Questões de Inglês

    They are images for the history books. The photos of young men with backpacks and weary faces who set out on foot in September 2015 from Hungary on their way to Austria and Germany. Pictures of fathers with babies on their arms. Of women in headscarves holding their children’s hands. Most of them had fled the war in Syria or were from the war-torn countries of Afghanistan or Iraq.

    They came. A lot of them. And they changed Germany.

    There was a before and an after, wrote Angela Merkel in her memoirs. During the night of September 4, 2015, Merkel, who was chancellor at the time, decided that the German federal police officers would not block the refugees at the border. In the months that followed, more than a million asylum seekers arrived in the country. Never before since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 had the country seen such a huge wave of migration.

    “We can do it,” Merkel had said just a few days earlier („Wir shaffen das!” in original German). It was an enormous humanitarian challenge. No sentence during her career in politics ever blew up like that one did, she writes in her autobiography. “No sentence was as polarizing.”

Susmita Arp et al. How is Germany doing 10 years after the refugee crisis? Internet: www.spiegel.de (adapted).

When Merkel stated that her “We can do it” was a “polarizing” sentence, she

        To host UN climate talks, Brazil chose one of its poorer cities. That’s no accident.

 

When world leaders, diplomats, business leaders, scientists and activists go to Brazil in November for the United Nations’ annual climate negotiations, poverty, deforestation and much of the world’s troubles will be right in their faces — by design.

In past conference cities — including resort areas and playgrounds for the rich such as Bali, Cancun, Paris, Sharm El-Sheikh and Dubai — host nations show off both their amenities and what their communities have done about climate change. But this year’s conference is in a high-poverty city on the edge of the Amazon to demonstrate what needs to be done.

“What better way to tackle a problem than facing it head on, however uncomfortable”, COP30 President-designate André Corrêa do Lago said. “We cannot hide the fact that we are in the world with lots of inequalities and where sustainability and fighting climate change is something that has to get closer to people”.

This is a significant year for climate negotiations, but some of the negotiations’ most important work won’t be on the formal agenda, such as providing $1.3 trillion in financial help to poorer nations in dealing with climate change or the protection of forests.

On Wednesday, the United Nation’s top court ruled that a clean and healthy environment is a basic human right, a decision that may bolster efforts to come up with stronger action at the climate conference, some activists said.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-cop30-brazil-climate-do-lago-1968c645b24a5cfc5aa363da01d44495. Access on August 26, 2025. [Adapted].

Mark the alternative with the correct translations for the underlined words troubles, show off, to tackle and bolster as they are used in Text.

        To host UN climate talks, Brazil chose one of its poorer cities. That’s no accident.

 

When world leaders, diplomats, business leaders, scientists and activists go to Brazil in November for the United Nations’ annual climate negotiations, poverty, deforestation and much of the world’s troubles will be right in their faces — by design.

In past conference cities — including resort areas and playgrounds for the rich such as Bali, Cancun, Paris, Sharm El-Sheikh and Dubai — host nations show off both their amenities and what their communities have done about climate change. But this year’s conference is in a high-poverty city on the edge of the Amazon to demonstrate what needs to be done.

“What better way to tackle a problem than facing it head on, however uncomfortable”, COP30 President-designate André Corrêa do Lago said. “We cannot hide the fact that we are in the world with lots of inequalities and where sustainability and fighting climate change is something that has to get closer to people”.

This is a significant year for climate negotiations, but some of the negotiations’ most important work won’t be on the formal agenda, such as providing $1.3 trillion in financial help to poorer nations in dealing with climate change or the protection of forests.

On Wednesday, the United Nation’s top court ruled that a clean and healthy environment is a basic human right, a decision that may bolster efforts to come up with stronger action at the climate conference, some activists said.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-cop30-brazil-climate-do-lago-1968c645b24a5cfc5aa363da01d44495. Access on August 26, 2025. [Adapted].

Mark the correct alternative.

        To host UN climate talks, Brazil chose one of its poorer cities. That’s no accident.

 

When world leaders, diplomats, business leaders, scientists and activists go to Brazil in November for the United Nations’ annual climate negotiations, poverty, deforestation and much of the world’s troubles will be right in their faces — by design.

In past conference cities — including resort areas and playgrounds for the rich such as Bali, Cancun, Paris, Sharm El-Sheikh and Dubai — host nations show off both their amenities and what their communities have done about climate change. But this year’s conference is in a high-poverty city on the edge of the Amazon to demonstrate what needs to be done.

“What better way to tackle a problem than facing it head on, however uncomfortable”, COP30 President-designate André Corrêa do Lago said. “We cannot hide the fact that we are in the world with lots of inequalities and where sustainability and fighting climate change is something that has to get closer to people”.

This is a significant year for climate negotiations, but some of the negotiations’ most important work won’t be on the formal agenda, such as providing $1.3 trillion in financial help to poorer nations in dealing with climate change or the protection of forests.

On Wednesday, the United Nation’s top court ruled that a clean and healthy environment is a basic human right, a decision that may bolster efforts to come up with stronger action at the climate conference, some activists said.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-cop30-brazil-climate-do-lago-1968c645b24a5cfc5aa363da01d44495. Access on August 26, 2025. [Adapted].

According to Text, it is correct to say that:

        Brazil ensures accommodation for all countries at COP30

 

Cruise ships reinforce Brazilian accommodation solution during COP

 

On Wednesday, July 16, the Brazilian Federal Government, through the Special Secretariat for COP30 and Embratur, finalized an agreement for two cruise ships to serve as temporary accommodation during the COP30 event. This pivotal climate conference will take place in Belém, Pará, from November 10 to 21, 2025. This initiative will significantly increase lodging capacity by providing approximately 3,900 cabins and 6,000 beds for the world's largest climate event.

From now on, accommodation will be made available in stages. This includes all modalities, such as hotels, vacation rentals, and ships, among others, which are part of the set of accommodation solutions.

“These two large ships are part of a variety of lodging options designed to accommodate all COP30 attendees, including UN delegations, observers, civil society organizations, academic institutions, and businesses,” said Mr. Valter Correia, the special secretary for COP30.

Source: https://cop30.br/en/news-about-cop30/brasil-ensures-accommodation-for-all-countries-at-cop30. Access on August 16, 2025. [Adapted].

Consider the underlined words of the sentences below, taken from Text.

 

“From now on, accommodations will be made available in stages. This includes all modalities, such as hotels, vacation rentals, and ships, among others, which are part of the set of accommodation solutions.”

 

Now, select the correct option.

Based on information from Text, mark true (T) or false (F) for the statements below.

 

( ) The text shows the dates of the COP30 event.

( ) 3,900 refers to the number of beds available on ships.

( ) The government regulates accommodation offers for UN delegates only.

( ) The COP30 organizers think that ship transportation will improve traffic.

( ) Different accommodation options are being offered.

 

Now, select the option that shows the correct sequence.