Questões de Inglês

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Clever spider

    With the help of small pieces of leaf, dead insects

and other debris, a spider in the Amazon rainforest has

created a detailed replica of a spider larger than itself.

The crafty spider is thought to be a new member of the

5 genus Cyclosa, a family of spiders which has created

decoys before using spare egg sacs. But this new

spider’s sculpture is the first to have leg-like appendages.

    Phil Torres, a biologist from the Rainforest

Expeditions, thinks they might have discovered a

10 completely new species. He says, “When you first see

it, it just looks like a spider hanging in a web. It’s about

an inch and an half long. As you approach, it kind of

looks like a dead spider as well but, as you approach, it

starts to move back and forth. There’s a little spider

15 hanging on the back of it so you’ll see little pieces of

leaf, little pieces of twig. There’s even a dead insect in

there. There must be very heavy predatory influence that

it would evolve to have such an intriguing defense.”

    Mr. Torres will be returning to the Amazon rainforest

20 in January next year to investigate further as this masterful

spider is yet to be recognized as a new species. Mr.

Torres’ discovery will be registered, verified and his

findings published if this spider proves to be biologically

different from the known species of Cyclosa.

ZARINDAST, Karen. Clever spider. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 12 out. 2013. 

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Another brick in the wall

We don’t need no education

We don’t need no thought control

No dark sarcasm in the classroom

Teachers leave us kids alone

Hey! Teacher! Leave us kids alone!

All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.

All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.

FLOYD, Pink. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 12 out. 2013. 

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    Tablets have been steadily catching up on PCs in

recent years as the more fashionable way to get work

done, and according to one analyst they’re perhaps even

about to overtake the PC in sales. Due to falling sales of

5 PCs and the continuing popularity of tablets, analyst

Sameer Singh believes we’re going to see tablets

overtake PCs in sales before the end of 2013.

    Despite this piece of news, tablets are far from the

all-in-one replacements for PCs as some would expect.

10 While the things we do on our PC are more and more

Web-focused, important tools including Microsoft Office

and Adobe products are quick to remind us that no tablet

is a true replacement to the laptop or desktop we’ve

relied on for years since. While some devices like the

15 convertible tablet have tried to offer a mix between the

tablet and laptop experience, these devices are still new

to the market and have very limited hardware. As a result,

convertibles have yet to prove their worth as a potential

middle-of-the-road option for consumers and instead. This

20 piece of news is also affected by the fact that people

are not adopting them as quickly as they used to, and

that most PC owners are happy with their current

desktops or laptops, but want to supplement it with a

tablet.

25   Either way, tablets are going to continue to be

popular upgrade options, and PCs are still going to remain

as tried and true workstations for the more work-intensive

tasks out there. While some feel a revolution is on the

brink, the fact remains that there is still the potential

30 that both devices can exist in some sort of harmony.

TABLETS have been... Disponível em: . Acesso em: 12 out. 2013. 

TEXTO:

    Tablets have been steadily catching up on PCs in

recent years as the more fashionable way to get work

done, and according to one analyst they’re perhaps even

about to overtake the PC in sales. Due to falling sales of

5 PCs and the continuing popularity of tablets, analyst

Sameer Singh believes we’re going to see tablets

overtake PCs in sales before the end of 2013.

    Despite this piece of news, tablets are far from the

all-in-one replacements for PCs as some would expect.

10 While the things we do on our PC are more and more

Web-focused, important tools including Microsoft Office

and Adobe products are quick to remind us that no tablet

is a true replacement to the laptop or desktop we’ve

relied on for years since. While some devices like the

15 convertible tablet have tried to offer a mix between the

tablet and laptop experience, these devices are still new

to the market and have very limited hardware. As a result,

convertibles have yet to prove their worth as a potential

middle-of-the-road option for consumers and instead. This

20 piece of news is also affected by the fact that people

are not adopting them as quickly as they used to, and

that most PC owners are happy with their current

desktops or laptops, but want to supplement it with a

tablet.

25   Either way, tablets are going to continue to be

popular upgrade options, and PCs are still going to remain

as tried and true workstations for the more work-intensive

tasks out there. While some feel a revolution is on the

brink, the fact remains that there is still the potential

30 that both devices can exist in some sort of harmony.

TABLETS have been... Disponível em: . Acesso em: 12 out. 2013. 

TEXTO:

    Tablets have been steadily catching up on PCs in

recent years as the more fashionable way to get work

done, and according to one analyst they’re perhaps even

about to overtake the PC in sales. Due to falling sales of

5 PCs and the continuing popularity of tablets, analyst

Sameer Singh believes we’re going to see tablets

overtake PCs in sales before the end of 2013.

    Despite this piece of news, tablets are far from the

all-in-one replacements for PCs as some would expect.

10 While the things we do on our PC are more and more

Web-focused, important tools including Microsoft Office

and Adobe products are quick to remind us that no tablet

is a true replacement to the laptop or desktop we’ve

relied on for years since. While some devices like the

15 convertible tablet have tried to offer a mix between the

tablet and laptop experience, these devices are still new

to the market and have very limited hardware. As a result,

convertibles have yet to prove their worth as a potential

middle-of-the-road option for consumers and instead. This

20 piece of news is also affected by the fact that people

are not adopting them as quickly as they used to, and

that most PC owners are happy with their current

desktops or laptops, but want to supplement it with a

tablet.

25   Either way, tablets are going to continue to be

popular upgrade options, and PCs are still going to remain

as tried and true workstations for the more work-intensive

tasks out there. While some feel a revolution is on the

brink, the fact remains that there is still the potential

30 that both devices can exist in some sort of harmony.

TABLETS have been... Disponível em: . Acesso em: 12 out. 2013. 

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Globish: the new international language? 

    A French author and ex-vice president of IBM has

come up with a new reduced form of English to help

non-English speakers get by when they are abroad. In

his books Don’t Speak English, Parlez Globish and

5 Découvrez le Globish, Jean Paul Nerrière advocates the

use of Globish as the common language of international

communication.

    Globish involves a vocabulary limited to 1,500

words. Other features include short sentences, an

10 absence of idiomatic expressions, and extensive hand

gestures to get the point across. It is not aimed at cultural

eloquence, Mr. Nerrière points out, but at “linguistic

efficiency, always, everywhere, with everyone.”

    Mr. Nerrière originally started his investigations into

15 Globish in an effort to help other French men and women

sitting in business meetings held in English. He advised

them to content themselves with Globish instead of trying

to master the intricacies of formal English. Now his

globalized version of English is so common, he says,

20 that Americans, Britons, and other English speakers

should learn it, too.

    Mr Nerrière says that native speakers of English

tend to stand out as strange in international business

meetings. This is due to their refusal to use the

25 elementary English adopted by colleagues from other

countries. He suggests they should make an effort to

speak like everybody else to appear less arrogant and

more open to doing business. He warns that commercial

ventures could depend upon the mastery of Globish: “If

30 you lose a contract to a rival because you’re speaking

an English that no one except another Anglophone

understands, then you’ve got a problem.”

    Quick to dispel fears that Globish will mean the

end of other languages, Mr. Nerrière recommends that it

35 should only be used in international exchanges. It should

not, he insists, be used as a vehicle of culture. In other

words, he believes we should keep on learning languages

to read the great literary works of Molière, Shakespeare,

and Cervantes. He claims, however, that the best

40 language to talk about the price of steel in China is

Globish.

OXENDEN, C. & Latham-Koenig, C. American English File ,Workbook 4 p.71 Oxford University Press