Questões de Inglês

ABOUT #125STORIES

 

(1) #125Stories, your chance to join in with the Agatha Christie 125th Anniversary celebrations, was ins-

(2) pired by the discovery, in the Agatha Christie Archive, of a collection of very personal letters written to Agatha

(3) Christie throughout the 20th century from fans around the world. Some of these letters are witty and amusing,

(4) while others reveal intimate details of daily lives. Others still provide the modern day reader with an insight into

(5) the political situation of post-war Europe, of the Iron Curtain, and of how Christie’s books provided escapism for

(6) those in the most desperate of conditions.

(7) These letter writers took the time to let Agatha Christie know how important she was in their own lives –

(8) and now you too can share your stories of how the world’s most famous crime writer changed your life.

(9) What story should you share?

(10) Maybe you acted in a play once, and something went wrong on stage…

(11) Perhaps you were inspired to write after reading her novels…Have you ever written a screen play after

(12) watching Poirot on tv?…

(13) Or maybe Agatha Christie herself has been your inspiration – as a traveller, a surfer, an archaeologist, a

(14) musician, a wife, mother, daughter…

(15) Whatever it is, we want to know.

(16) And if you tell us your story, you’ll be in with the chance of being selected to have it exhibited in Septem-

(17) ber at the International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, England, as one of 125 Stories.

(18) We’ll be running #125Stories for the whole of 2015 – so if you are not selected for the exhibition but want

(19) to share your experiences of the September birthday celebrations and the rest of the year with us, then you’ll

(20) be able to right up until Christmas.

(21) Take the time to read others’ stories too – you never know what you might uncover.

 

(Disponível em http://125stories.com/feed/collection/94793. Acesso em 30 abr. 2015. Adaptação.)

De acordo com o texto, as cartas de fãs que inspiraram a iniciativa #125Stories tinham características diversas. Dentre as características abaixo, assinale aquela que não é apresentada pelas cartas descobertas.

 

1. World Carfree Day – We all know about the dangers of too much pollution to our environment, yet every

2. day we get in our cars and make the situation worse. This important awareness day aims to help highlight the

3. pollution of the world caused by car use and persuade us to leave the car at home and have a no car day!

4. It is not just the pollution that can make travelling by car a misery. I hate sitting grid-locked in a city traffic

5. jam when I could be walking past the very traffic I am stuck in. I think it would be nice to travel at my own pace

6. and not have that set by other commuters.

7. Some methods of public transport also shorten your journey time by avoiding congested roads and taking

8. more direct routes offered by infrastructure such as railway lines.

9. Car use is seen as the norm in modern society but why should it be? Imagine a day when there is no traffic

10. noise, everyone is car free and you can hear the birds sing! Beyond the day to day journeying and pollution,

11. cars blight our environment with discarded parts such as batteries and tyres, oil leaks and then eventually the

12. carcass of the car when it is no longer fit for use.

13. Actually World Carfree Day was first organized back during the 1970s oil crisis and more days were

14. organized in the 1990s in cities in Europe. The problem is that most people don’t take notice at all or take part

15. for one day then revert back to the old way!

16. So on 22 September 2014 please take part in World Carfree Day and help make our world a little bit nicer

17. to live in ... you might even enjoy a change of scenery!

18. Remember the famous scene from this video? It’s time to step out of our cars and follow their lead!

Fonte: http://www.national-awareness-days.com/world-carfree-day.html

Lê-se no texto que o Dia Mundial Sem Carro não é 100% bem sucedido. Isso acontece, de acordo com o texto, porque

 

1. World Carfree Day – We all know about the dangers of too much pollution to our environment, yet every

2. day we get in our cars and make the situation worse. This important awareness day aims to help highlight the

3. pollution of the world caused by car use and persuade us to leave the car at home and have a no car day!

4. It is not just the pollution that can make travelling by car a misery. I hate sitting grid-locked in a city traffic

5. jam when I could be walking past the very traffic I am stuck in. I think it would be nice to travel at my own pace

6. and not have that set by other commuters.

7. Some methods of public transport also shorten your journey time by avoiding congested roads and taking

8. more direct routes offered by infrastructure such as railway lines.

9. Car use is seen as the norm in modern society but why should it be? Imagine a day when there is no traffic

10. noise, everyone is car free and you can hear the birds sing! Beyond the day to day journeying and pollution,

11. cars blight our environment with discarded parts such as batteries and tyres, oil leaks and then eventually the

12. carcass of the car when it is no longer fit for use.

13. Actually World Carfree Day was first organized back during the 1970s oil crisis and more days were

14. organized in the 1990s in cities in Europe. The problem is that most people don’t take notice at all or take part

15. for one day then revert back to the old way!

16. So on 22 September 2014 please take part in World Carfree Day and help make our world a little bit nicer

17. to live in ... you might even enjoy a change of scenery!

18. Remember the famous scene from this video? It’s time to step out of our cars and follow their lead!

Fonte: http://www.national-awareness-days.com/world-carfree-day.html

O propósito do texto acima é

N a última fala do personagem Calvin (3º balão), percebe-se uma intertextualidade com

In the huge, open lands of the American west, herding cattle is one way to make a living. The image of the cowboy on his horse is a familiar one, ……………… in reality, women also participate in ranch work. This reality can be seen in the rodeo, ………………. cowboys and cowgirls compete in roping young steer, and riding adult bulls. Throwing a rope around a steer is something ranchers must do ………………….. give the young animals medicine or to mark the steers as their property. ……………….., riding on the back of a large and angry bull is purely for sport – a brutal and dangerous sport. ……………….., the danger doesn’t stop the men and women who love the rodeo.” 

JOHANNSEN, Kristin & CHASE, Rebecca. World English: real people, real places, real language. Boston: Heinle Cengage, 2010. Adaptado. 

 

Observe os elementos linguísticos em destaque:

 

“[…] herding cattle is one way to make a living.”; “[…] compete in roping young steer, and riding adult bulls.

Throwing a rope around a steer is something […]”.

Em todos esses exemplos, é CORRETO afirmar que a forma -ing corresponde ao uso de

Vive la reine!

PARIS

 

THE capital of the French republic is better known for beheading monarchs than celebrating them. But

Paris went wild for Britain’s queen during her state visit last week. Crowds

on the Champs-Elysées cheered as her royal convoy drove past. Socialist

ministers lined up enthusiastically to greet her at her birthday garden party.

The queen’s arrival at the international ceremony on “Sword” beach to

remember the 70th anniversary of D-Day drew louder applause than that of

America’s president. Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist mayor of Paris, even had a

flower market named after her on the capital’s Ile de la Cité, which happens

to be home to the Conciergerie prison where Marie-Antoinette was held

before being carted to the guillotine in 1793. “The queen of the French” ran

a headline in Le Monde, a left-learnig daily

Why are the French so smitten by the world’s longest-reigning queen?

Partly because she embodies the post-war era in which their modern

republic was born: she was crowned in 1953 and has known all seven

presidents of the Fifth Republic. Her affection for France, and grasp of the language, also help. […] After a

state dinner at the Elyzée Palace, with François Hollande, the president, she spoke of her “grande

affection” for the French people. This was the queen’s fifth state visit to the republic.

Another reason is that the French, shorn of their own monarchy, have long become avid voyeurs of

everybody else’s. Point de vue and Paris-Match, two magazines that splash photos of royals across their

pages, were launched back in the 1940s. The French turned the Monaco royals into celebrities before

reality television invented instant fame for everybody else. In 2011 the French cleared the airwaves to cover

Prince William’s wedding on live public television; 9m viewers tuned in to watch.

Perhaps the hidden reason for French royal fervour, though, is a secret envy mixed with regret. Mr

Hollande, stuck with a 16% popularity rating, is said to have noted wryly how refreshing it was to hear

cheering crowds when he accompanied the queen. Asked in a poll what they thought today of the execution

of Louis XVI in 1793, more of the French (29%) judged it “unfair” than “understandable” (23%). The French

“have a royalty complex”, wrote Hervé Gattegno in Le Point, and have built their republic on monarchical

traditions as if to compensate. The president, who has more sweeping powers than almost any other

modern democratic leader, is fussed over by much pomp and splendour—and the seat of the presidency is

a palace.

(In: The French and monarchy. The Economist, vol. 411, number 8891. June, 14th 2014. Adaptado)

Considering both theme and gender of the text, more information could be added to the title, as a subheading. Then choose the CORRECT subtitle among the alternatives below.