Questões de Inglês

    “When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful

    A miracle, oh, it was beautiful, magical

    And all the birds in the trees, well they’d be singing so happily

    Oh, joyfully, oh, playfully watching me

    But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible

    Logical, oh, responsible, practical

    Then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable

    pendable Oh, clinical, oh, intellectual, cynical”

(Supertramp. The Logical Song. Disponível em https://www.lyricfind.com/. Acesso em 05.08.2023

A música “The Logical Song” foi um sucesso da banda Supertramp na década de 1970. Neste trecho, é possível observar certa tristeza e nostalgia devido

O infográfico a seguir refere-se a uma pesquisa feita na Inglaterra e Irlanda, a respeito de embalagens reutilizáveis de alimentos e bebidas.

(Disponível em: https://www.hubbub.org.uk/reuse-systems-unpacked. Acesso em 30.07.2023. Adaptado)

 

Entre os aspectos favoráveis ao esquema de embalagem reutilizável, inclui-se

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    When your alarm goes off in the morning, it’s often easier to start the day with a quick scroll through TikTok, a look at the headlines and a look at what your favorite Instagram influencers are making for their breakfast.

    The ease of browsing on your phone first thing in the morning is an easy way to postpone (*) getting out of bed. But, according to neuroscientist Emily McDonald, this is one of many habits which could cause more harm to your brain health.

    McDonald has discouraged people from using their phones for the first hour after they wake up because of how it affects brain activity so early in the day.

    “As we wake up, brain activity is high in theta and alpha activity (Theta and alpha frequencies both suggest a very relaxed state). Our minds are very susceptible to the information we put into it during this time,” McDonald said.

    “Going on the phone will cause brain activity to transition to higher beta power, which primes(**) us for a more stressful day. Starting the day with a phone also provides a big dopamine hit, which leads us to continue to check our phone throughout the day.”

(Allice Collins. Three Things to Avoid to Protect Your Brain, According to a Neuroscientist.https://www.newsweek.com. 20.06.2023. Acesso em 28.07.2023. Adaptado)

 

(*) postpone: adiar.

(**) prime: predispor

 

De acordo com o texto, a neurocientista Emily McDonald argumenta que verificar o celular, logo pela manhã, pode prejudicar a saúde do cérebro, pois esse hábito

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(https://blog.hubspot.com. Acesso em: 01.08.2023)

 

A citação de Nelson Mandela, Prêmio Nobel da Paz (1993) e presidente da África do Sul de 1994 a 1999, contém uma reflexão sobre a vida baseada na ideia de

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    What is it that we hear when we hear nothing at all?

    In a study, researchers used sonic illusions to show that people perceive silences much as they hear sounds. The results suggest that people perceive silence as its own type of “sound,” not as a gap between noises.

    Rui Zhe Goh and other researchers from Johns Hopkins University tested people recruited online with a series of sound illusions. One test compared a single longer sound with two shorter sounds. The two shorter sounds together added up to the same amount of time as the longer sound. But when people listened to them, they perceived the single sound as lasting longer.

    To apply that illusion to silence, Mr. Goh and colleagues inverted the test. The scientists used sounds of restaurants, busy marketplaces, trains or playgrounds, and inserted chunks of silence for participants to compare.

    In every case they tested, listeners perceived the illusion of a period of silence being longer just as they would have perceived an illusion of a longer sound.

(Bethany Brookshire. Silence Is a ‘Sound’ You Hear, Study Suggests. https://www.nytimes.com. Acesso em 05.08.2023. Adaptado)

 

No estudo relatado no texto, os resultados dos testes com ilusões sonoras levaram pesquisadores a supor que as pessoas

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    Drawing is one of the most ancient forms of visual art. The medium of drawing is part of us all. It’s our first means of expression and creativity, says Julia Balchin, principal of the Royal Drawing School, London: “As a child, before you can even talk, or walk or read, you can draw. So it’s often our first way of expressing ourselves”

    Drawing has always been vital to every artist’s practice, dating from the Renaissance – when drawing flourished, and Leonardo da Vinci created detailed anatomical studies of the human body – to today.

    Though drawing’s popularity has decreased over the centuries, Balchin identifies a deep decrease in the 1970s, when the academic art world saw it as “very unfashionable”.

    Drawing is enjoying popularity again – appreciated for its therapeutic qualities and the sense of “flow” it generates, especially since the lockdowns during the pandemic.

    The number of students doubled in 2020 from 1,000 students a week to 3,000 today. “I think that showed there was a real longing for human touch and contact,” says Balchin. “If people couldn’t be around other humans, they were drawing them instead.” Students confirmed it helped mental wellbeing.

(Beverley D’Silva. Why drawing is the perfect digital detox. https://www.bbc.com. 02.07.2023. Acesso em 30.07.2023. Adaptado)

 

Conforme o texto, Julia Balchin acredita que a prática de desenhar