Questões de Inglês

Analyse the comic strip and mark the alternative that answers the question below:

Based on the interviewee’s answer: “Yes I’m very punctual. I always use commas and periods.”, it's possible to infer the question made by the interviewer.

 

Did the interviewee answer it properly? Why/Why not?

Analyse the following sentences:

 

I. I brought two informations to be discussed in class today.
II. The blue-eyes girl sitting in front of Jack is the most thoughtful one.
III. Peter married with Susan last summer and they moved to Australia.
IV. You will find some advise in the flyer under your desks.
V. These people are not used to work so hard.
VI. I'm not sure if I should go. It depends of the weather.

 

Now mark the CORRECT alternative.

Read the joke and answer the question that follows:

What class(es) of word(s) does flies belong to in lines 1 and 2?

The text that follows describes one of the emerging trends affecting medical practice, mainly influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic. Read it and mark the alternative which contains the CORRECT title for it.

 

“When medical professionals say ‘patient-centric care,’ we're really going to have to mean it,” said Richard E. Anderson, MD, FACP, chairman and CEO of The Doctors Company and TDC Group in California. “We're going to have to mean it in the kind of customer-service-forward way practiced by corporations like Amazon or Nordstrom or FedEx.”

 

What will that customer service look like? Anderson explained: “We need to improve the staggeringly expensive hospital experience. We need to stop requiring outpatients to see multiple doctors, labs and imaging centers in different locations at different times, and hope that someone thoughtfully acts on the results. Retail medicine has already made enormous inroads into primary care by providing rapid access at convenient locations at lower cost.”

(Source: https://www.merritthawkins.com/news-and-insights/blog/healthcare-news-and-trends/physician-trends-in2022/ - retrieved on 14th August, 2022)

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organisation that was founded in 1971 in Paris by a group of journalists and doctors. The headings and the excerpts below were taken from the organisation’s website. Match the headings (1 to 5) with their respective paragraphs.

(Source: https://www.msf.org - retrieved on 6th August, 2022)

 

( 1 ) Who we are

( 2 ) How we work

( 3 ) How we're run

( 4 ) Where we work

( 5 ) Reports and Finances

 

( ) Each year our audited combined Financial Statements (International Financial Report/IFR) provide a global overview of MSF’s work. Our International Activity Report (IAR) gives details on our activities and expenditure in each country and reflects on the major challenges we faced over the year. Access our International Financial Reports and our International Activity Reports and learn more about our funding policy, where our money comes from and how your donations are used.

( ) Today, the international MSF movement is composed of 25 associations around the world. Each of them is an independent legal entity registered in the country where they operate. The associations elect their own board of directors and president during their General Assembly. The associations are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, East Africa, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Japan, Italy, Latin America, Luxembourg, Norway, South Asia, Southern Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA, and West and Central Africa regional association. The MSF associations are linked to six Operational Centres (OC) who directly manage our humanitarian action in the field and decide when, where, and what medical care is needed. [...]

( ) In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.

( ) Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translates to Doctors without Borders. We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - bound together by our charter. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

( ) Our teams conduct independent evaluations to determine medical needs and assess what assistance to provide. Different criteria determine what we do, such as the magnitude of a given crisis, the levels of illness and mortality in the population, the severity of exclusion from healthcare, and the added value we can bring to the affected people. We regularly question the form, relevance and impact of our presence, taking into account what other organisations do.

 

Now choose the CORRECT sequence.

Instrução: A questão estão relacionada ao texto abaixo.

 

If I had to sum up, in one word, the singular
talents of our species, I would answer with
“learning.” We are not simply Homo sapiens,
but Homo docens—the species that teaches
[5] itself. Most of what we know about the world
was not given to us by our genes: we had to
learn it from our environment or from those
around us. No other animal has managed to
change its ecological niche so radically, moving
[10] from the African savanna to deserts, mountains,
islands, polar ice caps, cave dwellings, cities,
and even outer space, all within a few thousand
years. Learning has fueled it all. From making
fire and designing stone tools to agriculture,
[15] exploration, and atomic fission, the story of
humanity is one of constant self-reinvention. At
the root of all these accomplishments lies one
secret: the extraordinary ability of our brain to
formulate hypotheses and select those that fit
[20] with our environment.
Learning is the triumph of our species. In our
brain, billions of parameters are free to adapt to
our environment, our language, our culture, our
parents, or our food. These parameters are
[25] carefully chosen: over the course of evolution,
the Darwinian algorithm carefully delineated
which brain circuits should be pre-wired and
which should be left open to the environment.
In our species, the contribution of learning is
[30] particularly large ........ our childhood extends
over many more years than it does for other
mammals. And because we possess a unique
knack for language and mathematics, our
learning device is able to navigate vast spaces
[35] of hypotheses that recombine into potentially
infinite sets—even if they are always grounded
in fixed and invariable foundations inherited
from our evolution.
More recently, humanity discovered that it could
[40] increase this remarkable ability even further
with the help of an institution: the classroom.
Pedagogy is an exclusive privilege of our
species: no other animal actively teaches its
offspring by setting aside specific time to
[45] monitor their progress, difficulties, and errors.
The invention of the school, an institution which
systematizes the informal education present in
all human societies, has vastly increased our
brain potential. We have discovered that we can
[50] take advantage of the exuberant plasticity of the
child brain to instill in it a maximum amount of

information and talent. Over centuries, our
school system has continued to improve in
efficiency, starting earlier and earlier in
[55] childhood and now lasting for fifteen years or
more. Increasing numbers of brains benefit
from higher education. Universities are neural
refineries where our brain circuits acquire their
best talents.
[60] Education is the main accelerator of our brain.
It is not difficult to justify its presence in the top
spots in government spending: without it, our
cortical circuits would remain diamonds in the
rough. The number of syllables a literate person
[65] can repeat is almost double that of an adult who
never attended school and remained illiterate.
And one's IQ increases by several points for
each additional year of education and literacy.
The complexity of our society owes its existence
[70] to the multiple improvements that education
brings to our cortex: reading, writing,
calculation, algebra, music, a sense of time and
space, a refinement of memory.

Adapted from: DEHAENE, Stanislas. How we learn: Why brains learn better than any machine… for now. New York: Viking Press, 2020.

What does the phrase diamonds in the rough (l. 63-64) mean, as used in the text?