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Q1694246 Inglês

Newly discovered primate 'already facing extinction'


   The Popa langur, named after its home on Mount Popa, is critically endangered with numbers down to about 200 individuals.
   Langurs are a group of leaf-eating monkeys that are found across south east Asia.
   The newly described animal is known for its distinctive spectacle-like eye patches and greyish-coloured fur. It is at risk from habitat loss and hunting.
   Scientists have long suspected there might be a new species in Myanmar, based on DNA extracted from the droppings of wild monkeys, but evidence has been hard to find. 

(Adaptado de https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54894681)

O trecho “evidence has been hard to find” significa que a evidência:
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Q1694242 Inglês

Newly discovered primate 'already facing extinction'


   The Popa langur, named after its home on Mount Popa, is critically endangered with numbers down to about 200 individuals.
   Langurs are a group of leaf-eating monkeys that are found across south east Asia.
   The newly described animal is known for its distinctive spectacle-like eye patches and greyish-coloured fur. It is at risk from habitat loss and hunting.
   Scientists have long suspected there might be a new species in Myanmar, based on DNA extracted from the droppings of wild monkeys, but evidence has been hard to find. 

(Adaptado de https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54894681)

Os macacos descobertos se alimentam de:
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Q1694241 Inglês

Newly discovered primate 'already facing extinction'


   The Popa langur, named after its home on Mount Popa, is critically endangered with numbers down to about 200 individuals.
   Langurs are a group of leaf-eating monkeys that are found across south east Asia.
   The newly described animal is known for its distinctive spectacle-like eye patches and greyish-coloured fur. It is at risk from habitat loss and hunting.
   Scientists have long suspected there might be a new species in Myanmar, based on DNA extracted from the droppings of wild monkeys, but evidence has been hard to find. 

(Adaptado de https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54894681)

De acordo com o texto:
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Q1694189 Inglês


(Avaliable in: https://theplaylist.net/matrix-4-keanu-reeves-script-20200608/ – text adapted specially for this test). 

Which information is NOT mentioned in the text?
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Q1694107 Inglês

Read the text below to answer the question.


Parker Solar Probe: How Nasa is trying to 'touch' the Sun


   Nasa is all set to launch one of the most ambitious missions in its history. It's sending a satellite called the Parker Solar Probe into the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. Scheduled for launch on Saturday, the spacecraft promises to crack some longstanding mysteries about our star's behaviour.

(Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-45113552).

In the text, the “Parker Solar Probe” is:
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Q1694105 Inglês

Read the text below to answer the question.


Parker Solar Probe: How Nasa is trying to 'touch' the Sun


   Nasa is all set to launch one of the most ambitious missions in its history. It's sending a satellite called the Parker Solar Probe into the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. Scheduled for launch on Saturday, the spacecraft promises to crack some longstanding mysteries about our star's behaviour.

(Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-45113552).

According to the text, Nasa is sending a satellite to study the behaviour of the:
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Q1694100 Inglês

Read the text below to answer the question.


How octopuses ‘taste’ things by touching


   Octopus arms have minds of their own. Each of these eight supple yet powerful limbs can explore the seafloor in search of prey, snatching crabs from hiding spots without direction from the octopus’ brain. But how each arm can tell what it’s grasping has remained a mystery.

   Now, researchers have identified specialized cells not seen in other animals that allow octopuses to “taste” with their arms. Embedded in the suckers, these cells enable the arms to do double duty of touch and taste by detecting chemicals produced by many aquatic creatures. This may help an arm quickly distinguish food from rocks or poisonous prey, Harvard University molecular biologist Nicholas Bellono and his colleagues report online October 29 in Cell.

   The findings provide another clue about the unique evolutionary path octopuses have taken toward intelligence. Instead of being concentrated in the brain, two-thirds of the nerve cells in an octopus are distributed among the arms, allowing the flexible appendages to operate semiindependently.


(Adapted from: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/octopus-taste-touch-arm-suckers). 

According to the text:
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Q1692534 Inglês
GEORGE FLOYD, FROM ‘I WANT TO TOUCH THE WORLD’ TO ‘I CAN’T BREATHE’

Mr. Floyd had big plans for life nearly 30 years ago. His death in police custody is powering a movement against police brutality and racial injustice.

HOUSTON — It was the last day of 11th grade at Jack Yates High School in Houston, nearly three decades ago. A group of close friends, on their way home, were contemplating what senior year and beyond would bring. They were black teenagers on the precipice of manhood. What, they asked one another, did they want to do with their lives?

 “George turned to me and said, ‘I want to touch the world,’” said Jonathan Veal, 45, recalling the aspiration of one of the young men — a tall, gregarious star athlete named George Floyd whom he had met in the school cafeteria on the first day of sixth grade. To their 17-year-old minds, touching the world maybe meant the N.B.A. or the N.F.L.

“It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him,” Mr. Veal said. “He could not have imagined that this is the tragic way people would know his name.”

The world now knows George Perry Floyd Jr. through his final harrowing moments, as he begged for air, his face wedged for nearly nine minutes between a city street and a police officer’s knee.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-who-is.html
“[...] their way home, were contemplating what senior year and beyond would bring. They were black teenagers on the precipice of manhood. What, they asked one another, did they want to do with their lives? [...]”

What do bold words refer to?
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Q1692531 Inglês
GEORGE FLOYD, FROM ‘I WANT TO TOUCH THE WORLD’ TO ‘I CAN’T BREATHE’

Mr. Floyd had big plans for life nearly 30 years ago. His death in police custody is powering a movement against police brutality and racial injustice.

HOUSTON — It was the last day of 11th grade at Jack Yates High School in Houston, nearly three decades ago. A group of close friends, on their way home, were contemplating what senior year and beyond would bring. They were black teenagers on the precipice of manhood. What, they asked one another, did they want to do with their lives?

 “George turned to me and said, ‘I want to touch the world,’” said Jonathan Veal, 45, recalling the aspiration of one of the young men — a tall, gregarious star athlete named George Floyd whom he had met in the school cafeteria on the first day of sixth grade. To their 17-year-old minds, touching the world maybe meant the N.B.A. or the N.F.L.

“It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him,” Mr. Veal said. “He could not have imagined that this is the tragic way people would know his name.”

The world now knows George Perry Floyd Jr. through his final harrowing moments, as he begged for air, his face wedged for nearly nine minutes between a city street and a police officer’s knee.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-who-is.html
“The world now knows George Perry Floyd Jr. through his final harrowing moments, as he begged for air, his face wedged for nearly nine minutes between a city street and a police officer’s knee.
” Which expression can be used to replace that one in bold, but keeping the same meaning?
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Q1692530 Inglês
GEORGE FLOYD, FROM ‘I WANT TO TOUCH THE WORLD’ TO ‘I CAN’T BREATHE’

Mr. Floyd had big plans for life nearly 30 years ago. His death in police custody is powering a movement against police brutality and racial injustice.

HOUSTON — It was the last day of 11th grade at Jack Yates High School in Houston, nearly three decades ago. A group of close friends, on their way home, were contemplating what senior year and beyond would bring. They were black teenagers on the precipice of manhood. What, they asked one another, did they want to do with their lives?

 “George turned to me and said, ‘I want to touch the world,’” said Jonathan Veal, 45, recalling the aspiration of one of the young men — a tall, gregarious star athlete named George Floyd whom he had met in the school cafeteria on the first day of sixth grade. To their 17-year-old minds, touching the world maybe meant the N.B.A. or the N.F.L.

“It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him,” Mr. Veal said. “He could not have imagined that this is the tragic way people would know his name.”

The world now knows George Perry Floyd Jr. through his final harrowing moments, as he begged for air, his face wedged for nearly nine minutes between a city street and a police officer’s knee.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-who-is.html
“It was one of the first moments I remembered after learning what happened to him.”
Which sentence below has the same justification about the use of -ing as in the one above?
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Q1692521 Inglês
The Political Pedagogical Project involves some stages. These stages complement themselves and they are also interconnected, which provides the effectiveness of the process. What are the steps?
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Q1692511 Inglês

The economist. science & technology. Feb 20th 2020

edition. Internet: (adapted).

Imagine that a teacher wanted to further the reading skills of her pupils, and that, to do so, she decided to work with text 22A1-II in her class. Considering this and the reading strategies that can be developed in English classes, judge the following statements.

I By asking her pupils to guess the overall sense of the text just from its title, she would be promoting the use of the technique known as skimming.
II Exercises based on the skimming technique would demand her pupils to have a high level of vocabulary.
III If she asks the students to find out the name of the university in which Dr Barret works, they would be making a prediction.

Choose the correct option.
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Q1692510 Inglês

The economist. science & technology. Feb 20th 2020

edition. Internet: (adapted).

About text 22A1-II, choose the correct option.
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Q1692509 Inglês

The economist. science & technology. Feb 20th 2020

edition. Internet: (adapted).

According to text 22A1-II,
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Q1692508 Inglês

Nel Noddings. Philosophy of education. New York: Routledge, 2018 (adapted).

In each of the options below a passage of text 22A1-I is followed by a suggestion for its replacement. Choose the option in which the meaning and the grammatical correctness of the text are maintained.
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Q1692507 Inglês

Nel Noddings. Philosophy of education. New York: Routledge, 2018 (adapted).

The main purpose of text 22A1-I is to
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Q1692258 Inglês
Drones could help create a quantum internet

    The quantum internet may be coming to you via drone.
    Scientists have now used drones to transmit particles of light, or photons, that share the quantum linkage called entanglement. The photons were sent to two locations a kilometer apart, researchers report in a study to appear.
    Entangled quantum particles can retain their interconnected properties even when separated by long distances. Such counterintuitive behavior can be harnessed to allow new types of communication.
    Quantum networks made with fiber-optic cables are already beginning to be used. And a quantum satellite can transmit photons across China. Drones could serve as another technology for such networks, with the advantages of being easily movable as well as relatively quick and cheap to deploy.
    In the future, fleets of drones could work together to send entangled particles to recipients in a variety of locations. 
De acordo com o texto:
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Q1692092 Inglês
“When pigs fly” means in Portuguese:
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Q1692087 Inglês
[…] The teen years are ripe for producing conflict in the family. The relationship between parents and their children may include these typical areas of conflict:
• School performance;
• The teen's choice of friends;
• Spending time with the family versus with peers;
• Disputes over the teen´s curfew;
• Cars and driving privileges;
• Dating and sexuality;
• Clothing, hair styles and makeup;
• Self destructive behaviors such as smoking, drinking and using drugs.[…]

Adapted from: MARQUES, Amadeu. On
stage 3.São Paulo: Ática, 2010. 
“The teen years are ripe…” In that context, the underlined word means:
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Q1692086 Inglês
[…] The teen years are ripe for producing conflict in the family. The relationship between parents and their children may include these typical areas of conflict:
• School performance;
• The teen's choice of friends;
• Spending time with the family versus with peers;
• Disputes over the teen´s curfew;
• Cars and driving privileges;
• Dating and sexuality;
• Clothing, hair styles and makeup;
• Self destructive behaviors such as smoking, drinking and using drugs.[…]

Adapted from: MARQUES, Amadeu. On
stage 3.São Paulo: Ática, 2010. 
The text points:
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3981: B
3982: D
3983: A
3984: D
3985: A
3986: D
3987: A
3988: C
3989: D
3990: A
3991: B
3992: A
3993: C
3994: B
3995: D
3996: E
3997: B
3998: C
3999: A
4000: D