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Q2364342 Inglês

A Harvard team has realized a milestone in the quest for stable, scalable quantum computing. For the first time, the team has created a programmable, logical quantum processor, capable of encoding up to 48 logical qubits, and capable of executing hundreds of logical gate operations. Their system is the first demonstration of large-scale algorithm execution on an error-corrected quantum computer, heralding the advent of early fault-tolerant, or reliably uninterrupted, quantum computation.
Internet: <sciencedaily.com> (adapted).

Considering the information stated in the text above and the vocabulary used in it, judge the following item.

The verb “realized” (first sentence of the text) could be replaced with reached a milestone without changing the meaning of the sentence.

Certo

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Q2328558

Ano: 2023 Banca: COTEC Órgão: Prefeitura de Unaí - MG Prova: COTEC - 2023 - Prefeitura de Unaí - MG - Professor de Educação Básica II – Inglês |

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INSTRUÇÃO: Leia o texto a seguir para responder à questão.

Disponível em: https://twistedsifter.com/2012/05/a-better-place-comic-strip/. Acesso em: 23 set. 2023.

No último quadrinho da charge, um personagem afirma: “So technically they’re in a better place by default.”. O que esse personagem quis dizer?

A

O mundo perderia um pouco da sua graça, após a morte da pessoa descrita anteriormente.

B

A pessoa descrita pelo outro personagem está agora em um lugar muito melhor.

C

O outro personagem, em breve, iria se reencontrar com a pessoa mencionada previamente.

D

A vida após a morte não tem a menor possibilidade de existir.

E

A vida após a morte é tão deslumbrante quanto a vida nesse planeta.

Q2302239

Ano: 2023 Banca: FAU Órgão: Prefeitura de Laranjeiras do Sul - PR Prova: FAU - 2023 - Prefeitura de Laranjeiras do Sul - PR - Professor de Inglês |

Q2302239 Inglês

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O texto III refere-se a questão

Texto III2

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https://thefuture409.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/de6b416cd 8a70b253b2b6236d0230f431.jpg

No contexto da frase a seguir, identifique o grau superlativo do adjetivo e selecione a alternativa correta que utiliza uma outra forma correta de expressar a mesma ideia: "The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world".

A

most tall.

B

taller.

C

tallester.

D

talliest.

E

tallerest.

Q2274244

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Microplastics found in human heart for first time

A new study suggests invasive medical procedures may be an overlooked route of microplastics exposure, raising concerns about potential health risks. Minute particles of plastic (called microplastics) are everywhere. They’ve been found in our water, in our food, and in the air we breathe, according to a 2021 scientific review. Just a year later, another study found microplastics in the human bloodstream. Now, in what researchers are calling a first, microplastics have been detected in the heart tissues of individuals who underwent cardiac surgery.

According to the author of the research, the detection of microplastics in vivo is alarming, and more studies are necessary to investigate how the microparticles enter the cardiac tissues and the potential effects of microplastics on long-term prognosis after cardiac surgery. The author and his team used direct infrared imaging, and identified 20 to 500 micrometer-wide particles made from eight types of plastic. The scientists also found plastic particles in blood samples collected from participants. They added that “microplastics are highly likely to distribute in various organs throughout the body.”

A fraction of the plastic pieces identified had a diameter too large to likely enter the body through inhalation or ingestion, according to the analysis. This indicated that the heart operation itself may permit direct access of microplastics to the bloodstream and tissues. The researchers cited previous scientific investigation showing that microplastics have been detected in the air in operating rooms and could directly enter a patient whose organs are exposed to the air during surgery.

Such large particles may also come from equipment and materials used in a heart operation, including surgical incision protective film, intravenous therapy bags, tubing, and syringes. The types of plastics detected might also offer evidence that microplastics could be introduced during surgery, which may raise the risk of heart disease.

Internet: <www.everydayhealth.com> (adapted).

Based on the preceding text, judge the following item.

We can infer that the scientists did not like the way microplastics were distributed in many organs of the body.

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Q2273308

Ano: 2023 Banca: CPCON Órgão: Prefeitura de Dona Inês - PB Prova: CPCON - 2023 - Prefeitura de Dona Inês - PB - Professor B - Nível - 1 (Licenciatura em Inglês) |

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TEXT II – Tema: Variação linguística no ensino-aprendizagem de inglês

INTERNATIONAL VARIETIES OF ENGLISH

1 The most familiar way to classify the varieties of English around the world was developed by

2 Kachru (1985) and looks like this:

(Available from: https://www.eltconcourse.com/training/common/variety.html Accessed on July 5 , 2023)

The fragment “(…) local standards are being set and developed”, in Text II, is an instance of passive voice. According to DeCapua (2017, p. 261), “there are also some passive forms that have no active equivalents or that have different meanings when used in the passive versus the active”. Select the alternative which REPRESENTS one such situation.

A

Use of English is confined to those who have learned it as a foreign language.

B

The most familiar way to classify the varieties of English around the world was developed by Kachru.

C

It is rumored that the inner circle speakers judge other varieties of English.

D

In many of the nations in this circle English is an official language and even where it is not, it is used widely in government, administration and commerce.

E

The inner circle countries are norm-setting nations and it is against their standards that measures of correctness are established.

Q2226462

Ano: 2023 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: SERPRO Prova: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - SERPRO - Analista - Especialização: Tecnologia |

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Tracy Chou is a 31-year-old programmer — and “an absolute rock star,” as her former boss Ben Silbermann, the CEO and co-founder of Pinterest, once said. Yet for all her street cred, Chou still finds herself grappling with one of the biggest problems in the industry: Female programmers are regarded skeptically, and sometimes even treated with flat-out hostility. She’s seen the same pattern of behavior personally during her decade in coding: colleagues who muse openly about whether women are biologically less wired to be great programmers.

There’s a deep irony here — because women were in computing from its earliest days. Indeed, they were considered essential back when “computers” were not even yet machines. Just before the digital age emerged, computers were humans. And for a time, a large portion of them were women.

Soon, the human computers faced an even more existential threat: digital computers, which promised to work with far greater speed and to handle complex math.

Women, though, were among the original coders of these strange new digital brains, because in the early days programming was seen as dull work. The earliest programmers for the Eniac — the military-funded first programmable general-purpose computer — were entirely women. And though they wound up inventing brilliant coding techniques, they received none of the glory: When the Army showed off the Eniac to the press, it did not introduce the women who had written the code.

Internet: <smithsonianmag.com>(adapted).

Judge the following item about the previous text and the information stated in it as well as the vocabulary used in it.

Chou has witnessed other programmers considering out loud the innate impossibility of women being great coders.

Certo

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Q2176573

Ano: 2023 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: CGDF Prova: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - CGDF - Auditor De Controle Interno Do Distrito Federal – Especialidade Finanças E Controle |

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Text CB1A2-II

There’s one fact that seems to stand out for anyone who has read Rama Gheerawo’s 2022 book, Creative leadership: born from design. It likely sticks with people because it seems so absurd as to border on very bleak comedy, but also because it reveals a fundamental truth about how unnervingly simple us humans can be.

In the very first chapter of the book, we learn that a study of Fortune 500 companies showed that (in America), something as arbitrary as height can be the key to the C-suite: 4% of adult men in the general US population are 6’2” or taller, but 30% in the CEO sample reached those heights. It feels pathetically caveman-like that even now, in the 21st century, we implicitly place power in the hands of those who are taller than us — or that those taller than us have a natural propensity to get that power for themselves.

For Gheerawo, issues around leadership really came to a head around 15 years ago, he says, when he found himself “really disillusioned” with the constant and innumerable ways the world excluded certain groups of people, and how much of that could be solved if there was far more willingness from decision-makers to involve design early on as a key tool for problem-solving.

<R>Emily Gosling. Why the world needs a new type of leader. Internet: (adapted).

In the first paragraph of text CB1A2-II, the adjective “bleak” is synonymous with

A

heartbreaking.

B

light.

C

brilliant.

D

alternative.

Q2176568

Ano: 2023 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: CGDF Prova: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2023 - CGDF - Auditor De Controle Interno Do Distrito Federal – Especialidade Finanças E Controle |

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The quest for universal administrative standards to promote the effective application of public laws and policies gave birth to the field of public administration. Woodrow Wilson argued for a distinction between politics and administration, arguing that the former was more concerned with democracy, justice, and equality, while the latter was more concerned with efficiency, as he postulated that “administration lies beyond the proper domain of politics; administrative questions are not political questions” (Wilson, 1887).

According to Waldo (1948), the means and measurements of efficiency were the same for all administrations: democracy, if it were to survive, could not afford to ignore the lessons of centralization, hierarchy and discipline. Bureaucracy as an organisational type has seen its heyday in the field of public administration, owing to Woodrow Wilson’s Transfer of Administrative Principles.

That notwithstanding, the field has gone through paradigmatic evolution over time by a quest for management paradigm derived from the discipline of business administration. The management approach is said to hold the promise of future public sector reform, replacing the administrative approach traditionally provided by public administration. A new concept arises when the management perspective is combined with an emphasis on the public sector: public management.

Courses and programmes, as well as whole academic institutions and colleges, are adapting by switching from the term “public administration” to “public management”. Considering the growing demands for efficiency in the public sector, the transition from a public administration to a public management framework seems to be the right step.

M.O. Obimpeh and J.A. Dankwa. Public administration – public management interface: how different is the “management” from the “administration”? Internet: (adapted)

Choose the option that is correct considering text CB1A2-I.

A

Preservation of democracy depends on the acknowledgement of the teachings of centralization, hierarchy and discipline.

B

The terms administrative and management are used to refer to complementary approaches in the public sector.

C

Woodrow Wilson’s principles established less bureaucratic practices in public administration.

D

There seems to be resistance from educational institutions in adopting the new concept to define this area of study.

Q2166443

Ano: 2023 Banca: FUNDATEC Órgão: Prefeitura de Porto Alegre - RS Prova: FUNDATEC - 2023 - Prefeitura de Porto Alegre - RS - Professor - Lingua Inglesa |

Q2166443 Inglês

Consider the following statements:
I. The sentence “If you want to improve, you need to practice” is an example of the zero-conditional structure, which is used to talk about something that is always true or always the consequence of something else. II.“They would be able to travel more if they didn’t have so many dogs” is an example of the first conditional, and it is used to talk about possibilities for the future, specially when they are likely to happen. III. “I wouldn’t have called if I knew you were studying” is an example of the third conditional, which is used with unreal hypothesis because it is about something in the past.
Which statements are correct?

A

Only I.

B

Only II.

C

Only I and III.

D

Only II and III.

E

I, II, and III.

Q1988404

Ano: 2022 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: ANP Provas: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - ANP - Regulador de Novas Atribuições IV - Cargo 7 | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - ANP - Regulador de Novas Atribuições I - Cargo 4 | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - ANP - Regulador de Novas Atribuições II - Cargo 5 |

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Environmental and economic impacts of crude oil and

natural gas production in developing countries

Environmental impacts that occur during the production of crude oil would mostly occur from long-term habitat change within the oil and gas field, production activities (including facility component maintenance or replacement), waste management (e.g. produced water), noise (e.g. from well operations, compressor or pump stations, flare stack, vehicle and equipment), the presence of workers and potential spills.

The adverse environmental impacts which could happen during production of crude oil and natural gas include: disturbance of wildlife due to noise and human activity; exposure of biota to contaminants; and mortality of biota resulting from collisions against aboveground facilities or with vehicles.

The presence of production wells, ancillary facilities and access road reduces habitat quality, disturbs the biota and thus affects ecological resources. Discharge of produced water inappropriately onto soil or into surface water bodies can result in salinity levels becoming too high to sustain plant growth.

Wildlife is always prone to have contact with petroleum-based products and other contaminants in reserve pits and water management facilities. Animals could become entrapped in the oil and drown, or they could ingest toxic quantities of oil, or succumb to cold stress if the oil damages the insulation provided by their feathers or fur.

Internet: <www.core.ac.uk> (adapted).

Based on the text, judge the following items.

The second period of the third paragraph could be correctly rewritten, without change in meaning, as: Disposal of produced water inappropriately onto soil or into surface water bodes can cause salinity levels to become so high that plant growth is no longer sustainable.

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Q1975095

Ano: 2022 Banca: Quadrix Órgão: SEDF Prova: Quadrix - 2022 - SEDF - Professor de Educação Básica - Inglês - Edital nº 31 |

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Text for the item from.

Sean Coughlan. Narcissists ‘horrible people but happy’.

Internet: <https://www.bbc.com> (adapted).

Based on the text, judge the item from.

The text focus on narcissism as being an uncontrolled act of over-confidence, lack of empathy and a harmful psychological condition for society as a whole only.

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Q1891013

Ano: 2022 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: Petrobras Provas: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Administração | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Análise – Transporte Marítimo | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Análise – Comércio e Suprimento | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Equipamentos – Mecânica | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Geofísica – Física | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Processamento | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Segurança de Processo | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Geologia | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Geofísica – Geologia | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Produção | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Equipamentos – Elétrica | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Equipamentos – Terminais e Dutos | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Equipamentos – Inspeção | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Equipamentos – Eletrônica | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Petróleo | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Analista de Sistemas – Engenharia de Software | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Analista de Sistemas – Infraestrutura | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia Ambiental | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia Civil | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia Naval | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Segurança do Trabalho | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Economia | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Ciência de Dados | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Analista de Sistemas – Processos de negócio |

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Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun — a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. Mars is also a dynamic planet with seasons, polar ice caps, canyons, extinct volcanoes, and evidence that it was even more active in the past.

No other planet has captured our collective imagination quite like Mars.

In the late 1800s when people first observed the canal-like features on Mars’ surface, many speculated that an intelligent alien species resided there. This led to numerous stories about Martians, some of whom invade Earth, like in the 1938 radio drama, The War of the Worlds. According to an enduring urban legend, many listeners believed the story to be real news coverage of an invasion, causing widespread panic.

Countless stories since have taken place on Mars or explored the possibilities of its Martian inhabitants. Movies like Total Recall (1990 and 2012) take us to a terraformed Mars and a struggling colony running out of air. A Martian colony and Earth have a prickly relationship in The Expanse television series and novels.

Internet: <www.solarsystem.nasa.gov> (adapted).

Judge the following item, based on the previous text.

In the last sentence of the last paragraph, the word “prickly” means peaceful.

Certo

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Q1891008

Ano: 2022 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: Petrobras Provas: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Administração | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Análise – Transporte Marítimo | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Análise – Comércio e Suprimento | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Equipamentos – Mecânica | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Geofísica – Física | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Processamento | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Segurança de Processo | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Geologia | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Geofísica – Geologia | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Produção | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Equipamentos – Elétrica | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Equipamentos – Terminais e Dutos | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Equipamentos – Inspeção | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Equipamentos – Eletrônica | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Petróleo | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Analista de Sistemas – Engenharia de Software | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Analista de Sistemas – Infraestrutura | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia Ambiental | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia Civil | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia Naval | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Engenharia de Segurança do Trabalho | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Economia | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Ciência de Dados | CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2022 - Petrobras - Analista de Sistemas – Processos de negócio |

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In a world where many of us are glued to our smartphones, Dulcie Cowling is something of an anomaly — she has ditched hers. The 36-year-old decided at the end of last year that getting rid of her handset would improve her mental health. So, over Christmas she told her family and friends that she was switching to an old Nokia phone that could only make and receive calls and text messages.

She recalls that one of the pivotal moments that led to her decision was a day at the park with her two boys, aged six and three: “I was on my mobile at a playground with the kids and I looked up and every single parent — there was up to 20 — were looking at their phones, just scrolling away,” she says.

“I thought ‘when did this happen?’. Everyone is missing out on real life. I don’t think you get to your death bed and think you should have spent more time on Twitter, or reading articles online.”

Ms Cowling, who is a creative director at London-based advertising agency Hell Yeah!, adds that the idea to abandon her smartphone had built up during the covid-19 lockdowns.

“I thought about how much of my life is spent looking at the phone and what else could I do. Being constantly connected to lots of services creates a lot of distractions, and is a lot for the brain to process.”

She plans to use the time gained from quitting her smartphone to read and sleep more.

About nine out of 10 people in the UK now own a smartphone, a figure broadly replicated across the developed world. And we are glued to them — one recent study found that the average person spends 4.8 hours a day on their handset.

Yet for a small, but growing number of people, enough is enough.

Alex Dunedin binned his smartphone two years ago. “Culturally we have become addicted to these tools,” says the educational researcher and technology expert. “They are blunting cognition and impeding productivity.”

He has become happier and more productive since he stopped using a smartphone, he says.

Mr Dunedin doesn’t even have an old-fashioned mobile phone or even a landline anymore. He is instead only electronically contactable via emails to his home computer.

“It has improved my life,” he says. “My thoughts are freed up from constantly being cognitively connected to a machine that I need to feed with energy and money. I think that the danger of technologies is that they are emptying our lives.”

Yet, while some worry about how much time they spend on their handset, for millions of others they are a godsend.

“More than ever, access to healthcare, education, social services and often to our friends and family is digital, and the smartphone is an essential lifeline for people,” says a spokesperson for UK mobile network Vodafone.

“We also create resources to help people get the most from their tech, as well as to stay safe when they’re online — that’s hugely important.”

Suzanne Bearne. The people deciding to ditch their smartphones.

Internet: <www.bbc.com> (adapted).

Considering the previous text, judge the following item.

The only way Alex Dunedin connects electronically is via emails on his home computer.

Certo

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Q1797754

Ano: 2021 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: PC-DF Prova: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - PC-DF - Agente de Polícia da Carreira de Polícia Civil do Distrito Federal |

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As technology continues to reshape nearly every sector of society, it is also transforming police work in the 21º century. Law enforcement leaders can now count on an arsenal of high-tech systems and tools that are designed to enhance public safety, catch criminals and save lives.

One of their options is the use of biometrics. Police have been using fingerprints to identify people for over a century. Now, in addition to facial recognition and DNA, there is an ever-expanding array of biometric characteristics being utilized by law enforcement and the intelligence community. These include voice recognition, palmprints, wrist veins, iris recognition, and even heartbeats.

With comprehensive electronic databases now in place to more effectively use DNA and other biometric data, even the use of fingerprints to identify suspects has gone high-tech. For example, a CNBC report explains how police in London can now use a mobile INK (Identity Not Known) biometrics device to scan a suspect's fingerprints and in many cases reveal their identity within 60 seconds.

Internet: <onlinedegrees.sandiego.ed> (adapted).

Judge the following item based on the text above.

The use of the expression “an ever-expanding array” (in the second sentence of the second paragraph) indicates that the number of biometric traits law enforcement and the intelligence community can use in their investigations never ceases to grow.

Certo

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Q1794190

Ano: 2021 Banca: CEV-URCA Órgão: Prefeitura de Crato - CE Prova: CEV-URCA - 2021 - Prefeitura de Crato - CE - Professor de Inglês |

Q1794190 Inglês

In the following Instagram post, we see the usage of an expression which means to say something that we do not like. The correct alternative which puts the sentence in the reported speech is:
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A

Elton John said he will not be everybody’s cup of tea

B

Elton John said he was not everybody’s cup of tea

C

Elton John told me he is not going to be everybody’s cup of tea

D

Elton John said he is not everybody’s cup of tea

E

Elton John told peter he is not everyone’s cup of tea

Q1775300

Ano: 2021 Banca: IADES Órgão: Instituto Rio Branco Prova: IADES - 2021 - Instituto Rio Branco - Diplomata - Tarde |

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Stanzel, V. New Realities in Foreign Affairs: Diplomacy in the 21st Century. SWP Research Paper 2018, RP 11, November 2018,with adaptations.

Considering the vocabulary of the text, mark the following item as right (C) or wrong (E).
The word “others” in line 9 refers to those in the general public.

Certo

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Q1742663

Ano: 2021 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: PRF Prova: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - PRF - Policial Rodoviário Federal |

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A deep freeze this week in the Lone Star state, which relies on electricity to heat many homes, is causing power demand to skyrocket. At the same time, natural gas, coal, wind and nuclear facilities in Texas have been knocked offline by the unthinkably low temperatures.

“The extreme cold is causing the entire system to freeze up,” said Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. “All sources of energy are underperforming in the extreme cold because they’re not designed to handle these unusual conditions.”

The ripple effects are being felt around the nation as Texas’ prolific oil-and-gas industry stumbles.

It’s striking that these power outages are happening in a state with abundant energy resources. Texas produces more electricity than any other US state — generating almost twice as much as Florida, the next-closest, according to federal statistics.

Wind power is also booming in Texas, which produced about 28% of all the US wind-powered electricity in 2019, the EIA said. But the problem is that not only is Texas an energy superpower, it tends to be an above-average temperature state. That means its infrastructure is ill-prepared for the cold spell currently wreaking havoc. And the consequences are being felt by millions.

Critics of renewable energy have pointed out that wind turbines have frozen or needed to be shut down due to the extreme weather.

Even though other places with colder weather (like Iowa and Denmark) rely on wind for even larger shares of power, experts said the turbines in Texas were not winterized for the unexpected freeze.

But this is not just about wind turbines going down. Natural gas and coal-fired power plants need water to stay online. Yet those water facilities froze in the cold temperatures and others lost access to the electricity they require to operate.

It’s too early to definitively say what went wrong in Texas and how to prevent similar outages. More information will need to be released by state authorities. Still, some experts say the criticism of wind power appears overdone already. “In terms of the blame game, the focus on wind is a red herring. It’s more of a political issue than what is causing the power problems on the grid,” said Dan Cohan, associate professor of environmental engineering at Rice University.

The energy crisis in Texas raises also questions about the nature of the state’s deregulated and decentralized electric grid. Unlike other states, Texas has made a conscious decision to isolate its grid from the rest of the country.

That means that when things are running smoothly, Texas can’t export excess power to neighboring states. And in the current crisis, it can’t import power either.

Internet: <www.cnn.com> (adapted).

About ideas stated in the text above and the words used in it, judge the following item.

Extremely cold temperatures in Texas created problems for the distribution of energy in the state.

Certo

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Q1689530

Ano: 2021 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: SEED-PR Prova: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2021 - SEED-PR - Professor - Inglês |

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Text 3A03-III

The World’s Largest Tropical Wetland Has Become an Inferno

This year, roughly a quarter of the vast Pantanal wetland in Brazil, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, has burned in wildfires worsened by climate change. What happens to a rich and unique biome when so much is destroyed?

The unprecedented fires in the wetland have attracted less attention than blazes in Australia, the Western United States and the Amazon, its celebrity sibling to the north. But while the Pantanal is not a global household name, tourists in the know flock there because it is home to exceptionally high concentrations of breathtaking wildlife: Jaguars, tapirs, endangered giant otters and bright blue hyacinth macaws. Like a vast tub, the wetland swells with water during the rainy season and empties out during the dry months. Fittingly, this rhythm has a name that evokes a beating heart: the flood pulse.

The wetland, which is larger than Greece and stretches over parts of Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia, also offers unseen gifts to a vast swath of South America by regulating the water cycle upon which life depends. Its countless swamps, lagoons and tributaries purify water and help prevent floods and droughts. They also store untold amounts of carbon, helping to stabilize the climate.

For centuries, ranchers have used fire to clear fields and new land. But this year, drought worsened by climate change turned the wetlands into a tinderbox and the fires raged out of control.

Catrin Einhorn, Maria Magdalena Arréllaga, Blacki Migliozzi

and Scott Reinhard. Oct. 13, 2020.

Internet: <www.nytimes.com> (adapeted)

According to text 3A3-III,

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there is a limited number of bodies of water which helps prevent floods and droughts.

B

he fires in Australia drew more attention than the ones in the Pantanal.

C

he Amazon is considered part of the wetland, but located in the north.

D

there are many reptiles amnog the animals found in Pantanal.

E

one phenomenon that takes place in the Pantanal was compared to the human respiratory system.

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Why Joe Biden Saw Mixed Success With Latinos

Democrats' long-term hopes for electoral success have long cited the growing Latino population in the country. But former Vice President Joe Biden's performance in heavily Latino areas of key states has concerned members of his party — and may have cost him Electoral College votes, according to groups and activists working to mobilize Latino voters.

Nationally, Biden appears to have gotten support from roughly twice as many Latino voters as President Trump, but that support looked very different depending on where you looked in three key states with large Latino populations.

Democrats were pleased with their performance in Arizona, where The Associated Press awarded Biden the state's 11 electoral votes early Wednesday morning, while anxiety ran high about the results in Florida, where President Trump's strength with conservative Cuban American voters helped secure him that state's 29 electoral votes, according to AP. And while Texas was a long shot for Biden, Democrats had seen opportunity in the explosive growth in the state's Latino population.

During a post-election virtual press conference on Wednesday, leaders from groups aimed at mobilizing Latino voters expressed frustration that the votes of Latinos were not more aggressively pursued, even as they cheered record levels of turnout among Latinos in some key states.

Internet: <www.npr.org> (adapted)

According to text 3A3-II,

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Joe Biden’s support doesn’t depend on the states where Latinos were interviewed.

B

the number of Latin people in the US has been stable for some time.

C

Joe Biden is still the vice president of the former president.

D

Joe Biden’s political party supporters were anxious about their performance in Arizona.

E

President Trump appears to have over half of the Latino voters nationwide.

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City hall braces for busy marriage day

If love is all you need, you’ll want for nothing in New York Thursday.

The folks who hand out marriage licenses are bracing for what could be their busiest day ever as Valentine’s Day romantics head to the aisle.

“When we are really busy, we have a second chapel we can open,” said First Deputy City Clerk Michael McSweeney. “We are preparing to do that. We’re expecting a lot of couples.”

City Hall’s unofficial record of 318 weddings on that date was set on Valentine’s Day 2002 - also on a Thursday.

And love is definitely in the air Thursday.

Melanie and Joseph Castine married on Valentine’s Day 10 years ago. Today, they’re renewing their vows in the same venue - the Empire State Building.

The couple, who recently moved from Roosevelt Island to Philadelphia, won a letter-writing competition with Brides.com to become one of 14 pairs tying the knot in the iconic building.

“Valentine’s Day is just the perfect day to do it,” said Melanie Castine, who, with her hubby, has been at the skyscraper every year to mark their anniversary.

“Everywhere you go in Manhattan, you can see the Empire State Building. It’s a constant reminder of our marriage. We call it our chapel in the sky.”

Meanwhile, love is being put on ice at one of the city’s most romantic spots.

Rockefeller Center is preparing to clear its rink at 8 p.m for a skater planning to get down on one knee for a surprise engagement.

“It’s a big surprise for her, but we’re sure it’s going to be extremely romantic,” a rink spokeswoman said.

(Available from: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/02/14/2008-02-14 city hall braces for busy marriage day-1.html cited: 14 Feb. 2008)

The pronoun it in “we call it our chapel in the sky”, refers to:

A

New York City.

B

Manhattan.

C

Rockefeller Center.

D

Michael McSweeney.

E

City Hall.

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