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(Text 1) A Mc Donald’s super-fan has kept a burger and fries in a glass cabinet for 10 years - and it still looks fine to eat.

The so-called "indestructible" McDonald's meal has no sign of mould or decay, despite having been first served up a decade ago.

Back in 2009, McDonald's closed down all three of its restaurants ____ Iceland.

And one man decided to buy the icy nation's final hamburger and fries - so the meal could live on after the chain's closure.

"I had heard that McDonald's never decompose so I just wanted to see if it was true or not," Hjortur Smarason said.

It's now been exactly 10 years since Smarason made his purchase, and the meal barely looks older.

In fact, there's a livestream of the burger and fries available to watch online _____ free.

The not-so-happy meal is housed in a glass cabinet in Snotra House, a hostel in southern Iceland.

You can check out the livestream here <https://snotrahouse.com/last-mcdonalds/>..

"The old guy is still there, feeling quite well," said hostel owner Siggi Sigurdur, speaking to BBC News <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50262547>. .

"It's a fun thing, of course, ______ it makes you think about what you are eating.

"There is no mould, it's only the paper wrapping that looks old.

" Why do McDonald's meals last so long? Here's what you need to know...

· Like many fast food outlets, McDonald's adds chemicals to its ingredients to make them last longer

· This saves McDonald's money and means you can get your meals for cheaper than you would otherwise

· These chemicals are called preservatives, which McDonald's say it adds "only when absolutely necessary, to ensure the food is safe to eat"

· "They will be used, for example, to prevent our bread and cheese from going mouldy and our pickles from spoiling," McDonald's explains

· You can find a full ingredient declaration for all McDonald's foods (including burgers) sold in the UK here

· The hostel says that people visit _____ around the world to see the burger.

· And it claims that the livestream website receives up to 400,000 hits every single day. · The meal hasn't always been kept in a glass cabinet, however.

· At first, Smarason stored the burger and fries in a plastic bag in his garage.

· After three years, he donated the meal to the National Museum of Iceland - and noticing barely any change in its appearance.

· The Museum decided that they weren't equipped to preserve the food, and then returned it to its original owner.

· "I think he was wrong because this hamburger preserves itself," Smarason said.

· The meal was then kept at a different hostel in Reykjavik, before being moved to its current home.

· We've asked McDonald's for a statement and will update this article with any response.

Disponível em: www.thesun.uk

Os textos a seguir correspondem a fragmentos de fontes distintas, pertencentes a gêneros textuais diversos. Utilize-os para responder às questões 37 e 38.

Texto A

increase

verb [intransitive or transitive] /In´kri:s/ to become larger in amount or size, or to make something do this:

increase by something Sales have increased by 10%.

increase to something Our gross margin increased to 24%.

increase in price/size/value Over the past two years

the department has increased in size. (...)

increase

noun [countable or uncountable] /´Inkri:s/ a situation in which the number, size, or amount of something gets bigger:

a pay/price/tax increase Customers stocked up,

anticipating a January price increase.

an increase in something Businesses are facing a 12% increase in energy costs.

an increase of something Revenue last year was $347 million, an increase of 26%.

Cambridge English

Texto B

60% OF BRAZILIANS ARE LACKING

AT LEAST ONE BASIC SERVICE

In one year, two million more Brazilians are earning less than US$ 105 a month

Dec.6.2018 | 10:48 AM

Lucas Vettorazz | Érica Fraga

In 2017, six out of ten Brazilians ____ without adequate access to at least one of the crucial services: education, housing, social protection, sanitation, and internet access. When added to an increase ____ poverty, measured as the population income last year, the numbers show the double challenge ahead, if Brazil wants to reach higher development levels. These numbers were released ____ Wednesday (5th) by IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). The rise in unemployment, caused by the recession, made the population living below the line of poverty increase an additional two million last year, making a total of 54.8 million Brazilians, or 26.5% of the total population. In 2016, the percentage was 25.7%. By the indicators established by the World Bank - also adopted by IBGE - a person is considered to be poor when they live with up to US$ 5.5 a day, or US$ 105 a month. The number of Brazilians on extreme poverty also grew, which is a portion of the population even more reasonable. This group increased ____ 1.7 million last year, making it 15.2 million in total, or 7.4% of the people, against 6.6% in 2016.

Folha de S. Paulo

As questões de 31 a 35 foram formuladas e serão respondidas em português. As demais questões foram formuladas e serão respondidas em inglês.

Read this excerpt from one of the previous texts:

“My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is always a vocation rooted in hopefulness.”

As questões de 31 a 35 foram formuladas e serão respondidas em português. As demais questões foram formuladas e serão respondidas em inglês.

Instruction: Answer questions 41 to 53 based on the following text.

Why Learning Is A New Procrastination

1. The tremendous world of online courses, blogs, social media, free eBooks, podcasts, and
2. webinars provides the best ever opportunity to broaden your knowledge in almost every sphere
3. you can imagine. Thanks to technological advancement and the instant access to the internet,
4. everyone can now study from home. It seems like it would be foolishly not to seize this
5. opportunity and improve your skills and knowledge. Moreover, you are kind of forced to do so
6. since the contemporary world has raised the bar higher than ever before. It literally invited you
7. to gather the pace and ___________ even more.
8. It is not surprising that, ultimately, you try to be everywhere and do everything. No doubt,
9. you do your best to constantly gather tiny bits of information from as many channels as
10. possible, because you are afraid that you will fall behind if you stop. After all, you enter a
11. learning crunch mode. You do not afford to miss anything and try to read every book you could
12. get your hands on. You listen to every single podcast your smartphone could download and take
13. every online course your paycheck would allow to take.
14. All in all, you learn. As much as possible. As intense as you manage to. You learn how to
15. write and publish a new book. You learn how to launch a successful blog. You learn how to hit
16. your goal on Kickstarter. You learn how to build the next “unicorn”. You learn how to land a job
17. of your dream. You learn how to successfully sell thousands of items on Amazon. You learn how
18. to make millions of dollars in passive income.
19. However, the problem is that you do everything except taking action. All those activities do
20. not take you closer to the things you want to accomplish. Better knowledge does not make you
21. more influential, powerful, and successful unless you apply it. The key secret to success is not
22. ________ expertise, but the ability to use it.
23. Knowledge is worthless unless it is applied. Needless to say that studying is crucial.
24. However, the thing is that it should take the entirely new form now. You should stop learning
25. from someone else’s experiences, knowledge, failures, and wins and start learning from your
26. own mistakes, adventures, ___________, and bold actions.
27. Learning has become a major trend of the 21st century. Sadly, it has also become a new
28. form of procrastination. You consciously postpone the first step justifying this by your eagerness
29. to broaden the knowledge and learn new things. You put the start date off justifying this by
30. your desire to pick up new skills that would help you succeed faster. You procrastinate over
31. chasing your own aspirations because doing the things on your own and creating your own story
32. of success is far more complicated than reading about someone else’s one. Meanwhile, no one
33. would really reproach you for wasting your time. Also, you feel comfortable about staying within
34. this zone of ease and convenience forever.
35. However, the point is that you already have and know everything you need to start off. In
36. fact, there is nothing more you need to learn in order to take the first step. Embrace the truth.
37. No matter how good your theoretical knowledge is, you will face a lot of obstacles while
38. applying it. You will have to deal with issues that have never been described or covered in any
39. book. You will have to look for the solutions and make the spontaneous decisions that no one
40. probably has ever thought of. You will have to design your own road to success.
41. Transform your learning process from the continuous the procrastination into an
42. unstoppable process of absorbing invaluable expertise based on your own experience. It might
43. seem counterintuitive, but the old-fashioned way of learning is what holds you back. This is
44. what makes your triumphs suck.
45. Constant learning, evaluating of ideas, thinking, and visualizing your journey towards your
46. major aspirations will not take you far from the place you are now. Actions will. You can sit and
47. research, and research, and research, while someone else is already reaping huge rewards for
48. his or her fruitful and hard work. Stop learning now. Become bold enough to take the first step
49. and start learning from your own experience.

Source: https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/why-learning-is-a-new-procrastination-104b53107e8b

What is the cycle tourism?

Cycle tourism, cycle travelling, bike tourism… Many names for the same big passion. The cycle tourism is a form of tourism by bicycle that seems to gain ________ more attention even ________ people who are not passionate cyclists.

Who decide to travel by bike are not interested in getting fit, in how long takes to get to a place and in the athletic training: on the contrary the cycle tourism is a way of travelling that allow people to get to know places and people with a more human pace, not just to visit places but above all to live your destinations.

You can travel by bicycle for a few days or also for a few weeks, to go for a day tour or for a weekend in an art city for instance. The advantages of cycle tourism are many; the very reasonable travelling costs, more freedom in planning your trip even when travelling, more authentic way of travelling and exploring and the chance to do something for the environment.

Like many other forms of eco-sustainable tourism, the cycle tourism is convenient, it is good for your spirit and the planet!

(Fonte: Bikenbike - adaptado.)

Instruction: Answer to questions 38 to 47 based on the text below. The Highlights throughout the text are cited in the questions.

Caribou

01 ____Large hoofed animals belonging to the deer family, caribou and reindeer are actually the

02 same species — Rangifer tarandus. There are differences between caribou and reindeer though.

03 Caribou are native to North America, whereas reindeer are native to northern Europe and Asia.

04 Alaska does have some reindeer, however, imported from Siberia in the late 19th and early 20th

05 centuries.

06 ____Some people use the term "reindeer" to refer to domesticated work animals, such as those

07 pulling Santa's sleigh, but there are both wild and domestic herds of reindeer. Caribou, on the

08 other hand, are wild-living and long-migrating. Indigenous groups herd reindeer and use them for

09 their meat. That's also likely why reindeer evolved to be stockier than caribou.

10 ____Caribou make one of the world's great large-animal migrations. As summer approaches,

11 they head north along well-trod annual routes. Some herds may travel more than 600 miles to

12 get to their summer grazing grounds. They'll spend the summer months feeding on the abundant

13 grasses and plants of the tundra. This is also when they give birth. When the first snows fall each

14 year, the caribou turn back south. Herds of female caribou, called cows, leave several weeks

15 before the males, which follow with yearling calves from the previous birthing season.

16 ____They are taller and lankier than reindeer, likely because they evolved to make these long

17 migrations. They are the only deer in which males and females both have antlers—though only

18 some females have them. Cows have one calf each year, which can stand after only a few minutes

19 and move on with its mother by the next day.

20 ____Caribou are classified as vulnerable to extinction, one step above endangered. Because

21 they're migratory, changes in the landscape, such as the appearance of new fences or other

22 human development on their migration routes, can be especially disruptive. Climate change is

23 also a threat. As the Arctic warms, they become more susceptible to diseases and parasites,

24 which could quickly spread through a herd.

(Available in: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/caribou – text adapted especially

for this test).