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Read the text and answer the questions.
What if there was a way to take the things you need without paying for them, and doing it in a way that supports your moral beliefs?
Welcome to the freegan movement.
Basically, the modus operandi is to buck the conventional economy and engage in minimal consumption of resources. This is done by living off of consumer waste – cast-off clothes, restaurant and supermarket trash, street finds – as the New York Times describes them, freegans are “scavengers of the developed world.”
The movement, which has been gaining strength since the mid-1990s, grew out of the antiglobalization and environmental movements. It is a way to boycott, an “economic system where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical considerations and where massively complex systems of productions ensure that all the products we buy will have detrimental impacts most of which we may never even consider,” according to freegan.info, the online hub for all things freegan.
The word freegan is a mashup of the words “free” and “vegan.” Taking the ethos of veganism a step further, freegans go beyond advocating for animals and stand against the industrial economy in general, seeing at its core the abuse of humans, animals and the environment.
Of all the strategies practiced by freegans, the movement probably garners the most attention for the act of dumpster diving; rummaging through garbage in pursuit of usable items. Few places are off-limits – retailers, offices, restaurants, schools, supermarkets, and any other facility that throws out useful items is game.
Freegans, however, aren’t solely dependent on urban scavenging. There is a growing network of places where people can give away, take, share and trade items, like Freecycle and the free section of Craigslist. In addition, there are events like, "Really, Really, Free Markets" and “Freemeets.” In these meet-ups, rather than tossing perfectly good stuff into the waste stream, people can bring the thing they no longer want and share it instead.
Perhaps the best things in life are free, after all.
(Adapted text from: https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/responsibleliving/stories/what-is-the-freegan-movement)
What can one understand from “the act of dumpster diving”?
Read the text and answer the questions.
What if there was a way to take the things you need without paying for them, and doing it in a way that supports your moral beliefs?
Welcome to the freegan movement.
Basically, the modus operandi is to buck the conventional economy and engage in minimal consumption of resources. This is done by living off of consumer waste – cast-off clothes, restaurant and supermarket trash, street finds – as the New York Times describes them, freegans are “scavengers of the developed world.”
The movement, which has been gaining strength since the mid-1990s, grew out of the antiglobalization and environmental movements. It is a way to boycott, an “economic system where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical considerations and where massively complex systems of productions ensure that all the products we buy will have detrimental impacts most of which we may never even consider,” according to freegan.info, the online hub for all things freegan.
The word freegan is a mashup of the words “free” and “vegan.” Taking the ethos of veganism a step further, freegans go beyond advocating for animals and stand against the industrial economy in general, seeing at its core the abuse of humans, animals and the environment.
Of all the strategies practiced by freegans, the movement probably garners the most attention for the act of dumpster diving; rummaging through garbage in pursuit of usable items. Few places are off-limits – retailers, offices, restaurants, schools, supermarkets, and any other facility that throws out useful items is game.
Freegans, however, aren’t solely dependent on urban scavenging. There is a growing network of places where people can give away, take, share and trade items, like Freecycle and the free section of Craigslist. In addition, there are events like, "Really, Really, Free Markets" and “Freemeets.” In these meet-ups, rather than tossing perfectly good stuff into the waste stream, people can bring the thing they no longer want and share it instead.
Perhaps the best things in life are free, after all.
(Adapted text from: https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/responsibleliving/stories/what-is-the-freegan-movement)
In the sentence “the movement probably garners the most attention for the act of dumpster diving”, which word could replace the underlined one?
Read the text and answer the questions.
What if there was a way to take the things you need without paying for them, and doing it in a way that supports your moral beliefs?
Welcome to the freegan movement.
Basically, the modus operandi is to buck the conventional economy and engage in minimal consumption of resources. This is done by living off of consumer waste – cast-off clothes, restaurant and supermarket trash, street finds – as the New York Times describes them, freegans are “scavengers of the developed world.”
The movement, which has been gaining strength since the mid-1990s, grew out of the antiglobalization and environmental movements. It is a way to boycott, an “economic system where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical considerations and where massively complex systems of productions ensure that all the products we buy will have detrimental impacts most of which we may never even consider,” according to freegan.info, the online hub for all things freegan.
The word freegan is a mashup of the words “free” and “vegan.” Taking the ethos of veganism a step further, freegans go beyond advocating for animals and stand against the industrial economy in general, seeing at its core the abuse of humans, animals and the environment.
Of all the strategies practiced by freegans, the movement probably garners the most attention for the act of dumpster diving; rummaging through garbage in pursuit of usable items. Few places are off-limits – retailers, offices, restaurants, schools, supermarkets, and any other facility that throws out useful items is game.
Freegans, however, aren’t solely dependent on urban scavenging. There is a growing network of places where people can give away, take, share and trade items, like Freecycle and the free section of Craigslist. In addition, there are events like, "Really, Really, Free Markets" and “Freemeets.” In these meet-ups, rather than tossing perfectly good stuff into the waste stream, people can bring the thing they no longer want and share it instead.
Perhaps the best things in life are free, after all.
(Adapted text from: https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/responsibleliving/stories/what-is-the-freegan-movement)
In a nutshell, what is the freegan movement according to the text?
TEXT V- Text for questions 38, 39and 40.
Strategic behavior in digital reading in English
as a second/foreign language: a literature review
(Juliana do Amaral, Marília Camponogara Torres, Lêda Maria Braga Tomitch).
- “[...] It is essential that teachers acknowledge the fact that reading hypertexts is a more cognitively
- demanding process which requires skills such as navigating through hyperlinks and constructing meaning
- from multiple sources. Besides, teachers need to develop students’ awareness when reading digital texts
- by showing them that the strategies employed in this space might be borrowed from traditional forms of
- reading, but, many times, should be selected from a pool of specific strategies that are unique to the digital
- environment. In this way, fostering the students’ metacognition in reading in a second/foreign language
- is essential to improve their competence as readers of both printed and digital texts.” (p. 143)
“Besides, teachers need to develop students' awareness when reading digital texts by showing them that the strategies employed in this space might be borrowed from traditional forms of reading [...]”.The word besides indicates
TEXT V- Text for questions 38, 39and 40.
Strategic behavior in digital reading in English
as a second/foreign language: a literature review
(Juliana do Amaral, Marília Camponogara Torres, Lêda Maria Braga Tomitch).
- “[...] It is essential that teachers acknowledge the fact that reading hypertexts is a more cognitively
- demanding process which requires skills such as navigating through hyperlinks and constructing meaning
- from multiple sources. Besides, teachers need to develop students’ awareness when reading digital texts
- by showing them that the strategies employed in this space might be borrowed from traditional forms of
- reading, but, many times, should be selected from a pool of specific strategies that are unique to the digital
- environment. In this way, fostering the students’ metacognition in reading in a second/foreign language
- is essential to improve their competence as readers of both printed and digital texts.” (p. 143)
Choose the correct information according to the text.
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