Questões de Inglês

Analyze the questions below.

 

I - Who does this pencil belong to?

II - Yho read a book last week?
III - Where did your mother born?
IV - What about are they talking?

V - What fell on the floor yesterday?

 

Choose the correct option.

Mark the sentence that is grammatically INCORRECT.

Based on the text below, answer question.
 

Career confusion in the 21st century: challenges and opportunities

 

    [1] The time and energy that teenagers dedicate to learning and the fields of study they choose profoundly shape the opportunities they will have during their whole lives. Their dreams and aspirations do not just depend on
their talents, but they can be highly influenced by their personal background as well as by the depth and extent of their knowledge about the world of work. In summary, students cannot be what they cannot see.

    [2] With young people staying in education longer than ever and the labour market automating with unprecedented speed, students need help to make sense of the world of work. In 2018, the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the world's largest dataset on young  people's educational experiences, collected first-of-its kind data on this, making it possible to explore how much the career dreams of young people have changed over the past 20 years, how closely they are related to actual labour demand, and how closely aspirations are shaped by social background and gender.

    [3] Studies in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States show that teenagers who combine part- time employment with full-time education do better in their school-to-work transitions. The positive benefits include
lower probabilities of being unemployed or NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training), higher wages, and others (see Box 1). However, the benefits cannot be taken for granted and some experiences in different countries have demonstrated that governments and schools can better support young people as they prepare themselves for working life.

    [4] Schools may provide programmes of career development activities, particularly those that include workplace experience. Experience of the world of work challenges young people to understand what it means to be personally effective in different workplaces while providing a unique opportunity to develop social networks of value. Through exposure to the people who do different jobs, young people have the chance to challenge gender- and class-based stereotyping and expand their aspirations, easing ultimate entry into the labour market (see Box 2).

    [5] However, in recent years, analyses of career preparation have focused on the challenge cf misalignment: where the educational plans of young people are out of kilter with their occupational expectations. When young people underestimate the education required to fulfil their dreams, they can expect to find their early working lives more difficult than would be expected. Of particular concern is that most young people whose aspirations are misaligned with their education come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Consequently, it is now clear that career guidance serves an important service in dealing with inequalities.

    [6] Results from PISA show that the career aspirations of young people are no simple reflection of teenage academic ability. Rather, they reflect complex lives. Analyses show that the children of more advantaged families are more likely to want to go on to university than working class kids. Similarly, career thinking is often determined by gender and immigrant background as well as socioeconomic status. Disadvantaged young people are at clear risk of career confusion. It is neither fair, nor efficient, for students to move through education with limited views of both the amplitude of the labour market and their own potential.

Box 1 - The positive effects of teenage part-time employment

    [7] Studies in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States commonly show that teenagers who combine full-time study with part-time work can expect to do better in the adult job market than would be expected, given their backgrounds and academic qualifications. Studies that follow them from childhood to adulthood have routinely found evidence of higher earnings and fewer periods of unemployment. In an American study which follows young people born in the mid-1970s up to the age of 30, the researchers find a positive relationship between working part time at age 14 and 15 and a subjective sense of job realization in adulthood. Teenage students who worked were far more likely to agree at age 30 that they were working in a job that they wanted. However, the exact relationship between working when a teenager and later "economic success is not well understood, and the phenomenon may have some disadvantages: students working excessive hours perform worse in final examinations than would otherwise be exnected.

Box 2 - The long-term impacts of career talks

    [8] Results from PISA show that the career aspirations of young people are no simple reflection of teenage academic ability. Rather, they reflect complex lives. Analyses show that the children of more advantaged families are more likely to want to go on to university than

(Adapted from: Dream jobs? Teenager career aspirations and the future of work. Available at: www.oecd.org/education/dream-jobs- teenagers-career-aspirations-and-the-future-of-work .htm )

According to the text, which option is correct?

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What makes a successful business person?

 

Business people who are tops in their feld have a lot in common, and art professionals can learn a lot from their successes and strategies

By Murray Raphel

 

I have a theory on doing business. If my business is good, it’s not because of the weather, the time of year or the economy. It’s because of me. I’m doing something right. If my business is bad, it’s not because of the weather, the time of the year or the economy. It’s because of me. I’m doing something wrong. Somebody is always buying something from somebody, so how can I make them buy from me?

First of all, you need confdence in yourself and your merchandise with clear goals and knowledge of the products you are selling. Only then can you inspire dedication from your staff and a willingness to buy from customers. Successful business people, no matter what their industry, have been found to share similar traits. Today’s world is no longer satisfed with simply success – we want to know how the successful get to the top. The Russians developed a concept called “anthropomaximology,” in which they try to answer the question of why some individuals outperform others. Through the years I’ve done some anthropomaximology of my own and found there are certain qualities that describe successful business people. Here are a few:

1) They constantly set higher goals. Successful business people are mountain climbers who, having climbed one peak, look beyond to the next highest. They are the retailers who send 1,500 mailers to their customers and yield a good turnout of 100. But instead of being satisfed with 100, they ask how they can increase that number to 150 the next time. […]

2) They avoid “comfort zones” To a successful person, standing still feels like going backwards. People who stay in their comfort zones do what they did before because it’s “the way we’ve always done it:”[…] They blame any lack of business on the weather, the time of the year, the economy – anything except for themselves. […]

3) They rehearse the future as they see it “I believe our future is a one-stop shop for decorating. In addition to limited-edition prints and posters, we now offer collectibles, gift items and small occasional furniture pieces,” said Christine Knoll of the Art Gallery of Hog Hollow in Chesterfeld, Mo. Successful people move towards the pictures they create in their mind. They can rehearse coming actions or events as they “see” them. […]

Many successful athletes will say they practice “seeing” themselves winning the race, hitting the home run or scoring the touchdown. They actually visualize a future event which gives them the impetus to achieve the goal. […]

Source:www.fndarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HMU/is_9_30/ai_108785318/pg_2/? tag=content;col1

The third quality of a successful business person is directly related to successful athletes because:

Read the text and answer question

 

MARITIME ACCIDENTS

 

Accidents on Tugboats
    Tugboats are those which help move huge
ships to enter docks. They are small in nature but
are powerful to ensure that the large vessels are
handled safely. But sometimes because of the
blockage of the visibility of tugboats by the larger
vessels, maritime accidents occur. Also, human
error on the part of the pilot of the tugboat can also
lead to unwanted and unexpected tugboat mishaps.
 

Accidents on Oil Tankers
    The major cause of accidents on tankers is
explosions. Since the very nature of the materials
these tankers transport is dangerous and highly
flammable, even the most minor of explosions can
cause enormous losses. According to statistics, one
of the main reasons for oil tanker accidents
occurting is because of workers” negligence nearly - 84-88%.

(Adapted from: https://www .marineinsight.com/marine-safety/12-types-of-maritime-accidents/)

Read the statements below and decide whether they are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). Then choose the option that contains the correct answer.

 

I. Maritime accidents can be caused by human failure. 

II Size of vessels does not imply maritime accidents.
III Maritime accidents sometimes occur at dock entrances.
IV. Lack of visibility is one of the causes of maritime accidents.
V. Explosions represent a small percentage im tanker accidents.

Read the poem below and choose the correct answer.

 

SEA-FEVER
 

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel"s kick and the wind”s song and the white sail's shaking,

And a grey mist on the sea”s face and a grey dawn breaking.

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;

And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,

And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the seagulls crying.

I must down to the seas again

to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale”s way where the wind”s like a whetted knife;

And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,

And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

By John Masefield (1878-1967)

 

According to the text: