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  As everybody knows, if you do not work out, your muscles get flaccid. What most people don’t realize, however, is that your brain also stays in better shape when you exercise.

  Surprised? Although the idea of exercising cognitive machinery by performing mentally demanding activities – popularly termed the “use it or lose it” hypothesis – is better known, a review of dozens of studies shows that maintaining a mental edge requires more than that. Other things you do – including participating in activities that make you think, getting regular exercise, staying socially engaged and even having a positive attitude – have a meaningful influence on how effective your cognitive functioning will be in old age.

www.scientificamerican.com/article. Acessado em 06/07/2009. Adaptado.

O texto informa que

    Last month America’s unemployment rate climbed to

8,1%, the highest in a quarter of a century. For those

newly out of a job, the chances of finding another soon are

the worst since records began 50 years ago. In China 20m

[5] migrant workers (maybe 3% of the labour force) have

been laid off. Cambodia’s textile industry, its main source

of exports, has cut one worker in ten. In Spain the

building bust has pushed the jobless rate up by two-thirds

in a year, to 14.8% in January. And in Japan, where

[10] official unemployment used to be all but unknown, tens of

thousands of people on temporary contracts are losing not

just their jobs but also the housing provided by their

employers.

    The next phase of the world’s economic downturn is

[15] taking shape: a global jobs crisis. Its contours are only just

becoming clear, but the severity, breadth and likely length

of the recession, together with changes in the structure of

labour markets in both rich and emerging economies,

suggest the world is about to undergo its biggest increase

[20] in unemployment for decades.

The Economist, March 14th 2009.

Segundo o texto, no Japão,

THE DEATH OF THE PC

 

The days of paying for costly software

upgrades are numbered. The PC will

soon be obsolete. And BusinessWeek

reports 70% of Americans are

already using the technology that

will replace it. Merrill Lynch calls it

“a $160 billion tsunami.” Computing

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amazon are racing to be the first to 

cash in on this PC-killing revolution.

 

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Ao optar por ler a reportagem completa sobre o assunto anunciado, tem-se acesso a duas palavras que Bill Gates não quer que o leitor conheça e que se referem

Observe a tira abaixo e responda à questão.

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Quanto à organização linguística, destaca-se o seguinte aspecto:

Observe a tira abaixo e responda à questão.

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A personagem da tira faz as seguintes considerações sobre os seres humanos:

Analisando os aspectos estruturais do texto,