Questões de Inglês

DO YOUR PART

 

      At age 13, Alison Steiglitz of Miami, Florida, decided she wanted to feed the hungry on Thanksgiving Day, so she used money given to her as bat mitzyah gifts to distribute 15 Thanksgiving dinners to elderly homeless people. Today the organization that Alison helped to create serves breakfast and lunch to more than 250 people every Sunday.

      Alison is certainly doing her part. You can do yours, too. It doesn’t have to be a big thing. Life in the third millennium will necessarily have to include social action by individual initiative. So you may start thinking about it right now. Start by defining the problem you would like to solve. There are all sorts of problems around you. Just pick one and aim your efforts in that direction.

      Consider different solutions. Ask people around you for their ideas. Don’t be afraid to consider even the craziest ideas Find out who opposes your ideas. Meet with these people and try to win them over. Spread the word. Call your local TV and radio station and ask to speak to a reporter. Tell them what you’re doing. Invite them to come visit you and your friends to film your activities. Be a bigmouth – tell everyone about your activities. You never know who might be able to help.

      No matter how much you care, you can’t change the world by yourself. Do everything you can to find others who feel the same way you do about these issues and combine efforts. Even if you find yourself working with people you don’t like, learn to get along with them for the purpose of accomplishing your goal.

      Choose a plan and make it happen. You can solve a big problem by breaking it into smaller problems. And, most of all, hang in there! Don’t give up if things don’t go your way. If your solution fails, find out why and use what you’ve learned to develop a new solution.

(PRESCHER, E; PASQUALIN, E; AMOS, E. New Graded English 3. Editora Moderna. Adaptado.)

The author asks us

 

I. not to help other people.

II. to do our part.

III. to solve all the problems alone.

IV. never to give up.

V. to be selfish.

 

It is CORRECT

DO YOUR PART

 

      At age 13, Alison Steiglitz of Miami, Florida, decided she wanted to feed the hungry on Thanksgiving Day, so she used money given to her as bat mitzyah gifts to distribute 15 Thanksgiving dinners to elderly homeless people. Today the organization that Alison helped to create serves breakfast and lunch to more than 250 people every Sunday.

      Alison is certainly doing her part. You can do yours, too. It doesn’t have to be a big thing. Life in the third millennium will necessarily have to include social action by individual initiative. So you may start thinking about it right now. Start by defining the problem you would like to solve. There are all sorts of problems around you. Just pick one and aim your efforts in that direction.

      Consider different solutions. Ask people around you for their ideas. Don’t be afraid to consider even the craziest ideas Find out who opposes your ideas. Meet with these people and try to win them over. Spread the word. Call your local TV and radio station and ask to speak to a reporter. Tell them what you’re doing. Invite them to come visit you and your friends to film your activities. Be a bigmouth – tell everyone about your activities. You never know who might be able to help.

      No matter how much you care, you can’t change the world by yourself. Do everything you can to find others who feel the same way you do about these issues and combine efforts. Even if you find yourself working with people you don’t like, learn to get along with them for the purpose of accomplishing your goal.

      Choose a plan and make it happen. You can solve a big problem by breaking it into smaller problems. And, most of all, hang in there! Don’t give up if things don’t go your way. If your solution fails, find out why and use what you’ve learned to develop a new solution.

(PRESCHER, E; PASQUALIN, E; AMOS, E. New Graded English 3. Editora Moderna. Adaptado.)

What does homeless mean?

DO YOUR PART

 

      At age 13, Alison Steiglitz of Miami, Florida, decided she wanted to feed the hungry on Thanksgiving Day, so she used money given to her as bat mitzyah gifts to distribute 15 Thanksgiving dinners to elderly homeless people. Today the organization that Alison helped to create serves breakfast and lunch to more than 250 people every Sunday.

      Alison is certainly doing her part. You can do yours, too. It doesn’t have to be a big thing. Life in the third millennium will necessarily have to include social action by individual initiative. So you may start thinking about it right now. Start by defining the problem you would like to solve. There are all sorts of problems around you. Just pick one and aim your efforts in that direction.

      Consider different solutions. Ask people around you for their ideas. Don’t be afraid to consider even the craziest ideas Find out who opposes your ideas. Meet with these people and try to win them over. Spread the word. Call your local TV and radio station and ask to speak to a reporter. Tell them what you’re doing. Invite them to come visit you and your friends to film your activities. Be a bigmouth – tell everyone about your activities. You never know who might be able to help.

      No matter how much you care, you can’t change the world by yourself. Do everything you can to find others who feel the same way you do about these issues and combine efforts. Even if you find yourself working with people you don’t like, learn to get along with them for the purpose of accomplishing your goal.

      Choose a plan and make it happen. You can solve a big problem by breaking it into smaller problems. And, most of all, hang in there! Don’t give up if things don’t go your way. If your solution fails, find out why and use what you’ve learned to develop a new solution.

(PRESCHER, E; PASQUALIN, E; AMOS, E. New Graded English 3. Editora Moderna. Adaptado.)

The text 2 is about

 

I. charity.

II. sharing.

III. hopeless.

IV. hope.

V. kindness.

 

It is CORRECT

In 1969 the world had its eyes turned to what was undoubtedly to become a historical feat: the first human being setting foot on the moon. However, in that same year something else of much importance was happening as well: the Internet was coming into being.

Usually when we think of a historical feat, we think of something big, like the first voyage to the moon. But more often than not, we find that the most meaningful events in history spring from what is

INGLÊS 

viewed in their time as an unimportant fact. A case in point is exactly what the figure above represents: the birth of the Internet.

It is difficult to pinpoint the exact moment when the Internet was born. The World Wide Web is indeed the result of a number of interrelated events that can be traced back to the first artificial satellite – the Russian (then Soviet) Sputnik – being put into orbit around the earth back in the 1950’s. But it was in l969 that “… four host computers were connected together into the initial ARPANET, and the budding Internet was off the ground”. The diagram above shows the first four places ever linked via the Internet which was then called the ARPANET. They are US organizations: the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Stanford Research Institute (SRI), the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the University of Utah (UTAH).

Little by little the Internet started spreading everywhere because of new technological advancements and today it is so important that our lives would not be the same without it. Of course going to the moon was an extremely important event as well, a real historical feat, but the birth of the Internet has proved to be the most significant historical fact, and feat, in the recent past of the history of mankind.

(MITRANO-NETO, N; LOUREIRO, M; ANTUNES, Alice M. Insight. Richmond Publishing Editora. São Paulo, 2004Analyzing the word “it” in the last paragraph, we can say thatAdaptado.)

 

Analyzing the word “it” in the last paragraph, we can say that

In 1969 the world had its eyes turned to what was undoubtedly to become a historical feat: the first human being setting foot on the moon. However, in that same year something else of much importance was happening as well: the Internet was coming into being.

Usually when we think of a historical feat, we think of something big, like the first voyage to the moon. But more often than not, we find that the most meaningful events in history spring from what is

INGLÊS 

viewed in their time as an unimportant fact. A case in point is exactly what the figure above represents: the birth of the Internet.

It is difficult to pinpoint the exact moment when the Internet was born. The World Wide Web is indeed the result of a number of interrelated events that can be traced back to the first artificial satellite – the Russian (then Soviet) Sputnik – being put into orbit around the earth back in the 1950’s. But it was in l969 that “… four host computers were connected together into the initial ARPANET, and the budding Internet was off the ground”. The diagram above shows the first four places ever linked via the Internet which was then called the ARPANET. They are US organizations: the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Stanford Research Institute (SRI), the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the University of Utah (UTAH).

Little by little the Internet started spreading everywhere because of new technological advancements and today it is so important that our lives would not be the same without it. Of course going to the moon was an extremely important event as well, a real historical feat, but the birth of the Internet has proved to be the most significant historical fact, and feat, in the recent past of the history of mankind.

(MITRANO-NETO, N; LOUREIRO, M; ANTUNES, Alice M. Insight. Richmond Publishing Editora. São Paulo, 2004. Adaptado.)

 

According to the author, which was the most important event to mankind?

Super typhoon Haiyan slams into Philippines, at least three dead

FRIDAY, 08 NOVEMBER 2013 14:41 IN: HTTP://WWW.DAILYMIRROR.LK/NEWS/WORLD-NEWS/INTERNATIONAL/38404-SUPERTYPHOON-HAIYAN-SLAMS-INTO-PHILIPPINES-AT-LEAST-THREE-DEAD.HTML

 

The strongest typhoon in the world this year and possibly the most powerful ever to hit land battered the Philippines on Friday, forcing more than a million people to flee, cutting power lines and blowing apart houses.

 

Haiyan, a category-5 super typhoon, scoured the northern tip of Cebu Province and headed west towards Boracay island, both of them tourist destinations, after lashing the central islands of Leyte and Samar with 275 kph (170 mph) wind gusts and 5-6 meter (15-19 ft) waves.

 

Three people were killed and seven injured, national disaster agency spokesman Rey Balido told a news briefing at the main army base in Manila. The death toll could rise as reports come in from stricken areas.

 

Power and communications in the three large island provinces of Samar, Leyte and Bohol were almost completely down but the government and telephone service providers promised to restore them within 24 hours.

 

Authorities warned that more than 12 million people were at risk, including residents of Cebu City, which has a population of about 2.5 million, and areas still reeling from a deadly 2011 storm and a 7.2-magnitude quake last month.

 

"The super typhoon likely made landfall with winds near 195 mph. This makes Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall," said Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at U.S.-based Weather Underground.

 

Typhoons and cyclones of that magnitude can blow apart storm shelters with the pressure they create, which can suck walls out and blow roofs off buildings. Lionel Dosdosa, an International Organization for Migration coordinator on Bohol island, the epicenter of an October 15 earthquake that killed 222 people and displaced hundreds of thousands, said power was off and streets were deserted. "It\'s dark and gloomy, alternating between drizzle and heavy rain", he said.

 

About a million people took shelter in 29 provinces, after President Benigno Aquino appealed to people in Haiyan\'s path to leave vulnerable areas, such as along river banks, coastal villages and mountain slopes.

 

"Our school is now packed with evacuees," an elementary school teacher in Southern Leyte who only gave her name as Feliza told a radio station. Leyte and Southern Leyte are about 630 km (390 miles) southeast of Manila. NO POWER, PRAYERS

 

Roger Mercado, governor of Southern Leyte province, said no one should underestimate the storm. "It is very powerful," Mercado told DZBB radio. "We lost power and all roads are impassable because of fallen trees. We just have to pray."

 

In Samar province, links with some towns and villages had been cut, officials said.

 

"The whole province has no power," Samar Governor Sharee Tan told Reuters by telephone. Fallen trees, toppled electric poles and other debris blocked roads, she said.

 

Authorities suspended ferry services and fishing and shut 13 airports. Nearly 450 domestic and eight international flights were suspended.

 

Schools, offices and shops in the central Philippines were closed, with hospitals, soldiers and emergency workers preparing for rescue operations. Twenty navy ships and various military aircraft including three C-130 cargo planes and helicopters were on standby.

 

The state weather bureau said Haiyan was expected to move past the Philippines on Saturday and out over the South China Sea, where it could become even stronger and threaten Vietnam or China.

 

The world\'s strongest recorded typhoon, cyclone or hurricane to make landfall was urricane Camille in 1969, which hit Mississippi with 305 kph (190 mph) winds, said Weather Underground\'s Masters.

 

An average of 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year.

 

Last year, Typhoon Bopha flattened three coastal towns on Mindanao, killed 1,100 people and caused damage estimated at $1.04 billion.

 

Haiyan is the 24th such storm to hit the Philippines this year.

 

(Additional reporting by Karen Lema and Erik dela Cruz; Editing by Jeremy Laurence and Robert Birsel)

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