Questões de Inglês

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China’s homeowner fever
    As China roars into 2011, analysts are keeping a wary eye on property prices. The National Bureau of Statistics
reported a 7.7 percent hike in prices over the past year, and many experts believe that the actual
increase was far higher. Property investment and construction both shot up by about a third during 2010, despite government
policies to restrict mortgage lending and cool the market. At the same time, home prices remained unaffordable for most
[5] Chinese. The combination has prompted a tense bubble watch.
    Nevertheless, a powerful cultural component could keep the real-estate market flourishing. Homeownership has
traditionally been a mark of status in China, and the growing middle class is maintaining that tradition with a vengeance.
A recent opinion survey found that most Chinese women wouldn’t consider marrying a man who doesn’t own a home. As
a result, families often loan or give money to help their sons buy one. That, along with rural residents migrating by the tens
[10] of millions to the city, means China’s real-estate hunger is unlikely to be appeased soon.
FISH, Isac Stone. China’s Homeowner fever. Newsweek, New York, Jan 10 & 17, 2011, p.8

The conjunction “Nevertheless” (l. 6) expresses

TEXTO:
 

China’s homeowner fever
    As China roars into 2011, analysts are keeping a wary eye on property prices. The National Bureau of Statistics
reported a 7.7 percent hike in prices over the past year, and many experts believe that the actual
increase was far higher. Property investment and construction both shot up by about a third during 2010, despite government
policies to restrict mortgage lending and cool the market. At the same time, home prices remained unaffordable for most
[5] Chinese. The combination has prompted a tense bubble watch.
    Nevertheless, a powerful cultural component could keep the real-estate market flourishing. Homeownership has
traditionally been a mark of status in China, and the growing middle class is maintaining that tradition with a vengeance.
A recent opinion survey found that most Chinese women wouldn’t consider marrying a man who doesn’t own a home. As
a result, families often loan or give money to help their sons buy one. That, along with rural residents migrating by the tens
[10] of millions to the city, means China’s real-estate hunger is unlikely to be appeased soon.
FISH, Isac Stone. China’s Homeowner fever. Newsweek, New York, Jan 10 & 17, 2011, p.8

“home prices remained unaffordable for most Chinese.” (l. 4-5)

This sentence means that most Chinese

TEXTO:
 

China’s homeowner fever
    As China roars into 2011, analysts are keeping a wary eye on property prices. The National Bureau of Statistics
reported a 7.7 percent hike in prices over the past year, and many experts believe that the actual
increase was far higher. Property investment and construction both shot up by about a third during 2010, despite government
policies to restrict mortgage lending and cool the market. At the same time, home prices remained unaffordable for most
[5] Chinese. The combination has prompted a tense bubble watch.
    Nevertheless, a powerful cultural component could keep the real-estate market flourishing. Homeownership has
traditionally been a mark of status in China, and the growing middle class is maintaining that tradition with a vengeance.
A recent opinion survey found that most Chinese women wouldn’t consider marrying a man who doesn’t own a home. As
a result, families often loan or give money to help their sons buy one. That, along with rural residents migrating by the tens
[10] of millions to the city, means China’s real-estate hunger is unlikely to be appeased soon.
FISH, Isac Stone. China’s Homeowner fever. Newsweek, New York, Jan 10 & 17, 2011, p.8

Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).

(  ) The Chinese government hasn’t done anything to avoid property high prices.
(  ) Having a house of your own is a status symbol in China.
(  ) Most Chinese women only marry a man if he owns a home.
(  ) Chinese parents don’t usually help their sons buy a house.

According to the text, the correct sequence, from top to bottom, is

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Scientists identify cause of baldness

 

 

    American scientists say
that they’ve discovered why
some men go bald. They blame
faulty cells which seem to
[5] produce hair that is so thin that
it is invisible to the naked eye.
They expect to find a cure for
baldness.
    For some men, bald is beautiful. The iconic look
[10] may work for a few — especially celebrities — like the
rugged Die Hard star Bruce Willis and Star Trek’s Patrick
Stewart. For many, though, hair loss is no laughing
matter. But now researchers in America say they’ve
uncovered a cure.

[15]     An academic medical centre has found that hair
follicles actually shrink, but don’t disappear. Dr George
Cotsarelis, dermatology professor at Pennsylvania
University, found the discovery exciting. “What we found
surprised us. The stem cells were present but they were
[20] not doing their job.”
    The discovery of invisible hair sounds too good to
be true. But what does it mean? “It really gives us hope
that because the stem cells are present it lowers the
bar for developing treatments that could activate the stem
[25] cells and get them to form a new hair follicle,” said Dr
Cotsarelis.
    Treating these faulty stem cells means that, rather
than just maintaining hair, we could soon regenerate hair.
LOBEL, Mark , BBC News. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ l e a r n i n g e n g l i s h / l a n g u a g e / w o r d s i n t h e n e w s / 2 0 1 0 / 1 2 / 110107_witn_baldness_page.shtml>. Acesso em: 12 out. 2011.

The only false cognate is in alternative

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Scientists identify cause of baldness

 

 

    American scientists say
that they’ve discovered why
some men go bald. They blame
faulty cells which seem to
[5] produce hair that is so thin that
it is invisible to the naked eye.
They expect to find a cure for
baldness.
    For some men, bald is beautiful. The iconic look
[10] may work for a few — especially celebrities — like the
rugged Die Hard star Bruce Willis and Star Trek’s Patrick
Stewart. For many, though, hair loss is no laughing
matter. But now researchers in America say they’ve
uncovered a cure.

[15]     An academic medical centre has found that hair
follicles actually shrink, but don’t disappear. Dr George
Cotsarelis, dermatology professor at Pennsylvania
University, found the discovery exciting. “What we found
surprised us. The stem cells were present but they were
[20] not doing their job.”
    The discovery of invisible hair sounds too good to
be true. But what does it mean? “It really gives us hope
that because the stem cells are present it lowers the
bar for developing treatments that could activate the stem
[25] cells and get them to form a new hair follicle,” said Dr
Cotsarelis.
    Treating these faulty stem cells means that, rather
than just maintaining hair, we could soon regenerate hair.
LOBEL, Mark , BBC News. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ l e a r n i n g e n g l i s h / l a n g u a g e / w o r d s i n t h e n e w s / 2 0 1 0 / 1 2 / 110107_witn_baldness_page.shtml>. Acesso em: 12 out. 2011.

Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).

According to scientists from the Pennsylvania University, baldness
(  ) could be caused by imperfect cells.
(  ) doesn’t stand a chance of being cured.
(  ) seems to result from dead hair follicles.
(  ) wouldn’t be very difficult to be treated.

According to the text, the correct sequence, from top to bottom, is

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Earth may once have had two moons

 

 

    A new theory suggests the Earth once had a small
second moon that disappeared after a collision with its
big sister. Researchers say in an article in the journal
Nature that the slow speed of the collision may explain
[5] the build up of highlands on the rarely seen part of the
Moon.
    This new theory builds on the idea that around four
billion years ago the Earth was struck by a Mars-like
planet, but instead of the smash producing enough
[10] debris for one moon, this scientific essay argues there
was enough for two.
    This small second moon became stuck in a
gravitational tug of war between the Earth and its much
larger sister. After millions of years in this position the
[15] new moon was drawn into a collision at a speed of less
than three kilometers per second.
    The scientists say this slow paced crash may have
caused a build up of material and the formation of
highlands on the Moon’s far side, the face of the Moon
[20] that can’t be seen from the Earth. For decades scientists
have been trying to understand why the visible near side
of the Moon is covered in craters while the far side has
mountain ranges higher than 3,000 meters. The
researchers hope that NASA observational missions
[25] might prove this new theory within a year.
McGRATH, Matt. Earth may once have had two moons. Disponível em:<www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/ wordsinthrnews/2011/08/110805_witn_moons_page.shtml>. Acesso em: 12 out. 2011.

Considering language use in the text, it’s correct to say: