Questões de Inglês

TEXTO:

Your health

Wireless worries: Still wondering what that cell
phone is doing to your brain? There’s no convincing
evidence yet it’s doing much of anything, but still the
Cellular Telephone Industry Association is requiring
[5] manufacturers to disclose how much of a cell
phone’s radiation may be absorbed by the body. The
measurement, called the specific absorption rate, is
regulated by the FCC. But whether a lower reading
translates into a safer phone is anyone’s guess.

[10] Double whammy: Not only do smokers die
younger than nonsmokers, but they also spend a lot
more of their lives combatting disabilities. You might
think that nonsmokers, because they live longer,
would spend more of their lives disabled. Not so. On
[15] average, smokers have difficulty performing daily
activities, like walking, dressing and washing, for two
years more than nonsmokers do.

TIME. New York, v. 156, n. 5, p. 68, s.d.

TEXTO:

Your health

Wireless worries: Still wondering what that cell
phone is doing to your brain? There’s no convincing
evidence yet it’s doing much of anything, but still the
Cellular Telephone Industry Association is requiring
[5] manufacturers to disclose how much of a cell
phone’s radiation may be absorbed by the body. The
measurement, called the specific absorption rate, is
regulated by the FCC. But whether a lower reading
translates into a safer phone is anyone’s guess.

[10] Double whammy: Not only do smokers die
younger than nonsmokers, but they also spend a lot
more of their lives combatting disabilities. You might
think that nonsmokers, because they live longer,
would spend more of their lives disabled. Not so. On
[15] average, smokers have difficulty performing daily
activities, like walking, dressing and washing, for two
years more than nonsmokers do.

TIME. New York, v. 156, n. 5, p. 68, s.d.

TEXTO:

Your health

Wireless worries: Still wondering what that cell
phone is doing to your brain? There’s no convincing
evidence yet it’s doing much of anything, but still the
Cellular Telephone Industry Association is requiring
[5] manufacturers to disclose how much of a cell
phone’s radiation may be absorbed by the body. The
measurement, called the specific absorption rate, is
regulated by the FCC. But whether a lower reading
translates into a safer phone is anyone’s guess.

[10] Double whammy: Not only do smokers die
younger than nonsmokers, but they also spend a lot
more of their lives combatting disabilities. You might
think that nonsmokers, because they live longer,
would spend more of their lives disabled. Not so. On
[15] average, smokers have difficulty performing daily
activities, like walking, dressing and washing, for two
years more than nonsmokers do.

TIME. New York, v. 156, n. 5, p. 68, s.d.

TEXTO:

 Working From home

The fastest-growing job force
today in America are people who
 work out of their homes.

    Robin Gagliardi, 30, is an administrative assistant
for the Westchester County, New York, clerk’s office.
After her daughter, Kristina, was born four years ago,
Gagliardi asked her supervisor if she could work
[5] part time. The supervisor suggested she remain full
time, working a few days a week from home — an
arrangement that had never been tried before by the
organization. It paid off: the number of information
that she processed rose from 60 a day to 100. Since
[10] the arrangement was so successful, Gagliardi began
working full time from home.
John Williams was forced to take early retirement
at the corporation where he had worked for 31 years.
He thought that looking for a new job would be too
[15] difficult for a 58-year-old. Instead, he decided to follow
his entrepreneurial instincts.
Williams was an expert at home repairs, and over
the years he’d received many calls from divorced or
widowed women asking for help with leaky faucets or
[20] defective doors. So Williams founded Rent a Husband
Handyman Service in his Rockville, Md., home — and
has had a continuous series of work ever since.
Robin Gagliardi and John Williams are members
of a fast-growing job force: people who work out of
[25] their homes.
Today, many businesses permit employees to
work at home, including giants such as AT&T
(with 36,000 telecommuters), IBM and Motorola.
Even the federal government is hoping to follow this
[30] trend. Faith Wohl, former director of the Office of
Workplace Initiatives for the U.S. General Services
Administration, says Uncle Sam has a target of 60,000
telecommuters by the year 2005.

SPEAK UP. Ano 12, n. 154, p. 6-7, s.d. (Adaptado)

TEXTO:

 Working From home

The fastest-growing job force
today in America are people who
 work out of their homes.

    Robin Gagliardi, 30, is an administrative assistant
for the Westchester County, New York, clerk’s office.
After her daughter, Kristina, was born four years ago,
Gagliardi asked her supervisor if she could work
[5] part time. The supervisor suggested she remain full
time, working a few days a week from home — an
arrangement that had never been tried before by the
organization. It paid off: the number of information
that she processed rose from 60 a day to 100. Since
[10] the arrangement was so successful, Gagliardi began
working full time from home.
John Williams was forced to take early retirement
at the corporation where he had worked for 31 years.
He thought that looking for a new job would be too
[15] difficult for a 58-year-old. Instead, he decided to follow
his entrepreneurial instincts.
Williams was an expert at home repairs, and over
the years he’d received many calls from divorced or
widowed women asking for help with leaky faucets or
[20] defective doors. So Williams founded Rent a Husband
Handyman Service in his Rockville, Md., home — and
has had a continuous series of work ever since.
Robin Gagliardi and John Williams are members
of a fast-growing job force: people who work out of
[25] their homes.
Today, many businesses permit employees to
work at home, including giants such as AT&T
(with 36,000 telecommuters), IBM and Motorola.
Even the federal government is hoping to follow this
[30] trend. Faith Wohl, former director of the Office of
Workplace Initiatives for the U.S. General Services
Administration, says Uncle Sam has a target of 60,000
telecommuters by the year 2005.

SPEAK UP. Ano 12, n. 154, p. 6-7, s.d. (Adaptado)

TEXTO:

 Working From home

The fastest-growing job force
today in America are people who
 work out of their homes.

    Robin Gagliardi, 30, is an administrative assistant
for the Westchester County, New York, clerk’s office.
After her daughter, Kristina, was born four years ago,
Gagliardi asked her supervisor if she could work
[5] part time. The supervisor suggested she remain full
time, working a few days a week from home — an
arrangement that had never been tried before by the
organization. It paid off: the number of information
that she processed rose from 60 a day to 100. Since
[10] the arrangement was so successful, Gagliardi began
working full time from home.
John Williams was forced to take early retirement
at the corporation where he had worked for 31 years.
He thought that looking for a new job would be too
[15] difficult for a 58-year-old. Instead, he decided to follow
his entrepreneurial instincts.
Williams was an expert at home repairs, and over
the years he’d received many calls from divorced or
widowed women asking for help with leaky faucets or
[20] defective doors. So Williams founded Rent a Husband
Handyman Service in his Rockville, Md., home — and
has had a continuous series of work ever since.
Robin Gagliardi and John Williams are members
of a fast-growing job force: people who work out of
[25] their homes.
Today, many businesses permit employees to
work at home, including giants such as AT&T
(with 36,000 telecommuters), IBM and Motorola.
Even the federal government is hoping to follow this
[30] trend. Faith Wohl, former director of the Office of
Workplace Initiatives for the U.S. General Services
Administration, says Uncle Sam has a target of 60,000
telecommuters by the year 2005.

SPEAK UP. Ano 12, n. 154, p. 6-7, s.d. (Adaptado)