Questões de Inglês

Are You An Indian?

 

  How often have you heard or said “I’m part Indian”? If you have, then

some Native American elders have something to teach you. A very touching

example was told by a physician from Oregon who discovered as an adult

that he was Indian. This is his story. Listen well to the story he tells:

[5]  Some twenty or more years ago while serving the Mono and Chukchanse

and Chownumnee communities in the Sierra Nevada, I was asked to make

a house call on a Mono elder. She was 81 years old and had contracted

pneumonia after falling on frozen snow while picking up some firewood.

  I was surprised that she had asked me to come since she had always

[10] avoided anything to do with the services provided through the local agencies.

However, it seemed that she had decided I might be alright because I had

helped her grandson through some difficult times earlier and had been

studying Mono language with the 2nd graders at North Fork School.

  She greeted me from inside her house, directing me into her bedroom

[15] with the sound of her voice. She was not willing to go to the hospital like her

family had pleaded, but was determined to stay in her own place and wanted

me to help her using herbs that she knew and trusted but felt too weak to

prepare by herself. I had learned to use about a dozen native medicinal plants

by that time, but was inexperienced in using herbs in a life or death situation.

[20] She eased my fears with her kind eyes and gentle voice. I stayed with her for

the next two days, treating her with herbal medicine (and some vitamin C that

she agreed to accept).

  She made it through and we became friends. One evening several years

later, she asked me if I knew my elders. I told her that I was half Canadian and

[25] half Appalachian from Kentucky. I told her that my Appalachian grandfather

was raised by his Cherokee mother but nobody had ever talked much about

that and I didn’t want anyone to think that I was pretending to be an Indian. I

was uncomfortable saying I was part Indian and never brought it up in normal

conversation.

[30]  “What! You’re part Indian?” she said. “I wonder, would you point the part

of yourself that’s Indian. Show me what part you mean.”

  I felt quite foolish and troubled by what she said, so I stammered out

something to the effect that I didn’t understand what she meant. Thankfully

the conversation stopped at that point. I finished bringing in several days

[35]worth of firewood for her, finished the yerba santa tea she had made for me

and went home still thinking about her words.

  Some weeks later we met in the grocery store in town and she looked

down at one of my feet and said, “I wonder if that foot is an Indian foot. Or

maybe it’s your left ear. Have you figured it out yet? “I laughed out loud,

[40]blushing and stammering like a little kid. When I got outside after shopping,

she was standing beside my pick-up, smiling and laughing. “You know, she

said, “you either are or you aren’t. No such thing as part Indian. It’s how your

heart lives in the world, how you carry yourself. I knew before I asked you.

Nobody told me. Now don’t let me hear you say you are part Indian anymore.”

[45]  She died last year, but I would like her to know that I’ve heeded her

words. And I’ve come to think that what she did for me was a teaching that

the old ones tell people like me, because others have told me that a Native

American elder also said almost the same thing to them. I know her wisdom

helped me to learn who I was that day and her words have echoed in my

[50] memory ever since. And because of her, I am no longer part Indian.

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Através do uso do termo Thankfully na oração Thankfully the conversation stopped at that point (linhas 33 e 34), o autor manifesta um sentimento de

Usando os adjetivos da caixa abaixo, complete o relatório do Departamento de Recursos Humanos sobre Maria Karlsson.

 

hard-working       motivating        creative        punctual         sociable             reliable

 

Maria Karlsson 

 

Maria is good in a team and she gets on well with her colleagues. She is extremely ______¹ . She is never late for meeting. – she is always ______² . She is very _____³ ; she always meets deadlines. She is in the office at 8.00 a.m. every day and usually stays late, so she is very _____⁴ . Her boss says this is very _____⁵ to others. Her colleagues have a lot of respect for her work and attitude.

She is also a very _____⁶ person with a lot of good ideas for the future of the company

Read the text below, then answer the following question.

 

Heavier the Internet use, higher the blood pressure risk in teens

    Researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit found that teens who spent at least 14 hours a week on the Internet had elevated blood pressure. Of 134 teens described by researchers as heavy Internet users (the ones who spent an average of 25 hours a week), 26 had elevated blood pressure. The findings add to growing research that has shown an association between heavy Internet use and other health risks like addiction, anxiety, depression, obesity and social isolation.

    Lead author Andrea Cassidy-Bushrow says the takehome message for teens and parents is moderation. “Using the Internet is part of our daily life but it shouldn’t consume us,” she says. She added that it’s important that young people take regular breaks from their computer or smartphone and engage in some form of physical activity, recommending parents to limit their children’s’ time at home on the Internet. “Two hours a day, five days a week is good rule of thumb.” Cassidy-Bushrow says the findings provide valuable information for school nurses for monitoring the health of students. School nurses could conduct annual health screenings where blood pressure and Internet use behaviors could be assessed. Students with an elevated blood pressure would then have a follow-up visit to determine next steps.

(Source: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/heavier-internet-higher-bp-risk-teens-024855511.html)

 

Glossary

average: média.

breaks: intervalos.

good rule of thumb: um bom parâmetro.

follow-up: subsequente.

screenings: controles.

Based on growing research linked to the text theme, we may infer that teenagers

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All You Need To Know About Sao Paulo, Brazil's Largest City

São Paulo state has 645 municipalities and a population of approximately 40 million inhabitants. According to IBGE, Brazil’s main government research institute, the population in the city of São Paulo is about 11 million inhabitants. If we take into account the metropolitan area, which includes 38 smaller cities around the capital, the population is almost 19,000,000 inhabitants. In Brazil, 81.3% of the population lives in urban areas even though the amazon rainforest covers up to 57% of the total area of Southern hemisphere’s largest country. This urban concentration helps to explain why it is more expensive to rent an office in São Paulo than in New York City.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ricardogeromel/2013/07/12/all-you-need-to-know-about-sao-paulo-brazils-largest-city/

Glossário:

inhabitants: habitantes  main: principal research: pesquisa if: se

take into account: levar em conta

smaller: menor

around: em volta dealmost: quase

live: morar, viver

country: país

help: ajudar

expensive: caro

rent: alugar

office: escritório

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