’t know her before meeting her in Za’atari camp last year, but I understand she suffered, and yet continues to fight for what she believes in – for rights of children and for their education. She is an inspiration for me.

    When it comes to continuing our education as refugees, I am on the front lines with my friends, speaking to other girls throughout the camp on the importance of going to school. My mother and father are always encouraging me. I saw this in Malala too, and her close relationship with her mother and father.

    I’ve always loved learning and education, but since I fled with my Family, these views have grown stronger. I have seen too much wrong to not use my voice. Malala has shown that education is crucial for laying a foundation for girls and boys to have secure lives.

    I know no matter what I go through today, it will make me a stronger person for tomorrow. Rather than giving up, my friends and I will continue to think positively and try to make our community better. Girls need to learn to take care of themselves, because if they don’t, nobody will. Our lives are completely diferente now – we’ve gone from living in homes to surviving in tents in refugees camps. Education is the only way to regain our spirit and control over our lives.

    I was so honored to be in Oslo to watch Malala be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. To see a Young woman recognized with such an award made me realize that yes, I can make a difference, and I have to continue to fight for what I believe in – that all girls and boys can bring change to our world.

Almellehan is an education activist and student. (fonte: http://time.com/3822637/malala-yousafzi-2015-time-100/ acessado dia 03/11/15 17:44)

O texto segundo Almellehan deixa claro que Malala:

A figura abaixo, representa que acontecimento em 2015?

Read the text and choose the CORRECT alternative of passive voice to fill out the blanks.

 

How towns have arisen

 

Most villages and towns on the British Isles came into being because of their favorable situation for trade.

Rather more than a hundred years ago, a great change came over the land. Many machines __________ about that time. Spinning and weaving, for example, which had previously been done by hand, __________ by machinery that __________ by water or steam-power.

The work which usually __________ in the houses of the people began to be carried on in large mills or factories, and workers found it convenient to live near them.

More and more factories __________ and men and women left the country districts in great numbers and crowded into towns.

Since then the movement of people into towns has been going on until now. England __________ with great cities.

All over Britain, and especially in those parts _____ the coal _____ for power is to be found, there are mining and manufacturing areas, such as the Lancashire cotton district, the Black county of Midland, and others. A great many towns ___________ close together in those districts, and a great many people live within a small area, so that the population is very dense.

(After “The British Isles, Their Life and Work” by S. Bryson and Maxton. Available in: http://englishstandarts.blogspot.com.br/2012/06/passive-voicetexts-proverbs-and.html. Access on: August 2015)

Read the text and check the CORRECT meaning of the highlighted false cognates.

 

FALSE COGNATES ARE A BITCH¹ ! Now the doubt² appears in your mind. How could this have possibly happened? After years of dedication, and maybe even a certificate or two that prove your fluency, you thought you’d eventually³ speak perfectly, but now you just look like an uneducated⁴ fool. You’ve assumed⁵ that you’re fluent, you’ve even discussed⁶ it with your parents⁷ , and now you start to think that maybe you were always just pretending⁸ to speak the language, that you actually⁹ don’t know anything. Be brave¹⁰ and pay attention because maybe you aren’t seeing the true meaning of the words.

Disponível em: http://reallifeglobal.com/the-17-most-dangerous-brazilian-false-cognate-errors-in-english/. Acesso em: Julho 2015.

 

The CORRECT alternative is:

Read the text below:

 

Men, women, and murder: gender-specific differences in rates of fatal violence and victimization.

 

To study the potential differences that distinguish homicides involving women as victims or offenders from those involving men, we analyzed Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports data on homicides that occurred in the United States between 1976 and 1987. Only cases that involved victims aged 15 years or older were included. Persons killed during law enforcement activity and cases in which the victim's gender was not recorded were excluded. A total of 215,273 homicides were studied, 77% of which involved male victims and 23% female victims. Although the overall risk of homicide for women was substantially lower than that of men (rate ratio [RR] = 0.27), their risk of being killed by a spouse or intimate acquaintance was higher (RR = 1.23). In contrast to men, the killing of a woman by a stranger was rare (RR = 0.18). More than twice as many women were shot and killed by their husband or intimate acquaintance than were murdered by strangers using guns, knives, or any other means. Although women comprise more than half the U.S. population, they committed only 14.7% of the homicides noted during the study interval. In contrast to men, who killed nonintimate acquaintances, strangers, or victims of undetermined relationship in 80% of cases, women killed their spouse, an intimate acquaintance, or a family member in 60% of cases. When men killed with a gun, they most commonly shot a stranger or a non-family acquaintance.

Disponível em: http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1635092. Acesso em: novembro de 2015.

 

According to the text, we can state that:

 

I. The objective was to identify the differences between homicides involving men and women.
II. Victims who were 19 years old were not included.
III. The risk of homicide for women is higher than for men.
IV. In the USA, there are more women than men.
V. They concluded that men kill and die more.