Questões de Inglês

Spider-Man 4 (2011) - Preview

 

If you’re a serious Spider-Man fan, you’ve probably been wondering when

the producers are finally going to let Dylan Baker become the super-villain

we’ve all been waiting for. Yes, the one-armed college professor who

appears in all three Spider-Man films (for about 90 seconds at a time) is the

[5]  guy who eventually gets turned into man-sized Lizard with a true hatred for

Spider-Man.

According to one source, not only will Baker finally become The Lizard in

Spider-Man 4, but we’ll also have to contend with a certain villain known

as Carnage. Director Sam Raimi who directed all the previous movies in the

[10]  franchise will be back in the director’s chair.

There has been much speculation about who the next villains might be. In previous interviews, director

Raimi was secretive about the actors who would play the role of The Sinister Six and Electro. Expect

this to be a closely guarded secret for a while to come.

Apparently there’s also talk of getting Black Cat into the Spider-Man 4 mix because, if a record

[15]  breaking opening weekend tells you one thing, it’s that you can never have too many villains in your

Spidey sequels. Venom will probably not be returning. Word has it that this character will have its own

live-action movie title – screenwriters are already at work on this.

Spider-Man 4 would have to go a little bit “darker” than its predecessors to accurately capture the

Carnage story, which focuses on a serial killer called Cletus Kasady. Despite rumors about the next

movie, it seems that both Maguire and Kirstin Dunst, as his girlfriend Mary Jane, will return.

Spider-Man 4 Director: Sam Raimi U.S. Opening Date: May 2011 

 

The text is a preview, that is, an anticipated review of an upcoming movie.
 
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  A team from Northwestern University, Illinois, found that when you eat, not just how you eat, could make a big difference. Scientists found that when mice ate at unusual hours, they put on twice as much weight, despite exercising and eating as much as the other mice. The study, in the journal Obesity, is said to be the first to show directly that there is a “wrong” time to eat. Recent studies have suggested that circadian rhythms, the body’s internal clock, have a role in how our bodies use up energy. However, this had been difficult to prove definitively.

  Deanna Arble, the main author of the study, said: “One of our research interests is shift workers1, who tend to be overweight. This got us thinking that eating at the wrong time of day might be contributing to weight gain”.

  The researchers looked at two groups of mice over a six-week period. Both groups were fed a high-fat diet, but at different times of the mice “waking cycle”. One group of mice ate at times when they would normally be asleep. They put on twice as much weight. This was despite the fact that they did the same level of activity, and ate the same amount of food, as the other mice. The researchers believe that the findings may have implications for people worried about their weight.

¹ shift workers = people who work at night

(http//www.bbc.co.uk – 08/09/2009. Adapted.)

According to the text, the aim of the study was:

Texto I

RIO DE JANEIRO IS IN FIGHT OVER BRAZIL’S OIL RICHES

 

[5] The lower house of Congress voted last

week to share the portion of the country’s

royalties from oil revenues that go to

Brazil’s states equally among the states.

[10] The vote, part of a broad overhaul of the

nation’s oil laws being undertaken in the

wake of big offshore discoveries over the

last three years, was a shocking blow to the

state government of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s

[15] biggest oil-producing region. If the bill

becomes law, it would deny the state of Rio

and other oil-producing states billions of

dollars in expected royalties. Rio’s annual

oil revenue would fall to about $134 million

[20] from about $4.3 billion, state officials said.

But Rio’s governor, Sérgio Cabral, is

fighting back, calling the vote in Congress a

“lynching” and contending that it was

unconstitutional. He said promised public

[25] works projects for the 2014 soccer World

Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio could be

imperiled by a sudden drop in revenues,

although the federal government has

pledged to back Rio’s Olympic effort. Mr.

[30] Cabral, an ally of President Luiz Inácio Lula

da Silva, organized a large march through

Rio’s streets on Wednesday afternoon to

protest the move by Congress. Despite a

persistent rain, tens of thousands of people,

[35] many of them state employees who had

been given the day off, showed up, with

many arriving on buses from all over the

state. “No one has the right to take away

that which nature has put within the limits of

[40] Rio de Janeiro,” Carlos Lupi, Rio’s labor

minister, said in a speech at the march and

rally. Faced with the world’s most important

oil discovery in years, Brazil’s government

is seeking to alter the country’s oil laws to

[45] centralize control over future oil revenues in

the federal government’s hands. The new

region, lying under about 20,000 feet of

water, salt and sand, is estimated to hold

more than five billion barrels of crude oil. If

[50] recovered, it could transform Brazil into a

global oil power.

While the bulk of the oil is not expected to

flow for at least four years, Mr. da Silva and

his allies in Congress are pushing to get a

[55] series of four oil-related laws passed before

Congress goes into recess in June or July.

The bills would seek to make the Brazilian

national oil company, Petrobras, the

operator of all future oil discoveries from the

[60] new region, known as the presalt region.

They would also include a mammoth

capitalization of Petrobras, a stock issuance

expected to be valued at more than $50

billion, said Christopher Garman, an analyst

[65] with the Eurasia Group, a risk consulting

firm in New York. With what could be

hundreds of billions of dollars at stake over

decades, the proposed bills have become

extremely contentious in Congress, where

[70] opposition politicians are seeking to stall a

full vote on the bills until after the

presidential election in October. “What Lula

wants to avoid is that this huge fight over

distribution of royalty taxes gets in the way

[75] of approving the proposal for oil reform,”

Mr. Garman said. “That is the risk for the

government.” The proposals on oil reform

and the issuance of stock in Petrobras

came under a cloud last week when two

[80] members of Congress from states that do

not produce oil, Ibsen Pinheiro and

Humberto Souto, proposed the idea of

equally distributing the portion of royalties

from oil revenues that go to states and

[85] municipalities. This would include both past

and future oil developments.

Fonte:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/world/americas/18brazil (acessado e adaptado em 03/04/10)

A frase dita por Carlos Lupi, ministro do Trabalho, No one has the right to take away that which nature has put within the limits of Rio de Janeiro (ℓ 33 a 35), pode ser traduzida por:

    Last month America’s unemployment rate climbed to

8,1%, the highest in a quarter of a century. For those

newly out of a job, the chances of finding another soon are

the worst since records began 50 years ago. In China 20m

[5] migrant workers (maybe 3% of the labour force) have

been laid off. Cambodia’s textile industry, its main source

of exports, has cut one worker in ten. In Spain the

building bust has pushed the jobless rate up by two-thirds

in a year, to 14.8% in January. And in Japan, where

[10] official unemployment used to be all but unknown, tens of

thousands of people on temporary contracts are losing not

just their jobs but also the housing provided by their

employers.

    The next phase of the world’s economic downturn is

[15] taking shape: a global jobs crisis. Its contours are only just

becoming clear, but the severity, breadth and likely length

of the recession, together with changes in the structure of

labour markets in both rich and emerging economies,

suggest the world is about to undergo its biggest increase

[20] in unemployment for decades.

The Economist, March 14th 2009.

O pronome “another” (L. 3) na sentença “...the chances of finding another...” refere-se a

    Last month America’s unemployment rate climbed to

8,1%, the highest in a quarter of a century. For those

newly out of a job, the chances of finding another soon are

the worst since records began 50 years ago. In China 20m

[5] migrant workers (maybe 3% of the labour force) have

been laid off. Cambodia’s textile industry, its main source

of exports, has cut one worker in ten. In Spain the

building bust has pushed the jobless rate up by two-thirds

in a year, to 14.8% in January. And in Japan, where

[10] official unemployment used to be all but unknown, tens of

thousands of people on temporary contracts are losing not

just their jobs but also the housing provided by their

employers.

    The next phase of the world’s economic downturn is

[15] taking shape: a global jobs crisis. Its contours are only just

becoming clear, but the severity, breadth and likely length

of the recession, together with changes in the structure of

labour markets in both rich and emerging economies,

suggest the world is about to undergo its biggest increase

[20] in unemployment for decades.

The Economist, March 14th 2009.

De acordo com o texto, publicado em março de 2009,

Crystal Ball

 

Come see your life in my crystal glass –

Twenty–five cents is all you pay.

Let me look into your past –

Here?s what you had for lunch today:

Tuna salad and mashed potatoes,

Collard greens pea soup and apple juice,

Chocolate milk and lemon mousse.

You admit I?ve got told it all?

Well, I know it, I confess,

Not by looking, in my ball,

But just by looking at your dress

SILVERSTEIN, S. Falling up. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996.

 

A curiosidade a respeito do futuro pode exercer um fascínio peculiar sobre algumas pessoas, a ponto de colocá-las em situações inusitadas.

 

Na letra da música Crystal Ball, essa situação fica evidente quando é revelado à pessoa que ela