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Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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Considering the previous text, judge the following item.
In the sentence ‘They are blunting cognition and impeding
productivity’ (ninth paragraph), the pronoun ‘They’ refers to
the “nine out of 10 people in the UK who own a
smartphone” (seventh paragraph).
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It was when Dulcie Cowling was in the park with her two
kids that she took her decision to ditch her smartphone and
then she told her family and friends about it after Christmas.
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People who are giving up on their mobile devices believe
they were spending too much time with being connected and
they were missing their real lives because of that.
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According to the text, handsets are essential for people
because sometimes healthcare, education and social services
are offered only through smartphones.
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According to the text, in Spain there are villages that were
very important cities during the time of the American Wild
West.
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Rafael Molina owns one of the most famous film sets in the
history of Western movies.
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It can be inferred from the text that many different
productions were made in Almería because its landscapes are
very convenient and diversified.
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The fragment “Fernández started his career as a cowboy after
completing a stuntman course a decade ago” can be correctly
rewritten as A decade ago, Fernández started his career as
a cowboy and then he completed a stuntman course,
without changing the meaning of the text.
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In the sentence “In one show, Fernández portrays a bank
robber who absconds with some gold”, the fragment
“absconds with” could be correctly replaced with keeps,
without changing the meaning of the text.
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According to the text, the Almería’s actors have already
played in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and
endless other natural settings.
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According to the text, the actors of the small community in
Tabernas avoid being like their movie heroes.
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In the fifth paragraph, the word “stuntman” means a man
who performs a dangerous action which needs to be done by
someone skilled, especially instead of an actor in a film or
television programme.
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There are three fake Old West towns in the province of
Almería, in Spain.
“He is described as relying on reason, employing a science of deduction that enables him to explain events that have so far proved baffling. Yet it’s not the methods that fascinate us”. If these two sentences are rewritten as one, the result is: Since he is described as relying on reason, employing a science of deduction that enables him to explain events that have so far proved baffling, it’s not the methods that fascinate us.
According to the author, people’s faith in reason has diminished due to the fact that the use of reason is subject to contradiction.
The author argues that the figure of Holmes is contradictory. One example of Holmes’s contradictory nature is “In spite of his natural intuition for details, Holmes uses only logic to solve his cases”.
The text is an example of the genre opinion article. The purpose of this article can be described as to provide an analysis of why Holmes remains a popular character.
The humor of the cartoon lies in the contrast between what the characters say and what they actually mean or do.
The guide suggests that tourists should not go on the tour depicted more than once in their lives.
The tour guide seems to find her work challenging but fulfilling.