Questões de Inglês

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[1]  HOUSEHOLD WASTE

 

 

[2]  Household waste is waste which is generated in the day to day operations of a
[3]  household. It can include everything from lawn clippings to burned out light bulbs.
[4]  Many movements designed to get people thinking about environmentally friendly
[5]  living have focused on household waste as something which can be easily
[6]  manipulated to make a difference in the environment. Management of household
[7]  waste is also a major issue, and it has been for hundreds of years.

 

[8]  A busy household can generate a great deal of waste, and the amount of household
[9]  waste can increase radically in developed nations which rely heavily on packaging
[10]  for a wide variety of products. Historically, people disposed of their household
[11]  waste by burying or burning it, but these methods became impractical once human
[12]  populations started exploding, resulting in the development of land fills, disposal
[13]  sites where collected waste from a large area is buried.

 

[14]  One of the issues with household waste is that not all of it is, in fact, waste, and people can radically reduce the
[15]  amount of stuff which gets thrown away by thinking before tossing something in the garbage. Many communities
[16]  have recycling programs which accept paper, glass, bottles, cans, and numerous other items which can be broken
[17]  down and reused. Other things considered “waste” may be useful to others, such as outmoded couches which get
[18]  tossed to the curb instead of being donated to organizations which could sell or use the furniture.

 

[19]  People are sometimes surprised when they start keeping track of the amount of waste they really generate. Even
[20]  people who think that they have a comparatively small amount of garbage can find that they create a lot of waste.
[21]  Logging household waste by weighing or charting it for several months can sometimes be an eye opening experience
[22]  and an interesting science fair project.
[23]  Source: Adapted from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-household-waste.htm

Uma sugestão apresentada no texto para nos conscientizarmos sobre a quantidade de lixo doméstico que geramos é, durante um período,

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[1]  HOUSEHOLD WASTE

 

 

[2]  Household waste is waste which is generated in the day to day operations of a
[3]  household. It can include everything from lawn clippings to burned out light bulbs.
[4]  Many movements designed to get people thinking about environmentally friendly
[5]  living have focused on household waste as something which can be easily
[6]  manipulated to make a difference in the environment. Management of household
[7]  waste is also a major issue, and it has been for hundreds of years.

 

[8]  A busy household can generate a great deal of waste, and the amount of household
[9]  waste can increase radically in developed nations which rely heavily on packaging
[10]  for a wide variety of products. Historically, people disposed of their household
[11]  waste by burying or burning it, but these methods became impractical once human
[12]  populations started exploding, resulting in the development of land fills, disposal
[13]  sites where collected waste from a large area is buried.

 

[14]  One of the issues with household waste is that not all of it is, in fact, waste, and people can radically reduce the
[15]  amount of stuff which gets thrown away by thinking before tossing something in the garbage. Many communities
[16]  have recycling programs which accept paper, glass, bottles, cans, and numerous other items which can be broken
[17]  down and reused. Other things considered “waste” may be useful to others, such as outmoded couches which get
[18]  tossed to the curb instead of being donated to organizations which could sell or use the furniture.

 

[19]  People are sometimes surprised when they start keeping track of the amount of waste they really generate. Even
[20]  people who think that they have a comparatively small amount of garbage can find that they create a lot of waste.
[21]  Logging household waste by weighing or charting it for several months can sometimes be an eye opening experience
[22]  and an interesting science fair project.
[23]  Source: Adapted from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-household-waste.htm

Os movimentos que procuram conscientizar as pessoas sobre o lixo doméstico têm visto tal questão como alguma coisa que pode facilmente ser

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[1]  WHY FRANCE IS PUSHING ITS STUDENTS TO MASTER ENGLISH

[2]  “A lot of things in France have changed under globalization in order to keep us competitive, but teaching people
[3]  English here has remained old-fashioned and inefficient”.
[4]  Earlier this month, French President Nicolas
[5]  Sarkozy unveiled an “emergency plan” for
[6]  teaching foreign languages in the nation’s schools
[7]  with the lofty objective that “all our high school
[8]  students must become bilingual, and some should
[9]  be trilingual.” Why the panic? Because as Sarkozy
[10]  noted, a nation that spends 5.8% of its annual
[11]  GDP on education — the fifth highest percentage
[12]  in the world — simply must do better than its
[13]  current rank of 69th among 109 countries on
[14]  the standardized Test of English as a Foreign
[15]  Language (TOEFL). To that end, Sarkozy has
[16]  proposed exposing students to more nativespeaking
[17]  English instructors, increasing contacts
[18]  between French and foreign high schools and shifting the focus in schools from written foreign-language instruction
[19]  to the more practical oral.
[20]  “A modern foreign language is meant to be spoken,” Sarkozy said in his latest assault on the kinds of tradition-bound
[21]  practices that he believes are holding the country back economically. “Pointing something that obvious out isn’t futile
[22]  in a country where Latin is an oral exam on the Baccalaureate while the leading modern language [English] is
[23]  evaluated in written form.”
[24]  Compelling teachers in France’s notoriously rigid education system to change their ways and encourage students to
[25]  speak more in foreign-language classes will be one challenge to overcome. Another is confronting the contradiction
[26]  that comes with promoting foreign-language study among students and continuing France’s long-standing policies
[27]  aimed at protecting and promoting the use of the French language at home. The Academie Française began its
[28]  mission of purging the French language of impurities — often words taken from other languages — way back in
[29]  1635. The key objective of the country’s 25-year-old exception culturelle is ensuring that French-language music,
[30]  film and other cultural products are not dominated by English-language imports. And a law passed in 1994 requires
[31]  that French translations accompany any foreign phrases in state documents, business contracts and even advertising.
[32]  Becoming an Anglophone isn’t cheap — but that’s not stopping students from signing up. Laetitia Marcellesi says
[33]  she had to get a job to pay for the course, while her classmate, Justine Boussin, took out a loan to finance a study
[34]  abroad trip to London. Only time will tell if future French students will start getting this type of practical training for free
[35]  at school, or whether they’ll have to keep paying for it once they graduate.
[36]  By Bruce Crumley / Paris, Time magazine, 10/31/2009
[37]  Adapted from: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1932422,00.html

Quanto à tradução das propostas feitas por Sarkozi no seu plano emergencial de línguas estrangeiras nas escolas:
I. expor os alunos a instrutores nativos de Inglês.
II. aumentar o contato entre escolas secundárias francesas e estrangeiras;
III. trocar o foco nas escolas de uma instrução baseada na escrita para uma instrução baseada na leitura.
Podemos dizer que

Answer question according to the text below.
01 My heart is like a singing bird
02 Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
03 My heart is like an apple-tree
04 Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
Extract of ‘A Birthday’ by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894).

“My heart is like an apple-tree

Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit”.

The relative pronoun in the sentence above is the same as in

Text 01
VISITING LONDON

 

Today, more than 6.000.000 people live in London and every year, more than nine million people come from countries all over the world to visit the city.
A quick and easy way to get to different places in the city is to use an Underground train. The trains run all day and most of the night. You can see much more of London from one of its famous red buses. There are some special buses for visitors that take you to many of the interesting places in the city on one journey that takes about one and a half hour. London taxis are called ‘black cabs’. Most of them are black but some are not. The drivers are friendly and helpful. It’s also possible to take a long boat trip along the River Thames and see lovely places in London and out of the city.
London has interesting old buildings to visit, many of them are hundreds of years old: The Buckingham Palace – the home of the Queen; the Tower Bridge – opened in 1894, The Houses of the Parliament – the home of the British government and beautiful churches: St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. This abbey is where many kings and queens are crowned – or get the throne – and where the royal family get married.
London has beautiful parks and gardens, theatres, museums and art galleries. There are also streets with famous shops and markets and international restaurants and English pubs where you can drink the English beer. The typical English food is fish and chips. They’re cheap and good to eat. But there are many, many more things to see and do in London. Come and see!
(Adapted from London Factfiles – J. Escott – Oxford Bookworms 1)

The pronoun “its”on sentence 03, in the 2^nd paragraph refers to

Text 01
VISITING LONDON

 

Today, more than 6.000.000 people live in London and every year, more than nine million people come from countries all over the world to visit the city.
A quick and easy way to get to different places in the city is to use an Underground train. The trains run all day and most of the night. You can see much more of London from one of its famous red buses. There are some special buses for visitors that take you to many of the interesting places in the city on one journey that takes about one and a half hour. London taxis are called ‘black cabs’. Most of them are black but some are not. The drivers are friendly and helpful. It’s also possible to take a long boat trip along the River Thames and see lovely places in London and out of the city.
London has interesting old buildings to visit, many of them are hundreds of years old: The Buckingham Palace – the home of the Queen; the Tower Bridge – opened in 1894, The Houses of the Parliament – the home of the British government and beautiful churches: St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. This abbey is where many kings and queens are crowned – or get the throne – and where the royal family get married.
London has beautiful parks and gardens, theatres, museums and art galleries. There are also streets with famous shops and markets and international restaurants and English pubs where you can drink the English beer. The typical English food is fish and chips. They’re cheap and good to eat. But there are many, many more things to see and do in London. Come and see!
(Adapted from London Factfiles – J. Escott – Oxford Bookworms 1)

The text suggests visiting