Questões de Inglês

TEXTO:

 

Australia debates nuclear waste

The Stuart Highway runs through Tennant Creek in Australia’s Northern Territory

 

    Aboriginal groups are to debate controversial plans
to build Australia’s first nuclear waste dump on tribal
land in the Northern Territory.
    The federal government has identified a remote
[5] cattle station north of Tennant Creek as a likely site.
    In the next six years nuclear waste that Australia
sent to Europe for reprocessing will be returned but
officials in Canberra have yet to decide where to put it.
    Muckaty Station, an isolated property 120
[10] kilometers from Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory,
has been chosen as a possible site. Local aborigines
have offered to sell the land for $11,000,000, a move that
has infuriated other indigenous groups in the area, who
worry about the health and environmental implications.
[15]     These conflicting views are expected to collide at
a public meeting that will be held in Tennant Creek, an
old gold-mining town south of Darwin. Australian Greens
Senator Scott Ludlam says the plan to build a radioactive
waste dump in the region has become extremely divisive.
[20]     Australia’s federal government said that Muckaty
Station would be subject to thorough scientific and
environmental assessments. Ministers have indicated
that the nuclear dump won’t be built if landowners oppose
it.
[25]     Critics believe that recent earthquakes in that part
of the Northern Territory have raised questions about the
safety of the sites. The Australian Greens have said that
radioactive waste should be stored at the country’s only
nuclear facility on the outskirts of Sydney.
MERCER, Phil. Australia debates nuclear waste. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2010/03/100303_witn_aborigine.shtml>. Acesso em: 30 set. 2010.

The adjective “thorough” (l. 21) is closest in meaning to

TEXTO:

 

Australia debates nuclear waste

The Stuart Highway runs through Tennant Creek in Australia’s Northern Territory

 

    Aboriginal groups are to debate controversial plans
to build Australia’s first nuclear waste dump on tribal
land in the Northern Territory.
    The federal government has identified a remote
[5] cattle station north of Tennant Creek as a likely site.
    In the next six years nuclear waste that Australia
sent to Europe for reprocessing will be returned but
officials in Canberra have yet to decide where to put it.
    Muckaty Station, an isolated property 120
[10] kilometers from Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory,
has been chosen as a possible site. Local aborigines
have offered to sell the land for $11,000,000, a move that
has infuriated other indigenous groups in the area, who
worry about the health and environmental implications.
[15]     These conflicting views are expected to collide at
a public meeting that will be held in Tennant Creek, an
old gold-mining town south of Darwin. Australian Greens
Senator Scott Ludlam says the plan to build a radioactive
waste dump in the region has become extremely divisive.
[20]     Australia’s federal government said that Muckaty
Station would be subject to thorough scientific and
environmental assessments. Ministers have indicated
that the nuclear dump won’t be built if landowners oppose
it.
[25]     Critics believe that recent earthquakes in that part
of the Northern Territory have raised questions about the
safety of the sites. The Australian Greens have said that
radioactive waste should be stored at the country’s only
nuclear facility on the outskirts of Sydney.
MERCER, Phil. Australia debates nuclear waste. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2010/03/100303_witn_aborigine.shtml>. Acesso em: 30 set. 2010.

Australian government ministers have stated that

TEXTO:

 

Australia debates nuclear waste

The Stuart Highway runs through Tennant Creek in Australia’s Northern Territory

 

    Aboriginal groups are to debate controversial plans
to build Australia’s first nuclear waste dump on tribal
land in the Northern Territory.
    The federal government has identified a remote
[5] cattle station north of Tennant Creek as a likely site.
    In the next six years nuclear waste that Australia
sent to Europe for reprocessing will be returned but
officials in Canberra have yet to decide where to put it.
    Muckaty Station, an isolated property 120
[10] kilometers from Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory,
has been chosen as a possible site. Local aborigines
have offered to sell the land for $11,000,000, a move that
has infuriated other indigenous groups in the area, who
worry about the health and environmental implications.
[15]     These conflicting views are expected to collide at
a public meeting that will be held in Tennant Creek, an
old gold-mining town south of Darwin. Australian Greens
Senator Scott Ludlam says the plan to build a radioactive
waste dump in the region has become extremely divisive.
[20]     Australia’s federal government said that Muckaty
Station would be subject to thorough scientific and
environmental assessments. Ministers have indicated
that the nuclear dump won’t be built if landowners oppose
it.
[25]     Critics believe that recent earthquakes in that part
of the Northern Territory have raised questions about the
safety of the sites. The Australian Greens have said that
radioactive waste should be stored at the country’s only
nuclear facility on the outskirts of Sydney.
MERCER, Phil. Australia debates nuclear waste. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2010/03/100303_witn_aborigine.shtml>. Acesso em: 30 set. 2010.

Some indigenous groups _____ that the building of a nuclear waste dump in the area _________ the environment.

According to what is mentioned in paragraph 4, the only alternative that completes the blanks incorrectly is

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Arctic warmest in two millennia

  Temperatures in the Arctic are now the highest

they’ve been for 2,000 years, according to scientists.

Researchers in the United States say that it is one of

the clearest signs yet that human activity is warming

[5] the planet.

  Scientists have produced evidence showing

dramatically that the current temperature rise there is

highly unusual. For most of the last two thousand years,

the Arctic slowly cooled, a consequence of variations in

[10] the Earth’s orbit.

  But over the last century, the cooling abruptly

reversed, and the region is now warmer than at any time

in the 2,000 year record. Writing in the journal Science,

the researchers say this shows how quickly the Arctic

[15] responds to climatic changes.

BLACK, Richard. Arctic warmest in two millennia. Disponível em: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/ wordsinthenews/2009/09/090904_witn_arctic.shtml. Acesso em: 10 jun. 2010.

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

TEXTO:

 

Arctic warmest in two millennia

  Temperatures in the Arctic are now the highest

they’ve been for 2,000 years, according to scientists.

Researchers in the United States say that it is one of

the clearest signs yet that human activity is warming

[5] the planet.

  Scientists have produced evidence showing

dramatically that the current temperature rise there is

highly unusual. For most of the last two thousand years,

the Arctic slowly cooled, a consequence of variations in

[10] the Earth’s orbit.

  But over the last century, the cooling abruptly

reversed, and the region is now warmer than at any time

in the 2,000 year record. Writing in the journal Science,

the researchers say this shows how quickly the Arctic

[15] responds to climatic changes.

BLACK, Richard. Arctic warmest in two millennia. Disponível em: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/ wordsinthenews/2009/09/090904_witn_arctic.shtml. Acesso em: 10 jun. 2010.

The only alternative in which the word or expression from the text IS NOT correctly defined is

TEXTO:

 

Arctic warmest in two millennia

  Temperatures in the Arctic are now the highest

they’ve been for 2,000 years, according to scientists.

Researchers in the United States say that it is one of

the clearest signs yet that human activity is warming

[5] the planet.

  Scientists have produced evidence showing

dramatically that the current temperature rise there is

highly unusual. For most of the last two thousand years,

the Arctic slowly cooled, a consequence of variations in

[10] the Earth’s orbit.

  But over the last century, the cooling abruptly

reversed, and the region is now warmer than at any time

in the 2,000 year record. Writing in the journal Science,

the researchers say this shows how quickly the Arctic

[15] responds to climatic changes.

BLACK, Richard. Arctic warmest in two millennia. Disponível em: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/ wordsinthenews/2009/09/090904_witn_arctic.shtml. Acesso em: 10 jun. 2010.

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

The text has answers to the following questions:

( ) Where was the present research published?

( ) How many scientists took part in the present expedition?

( ) What are Arctic high temperatures an indication of?

( ) When did the scientists produce evidence of the warming phenomenon in the Arctic?

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