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Thickening glaciers 

 

 

    A team of scientists has shown that the glaciers in

one of Asia’s major mountain ranges are defying the

general tendency towards shrinkage, and have in fact

expanded slightly over the last few years. The range in

5 question is the Karakoram, which straddles Pakistan,

India and China on the north-western end of the

Himalayas.

    Glacial decline and the gradual loss of polar ice

caps has been a worrying trend over recent decades,

10 but scientists have been aware of an apparently curious

anomaly with the Karakoram, which contains some of

the world’s biggest mountains including the second

highest, K2. It has about 20,000 square kilometers of

glaciers, accounting for three percent of the total area of

15 ice outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.

    Now a team of French scientists has carried out a

detailed survey over a large area of the range using

sophisticated remote-sensing measurements. Writing in

the scientific journal, Nature, they say they found that in

20 the first years of this century the Karakoram’s glaciers

had actually expanded by a small amount, while in the

neighboring Himalayas they’d been shrinking.

It’s unclear why this is happening, but it seems that by

a quirk in the weather pattern that’s not fully understood,

25 less heat is being delivered to the Karakoram and the

mountains are receiving heavier falls of snow.

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According to the team of scientists mentioned in the text, Karakoram’s glaciers

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I - The cat has been eating the cookies.

II - The cat was caught eating his pal’s cookies.

III - The cat was eating the cookies when he was caught by his pal.

IV - The cat had been eating the cookies when his pal caught him.

V - Garfield asked for help because he was being eaten by the cookie jar.

 

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MOTHER TERESA

 

(1910-1997) Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in Skopje, Albania. Her real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She was from a devout Catholic family who helped poor people in their neighborhood. She studied languages and read books about missionaries. When Mother Teresa was 12, she decided to give her life to service for God. When she was 18, she went to Ireland to become a Catholic sister. A year later, she went to India. She chose the name Teresa from Saint Teresa of Lisieux, the patron saint of foreign missionaries. First, she was a principal at a Roman Catholic high school in Calcutta, India. But she saw many sick and dying poor people in the streets of India. Mother Teresa was very concerned, so in 1948, she began working with poor people. She brought the medicine, clothes and food. She taught the children to read and write. In 1950, Mother Teresa and her sister started the Missionaries of Charity, a group of women who work with the poor and dying. They made many sacrifices to help the poor. In 1952, Mother Teresa opened the Pure Heart Home for poor dying people in Calcutta. Eventually, Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity worked all over the world to help poor people. She opened homes and schools for them. Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Mother Teresa: In My Own Words, a collection of her ideas and thoughts was published in 1996. She died in 1997.

 

1. Madre Teresa morreu aos 87 anos. ( )

2. Madre Teresa ingressou na vida religiosa em 1922. ( )

3. A Ordem Missionárias da Caridade foi fundada em 1952. ( )

4. Trabalhou como diretora de uma escola em Calcutá. ( )

5. Tornou-se uma freira Católica na Irlanda em 1928. ( )

6. Ela foi para a Índia em 1927. ( )

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She was prepared/ prepared⁴ for theatre. The nurse was shaved/shaved⁵ the area which was going to cut/be cut⁶, and Mrs Ramone put on/was put on⁷ a theatre gown. Her dentures removed/were removed⁸, and her wedding ring taped to her wrist.

[1] Since the fall of 2009, the European Union has been struggling with a slow-moving but

unshakable crisis over the enormous debts faced by its weakest economies, such as

Greece and Portugal, or those most battered by the global recession, like Ireland.

A series of negotiations, bailouts and austerity packages have failed to stop the slide of

[5] investor confidence or to restore the growth needed to give struggling countries a way out

of¹ their debt traps. By August 2011 European leaders found themselves scrambling once

again to intervene in the markets, this time to protect Italy and Spain, two countries seen

as too big to bail out².

The crisis has produced the deepest tensions within the union in memory, as Germany in

[10] particular has resisted aid to countries it sees as profligate, and has raised questions about

whether the euro can survive as a multinational currency, since countries like Greece have

been unable to boost their exports by devaluing their own currency.

A reluctant, indirect intervention by the European Central Bank in late 2011 led the crisis

fever to cool considerably, as it lent vast sums to banks on easy terms to head off³ a

[15] liquidity crunch. But crisis has given way to a grinding reality for Europe of economic

stagnation and even a second recession for countries including Spain, Italy, Belgium, the

Czech Republic and the Netherlands as well as Greece. Nearby, Britain also fell into⁴ a

double dip recession after two years of Conservative-led austerity.

In April 2012 there was a growing sense of resistance to the German prescription of budget

[20] cuts as the prescription for all. From trading floors to polling stations to the streets of cities

across Europe, the message appeared increasingly to be that countries cannot cut their

way to⁵ fiscal health, but need growth, too.

In May, voters in France and Greece punished politicians associated with austerity; France

ousted conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy in favor of Francois Hollande, a socialist

[25] and Greek voters cut the share of votes for its two traditionally dominant parties in half,

while far right and far left parties gained.

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