Questões de Inglês

SCHULZ. Peanuts. Speak up. São Paulo: Peixes, 2006. p. 49.

TEXTO:

Japanese garbage island moves towards US

    Following the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami disasters, a massive amount of rubbish has washed into the

Pacific Ocean. The US Navy is watching the garbage with interest as it floats towards Hawaii and the west coast of the

United States.

Entire houses, bodies, car parts, tractors and many upturned boats have amassed off the east coast of Japan on an

5    epic scale. The floating objects have been declared a maritime danger by the American Navy, which warned they could

pierce the body of a boat, or destroy engines in the Pacific’s shipping lanes. The island of debris of most concern, 110

kilometers long, is being closely monitored by the US Navy’s seventh fleet, as experts predict it could hit Hawaii’s shores

in two years and the American west coast a year later. Hawaiian scientists put it honestly. They warned that a vast mass

that originated in a few moments of destruction in Japan, could eventually foul beaches and reefs off the Eastern North

10 Pacific and kill marine life. The American Navy’s working with civilian construction companies from the earthquake-hit

country, as huge cranes and boats are sent to clear the seas of this vast bobbing mass of wreckage of household furniture,

wood, tires, fishing equipment and other garbage, sweeping eastwards.

LOBEL, Mark. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 4 jun. 2010. 

TEXTO:

Japanese garbage island moves towards US

    Following the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami disasters, a massive amount of rubbish has washed into the

Pacific Ocean. The US Navy is watching the garbage with interest as it floats towards Hawaii and the west coast of the

United States.

Entire houses, bodies, car parts, tractors and many upturned boats have amassed off the east coast of Japan on an

5    epic scale. The floating objects have been declared a maritime danger by the American Navy, which warned they could

pierce the body of a boat, or destroy engines in the Pacific’s shipping lanes. The island of debris of most concern, 110

kilometers long, is being closely monitored by the US Navy’s seventh fleet, as experts predict it could hit Hawaii’s shores

in two years and the American west coast a year later. Hawaiian scientists put it honestly. They warned that a vast mass

that originated in a few moments of destruction in Japan, could eventually foul beaches and reefs off the Eastern North

10 Pacific and kill marine life. The American Navy’s working with civilian construction companies from the earthquake-hit

country, as huge cranes and boats are sent to clear the seas of this vast bobbing mass of wreckage of household furniture,

wood, tires, fishing equipment and other garbage, sweeping eastwards.

LOBEL, Mark. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 4 jun. 2010. 

TEXTO:

Germany to invest in more electric cars

    The German government has approved more money

to help companies that build electric cars. There are

only around 2,500 electric vehicles registered on German

roads at present. The plan is to increase this figure to a

5 million by 2020.

    Germany plans to double financial aid, particularly

to develop better, lighter batteries, which remain the brake

on the technology’s mass appeal. Cars which emit

virtually no carbon dioxide will be exempt from tax.

10 Despite its green reputation, Germany has been slower

than other countries, like Japan, to develop electric cars.

It now aims to change this, but attitudes may be hard to

change. It is a country where ‘no speed limits on the

motorway’ is seen as sacrosanct.

15    And it is the country of the BMW (car), though the

luxury car-maker is now trying to develop lighter materials

to make its vehicles greener.

EVANS, Stephen. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 2 jun. 2011. 

TEXTO:

Germany to invest in more electric cars

    The German government has approved more money

to help companies that build electric cars. There are

only around 2,500 electric vehicles registered on German

roads at present. The plan is to increase this figure to a

5 million by 2020.

    Germany plans to double financial aid, particularly

to develop better, lighter batteries, which remain the brake

on the technology’s mass appeal. Cars which emit

virtually no carbon dioxide will be exempt from tax.

10 Despite its green reputation, Germany has been slower

than other countries, like Japan, to develop electric cars.

It now aims to change this, but attitudes may be hard to

change. It is a country where ‘no speed limits on the

motorway’ is seen as sacrosanct.

15    And it is the country of the BMW (car), though the

luxury car-maker is now trying to develop lighter materials

to make its vehicles greener.

EVANS, Stephen. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 2 jun. 2011. 

TEXTO:

Germany to invest in more electric cars

    The German government has approved more money

to help companies that build electric cars. There are

only around 2,500 electric vehicles registered on German

roads at present. The plan is to increase this figure to a

5 million by 2020.

    Germany plans to double financial aid, particularly

to develop better, lighter batteries, which remain the brake

on the technology’s mass appeal. Cars which emit

virtually no carbon dioxide will be exempt from tax.

10 Despite its green reputation, Germany has been slower

than other countries, like Japan, to develop electric cars.

It now aims to change this, but attitudes may be hard to

change. It is a country where ‘no speed limits on the

motorway’ is seen as sacrosanct.

15    And it is the country of the BMW (car), though the

luxury car-maker is now trying to develop lighter materials

to make its vehicles greener.

EVANS, Stephen. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 2 jun. 2011.