Questões de Inglês

Nancy by Guy Gilchrist and Brad Gilchrist

Choose the correct alternative to the next questions according to the comic strip:

47) In “I don’t get this chemistry stuff at all” Nancy means that ____.

TEXTO:

 

Higher Learning

    For more than two decades, as the cost of college has climbed at twice the rate of inflation, critics have argued that

bloated bureaucracies, overpaid faculty, and unnecessary amenities are inflating tuition. Yet in a new book — Why Does

College Cost So Much? — economists Robert Archibald and David Feldman argue that college isn’t actually overpriced.

    The reason: although the total cost of attending an in-state, four-year public university has nearly doubled

[5] to $16,140 since 2000, the benefits that come with it have increased considerably, too. Indeed, over the same period of

time, the difference in wages between those who attend college and those who don’t has climbed by 20 percent.

    Yet in the aftermath of the recession, a more important question is who’s losing out in the process? Even though aid

packages have risen by more than 50 percent since 2000, one recent study found that college enrollment could fall by 3.6

percent due to the housing crisis, which has made it harder for families to finance their children’s education.

[10]    “The prices are rising precisely at the time when minorities and lower-income families are having the most trouble

meeting costs,” says Rucker Johnson, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. In other words,

college may still be a good deal, but its price is rising at a time when fewer people can afford it.

By Joel Schectman. Higher Learning. Newsweek, December 6, 2010, p. 12.

The economists R. Archibald and D. Feldman argue that college isn’t actually overpriced because

TEXTO:

 

The future of the book

    The transformation of the book industry has reached

a tipping point. Electronic books now outsell paperbacks

on Amazon, the retailer recently announced. And

Borders, the second-largest bookstore chain in the

[5] United States, is reportedly considering a bankruptcy

filing. With books evolving at extremely rapid speed, we

polled some literary brains on the future of reading:

JUDITH REGAN, book editor :

    I think books will be more affordable. Books are

[10] pretty expensive. Publishers are so silly because

they focus on “We’re not going to be selling so many

hard-cover books at $26.” Yeah, but you’re going to sell

infinitely more electronically, so what are you complaining

about? I view it as a greater opportunity.

[15]    DAVE EGGERS, author and founder of the publishing

house McSweeney’s:

    I don’t own an e-reader, and I’ve never read a page

on an e-reader. I do everything I can to avoid more screen

time.

[20]    I don’t think e-books have topped 10 % of the market.

My guess is that it will be about 15 to 20 % of the market,

because e-readers are expensive, and they’ll continue

to be expensive.

    Not to diminish the value of a paperback, when it

[25] comes to somebody investing in a hardcover, it’s

something you want to keep. You have to give readers a

choice, between a richer experience with paper books

and a more sterile experience through an electronic

reader. We just try to make every aspect of the physical

[30] book as good as it can possibly be, because that’s our

greatest hedge against the dominance of e-books.

JAMES H. BILLINGTON, librarian of Congress:

    The new immigrants don’t shoot the old inhabitants

when they come in. One technology tends to supplement

[35] rather than supplant. How you read is not as important

as: will you read? And will you read something that’s a

book — the sustained train of thought of one person

speaking to another? Search techniques are embedded

in e-books that invite people to get slightly involved rather

[40] than follow a full train of thought. This is part of a general

cultural problem.

JOYCE CAROL OATES, author:

    My husband, Charlie, is a neuroscientist, and of

course he immediately ordered both the Kindle and iPad.

[45] When we travel, we read books and The New York Times

on the iPad. I’d much rather have a book.

SETOODEH, Ramin .The future of the book. Newsweek, New York, Feb 14, 2011, p.10. Adaptado.

The conjunction in bold can be suitably replaced by the one in brackets, on the right, in alternative

TEXTO:

 

The future of the book

    The transformation of the book industry has reached

a tipping point. Electronic books now outsell paperbacks

on Amazon, the retailer recently announced. And

Borders, the second-largest bookstore chain in the

[5] United States, is reportedly considering a bankruptcy

filing. With books evolving at extremely rapid speed, we

polled some literary brains on the future of reading:

JUDITH REGAN, book editor :

    I think books will be more affordable. Books are

[10] pretty expensive. Publishers are so silly because

they focus on “We’re not going to be selling so many

hard-cover books at $26.” Yeah, but you’re going to sell

infinitely more electronically, so what are you complaining

about? I view it as a greater opportunity.

[15]    DAVE EGGERS, author and founder of the publishing

house McSweeney’s:

    I don’t own an e-reader, and I’ve never read a page

on an e-reader. I do everything I can to avoid more screen

time.

[20]    I don’t think e-books have topped 10 % of the market.

My guess is that it will be about 15 to 20 % of the market,

because e-readers are expensive, and they’ll continue

to be expensive.

    Not to diminish the value of a paperback, when it

[25] comes to somebody investing in a hardcover, it’s

something you want to keep. You have to give readers a

choice, between a richer experience with paper books

and a more sterile experience through an electronic

reader. We just try to make every aspect of the physical

[30] book as good as it can possibly be, because that’s our

greatest hedge against the dominance of e-books.

JAMES H. BILLINGTON, librarian of Congress:

    The new immigrants don’t shoot the old inhabitants

when they come in. One technology tends to supplement

[35] rather than supplant. How you read is not as important

as: will you read? And will you read something that’s a

book — the sustained train of thought of one person

speaking to another? Search techniques are embedded

in e-books that invite people to get slightly involved rather

[40] than follow a full train of thought. This is part of a general

cultural problem.

JOYCE CAROL OATES, author:

    My husband, Charlie, is a neuroscientist, and of

course he immediately ordered both the Kindle and iPad.

[45] When we travel, we read books and The New York Times

on the iPad. I’d much rather have a book.

SETOODEH, Ramin .The future of the book. Newsweek, New York, Feb 14, 2011, p.10. Adaptado.

About Joyce and her husband, the only question to which there’s no answer in the text (l. 42-46) is

TEXTO:

 

The future of the book

    The transformation of the book industry has reached

a tipping point. Electronic books now outsell paperbacks

on Amazon, the retailer recently announced. And

Borders, the second-largest bookstore chain in the

[5] United States, is reportedly considering a bankruptcy

filing. With books evolving at extremely rapid speed, we

polled some literary brains on the future of reading:

JUDITH REGAN, book editor :

    I think books will be more affordable. Books are

[10] pretty expensive. Publishers are so silly because

they focus on “We’re not going to be selling so many

hard-cover books at $26.” Yeah, but you’re going to sell

infinitely more electronically, so what are you complaining

about? I view it as a greater opportunity.

[15]    DAVE EGGERS, author and founder of the publishing

house McSweeney’s:

    I don’t own an e-reader, and I’ve never read a page

on an e-reader. I do everything I can to avoid more screen

time.

[20]    I don’t think e-books have topped 10 % of the market.

My guess is that it will be about 15 to 20 % of the market,

because e-readers are expensive, and they’ll continue

to be expensive.

    Not to diminish the value of a paperback, when it

[25] comes to somebody investing in a hardcover, it’s

something you want to keep. You have to give readers a

choice, between a richer experience with paper books

and a more sterile experience through an electronic

reader. We just try to make every aspect of the physical

[30] book as good as it can possibly be, because that’s our

greatest hedge against the dominance of e-books.

JAMES H. BILLINGTON, librarian of Congress:

    The new immigrants don’t shoot the old inhabitants

when they come in. One technology tends to supplement

[35] rather than supplant. How you read is not as important

as: will you read? And will you read something that’s a

book — the sustained train of thought of one person

speaking to another? Search techniques are embedded

in e-books that invite people to get slightly involved rather

[40] than follow a full train of thought. This is part of a general

cultural problem.

JOYCE CAROL OATES, author:

    My husband, Charlie, is a neuroscientist, and of

course he immediately ordered both the Kindle and iPad.

[45] When we travel, we read books and The New York Times

on the iPad. I’d much rather have a book.

SETOODEH, Ramin .The future of the book. Newsweek, New York, Feb 14, 2011, p.10. Adaptado.

It’s possible to infer from what Dave Eggers says that he

If the scientists had not carried out the research, the discoveries ________________.