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Notre Dame

 

People have donated over one billion dollars to help rebuild the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. The 850- year-old cathedral was badly damaged in a fire on Monday. The UNESCO World Heritage site is one of the most important cultural buildings in France. Wealthy people from all over France and around the world have given hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore the cathedral to its former glory. French president Emmanuel Macron told the nation in a televised address that he would make sure the reconstruction would be finished within five years. This would be in time for the opening of the Paris Olympics in 2024. However, architects say it could take decades to rebuild the world famous landmark. 

Some of the donors that are handing over cash are French billionaires. They include the owners of the luxury brand Louis Vuitton and the cosmetics company L’Oréal. The French oil company Total is also pledging 100 million euros. Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted that his company would donate an unspecified amount. However, many people are asking whether the money would be better spent on helping the world’s poor.

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The direct speech form of the sentence “French president Emmanuel Macron told the nation that he would make sure the reconstruction would be finished within five years.”

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Notre Dame

 

People have donated over one billion dollars to help rebuild the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. The 850- year-old cathedral was badly damaged in a fire on Monday. The UNESCO World Heritage site is one of the most important cultural buildings in France. Wealthy people from all over France and around the world have given hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore the cathedral to its former glory. French president Emmanuel Macron told the nation in a televised address that he would make sure the reconstruction would be finished within five years. This would be in time for the opening of the Paris Olympics in 2024. However, architects say it could take decades to rebuild the world famous landmark. 

Some of the donors that are handing over cash are French billionaires. They include the owners of the luxury brand Louis Vuitton and the cosmetics company L’Oréal. The French oil company Total is also pledging 100 million euros. Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted that his company would donate an unspecified amount. However, many people are asking whether the money would be better spent on helping the world’s poor.

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The pronoun its in the sentence “… have given hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore the cathedral to its former glory.” refers to:

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Tell Us What to Call the Generation AfterMillenniais (Please)

 

    Millennials are getting older. Not that much older, of course. We're a roughly defined | generational cohort, but arguably the oldest members of our demographic set are just beginning to reachthe age of 40.

    Meanwhie, the Americangeneration behind millennials has startedtomoveintothe workplace. And while some have proposed names for this group born in 1995 and after — Generation Z, Post-Millennials, The Homeland Generation, iGeneration — all of these names are bad. The first two don't even strive for originality! Come on. Then again, it's hard to know what makes a generational name stick

    “Millennial” was coined in the late 1980s by the consultants Neil Howe and William Strauss, “both baby boomers, before the term Generation X was even popularized. (They wanted to call them “13th Gen;" but that didn't stick, and neither did “slackers.”)

    But their term “millennial” did not become the dominant name for the huge generation after those two until much later. “n retrospect, it's easy to see that names that people gravitate to say something, Mr. Howe said in a recent interview. “Either the name itself or the way in which it was adapted”

    But Malcolm Harris, the millennial author of “Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials,” argues that those most interested in naming generations are those trying to sell things to that cohort,

    “Generations are really only understood in retrospect” Mr. Harris said. “Some people have 2 financial interest in naming them as soon as possible, people trying to sell stuff. That's the first perspective we get on any cohort, and | don't think it's necessarily a very good one”

    One stumbling block is a lack of agreement about the birth years for each generation. People onthe fringes can feel as if they've got almost nothing in common with the rest of the group. A few years' difference can determine if you could have been drafted for Vietnam, watched the first MTV.videos, or were born into a world ofinstant messaging.

    In 2015, the Census Bureau said that there were 83.1 míllion American millennials (bom between 1982 and 2000), exceeding the 75.4 million baby boomers (between 1946 and 1964), and the 65 million that Pew Research said belong in Generation X (between 1965 and 1980). But the generation after millenniais is stil so ill-defined (probably because of the whole name issue) that an accurate count has not yet been established.      And a good name? Nope.

Fonte: New York Times. Publicado em 23/01/2018. Disponível em: https://www.nytimes. com/2018/01/23/style/generation-names.html

O que propõe a frase “But the generation ofter millennials is still so ill-defined (probably because of the whole name issue) that an accurate count has not yet been established”?

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Plants ‘talk to’ each other through their roots

Plants use their roots to “listen in” on their neighbours,
according to a research that adds to evidence that plants have
their own unique forms of communication. The study found that
plants in a crowded environment secrete chemicals into the
soil that prompt their neighbours to grow more aggressively,
presumably to avoid being left in the shade.
“If we have a problem with our neighbours, we can just
move on,” said Velemir Ninkovic, an ecologist at the Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala and lead author.
“Plants can’t do that. They’ve accepted that and they use
signals to avoid competing situations and to prepare for future
competition.” Ninkovic and colleagues simulated the touch of
a nearby plant by stroking the leaves for a minute each day
using a makeup brush.
The possibility that plants communicate has surfaced
periodically as an eccentric idea – in the 1980s it was suggested
that trees send out electrical pulses, called W-waves, when
their neighbours were chopped down. However, in recent
years, fresh evidence has emerged that plants are constantly
sending and receiving signals that scientists are now learning
to eavesdrop on.

(Hannah Devlin. www.theguardian.com, 02.05.2018. Adaptado.)

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    The celebration of the World Youth Skills Day, traditionally organized by the Permanent Missions of Por-

tugal and Sri Lanka, together with UNESCO, ILO and the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth,
brought together high-ranking officials, policy-makers, representatives of diplomatic community, UN entities,
youth organizations and civil society. Representatives of business, tech-companies, labour organizations, ex-

[5] perts in emerging technologies, including UCLA, HP Inc., U.S. Council for International Business, Black in AI,
brought a new perspective to the discussion.
    This year, the observance of the Day under the theme “Youth Skills for Sustainability and Innovation” ex-

plored how to equip young people with quality, relevant, 21st century skills that prepare them for the future and
to enable them to address the major challenges and opportunities of our times, such as the rapid digitalization
[10] and climate change.
    In his opening remarks, the President of the UN General Assembly H.E. Miroslav Lajcak urged the inter-

national community to invest in skills and education that equips youth not only with basic literacy skills but also
with critical thinking, entrepreneurship skills and adaptability. Recalling the recently held Youth Dialogue, he
outlined the importance of including young people in the decision-making and policy-implementation processes
[15] around the world and at all levels.
    "Young people need to take on a leading role in the global effort to create a sustainable world. It is crucial
that we seize young people’s potential” - said the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickra-

manayake. She outlined that quality education is key to succeed in the job market, and urged to ensure that
young people are equipped with skills and knowledge to respond to technological innovations.

Adaptado de: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco-liaison-office-in-new-york/ about-this-office/single-view/news/21_century_skills_for_young_people/. Acesso em: 28 set. 2018.

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https:/www.glasbergen.com/ngg_tag/nutrition-cartoons/. Accessed July 3. 2019.

 

In TEXT, the cartoonist makes a humorous comment on the Food Pyramid. Which alternative below shows the main purpose of this text?