Questões de Inglês

Answer question after reading the paragraph below.

 

    Americans are well-known for being friendly. If we’re
taking a walk in the park and we pass someone, we
usually say a few words to people in stores, bars and
banks. But remember: friendliness is not friendship; it’s
[5] politeness. In the United States, it’s just as hard to make
real friends as it is anywhere else.

(Move Up - Heinemann)

In the statement,

 

“...we usually say a few words to people in stores...” (lines 2 and 3) the underlined words may be understood as 

[1]THE FUTURE OF TWITTER

[2]  Microblogging platform Twitter has 32 million users, an increase
[3]  from about 2 million a year ago, according to research mentioned
[4]  in the Wall Street Journal. Some Internet measurement services
[5]  show that figure increasing 50% to 100% month over month.
[6]  While it is not clear that Twitter will become as large as social
[7]  networks MySpace and Facebook or video-sharing site YouTube,
[8]  the company could certainly have 50 million visitors by the end of
[9]  the year.
[10]  Because Twitter can be used with ease on both PCs and mobile
[11]  devices, and because it limits users to very short messages of 140
[12]  characters or fewer, it has become one of the largest platforms in
[13]  the world for sharing real-time data. A number of large businesses and celebrities have hundreds of thousands of
[14]  followers on Twitter.
[15]  As Twitter grows, it will increasingly become a place where companies build brands, do research, send information to
[16]  customers, conduct e-commerce and create communities for their users. Some industries, like local retail, could be
[17]  transformed by Twitter - both at one-store operations that cater to customers within a few blocks of their locations and
[18]  at the individual stores of giant retail operations like Wal-Mart (WMT). In either case, having the opportunity to tell
[19]  customers about attractive sales and new products can be done at remarkably low cost while providing for greater
[20]  geographic accuracy.
[21]  Twitter users have set up their own rules of conduct when using the service, not unlike those with MySpace and
[22]  Facebook. These rules were not put together by Twitter itself, which mandates only rules of use. Like many
[23]  social-network sites, Twitter is self-governed by its members, and companies must take that into account as they join
[24]  the service.
[25]  Twitter is still in the early stages of developing a plan for making money as a company, but plenty of large corporations
[26]  like Starbucks are already using it as a marketing tool. Twitter will probably evolve into both a community of individuals
[27]  and a community of companies that provide goods and services for those individuals.
[28]  Adapted from Time Magazine (Douglas A. McIntyre)
[29]  http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1901188_1901207_1901196,00.html

Os verbos DO e MAKE são sinônimos no significado, mas não no uso e são usados em diferentes expressões; ou seja, o significado que tais verbos assumem depende da expressão em que ocorrem, como exemplo na expressão "do research" (linha 15).
A expressão que contém o CORRETO uso do verbo é

The phrasal verb “To get rid of” is:

    The International Labor Organization predicted that at least 20 million jobs will have been lost by the end of 2009 due to the crisis - mostly in "construction, real estate, financial services, and the auto sector" - bringing world unemployment above 200 million for the first time.

What this text about?

The first WOMAD (World of Music Arts and Dance) festival in the Middle East region brought to Abu Dhabi by ADACH (Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage) drew to a close last night with a capacity crowd.

“We couldn’t have asked for a more successful event. Every evening exceeded our expectations with cultures and people from around the globe joining together to celebrate world music.” Abdulla Salim Al Amri, Director of Culture and Arts Department, Abu Dhabi. […]

The final evening drew the largest crowd of the weekend with 30,000 people enjoying ‘The King’ of Egypt, Mohamed Mounir, as he closed the festival to fireworks signalling the end of WOMAD Abu Dhabi for 2009.

“We’ve never experienced a WOMAD festival like this. There has been a true cross-section of society here during all three evenings. The multicultural aspect of the festival has been quite unique for us. We have been working in partnership with ADACH for 18 months and it has been a fantastic team effort to produce such a successful festival. We are already discussing next year’s WOMAD festival with ADACH.” Chris Smith, WOMAD Festival Director.

Source: Adapted from: http://www.middle-east-online.com/English/culture.

In the sentence “Every evening exceeded our expectations with cultures and people from around the globe joining together to celebrate world music”, the word celebrate means:

Take good care of your health!

 

Over the past two years, the AHIP Board of Directors (…) a number of detailed proposals to cover the uninsured, improve the quality and safety of health care, and to reduce health care costs. Visit the newsroom to learn more (…) these proposals.