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Remarks by the President Barack Obama on Osama Bin Laden (Part II)
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Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.

Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.

For over two decades, bin Laden has been al Qaeda’s leader and symbol, and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies. The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat al Qaeda.

Yet his death does not mark the end of our effort. There’s no doubt that al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us. We must and we will remain vigilant at home and abroad.

As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. I’ve made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed, al Qaeda has slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries, including our own. So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity.
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Extracted from: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama binladendead

According to the text, it is right to say that:

Remarks by the President Barack Obama on Osama Bin Laden (Part I)
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.
It was nearly 10 years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history. The images of 9/11 are seared into our national memory hijacked planes cutting through a cloudless September sky; the Twin Towers collapsing to the ground; black smoke billowing up from the Pentagon; the wreckage of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the actions of heroic citizens saved even more heartbreak and destruction.
And yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen to the world. The empty seat at the dinner table. Children who were forced to grow up without their mother or their father. Parents who would never know the feeling of their child’s embrace. Nearly 3,000 citizens taken from us, leaving a gaping hole in our hearts.
On September 11, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand, and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other, and our love of community and country. On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family.
We were also united in our resolve to protect our nation and to bring those who committed this vicious attack to justice. We quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda an organization headed by Osama bin Laden, which had openly declared war on the United States and was committed to killing innocents in our country and around the globe. And so we went to war against al Qaeda to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies.
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Feeling (“…feeling of their child’s embrace…”) and gaping (“… a gaping hole in our hearts…”) may be classified, respectively, as:

TEXTO:

 

Immigration in the United States

 

    Immigrants are good for our economy. The most
skilled create jobs in technology and engineering, says
Duke professor Vivek Wadhwa, who estimates that in
2005 immigrant-founded engineering and tech companies
[5] employed 450,000 people and generated $52 billion in
sales. But even the least skilled more than repay their
costs in school and health care. Two highly respected
Australian economists, Maureen Rimmer and Peter
Dixon, studied the issue for the libertarian Cato Institute.
[10] “The net impact on U.S. households from tighter border
enforcement is unambiguously negative,” they found,
because even low-skilled immigrants expand the
economic pie and create jobs farther up the ladder. Cato’s

dan Griswold says the study shows a $250 billion
[15] difference between the most and least restrictive
immigration policies.
IMMIGRATION in the United States. Newsweek, Ang. 24 & 31, 2009. p.53

 

“enforcement” (l. 11): cumprimento de uma lei.

The only alternative in which there IS NOT a pair of opposites is

TEXTO:

 

Immigration in the United States

 

    Immigrants are good for our economy. The most
skilled create jobs in technology and engineering, says
Duke professor Vivek Wadhwa, who estimates that in
2005 immigrant-founded engineering and tech companies
[5] employed 450,000 people and generated $52 billion in
sales. But even the least skilled more than repay their
costs in school and health care. Two highly respected
Australian economists, Maureen Rimmer and Peter
Dixon, studied the issue for the libertarian Cato Institute.
[10] “The net impact on U.S. households from tighter border
enforcement is unambiguously negative,” they found,
because even low-skilled immigrants expand the
economic pie and create jobs farther up the ladder. Cato’s

dan Griswold says the study shows a $250 billion
[15] difference between the most and least restrictive
immigration policies.
IMMIGRATION in the United States. Newsweek, Ang. 24 & 31, 2009. p.53

 

“enforcement” (l. 11): cumprimento de uma lei.

The main idea of this text is in alternative

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Australia debates nuclear waste

The Stuart Highway runs through Tennant Creek in Australia’s Northern Territory

 

    Aboriginal groups are to debate controversial plans
to build Australia’s first nuclear waste dump on tribal
land in the Northern Territory.
    The federal government has identified a remote
[5] cattle station north of Tennant Creek as a likely site.
    In the next six years nuclear waste that Australia
sent to Europe for reprocessing will be returned but
officials in Canberra have yet to decide where to put it.
    Muckaty Station, an isolated property 120
[10] kilometers from Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory,
has been chosen as a possible site. Local aborigines
have offered to sell the land for $11,000,000, a move that
has infuriated other indigenous groups in the area, who
worry about the health and environmental implications.
[15]     These conflicting views are expected to collide at
a public meeting that will be held in Tennant Creek, an
old gold-mining town south of Darwin. Australian Greens
Senator Scott Ludlam says the plan to build a radioactive
waste dump in the region has become extremely divisive.
[20]     Australia’s federal government said that Muckaty
Station would be subject to thorough scientific and
environmental assessments. Ministers have indicated
that the nuclear dump won’t be built if landowners oppose
it.
[25]     Critics believe that recent earthquakes in that part
of the Northern Territory have raised questions about the
safety of the sites. The Australian Greens have said that
radioactive waste should be stored at the country’s only
nuclear facility on the outskirts of Sydney.
MERCER, Phil. Australia debates nuclear waste. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2010/03/100303_witn_aborigine.shtml>. Acesso em: 30 set. 2010.

Australia has sent nuclear waste to Europe in order that

TEXTO:

 

Australia debates nuclear waste

The Stuart Highway runs through Tennant Creek in Australia’s Northern Territory

 

    Aboriginal groups are to debate controversial plans
to build Australia’s first nuclear waste dump on tribal
land in the Northern Territory.
    The federal government has identified a remote
[5] cattle station north of Tennant Creek as a likely site.
    In the next six years nuclear waste that Australia
sent to Europe for reprocessing will be returned but
officials in Canberra have yet to decide where to put it.
    Muckaty Station, an isolated property 120
[10] kilometers from Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory,
has been chosen as a possible site. Local aborigines
have offered to sell the land for $11,000,000, a move that
has infuriated other indigenous groups in the area, who
worry about the health and environmental implications.
[15]     These conflicting views are expected to collide at
a public meeting that will be held in Tennant Creek, an
old gold-mining town south of Darwin. Australian Greens
Senator Scott Ludlam says the plan to build a radioactive
waste dump in the region has become extremely divisive.
[20]     Australia’s federal government said that Muckaty
Station would be subject to thorough scientific and
environmental assessments. Ministers have indicated
that the nuclear dump won’t be built if landowners oppose
it.
[25]     Critics believe that recent earthquakes in that part
of the Northern Territory have raised questions about the
safety of the sites. The Australian Greens have said that
radioactive waste should be stored at the country’s only
nuclear facility on the outskirts of Sydney.
MERCER, Phil. Australia debates nuclear waste. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2010/03/100303_witn_aborigine.shtml>. Acesso em: 30 set. 2010.

Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False). It’s stated in the text:

(  ) Aboriginal groups in Australia have already reached an agreement as to where to dispose of their nuclear waste.
(  ) A possible site for dumping the waste, Muckaty Station, is located a long way from other towns and population centers in Australia.
(  ) Local aborigines want to sell that piece of land for over ten million dollars.
(  ) The plan to build a radioactive waste dump in the region has been causing strong disagreement within the community.

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