Questões de Inglês

TEXTO:

    We always think “It will never happen to me,” but

disasters can strike, at any time, anywhere — from hotel

fires to train crashes to terrorist attacks. How would you

cope if the unthinkable happened?

5    According to experts, people caught up in disasters

tend to fall into three categories. About 10% to 15%

remain calm and act quickly and efficiently. Another 15%

completely panic, crying and screaming and obstructing

the evacuation. But the vast majority (70%) of people do

10 very little. They are “stunned and confused,” says

psychologist John Leach.

    Why is this? Research suggests that under great

stress, our minds take much longer to process

information. So, in a crisis, many people “freeze” just at

15 the moment when they need to act quickly. It also seems

that personality is not a good guide to how people might

react — a normally decisive person may not act quickly

enough in a crisis and vice versa. “Most people go their

entire lives without a disaster,” says Michael Lindell, a

20 professor at Texas A&M University. “So when something

bad happens, they are so shocked they just think, ‘This

can’t possibly be happening to me,’ instead of taking

action.”

OXENDEN, C et Latham-Koenig, C American English File 4B, p. 52 Oxford University Press. 

TEXTO:

    We always think “It will never happen to me,” but

disasters can strike, at any time, anywhere — from hotel

fires to train crashes to terrorist attacks. How would you

cope if the unthinkable happened?

5    According to experts, people caught up in disasters

tend to fall into three categories. About 10% to 15%

remain calm and act quickly and efficiently. Another 15%

completely panic, crying and screaming and obstructing

the evacuation. But the vast majority (70%) of people do

10 very little. They are “stunned and confused,” says

psychologist John Leach.

    Why is this? Research suggests that under great

stress, our minds take much longer to process

information. So, in a crisis, many people “freeze” just at

15 the moment when they need to act quickly. It also seems

that personality is not a good guide to how people might

react — a normally decisive person may not act quickly

enough in a crisis and vice versa. “Most people go their

entire lives without a disaster,” says Michael Lindell, a

20 professor at Texas A&M University. “So when something

bad happens, they are so shocked they just think, ‘This

can’t possibly be happening to me,’ instead of taking

action.”

OXENDEN, C et Latham-Koenig, C American English File 4B, p. 52 Oxford University Press. 

TEXTO:

    We always think “It will never happen to me,” but

disasters can strike, at any time, anywhere — from hotel

fires to train crashes to terrorist attacks. How would you

cope if the unthinkable happened?

5    According to experts, people caught up in disasters

tend to fall into three categories. About 10% to 15%

remain calm and act quickly and efficiently. Another 15%

completely panic, crying and screaming and obstructing

the evacuation. But the vast majority (70%) of people do

10 very little. They are “stunned and confused,” says

psychologist John Leach.

    Why is this? Research suggests that under great

stress, our minds take much longer to process

information. So, in a crisis, many people “freeze” just at

15 the moment when they need to act quickly. It also seems

that personality is not a good guide to how people might

react — a normally decisive person may not act quickly

enough in a crisis and vice versa. “Most people go their

entire lives without a disaster,” says Michael Lindell, a

20 professor at Texas A&M University. “So when something

bad happens, they are so shocked they just think, ‘This

can’t possibly be happening to me,’ instead of taking

action.”

OXENDEN, C et Latham-Koenig, C American English File 4B, p. 52 Oxford University Press. 

TEXTO:

Thickening glaciers 

    A team of scientists has shown that the glaciers in

one of Asia’s major mountain ranges are defying the

general tendency towards shrinkage, and have in fact

expanded slightly over the last few years. The range in

5 question is the Karakoram, which straddles Pakistan,

India and China on the north-western end of the

Himalayas.

    Glacial decline and the gradual loss of polar ice

caps has been a worrying trend over recent decades,

10 but scientists have been aware of an apparently curious

anomaly with the Karakoram, which contains some of

the world’s biggest mountains including the second

highest, K2. It has about 20,000 square kilometers of

glaciers, accounting for three percent of the total area of

15 ice outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.

    Now a team of French scientists has carried out a

detailed survey over a large area of the range using

sophisticated remote-sensing measurements. Writing in

the scientific journal, Nature, they say they found that in

20 the first years of this century the Karakoram’s glaciers

had actually expanded by a small amount, while in the

neighboring Himalayas they’d been shrinking.

It’s unclear why this is happening, but it seems that by

a quirk in the weather pattern that’s not fully understood,

25 less heat is being delivered to the Karakoram and the

mountains are receiving heavier falls of snow.

Thickening glaciers. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 21 jul. 2012. 

TEXTO:

Thickening glaciers 

    A team of scientists has shown that the glaciers in

one of Asia’s major mountain ranges are defying the

general tendency towards shrinkage, and have in fact

expanded slightly over the last few years. The range in

5 question is the Karakoram, which straddles Pakistan,

India and China on the north-western end of the

Himalayas.

    Glacial decline and the gradual loss of polar ice

caps has been a worrying trend over recent decades,

10 but scientists have been aware of an apparently curious

anomaly with the Karakoram, which contains some of

the world’s biggest mountains including the second

highest, K2. It has about 20,000 square kilometers of

glaciers, accounting for three percent of the total area of

15 ice outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.

    Now a team of French scientists has carried out a

detailed survey over a large area of the range using

sophisticated remote-sensing measurements. Writing in

the scientific journal, Nature, they say they found that in

20 the first years of this century the Karakoram’s glaciers

had actually expanded by a small amount, while in the

neighboring Himalayas they’d been shrinking.

It’s unclear why this is happening, but it seems that by

a quirk in the weather pattern that’s not fully understood,

25 less heat is being delivered to the Karakoram and the

mountains are receiving heavier falls of snow.

Thickening glaciers. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 21 jul. 2012.