Questões de Inglês

Text below is part of the article "Everything you need to know about green technology in 2023". Some prepositions were removed from it. Mark the alternative in which the prepositions complete the blanks CORRECTLY.

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Upcycling — turning waste (I) _____ new, usable materials or products — has never been more popular. 

Innovative companies and organizations around the world are finding ways (II) ____ upcycle existing waste
(III) _____ everything (IV) _____ fuel and fertilizer (V)_____ clothes and bicycles.

Upcycling is part (VI)_____ the circular economy, a model where ‘waste’ doesn’t exist — it simply becomes the raw material (VII)____ something new. 

(Source: https://greenly.earth/en-us/blog/ecology-news/everything-you-need-to-knowabout-green-technology-in-2022, retrieved on August 20th).

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PUREZA

Mrs. Pureza’s son, Abel, left Maranhão with great plans, but ended up as a victim of modern slavery inside a farm in the southeast of Pará. Similar stories are shared by many workers coming from different Brazilian states, mostly in the Northeast of the country, such as Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará and Bahia. The protagonists of many of these stories end up becoming numbers, or not even that, they simply “disappeared into the world”.

With the lack of news from her son, Pureza did not observe this situation inertly, but instead waged a colossal struggle, probably much greater and more complex than she could have imagined when she started the three-year journey in search of her son.

Clues led Pureza to a farm where she was able to unmask a major modern slavery scheme. With immense courage, she was able to change not only the life of her son but also lives connected to several other families and friends, bringing into focus the violation of human rights happening openly in Pará. A region that has been made invisible on the national scene and even more ignored on an international scale.

LIMA, Ana Rosa de. Extract taken from Recommendation: Pureza (movie) – Meli (meli-bees.org). Accessed on June 6th. Text slightly modified

 

Based on the reading of this extract as well as the other two triggered texts in this English Test, one can affirm that the main common linking-points among them is that they

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Wangari Maathai

    Wangari Maathai, in full Wangari Muta Maathai, (born April 1, 1940, Nyeri, Kenya—died September 25, 2011, Nairobi), Kenyan politician and environmental activist who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace, becoming the first Black African woman to win a Nobel Prize.

    Maathai was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica College (1964) and at the University of Pittsburgh (M.S., 1966). In 1971 she received a Ph.D. at the University of Nairobi, effectively becoming the first woman in either East or Central Africa to earn a doctorate.

    Maathai developed the idea that village women could improve the environment by planting trees to provide a fuel source and to slow the processes of deforestation and desertification. The Green Belt Movement, an organization she founded in 1977, had by the early 21st century planted some 30 million trees. Leaders of the Green Belt Movement established the Pan African Green Belt Network in 1986 in order to educate world leaders about conservation and environmental improvement.

    In addition to her conservation work, Maathai was elected to Kenya’s National Assembly in 2002 with 98 percent of the vote, and in 2003 she was appointed assistant minister of environment, natural resources, and wildlife. When she won the Nobel Prize in 2004, the committee commended her “holistic approach to sustainable development that embraces democracy, human rights, and women’s rights in particular.” She published an autobiography, Unbowed, in 2007. Another volume, The Challenge for Africa (2009), criticized Africa’s leadership as ineffectual and urged Africans to try to solve their problems without Western assistance. Maathai was a frequent contributor to international publications such as the Los Angeles Times and the Guardian.

Wangari Maathai | Extract taken from Biography, Nobel Peace Prize, Books, Green Belt Movement, & Facts | Britannica

The underlined words environmental (3^rd par.), National (4^th par.), and natural (4^th par.), according to the english morphology, are respectively

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Wangari Maathai

    Wangari Maathai, in full Wangari Muta Maathai, (born April 1, 1940, Nyeri, Kenya—died September 25, 2011, Nairobi), Kenyan politician and environmental activist who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace, becoming the first Black African woman to win a Nobel Prize.

    Maathai was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica College (1964) and at the University of Pittsburgh (M.S., 1966). In 1971 she received a Ph.D. at the University of Nairobi, effectively becoming the first woman in either East or Central Africa to earn a doctorate.

    Maathai developed the idea that village women could improve the environment by planting trees to provide a fuel source and to slow the processes of deforestation and desertification. The Green Belt Movement, an organization she founded in 1977, had by the early 21st century planted some 30 million trees. Leaders of the Green Belt Movement established the Pan African Green Belt Network in 1986 in order to educate world leaders about conservation and environmental improvement.

    In addition to her conservation work, Maathai was elected to Kenya’s National Assembly in 2002 with 98 percent of the vote, and in 2003 she was appointed assistant minister of environment, natural resources, and wildlife. When she won the Nobel Prize in 2004, the committee commended her “holistic approach to sustainable development that embraces democracy, human rights, and women’s rights in particular.” She published an autobiography, Unbowed, in 2007. Another volume, The Challenge for Africa (2009), criticized Africa’s leadership as ineffectual and urged Africans to try to solve their problems without Western assistance. Maathai was a frequent contributor to international publications such as the Los Angeles Times and the Guardian.

Wangari Maathai | Extract taken from Biography, Nobel Peace Prize, Books, Green Belt Movement, & Facts | Britannica

Wangari Maathai developed a project to improve the environment.

 

If they fail the main goal of this project, one would have, as a consequence

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Sprowston mother in stand-off with school over bullying
By David HannantDHannant87Specialist reporter: health and education

 

A Sprowston mother is locked in a stand-off with her daughter's school after keeping her at home for the past six weeks to avoid what she describes as "brutal" bullying.
Rebecca Everson says the treatment her 12-year-old daughter Phoebe suffers has become so severe that the youngster has been left "a shell of a girl".
She says the Year 8 Sprowston Community Academy pupil is subjected to cruel messages on social media platforms like Whatsapp, Instagram and Snapchat and has abuse hurled at her by classmates regularly.
After raising her concerns with school leaders, Ms. Everson said her daughter's issues only got worse so for the past six weeks she has refused to send her in. However, she now claims the school is threatening her with fines over Phoebe's attendance record.
She said: "The bullying Phoebe has suffered has been awful. They send her messages calling her every name under the sun. It is brutal.
"I have rung the school and told them she does not feel safe at school and requested work to be sent home for her, but they have done nothing."
Ms. Everson the issue started in October last year, which she reported to Phoebe's teachers.

She said: "The school said they would talk to the girls involved, but when they did it just aggravated the situation.
"Some of the girls involved in the cyberbullying attend other schools nearby too, so moving schools is just not viable.
"Phoebe is a shell of the girl she was before this all began. She has done nothing to deserve this but now she's terrified to even go to school.
"I just feel like I'm going around and around in circles trying to get something done - it's terribly awful."
Sprowston Community Academy was approached for comment but said the school was unable to comment on individual cases.

Sprowston mother in stand-off with school over bullying | Extract taken from Eastern Daily Press (edp24.co.uk) and slightly modified

The English grammar has been established by the usage of strict rules along the time. The following group of options has been used under the same core grammar fundament EXCEPT one.

 

It is the option in letter

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Sprowston mother in stand-off with school over bullying
By David HannantDHannant87Specialist reporter: health and education

 

A Sprowston mother is locked in a stand-off with her daughter's school after keeping her at home for the past six weeks to avoid what she describes as "brutal" bullying.
Rebecca Everson says the treatment her 12-year-old daughter Phoebe suffers has become so severe that the youngster has been left "a shell of a girl".
She says the Year 8 Sprowston Community Academy pupil is subjected to cruel messages on social media platforms like Whatsapp, Instagram and Snapchat and has abuse hurled at her by classmates regularly.
After raising her concerns with school leaders, Ms. Everson said her daughter's issues only got worse so for the past six weeks she has refused to send her in. However, she now claims the school is threatening her with fines over Phoebe's attendance record.
She said: "The bullying Phoebe has suffered has been awful. They send her messages calling her every name under the sun. It is brutal.
"I have rung the school and told them she does not feel safe at school and requested work to be sent home for her, but they have done nothing."
Ms. Everson the issue started in October last year, which she reported to Phoebe's teachers.

She said: "The school said they would talk to the girls involved, but when they did it just aggravated the situation.
"Some of the girls involved in the cyberbullying attend other schools nearby too, so moving schools is just not viable.
"Phoebe is a shell of the girl she was before this all began. She has done nothing to deserve this but now she's terrified to even go to school.
"I just feel like I'm going around and around in circles trying to get something done - it's terribly awful."
Sprowston Community Academy was approached for comment but said the school was unable to comment on individual cases.

Sprowston mother in stand-off with school over bullying | Extract taken from Eastern Daily Press (edp24.co.uk) and slightly modified

Based on Phoebe’s mother complaining about her suffering bullying daughter, one can say that, after such a negative experience, Phoebe