Questões de Inglês - Grammar - Nouns - Countable

Diseases spread in Gaza amid  
health system collapse, Israeli strikes

 

Part I

WHO says diarrhoea cases surged 66 percent among chil dren. Meningitis, chickenpox, jaundice also reported.

 

The besieged residents of the Gaza Strip who have so far survived Israel’s bombs and bullets, are increasingly faced with the spread of diseases amid heavy winter rains that have flooded their makeshift shelters, and an acute shortage of food and potable water.

 

Doctors and aid workers have warned of epidemics given the dire humanitarian situation and with the enclave’s health system on its knees. From November 29 to December 10, cases of diarrhoea in children under five jumped 66 percent to 59,895 and increased by 55 percent for the rest of the population, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO).

 

The UN health agency cautioned that the figures likely did not provide the full picture because of a lack of complete information with the health system and other services in Gaza near collapse. (…). To be continued...

Disponível em: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/12/15/photos-amid-deadly-israeli-strikes-people-in-gaza-face-a-storm-of-diseases-acesso em março de 2024.

Considerando o seguinte trecho do primeiro parágrafo do Texto: “(...) are increasingly faced with the spread of diseases amid heavy winter rains that have flooded their makeshift shelters (…)”, as palavras em negrito são classificadas como:

Part II - Continuation – What is EG.5, or the “Eris” variant ?

 

EG.5 is a descendant of Omicron, just like XBB.1.5 was. This means the SARS CoV-2 virus continues to evolve, and Eris is just the latest mutation to keep an eye on. And with COVID-19 testing rates and reporting no longer as closely tracked like they were during the height of the pandemic, it’s especially important to take steps to protect yourself from getting sick whenever a new variant of concern begins to swirl.

What are the symptoms of EG.5?

 

The symptoms of Eris “are similar to other strains of Covid,” Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, a board-certified internist of integrative medicine and author of From Fatigued to Fantastic, tells Good Housekeeping. “It predominantly affects the upper airway.” According to the CDC, these are potential COVID-19 symptoms to watch out for: Fever, Fatigue, Body chills, Chronic cough, Headache, Sore throat, Nasal congestion or runny nose, Nausea and vomiting, Diarrhoea, Shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing, New loss of taste or smell.

Disponível em: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/a44913133/eris-eg5-covid-symptoms/ -acesso em agosto de 2023.

Conforme o trecho “(...) “It predominantly affects the upper airway (…)” extraído do texto, o termo em negrito pode ser classificado como um (a):

Leia o texto para responder à questão.

 

    Because it is locked away inside the skull, the brain is hard to study. Looking at it requires finicky machines which use magnetism or electricity or both to bypass the bone. There is just one tendril of brain tissue that can be seen from outside the body without any mucking about of this sort. That is the retina. Look into someone’s eyes and you are, in some small way, looking at their brain.

    This being so, a group of researchers decided to study the structure of the eye for signs of cognitive decline. Changes in the brain, they reasoned, might lead to changes in the nervous tissue connected to it. They focused on a part of the eye called the retinal nerve-fibre layer (RNFL). This is the lowest layer of the retina and serves to link the light-sensitive tissue above to the synapses which lead to the brain. The team’s results show that people with a thin RNFL are more likely to fail cognitive tests than those with a thick one. They are also more likely to suffer cognitive decline as they age.

(www.economist.com, 30.06.2018. Adaptado.)

No trecho do primeiro parágrafo “Looking at it requires finicky machines”, a palavra sublinhada refere-se a

Read the text and answer question.

 

Good day! My name is Sheila. I’m from Melbourne, Australia. My ___________ is from Montreal, Canada. We live in Sydney. A lot of ___________ living in Australia come from other ___________. 

 

Choose the best alternative to complete the blanks in the text:

Texto 2

What are the missing words in the cartoon? Consider context, grammar and the respective order to complete the blanks.  

Around 300 species of the parrot family have been recorded throughout the world. There are 56 species found in Australia, and only 5 of these are found elsewhere in the world. The parrot family includes cockatoos, lorikeets, rosellas, ringnecks and budgerigars.[...]

European agriculture has provided parrots with food (in planted crops) and water (in dams and bores) in areas where they did not previously live. This has led to the population expansion of some species. However, these changes may have resulted in a drop in the numbers of other species. For example, the clearing of native forests for farmland in some areas has reduced the number of living and breeding sites for the parrots which previously lived in those habitats.

Illegal trapping and smuggling operations of live birds may have contributed to the decrease in Australian parrot populations, but the removal of eggs from their nests poses a bigger threat. This is because nest-robbers will often destroy the birds' nesting hollow, making it unavailable for the next breeding season. It is easier to obtain and transport eggs than adult birds, and more eggs than adults can be smuggled from the country and distributed overseas.

(Disponível em: www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/native-animals/native-animal-facts/parrots).

 

Assinale V (verdadeiro) ou F (falso) para as alternativas abaixo, de acordo com o texto:

 

( ) Há 56 espécies da família dos papagaios na Austrália, e apenas 5 delas existem em outras regiões do planeta.

( ) O texto explica como a agricultura propiciou o aumento de algumas espécies em áreas onde originalmente não viviam papagaios. No entanto, a mesma agricultura pode ter sido responsável pela redução de outras espécies ao desmatar áreas para plantio.

( ) O último parágrafo se concentra em atividades ilegais que têm causado a diminuição da população de papagaios na Austrália, sendo o contrabando de aves adultas o maior perigo para esses animais.

( ) No trecho "Illegal trapping and smuggling operations of live birds [...]", a palavra "trapping" é um substantivo e o vocábulo "smuggling" tem função de adjetivo.