Questões de Inglês

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)

TEXTO:

    Following the recent Japanese earthquake and
tsunami disasters, a massive amount of rubbish
has washed into the Pacific Ocean. The US Navy is
watching the garbage with interest as it floats towards
[5] Hawaii and the west coast of the United States.
    Entire houses, bodies, car parts, tractors and
many upturned boats have amassed off the east coast
of Japan on an epic scale. The floating objects have
been declared a maritime danger by the American
[10] Navy, which warned they could pierce the body of
a boat, or destroy engines in the Pacific’s shipping
lanes. The island of debris of most concern, 110
kilometers long, is being closely monitored by the US
Navy’s seventh fleet, as experts predict it could hit
[15] Hawaii’s shores in two years and the American west
coast a year later. Hawaiian scientists put it honestly.
They warned that a vast mass that originated in a few
moments of destruction in Japan, could eventually foul
beaches and reefs off the Eastern North Pacific and
[20] kill marine life. The American Navy’s working with
civilian construction companies from the earthquake-

hit country, as huge cranes and boats are sent to
clear the seas of this vast bobbing mass of wreckage
of household furniture, wood, tires, fishing equipment
[25] and other garbage, sweeping eastwards.

LOBEL, Mark. Disponível em: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/04/110411_witn_ floating_debris_page.shtml. Acesso em: 9 nov. 2020.

TEXTO:

    Following the recent Japanese earthquake and
tsunami disasters, a massive amount of rubbish
has washed into the Pacific Ocean. The US Navy is
watching the garbage with interest as it floats towards
[5] Hawaii and the west coast of the United States.
    Entire houses, bodies, car parts, tractors and
many upturned boats have amassed off the east coast
of Japan on an epic scale. The floating objects have
been declared a maritime danger by the American
[10] Navy, which warned they could pierce the body of
a boat, or destroy engines in the Pacific’s shipping
lanes. The island of debris of most concern, 110
kilometers long, is being closely monitored by the US
Navy’s seventh fleet, as experts predict it could hit
[15] Hawaii’s shores in two years and the American west
coast a year later. Hawaiian scientists put it honestly.
They warned that a vast mass that originated in a few
moments of destruction in Japan, could eventually foul
beaches and reefs off the Eastern North Pacific and
[20] kill marine life. The American Navy’s working with
civilian construction companies from the earthquake-

hit country, as huge cranes and boats are sent to
clear the seas of this vast bobbing mass of wreckage
of household furniture, wood, tires, fishing equipment
[25] and other garbage, sweeping eastwards.

LOBEL, Mark. Disponível em: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/04/110411_witn_ floating_debris_page.shtml. Acesso em: 9 nov. 2020.

TEXTO:

    Following the recent Japanese earthquake and
tsunami disasters, a massive amount of rubbish
has washed into the Pacific Ocean. The US Navy is
watching the garbage with interest as it floats towards
[5] Hawaii and the west coast of the United States.
    Entire houses, bodies, car parts, tractors and
many upturned boats have amassed off the east coast
of Japan on an epic scale. The floating objects have
been declared a maritime danger by the American
[10] Navy, which warned they could pierce the body of
a boat, or destroy engines in the Pacific’s shipping
lanes. The island of debris of most concern, 110
kilometers long, is being closely monitored by the US
Navy’s seventh fleet, as experts predict it could hit
[15] Hawaii’s shores in two years and the American west
coast a year later. Hawaiian scientists put it honestly.
They warned that a vast mass that originated in a few
moments of destruction in Japan, could eventually foul
beaches and reefs off the Eastern North Pacific and
[20] kill marine life. The American Navy’s working with
civilian construction companies from the earthquake-

hit country, as huge cranes and boats are sent to
clear the seas of this vast bobbing mass of wreckage
of household furniture, wood, tires, fishing equipment
[25] and other garbage, sweeping eastwards.

LOBEL, Mark. Disponível em: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/04/110411_witn_ floating_debris_page.shtml. Acesso em: 9 nov. 2020.