Questões de Inglês

Based on the strip, consider the following statements.
I. The candy is a gift from Manolito to Mafalda.
II. Mafalda refused the candy because she is on a diet.
III. The candy must be paid for at the end of the month.
IV. The teacher misunderstood Manolito’s intentions.
Choose the correct alternative.

The acid that corroded George W. Bush’s presidency was fear. The blood-dimmed tragedy of 9/11 was chilling. But instead of rising above the fear, W. Bush let it overwhelm his better instincts. He and Dick Cheney crumpled the Constitution, manipulated intelligence to go to war against a country that hadn’t attacked us, and implemented warrantless eavesdropping – all in the name of keeping us safe from terrorists. We want to be protected, but not at the cost of corrupting the values that make us Americans. “There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment”, George Orwell wrote in “1984”. “How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to.” Still, it was a bit of a shock to find out that the N.S.A. (National Security Agency) has been collecting information for seven years on every phone call, domestic and international, that Americans make. The Washington Post and then Greenwald swiftly revealed another secret program started under W. Bush, code-named Prism, that lets the N.S.A. and the F.B.I. tap Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple, lifting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails and documents in an effort to track foreign targets.
President Obama defended his classified programs. He insists that agents are not actually listening to calls, and calls the vast eavesdropping apparatus “modest encroachments on privacy”.
(Adapted from: DOWD, M. The New York Times. Source: <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/dowdpeepingpresidentobama.html?ref=politics>. Accessed on: 18 june 2013.)

The text writer relates the control programs from the government with that of a book by George Orwell. Which book is it?

Cupboards of Curiosities Spill Over

The New York Times, accessed in 1/11/2013.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/science/academy-of-natural-sciences-in-philadelphia-marks-200-years.html?_r=0)

 

In the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, when natural history was still called philosophy and most naturalists were amateurs, collectors would create what they called cabinets of curiosities — accumulations of animal, vegetable, mineral and anthropological specimens to amaze and amuse

Often these collections grew large enough to occupy entire rooms, or even buildings. In some cases, they turned out to be precursors of modern museums.

In a way, that was the kind of project seven Philadelphia men embarked on in 1812, when they rented premises over a millinery shop, gathered a few preserved insects, some seashells and not much more, and created the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

Today, the academy is the oldest natural history museum in the Western Hemisphere and one of the largest in the world. Last year, it merged with another Philadelphia institution of note to form the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. To mark its 200th anniversary, it has produced cabinets of curiosities of a different kind: a museum exhibition and book.

The exhibition, which opened last weekend, takes visitors along with academy scientists as they search for new species and study humanity’s collective impact on the environment. The book embraces a larger agenda.

To wander through “A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science” is to absorb the 19th century’s passion for botany and zoology; the 20th century’s mania for exploration of distant, difficult or desolate places; and present-day preoccupations, particularly environmental issues like water quality.

Here are “gentlemen of science,” in brass-buttoned uniforms, embarking from Pittsburgh by steamboat to explore the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. (James Fenimore Cooper parodied the species in his book “The Prairie.”) (...)

 

Choose the correct alternative according to the text.

Read the sentence below and choose the correct meaning to the word underlined.

There is a shortage of skilled labour in this field.

Choose the correct synonym for pleasant and choose the correct answer. “I like being with you all these years. Your fellowship is very ______ to me”.

Which sentence shows the correct use of comparative adjectives.