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Record blow for teenage sailor
A 16-year-old Australian girl is nearly home after
sailing around the world. But she may not have sailed
far enough to get the record as the youngest person to
make the journey.
5 After more than six months at sea Jessica Watson
is in the final stretch of her epic voyage around the globe.
She’s hoping to reach Sydney Harbor later this month a
couple of days shy of her seventeenth birthday.
But although there’s no question that she’s
10 circumnavigated the globe, sailing experts say she hasn’t
gone far enough to claim the record of being the youngest
person to sail solo non-stop and unassisted around the
world.
The influential Sail World website has praised her heroic
15 achievement but is a stickler for the rules of what it calls
“true circumnavigation”. To have achieved that, it says,
the teenager should have sailed much farther north into
the Atlantic to a point in line with France, rather than
simply crossing the Equator and then returning south.
20 “We don’t want to take away from what the kid’s
done,” said the editor of the website “but it’s one thing to
be a hero and another to be a record holder. Had she
sailed three thousand seven hundred kilometers further
she could have made that boast.”
BRYANT, Nick. Record blow for teenage sailor. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 5 jun.
The only sentence from the text in which a form of comparison has not been used is in
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Earthquake science
A team of scientists say they can explain why many
more people died in the earthquake in Haiti compared to
the much larger quake in Chile.
The geophysicists, from the U.S. Geological Survey
5 and from Harvard University, said that strict building
regulations in Chile had undoubtedly saved lives. The
country has a long history of earthquakes and as a
consequence has some of the toughest building codes
in the world.
10 But Doctor Walter Mooney, who’s studied dozens
of earthquakes around the globe, said there were also
other factors behind the relatively low death toll: “First
and foremost, people are used to earthquakes in Chile
and so they did know that they have to evacuate from
15 dangerous structures. Secondly, this earthquake had a
slow and gradual build-up.They had some 20 or 30
seconds to look at each other, realize that the ground
shaking was crescendoing, and building up, and they
made the right decision in almost all cases by getting
20 out of the dangerous structures and running out into the
open area. Thus, education, and a bit of luck is the
answer to why so many people survived.”
Doctor Mooney contrasted that with the Haitian
quake, which split open the hard rock beneath the capital
25 Port Au Prince within seconds. Buildings collapsed
instantly, giving people no time to escape.
Despite the relatively low loss of life in Chile,
Dr Mooney said the country must learn from this disaster,
particularly with regards to building along the coast. Many
30 of those who died were killed not by the quake, but by
the tsunamis that followed it, which swept away coastal
villages.
And the geophysicists said that even if Chile took
precautions, it would remain highly vulnerable to
35 earthquakes. They said that the north of the country was
a particular worry. It hasn’t suffered a big quake for around
a hundred years and is probably due for one soon, they
said.
LONG, Gideon. Earthquake science. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 6 jun. 2010.
Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).
Scientists say that many more people died in the earthquake in Haiti than in the one in Chile because:
( ) Chile’s strong rules about building improve its population safety.
( ) Although Haiti’s building structures are solid, its population lacks education.
( ) As earthquakes are very common in Chile, its population follows the correct procedure when they occur.
( ) People in Haiti hardly had any time to get out of dangerous situations during the quake.
According to the text, the correct sequence, from top to bottom, is
TEXTO:
Earthquake science
A team of scientists say they can explain why many
more people died in the earthquake in Haiti compared to
the much larger quake in Chile.
The geophysicists, from the U.S. Geological Survey
5 and from Harvard University, said that strict building
regulations in Chile had undoubtedly saved lives. The
country has a long history of earthquakes and as a
consequence has some of the toughest building codes
in the world.
10 But Doctor Walter Mooney, who’s studied dozens
of earthquakes around the globe, said there were also
other factors behind the relatively low death toll: “First
and foremost, people are used to earthquakes in Chile
and so they did know that they have to evacuate from
15 dangerous structures. Secondly, this earthquake had a
slow and gradual build-up.They had some 20 or 30
seconds to look at each other, realize that the ground
shaking was crescendoing, and building up, and they
made the right decision in almost all cases by getting
20 out of the dangerous structures and running out into the
open area. Thus, education, and a bit of luck is the
answer to why so many people survived.”
Doctor Mooney contrasted that with the Haitian
quake, which split open the hard rock beneath the capital
25 Port Au Prince within seconds. Buildings collapsed
instantly, giving people no time to escape.
Despite the relatively low loss of life in Chile,
Dr Mooney said the country must learn from this disaster,
particularly with regards to building along the coast. Many
30 of those who died were killed not by the quake, but by
the tsunamis that followed it, which swept away coastal
villages.
And the geophysicists said that even if Chile took
precautions, it would remain highly vulnerable to
35 earthquakes. They said that the north of the country was
a particular worry. It hasn’t suffered a big quake for around
a hundred years and is probably due for one soon, they
said.
LONG, Gideon. Earthquake science. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 6 jun. 2010.
When compared to Haiti’s earthquake, the quake’s build-up in Chile
TEXTO:
Earthquake science
A team of scientists say they can explain why many
more people died in the earthquake in Haiti compared to
the much larger quake in Chile.
The geophysicists, from the U.S. Geological Survey
5 and from Harvard University, said that strict building
regulations in Chile had undoubtedly saved lives. The
country has a long history of earthquakes and as a
consequence has some of the toughest building codes
in the world.
10 But Doctor Walter Mooney, who’s studied dozens
of earthquakes around the globe, said there were also
other factors behind the relatively low death toll: “First
and foremost, people are used to earthquakes in Chile
and so they did know that they have to evacuate from
15 dangerous structures. Secondly, this earthquake had a
slow and gradual build-up.They had some 20 or 30
seconds to look at each other, realize that the ground
shaking was crescendoing, and building up, and they
made the right decision in almost all cases by getting
20 out of the dangerous structures and running out into the
open area. Thus, education, and a bit of luck is the
answer to why so many people survived.”
Doctor Mooney contrasted that with the Haitian
quake, which split open the hard rock beneath the capital
25 Port Au Prince within seconds. Buildings collapsed
instantly, giving people no time to escape.
Despite the relatively low loss of life in Chile,
Dr Mooney said the country must learn from this disaster,
particularly with regards to building along the coast. Many
30 of those who died were killed not by the quake, but by
the tsunamis that followed it, which swept away coastal
villages.
And the geophysicists said that even if Chile took
precautions, it would remain highly vulnerable to
35 earthquakes. They said that the north of the country was
a particular worry. It hasn’t suffered a big quake for around
a hundred years and is probably due for one soon, they
said.
LONG, Gideon. Earthquake science. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 6 jun. 2010.
Geophysicists said that northern Chile
TEXTO:
Earthquake science
A team of scientists say they can explain why many
more people died in the earthquake in Haiti compared to
the much larger quake in Chile.
The geophysicists, from the U.S. Geological Survey
5 and from Harvard University, said that strict building
regulations in Chile had undoubtedly saved lives. The
country has a long history of earthquakes and as a
consequence has some of the toughest building codes
in the world.
10 But Doctor Walter Mooney, who’s studied dozens
of earthquakes around the globe, said there were also
other factors behind the relatively low death toll: “First
and foremost, people are used to earthquakes in Chile
and so they did know that they have to evacuate from
15 dangerous structures. Secondly, this earthquake had a
slow and gradual build-up.They had some 20 or 30
seconds to look at each other, realize that the ground
shaking was crescendoing, and building up, and they
made the right decision in almost all cases by getting
20 out of the dangerous structures and running out into the
open area. Thus, education, and a bit of luck is the
answer to why so many people survived.”
Doctor Mooney contrasted that with the Haitian
quake, which split open the hard rock beneath the capital
25 Port Au Prince within seconds. Buildings collapsed
instantly, giving people no time to escape.
Despite the relatively low loss of life in Chile,
Dr Mooney said the country must learn from this disaster,
particularly with regards to building along the coast. Many
30 of those who died were killed not by the quake, but by
the tsunamis that followed it, which swept away coastal
villages.
And the geophysicists said that even if Chile took
precautions, it would remain highly vulnerable to
35 earthquakes. They said that the north of the country was
a particular worry. It hasn’t suffered a big quake for around
a hundred years and is probably due for one soon, they
said.
LONG, Gideon. Earthquake science. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 6 jun. 2010.
The expression “death toll” (l. 12) refers to
TEXTO:
Earthquake science
A team of scientists say they can explain why many
more people died in the earthquake in Haiti compared to
the much larger quake in Chile.
The geophysicists, from the U.S. Geological Survey
5 and from Harvard University, said that strict building
regulations in Chile had undoubtedly saved lives. The
country has a long history of earthquakes and as a
consequence has some of the toughest building codes
in the world.
10 But Doctor Walter Mooney, who’s studied dozens
of earthquakes around the globe, said there were also
other factors behind the relatively low death toll: “First
and foremost, people are used to earthquakes in Chile
and so they did know that they have to evacuate from
15 dangerous structures. Secondly, this earthquake had a
slow and gradual build-up.They had some 20 or 30
seconds to look at each other, realize that the ground
shaking was crescendoing, and building up, and they
made the right decision in almost all cases by getting
20 out of the dangerous structures and running out into the
open area. Thus, education, and a bit of luck is the
answer to why so many people survived.”
Doctor Mooney contrasted that with the Haitian
quake, which split open the hard rock beneath the capital
25 Port Au Prince within seconds. Buildings collapsed
instantly, giving people no time to escape.
Despite the relatively low loss of life in Chile,
Dr Mooney said the country must learn from this disaster,
particularly with regards to building along the coast. Many
30 of those who died were killed not by the quake, but by
the tsunamis that followed it, which swept away coastal
villages.
And the geophysicists said that even if Chile took
precautions, it would remain highly vulnerable to
35 earthquakes. They said that the north of the country was
a particular worry. It hasn’t suffered a big quake for around
a hundred years and is probably due for one soon, they
said.
LONG, Gideon. Earthquake science. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 6 jun. 2010.
“the ground shaking was crescendoing” (l.17-18) means that the shake was