Questões de Inglês

Choose the correct option to complete this paragraph.

 

When to have an eye exam

 

School-age children and adolescents should have their vision             before they enter first grade. If your child has no symptoms cf vision problems and no family history of vision problems,             every one to two vears. Otherwise, schedule eye exams based on the advice of your eye doctor.

(Adapted from http :/Awmw.mayoclinic.org)

Based on the text below, answer question.

 

Too many third graders can't read this sentence

9 Feb. 2017 - Editor's Picks

 

    Two-thirds of U.S. third graders face challenges that will impact their future, including academic struggles that could lead to dimmer academic and career prospects. Sadly, only .one in three U.S. students demonstrates reading proficiency at the end of third grade. This has alarming consequences for these children, and for our country.

    A report released today from the Business Roundtable (BRT) sheds light on this troubling trend in American education, and advises business leaders on how they can help put more children on a path to success.

    (...)

    I've heard it said that before third grade, students are learning to read, while after third grade, they're reading to leam. Grade three is a critical crossroads in a life's journey. If you've read this far, then you understand why this is so important. Not enough of our young learners can say the same.

    I encourage you to read the BRT report. As you read, please consider ways to help our schools and our teachers keep students on paths to bright futures.

 

Leave your comments below

 

Michel Jonas

    Really, all I read was blabla wa wa wa. Are you Charlie Brown's teacher? If we cant understand our children who are crying out for help and direction, then there is something wrong with you. Please go back and check yourself! They are worth so much more.

 

Rick Shire

    Thanks for sharing. With two young children, I increasingly think about the importance of early childhood education. Pre-k care is far too inaccessible, ultimately magnifying inequality from the earliest stages of life.

 

Tom Franks
    What exactly is education? Academic education doesn't make someone a better person or even a better employee. I would guess that anything we learn in the education process is at the most 10% useful to us as people. Education should teach academia but also life skills such as budgeting, EQ skills, languages etc., all the elements to be a successful person and not necessarily a successful professional.

(Adapted from https ://www linkedin.com)

By reading the text, we CANNOT state that the pronoun

Based on the text below, answer question.

 

Too many third graders can't read this sentence

9 Feb. 2017 - Editor's Picks

 

    Two-thirds of U.S. third graders face challenges that will impact their future, including academic struggles that could lead to dimmer academic and career prospects. Sadly, only .one in three U.S. students demonstrates reading proficiency at the end of third grade. This has alarming consequences for these children, and for our country.

    A report released today from the Business Roundtable (BRT) sheds light on this troubling trend in American education, and advises business leaders on how they can help put more children on a path to success.

    (...)

    I've heard it said that before third grade, students are learning to read, while after third grade, they're reading to leam. Grade three is a critical crossroads in a life's journey. If you've read this far, then you understand why this is so important. Not enough of our young learners can say the same.

    I encourage you to read the BRT report. As you read, please consider ways to help our schools and our teachers keep students on paths to bright futures.

 

Leave your comments below

 

Michel Jonas

    Really, all I read was blabla wa wa wa. Are you Charlie Brown's teacher? If we cant understand our children who are crying out for help and direction, then there is something wrong with you. Please go back and check yourself! They are worth so much more.

 

Rick Shire

    Thanks for sharing. With two young children, I increasingly think about the importance of early childhood education. Pre-k care is far too inaccessible, ultimately magnifying inequality from the earliest stages of life.

 

Tom Franks
    What exactly is education? Academic education doesn't make someone a better person or even a better employee. I would guess that anything we learn in the education process is at the most 10% useful to us as people. Education should teach academia but also life skills such as budgeting, EQ skills, languages etc., all the elements to be a successful person and not necessarily a successful professional.

(Adapted from https ://www linkedin.com)

Decide if the statements below are true (T) or false (F) according to the text. Then choose the option that contains the correct sequence.

 

( ) Most kids in American schools cannot read well enough at third grade.

( ) The BRT report does not include suggestions on how to improve education.

( ) Michel Jonas posted a positive comment about the matter.

( ) Tom Franks believes schools do not prepare us for life.

Facebook and Google Are Going To War Against Hate Speech

Offending posts will be deleted within 24 hours

 

    Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft have agreed to work with European officials to crack down on hateful speech published on their respective platforms. Each company has agreed to review potentially problematic posts and remove offending content within 24 hours.

    “The recent terror attacks have reminded us of the urgent need to address illegal online hate speech,” Vĕra Jourová, EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, said in a joint statement from the European Commission and the participating companies. “Social media is unfortunately one of the tools that terrorist groups use to radicalize young people and racist use to spread violence and hatred.”

    The new partnership comes after Facebook, Twitter, and Google agreed to erase hate speech from their platforms within 24 hours in Germany, an attempt to address racism following the refugee crisis. That agreement, which Reuters reported last year, also made it easier for individual users to report hateful speech.

    Under the new code of conduct, technology companies will have clear rules in place for reviewing content that may be deemed malicious or hateful. The document also says the companies should be responsible for educating their users on the types of content that are disallowed.

    Tech companies assure that the recently announced code of conduct won’t interfere with freedom of speech. “We remain committed to letting the Tweets flow,” Karen White, Twitter’s head of public policy for Europe, said in the statement. “However, there is a clear distinction between freedom of expression and conduct that incites violence and hate.”

(Time Magazine, May 31, 2016)

 

Glossary: hate speech – discurso de ódio; to agree: concordar; to erase: apagar; partnership – parceria.

As palavras “potentially” e “offending”, ambas na quinta e sexta linhas do texto, são, respectivamente:

Facebook and Google Are Going To War Against Hate Speech

Offending posts will be deleted within 24 hours

 

    Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft have agreed to work with European officials to crack down on hateful speech published on their respective platforms. Each company has agreed to review potentially problematic posts and remove offending content within 24 hours.

    “The recent terror attacks have reminded us of the urgent need to address illegal online hate speech,” Vĕra Jourová, EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, said in a joint statement from the European Commission and the participating companies. “Social media is unfortunately one of the tools that terrorist groups use to radicalize young people and racist use to spread violence and hatred.”

    The new partnership comes after Facebook, Twitter, and Google agreed to erase hate speech from their platforms within 24 hours in Germany, an attempt to address racism following the refugee crisis. That agreement, which Reuters reported last year, also made it easier for individual users to report hateful speech.

    Under the new code of conduct, technology companies will have clear rules in place for reviewing content that may be deemed malicious or hateful. The document also says the companies should be responsible for educating their users on the types of content that are disallowed.

    Tech companies assure that the recently announced code of conduct won’t interfere with freedom of speech. “We remain committed to letting the Tweets flow,” Karen White, Twitter’s head of public policy for Europe, said in the statement. “However, there is a clear distinction between freedom of expression and conduct that incites violence and hate.”

(Time Magazine, May 31, 2016)

 

Glossary: hate speech – discurso de ódio; to agree: concordar; to erase: apagar; partnership – parceria.

Assinale a alternativa que expressa a ideia principal do texto.

TEXT

 

The Giant African snail (Achatina fulica) is a major pest in tropical countries. Current control methods involve the use of slug pellets (metaldehyde) but they are ineffective, therefore new methods of control are needed. We investigated whether A. fulica is susceptible to the gastropod parasitic nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita, which has been developed as a biological control agent for slugs and snails in northern Europe. We exposed A. fulica to P. hermaphrodita applied at 30 and 150 nematodes per cm2 for 70 days and also assessed feeding inhibition and changes in snail weight. We show that unlike the susceptible slug species Deroceras panormitanum, which is killed less than 30 days of exposure to P. hermaphrodita, A. fulica is remarkably resistant to the nematode at both doses. Also P. hermaphrodita does not reduce feeding in A. fulica nor did it have any effect on weight gain over 70 days. Upon dissection of infected A. fulica we found that hundreds of P. hermaphrodita had been encapsulated, trapped and killed in the snail’s shell. We found that A. fulica is able to begin encapsulating P. hermaphrodita after just 3 days of exposure and the numbers of nematodes encapsulated increased over time. Taken together, we have shown that A. fulica is highly resistant to P. hermaphrodita, which could be due to an immune response dependent on the snail shell to encapsulate and kill invading parasitic nematodes.

(Fragment from “Susceptibility of the Giant African snail (Achatina fulica) exposed to the gastropod parasitic nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita”, by A.J. Williams, R. Rae, Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 2015, http:// elsevier.com)

About the Giant African snail is INCORRECT to infer: