Questões de Inglês

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AGATHA

Wishwood was always a cold place, Amy.

 

IVY

I have always told Amy she should go south in the winter.

Were I in Amy\\'s position, I would go south in the winter.

I would follow the sun, not wait for the sun to come here.

I would go south in the winter, if I could afford it,

Not freeze, as I do, in Bayswater, by a gas-fire counting shillings.

 

VIOLET

Go south! to the English circulating libraries,

To the military widows and the English chaplains,

To the chilly deck-chair and the strong cold tea—

The strong cold stewed bad Indian tea.

 

CHARLES

That\\'s not Amy\\'s style at all. We are country-bred people.

Amy has been too long used to our ways

Living with horses and dogs and guns

Ever to want to leave England in the winter.

But a single man like me is better off in London:

A man can be very cosy at his club

Even in an English winter.

[...]

ELIOT, T. S. Family reunion. Disponível em https://archive.org/stream/familyreunionpl00elio/familyreunionpl00elio_djvu.txt. Acesso em 27/10/2015.

 

Tick the alternative that shows the central theme of the excerpt above.

Learn ‘n’ go

How quickly can people learn new skills?

Jan 25^th 2014 – from the print edition

 

  In 2012, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee took a ride in one of Google’s driverless cars. The car’s performance, they report, was flawless, boring and, above all, “weird”. Only a few yearsearlier, “We were sure that computers would not be able to drive cars.” Only humans, they thought,could make sense of the countless, shifting patterns of driving a car – with oncoming¹ traffic, changing lights and wayward² jaywalkers³.

  Machines have mastered driving. And not just driving. In ways that are only now becoming apparent, the authors argue, machines can forecast home prices, design beer bottles, teach at universities, grade exams and do countless other things better and more cheaply than humans. (…)

  This will have one principal good consequence, and one bad. The good is bounty⁴. Households will spend less on groceries, utilities and clothing; the deaf will be able to hear, the blind to see. The bad is spread⁵. The gap is growing between the lucky few whose abilities and skills are enhanced⁶ by technology, and the far more numerous middle-skilled people competing for the remaining⁷ jobs that machines cannot do, such as folding towels and waiting at tables. (…) People should develop skills that complement, rather than compete with computers, such as idea generation and complex communication.

(…)

http://tinyurl.com/m2zmazg Acesso em: 27.07.2015. Adaptado.

Glossário

1oncoming: iminente; próximo.

2wayward: desobediente; instável.

3jaywalker: pedestre imprudente.

4bounty: recompensa.

5spread: propagação; extensão.

6enhanced: aprimorado(a).

7remaining: remanescente.

O pronome relativo whose, em negrito no terceiro parágrafo, refere-se a

Learn ‘n’ go

How quickly can people learn new skills?

Jan 25^th 2014 – from the print edition

 

  In 2012, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee took a ride in one of Google’s driverless cars. The car’s performance, they report, was flawless, boring and, above all, “weird”. Only a few yearsearlier, “We were sure that computers would not be able to drive cars.” Only humans, they thought,could make sense of the countless, shifting patterns of driving a car – with oncoming¹ traffic, changing lights and wayward² jaywalkers³.

  Machines have mastered driving. And not just driving. In ways that are only now becoming apparent, the authors argue, machines can forecast home prices, design beer bottles, teach at universities, grade exams and do countless other things better and more cheaply than humans. (…)

  This will have one principal good consequence, and one bad. The good is bounty⁴. Households will spend less on groceries, utilities and clothing; the deaf will be able to hear, the blind to see. The bad is spread⁵. The gap is growing between the lucky few whose abilities and skills are enhanced⁶ by technology, and the far more numerous middle-skilled people competing for the remaining⁷ jobs that machines cannot do, such as folding towels and waiting at tables. (…) People should develop skills that complement, rather than compete with computers, such as idea generation and complex communication.

(…)

http://tinyurl.com/m2zmazg Acesso em: 27.07.2015. Adaptado.

Glossário

1oncoming: iminente; próximo.

2wayward: desobediente; instável.

3jaywalker: pedestre imprudente.

4bounty: recompensa.

5spread: propagação; extensão.

6enhanced: aprimorado(a).

7remaining: remanescente.

Ainda conforme o primeiro parágrafo, a performance do carro desenvolvido pelo Google foi avaliada por Erik Brynjolfsson e Andrew McAfee como

World governments vow to end fossil fuel era at UN climate signing ceremony

 

Representatives of more than 170 countries endorse Paris agreement to cut carbon emissions, with France’s president saying: ‘There is no turning back’

Suzanne Goldenberg at the United Nations

and Arthur Neslen in Brussels

Friday, April 22nd 2016

More than 170 governments declared an end to the fossil fuel era

on Friday, using the signing ceremony for the landmark Paris

agreement as an occasion to renew their vows to fight climate

change.

The outpouring of support – the largest ever single-day turn-out for

a signing ceremony – underscored strong international commitment

to deliver on the promises made in Paris last December to avoid a

climate catastrophe, the leaders said.

The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said signatories to the deal

were embracing “a new covenant of the future”. Leonardo

DiCaprio, a UN climate ambassador, likened efforts against climate

change to the campaign to end slavery.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an indigenous women’s leader from

Chad, called on countries to following through on their promises.

Temperatures in her country were already a blistering 48C (118F),

she said, and climate change threatened to obliterate billions spent

on development aid over recent decades. “Climate change is adding

to poverty every day,” she said.

[…]

But the turnout – including the presence of about 60 presidents and

prime ministers – and stirring rhetoric were seen as an important

measure of the momentum behind efforts to bring the Paris

agreement into force earlier than originally thought, possibly even

this year. Leaders also reaffirmed previous commitments to help

poor countries protect their people from climate change.

Early implementation would prevent the drift that set in with the

Kyoto protocol in the 1990s and – crucially with Donald Trump’s

ascendancy in the Republican presidential primaries – impose a

four-year delay on any future leaders seeking to exit the agreement.

But as the leaders noted, events on the ground are moving fast. Last

year was the hottest year on record – and so were the first three

months of this year. Temperatures at the North Pole rose above

freezing last December, the depths of the polar night; and

temperatures there were 30C (54F) above normal. […]

(Retrieved and adapted from http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/22/un-climatechange-signing-ceremony?CMP=share_btn_link. on April 24th, 2016)

 

In order to maintain the idea of the sentence, the word “turnout” (line 20) could not be replaced by:

World governments vow to end fossil fuel era at UN climate signing ceremony

 

Representatives of more than 170 countries endorse Paris agreement to cut carbon emissions, with France’s president saying: ‘There is no turning back’

Suzanne Goldenberg at the United Nations

and Arthur Neslen in Brussels

Friday, April 22nd 2016

More than 170 governments declared an end to the fossil fuel era

on Friday, using the signing ceremony for the landmark Paris

agreement as an occasion to renew their vows to fight climate

change.

The outpouring of support – the largest ever single-day turn-out for

a signing ceremony – underscored strong international commitment

to deliver on the promises made in Paris last December to avoid a

climate catastrophe, the leaders said.

The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said signatories to the deal

were embracing “a new covenant of the future”. Leonardo

DiCaprio, a UN climate ambassador, likened efforts against climate

change to the campaign to end slavery.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an indigenous women’s leader from

Chad, called on countries to following through on their promises.

Temperatures in her country were already a blistering 48C (118F),

she said, and climate change threatened to obliterate billions spent

on development aid over recent decades. “Climate change is adding

to poverty every day,” she said.

[…]

But the turnout – including the presence of about 60 presidents and

prime ministers – and stirring rhetoric were seen as an important

measure of the momentum behind efforts to bring the Paris

agreement into force earlier than originally thought, possibly even

this year. Leaders also reaffirmed previous commitments to help

poor countries protect their people from climate change.

Early implementation would prevent the drift that set in with the

Kyoto protocol in the 1990s and – crucially with Donald Trump’s

ascendancy in the Republican presidential primaries – impose a

four-year delay on any future leaders seeking to exit the agreement.

But as the leaders noted, events on the ground are moving fast. Last

year was the hottest year on record – and so were the first three

months of this year. Temperatures at the North Pole rose above

freezing last December, the depths of the polar night; and

temperatures there were 30C (54F) above normal. […]

(Retrieved and adapted from http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/22/un-climatechange-signing-ceremony?CMP=share_btn_link. on April 24th, 2016)

 

In the sentence “Last year was the hottest year on record – and so were the first three months of this year.” (lines 30 to 32), the word in bold, considering the association between the statements, expresses an idea of:

World governments vow to end fossil fuel era at UN climate signing ceremony

 

Representatives of more than 170 countries endorse Paris agreement to cut carbon emissions, with France’s president saying: ‘There is no turning back’

Suzanne Goldenberg at the United Nations

and Arthur Neslen in Brussels

Friday, April 22nd 2016

More than 170 governments declared an end to the fossil fuel era

on Friday, using the signing ceremony for the landmark Paris

agreement as an occasion to renew their vows to fight climate

change.

The outpouring of support – the largest ever single-day turn-out for

a signing ceremony – underscored strong international commitment

to deliver on the promises made in Paris last December to avoid a

climate catastrophe, the leaders said.

The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said signatories to the deal

were embracing “a new covenant of the future”. Leonardo

DiCaprio, a UN climate ambassador, likened efforts against climate

change to the campaign to end slavery.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an indigenous women’s leader from

Chad, called on countries to following through on their promises.

Temperatures in her country were already a blistering 48C (118F),

she said, and climate change threatened to obliterate billions spent

on development aid over recent decades. “Climate change is adding

to poverty every day,” she said.

[…]

But the turnout – including the presence of about 60 presidents and

prime ministers – and stirring rhetoric were seen as an important

measure of the momentum behind efforts to bring the Paris

agreement into force earlier than originally thought, possibly even

this year. Leaders also reaffirmed previous commitments to help

poor countries protect their people from climate change.

Early implementation would prevent the drift that set in with the

Kyoto protocol in the 1990s and – crucially with Donald Trump’s

ascendancy in the Republican presidential primaries – impose a

four-year delay on any future leaders seeking to exit the agreement.

But as the leaders noted, events on the ground are moving fast. Last

year was the hottest year on record – and so were the first three

months of this year. Temperatures at the North Pole rose above

freezing last December, the depths of the polar night; and

temperatures there were 30C (54F) above normal. […]

(Retrieved and adapted from http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/22/un-climatechange- signing-ceremony?CMP=share_btn_link. on April 24th, 2016)

 

Read the statements bellow.

 

I. The climate signing ceremony was held in Paris.

II. The deal and the promises to avoid a climate disaster were established last December.

III. Ramping up carbon emission cuts and protecting vulnerable populations from extreme temperatures are among the goals of the Paris agreement.

IV. The date of the ceremony was delayed from its original calendar.

 

According to the text, the only true statements are