Questões de Inglês

Blackbird

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

 

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these¹ broken wings and learn to fly

All your² life

You were only waiting for this³ moment to arise.

 

Ebony and Ivory live together in perfect harmony

Side by side on my⁴ piano keyboard, Oh Lord,

why don’t we?

We all know that⁵ people are the same where

ever we go

There is good and bad in ev’ryone,

We learn to live, we learn to give

Each other what we need to survive together

alive.

 

Os versos de “Blackbird” foram inspirados contra o racismo nos EUA em 1968. Já os versos de “Ebony and Ivory” foram inspirados na integração e harmonia entre as raças baseados no teclado de um piano.

Assim, os autores passam respectivamente as ideias de

Leia os pares de sentenças abaixo.

 

1A I went to the USA in 2005.

1B I went to the USA 8 years ago.

 

2A I have been to the USA in 2005.

2B I have gone to the USA in 2005.

 

3A I have been to the USA.

3B I have already been to the USA.

 

4A I haven’t ever been to the USA.

4B I haven’t never been to the USA.

 

5A l haven’t been to the USA yet.

5B I have never been to the USA.

Marque a opção correta:

Leia o texto e decida se as sentenças são verdadeiras (V) ou falsas (F). Em seguida marque a opção

correta .

 

Bad Handwriting

 

There is an old joke that doctors go to school to learn how to write badly, and nurses go to school to learn how to read doctors’ handwriting. There is truth in the joke – computers analysis of handwriting of medical staff shows that doctors’ handwriting is a lot worse than that of nurses and administrative staff. Maybe it’s because doctors are always under pressure of time that they write very fast. The habit starts when they are medical students and gets worse as time passes.

 

Computer analysis shows that generally, medical staff are careful with numbers. However, they tend to form letters of the alphabet badly. When drug names look very similar, bad handwriting can mean patients get the wrong medicine. A young girl nearly died when she was given Methimazole instead of Metolazone (one is for high blood pressure and the other is for thyroid problems). And in 1999, an American cardiologist, Hamachandra Kolluru, wrote a prescription so badly that the pharmacist gave a patient the wrong medicine. This time the patient did die. And a court fined the doctor 225,000 US dollars.

 

Recently researchers studied 50 patient progress notes. They found that they could not read 16% of the words. The misunderstandings that this causes can mean that a patient is giving the wrong blood, or that a surgeon amputates the wrong limb. Fatal errors, of course, make news, but studies show that every year, hundreds of thousands of mistakes are made in hospitals around the world, and a lot of them are because of bad handwriting or abbreviations nobody understands. Bad handwriting also causes delays which are expensive and wasteful.

 

There are many technological solutions for the problems, and though digital technology can’t improve handwriting, it can improve the situation. At London’s Charing Cross Hospital, for example, patients wear bar codes (the same as in a supermarket) on their wrists or ankles. Staff use the bar codes along with handheld computers to get accurate, clear, and easy-to-read information.

 

1. Nurses study doctors’ handwriting at school. _____

2. Doctors generally write numbers more carefully than words. _____

3. Methimazole and Metolazone are used for different conditions. _____

4. Ramachandra Kolluru is a pharmacist._____

5. Researchers could understand 84% of doctors’ notes. _____

6. Many hospitals use abbreviations in order to avoid mistakes. _____

7. At Charing Cross Hospital, staff carry computers around. _____

Leia os pares de sentenças abaixo.

 

1A I went to the USA in 2005.

1B I went to the USA 8 years ago.

 

2A I have been to the USA in 2005.

2B I have gone to the USA in 2005.

 

3A I have been to the USA.

3B I have already been to the USA.

 

4A I haven’t ever been to the USA.

4B I haven’t never been to the USA.

 

5A l haven’t been to the USA yet.

5B I have never been to the USA.

 

Marque a opção correta :

Veja a figura abaixo:

I. Both students are amazed with the huge number of classmates.

II. One of the students thinks the huge audience is impressive.

III. Neither of them is used to seeing such a crowded lecture.

IV. Either of them used to have such a crowded lecture.

V. One of them seems to have had crowded lectures.

 

Assinale a opção correta :

Blackbird

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

 

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these¹ broken wings and learn to fly

All your² life

You were only waiting for this³ moment to arise.

Ebony and Ivory live together in perfect harmony

Side by side on my⁴ piano keyboard, Oh Lord,

why don’t we?

We all know that⁵ people are the same where

ever we go

There is good and bad in ev’ryone,

We learn to live, we learn to give

Each other what we need to survive together

alive.

 

De acordo com os versos das canções, os pronomes enumerados de 1 a 5 têm como referência contextual: