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Questão 50 87338
UEMG 2009Obama launches historic campaign
Barack Obama addresses the Democratic convention. He has accepted the Democratic Party’s historic nomination to run for president of the US in front of a crowd of some 75,000 people.
In an address at the party’s national convention in Denver, he promised he would do his best to keep alive the American dream of opportunity for all.
“America, we are better than these last eight years,” he told cheering crowds. “We are a better country than this.”
Mr. Obama is the first African-American to be nominated by a major US party.
In his speech at Denver’s Invesco stadium, Mr. Obama promised to reverse the economic downturn afflicting the US and restore the nation’s standing in the world.
“We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look just like the last eight years,” he said.
He also attacked the record of the Bush administration and his Republican rival for the presidency, John McCain.
“This moment - this election - is our chance to keep, in the 21st Century, the American promise alive.”
Mr. Obama criticized Mr. McCain as out of touch with the concerns of ordinary Americans and said he had failed to help them on issues such as the economy, health care and education.
He also stressed that he would call for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, whereas Mr. McCain stood “alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war”, he said.
“I will restore our moral standing, so that America is once again that last best hope for all who are called to the cause of freedom, who long for lives of peace, who yearn for a better future,” he said
He rejected criticism by the McCain campaign that he is a “celebrity”, pointing to his family’s past financial hardships, and said his rival should stop questioning his patriotism.
In a final rallying call, Mr. Obama recalled the message of Martin Luther King, who - 45 years ago to the day - gave his “I have a dream” speech in his historic march on Washington.
“America, we cannot turn back,” he said. “We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to walk into the future.”
Joined on stage by his family and running-mate, Joe Biden, Mr. Obama was given a standing ovation by the crowds.
(Adapted from BBC News)
According to the text, you can say that Mr. Obama is
Questão 49 87337
UEMG 2009Obama launches historic campaign
Barack Obama addresses the Democratic convention. He has accepted the Democratic Party’s historic nomination to run for president of the US in front of a crowd of some 75,000 people.
In an address at the party’s national convention in Denver, he promised he would do his best to keep alive the American dream of opportunity for all.
“America, we are better than these last eight years,” he told cheering crowds. “We are a better country than this.”
Mr. Obama is the first African-American to be nominated by a major US party.
In his speech at Denver’s Invesco stadium, Mr. Obama promised to reverse the economic downturn afflicting the US and restore the nation’s standing in the world.
“We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look just like the last eight years,” he said.
He also attacked the record of the Bush administration and his Republican rival for the presidency, John McCain.
“This moment - this election - is our chance to keep, in the 21st Century, the American promise alive.”
Mr. Obama criticized Mr. McCain as out of touch with the concerns of ordinary Americans and said he had failed to help them on issues such as the economy, health care and education.
He also stressed that he would call for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, whereas Mr. McCain stood “alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war”, he said.
“I will restore our moral standing, so that America is once again that last best hope for all who are called to the cause of freedom, who long for lives of peace, who yearn for a better future,” he said
He rejected criticism by the McCain campaign that he is a “celebrity”, pointing to his family’s past financial hardships, and said his rival should stop questioning his patriotism.
In a final rallying call, Mr. Obama recalled the message of Martin Luther King, who - 45 years ago to the day - gave his “I have a dream” speech in his historic march on Washington.
“America, we cannot turn back,” he said. “We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to walk into the future.”
Joined on stage by his family and running-mate, Joe Biden, Mr. Obama was given a standing ovation by the crowds.
(Adapted from BBC News)
In the sentence: “In an address at the party’s national convention in Denver …”, the word address means
Questão 29 77065
UFU 2° Dia 2009/2Leia o Texto 3 para responder a questão de número 29.
texto 3
New hydrogen-powered city car takes to the road
by Tom Simonite
http://www.newscientist.com/section/tech
[1] A concept car that attempts to sidestep the three main hurdles to the
dream of hydrogen-fuelled highways was unveiled in London, UK, today. Like
other hydrogen cars, the Riversimple Urban Car (RUC) is powered by a fuel cell
that combines hydrogen with oxygen from the air to release energy and nothing
[5] more toxic than water.
Its makers claim that by starting from scratch to build a small, efficient
car they can make it commercially viable more quickly than the major auto
manufacturers experimenting with adapting more conventional cars to hydrogen.
Honda predicts its FCX Clarity hydrogen car will enter mass production in 2018,
[10] but Riversimple is aiming to lease its first fleet in 2011 and mass produce in
2013.
Using hydrogen to power cars can cut urban pollution and carbon emissions too, if the hydrogen comes from a
renewable source or is used efficiently enough. The lack of fuelling infrastructure aside, the three main problems with
building a hydrogen car are that fuel cells contain expensive platinum, are difficult to make powerful enough to power a
[15] conventional vehicle, and the hydrogen they use is hard to store in large quantities.
The RUC is about the size of a Smart car, weighs 350 kilograms (772 pounds) and uses a relatively cheap 6
kilowatt fuel cell, compared to the more sophisticated 100 kW cell used by the FCX Clarity, he says. The fuel payload
need not be huge, either: just 1 kg (2.2 lb) of liquid hydrogen (26 litres at normal pressure) is enough to take the car 300
kilometres, says Spowers. The car’s top speed is 50 miles per hour (80.4672 kilometres per hour), and it can accelerate
[20] from 0 to 30 mph (48 km/h) in 5.5 seconds. Even using hydrogen derived from natural gas, its well-to-wheel carbon
emissions for urban driving are only 30 grams/km.
No trecho “Its makers claim that by starting from scratch to build a small, efficient car …” (linhas 06-07) , a locução “starting from scratch” indica que o RUC é um veículo
Questão 28 77064
UFU 2° Dia 2009/2Leia o Texto 3 para responder a questão de número 28.
texto 3
New hydrogen-powered city car takes to the road
by Tom Simonite
http://www.newscientist.com/section/tech
[1] A concept car that attempts to sidestep the three main hurdles to the
dream of hydrogen-fuelled highways was unveiled in London, UK, today. Like
other hydrogen cars, the Riversimple Urban Car (RUC) is powered by a fuel cell
that combines hydrogen with oxygen from the air to release energy and nothing
[5] more toxic than water.
Its makers claim that by starting from scratch to build a small, efficient
car they can make it commercially viable more quickly than the major auto
manufacturers experimenting with adapting more conventional cars to hydrogen.
Honda predicts its FCX Clarity hydrogen car will enter mass production in 2018,
[10] but Riversimple is aiming to lease its first fleet in 2011 and mass produce in
2013.
Using hydrogen to power cars can cut urban pollution and carbon emissions too, if the hydrogen comes from a
renewable source or is used efficiently enough. The lack of fuelling infrastructure aside, the three main problems with
building a hydrogen car are that fuel cells contain expensive platinum, are difficult to make powerful enough to power a
[15] conventional vehicle, and the hydrogen they use is hard to store in large quantities.
The RUC is about the size of a Smart car, weighs 350 kilograms (772 pounds) and uses a relatively cheap 6
kilowatt fuel cell, compared to the more sophisticated 100 kW cell used by the FCX Clarity, he says. The fuel payload
need not be huge, either: just 1 kg (2.2 lb) of liquid hydrogen (26 litres at normal pressure) is enough to take the car 300
kilometres, says Spowers. The car’s top speed is 50 miles per hour (80.4672 kilometres per hour), and it can accelerate
[20] from 0 to 30 mph (48 km/h) in 5.5 seconds. Even using hydrogen derived from natural gas, its well-to-wheel carbon
emissions for urban driving are only 30 grams/km.
A frase “The fuel payload need not be huge” (linhas 17-18) poderia ser melhor substituída, neste contexto, por
Questão 27 77063
UFU 2° Dia 2009/2Leia o Texto 2 para responder a questão de número 27.
Texto 2
U.S. launches another drone plane to patrol Canadian border
CBC News http://news.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca
The Predator B drone. the first unmanned
aiscsaêt to patrol the northem US. border, is
folowed by a chase plane as lands at the
Grand Forks, N.D.. air force base in
December 2008.
[1] The U.S. has been using the Predator B drone aircraft to patrol its border with
Mexico. “It has been very successful in using that technology there, and we’re testing to
see if we can apply that technology to the northern border as well,” said Steve Sapp of
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in Fort Drum, N.Y., which is the plane’s base.
[5] The Predator is the unarmed version of the drone plane that the U.S. uses to conduct
air strikes in Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan. The aircraft is able to fly at an altitude of
6,000 metres and can remain in the air for 20 hours. The plane is equipped with 3,000
sensors and cameras capable of detecting a moving person from 10 kilometres away.
The planes will gather information along the border and transmit it to operators who will
[10] in turn contact border agents. The drones will not carry weapons and the U.S. will need permission to send them into
in Canadian airspace.
In eastern Canada, the focus of the Predator is the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory. “Essentially, we’re supplying
high-grade marijuana through this one small rural county of 50,000 people, thanks to the border, to all of the northeast,”
said Derek Champagne, district attorney of Franklin County, N.Y., and head of the area’s border and narcotics task
[15] force. However, people on the reserve are uneasy about being watched, Mohawk youth counsellor Brant Davis said.
“We no longer have the life we had 20 years ago here. Cameras, infrared, laser, informants, everything.”
Assinale a alternativa que contém o adjetivo que melhor expressa a reação da população Mohawk mencionada no texto.
Questão 25 77061
UFU 2° Dia 2009/2Leia o Texto 2 para responder a questão de número 25
Texto 2
U.S. launches another drone plane to patrol Canadian border
CBC News http://news.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca
[1] The U.S. has been using the Predator B drone aircraft to patrol its border with
Mexico. “It has been very successful in using that technology there, and we’re testing to
see if we can apply that technology to the northern border as well,” said Steve Sapp of
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in Fort Drum, N.Y., which is the plane’s base.
[5] The Predator is the unarmed version of the drone plane that the U.S. uses to conduct
air strikes in Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan. The aircraft is able to fly at an altitude of
6,000 metres and can remain in the air for 20 hours. The plane is equipped with 3,000
sensors and cameras capable of detecting a moving person from 10 kilometres away.
The planes will gather information along the border and transmit it to operators who will
[10] in turn contact border agents. The drones will not carry weapons and the U.S. will need permission to send them into
in Canadian airspace.
In eastern Canada, the focus of the Predator is the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory. “Essentially, we’re supplying
high-grade marijuana through this one small rural county of 50,000 people, thanks to the border, to all of the northeast,”
said Derek Champagne, district attorney of Franklin County, N.Y., and head of the area’s border and narcotics task
[15] force. However, people on the reserve are uneasy about being watched, Mohawk youth counsellor Brant Davis said.
“We no longer have the life we had 20 years ago here. Cameras, infrared, laser, informants, everything.”
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta uma diferença entre “The Predator” e o equipamento utilizado em ações no Oriente Médio.
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