Questões de Concurso Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês

(Text 1) A Mc Donald’s super-fan has kept a burger and fries in a glass cabinet for 10 years - and it still looks fine to eat.

The so-called "indestructible" McDonald's meal has no sign of mould or decay, despite having been first served up a decade ago.

Back in 2009, McDonald's closed down all three of its restaurants ____ Iceland.

And one man decided to buy the icy nation's final hamburger and fries - so the meal could live on after the chain's closure.

"I had heard that McDonald's never decompose so I just wanted to see if it was true or not," Hjortur Smarason said.

It's now been exactly 10 years since Smarason made his purchase, and the meal barely looks older.

In fact, there's a livestream of the burger and fries available to watch online _____ free.

The not-so-happy meal is housed in a glass cabinet in Snotra House, a hostel in southern Iceland.

You can check out the livestream here <https://snotrahouse.com/last-mcdonalds/>..

"The old guy is still there, feeling quite well," said hostel owner Siggi Sigurdur, speaking to BBC News <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50262547>. .

"It's a fun thing, of course, ______ it makes you think about what you are eating.

"There is no mould, it's only the paper wrapping that looks old.

" Why do McDonald's meals last so long? Here's what you need to know...

· Like many fast food outlets, McDonald's adds chemicals to its ingredients to make them last longer

· This saves McDonald's money and means you can get your meals for cheaper than you would otherwise

· These chemicals are called preservatives, which McDonald's say it adds "only when absolutely necessary, to ensure the food is safe to eat"

· "They will be used, for example, to prevent our bread and cheese from going mouldy and our pickles from spoiling," McDonald's explains

· You can find a full ingredient declaration for all McDonald's foods (including burgers) sold in the UK here

· The hostel says that people visit _____ around the world to see the burger.

· And it claims that the livestream website receives up to 400,000 hits every single day. · The meal hasn't always been kept in a glass cabinet, however.

· At first, Smarason stored the burger and fries in a plastic bag in his garage.

· After three years, he donated the meal to the National Museum of Iceland - and noticing barely any change in its appearance.

· The Museum decided that they weren't equipped to preserve the food, and then returned it to its original owner.

· "I think he was wrong because this hamburger preserves itself," Smarason said.

· The meal was then kept at a different hostel in Reykjavik, before being moved to its current home.

· We've asked McDonald's for a statement and will update this article with any response.

Disponível em: www.thesun.uk

(Text 1) A Mc Donald’s super-fan has kept a burger and fries in a glass cabinet for 10 years - and it still looks fine to eat.

The so-called "indestructible" McDonald's meal has no sign of mould or decay, despite having been first served up a decade ago.

Back in 2009, McDonald's closed down all three of its restaurants ____ Iceland.

And one man decided to buy the icy nation's final hamburger and fries - so the meal could live on after the chain's closure.

"I had heard that McDonald's never decompose so I just wanted to see if it was true or not," Hjortur Smarason said.

It's now been exactly 10 years since Smarason made his purchase, and the meal barely looks older.

In fact, there's a livestream of the burger and fries available to watch online _____ free.

The not-so-happy meal is housed in a glass cabinet in Snotra House, a hostel in southern Iceland.

You can check out the livestream here <https://snotrahouse.com/last-mcdonalds/>..

"The old guy is still there, feeling quite well," said hostel owner Siggi Sigurdur, speaking to BBC News <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50262547>. .

"It's a fun thing, of course, ______ it makes you think about what you are eating.

"There is no mould, it's only the paper wrapping that looks old.

" Why do McDonald's meals last so long? Here's what you need to know...

· Like many fast food outlets, McDonald's adds chemicals to its ingredients to make them last longer

· This saves McDonald's money and means you can get your meals for cheaper than you would otherwise

· These chemicals are called preservatives, which McDonald's say it adds "only when absolutely necessary, to ensure the food is safe to eat"

· "They will be used, for example, to prevent our bread and cheese from going mouldy and our pickles from spoiling," McDonald's explains

· You can find a full ingredient declaration for all McDonald's foods (including burgers) sold in the UK here

· The hostel says that people visit _____ around the world to see the burger.

· And it claims that the livestream website receives up to 400,000 hits every single day. · The meal hasn't always been kept in a glass cabinet, however.

· At first, Smarason stored the burger and fries in a plastic bag in his garage.

· After three years, he donated the meal to the National Museum of Iceland - and noticing barely any change in its appearance.

· The Museum decided that they weren't equipped to preserve the food, and then returned it to its original owner.

· "I think he was wrong because this hamburger preserves itself," Smarason said.

· The meal was then kept at a different hostel in Reykjavik, before being moved to its current home.

· We've asked McDonald's for a statement and will update this article with any response.

Disponível em: www.thesun.uk

(Text 1) A Mc Donald’s super-fan has kept a burger and fries in a glass cabinet for 10 years - and it still looks fine to eat.

The so-called "indestructible" McDonald's meal has no sign of mould or decay, despite having been first served up a decade ago.

Back in 2009, McDonald's closed down all three of its restaurants ____ Iceland.

And one man decided to buy the icy nation's final hamburger and fries - so the meal could live on after the chain's closure.

"I had heard that McDonald's never decompose so I just wanted to see if it was true or not," Hjortur Smarason said.

It's now been exactly 10 years since Smarason made his purchase, and the meal barely looks older.

In fact, there's a livestream of the burger and fries available to watch online _____ free.

The not-so-happy meal is housed in a glass cabinet in Snotra House, a hostel in southern Iceland.

You can check out the livestream here <https://snotrahouse.com/last-mcdonalds/>..

"The old guy is still there, feeling quite well," said hostel owner Siggi Sigurdur, speaking to BBC News <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50262547>. .

"It's a fun thing, of course, ______ it makes you think about what you are eating.

"There is no mould, it's only the paper wrapping that looks old.

" Why do McDonald's meals last so long? Here's what you need to know...

· Like many fast food outlets, McDonald's adds chemicals to its ingredients to make them last longer

· This saves McDonald's money and means you can get your meals for cheaper than you would otherwise

· These chemicals are called preservatives, which McDonald's say it adds "only when absolutely necessary, to ensure the food is safe to eat"

· "They will be used, for example, to prevent our bread and cheese from going mouldy and our pickles from spoiling," McDonald's explains

· You can find a full ingredient declaration for all McDonald's foods (including burgers) sold in the UK here

· The hostel says that people visit _____ around the world to see the burger.

· And it claims that the livestream website receives up to 400,000 hits every single day. · The meal hasn't always been kept in a glass cabinet, however.

· At first, Smarason stored the burger and fries in a plastic bag in his garage.

· After three years, he donated the meal to the National Museum of Iceland - and noticing barely any change in its appearance.

· The Museum decided that they weren't equipped to preserve the food, and then returned it to its original owner.

· "I think he was wrong because this hamburger preserves itself," Smarason said.

· The meal was then kept at a different hostel in Reykjavik, before being moved to its current home.

· We've asked McDonald's for a statement and will update this article with any response.

Disponível em: www.thesun.uk

(Text 1) A Mc Donald’s super-fan has kept a burger and fries in a glass cabinet for 10 years - and it still looks fine to eat.

The so-called "indestructible" McDonald's meal has no sign of mould or decay, despite having been first served up a decade ago.

Back in 2009, McDonald's closed down all three of its restaurants ____ Iceland.

And one man decided to buy the icy nation's final hamburger and fries - so the meal could live on after the chain's closure.

"I had heard that McDonald's never decompose so I just wanted to see if it was true or not," Hjortur Smarason said.

It's now been exactly 10 years since Smarason made his purchase, and the meal barely looks older.

In fact, there's a livestream of the burger and fries available to watch online _____ free.

The not-so-happy meal is housed in a glass cabinet in Snotra House, a hostel in southern Iceland.

You can check out the livestream here <https://snotrahouse.com/last-mcdonalds/>..

"The old guy is still there, feeling quite well," said hostel owner Siggi Sigurdur, speaking to BBC News <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50262547>. .

"It's a fun thing, of course, ______ it makes you think about what you are eating.

"There is no mould, it's only the paper wrapping that looks old.

" Why do McDonald's meals last so long? Here's what you need to know...

· Like many fast food outlets, McDonald's adds chemicals to its ingredients to make them last longer

· This saves McDonald's money and means you can get your meals for cheaper than you would otherwise

· These chemicals are called preservatives, which McDonald's say it adds "only when absolutely necessary, to ensure the food is safe to eat"

· "They will be used, for example, to prevent our bread and cheese from going mouldy and our pickles from spoiling," McDonald's explains

· You can find a full ingredient declaration for all McDonald's foods (including burgers) sold in the UK here

· The hostel says that people visit _____ around the world to see the burger.

· And it claims that the livestream website receives up to 400,000 hits every single day. · The meal hasn't always been kept in a glass cabinet, however.

· At first, Smarason stored the burger and fries in a plastic bag in his garage.

· After three years, he donated the meal to the National Museum of Iceland - and noticing barely any change in its appearance.

· The Museum decided that they weren't equipped to preserve the food, and then returned it to its original owner.

· "I think he was wrong because this hamburger preserves itself," Smarason said.

· The meal was then kept at a different hostel in Reykjavik, before being moved to its current home.

· We've asked McDonald's for a statement and will update this article with any response.

Disponível em: www.thesun.uk

Utilize o texto a seguir para responder às questões 35 e 36.

SKIMMING AND SCANNING

WHAT AND WHY?

Skimming and scanning are two different reading skills. Skimming means looking at a text or chapter quickly in order to have a general idea of the contents. Scanning means looking at a text to find some particular information. For example, we skim through a report to have a rough idea of what it says but we scan a page of the telephone directory to find a particular name or number. Skimming requires a __________ degree of reading and word recognition skills as it involves a more thorough understanding of the text. Scanning to find a particular piece of information can be achieved successfully by relatively poor readers and is therefore a very satisfying achievement for those daunted by texts in a foreign language. As the students become more confident of their reading ability in the mother tongue and in English, they will learn how to approach texts with different reading skills depending on the purpose of the text and the purpose they have for reading it. The more students are encouraged to approach a text by first using skimming or scanning techniques, the sooner they begin to realise that they do not have to read and understand every word of a text. Slow readers are 'textbounded', that is, they think that they have to work laboriously through every word in order to understand a text.

How centuries of priceless treasures were saved at Notre Dame

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Jean-Marc Fournier didn't have much time. As flames ripped through Notre Dame cathedral's medieval roof on Monday evening, the Paris fire brigade chaplain had a single mission -- to rescue two of its most sacred relics.

The problem was that the Crown of Thorns, revered as having been worn by Jesus Christ during his crucifixion, and the tabernacle, containing the Eucharist or holy sacrament, were locked inside a safe in the church's treasury that no one knew how to open.

"We couldn't get the codes... we couldn't get hold of the people who had them," Fournier said Wednesday.

Finally, as the flames high above crept closer to Notre Dame's famous spire, a church officer appeared with the crypt key, and the chaplain and firefighters rushed in.

Inside, red-hot embers and debris drifted down from the vast rib-vaulted ceiling. Fournier watched as a team of firefighters broke open the safe and extracted the crown. Made of rushes bound by gold threads, it has been encased in a crystal tube since eighteen ninety-six.

The chaplain joined a human chain of firefighters, emergency workers and antiquities experts to pass the crown and other irreplaceable treasures out of the burning church and into safety. Their efforts in those first few hours would save hundreds of years of art, history and heritage that Fournier said "belongs to humanity and the world at large."

How centuries of priceless treasures were saved at Notre Dame

_{(https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/notre-dame-art-saved-intl/index.html)}

Jean-Marc Fournier didn't have much time. As flames ripped through Notre Dame cathedral's medieval roof on Monday evening, the Paris fire brigade chaplain had a single mission -- to rescue two of its most sacred relics.

The problem was that the Crown of Thorns, revered as having been worn by Jesus Christ during his crucifixion, and the tabernacle, containing the Eucharist or holy sacrament, were locked inside a safe in the church's treasury that no one knew how to open.

"We couldn't get the codes... we couldn't get hold of the people who had them," Fournier said Wednesday.

Finally, as the flames high above crept closer to Notre Dame's famous spire, a church officer appeared with the crypt key, and the chaplain and firefighters rushed in.

Inside, red-hot embers and debris drifted down from the vast rib-vaulted ceiling. Fournier watched as a team of firefighters broke open the safe and extracted the crown. Made of rushes bound by gold threads, it has been encased in a crystal tube since eighteen ninety-six.

The chaplain joined a human chain of firefighters, emergency workers and antiquities experts to pass the crown and other irreplaceable treasures out of the burning church and into safety. Their efforts in those first few hours would save hundreds of years of art, history and heritage that Fournier said "belongs to humanity and the world at large."

How centuries of priceless treasures were saved at Notre Dame

_{(https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/notre-dame-art-saved-intl/index.html)}

Jean-Marc Fournier didn't have much time. As flames ripped through Notre Dame cathedral's medieval roof on Monday evening, the Paris fire brigade chaplain had a single mission -- to rescue two of its most sacred relics.

The problem was that the Crown of Thorns, revered as having been worn by Jesus Christ during his crucifixion, and the tabernacle, containing the Eucharist or holy sacrament, were locked inside a safe in the church's treasury that no one knew how to open.

"We couldn't get the codes... we couldn't get hold of the people who had them," Fournier said Wednesday.

Finally, as the flames high above crept closer to Notre Dame's famous spire, a church officer appeared with the crypt key, and the chaplain and firefighters rushed in.

Inside, red-hot embers and debris drifted down from the vast rib-vaulted ceiling. Fournier watched as a team of firefighters broke open the safe and extracted the crown. Made of rushes bound by gold threads, it has been encased in a crystal tube since eighteen ninety-six.

The chaplain joined a human chain of firefighters, emergency workers and antiquities experts to pass the crown and other irreplaceable treasures out of the burning church and into safety. Their efforts in those first few hours would save hundreds of years of art, history and heritage that Fournier said "belongs to humanity and the world at large."

As questões de 31 a 35 foram formuladas e serão respondidas em português. As demais questões foram formuladas e serão respondidas em inglês.