Questões de Inglês - Grammar - Adjectives
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Why libraries may never stop being people places?
As the first winter of the pandemic drew to a close, someone in my Twitter feed enthused about an app called Libby that made it especially easy to borrow and read library books. I downloaded (1) it, input my New York Public Library card number and proceeded to binge. I devoured everything by and about Isaac Babel, who wrote stories based on (2) his life in early-20th-century Odessa, and all of Mick Herron’s Slough House books, about a group of sad, incompetent British spies.
Libby was created by OverDrive, a Cleveland-based company that digitizes books and other publications and distributes (3) them to 90 percent of North American libraries. The app debuted in 2017 but, no surprise, had (4) its biggest bump in growth in 2020, a 33 percent increase in circulation compared with 2019. What distinguishes Libby from other library apps, like the New York Public Library’s SimplyE, is that it allows you to read on a Kindle (instead of, say, your phone). And it has a definite style, minimalist and sweet. Libby suggests, intentionally or not, that public libraries, the actual buildings, are no longer necessary, that libraries have become — like everything and everyone else — place-less purveyors of content. But if during the past couple of years you replaced in-person library visits with an app, you may be missing out.
What many public libraries have done, despite Covid and because of it, is consciously enhance their physical presence on the street and in the neighborhood. Or, as Mrs. Houben, who argues that every library needs a garden, suggested, “A library should be so nice that you bring your own book, right?”
(Fonte: texto adaptado. By Karrie Jacobs. Published on April 21st, 2022. Disponível em: https://www.nytimes. com/2022/04/21/style/libraries-outdoor-public-space.html Acesso em: 1 nov. 2022)
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Camping
On Sunday morning, Tom and his family went camping. They camped near the lake. Their tent was shaped like an igloo. It was made of a thin cloth. Tom helped clean up. They ate a tasty meal of barbecued chicken and corn. When it got dark they made a fire. They told stories and sang songs.
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The word “tasty” in the text is:
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Read the text below about Monkeypox, a viral disease, and choose the CORRECT words to complete the blanks.
Monkeypox is a viral infection that is often accompanied (1) ______ a rash. The virus (2) _______ isn’t all that new to scientists. According to the WHO, monkeypox was first identified in humans (3) ______ in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (4) ______ then, human cases have been identified in 11 African countries. In May 2022, monkeypox cases began to be identified in several non-endemic countries (5) ______ Africa. It is still unknown (6) _____ the virus is spiking now.
(Source: https://nationalpost.com/health/monkeypox-explained - retrieved on 14th August, 2022).
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People who have never outgrown an aversion to broccoli, or an addiction to potato chips, can place part of the blame on their genes, preliminary research suggests. The study, of over 6,200 adults, turned up correlations between certain taste-related genes and people’s preferences for particular food groups. Those whose genes made them sensitive to bitter flavors, for example, tended to eat fewer whole grains. Meanwhile, people with a particularly acute ability to sense savory flavors were less likely to eat their veggies. Still, none of that means genes determine your food preferences, experts said.
Diet is complicated, and influenced by everything from culture to economics, said researcher Julie Gervis, a doctoral candidate at Tufts University. But, she said, the findings do highlight the role of taste-related genes in food choices. People often don’t know why they struggle with eating things they know are good for them, like green vegetables, Gervis noted. Understanding the influence of genes can shed some light on the matter.
Eventually, Gervis said, dietitians may be able to use genetic information to give people more precise diet counseling. “We’re moving away from general nutrition advice to a more personalized approach,” Gervis said. But, she added, any real-world use of genetic analysis is still a long way off. Gervis will present the findings at the annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition. Studies released at meetings are considered preliminary until they are published in a peer-reviewed journal.
(Amy Norton. www.usnews.com, 14.06.2022. Adaptado.)
A expressão “less likely”, no trecho do primeiro parágrafo “people with a particularly acute ability to sense savory flavors were less likely to eat their veggies”, pode ser entendida como:
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Considering the stretches “Wadjectiveshile that option is stupid” and “It would give us the illusion of doing something useful right now”, the words “stupid” and “useful” are:
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