Questões de Inglês

Read the text and choose the right alternative:

 

The text refers to:

I. A calling for a scientific study presentation.
II. An invitation to take part of a conference.
III. An invitation to present researches, new products, new findings.
IV. A propaganda about Berlin and Chicago.
V. A propaganda about electrical manufacturing
products to be presented in Berlin and Chicago.

Polar Bear Is Made a Protected Species
By FELICITY BARRINGER
Published: May 15, 2008

 

The polar bear, whose summertime Arctic hunting grounds have been greatly reduced by a warming climate, will be placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced on Wednesday.

The polar bear is being stressed by melting sea ice but scientists say the species would not vanish entirely for a century or more.

 

But the long-delayed decision to list the bear as a threatened species may prove less of an impediment to oil and gas industries along the Alaskan coast than many environmentalists had hoped. Mr. Kempthorne also made it clear that it would be “wholly inappropriate” to use the listing as a tool to reduce greenhouse gases, as environmentalists had intended to do.

While giving the bear a few new protections — hunters may no longer import hides or other trophies from bears killed in Canada, for instance — the Interior Department added stipulations, seldom used under the act, that would allow oil and gas exploration and development to proceed in areas where the bears live, as long as the companies continue to comply with existing restrictions under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Mr. Kempthorne said Wednesday in Washington that the decision was driven by overwhelming scientific evidence that “sea ice is vital to polar bears’ survival,” and all available scientific models show that the rapid loss of ice will continue. The bears use sea ice as a platform to hunt seals and as a pathway to the Arctic coasts where they den. The models reflect varying assumptions about how fast the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will increase.

In prepared remarks, the secretary, who earlier in his political life was a strong opponent of the current Endangered Species Act, added, “This has been a difficult decision.” He continued, “But in light of the scientific record and the restraints of the inflexible law that guides me,” he made “the only decision I could make.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/us/15polar.html?emc=rss&partner=rssnyt

Assinale a alternativa que relaciona, dentre as afirmativas abaixo, as que não estão contidas no texto:

 

I. A maioria dos cientistas afirma que algumas das espécies animais ameaçadas de extinção desaparecerão no próximo século.
II. O gelo polar em derretimento tem prejudicado, em muito, a sobrevivência do urso polar.
III. O hábitat dos ursos polares tem sido reduzido, em decorrência do aquecimento global.
IV. As áreas de caça do urso polar são agora protegidas, de acordo com o Secretário do Interior dos EUA.
V. Foi anunciado, em maio passado, que o urso polar passaria a integrar a lista das espécies ameaçadas de extinção.

A DVD Refresher on the Indiana Jones Trilogy - Let's rate them

On a dragass DVD week dominated by the drab and preachy The Great Debaters, the painfully unfunny Mad Money and the totally unwatchable Untraceable, Indy comes to the rescue. With the fourth installment — Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — just nine days away from your local multiplex, the DVD gods have picked an ideal time to re-release the first three Indy chapters in spanking new editions. Director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas have done intros for each movie, there are new bonus features not included on the 2003 DVD package, and the images jump off the screen with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound to goose them. But the big question before the May 22nd opening of Indy 4, is how to rank the first three.

http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/traverstake/2008/05/a-dvd-refresher-on-the-indiana.php

As palavras unfunny e unwatchable, no texto, são usadas:

A DVD Refresher on the Indiana Jones Trilogy - Let's rate them

On a dragass DVD week dominated by the drab and preachy The Great Debaters, the painfully unfunny Mad Money and the totally unwatchable Untraceable, Indy comes to the rescue. With the fourth installment — Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — just nine days away from your local multiplex, the DVD gods have picked an ideal time to re-release the first three Indy chapters in spanking new editions. Director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas have done intros for each movie, there are new bonus features not included on the 2003 DVD package, and the images jump off the screen with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound to goose them. But the big question before the May 22nd opening of Indy 4, is how to rank the first three.

http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/traverstake/2008/05/a-dvd-refresher-on-the-indiana.php

Indique a alternativa que não apresenta um assunto tratado no texto::

The Flowering of Human Consciousness

 

Earth, 114 million years ago, one morning just after sunrise: the first flower ever to appear on the
planet opens up to receive the rays of the sun. Prior to this momentous event that heralds an evolutionary
transformation in the life of plants, the planet had already been covered in vegetation for millions of years.
The first flower probably did not survive for
[05] long, and flowers must have remained rare
and isolated phenomena, since conditions
were most likely not yet favorable for a
widespread flowering to occur. One day,
however, a critical threshold was reached,
and suddenly there would have been an
explosion of color and scent all over the
planet. Later, this first recognition of beauty
was one of the most significant events in
the evolution of human consciousness.

[15] The achievements of humanity are
impressive and undeniable. We have
created sublime works of music, literature,
painting, architecture, and sculpture. More recently, science and technology have brought about radical
changes in the way we live and have enabled us to do and create things that would have been considered
[20] miraculous even two hundred years ago. No doubt the human mind is highly intelligent. Yet its very intelligence
is tainted by madness. Science and technology have magnified the destructive impact that the dysfunction
of the human mind has upon the planet, other life-forms, and upon humans themselves. That is why the
history of the twentieth century is where that dysfunction, that collective insanity, can be most clearly
recognized. A further factor is that this dysfunction is actually intensifying and accelerating.

 

[25] We only need to watch the daily news on television to realize that the madness has not abated, that
is continuing into the twenty-first century. Another aspect of the collective dysfunction of the human mind is
the unprecedented violence that humans are inflicting on other life-forms and the planet itself - the destruction
of oxygen-producing forests and other plant and animal life; ill-treatment of animals in factory farms; and
poisoning of rivers, oceans, and air. Driven by greed, ignorant of their connectedness to the whole, humans
[30] persist in behavior that, if continued unchecked, can only result in their own destruction.

 

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other
and with the realm of nature doesn’t work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable
problems, an individual life-form - or a species - will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations
of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

 

[35] Responding to this radical crisis that threatens our very survival is humanity’s challenge now. A
significant portion of the earth’s population will soon recognize, if they haven’t already done so, that humanity
is now faced with a stark choice: evolve or die.

Adapted from Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to your life’s purpose.

Choose the item which signals, in the second paragraph, a change of opinion concerning human intelligence.

The Flowering of Human Consciousness

 

Earth, 114 million years ago, one morning just after sunrise: the first flower ever to appear on the
planet opens up to receive the rays of the sun. Prior to this momentous event that heralds an evolutionary
transformation in the life of plants, the planet had already been covered in vegetation for millions of years.
The first flower probably did not survive for
[05] long, and flowers must have remained rare
and isolated phenomena, since conditions
were most likely not yet favorable for a
widespread flowering to occur. One day,
however, a critical threshold was reached,
and suddenly there would have been an
explosion of color and scent all over the
planet. Later, this first recognition of beauty
was one of the most significant events in
the evolution of human consciousness.

[15] The achievements of humanity are
impressive and undeniable. We have
created sublime works of music, literature,
painting, architecture, and sculpture. More recently, science and technology have brought about radical
changes in the way we live and have enabled us to do and create things that would have been considered
[20] miraculous even two hundred years ago. No doubt the human mind is highly intelligent. Yet its very intelligence
is tainted by madness. Science and technology have magnified the destructive impact that the dysfunction
of the human mind has upon the planet, other life-forms, and upon humans themselves. That is why the
history of the twentieth century is where that dysfunction, that collective insanity, can be most clearly
recognized. A further factor is that this dysfunction is actually intensifying and accelerating.

 

[25] We only need to watch the daily news on television to realize that the madness has not abated, that
is continuing into the twenty-first century. Another aspect of the collective dysfunction of the human mind is
the unprecedented violence that humans are inflicting on other life-forms and the planet itself - the destruction
of oxygen-producing forests and other plant and animal life; ill-treatment of animals in factory farms; and
poisoning of rivers, oceans, and air. Driven by greed, ignorant of their connectedness to the whole, humans
[30] persist in behavior that, if continued unchecked, can only result in their own destruction.

 

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other
and with the realm of nature doesn’t work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable
problems, an individual life-form - or a species - will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations
of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

 

[35] Responding to this radical crisis that threatens our very survival is humanity’s challenge now. A
significant portion of the earth’s population will soon recognize, if they haven’t already done so, that humanity
is now faced with a stark choice: evolve or die.

Adapted from Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to your life’s purpose.

In the text, the role of science and technology in the achievements of humanity is viewed as one of contrast.

 

Mark the option that best characterizes such a role.