Questões de Inglês

Read the passage below to complete the gaps with the relative pronouns (1- 4):

 

Online friends are people _______ always post messages and pictures of the places _______ they are, _______ they are with and ______ they are doing. 

 

1. what

2. who

3. whom

4. where

 

The CORRECT sequence is:

Virtual People, Real Friends

by Anna Pickard (The Guardian)

 

The benefits of forming friendships with those we meet online are obvious, so why is the idea still treated with such disdain? 

Another week, another survey claiming to reveal great truths about ourselves. This one says that people are increasingly turning “online friends” into people they’d think worthy of calling real-life friends. Well, that’s stating the obvious, I would have thought! If there’s a more perfect place for making friends, I have yet to find it. However, when surveys like this are reported in the media, it’s always with a slight air of “it’s a crazy, crazy world!” And whenever the subject crops up in the conversation, it’s clear that people look down on friends like these. In fact some members of my family still refer to my partner of six years as my “Internet Boyfriend.” 

It’s the shocked reaction that surprises me as if people on the internet were not “real” at all. Certainly, people play a character online quite often – they may be a more confident or more argumentative version of their real selves – but what’s the alternative? Is meeting people at work so much better than making friends in a virtual world? Perhaps, but for some a professional distance between their “work” selves and their “social” selves is necessary, especially, if they tend to let their guard down and might say or do something they will later regret. 

Those people disapproving of online friendships argue that the concept of “friendship” is used loosely in a world driven by technology, in which you might have a thousand online friends. They make a distinction between “social connections” – acquaintances who are only one click away – and meaningful human interaction, which they say requires time and effort. They note that for many Facebook “friends,” conversation is a way of exchanging information quickly and efficiently rather than being a social activity. 

However, I’ve found that far from being the home of oddballs and potential serial killers, the internet is full of like-minded people. For the first time in history, we’re lucky to enough to choose friends not by location or luck, but by those who have similar interests and senses of humour, or passionate feelings about the same things. The friends I’ve made online might be spread wide geographically, but I’m closer to them than anyone I went to school with, by millions miles. They are the best friends I have. 

Obviously, there will be concerns about the dangers of online friendship. There are always stories buzzing around such as “man runs off with the woman he met on Second Life” or people who meet their “soulmate” online and are never seen again. But people are people, whether online or not. As for “real” friendship dying out, surely, is social networking simply redefining our notion of what this is in the twenty-first century? The figures – half a billion Facebook users worldwide – speak for themselves. And technology has allowed countless numbers of these people to keep in close contact with their loved ones, however far away they are. Without it, many disabled or household people might go without social contact at all. Call me naive, call me a social misfit, I don’t care. Virtual people make best real friends. 

Adapted from http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/jan/02/internet-relationships

In the sentence “(…) acquaintances who are only one click away (…)” (4th paragraph), what does acquaintance mean?

Virtual People, Real Friends

by Anna Pickard (The Guardian)

 

The benefits of forming friendships with those we meet online are obvious, so why is the idea still treated with such disdain? 

Another week, another survey claiming to reveal great truths about ourselves. This one says that people are increasingly turning “online friends” into people they’d think worthy of calling real-life friends. Well, that’s stating the obvious, I would have thought! If there’s a more perfect place for making friends, I have yet to find it. However, when surveys like this are reported in the media, it’s always with a slight air of “it’s a crazy, crazy world!” And whenever the subject crops up in the conversation, it’s clear that people look down on friends like these. In fact some members of my family still refer to my partner of six years as my “Internet Boyfriend.” 

It’s the shocked reaction that surprises me as if people on the internet were not “real” at all. Certainly, people play a character online quite often – they may be a more confident or more argumentative version of their real selves – but what’s the alternative? Is meeting people at work so much better than making friends in a virtual world? Perhaps, but for some a professional distance between their “work” selves and their “social” selves is necessary, especially, if they tend to let their guard down and might say or do something they will later regret. 

Those people disapproving of online friendships argue that the concept of “friendship” is used loosely in a world driven by technology, in which you might have a thousand online friends. They make a distinction between “social connections” – acquaintances who are only one click away – and meaningful human interaction, which they say requires time and effort. They note that for many Facebook “friends,” conversation is a way of exchanging information quickly and efficiently rather than being a social activity. 

However, I’ve found that far from being the home of oddballs and potential serial killers, the internet is full of like-minded people. For the first time in history, we’re lucky to enough to choose friends not by location or luck, but by those who have similar interests and senses of humour, or passionate feelings about the same things. The friends I’ve made online might be spread wide geographically, but I’m closer to them than anyone I went to school with, by millions miles. They are the best friends I have. 

Obviously, there will be concerns about the dangers of online friendship. There are always stories buzzing around such as “man runs off with the woman he met on Second Life” or people who meet their “soulmate” online and are never seen again. But people are people, whether online or not. As for “real” friendship dying out, surely, is social networking simply redefining our notion of what this is in the twenty-first century? The figures – half a billion Facebook users worldwide – speak for themselves. And technology has allowed countless numbers of these people to keep in close contact with their loved ones, however far away they are. Without it, many disabled or household people might go without social contact at all. Call me naive, call me a social misfit, I don’t care. Virtual people make best real friends. 

Adapted from http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/jan/02/internet-relationships

What is the article mainly about?

Um dos usos do discurso indireto é o de expressar pensamentos, ideias, opiniões ou sentimentos.

 

Analise as sentenças que reportam à forma correta do discurso indireto da sentença abaixo:

 

People think he is completely mad.

I. People think him to be completely mad.

II. It is thought that he is completely mad.

III. He is thought to be completely mad.

IV. People think him is completely mad.

 

É correta APENAS o que se afirma em:

Garfield é criação de Jim Davis, em 1978. A tira de Garfield ironiza pessoas que transformam os animais de estimação nos “donos da casa”. Também mostra um gato atuando como homem (inclusive, andando em 2 patas) e enfrentando problemas humanos (dieta, tédio, aversão às segundas-feiras etc.). 

Leia a tirinha acima e marque a opção correta referente ao sentido do verbo modal “MUST” utilizado

No dia 7 de outubro, os doutores Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano e Shuji Nakamura foram agraciados com o Prêmio Nobel de Física por terem criado um diodo emissor de luz LED. 

New light to illuminate the world 7 October 2014

This year’s Nobel Laureates are rewarded for

having invented a new energy-efficient and

environmentfriendly

light

[5] source – the

blue lighte

m i t t i n g

diode (LED).

In the spirit of

[10] Alfred Nobel

the Prize rewards an invention of greatest benefit

to mankind; using blue LEDs, white light can be

created in a new way. With the advent of LED

lamps we now have more long-lasting and more

[15] efficient alternatives to older light sources.

When Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji

Nakamura produced bright blue light beams from

their semi-conductors in the early 1990s, they

triggered a fundamental transformation of lighting

[20] technology. Red and green diodes had been

around for a long time but without blue light, white

lamps could not be created. Despite considerable

efforts, both in the scientific community and in

industry, the blue LED had remained a challenge

[25] for three decades.

They succeeded where everyone else had

failed. Akasaki worked together with Amano at

the University of Nagoya, while Nakamura was

employed at Nichia Chemicals, a small company

[30] in Tokushima. Their inventions were revolutionary.

Incandescent light bulbs lit the 20th century; the

21st century will be lit by LED lamps.

White LED lamps emit a bright white light, are

long-lasting and energy-efficient. They are

[35] constantly improved, getting more efficient with

higher luminous flux (measured in lumen) per unit

electrical input power (measured in watt). The

most recent record is just over 300 lm/W, which

can be compared to 16 for regular light bulbs and

[40] close to 70 for fluorescent lamps. As about one

fourth of world electricity consumption is used for

lighting purposes, the LEDs contribute to saving

the Earth’s resources. Materials consumption

is also diminished as LEDs last up to 100,000

[45] hours, compared to 1,000 for incandescent bulbs

and 10,000 hours for fluorescent lights.

The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing

the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around

the world who lack access to electricity grids: due

[50] to low power requirements it can be powered by

cheap local solar power.

The invention of the blue LED is just twenty years

old, but it has already contributed to create white

light in an entirely new manner to the benefit of

[55] us all.

Disponível em: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/press.html 

 

Qual a opção que melhor resume a ideia geral do texto “New light to illuminate the world”?