Questões de Inglês

Read the text to answer question.

 

    “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth
without making some other Englishman despise him,”
playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote in the preface to
Pygmalion in 1913. Recent headlines suggest that accent
prejudice (or “accentism”) is no relic of the past but continues
to blight the university experience of many students.
    There is a hierarchy of accents in Britain which has
changed little over the years. The accents of Britain’s highest
classes are seen as neutral, “accentless” and correct,
while others are seen as inferior and are often stigmatised.
As such, those who have “non-standard” accents are
seen as legitimate and admissible targets for comment
and judgement. They are also loaded with an apparent
responsibility to change how they sound.
    The higher-class standard accent — “Received
Pronunciation” (RP) — is consistently rated the highest
on scales such as prestige and perceived intelligence.
Such judgments continually reproduce and reaffirm social
inequalities.
    The association between the ability to speak in a
certain way and being intelligent is especially relevant in the
university context, where this particular trait is most valued.
Being able to sound intelligent in a classroom translates
directly into gaining recognition and respect amongst peers
and teachers. The repercussions of accentism in the job
market are a further consequence for students.
    University is a place and a time where people come
together from all over the country and all over the world. This
can have very interesting effects on students’ accents as
they might naturally start to change the way that they speak
due to their new surroundings. This is a completely normal
process known as accommodation. It is not the same thing
as the enforced undermining of credibility and intelligence
through the stereotyping of someone’s regional accent.
    There are many interesting things to learn about how
someone from another part of the country has a different
way of pronouncing a word or uses a different word for
the same thing. For instance, have you ever seen how
many different words there are for a bread roll? We need
to counteract our biases by understanding and celebrating
such diversity, instead of ridiculing those who don’t conform
to an ideological standard rooted in discrimination from
the start.

(Monika Schmid, Amanda Cole and Ella Jeffries.
www.theconversation.com, 26.10.2020. Adapted.)

The reference to George Bernard Shaw in the first paragraph argues for the idea that

Examine o cartum de Tom Gauld, publicado em sua conta do Instagram em 10.04.2022. 

A fala da moça permite caracterizá-la como

Cherry picking in the media

 

Cherry picking is often used by the media, particularly in the case of less reputable media bodies, when they present only one side of a story, or give it disproportional coverage while ignoring facts that could support alternative viewpoints.

 

For example, consider a situation where a new study, which is based on the input of thousands of scientists in a certain field, finds that 99 % of them agree with the consensus position on a certain phenomenon, and only 1 % of them disagree with it. When reporting on this study, a reporter who engages in cherry picking might say the following:

“A recent study found that there are plenty of scientists who disagree with the consensus position on this phenomenon.”

This statement represents an example of cherry picking, because it only mentions the fact that the study found that some scientists disagree with the consensus position on the phenomenon in question, while ignoring the fact that the study in question also found that the vast majority of scientists support this position.

https://tinyurl.com/yjem2sm2%20Acesso%20em:%2028.10.2022.%20Adaptado.

 

A expressão plenty of na sentença “there are plenty of scientists who disagree with the consensus position on this phenomenon” poderia ser substituída, sem prejuízo de informação, por

Cherry picking in the media

 

Cherry picking is often used by the media, particularly in the case of less reputable media bodies, when they present only one side of a story, or give it disproportional coverage while ignoring facts that could support alternative viewpoints.

 

For example, consider a situation where a new study, which is based on the input of thousands of scientists in a certain field, finds that 99 % of them agree with the consensus position on a certain phenomenon, and only 1 % of them disagree with it. When reporting on this study, a reporter who engages in cherry picking might say the following:

“A recent study found that there are plenty of scientists who disagree with the consensus position on this phenomenon.”

This statement represents an example of cherry picking, because it only mentions the fact that the study found that some scientists disagree with the consensus position on the phenomenon in question, while ignoring the fact that the study in question also found that the vast majority of scientists support this position.

https://tinyurl.com/yjem2sm2%20Acesso%20em:%2028.10.2022.%20Adaptado.

 

O fenômeno descrito no texto indica a prática de

Tech job market is up this year

 

Despite high-profile threats of layoffs and a dip in job postings in June, the tech market remains strong, especially for data-related skills.

By Paul Krill

Editor at Large, InfoWorld | AUG 24, 2022 3:00 AM PDT

Demand for tech talent continues to grow, with the number of job postings growing 45 % since the beginning of the year and increasing 52 % compared to the first half of 2021. A hiring spike in May was followed by the first month-to-month decline this year (17 % in June).

Those with skills to build and maintain tech stacks and databases, such as SQL and automation, have a great shot at landing a job anywhere.

Of the top 50 employers of tech talent, 96 % increased hiring in the first half of 2022 when compared to the same period of 2021.

Technologists’ preference for remote and hybrid work persists. Traditional tech hubs such as New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, and San Francisco continue to lead in tech job postings.

https://tinyurl.com/nhbdyasv%20Acesso%20em:%2027.10.2022.%20Adaptado.

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta o correto par de antônimos presentes no texto.

The following excerpt refers to question.

 

Nineties fashion was hard to pin down. A clash of trends screamed for our attention while others were so quietly cool they're still sartorial staples in our collective wardrobes: slip dresses, Doc Martens, chokers, crop tops.

While the 1980s were all about volume – padded shoulders, puffed jackets, big hair and an obsession with designer wear – style in the early 1990s was decidedly low maintenance.

(Available in: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/1990s-fashion-history/index.html.)

The excerpt presents: