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A NEW ALTERNATIVE TO CAR OWNERSHIP

New drivers are usually excited about their new freedom: “My mom doesn’t have to drive me everywhere anymore! I don’t have to ask my friends for rides to school!” When you don’t have your own car yet, any price seems worth paying.

But once you buy a car, you can’t forget your car payments and insurance premiums, or you won’t be a driver for very long. You can’t leave gas and maintenance out of the budget either. Car sharing offers an alternative to these problems, however. Members of carsharing groups have a car when they need one for either short trips of vacations, but they don’t have the high expenses of ownership. They pay very little to use a shared car, and they don’t have to worry about maintaining the car or paying the insurance.

Fees for short trips are only about $3.00 an hour plus $0,50 per mile.

Groups do not have strict requirements either. Members must not have bad driving records or poor credit, and they must not return the cars in poor shape or they will pay extra.

FUCHS, M.; BONNER, M. Grammar Express. New York: Longman, 2000. p.148. (Adaptado).

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Consider the following saying: “Absence makes heart grow fonder”.

 

The alternative that explains the saying is:

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The ongoing mystery of hiccups

Humans ________ long tried to cure hiccups by ________ water or ________ scared. Here’s what scientists ________ about how this reflex ________ – and how to stop it.

Sierra Pisenti knows hiccups.

She really, really wishes she didn’t. Hers are loud and painful, can last for hours, and have shown up more than a dozen times a month since she was a tiny baby. A bad bout feels like being punched in the chest. “It’s a nightmare,” says Pisenti, a stay-at-home mom from California.

Your hiccups probably aren’t as bad as Pisenti’s, but you likely recognize the dreaded sensation: a tightening in your chest, the characteristic “hic” – and the desperation to make them end. And you probably have the same question as her:

“How is it possible that there isn't a solution?”

Hiccups have roots deep in our evolutionary history. ________ after millions of years, tens of thousands of years of human problemsolving, and decades of modern medicine, their origin and purpose is still largely opaque.

“Things like this, that are considered obvious or very simple, are often overlooked by many doctors,” says Mark Fox, a gastroenterologist at University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland.

Swallowing, eating, drinking, what happens in normal life – none of this stuff will kill you if it doesn’t work well. But it will ruin your life!”

Available in: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/

Mark Fox, a gastroenterologist in Switzerland, points out that doctors:

The following text refers to question.

 

The ongoing mystery of hiccups

Humans ________ long tried to cure hiccups by ________ water or ________ scared. Here’s what scientists ________ about how this reflex ________ – and how to stop it.

Sierra Pisenti knows hiccups.

She really, really wishes she didn’t. Hers are loud and painful, can last for hours, and have shown up more than a dozen times a month since she was a tiny baby. A bad bout feels like being punched in the chest. “It’s a nightmare,” says Pisenti, a stay-at-home mom from California.

Your hiccups probably aren’t as bad as Pisenti’s, but you likely recognize the dreaded sensation: a tightening in your chest, the characteristic “hic” – and the desperation to make them end. And you probably have the same question as her:

“How is it possible that there isn't a solution?”

Hiccups have roots deep in our evolutionary history. ________ after millions of years, tens of thousands of years of human problemsolving, and decades of modern medicine, their origin and purpose is still largely opaque.

“Things like this, that are considered obvious or very simple, are often overlooked by many doctors,” says Mark Fox, a gastroenterologist at University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland.

Swallowing, eating, drinking, what happens in normal life – none of this stuff will kill you if it doesn’t work well. But it will ruin your life!”

Available in: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/

Mark the alternative that fills in the last gap of the text.

The following text refers to question.

 

The ongoing mystery of hiccups

Humans ________ long tried to cure hiccups by ________ water or ________ scared. Here’s what scientists ________ about how this reflex ________ – and how to stop it.

Sierra Pisenti knows hiccups.

She really, really wishes she didn’t. Hers are loud and painful, can last for hours, and have shown up more than a dozen times a month since she was a tiny baby. A bad bout feels like being punched in the chest. “It’s a nightmare,” says Pisenti, a stay-at-home mom from California.

Your hiccups probably aren’t as bad as Pisenti’s, but you likely recognize the dreaded sensation: a tightening in your chest, the characteristic “hic” – and the desperation to make them end. And you probably have the same question as her:

“How is it possible that there isn't a solution?”

Hiccups have roots deep in our evolutionary history. ________ after millions of years, tens of thousands of years of human problemsolving, and decades of modern medicine, their origin and purpose is still largely opaque.

“Things like this, that are considered obvious or very simple, are often overlooked by many doctors,” says Mark Fox, a gastroenterologist at University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland.

Swallowing, eating, drinking, what happens in normal life – none of this stuff will kill you if it doesn’t work well. But it will ruin your life!”

Available in: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/

Mark the alternative that fills in the gaps of the first two sentences of the excerpt.

The following text refers to question.

A spoon full of beer sounds unusual; ______________, it could be the future of a drink popular around the world.

A brewery in Eastern Germany has developed an alcohol-free beer powder to reduce the heavy carbon footprint of beer exports. It’s a completely new product, and such an approach has never existed before. According to the inventors, using powdered beer can save about 3 to 5% of the CO2 emissions for Germany alone, and globally, it would be about half a percent of CO2 emissions.

The powder can create lager, pilsner, or dark beer, and the first beer tastings with the powder brew have been promising.

The company is confident to have a market-ready product by the end of 2023. In the future, breweries could get beer powder and add their water before filling it into bottles.

Available in: https://www.newsinlevels.com/products/powdered-beer

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