[...]
AGATHA
Wishwood was always a cold place, Amy.
IVY
I have always told Amy she should go south in the winter.
Were I in Amy\\'s position, I would go south in the winter.
I would follow the sun, not wait for the sun to come here.
I would go south in the winter, if I could afford it,
Not freeze, as I do, in Bayswater, by a gas-fire counting shillings.
VIOLET
Go south! to the English circulating libraries,
To the military widows and the English chaplains,
To the chilly deck-chair and the strong cold tea—
The strong cold stewed bad Indian tea.
CHARLES
That\\'s not Amy\\'s style at all. We are country-bred people.
Amy has been too long used to our ways
Living with horses and dogs and guns
Ever to want to leave England in the winter.
But a single man like me is better off in London:
A man can be very cosy at his club
Even in an English winter.
[...]
ELIOT, T. S. Family reunion. Disponível em https://archive.org/stream/familyreunionpl00elio/familyreunionpl00elio_djvu.txt. Acesso em 27/10/2015.
Tick the alternative that shows the CORRECT combination according to the exerpt above.
I. Only Agatha thinks Wishwood is a cold place.
II. Ivy thinks Amy should go south, but Violet doesn’t.
III. Both Ivy and Violet have few financial resources.
IV. Both Violet and Charles think Amy should not got south.
V. Amy and Agatha agree that Wishwood is a cold place.
[...]
AGATHA
Wishwood was always a cold place, Amy.
IVY
I have always told Amy she should go south in the winter.
Were I in Amy\\'s position, I would go south in the winter.
I would follow the sun, not wait for the sun to come here.
I would go south in the winter, if I could afford it,
Not freeze, as I do, in Bayswater, by a gas-fire counting shillings.
VIOLET
Go south! to the English circulating libraries,
To the military widows and the English chaplains,
To the chilly deck-chair and the strong cold tea—
The strong cold stewed bad Indian tea.
CHARLES
That\\'s not Amy\\'s style at all. We are country-bred people.
Amy has been too long used to our ways
Living with horses and dogs and guns
Ever to want to leave England in the winter.
But a single man like me is better off in London:
A man can be very cosy at his club
Even in an English winter.
[...]
ELIOT, T. S. Family reunion. Disponível em https://archive.org/stream/familyreunionpl00elio/familyreunionpl00elio_djvu.txt. Acesso em 27/10/2015.
Tick the alternative that shows the central theme of the excerpt above.
[...]
AGATHA
Wishwood was always a cold place, Amy.
IVY
I have always told Amy she should go south in the winter.
Were I in Amy\\'s position, I would go south in the winter.
I would follow the sun, not wait for the sun to come here.
I would go south in the winter, if I could afford it,
Not freeze, as I do, in Bayswater, by a gas-fire counting shillings.
VIOLET
Go south! to the English circulating libraries,
To the military widows and the English chaplains,
To the chilly deck-chair and the strong cold tea—
The strong cold stewed bad Indian tea.
CHARLES
That\\'s not Amy\\'s style at all. We are country-bred people.
Amy has been too long used to our ways
Living with horses and dogs and guns
Ever to want to leave England in the winter.
But a single man like me is better off in London:
A man can be very cosy at his club
Even in an English winter.
[...]
ELIOT, T. S. Family reunion. Disponível em https://archive.org/stream/familyreunionpl00elio/familyreunionpl00elio_djvu.txt. Acesso em 27/10/2015.
One cannot infer from the excerpt that
How Einstein Discovered General Relativity amid War, Divorce and Rivalry
Albert Einstein created his most famous theory amid personal strife, political tension and a scientific rivalry that almost cost him the glory of his discovery
By Walter Isaacson
The general theory of relativity began with a sudden thought. It was late 1907, two years after the “miracle year” in which Albert Einstein had produced his special theory of relativity and his theory of light quanta, but he was still an examiner in the Swiss patent office. The physics world had not yet caught up with his genius. While sitting in his office in Bern, a thought “startled” him, he recalled: “If a person falls freely, he will not feel his own weight.” He would later call it “the happiest thought in my life.”
The tale of the falling man has become an iconic one, and in some accounts it actually involves a painter who fell from the roof of an apartment building near the patent office. Like other great tales of gravitational discovery—Galileo dropping objects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the apple falling on Isaac Newton\\'s head—it was embellished in popular lore. Despite Einstein\\'s propensity to focus on science rather than the “merely personal,” even he was not likely to watch a real human plunging off a roof and think of gravitational theory, much less call it the happiest thought in his life.
Disponível em: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-einstein-discovered-general-relativity-amid-war-divorce-and-rivalry/. Acesso em 29/07/15.
The main idea of the excerpt above is:
How Einstein Discovered General Relativity amid War, Divorce and Rivalry
Albert Einstein created his most famous theory amid personal strife, political tension and a scientific rivalry that almost cost him the glory of his discovery
By Walter Isaacson
The general theory of relativity began with a sudden thought. It was late 1907, two years after the “miracle year” in which Albert Einstein had produced his special theory of relativity and his theory of light quanta, but he was still an examiner in the Swiss patent office. The physics world had not yet caught up with his genius. While sitting in his office in Bern, a thought “startled” him, he recalled: “If a person falls freely, he will not feel his own weight.” He would later call it “the happiest thought in my life.”
The tale of the falling man has become an iconic one, and in some accounts it actually involves a painter who fell from the roof of an apartment building near the patent office. Like other great tales of gravitational discovery—Galileo dropping objects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the apple falling on Isaac Newton\\'s head—it was embellished in popular lore. Despite Einstein\\'s propensity to focus on science rather than the “merely personal,” even he was not likely to watch a real human plunging off a roof and think of gravitational theory, much less call it the happiest thought in his life.
Disponível em: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-einstein-discovered-general-relativity-amid-war-divorce-and-rivalry/. Acesso em 29/07/15.
Match dates and facts.
A. 1905 B. Late 1907
( ) Theory of light quanta.
( ) Einstein as an examiner in the Swiss patent office.
( ) General theory of relativity.
( ) Miracle year.
( ) Special theory of relativity.
Look at the following examples from the text. The words in bold typeface are combinations of verbs and prepositions or adverbs.
“The physics world had not yet caught up with his genius.”
“[…] even he was not likely to watch a real human plunging off a roof and think of gravitational theory […]”
Now match the columns.
( ) bring on
( ) fall out
( ) fix up
( ) keep up
( ) leave out
( ) put off
( ) write off
1) We have decided to __________ our trip to the Amazon because of a terrible flooding. (postpone)
2) Mary, I really don´t want __________ with you about over this! (have an argument)
3) She has been working so hard! But due to the crisis, I think it will be impossible for her to __________ the place. (maintain)
4) I always avoid birds. They __________ my terrible allergies. (cause)
5) Maybe out of superstition, many hotels in America __________floor number 13. (omit)
6) Although the car was a total __________ after the accident, nobody got hurt. (destroyed)
7) We haven´t seen each other for ages! We have to __________ a date for lunch! (arrange)