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TEXTO:

 

 

    William Ellis Green, 82, was making his breakfast

when he heard somebody in his garden. “I went out the

back door, and suddenly I saw this guy running toward

me. He pushed me out of the way and took my bicycle

5 from the garden shed.” Mr. Green did not resist, as he

knew he would end up second-best in a fight with the

intruder. The burglar tried to cycle away, but the tires on

the bike were flat, making it difficult to ride. “He kept

falling off the bicycle,” said Mr. Green, “at least three or

10 four times.” After the man fled, Mr. Green called the local

police.

    When they arrived, officers asked him to describe

the man, but instead he offered to draw them a picture.

“When Mr. Green started drawing,” said one of the police

15 officers, “I knew right away who the burglar was.” Actually,

Mr. Green had worked for more than 20 years in daily

newspapers doing caricatures of Australian soccer

players. “I had no difficulty in remembering the man’s

face because he was so close to me,” he said.

20    Police cruised the neighborhood in a patrol car with

the sketch in search of the alleged burglar and found

him within half an hour. “The cartoon was a perfect

likeness of the burglar,” said another police officer.

    The police believe that this is the first time they

25 have ever caught a suspect by using a cartoon sketch.

Phil Rushford, a senior police officer, said that in the

past some victims had used their cell phones to take

photographs at crime scenes, but they had not been as

effective.

30    A 34-year-old man is expected to be charged with

theft, burglary, and assault. The missing bike was later

found on a nearby street.

OXENDEN, Clive; LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina American English File, MultiPack 4A, 2010. p.51 

Mr. Green did not resist the burglar because he

TEXTO:

 

 

    William Ellis Green, 82, was making his breakfast

when he heard somebody in his garden. “I went out the

back door, and suddenly I saw this guy running toward

me. He pushed me out of the way and took my bicycle

5 from the garden shed.” Mr. Green did not resist, as he

knew he would end up second-best in a fight with the

intruder. The burglar tried to cycle away, but the tires on

the bike were flat, making it difficult to ride. “He kept

falling off the bicycle,” said Mr. Green, “at least three or

10 four times.” After the man fled, Mr. Green called the local

police.

    When they arrived, officers asked him to describe

the man, but instead he offered to draw them a picture.

“When Mr. Green started drawing,” said one of the police

15 officers, “I knew right away who the burglar was.” Actually,

Mr. Green had worked for more than 20 years in daily

newspapers doing caricatures of Australian soccer

players. “I had no difficulty in remembering the man’s

face because he was so close to me,” he said.

20    Police cruised the neighborhood in a patrol car with

the sketch in search of the alleged burglar and found

him within half an hour. “The cartoon was a perfect

likeness of the burglar,” said another police officer.

    The police believe that this is the first time they

25 have ever caught a suspect by using a cartoon sketch.

Phil Rushford, a senior police officer, said that in the

past some victims had used their cell phones to take

photographs at crime scenes, but they had not been as

effective.

30    A 34-year-old man is expected to be charged with

theft, burglary, and assault. The missing bike was later

found on a nearby street.

OXENDEN, Clive; LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina American English File, MultiPack 4A, 2010. p.51 

About Mr. Green, it’s correct to say that he

“Why have there been no great women artists?” asked American art historian Linda Nochlin in a landmark 1971 essay.

Four decades later, her question still stands: while a handful of Western female painters, sculptors, and performance artists – Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, Marina Abramovic – have achieved the same level of fame as their male counterparts, the West’s elite art world continues to be dominated by male artists, curators, dealers, and collectors.

Look elsewhere around the globe, however, and women are thriving in some of the most dynamic up-and-coming art scenes. They’re even achieving widespread success in a country not exactly known for women’s rights: Pakistan. Female artists from the developing Muslin nation have been recently feted in exhibits like last year’s Hanging Fire at New York’s Asia Society and the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial in Japan [...]

(Newsweek, September 6, 2010)

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  Professor Robert Park of the University of Maryland has launched an attack on the popular image of scientists as shown by movies and television. Scientists, he says, are generally portrayed as forgetful, short-sighted and even crazy.

The professor is right, of course. Though there have been a few serious attempts to treat scientists with respect, the model for most movie scientists remains the screen version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Brilliant man, of course, but so obsessed with making a monstrous Boris Karloff from spare body parts that he seems quite unconcerned by what his awful creation is likely to get up to.

Frankenstein had even madder movie contemporaries. There was Dr. Moreau, whose speciality was genetics: his laboratory was an island of creatures that were half animal and half human. Or how about Dr. Alexander Thorkel as a role model? In Dr. Cyclops he might be the world’s greatest biologist, but his fondness for shrinking people to the size of chickens does not suggest a candidate for the Nobel Prize. [...]

(Peter May. Knockout First Certificate. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

De acordo com o texto, Frankenstein

Read the following text and choose the best phrase to complete the text.

 

Card playing has brought pleasure to millions of people for some six centuries and is popular the world over, so it is not surprising to discover that thousands of games have been invented. There is a widespread belief that all card games (__1__) but the situation is complex and this idea is best ignored. Widely played games (__2__) in much the same way. National and regional games may have official rules published by an organization devoted to the game, but these (__3__) in local and family play. Of course, it is essential to establish a set of rules for club or tournament play, but these (__4__) as rules of the club, not the rules of the game. In homes people play cards for enjoyment and (__5__) and drop rules to suit their tastes. It is because tastes (__6__) and generation to generation that card games evolve. Games that no longer evolve become extinct. No book can do more than (__7__), or are said by other books to be played. Nor should it expect to. The only important thing is that everybody playing around the same table at the same time should be following the same rules.

 

a) are happily ignored

b) have official rules

c) describe how games are played

d) vary from place to place

e) should be regarded

f) tend to be played everywhere

g) will naturally introduce

 

Mark the option that shows the sequence of choices that best completes the text correctly.

Read the pair of sentences and mark the options about their meanings.