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[1]   Beauty giant L’Oreal has unveiled a smart skin patch

that can track the skin’s exposure to harmful UV rays at

the technology show CES in Las Vegas. The product

will be launched in 16 countries including the UK this

[5] summer, and will be available for free.

  It contains a photosensitive blue dye, which changes

color when exposed to ultraviolet light. But the wearer

must take a photo of it and then upload it to a mobile

app to see the results.

[10]   The My UV Patch, which is thinner than a plaster

and lasts around five days, is disposable. It can be worn

on any part of the body. “Today all the wearables you

see are jewelry or wrist bands - but not wearable in the

sense that you wear them anywhere on your body,” Guive

[15] Balooch global vice president of L’Oréal’s Technology

Incubator, told the BBC.

  So-called flexible electronics caught Mr Balooch’s

eye a couple of years ago. “Why would L’Oreal be

interested in this? When you think about our products,

[20] the people apply them all over their body,” he explained.

“Being able to have this technology to measure properties

of the skin in real life anywhere you want allows us to

develop really new testing methods for future products.”

  While there are other devices on the market for

[25] measuring UV exposure L’Oreal believes this is the first

example of a flexible wearable. “Stickers on the market

today go from white to blue in minutes, and then that’s

it,” he said. “You can use ours for days and days.”

  However, Mr Balooch cautioned that the patch was

[30] not intended as a reminder to re-apply sunscreen. “The

issue is not when to reapply, the issue is how much

exposure do I have,” he said.

  The idea is a “pretty amazing” one according to

Carolina Milanesi, chief of research at the KWP Comtech

[35] research firm. “UV is a different focus and one that makes

a lot of sense coming from L’Oreal,” she said. However,

Mrs Milanesi added that the need to keep taking pictures

of the patch might become frustrating for customers. “I

wonder if rather than seeing the cumulative impact in an

[40] app I would prefer to be alerted when my UV exposure

will cause sun burn or worse,” she commented.

By Zoe Kleinman. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology- 35238636>. Acesso em:

Considering the potential of the L’Oreal’s skin patch, it’s correct to say that it

De acordo com o texto, considere as afirmativas a seguir.

 

I. No trecho “The 2016 Olympic torch has been revealed ahead of next year’s Games in Rio de Janeiro”, os termos grifados indicam uma situação que é relevante no tempo presente.

II. No trecho “featuring an innovative recycled aluminium design”, a palavra grifada tem a função de qualificar o termo “aluminium”.

III. No trecho “Designed by relatively unknown São Paulo design studio”, o termo sublinhado é usado para enfatizar o processo de criação da tocha olímpica.

IV. No trecho “When flame is passed from one runner to another”, o termo sublinhado tem a função de adjetivar a palavra “flame”.

 

Assinale a alternativa correta.

Verbal Transcription – 6 am. 

 

The wife: 

About an hour ago. He woke up and it was as if a knife was sticking in his side. I tried the old reliable, I gave him a good drink of whisky but this time it did no good. I thought it might be his heart so I... Yes. In between his pains he was trying to get himself ready to go to work. Can you imagine that?

Rags! Leave the man alone. The minute you’re good to him he... Look at him sitting up and begging! Rags! Come here! Do you want to look out of the window? Oh yes. That’s his favorite amusement – like the rest of the family. And we’re not willing just to look out. We have to lean out as if we were living on Third Avenue. 

Two dogs killed our old cat last week. He was thirteen years old. That’s unusual for a cat, I think. We never let him come upstairs. You know he was stiff and funny looking. But we fed him and let him sleep in the cellar. He was deaf and I suppose he couldn’t fight for himself and so they killed him.

Yes. We have quite a menagerie∗ . Have you seen our blue bird? He had a broken wing. We’ve had him two years now. He whistles and answers us when we call him. He doesn’t look so good but he likes it here. We let him out of the cage sometimes with the window open. He goes to the sill and looks out. Then he turns and runs for his cage as if he was scared. Sometimes he sits on the little dog’s head and they are great friends. If he went out I’m afraid he wouldn’t understand and they would kill him too. 

And a canary. Yes. You know I was afraid it was his heart. Shall I dress him now? This is the time he usually takes the train to be there at seven o’clock. Pajamas are so cold. Here put on this old shirt – this old horse blanket, I always call it. I’m sorry to be such a fool but those needles give me a funny feeling all over. I can’t watch you give them. Thank you so much for coming so quickly. I have a cup of coffee for you all ready in the kitchen.

∗ a collection of wild animals

(Adaptado de: WILLIAMS, W. C. The doctor stories. New York: New Directions, 1984. p.102.)

 

Sobre a relação estabelecida entre as personagens no conto, considere as afirmativas a seguir.

 

I. O trecho “like the rest of the family. And we’re not willing just to look out” estabelece similaridades entre os animais e seus donos, cujo estado de espírito pode ser associado à condição (“a broken wing”) e ao comportamento (“he was scared”) dos animais.

II. Pela utilização das frases “Leave the man alone” e “Here put on this old shirt”, pode-se inferir a posição de superioridade ocupada pela esposa em relação ao marido e aos animais.

III. O uso das expressões “I thought it might be”, “I’m afraid”, “Shall I dress him now?” e “Thank you so much” indica que a mulher considera o médico como hierarquicamente superior.

IV. As frases “He had a broken wing” e “He doesn’t look so good” usadas para descrever o pássaro sugerem que a esposa está mais preocupada com o pássaro do que com a saúde do marido.

 

Assinale a alternativa correta.

Em relação à exploração da preocupação social com um ideal de padrão físico subentendido no anúncio publicitário, considere as afirmativas a seguir.

 

I. Concentrate doesn’t squash you like a heavy girdle.

II. Girls with too much bottom and too little top: Warner’s can reshape you.

III. They’re lined up to help you where you need help most.

IV. All of a sudden, you’ve got a proportioned body, and your clothes fit better.

 

Assinale a alternativa correta.

Em relação à exploração da preocupação social com um ideal de padrão físico subentendido no anúncio publicitário, considere as afirmativas a seguir. I. Concentrate doesn’t squash you like a heavy girdle. II. Girls with too much bottom and too little top: Warner’s can reshape you. III. They’re lined up to help you where you need help most. IV. All of a sudden, you’ve got a proportioned body, and your clothes fit better. Assinale a alternativa correta.

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta, corretamente, as qualidades da cinta elástica contidas no anúncio publicitário.

[1]The small Turkish town of Kuşköy, tucked into

an isolated valley on the rainy, mountainous

Black Sea coast of Turkey, looks ........ like the

other villages in the region. Kuşköy is

[5] remarkable not for how it looks but for how it

sounds: here, the roar of the water is ........

accompanied by loud, lilting whistles – the

distinctive tones of the local language. Over

the past half-century, linguists and reporters,

[10] curious about what locals call “bird language,”

have occasionally struggled up the footpaths

and dirt roads that lead to Kuşköy. So its

thousand or so residents were not surprised

when biopsychologist Onur Güntürkün

[15] showed up and asked them to participate in a

study.

Whistled languages, although unusual,

have been ........ for centuries. Most of the

examples that have been documented arose

[20] in places where it might otherwise be hard to

communicate at a distance. All are based on

spoken languages: Kuşköy’s version adapts

standard Turkish syllables into piercing tones

that can be heard from more than half a mile

[25] away.

How does the brain handle a language that

renders words as something like music?

Although neuroscientists have long

understood that brain functions do not divide

[30] ........ between the left and right hemispheres,

the former appears to play a consistently

dominant role in our understanding of

language regardless of whether the language

is tonal or atonal, spoken or written, signed

[35] with the hands or clicked with the tongue.

The right hemisphere, meanwhile, seems to

govern our understanding of pitch, melody,

and rhythm. Güntürkün tested this cranial

division of labor with thirty-one volunteers, all

[40] fluent in both spoken and whistled Turkish, to

listen to pairs of different syllables played

simultaneously through headphones, one in

each ear. When he gave them spoken

Turkish, the participants usually understood

[45] the syllable played through the right speaker,

suggesting that the left hemisphere was

processing the sound. When he switched to

whistled Turkish, however, the participants

understood both syllables in roughly equal

[50] measure, suggesting that both hemispheres

played significant roles in the early stages of

comprehension.

Although the technique used isn’t as

precise as laboratory techniques, his results

[55] are tantalizing. “They tell us that the

organization of our brain, in terms of its

asymmetrical structure, is not as fixed as we

assume.” “The way information is given to us

appears to change the architecture of our

[60] brain in a radical way.” He now wonders

whether people whose spoken-language

comprehension is damaged by a lefthemisphere

stroke could learn to understand

a whistled dialect, much as some people with

[65] stroke-damaged speech can communicate by

singing.

The opportunity to study whistled Turkish,

however, is fading. In 1964, a stringer for

the Times reported that children in Kuşköy

[70] were learning to communicate by whistling

before they started school, and that both men

and women regularly gossiped, argued, and

even courted via whistle. Three years later, a

team of visiting linguists observed that

[75] whistling was widely used in both the village

and the surrounding countryside. But

Güntürkün found that few, if any, young

women had learned the language, and that,

although some young men were fluent

[80] whistlers, they had learned the skill as

teenagers, more out of pride than any

practical need. In a small town filled with nosy

neighbors, texting affords a level of privacy

that whistling never did.

Adapted from: NIJHUIS, M. The Whistled Language of Northern Turkey. Available at: . Accessed on August, 20th, 2015.

 

Consider the statements below.

 

I - The topography of Kuşköy has a significant bearing in the development of Whistled Turkish.

II - The participants of the study were whistlers, unaware of spoken Turkish.

III- The results of the experiment have affected the treatment of stroke victims.

 

Which are correct, according to the text?