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Q3195845 Inglês
2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit

By Mark Poynting, Erwan Rivault and Becky Dale


   Global warming is nearing a critical point, as 2024 became the first calendar year with an average temperature of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, according to The European Copernicus Climate Service.

   While it doesn’t mean the Paris Agreement target of keeping the long-term average below 1.5°C has been breached, it highlights how close we are to exceeding it. The rise in global temperatures is primarily caused by fossil fuel emissions, which continue to increase despite international agreements.

   Climate scientist Ella Gilbert emphasized the devastating effects of global warming, pointing to events like the Los Angeles wildfires and the floods in Valencia. These disasters are a clear example of extreme weather becoming more frequent and dangerous.

   However, she stressed it was not too late to act. Every reduction in emissions and degree of warming can significantly decrease the impact of future disasters. Action must come from governments, businesses, and individuals alike.


Fonte: Adaptado de BBC News. Disponível em: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7575x8yq5o Acesso em: 15 jan 2025.
No trecho “Climate scientist Ella Gilbert emphasized the devastating effects of global warming,” a palavra "devastating" poderia ser corretamente substituída por qual opção?
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Q3195844 Inglês
2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit

By Mark Poynting, Erwan Rivault and Becky Dale


   Global warming is nearing a critical point, as 2024 became the first calendar year with an average temperature of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, according to The European Copernicus Climate Service.

   While it doesn’t mean the Paris Agreement target of keeping the long-term average below 1.5°C has been breached, it highlights how close we are to exceeding it. The rise in global temperatures is primarily caused by fossil fuel emissions, which continue to increase despite international agreements.

   Climate scientist Ella Gilbert emphasized the devastating effects of global warming, pointing to events like the Los Angeles wildfires and the floods in Valencia. These disasters are a clear example of extreme weather becoming more frequent and dangerous.

   However, she stressed it was not too late to act. Every reduction in emissions and degree of warming can significantly decrease the impact of future disasters. Action must come from governments, businesses, and individuals alike.


Fonte: Adaptado de BBC News. Disponível em: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7575x8yq5o Acesso em: 15 jan 2025.
No trecho “While it doesn’t mean the Paris Agreement target of keeping the long-term average below 1.5°C has been breached (…)” a palavra "breached" poderia ser corretamente substituída por qual opção?
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Q3175670 Inglês
Instruction: answer question based on the following text. 

Jean-Michel Basquiat 

Lisa S. Wainwright

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(Available in: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Michel-Basquiat – text especially adapted for this test).
All alternatives below could replace the underlined word “lacking” (l. 20) with no significant changes in meaning, EXCEPT for:
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Q3175070 Inglês

A polissemia é uma característica intrínseca das línguas, em que uma mesma palavra pode apresentar múltiplos significados. A identificação do sentido correto de uma palavra depende, portanto, da análise do contexto em que ela está inserida.


Observe a palavra "fine" nas seguintes frases:


"This is a fine example of Renaissance art."


"I feel fine today."


"The library charges a fine for overdue books."


"She has fine blonde hair."


Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a correta correspondência entre a frase e o significado de "fine":

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Q3167855 Inglês

Read the lyrics carefully and answer the following questions:

Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)




In the phrase “Now you don't talk so loud” the antonym of the word “loud” is:
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Q3166595 Inglês

Preencha corretamente:


Christmas is on the of December all over world. However, other celebrations  occur in different dates fron country to country. The Father’s Day in the United States for ______ is always on the third Sunday  June.


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Q3165670 Inglês

Read the lyrics carefully and answer the following questions:


The Times They Are A-Changin' (Bob Dylan) 


In English, the verb "roam" has the following meanings, except:  
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Q3161505 Inglês
The study of lexicon is essential for expanding vocabulary and understanding texts in English, as it helps identify the meaning of words in different contexts. Choose the correct alternative about the use of words in English.
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Q3158168 Inglês
The small exercise that's a powerful mood booster

Counting our blessings is an age-old piece of advice – but it turns out that writing lists of good things that happen to us actually does help improve our mood.
Of all the interventions brought to us by psychological research, I think this is probably my favourite. It's both simple and well-evidenced. And as such, it has become well-known.
There are various names for it – three good things, three blessings or a gratitude list. There are variations too in the exact instructions given, but essentially the exercise involves spending a few moments in the evening reflecting on your day, then writing down three things that went well or that you enjoyed. The final element is to think about why these things felt positive to you. You can choose anything, however small and seemingly inconsequential. Perhaps you bumped into a friend you hadn’t seen for a while? Perhaps you and a colleague laughed about something together. Perhaps you enjoyed your walk home from the station in lovely early evening light.
Alternatively, you could include something much more significant, perhaps even life-changing. Like passing an important exam, or getting a promotion, or hearing that a relative is going to have a baby.
Counting your blessings is of course a very old idea, and exercises of this kind had been used clinically for some time. The initial research investigating whether any of us might use this method in everyday life to improve our wellbeing was published in 2005 by Martin Seligman and Chris Peterson, two major figures in the field of positive psychology.
The study involved 577 people who were randomly assigned to different groups. As a placebo, one group had to write every evening about their early memories from childhood. Other groups were given different interventions to try out. In the arm of the trial that interests us, people were asked to list three things that had gone well that day and what caused them to go well. Over the next few months, the volunteers in all the groups were given scales to measure their happiness.
The results were impressive. Notably, within a month, the people who were assigned the three good things task began to show improvements in their happiness levels as well as a decrease in depressive symptoms – with the positive effects lasting for the six months of the study.
Meanwhile those in the placebo group saw a brief spike in happiness in the first week, but their mood soon returned to baseline, and there was no change at the six month follow up.
One reason that the three good things strategy can work is because it begins to counter the hard-wired tendency we have as humans to register and remember the negative rather than the positive. There's a strong evolutionary reason why we think this way: it's vital for our survival. So, we hardly notice if a small cat is following us up the street, but if it was a lion we certainly would. Our brains are primed for danger in order to keep us safe. Which is fine, except that in a world of war and suffering, hatred and division – all of which we can instantly access on our phones – this negativity bias can overwhelm us.
An important element of the three good things exercise is that it helps us to focus on the positive in a concrete way. And although I've been suggesting it's an end-ofthe-day exercise, its real strength lies in the fact that the impact soon begins to spread through the day. You find yourself searching out good things to add to your list from the moment you get up. (Whenever I get my favourite seat at the front of the top deck of the bus I think to myself, that's one for my list. How lucky!) And before you know it you are training yourself not only to look out for threats, but for good things too.


Fonte: Hammond, Claudia. The small exercise that's a
powerful mood booster. BBC, 2024. Disponível em:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241211-listingthree-good-things-mood-boost. Adaptado
Which of the following word can be used as a synonym of the adverb. “seemingly” in the text?
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Q3154513 Inglês
Read Text II and answer the five questions that follow it


Text II

OpenAI’s GPT-4 Scores in the Top 1% of Creative Thinking

By Erik Guzik

   Of all the forms of human intellect that one might expect artificial intelligence to emulate, few people would likely place creativity at the top of their list. Creativity is wonderfully mysterious—and frustratingly fleeting. It defines us as human beings—and seemingly defies the cold logic that lies behind the silicon curtain of machines. Yet, the use of AI for creative endeavors is now growing.

   New AI tools like DALL-E and Midjourney are increasingly part of creative production, and some have started to win awards for their creative output. The growing impact is both social and economic—as just one example, the potential of AI to generate new, creative content is a defining flashpoint behind the Hollywood writers’ strike.

   And if our recent study into the striking originality of AI is any indication, the emergence of AI-based creativity—along with examples of both its promise and peril—is likely just beginning.

   When people are at their most creative, they’re responding to a need, goal, or problem by generating something new—a product or solution that didn’t previously exist.

    In this sense, creativity is an act of combining existing resources — ideas, materials, knowledge — in a novel way that’s useful or gratifying. Quite often, the result of creative thinking is also surprising, leading to something the creator did not — and perhaps could not — foresee.

    Our results?

   GPT-4 scored in the top 1 percent of test-takers for the originality of its ideas. From our research, we believe this marks one of the first examples of AI meeting or exceeding the human ability for original thinking.

   In short, we believe that AI models like GPT-4 are capable of producing ideas that people see as unexpected, novel, and unique. Other researchers are arriving at similar conclusions in their research of AI and creativity.

Adapted from https://singularityhub.com/2023/09/10/openais-gpt-4-scores-in-thetop-1-of-creative-thinking/
In the last paragraph, the phrase In short is similar in meaning to
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Q3154507 Inglês
Read Text I and answer the five questions that follow it


Text I

Cybersecurity risk: time for auditors to take heed?

   The global interest in cybersecurity is growing. As we move into the cyber age, technology has become a huge part of both our everyday lives and today’s business environment, as more and more businesses increase their online presence and digital exposure by leveraging technology for almost every aspect of their business. But just as technology presents opportunities to many businesses, it also presents threats and challenges. Over the years, cyber attacks have continued to occur, escalating in frequency, severity and impact. These incidents have impacted every industry from financial services to retailers, entertainment and healthcare providers.

     […]

   Perhaps due to its constantly evolving nature, cybersecurity risk remains complex and abstract to many. There may also be a perception that cybersecurity risk is not relevant to small businesses, hence, cybersecurity risk may not have been considered and addressed in all financial statements audits. But let us think about this: risk assessment is a crucial part of audit planning and auditors are required under the auditing standards to obtain an understanding of business risks that may result in risks of material misstatement of the financial statements. Just as auditors would consider an entity’s business risks in a financial statements audit, cybersecurity risk is an equally important risk area that cannot be ignored. Perhaps even more so, given the broad extent to which cyber attacks can cause fundamental enterprise-wide damage to organisations, and for some attacks, even a huge impact to the financial statements. Cybersecurity risk is hence an essential consideration in any financial statements audit.


Adapted from : https://charteredaccountantsworldwide.com/cybersecurity-risktime-for-auditors-to-take-heed/
The word hence in Cybersecurity risk is hence an essential consideration (2nd paragraph) is the same as 
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Q3154506 Inglês
Read Text I and answer the five questions that follow it


Text I

Cybersecurity risk: time for auditors to take heed?

   The global interest in cybersecurity is growing. As we move into the cyber age, technology has become a huge part of both our everyday lives and today’s business environment, as more and more businesses increase their online presence and digital exposure by leveraging technology for almost every aspect of their business. But just as technology presents opportunities to many businesses, it also presents threats and challenges. Over the years, cyber attacks have continued to occur, escalating in frequency, severity and impact. These incidents have impacted every industry from financial services to retailers, entertainment and healthcare providers.

     […]

   Perhaps due to its constantly evolving nature, cybersecurity risk remains complex and abstract to many. There may also be a perception that cybersecurity risk is not relevant to small businesses, hence, cybersecurity risk may not have been considered and addressed in all financial statements audits. But let us think about this: risk assessment is a crucial part of audit planning and auditors are required under the auditing standards to obtain an understanding of business risks that may result in risks of material misstatement of the financial statements. Just as auditors would consider an entity’s business risks in a financial statements audit, cybersecurity risk is an equally important risk area that cannot be ignored. Perhaps even more so, given the broad extent to which cyber attacks can cause fundamental enterprise-wide damage to organisations, and for some attacks, even a huge impact to the financial statements. Cybersecurity risk is hence an essential consideration in any financial statements audit.


Adapted from : https://charteredaccountantsworldwide.com/cybersecurity-risktime-for-auditors-to-take-heed/
In technology has become a huge part of both our everyday lives and today’s business environment (1st paragraph), the word huge is similar in meaning to
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Q3154505 Inglês
Read Text I and answer the five questions that follow it


Text I

Cybersecurity risk: time for auditors to take heed?

   The global interest in cybersecurity is growing. As we move into the cyber age, technology has become a huge part of both our everyday lives and today’s business environment, as more and more businesses increase their online presence and digital exposure by leveraging technology for almost every aspect of their business. But just as technology presents opportunities to many businesses, it also presents threats and challenges. Over the years, cyber attacks have continued to occur, escalating in frequency, severity and impact. These incidents have impacted every industry from financial services to retailers, entertainment and healthcare providers.

     […]

   Perhaps due to its constantly evolving nature, cybersecurity risk remains complex and abstract to many. There may also be a perception that cybersecurity risk is not relevant to small businesses, hence, cybersecurity risk may not have been considered and addressed in all financial statements audits. But let us think about this: risk assessment is a crucial part of audit planning and auditors are required under the auditing standards to obtain an understanding of business risks that may result in risks of material misstatement of the financial statements. Just as auditors would consider an entity’s business risks in a financial statements audit, cybersecurity risk is an equally important risk area that cannot be ignored. Perhaps even more so, given the broad extent to which cyber attacks can cause fundamental enterprise-wide damage to organisations, and for some attacks, even a huge impact to the financial statements. Cybersecurity risk is hence an essential consideration in any financial statements audit.


Adapted from : https://charteredaccountantsworldwide.com/cybersecurity-risktime-for-auditors-to-take-heed/
In the title, the expression take heed can be replaced, without significant change in meaning, by
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Q3154165 Inglês

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Foods with Good Bacteria 


MOTHER EARTH NEWS – Like many of us, I didn’t think much about my gut health when I was younger. But being more responsible for my own foods when I moved out of the house changed what I bought. For some items, it’s a matter of swapping out a product that’s high in processed sugar and other additives for a healthier option. For others, I’ve rethought my food choices altogether, which includes considering guthealthy options to buy at my local store or make myself. If you’re beginning to explore fermented foods, you’re in the right spot. Here are a few foods with good bacteria and some fermented foods recipes you can try. 


Source: https://www.postjournal.com/wire/?category=5307&ID=317975 

The word swapping in the text can best be replaced by:
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Q3154162 Inglês

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Foods with Good Bacteria 


MOTHER EARTH NEWS – Like many of us, I didn’t think much about my gut health when I was younger. But being more responsible for my own foods when I moved out of the house changed what I bought. For some items, it’s a matter of swapping out a product that’s high in processed sugar and other additives for a healthier option. For others, I’ve rethought my food choices altogether, which includes considering guthealthy options to buy at my local store or make myself. If you’re beginning to explore fermented foods, you’re in the right spot. Here are a few foods with good bacteria and some fermented foods recipes you can try. 


Source: https://www.postjournal.com/wire/?category=5307&ID=317975 

The word includes in the phrase “which includes considering gut-healthy options…” could be replaced by: 
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Q3153139 Inglês
Semantics in English studies the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences within the linguistic context. Analyze the following statements:

I.In English, homonyms have the same spelling and sound but can have different meanings depending on the context.
II.In English, synonyms have identical meanings and can be used interchangeably in any context.
III.In English, the context of a sentence can help differentiate between the literal and figurative use of a word.

The correct statement(s) is/are:
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Q3149334 Inglês

New Research Sheds Light to The Persian Plateau: A Crucial Hub for Homo Sapiens Post-Africa Migration


March 31, 2024


The Persian plateau, a region that spans modern-day Iran, has been identified as a critical hub for Homo sapiens following their migration out of Africa. This pivotal role was established through the integration of genetic evidence, paleoecological models, and archaeological findings. The research, led by a team of scientists from various institutions, indicates that Homo sapiens dispersed from Africa approximately 70−60 thousand years ago (kya), but it wasn't until around 45 kya that they began to colonize all of Eurasia extensively. The interim period, which saw these early humans settle in the Persian plateau, has been a subject of considerable scientific interest.


The Genetic Evidence


Genetic studies reveal that populations within the Persian Plateau possess ancestry components closely matching those of the earliest Homo sapiens who left Africa. This suggests that the plateau acted as a significant waypoint for our species during their early Eurasian colonization attempts. The genetic markers found in the region provide a direct link to these ancient travelers, shedding light on the movements and expansions of early human populations.


Paleoecological Insights


The research further explores the environmental conditions that made the Persian plateau a suitable habitation site for early Homo sapiens. Using paleoecological models, the team reconstructed the climatic conditions of the plateau between 70 and 30 kya. The models indicate that the region could support human life throughout this period, offering a stable environment for these communities. Moreover, the plateau's ecological diversity and resources could sustain larger populations compared to other West Asian regions, making it an ideal settlement area during this epoch.


Archaeological Corroboration


Archaeological evidence from the Persian Plate supports the genetic and paleoecological findings. Sites across the region have yielded artifacts and remains dating back to the relevant period, indicating a continuous human presence. These archaeological sites, alongside the genetic and environmental data, paint a comprehensive picture of the plateau as a bustling hub for early humans.


The combination of genetic, paleoecological, and archaeological evidence positions the Persian plateau as a critical juncture in the story of human migration and settlement. This research not only highlights the importance of the region in our prehistoric past but also opens new avenues for understanding the complex journey of Homo sapiens as they spread across the globe. Further investigations into this area are likely to yield even more insights into the early chapters of human history.


https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/new-research-sheds-light-to-the persian-plateau-a-crucial-hub-for-homo-sapiens-post-africa-migration

In the context of the passage, what does the word "interim" mean in the sentence: "The interim period, which saw these early humans settle in the Persian plateau, has been a subject of considerable scientific interest"?
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Q3143764 Inglês
Which word best substitutes the verb “leverage” in 4º§? 
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Q3139400 Inglês
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta o sinônimo mais adequado para a palavra "outstanding" no contexto da frase:

"The student received an outstanding grade on her final exam." 
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Q3128644 Inglês
Scan the following content:


From Woolf to Sackville-West

52 Tavistock Square
Tuesday, January 26.

    Your letter from Trieste came this morning – But why do you think I don’t feel, or that I make phrases? ‘Lovely phrases’ you say which rob things of reality. Just the opposite. Always, always, always I try to say what I feel. Will you then believe that after you went last Tuesday – exactly a week ago – out I went into the slums of Bloomsbury, to find a barrel organ. But it did not make me cheerful … And ever since, nothing important has happened – Somehow it's dull and damp. I have been dull; I have missed you. I do miss you. I shall miss you. And if you don’t believe it, you’re a long eared owl and ass. Lovely phrases? …
    But of course (to return to your letter) I always knew about your standoffishness. Only I said to myself, I insist upon kindness. With this aim in view, I came to Long Barn. Open the top button of your jersey and you will see, nestling inside, a lively squirrel with the most inquisitive habits, but a dear creature all the same – V.
In “But of course (to return to your letter) I always knew about your STANDOFFISHNESS.” appoint the fitting option that best substitutes the highlighted word.
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1: A
2: B
3: A
4: C
5: C
6: E
7: C
8: C
9: C
10: A
11: E
12: B
13: A
14: B
15: E
16: C
17: C
18: C
19: A
20: C