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BACALL, A. Disponível em: www.cartoonstock.comídirectory/f/ free .asp. Acesso em: 12 out. 2011.

The boy in this cartoon

TEXTO:
 

Scientists identify cause of baldness

 

 

    American scientists say
that they’ve discovered why
some men go bald. They blame
faulty cells which seem to
[5] produce hair that is so thin that
it is invisible to the naked eye.
They expect to find a cure for
baldness.
    For some men, bald is beautiful. The iconic look
[10] may work for a few — especially celebrities — like the
rugged Die Hard star Bruce Willis and Star Trek’s Patrick
Stewart. For many, though, hair loss is no laughing
matter. But now researchers in America say they’ve
uncovered a cure.

[15]     An academic medical centre has found that hair
follicles actually shrink, but don’t disappear. Dr George
Cotsarelis, dermatology professor at Pennsylvania
University, found the discovery exciting. “What we found
surprised us. The stem cells were present but they were
[20] not doing their job.”
    The discovery of invisible hair sounds too good to
be true. But what does it mean? “It really gives us hope
that because the stem cells are present it lowers the
bar for developing treatments that could activate the stem
[25] cells and get them to form a new hair follicle,” said Dr
Cotsarelis.
    Treating these faulty stem cells means that, rather
than just maintaining hair, we could soon regenerate hair.
LOBEL, Mark , BBC News. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ l e a r n i n g e n g l i s h / l a n g u a g e / w o r d s i n t h e n e w s / 2 0 1 0 / 1 2 / 110107_witn_baldness_page.shtml>. Acesso em: 12 out. 2011.

The only alternative in which there is not a pair of opposites is

TEXTO:
 

Scientists identify cause of baldness

 

 

    American scientists say
that they’ve discovered why
some men go bald. They blame
faulty cells which seem to
[5] produce hair that is so thin that
it is invisible to the naked eye.
They expect to find a cure for
baldness.
    For some men, bald is beautiful. The iconic look
[10] may work for a few — especially celebrities — like the
rugged Die Hard star Bruce Willis and Star Trek’s Patrick
Stewart. For many, though, hair loss is no laughing
matter. But now researchers in America say they’ve
uncovered a cure.

[15]     An academic medical centre has found that hair
follicles actually shrink, but don’t disappear. Dr George
Cotsarelis, dermatology professor at Pennsylvania
University, found the discovery exciting. “What we found
surprised us. The stem cells were present but they were
[20] not doing their job.”
    The discovery of invisible hair sounds too good to
be true. But what does it mean? “It really gives us hope
that because the stem cells are present it lowers the
bar for developing treatments that could activate the stem
[25] cells and get them to form a new hair follicle,” said Dr
Cotsarelis.
    Treating these faulty stem cells means that, rather
than just maintaining hair, we could soon regenerate hair.
LOBEL, Mark , BBC News. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ l e a r n i n g e n g l i s h / l a n g u a g e / w o r d s i n t h e n e w s / 2 0 1 0 / 1 2 / 110107_witn_baldness_page.shtml>. Acesso em: 12 out. 2011.

“For many, though, hair loss is no laughing matter.” (l.12-13)

This sentence means that for many men hair loss is

TEXTO:
 

Scientists identify cause of baldness

 

 

    American scientists say
that they’ve discovered why
some men go bald. They blame
faulty cells which seem to
[5] produce hair that is so thin that
it is invisible to the naked eye.
They expect to find a cure for
baldness.
    For some men, bald is beautiful. The iconic look
[10] may work for a few — especially celebrities — like the
rugged Die Hard star Bruce Willis and Star Trek’s Patrick
Stewart. For many, though, hair loss is no laughing
matter. But now researchers in America say they’ve
uncovered a cure.

[15]     An academic medical centre has found that hair
follicles actually shrink, but don’t disappear. Dr George
Cotsarelis, dermatology professor at Pennsylvania
University, found the discovery exciting. “What we found
surprised us. The stem cells were present but they were
[20] not doing their job.”
    The discovery of invisible hair sounds too good to
be true. But what does it mean? “It really gives us hope
that because the stem cells are present it lowers the
bar for developing treatments that could activate the stem
[25] cells and get them to form a new hair follicle,” said Dr
Cotsarelis.
    Treating these faulty stem cells means that, rather
than just maintaining hair, we could soon regenerate hair.
LOBEL, Mark , BBC News. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ l e a r n i n g e n g l i s h / l a n g u a g e / w o r d s i n t h e n e w s / 2 0 1 0 / 1 2 / 110107_witn_baldness_page.shtml>. Acesso em: 12 out. 2011.

The text says that some men, such as Bruce Willis and Patrick Stewart,

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Earth may once have had two moons

 

 

    A new theory suggests the Earth once had a small
second moon that disappeared after a collision with its
big sister. Researchers say in an article in the journal
Nature that the slow speed of the collision may explain
[5] the build up of highlands on the rarely seen part of the
Moon.
    This new theory builds on the idea that around four
billion years ago the Earth was struck by a Mars-like
planet, but instead of the smash producing enough
[10] debris for one moon, this scientific essay argues there
was enough for two.
    This small second moon became stuck in a
gravitational tug of war between the Earth and its much
larger sister. After millions of years in this position the
[15] new moon was drawn into a collision at a speed of less
than three kilometers per second.
    The scientists say this slow paced crash may have
caused a build up of material and the formation of
highlands on the Moon’s far side, the face of the Moon
[20] that can’t be seen from the Earth. For decades scientists
have been trying to understand why the visible near side
of the Moon is covered in craters while the far side has
mountain ranges higher than 3,000 meters. The
researchers hope that NASA observational missions
[25] might prove this new theory within a year.
McGRATH, Matt. Earth may once have had two moons. Disponível em:<www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/ wordsinthrnews/2011/08/110805_witn_moons_page.shtml>. Acesso em: 12 out. 2011.

Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).

About Earth’s second moon it’s correct to say:
(  ) It may have been destroyed after having hit the bigger moon.
(  ) Its collision with the present moon would have occurred at a relatively low speed.
(  ) It used to be fixed between the Earth and the bigger moon.
(  ) It didn’t seem to be affected by the force of gravity.

According to the text, the correct sequence, from top to bottom, is

TEXT 03

There was a man not long ago, who felt he was through with the world, so he decided to be a hermit. He had a little money, and he knew that nowadays there are no hermitages going rent-free. So he bought a bit of wild land on a mountain-side, with a few chestnut trees growing on it. He waited till spring; then went up and started building himself little cabin, with the stones from the hillside. By summer, he had got himself a nice little hut with a chimney and one little window, a table, a chair, a bed, and the smallest  number of things a hermit may need. Then he considered himself set up as a hermit.

The character's attitude to the world is one of: