Questões de Inglês

    “Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that, by the time they leave school, every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” William Haley 

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TEXTO:

Jurassic bugs 

    Scientists say they’ve found the oldest bugs of their

type ever preserved in fossilized tree resin, in the Alps of

northern Italy. The finding by an international team of

researchers has been published in the Proceedings of

5 the National Academy of Science.

    High in the Dolomites of northeastern Italy, Italian

researchers chipping away at rocks formed more than

200 million years ago found two minuscule mites and a

fly preserved in tiny drops of amber. Highly-magnified

10 photographs of the creatures show the mites, in particular,

to be perfectly preserved. At 230 million years old, they’re

about 100 million years older than the oldest previous

find of their kind.

    The bugs probably fed off the leaves of the tree in

15 whose resin they were eventually preserved. Researchers

say the discovery shows the mites’ ability to adapt to

changing evolutionary conditions. For film lovers, though,

it has striking echoes of the Stephen Spielberg

blockbuster, Jurassic Park, in which a team of scientists

20 use the DNA of a mosquito preserved in amber to recreate

dinosaurs with predictably terrifying results.

DUFF. Mark. Jurassic bugs. Disponível em: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/ . Acesso em: 8 dez. 2012. 

“mites” (l. 8): cupins.

TEXTO:

Jurassic bugs 

    Scientists say they’ve found the oldest bugs of their

type ever preserved in fossilized tree resin, in the Alps of

northern Italy. The finding by an international team of

researchers has been published in the Proceedings of

5 the National Academy of Science.

    High in the Dolomites of northeastern Italy, Italian

researchers chipping away at rocks formed more than

200 million years ago found two minuscule mites and a

fly preserved in tiny drops of amber. Highly-magnified

10 photographs of the creatures show the mites, in particular,

to be perfectly preserved. At 230 million years old, they’re

about 100 million years older than the oldest previous

find of their kind.

    The bugs probably fed off the leaves of the tree in

15 whose resin they were eventually preserved. Researchers

say the discovery shows the mites’ ability to adapt to

changing evolutionary conditions. For film lovers, though,

it has striking echoes of the Stephen Spielberg

blockbuster, Jurassic Park, in which a team of scientists

20 use the DNA of a mosquito preserved in amber to recreate

dinosaurs with predictably terrifying results.

DUFF. Mark. Jurassic bugs. Disponível em: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/ . Acesso em: 8 dez. 2012. 

“mites” (l. 8): cupins.

TEXTO:

    The idea of “cittaslow” or “slow cities” was inspired

by the Slow Food movement, and it was started by the

mayor of the small Italian town of Greve in Chianti. The

aim of slow cities is to make our towns places where

5 people enjoy living and working, and where they value

and protect the things that make the town different.

Towns that want to become a Slow City have to reduce

traffic and noise, increase the number of green areas,

plant trees, build pedestrian areas, and promote local

10 businesses and traditions.

    Many other small towns in Italy have joined the

movement, and it has spread to other countries all over

the world. Aylsham in the UK recently became a slow

city, and most people are delighted.

15    “Slow cities are about having a community life in

the town, so people don’t come home from work, shut

their doors and that’s it,” said a local resident. “It is not

‘slow’ as in ‘stupid.’ It is ‘slow’ as in the opposite of

‘frantic’ and ‘stressful.’ It is about quality of life.”

20    But not everybody in Aylsham is happy. For

teenagers, who have to go 25 kilometers to Norwich, the

nearest city, to buy tennis shoes or CDs, living in a slow

city is not very attractive. “It’s all right here,” says Lewis

Cook, 16. “But if you want excitement, you have to go to

25 Norwich. We need more things here for young people.”

Oxenden, C. & Latham-Koenig, C. American English File, Student Book, p. 71. 

TEXTO:

    The idea of “cittaslow” or “slow cities” was inspired

by the Slow Food movement, and it was started by the

mayor of the small Italian town of Greve in Chianti. The

aim of slow cities is to make our towns places where

5 people enjoy living and working, and where they value

and protect the things that make the town different.

Towns that want to become a Slow City have to reduce

traffic and noise, increase the number of green areas,

plant trees, build pedestrian areas, and promote local

10 businesses and traditions.

    Many other small towns in Italy have joined the

movement, and it has spread to other countries all over

the world. Aylsham in the UK recently became a slow

city, and most people are delighted.

15    “Slow cities are about having a community life in

the town, so people don’t come home from work, shut

their doors and that’s it,” said a local resident. “It is not

‘slow’ as in ‘stupid.’ It is ‘slow’ as in the opposite of

‘frantic’ and ‘stressful.’ It is about quality of life.”

20    But not everybody in Aylsham is happy. For

teenagers, who have to go 25 kilometers to Norwich, the

nearest city, to buy tennis shoes or CDs, living in a slow

city is not very attractive. “It’s all right here,” says Lewis

Cook, 16. “But if you want excitement, you have to go to

25 Norwich. We need more things here for young people.”

Oxenden, C. & Latham-Koenig, C. American English File, Student Book, p. 71. 

TEXTO:

    The idea of “cittaslow” or “slow cities” was inspired

by the Slow Food movement, and it was started by the

mayor of the small Italian town of Greve in Chianti. The

aim of slow cities is to make our towns places where

5 people enjoy living and working, and where they value

and protect the things that make the town different.

Towns that want to become a Slow City have to reduce

traffic and noise, increase the number of green areas,

plant trees, build pedestrian areas, and promote local

10 businesses and traditions.

    Many other small towns in Italy have joined the

movement, and it has spread to other countries all over

the world. Aylsham in the UK recently became a slow

city, and most people are delighted.

15    “Slow cities are about having a community life in

the town, so people don’t come home from work, shut

their doors and that’s it,” said a local resident. “It is not

‘slow’ as in ‘stupid.’ It is ‘slow’ as in the opposite of

‘frantic’ and ‘stressful.’ It is about quality of life.”

20    But not everybody in Aylsham is happy. For

teenagers, who have to go 25 kilometers to Norwich, the

nearest city, to buy tennis shoes or CDs, living in a slow

city is not very attractive. “It’s all right here,” says Lewis

Cook, 16. “But if you want excitement, you have to go to

25 Norwich. We need more things here for young people.”

Oxenden, C. & Latham-Koenig, C. American English File, Student Book, p. 71.