Questões de Inglês

Assinale uma característica, associada à Fórmula 1, que NÃO foi considerada como essencial pelo anunciante. 

Assinale a opção que preenche corretamente a lacuna (I) e que indica o tipo de serviço ofertado pelo anunciante. 

Sobre a presença da TV no mundo, o texto informa que, 

Based on the CNN article, choose the correct answer.

 

I. Living in the cities or in suburban areas impacts the brain in the same way.

II. According to recent studies, simply looking at green areas can improve brain performance.

III. The text suggests that urban city planners continue developing projects that offer natural green areas as much as possible.

IV. People should spend time daily in parks in order to increase their cognitive efforts and reduce mental exhaustion.

DOES LIVING IN THE CITY AGE YOUR BRAIN?

 

Kobe, Japan (CNN) -- There is a reason more than half the world's population lives in cities, with the number expected to grow. Cities have a lot to offer. Residents can walk to nearby shops and enjoy cultural attractions not available to those in more rural areas. Also, living in a city may make your commute to work much shorter.

Unfortunately, according to health officials from the World Health Organization, that convenience may come with a price -- higher levels of stress and a measurable impact on your brain.

The problem seems to be "attention," or more specifically, the lack of it. With so many different distractions -- from a flashing neon sign, to the cell phone conversation of a nearby passenger on a bus, a city dweller starts to practice something known as "controlled perception." That toggling back and forth between competing stimuli can be mentally exhausting.

In fact, according to a recent study from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, just living in an urban environment makes it more difficult for an individual to hold things in memory.

In the same study, researchers split undergraduate students into two groups. One spent the day in a suburban neighborhood, the other group in a busy city. Overall, those in the city scored lower on attention tests and had a worse mood comparatively.

Some of this may be no surprise, especially if you live in a city yourself. The good news, however, is a solution may be relatively easy. Recent studies have shown just getting glimpses of green areas can improve brain performance.

While it would be great to get completely "unplugged" for long periods of time -- spending a few minutes a day in a park gives you time to reduce your cognitive efforts and relieve mental exhaustion.

So, a key for urban city planners is to maintain and enhance natural green settings as much as possible, and for individuals to take brief respites to enjoy them.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/. November 17, 2010.

Choose the correct alternative.

Friends are Good for Your Health

July 28, 2010

 

 Having good social relationships – friends, marriage or children – may be every bit as important to a healthy lifespan as quitting smoking, losing weight or taking certain medications, US researchers have reported. People with strong social relationships were 50 percent less likely to die early than people without such support, the team at Brigham Young University in Utah found. They suggest that policymakers look at ways to help people maintain social relationships as a way of keeping the population healthy. “A lack of social relationships was equivalent to smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day,” psychologist Julianne Holt-Lunstad, who led the study, said in a telephone interview. Her team conducted a meta-analysis of studies that examine  social relationships and their effects on health. They looked at 148studies that covered more than 308,000 people for their analysis, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine. Having low levels of social interaction was equivalent to being an alcoholic, was more harmful than not exercising and was twice as harmful as obesity. Social relationships had a bigger impact on premature death than getting an adult vaccine to prevent pneumonia, than taking drugs for high blood pressure and far more important than exposure to air pollution, they found. “I certainly don’t want to downplay these other risk factors because of course they are very important,” Holt-Lunstad said. “We need to start taking social relationships just as seriously.” Her team found some troubling evidence that Americans are becoming more isolated, and thus losing the support and care that love and friendship provide. “For instance, trends reveal reduced intergenerational living, greater social mobility, delayed marriage, dual-career families, increased single-residence households, and increased age-related disabilities,” they wrote. “More specifically, over the last two decades there has been a three-fold increase in the number of Americans who report having no confidant,” they added. “Such findings suggest that despite increases in technology and globalisation that would presumably foster social connections, people are becoming increasingly more socially isolated.” 

 

(www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/3965008/Friends-are-good-for-your-health. Adaptado) 

One of the factors that may promote social isolation of the Americans is