Questões de Inglês

In the last two pictures, Charlie Brown

TEXTO:

    The office of the Convention on International Trade

in Endangered Species (known as CITES) says rates of

elephant poaching and trade in illegal ivory remain very

high. In a new report, CITES warns that Africa’s elephants

[5] face an immediate threat to their survival because of

continued high levels of poaching for their ivory.

    Twenty thousand elephants were illegally killed in

Africa last year, the report shows. That figure far exceeds

the growth rate of the elephant population. In some regions

[10] of Africa elephants are threatened with extinction.

    The report also documents a clear increase in the

number of large seizures -amounts of over 500kg — of

ivory in Africa. For the first time there were more such

seizures in Africa than in Asia, an indication, the report

[15] suggests, of the involvement of transnational organized

crime in the illegal ivory trade.

    And while elephant conservationists do believe that

increased ivory confiscation is a sign that law enforcement

is improving, they also point out that demand for ivory

[20] remains very high, and that even in some of the

monitored elephant populations, poaching is actually

increasing.

FOULKES, Imogen. Poaching threatens survival of African elephants. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learning english/language/wordsinthenews/2014/06/140616_witn_ivory. shtml>. Acesso em: 13 out. 2014.

The number of African elephants illegally killed last year

TEXTO:

    The office of the Convention on International Trade

in Endangered Species (known as CITES) says rates of

elephant poaching and trade in illegal ivory remain very

high. In a new report, CITES warns that Africa’s elephants

[5] face an immediate threat to their survival because of

continued high levels of poaching for their ivory.

    Twenty thousand elephants were illegally killed in

Africa last year, the report shows. That figure far exceeds

the growth rate of the elephant population. In some regions

[10] of Africa elephants are threatened with extinction.

    The report also documents a clear increase in the

number of large seizures -amounts of over 500kg — of

ivory in Africa. For the first time there were more such

seizures in Africa than in Asia, an indication, the report

[15] suggests, of the involvement of transnational organized

crime in the illegal ivory trade.

    And while elephant conservationists do believe that

increased ivory confiscation is a sign that law enforcement

is improving, they also point out that demand for ivory

[20] remains very high, and that even in some of the

monitored elephant populations, poaching is actually

increasing.

FOULKES, Imogen. Poaching threatens survival of African elephants. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learning english/language/wordsinthenews/2014/06/140616_witn_ivory. shtml>. Acesso em: 13 out. 2014.

Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).

 

It’s stated in the text:

(  ) Global trade in illegal ivory has decreased considerably.

(  ) Illegal killing of African elephants may lead to their extinction.

(  ) Elephant poaching in Africa is done for commercial profit.

(  ) All the African countries have decided to take immediate action to put an end to elephant poaching.

 

The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is

TEXTO:

 

The ‘STEM’ sell

    When people think of jobs related to science,

technology, engineering, and math, or STEM as

America’s relentless acronym makers would have it, they

don’t usually think of blue-collar workers or applicants

[5] without full college education. But a new report from

Brookings Institution reveals what it calls “the hidden

STEM economy.” It estimates that about 26 million jobs

in the United States require a high level of knowledge in

one STEM field or another , but about half of those are

[10] attainable, in fact, to workers without a four-year college

degree. These are in manufacturing, health care,

construction installation, maintenance, and repair, and

they pay on average $53,000 a year, which sure beats

not working at all and is about 10 percent higher than

[15] jobs with similar educational requirements. Moreover,

these sort of jobs are spread all over the country, not

just in urban centers. But here’s the problem: of the

$4.3 billion the federal government spends to

stimulate and improve education in science, technology,

[20] engineering, and math, only about one fifth goes toward

the training of people who won’t get a bachelor’s degree.

Community colleges are virtually ignored. Brookings

advocates spreading the knowledge as well as the wealth.

DICKEY, Christopher . The ‘STEM’ sell. In: BIG THINK, Around the world in five ideas. Newsweek , Jul 8 & 15, 2013. p.8.

Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).

 

The text has answers to the following questions:

(  ) What does Brookings support?

(  ) When was the Brookings research done?

(  ) How much does a STEM worker usually earn?

(  ) Why don’t most STEM applicants go to college?

The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is

TEXTO:

 

The ‘STEM’ sell

    When people think of jobs related to science,

technology, engineering, and math, or STEM as

America’s relentless acronym makers would have it, they

don’t usually think of blue-collar workers or applicants

[5] without full college education. But a new report from

Brookings Institution reveals what it calls “the hidden

STEM economy.” It estimates that about 26 million jobs

in the United States require a high level of knowledge in

one STEM field or another , but about half of those are

[10] attainable, in fact, to workers without a four-year college

degree. These are in manufacturing, health care,

construction installation, maintenance, and repair, and

they pay on average $53,000 a year, which sure beats

not working at all and is about 10 percent higher than

[15] jobs with similar educational requirements. Moreover,

these sort of jobs are spread all over the country, not

just in urban centers. But here’s the problem: of the

$4.3 billion the federal government spends to

stimulate and improve education in science, technology,

[20] engineering, and math, only about one fifth goes toward

the training of people who won’t get a bachelor’s degree.

Community colleges are virtually ignored. Brookings

advocates spreading the knowledge as well as the wealth.

DICKEY, Christopher . The ‘STEM’ sell. In: BIG THINK, Around the world in five ideas. Newsweek , Jul 8 & 15, 2013. p.8.

“Brookings advocates spreading the knowledge as well as the wealth.” (l. 22-23)

In this sentence, as well as expresses

TEXTO:

 

The ‘STEM’ sell

    When people think of jobs related to science,

technology, engineering, and math, or STEM as

America’s relentless acronym makers would have it, they

don’t usually think of blue-collar workers or applicants

[5] without full college education. But a new report from

Brookings Institution reveals what it calls “the hidden

STEM economy.” It estimates that about 26 million jobs

in the United States require a high level of knowledge in

one STEM field or another , but about half of those are

[10] attainable, in fact, to workers without a four-year college

degree. These are in manufacturing, health care,

construction installation, maintenance, and repair, and

they pay on average $53,000 a year, which sure beats

not working at all and is about 10 percent higher than

[15] jobs with similar educational requirements. Moreover,

these sort of jobs are spread all over the country, not

just in urban centers. But here’s the problem: of the

$4.3 billion the federal government spends to

stimulate and improve education in science, technology,

[20] engineering, and math, only about one fifth goes toward

the training of people who won’t get a bachelor’s degree.

Community colleges are virtually ignored. Brookings

advocates spreading the knowledge as well as the wealth.

DICKEY, Christopher . The ‘STEM’ sell. In: BIG THINK, Around the world in five ideas. Newsweek , Jul 8 & 15, 2013. p.8.

The text says that STEM is the _______ science, technology, engineering and math.

The alternative that completes this blank correctly is