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  What is a pub? The word pub is short for public house. Pubs are popular social meeting places. They are an important part of British life. People talk, eat, drink, meet their friends and relax there. Many have a garden where people can sit in the summer. One of the oldest pubs, Fighting Cocks in St. Albans, Herts, is located in a building that dates back to the eleventh century. Groups of friends normally buy ‘rounds’ of drinks, where the person whose turn it is will buy drinks for all the members of the group. In most pubs in Britain, you must go to the bar to order drinks and food and pay for your purchase immediately, there is no table service. Bartenders do not expect frequent tipping. To tip them, it is customary to say: “Would you like a drink yourself?”

Adaptado de http://projectbritain.com/pubs.htm, consulta em 22/06/2012

According to the text, it is correct to say that in Britain

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  “Hello”, said a quiet, musical voice.

  I looked up, stunned that he was speaking to me. He was sitting as far away from me as the desk allowed, but his chair was angled toward me. His hair was dripping wet – he looked like someone in a commercial for hair gel. His dazzling face was friendly, open, a slight smile on his flawless lips. But his eyes were careful.

  “My name is Edward Cullen,” he continued. “I didn’t have a chance to introduce myself last week. You must be Bella Swan.”

  My mind was spinning with confusion. He was perfectly polite now. I had to speak; he was waiting. But I couldn’t think of anything conventional to say.

  “H-how do you know my name?” I stammered.
  He laughed a soft laugh.
  “Oh, I think everyone knows your name. The whole town was waiting for you to arrive.”

MEYER, S. Twilight. New York: Megan Tingley Books, 2006. Page 43.

According to Bella’s descriptions in the text, Edward was

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  “Hello”, said a quiet, musical voice.

  I looked up, stunned that he was speaking to me. He was sitting as far away from me as the desk allowed, but his chair was angled toward me. His hair was dripping wet – he looked like someone in a commercial for hair gel. His dazzling face was friendly, open, a slight smile on his flawless lips. But his eyes were careful.

  “My name is Edward Cullen,” he continued. “I didn’t have a chance to introduce myself last week. You must be Bella Swan.”

  My mind was spinning with confusion. He was perfectly polite now. I had to speak; he was waiting. But I couldn’t think of anything conventional to say.

  “H-how do you know my name?” I stammered.
  He laughed a soft laugh.
  “Oh, I think everyone knows your name. The whole town was waiting for you to arrive.”

MEYER, S. Twilight. New York: Megan Tingley Books, 2006. Page 43.

  “My mind was spinning with confusion. He was perfectly polite now. I had to speak; he was waiting. But I couldn’t think of anything conventional to say.

  “H-how do you know my name?” I stammered.”

  The excerpt above describes a feeling of

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Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours and militant culture

 

  Chengdu, China (CNN) — Miss Chen (we changed her name for this story), an 18-year-old student from a village outside of the southern megacity of Chongqing, is one of more than one million factory workers at a Chinese company that helps manufacture products for Apple Inc.’s lucrative global empire, which ranked in a record $46.3 billion in sales last quarter. They work day or night shifts, eating and sleeping at company facilities, as they help build electronics products for Apple and many other global brand names, such as Amazon’s Kindle and Microsoft’s Xbox.

  As a poor college student with no work experience, looking for a job in China’s competitive market is an uphill battle. So when Chen was offered a one-month position at Foxconn with promises of great benefits and little overtime, she jumped at the chance. But when she started working, she found out that only senior employees got such benefits.

  “During my first day of work, an older worker said to me, ‘Why did you come to Foxconn? Think about it again and leave right now’,” said Chen, who plans to return to her studies at a Chongqing university soon.

  Foxconn recently released a statement defending its corporate practices, stating its employees are entitled to numerous benefits including access to health care and opportunities for promotions and training. In response to questions from CNN, Apple also released a statement: “We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. We insist that our suppliers provide safe working conditions, treat workers with dignity and respect, and use environmentally responsible manufacturing processes wherever Apple products are made. Our suppliers must live up to these requirements if they want to keep doing business with Apple.”

  After three weeks of applying more than 4,000 stickers a day onto iPad screens by hand and working 60 hours a week in an assembly line, Chen says she’s ready to go back to school and study hard so she’ll never have to return to Foxconn. “It’s so boring, I can’t bear it anymore. Everyday is like: I get off from work and I go to bed. I get up in the morning, and I go to work. It is my daily routine and I almost feel like an animal,” said Miss Chen. When asked why humans do machine-like work at Foxconn, she responds, “Well, humans are cheaper.”

Adaptado de http://edition.cnn.com, consulta em 06/02/2012

In the sentence “As a poor college student with no work experience, looking for a job in China’s competitive market is an uphill battle.”, the author means that

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London University Considers Alcohol Ban to Avoid Offending Muslims

 

  In a surprising and potentially controversial move that is being seen as a sign of changing attitudes in UK further education, a London university is considering ending the sale of alcohol on campus because of concerns from Muslim students.

  The London Metropolitan University is poised to take the action because a ‘high percentage’ of    10    Islamic students regard drinking as ‘immoral’, according to its vice chancellor Professor Malcolm Gillies.

  Gillies   11    the idea after talking to a large number of new students to the University. ‘I was raising the issue of changing values in student populations and the question of how a responsible university responds. London Metropolitan University is a highly diverse university ethnically and in religious terms. Our students come from all over the world and they come with changing balance of values. So the issue of how we cater for those values while still remaining true to being a British university is one of the constant issues any responsible university would be considering,’ he explained.

(www.school-to-university.com/Adaptado.)

Qual a melhor tradução para o falso cognato large, no início do 3.º parágrafo, contido em – after talking to a large number of new students?