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Read the text below:
The artwork "Meditation" comes from the series "Balance" and clearly shows the artist's extraordinary technique. The skin structure, which is created by underpainting with color glazes and salts, is reworked in a final step with oil paint in a specific painting technique, so that this lively, warm skin is created, which gives the bodies three-dimensionality and a transparency, as if one could look inside the person. In the painting "Meditation", the viewer is granted a deep insight into a pulsating female body, which outwardly remains in complete peace and harmony and surrenders to its meditative mantras, which are depicted as blossoms encircling the naked body. It is worth mentioning that this work is curated for the 8th Biennale Chianciano 2024 -Tuscany | Italy and will be exhibited there from August 3-18, 2024.
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Read the text below:
The artwork "Meditation" comes from the series "Balance" and clearly shows the artist's extraordinary technique. The skin structure, which is created by underpainting with color glazes and salts, is reworked in a final step with oil paint in a specific painting technique, so that this lively, warm skin is created, which gives the bodies three-dimensionality and a transparency, as if one could look inside the person. In the painting "Meditation", the viewer is granted a deep insight into a pulsating female body, which outwardly remains in complete peace and harmony and surrenders to its meditative mantras, which are depicted as blossoms encircling the naked body. It is worth mentioning that this work is curated for the 8th Biennale Chianciano 2024 -Tuscany | Italy and will be exhibited there from August 3-18, 2024.
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Text 1
UN and Multilingualism
An essential factor in harmonious communication among peoples and an enabler of multilateral diplomacy, multilingualism is of particular importance to the United Nations. By promoting dialogue, tolerance and understanding, multilingualism ensures effective participation of all in the Organization’s work, as well as greater transparency and efficiencies and better outcomes.
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish are the six official languages of the United Nations; English and French being the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat.
Parity among the six official languages has been an ongoing concern of the Secretary-General. The use of all the official languages, on an equal footing, is actively promoted to guarantee that all stakeholders can participate in the work of the United Nations. To ensure that the goals and actions of the UN are understood by the widest possible public, non-official languages are also in use at the UN on a daily basis. To achieve these objectives, the UN Secretariat promotes an organizational culture in its ranks that values and nurtures multilingualism throughout the human resources continuum.
(adapted from:https://www.un.org)
Text 1
UN and Multilingualism
An essential factor in harmonious communication among peoples and an enabler of multilateral diplomacy, multilingualism is of particular importance to the United Nations. By promoting dialogue, tolerance and understanding, multilingualism ensures effective participation of all in the Organization’s work, as well as greater transparency and efficiencies and better outcomes.
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish are the six official languages of the United Nations; English and French being the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat.
Parity among the six official languages has been an ongoing concern of the Secretary-General. The use of all the official languages, on an equal footing, is actively promoted to guarantee that all stakeholders can participate in the work of the United Nations. To ensure that the goals and actions of the UN are understood by the widest possible public, non-official languages are also in use at the UN on a daily basis. To achieve these objectives, the UN Secretariat promotes an organizational culture in its ranks that values and nurtures multilingualism throughout the human resources continuum.
(adapted from:https://www.un.org)
( ) The Ancient Olympic Games were mainly a religious festival.
( ) In the Ancient Olympic Games, married women were able to compete or watch.
( ) From left to right, the Olympic rings are blue, yellow, black, green, red.
( ) In the Ancient Olympic Games, athletes wore all white.
Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence from top to bottom :
Column 1 Paragraph (Text 2)
1. 1st paragraph
2. 2nd paragraph
3. 3rd paragraph
Column 2 Headings
( ) The Olympic rings
( ) Why are they called the Olympic Games?
( ) When did the Modern Olympic Games start?
Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence from top to bottom.
Read the text III to answer the question.
TEXT III
A new report into world education shows Finland has the best system. The global study is called "The Learning Curve" and is from the British magazine "The Economist". It aims to help governments provide a better education to students. The 52-page report looked at the education system in 50 countries. Researchers analysed millions of statistics on exam grades, literacy rates, attendance, and university graduation rates. Asia did well in the report, with South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore finishing second, third, fourth and fifth. The United States came 17th in the study, while Mexico, Brazil and Indonesia filled the bottom three positions in the top 50.
The Learning Curve reported on five things that education leaders should remember. The first is that spending lots of money on schools and teachers does not always mean students will learn. Second is that "good teachers are essential to high-quality education". The report said teachers should be "treated as the valuable professionals they are, not as technicians in a huge, educational machine". Numbers three and four are that a country's culture must have a strong focus on the importance of education, and parents have a key part to play. Finally, countries need to "educate for the future, not just the present." The report said: "Many of today's job titles…simply did not exist 20 years ago."
Sources:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=421944&c=1
http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com/content/download/bankname/components/filename/FINAL%20LearningCurve_Final.pdf
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Read the text I to answer the question.
TEXT I
IS BURNOUT REAL?
Last week, the World Health Organization upgraded Burnout from a “state” of exhaustion to “a syndrome” resulting from “chronic workplace stress” in its International Disease Classification. That is such a broad definition that it could well apply to most people at some point in their working lives. When a disorder is reportedly so widespread, it makes me wonder whether we are at risk of medicalizing everyday distress. If almost everyone suffers from Burnout, then no one does, and the concept loses all credibility.
By Richard A. Friedman
I'm sure the author's generation also experienced workplace stress. However, his generation also experienced real economic stability and socioeconomic gains. There was a light at the end of the tunnel. Currently, we are working tirelessly towards what ends? There doesn't seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel. The Burnout is psychological and existential as much as it is physical.
Anna B. – New York, June 4, 2019.
(Adaptado de https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/opinion/burnout-stress.html. Acessado em 16/09/2020.)
As regards the words in bold type, put number 01 if their use is CORRECT or number 02 if INCORRECT.
( ) I do everything while listening to music.
( ) Julia has been married with Gregory since 2009.
( ) She’s usually busy at 11 o’clock.
( ) Knife is the usefulest tool.
( ) Do you think today is colder than yesterday?
In the order presented, the CORRECT sequence is:
Read the following dialogue.
Caio: Have you seen Joana lately?
Ramon: I hadn’t, but I heard she borrowed some money from the bank.
Caio: But what about her inheritance?
Ramon: Word has it she frittered all away.
Caio: That’s crazy!
Ramon: Yeah, I know.
Based on this dialogue, analyze the assertions below.
I. In “she frittered all away”, Ramon intends to say that Joana squandered all her inheritance.
II. Ramon correctly uses auxiliary verbs in his first and last lines.
III. “Lately” is a time adverb in Caio’s fist line.
The CORRECT assertion(s) is(are):