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TEXTO 4

 

[1]  O nome de Emir quase nunca era mencionado nas horas das refeições ou nas

conversas animadas por baforadas de narguilé, goles de áraque e lances de gamão. Os

filhos de Emilie éramos proibidos de participar dessas reuniões que varavam a noite e

terminavam no pátio da fonte, aclarado por uma luz azulada. Era um momento em que

[5] os assuntos, já peneirados, esgotados e fartos de serem repetidos, davam lugar a

confidências e lamúrias, abafadas às vezes pela linguagem dos pássaros, e

entremeadas por exclamações e vozes que pronunciavam o nome de Deus. Era como

se a manhã – como uma intrusa que silencia as vozes calorosas da noite – dispersasse

o ambiente festivo, arrefecendo os gestos dos mais exaltados, chamando-os ao ofício

[10] que se inicia com a aurora. Mas, em algumas reuniões de sextas-feiras, o prenúncio da

manhã não os dispersava. Eu acordava com berros dilacerantes, gemidos terríveis,

ruídos de trote e uma algazarra de alimárias que assistiam à agonia dos carneiros que

possuíam nomes e eram alimentados pelas mãos de Emilie.

HATOUM, Milton. Relato de um certo Oriente. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2008, pp. 50 e 51.

Assinale a alternativa incorreta em relação à obra Relato de um certo Oriente, Milton Hatoum, e ao Texto 4.

The character is trying to say that:

The next north-European ice age

 

There are still a few people in northern Europe …………… think that global warming

might not be such a bad thing. …………..Britain, ……………. summer can sometimes

seem to last little more than a few weeks, many would ……………….. the idea of it

getting a bit …………………….. 

Unfortunately things are not so simple. Global warming doesn't just mean that the world

will slowly get warmer. Paradoxically, it could cause certain areas to get colder – a lot

colder. The latest predictions are that northern Europe could even be plunged into an

ice age. While areas of south-eastern Europe, such as Greece, would continue to get

hotter and drier, Britain could find itself, in the winter months at least, surrounded by

sea ice.

The reason for this concerns the Greenland ice sheet. This is one of the biggest

expanses of ice in the world – around 1,500km long and 600km wide. It is so big that if

it all melted sea levels would rise by 7 metres. Due to rising emissions of greenhouse

gases, such as carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels, this ice sheet is

melting at an alarming rate. But how could the melting of the Greenland ice sheet

threaten to plunge northern Europe into a new ice age?

The link in the chain of events is what some call the Gulf Stream and others call the

Atlantic Conveyor. This is the stream of warm water that comes up from central

America and flows across the Atlantic to northern Europe. It is this huge mass of warm

water which accounts for the relatively high temperatures enjoyed by Britain, for

instance, compared with parts of Canada and Russia which are equally far north of the

equator. Warm water is conveyed across to Europe near the surface of the Atlantic,

and at its northernmost point it cools and sinks because the water from the tropics has

a higher salt content, making it denser and so heavier than the water near the arctic.

The cold, dense water then flows south close to the ocean floor, back towards central

and south America to complete the cycle.

Scientists are beginning to make bleak predictions of an impending ice age in the

northern hemisphere because they have observed that the water flowing from the

melting Greenland ice sheet is flowing into the path of the Gulf Stream. The water from

the melted ice will reduce the density of the water in the Gulf Stream, stopping the

water sinking in the north, thereby cutting off the deep southerly current, which, in turn,

will cut off the northerly flow of warmer water. At that point the seas around Britain will

begin to freeze.

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The words which best complete paragraph 1 are consecutively:

The next north-European ice age

 

There are still a few people in northern Europe …………… think that global warming

might not be such a bad thing. …………..Britain, ……………. summer can sometimes

seem to last little more than a few weeks, many would ……………….. the idea of it

getting a bit …………………….. 

Unfortunately things are not so simple. Global warming doesn't just mean that the world

will slowly get warmer. Paradoxically, it could cause certain areas to get colder – a lot

colder. The latest predictions are that northern Europe could even be plunged into an

ice age. While areas of south-eastern Europe, such as Greece, would continue to get

hotter and drier, Britain could find itself, in the winter months at least, surrounded by

sea ice.

The reason for this concerns the Greenland ice sheet. This is one of the biggest

expanses of ice in the world – around 1,500km long and 600km wide. It is so big that if

it all melted sea levels would rise by 7 metres. Due to rising emissions of greenhouse

gases, such as carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels, this ice sheet is

melting at an alarming rate. But how could the melting of the Greenland ice sheet

threaten to plunge northern Europe into a new ice age?

The link in the chain of events is what some call the Gulf Stream and others call the

Atlantic Conveyor. This is the stream of warm water that comes up from central

America and flows across the Atlantic to northern Europe. It is this huge mass of warm

water which accounts for the relatively high temperatures enjoyed by Britain, for

instance, compared with parts of Canada and Russia which are equally far north of the

equator. Warm water is conveyed across to Europe near the surface of the Atlantic,

and at its northernmost point it cools and sinks because the water from the tropics has

a higher salt content, making it denser and so heavier than the water near the arctic.

The cold, dense water then flows south close to the ocean floor, back towards central

and south America to complete the cycle.

Scientists are beginning to make bleak predictions of an impending ice age in the

northern hemisphere because they have observed that the water flowing from the

melting Greenland ice sheet is flowing into the path of the Gulf Stream. The water from

the melted ice will reduce the density of the water in the Gulf Stream, stopping the

water sinking in the north, thereby cutting off the deep southerly current, which, in turn,

will cut off the northerly flow of warmer water. At that point the seas around Britain will

begin to freeze.

http://fullspate.digitalcounterrevolution.co.uk/archive/globalwarming (seen on 19th/03/2015)

Mark the correct alternative according to the use of the words from the text.

The next north-European ice age

 

There are still a few people in northern Europe …………… think that global warming

might not be such a bad thing. …………..Britain, ……………. summer can sometimes

seem to last little more than a few weeks, many would ……………….. the idea of it

getting a bit …………………….. 

Unfortunately things are not so simple. Global warming doesn't just mean that the world

will slowly get warmer. Paradoxically, it could cause certain areas to get colder – a lot

colder. The latest predictions are that northern Europe could even be plunged into an

ice age. While areas of south-eastern Europe, such as Greece, would continue to get

hotter and drier, Britain could find itself, in the winter months at least, surrounded by

sea ice.

The reason for this concerns the Greenland ice sheet. This is one of the biggest

expanses of ice in the world – around 1,500km long and 600km wide. It is so big that if

it all melted sea levels would rise by 7 metres. Due to rising emissions of greenhouse

gases, such as carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels, this ice sheet is

melting at an alarming rate. But how could the melting of the Greenland ice sheet

threaten to plunge northern Europe into a new ice age?

The link in the chain of events is what some call the Gulf Stream and others call the

Atlantic Conveyor. This is the stream of warm water that comes up from central

America and flows across the Atlantic to northern Europe. It is this huge mass of warm

water which accounts for the relatively high temperatures enjoyed by Britain, for

instance, compared with parts of Canada and Russia which are equally far north of the

equator. Warm water is conveyed across to Europe near the surface of the Atlantic,

and at its northernmost point it cools and sinks because the water from the tropics has

a higher salt content, making it denser and so heavier than the water near the arctic.

The cold, dense water then flows south close to the ocean floor, back towards central

and south America to complete the cycle.

Scientists are beginning to make bleak predictions of an impending ice age in the

northern hemisphere because they have observed that the water flowing from the

melting Greenland ice sheet is flowing into the path of the Gulf Stream. The water from

the melted ice will reduce the density of the water in the Gulf Stream, stopping the

water sinking in the north, thereby cutting off the deep southerly current, which, in turn,

will cut off the northerly flow of warmer water. At that point the seas around Britain will

begin to freeze.

http://fullspate.digitalcounterrevolution.co.uk/archive/globalwarming (seen on 19th/03/2015)

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