Questões de Inglês

Disponível em: https://calvinandhobbes-daily.tumblr.com. Acesso em: 13 nov. 2024.

 

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    Researchers looked at nearly 4 500 adults and found that cat ownership was related to a 40% lower risk of suffering a fatal heart attack. The team speculated that having a cat may reduce stress and anxiety, and so protect against cardiovascular disease.

    The study, led by Professor Adnan Qureshi at the University of Minnesota, suggested that even those who no longer owned a cat benefited from these protective effects. But, specifically, some 3,4% of those who owned a cat during the duration of the study died from a heart attack, compared with 5,8% of those who did not.

    The benefits held true even after the researchers adjusted for cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure, diabetes, smoking and high cholesterol.

Disponível em: http://news.bbc.co.uk. Acesso em: 13 nov. 2024 (adaptado).

 

According to the research, it is possible to state that non cat owners

(www.bbc.co.uk, 31.05.2024.)

 

 A group of tourists wheel their bulky luggage through the crowds in search of the perfect shot. They gather on a pavement opposite a convenience store — but this is no ordinary store. Rising behind it is Japan’s highest mountain top, the majestic Mount Fuji. The snowy peak of 3,776 meters forms a stunning background for those in search of their next favourite selfie or instagrammable moment. The visitors got what they wanted — and just in time.

 Fast forward a few weeks, to today, and that view is gone. The once-busy vantage point — the pavement — is now behind a black mesh screen1. The barrier is the result of a chorus of complaints from locals, who say their lives have been disrupted by tourists who dirty the streets and disobey traffic rules.

 The picturesque town of Fuji Kawaguchiko has been feeling the impact of a rise in tourism — driven up by a weak yen and a post-pandemic travel boom. The screen is a desperate move and a sign of Japan’s struggle to accommodate this many visitors while protecting its streets, its famous spots and its particular way of living.

 But if the screen is meant to keep people away, it isn’t doing that — yet. Visitors wonder how effective it will be: “It may work for a few days. But I’m sure someone will make a hole [in it] and take a picture at some point,” says Yuri Vavilin, a tourist from Kazakhstan. He is disappointed he missed the crucial shot but he says he shall return and try from either end of the screen.

 This dedication is surprising to 65-year-old Kazuhiko Iwama, who has lived his entire life in Fuji Kawaguchiko. His house sits opposite the convenience store, with its famous blue sign that says ‘Lawson’. “I see it every day from my window, so I really don’t have much to say about it,” he says, looking at the volcano that draws tourists from around the world. “I guess I take it for granted.”

(Shaimaa Khalil. www.bbc.com, 21.05.2024. Adaptado.)

¹mesh screen: uma tela com espaços, como uma malha.

A expressão “This dedication”, que introduz o último parágrafo, refere-se

(www.bbc.co.uk, 31.05.2024.)

 

 A group of tourists wheel their bulky luggage through the crowds in search of the perfect shot. They gather on a pavement opposite a convenience store — but this is no ordinary store. Rising behind it is Japan’s highest mountain top, the majestic Mount Fuji. The snowy peak of 3,776 meters forms a stunning background for those in search of their next favourite selfie or instagrammable moment. The visitors got what they wanted — and just in time.

 Fast forward a few weeks, to today, and that view is gone. The once-busy vantage point — the pavement — is now behind a black mesh screen1. The barrier is the result of a chorus of complaints from locals, who say their lives have been disrupted by tourists who dirty the streets and disobey traffic rules.

 The picturesque town of Fuji Kawaguchiko has been feeling the impact of a rise in tourism — driven up by a weak yen and a post-pandemic travel boom. The screen is a desperate move and a sign of Japan’s struggle to accommodate this many visitors while protecting its streets, its famous spots and its particular way of living.

 But if the screen is meant to keep people away, it isn’t doing that — yet. Visitors wonder how effective it will be: “It may work for a few days. But I’m sure someone will make a hole [in it] and take a picture at some point,” says Yuri Vavilin, a tourist from Kazakhstan. He is disappointed he missed the crucial shot but he says he shall return and try from either end of the screen.

 This dedication is surprising to 65-year-old Kazuhiko Iwama, who has lived his entire life in Fuji Kawaguchiko. His house sits opposite the convenience store, with its famous blue sign that says ‘Lawson’. “I see it every day from my window, so I really don’t have much to say about it,” he says, looking at the volcano that draws tourists from around the world. “I guess I take it for granted.”

(Shaimaa Khalil. www.bbc.com, 21.05.2024. Adaptado.)

¹mesh screen: uma tela com espaços, como uma malha.

In the fragment from the third paragraph “The screen is a desperate move and a sign of Japan’s struggle to accommodate this many visitors”, the underlined word can be replaced, without meaning change, by

(www.bbc.co.uk, 31.05.2024.)

 

 A group of tourists wheel their bulky luggage through the crowds in search of the perfect shot. They gather on a pavement opposite a convenience store — but this is no ordinary store. Rising behind it is Japan’s highest mountain top, the majestic Mount Fuji. The snowy peak of 3,776 meters forms a stunning background for those in search of their next favourite selfie or instagrammable moment. The visitors got what they wanted — and just in time.

 Fast forward a few weeks, to today, and that view is gone. The once-busy vantage point — the pavement — is now behind a black mesh screen1. The barrier is the result of a chorus of complaints from locals, who say their lives have been disrupted by tourists who dirty the streets and disobey traffic rules.

 The picturesque town of Fuji Kawaguchiko has been feeling the impact of a rise in tourism — driven up by a weak yen and a post-pandemic travel boom. The screen is a desperate move and a sign of Japan’s struggle to accommodate this many visitors while protecting its streets, its famous spots and its particular way of living.

 But if the screen is meant to keep people away, it isn’t doing that — yet. Visitors wonder how effective it will be: “It may work for a few days. But I’m sure someone will make a hole [in it] and take a picture at some point,” says Yuri Vavilin, a tourist from Kazakhstan. He is disappointed he missed the crucial shot but he says he shall return and try from either end of the screen.

 This dedication is surprising to 65-year-old Kazuhiko Iwama, who has lived his entire life in Fuji Kawaguchiko. His house sits opposite the convenience store, with its famous blue sign that says ‘Lawson’. “I see it every day from my window, so I really don’t have much to say about it,” he says, looking at the volcano that draws tourists from around the world. “I guess I take it for granted.”

(Shaimaa Khalil. www.bbc.com, 21.05.2024. Adaptado.)

¹mesh screen: uma tela com espaços, como uma malha.

The purpose of the text is to

The following text is the 5^th stanza of Earthrise, a poem written by Amanda Gorman, which is dedi cated to the Climate Reality Project.

 

Earthrise by Amanda Gorman

[...]

We’ve known

That we’re caught in the throes
Of climactic changes some say
Will just go away,
While some simply pray
To survive another day;
For it is the obscure, the oppressed, the poor,
Who when the disaster
Is declared done,
Still    suffer    more    than    anyone.
[...]

(GORMAN, Amanda. Earthrise. Disponível em: https://www. naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/earth--science/climate-change-ela-connections-through-poetry. Acesso em 20. out. 2024)

 

In this stanza the poet highlights: