Questões de Inglês

Read Passage 1 carefully, and then answer the question.

 

PASSAGE 1

 

EXCHANGE PROGRAMS IN BRAZIL

[1] Intended for University of Basel students with the bachelor level (completed at least one year of a bachelor’s 
program), the exchange program is not intended simply for language stays. Rather, the idea is to give candidates 
an opportunity to become familiar with teaching and research at the respective Brazilian host university. Solid 
proficiency in English is therefore essential and must be demonstrated by taking the TOEFL- exam. The stay 
[5] abroad is funded for one or a maximum of two semesters. Students do not pay any tuition fees at the host 
university and remain enrolled at the University of Basel. 
Students receive a one-time stipend of approximately CHF 500. Cancellations require a great deal of work on the 
part of all institutions involved. If such an exceptional case does occur and a cancellation is required, the 
Student Exchange Office must be informed of this in writing.  

 

APPLICATION: PROCEDURE, APPLICATION AND DATES

[10] Prospective candidates should contact and submit their online application to the Student Exchange Office. 
Prospective candidates should contact the specialized advisors at the University of Basel to discuss the 
discipline-specific aspects of the exchange stay, especially issues concerning recognition. 
Prospective candidates submit their application through the online application system. Please carefully follow 
the instructions: 
[15] First time registration: Before you can apply, you need to register first whereupon you will get personal access 
to the system. Please follow the instructions carefully. Link to the registration portal: next application round as 
of August. Application deadline: 15 December for the subsequent academic year (fall semester and/or spring 
semester. The application file must be submitted to the Student Exchange Office.  

Source:https://www.unibas.ch/en/Studies/Mobility/Mobility-Global/Out-Going/Exchange-Brasil (Adapted). Accessed on 21 August, 2022.

Considering the main goal of this text, we may assume it aims at

Read Passage 1 carefully, and then answer the question.

 

PASSAGE  1 

AMERICAN INDIAN CODE TALKERS

 

[1]     What is a code talker? A code talker is the name given to American Indians who used their tribal language to 
send secret communications on the battlefield. Most people have heard of the famous Navajo (or Diné) code 
talkers who used their traditional language to transmit secret Allied messages in the Pacific theater of combat 
during World War II. But did you know that there were at least 14 other Native nations, including the Cherokee 
[5] and Comanche, that served as code talkers in both the Pacific and Europe during the war?  The idea of using 
American Indians who were fluent in both their traditional tribal language and in English to send secret 
messages in battle was first put to the test in World War I with the Choctaw Telephone Squad and other Native 
communications experts and messengers. However, it wasn’t until World War II that the US military developed a 
specific policy to recruit and train American Indian speakers to become code talkers.  
[10]     The US Army was the first branch of the military that began recruiting code talkers from places like Oklahoma 
in 1940. Apart from basic training, these men had to develop and memorize a unique military code using their 
mostly unwritten language, and were placed in a guarded room until this task was completed. The first type of 
code they created, Type 1 code, consisted of 26 Navajo terms that stood for individual English letters that could 
be used to spell out a word. For instance, the Navajo word for “ant”, “wo-la-chee”, was used to represent the 
[15] letter “a” in English. Type 2 code contained words that could be directly translated from English into Navajo. For 
instance, since there was no existing Navajo word for “submarine”, the code talkers agreed to use the term 
besh-lo, which translates to “iron fish.” Despite their heroic contributions during the war, American Indian code 
talkers were told that they had to keep their work secret. While there was some recognition in the 1970s and 
1980s, it wasn’t until 2001 that Congressional Gold Medals were given to the Navajo and other code talkers. 

Available at: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-indian-code-talkers (adapted) Accessed on: 07/06/2021.

In the second paragraph (lines 15-16), the use of the expression “For instance” is intended to

Assinale a alternativa correta que utiliza o infinito sem o "to".

Read Text I to answer question.

 

Artificial Intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience. Since the development of the digital computer in the 1940s, it has been demonstrated that computers can be programmed to carry out very complex tasks - such as discovering proofs for mathematical theorems or playing chess - with great proficiency, Still desite continuing advances in computer processing speed and memory capacity, there are as yet no programs that can match full human flexibility over, wider domains or in tasks requiring much everyday knowledge. On the other hand, some programs have attained the performance levels of human experts and professionals in performing certain specific tasks, so that artificial inteligence in this limited sense is found in applications as diverse as medical diagnosis, computer search engines, voice or handwriting recognition, and chatbots.

(Texto Adaptado. Disponível em: https://www.britannica.com/technology/artificial-intelligence. Acesso em: 30 out. 2023)

Leia a seguinte frase e assinale a alternativa correta que expressa o que as palavras destacadas, respectivamente, são.

 

“Still, despite continuing advances in computer processing speed and memory capacity, there are as yet no programs that can match full human flexibility over wider domains or in tasks requiring much everyday knowledge.”

Uma confeiteira fez uma liquidação de tortas para os dias 10, 11, 12 e 13 de setembro. Ao observar o número das vendas desses dias, percebeu que se formou uma sequência aritmética, em que no primeiro dia foram vendidas 50 e, no último, 110 tortas.

 

Curiosa, ela decidiu analisar qual o desvio padrão das vendas realizadas, concluindo que:

“Na última quinta-feira (22), o skatista brasiLeiro Gui Khury, de 15 anos, fez manobra inédita no esporte, que inclui uma rotação de 900°. O que aconteceu: “O jovem brasileiro fez uma manobra chamada Kickflip Body Varial 900, registrada como a primeira realizada no mundo. O vídeo original feito por Gui bateu, até o momento, 560 mil visualizações.” A manobra realizada por Gui Khury, se fosse convertida para a escala radianos, equivaleria a um arco de qual medida? E os sinais das razões seno, cosseno e tangente, teriam quais valores respectivamente?

^{(Bol Esporte. Brasileiro faz manobra inédita no skate e viraliza. Brasil Online. Disponível em:https://www.bol.uol.com. br/esporte/2024/08/23/brasileiro-faz-manobra-inedita--no-skate-e-viraliza-veja.htm. Acesso em: 16 set. 2024)}