Questões de Inglês

Tsunami trauma stalks Japanese children

The horror of Japan\\'s tsunami has raised concerns

over the long-term impact on children, some of whom are

already displaying signs of trauma, _______ screaming

nightmares _______ silent withdrawal.

About 100,000 children were displaced by what has

become Japan\\'s worst natural disaster since 1923, with

nearly 20,000 people dead or missing, according to the

charity Save the Children,

The potential for lasting trauma is compounded by the

unusual multiple nature of the event: a massive 9.0-

magnitude earthquake, a devastating tsunami and a

nationwide scare over a possible meltdown at a nuclear

plant.

Experts say the scale of the loss and disruption for

some children would have been almost inconceivable:

homes destroyed, friends disappeared, one or both

parents maybe killed, or siblings and other close family

members missing.

Initial efforts to help children come to terms with the

multiple disasters can only be made in extremely stressful

circumstances, with families packed into ill-equipped

evacuation shelters, suffering bitterly cold nights and

frequent terrifying aftershocks.

\\'We found children in desperate conditions, huddling

around kerosene lamps and wrapped in blankets,\\' said

Save the Children spokesman Ian Woolverton, who

visited several evacuation centres in the coastal regions

of northeast Japan that bore the brunt of the March 11

tsunami.

\\'They told me about their anxieties, especially their

fears about radiation,\\' Woolverton said, adding that

several youngsters had mentioned the atomic attacks on

Hiroshima and Nagasaki which they know about from

school books.

Retirado e adaptado de: http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=591131&vId=22 63945, em 20/03/2011

A alternativa que apresenta as opções corretas para completar as lacunas do texto (linhas 3 e 4), é:

Tsunami trauma stalks Japanese children

The horror of Japan\\'s tsunami has raised concerns

over the long-term impact on children, some of whom are

already displaying signs of trauma, _______ screaming

nightmares _______ silent withdrawal.

About 100,000 children were displaced by what has

become Japan\\'s worst natural disaster since 1923, with

nearly 20,000 people dead or missing, according to the

charity Save the Children,

The potential for lasting trauma is compounded by the

unusual multiple nature of the event: a massive 9.0-

magnitude earthquake, a devastating tsunami and a

nationwide scare over a possible meltdown at a nuclear

plant.

Experts say the scale of the loss and disruption for

some children would have been almost inconceivable:

homes destroyed, friends disappeared, one or both

parents maybe killed, or siblings and other close family

members missing.

Initial efforts to help children come to terms with the

multiple disasters can only be made in extremely stressful

circumstances, with families packed into ill-equipped

evacuation shelters, suffering bitterly cold nights and

frequent terrifying aftershocks.

\\'We found children in desperate conditions, huddling

around kerosene lamps and wrapped in blankets,\\' said

Save the Children spokesman Ian Woolverton, who

visited several evacuation centres in the coastal regions

of northeast Japan that bore the brunt of the March 11

tsunami.

\\'They told me about their anxieties, especially their

fears about radiation,\\' Woolverton said, adding that

several youngsters had mentioned the atomic attacks on

Hiroshima and Nagasaki which they know about from

school books.

Retirado e adaptado de: http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=591131&vId=22 63945, em 20/03/2011

Os pronomes whom (linha 2), who (linha 26) e which (linha 33) referem-se, respectivamente, à:

Tsunami trauma stalks Japanese children

The horror of Japan\\'s tsunami has raised concerns

over the long-term impact on children, some of whom are

already displaying signs of trauma, _______ screaming

nightmares _______ silent withdrawal.

About 100,000 children were displaced by what has

become Japan\\'s worst natural disaster since 1923, with

nearly 20,000 people dead or missing, according to the

charity Save the Children,

The potential for lasting trauma is compounded by the

unusual multiple nature of the event: a massive 9.0-

magnitude earthquake, a devastating tsunami and a

nationwide scare over a possible meltdown at a nuclear

plant.

Experts say the scale of the loss and disruption for

some children would have been almost inconceivable:

homes destroyed, friends disappeared, one or both

parents maybe killed, or siblings and other close family

members missing.

Initial efforts to help children come to terms with the

multiple disasters can only be made in extremely stressful

circumstances, with families packed into ill-equipped

evacuation shelters, suffering bitterly cold nights and

frequent terrifying aftershocks.

\\'We found children in desperate conditions, huddling

around kerosene lamps and wrapped in blankets,\\' said

Save the Children spokesman Ian Woolverton, who

visited several evacuation centres in the coastal regions

of northeast Japan that bore the brunt of the March 11

tsunami.

\\'They told me about their anxieties, especially their

fears about radiation,\\' Woolverton said, adding that

several youngsters had mentioned the atomic attacks on

Hiroshima and Nagasaki which they know about from

school books.

Retirado e adaptado de: http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=591131&vId=22 63945, em 20/03/2011

O objetivo central do texto é:

Web Site to Offer Health Advice, Some of It From Marketers By STUART ELLIOTT

Starting on Thursday, the Web site Sharecare.com is to arrive, offering what its proprietors call an interactive social Q.& A. platform to provide consumers with what they want to know on health and wellness subjects — with the A‘s being contributed by, among others, marketers. Those behind Sharecare, a company formed last year to operate Sharecare.com, hope its features will enable the new Web site to thrive in a crowded field. Sharecare.com will begin with content contributed by organizations like AARP, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins and the National Academy of Sports Medicine, along with medical professionals like Dr. Mehmet Oz. Those contributors are to be known as experts on the site. There is another label, knowledge partners, for marketers that are paying an estimated $1 million to $7 million to become sponsors of Sharecare.com. Plans call for the content provided by the sponsors to be labeled, bearing their names and logos, so that visitors to Sharecare.com can distinguish their contributions from those of other sources. Still, some visitors looking for objective answers to questions on health matters may raise their eyebrows at the presence of marketers. In tests of the Web site in the last year, ―the brand answers were read as much as the expert answers,‖ Jeff Arnold, chairman and chief architect at Sharecare in Atlanta, added. ―It‘s interesting to see how seriously the brands are taking their answers,‖ Mr. Arnold said, because they know their replies will not be far from those of the experts. There are more than 100,000 answers to questions on Sharecare.com, he added, with a goal of ―a million by the end of the year.‖ ―When the answers are as high quality as they will be, if there is an initial skepticism on the part of the consumer it will quickly go away‖, said Amy Carney, president for advertising sales at Sony Pictures Television in New York.

 

Retirado e adaptado de http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/business/media/07adco.html?ref=health, em 10/10/2010

 

As expressões "it" (no título), "their"(linha 24) e "they" (linha 30) referem-se, respectivamente, a:

,I knew then that the book\\'s migration to the digital realm would not be a simple matter of trading ink for pixels, but would likely change the way we read, write and sell books in profound ways. It will make it easier for us to buy books, but at the same time make it easier to stop reading them. It will expand the universe of books at our fingertips, and transform the solitary act of reading into something far more social. It will give writers and publishers the chance to sell more obscure books, but it may well end up undermining some of the core attributes that we have associated with book reading for more than 500 years. There is great promise and opportunity in the digital-books revolution. The question is: Will we recognize the book itself when that revolution has run its course?

Retirado e adaptado de http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB123980920727621353.html, em 26/08/2010

No fragmento do texto "There is great promise and opportunity in the digital-books revolution" (linhas 12 e 13), o autor explicita:

,I knew then that the book\\\'s migration to the digital realm would not be a simple matter of trading ink for pixels, but would likely change the way we read, write and sell books in profound ways. It will make it easier for us to buy books, but at the same time make it easier to stop reading them. It will expand the universe of books at our fingertips, and transform the solitary act of reading into something far more social. It will give writers and publishers the chance to sell more obscure books, but it may well end up undermining some of the core attributes that we have associated with book reading for more than 500 years. There is great promise and opportunity in the digital-books revolution. The question is: Will we recognize the book itself when that revolution has run its course?

Retirado e adaptado de http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB123980920727621353.html, em 26/08/2010

O texto, em linhas gerais,