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Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education

Brazil is counting on a new export hit: literature. As this year's guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair (October 9 to 13), Latin America's largest country is advertising its literary

assets with 70 authors and 164 publishers.

"We want to show that we understand the international market and can sell our titles," said KarinePansa, president of the Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL), adding that the German book market is promising and has a big following around the world. […]

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Mission

The journal mission is to constitute a stimulus and a means to disseminating results stemming from scientific research supported by rigorous methodology and emphasizing human health care, by publishing research articles in the field of physical therapy and related areas and endorsing interdisciplinarity.

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Vietnam Releases Dengue-Blocking Mosquito

 

(TRI NGUYEN ISLAND, Vietnam) - Nguyen Thi Yen rolls up the sleeves of her white lab coat and delicately slips her arms into a box covered by a sheath of mesh netting. Immediately the feeding frenzy begins.

 

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She smiles and nods at her red-hot arms, swollen and itchy after 10 minutes of feeding. She knows those nasty bites could reveal a way to greatly reduce one of the world’s most menacing infectious diseases.

 

All her mosquitoes have been intentionally infected with bacteria called Wolbachia, which essentially blocks them from getting dengue. And if they can’t get it, they can’t spread it to people. New research suggests some 390 million people are infected with the virus each year, most of them in Asia.

 

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11 New Genes Tied To Alzheimer’s Disease

 

Scientists have doubled the number of genes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, giving researchers twice the number of targets for drug therapies. […]

 

Disponível em: ww.healthland.time.com Acesso em 25 nov. 2013 (adaptado)

 

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ENGLISH TEST

The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower

 

Paris, 1925. World War I had finished and the city was full of people with cash looking for business opportunities. Victor Lustig was reading the newspaper one day and found an article about the Eiffel Tower. It said the tower was being neglected because it was too expensive to maintain. Lustig a great ‘business opportunity’ – he would sell the Eiffel Tower! 

Lustig wrote to six important businessmen in the city and invited them to a secret meeting in a well-known Paris hotel. He said he was a government official and he told them that he wanted to talk about a business deal. All six of the businessmen came to the meeting. 

At the meeting, Lustig told them that the city wanted to sell the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal and that he had been asked to find a buyer. He said that the deal was secret because it would not be popular with the public. The businessmen believed him, perhaps the Eiffel Tower was never planned to be permanent. It had been built as part of the 1889 Paris Expo, and the original plan had been to remove it in 1909. 

Lustig rented a limousine and took the men to visit the tower. After the tour, he said that if they were interested, they should contact him the next day. Lustig told them he would give the tower contract to the person with the highest offer. One of the dealers, Andre Poisson, was very interested, but he was also worried. Why was Lustig in such a hurry? 

The two men had a meeting, and Lustig confessed that he wasn’t looking for the highest offer. He said he would give the contract to anybody – for a price. Poisson understood: Lustig wanted a little extra money “under the table” for himself. This was Lustig’s cleverest lie, because now Poisson believed him completely. 

Lustig sold Poisson a false contract for the Eiffel Tower – and on top of that, Poisson paid him a little extra money “under the table”. Lustig put all the money in a suitcase and took the first train to Vienna. Poisson never told the police what had happened – he was too embarrassed. After a month, Lustig returned to Paris and tried to sell the Eiffel Tower again, but this time somebody told the police and he had to escape to America. There, he continued his criminal career and finished his days in the famous Alcatraz prison. 

(Oxford UP 2009 - English Result, p.62. Adapted.)

Read the sentences below:

 

• Lustig sold the Eiffel Tower.

• He went to Vienna.

 

According to the text, which actions in the sentences below occur in the correct order?