Questões de Concurso Público AL-RR 2018 para Tradutor (Inglês)
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Q912934
Inglês
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Inside the world's quietest room
If you stand in it for long enough, you start to hear
your heartbeat. A ringing in your ears becomes
deafening. When you move, your bones make a
grinding noise. Eventually you lose your balance,
because the absolute lack of reverberation
sabotages your spatial awareness.
In this room at Microsoft's headquarters in
Redmond, Washington, all sound from the outside
world is locked out and any sound produced
inside is stopped cold. It's called an anechoic
chamber, because it creates no echo at all — which
makes the sound of clapping hands downright
eerie.
The background noise in the room is so low that it
approaches the lowest threshold theorized by
mathematicians, the absolute zero of sound — the
next step down is a vacuum, or the absence of
sound.
This is the world's quietest place.
Deafening silence
The room offers a very rare sensorial experience.
As soon as one enters the room, one immediately
feels a strange and unique sensation which is hard
to describe, wrote Hundraj Gopal, a speech and
hearing scientist and the principal designer of
the anechoic chamber at Microsoft, in an email.
Most people find the absence of sound deafening, feel
a sense of fullness in the ears, or some ringing. Very
____ sounds become clearly audible because the
ambient noise is exceptionally low. When you turn
your head, you can hear that motion. You can hear
yourself breathing and it sounds somewhat loud,
he said.
In the real world, Gopal explained, our ears are
constantly subject to some level of sound, so there
is always some air pressure on the ear drums. But
upon entering the anechoic room this constant air
pressure is gone, since there are no sound
reflections from the surrounding walls.
This is a novel experience, he wrote. [...]
Jacopo Prisco, CNN
Disponível em: <https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ anechoic-chamber-worlds-quietest-room/index.html>. Acesso em: 29 mar. 2018.
According to text, inside the world's quietest room,
Q912935
Inglês
Texto associado
Read this text and answer to the question
Inside the world's quietest room
If you stand in it for long enough, you start to hear
your heartbeat. A ringing in your ears becomes
deafening. When you move, your bones make a
grinding noise. Eventually you lose your balance,
because the absolute lack of reverberation
sabotages your spatial awareness.
In this room at Microsoft's headquarters in
Redmond, Washington, all sound from the outside
world is locked out and any sound produced
inside is stopped cold. It's called an anechoic
chamber, because it creates no echo at all — which
makes the sound of clapping hands downright
eerie.
The background noise in the room is so low that it
approaches the lowest threshold theorized by
mathematicians, the absolute zero of sound — the
next step down is a vacuum, or the absence of
sound.
This is the world's quietest place.
Deafening silence
The room offers a very rare sensorial experience.
As soon as one enters the room, one immediately
feels a strange and unique sensation which is hard
to describe, wrote Hundraj Gopal, a speech and
hearing scientist and the principal designer of
the anechoic chamber at Microsoft, in an email.
Most people find the absence of sound deafening, feel
a sense of fullness in the ears, or some ringing. Very
____ sounds become clearly audible because the
ambient noise is exceptionally low. When you turn
your head, you can hear that motion. You can hear
yourself breathing and it sounds somewhat loud,
he said.
In the real world, Gopal explained, our ears are
constantly subject to some level of sound, so there
is always some air pressure on the ear drums. But
upon entering the anechoic room this constant air
pressure is gone, since there are no sound
reflections from the surrounding walls.
This is a novel experience, he wrote. [...]
Jacopo Prisco, CNN
Disponível em: <https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ anechoic-chamber-worlds-quietest-room/index.html>. Acesso em: 29 mar. 2018.
The words downright eerie (2nd paragraph) have the
same meaning in the context as
Q912936
Inglês
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Read this text and answer to the question
Inside the world's quietest room
If you stand in it for long enough, you start to hear
your heartbeat. A ringing in your ears becomes
deafening. When you move, your bones make a
grinding noise. Eventually you lose your balance,
because the absolute lack of reverberation
sabotages your spatial awareness.
In this room at Microsoft's headquarters in
Redmond, Washington, all sound from the outside
world is locked out and any sound produced
inside is stopped cold. It's called an anechoic
chamber, because it creates no echo at all — which
makes the sound of clapping hands downright
eerie.
The background noise in the room is so low that it
approaches the lowest threshold theorized by
mathematicians, the absolute zero of sound — the
next step down is a vacuum, or the absence of
sound.
This is the world's quietest place.
Deafening silence
The room offers a very rare sensorial experience.
As soon as one enters the room, one immediately
feels a strange and unique sensation which is hard
to describe, wrote Hundraj Gopal, a speech and
hearing scientist and the principal designer of
the anechoic chamber at Microsoft, in an email.
Most people find the absence of sound deafening, feel
a sense of fullness in the ears, or some ringing. Very
____ sounds become clearly audible because the
ambient noise is exceptionally low. When you turn
your head, you can hear that motion. You can hear
yourself breathing and it sounds somewhat loud,
he said.
In the real world, Gopal explained, our ears are
constantly subject to some level of sound, so there
is always some air pressure on the ear drums. But
upon entering the anechoic room this constant air
pressure is gone, since there are no sound
reflections from the surrounding walls.
This is a novel experience, he wrote. [...]
Jacopo Prisco, CNN
Disponível em: <https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ anechoic-chamber-worlds-quietest-room/index.html>. Acesso em: 29 mar. 2018.
The word that best fits the gap in the second part of
the text – Deafening silence – is
Q912942
Inglês
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Woman Becomes First South African Imprisoned for Racist Speech
LONDON – If Vicki Momberg had only unleashed
a high-volume tirade at the South African police
officers, video of it would have been of mere
passing interest. But her repeated use of a racial
slur unfamiliar to most Americans, but explosive
in South Africa – made her notorious, and led to
demands to make her an example.
On Wednesday, Ms. Momberg, a white woman,
became the first person in South Africa to be sent to
prison for using racist language against someone,
according to prosecutors and legal experts.
Specifically, she hurled the term kaffir, considered
the most offensive racial slur in South Africa so
radioactive socially that it is often referred to as the
k-word.
The 2016 viral video of her outburst at police
officers who responded to her report of thieves
breaking into her car set off a national furor, and
made Ms. Momberg a symbol of the racism that
persists a generation after the collapse of
apartheid.
Partly because of that video, viewed repeatedly on
social media and news sites, the parliament may
take up a bill that would make prosecution for hate
speech more common.
In a Johannesburg courtroom on Wednesday,
Magistrate Pravina Raghoonandan sentenced Ms.
Momberg to three years in prison, with one year
suspended. Local media reported that Ms.
Momberg, once a well-off real estate agent, cried as
the sentence was read. The judge refused to allow
Ms. Momberg to remain free on bail pending an
appeal, and officers led her away from the
courtroom.
Her lawyer, Kevin Lawlor, declined to comment.
The decision was met mostly with celebration on
social media, in a majority-black country where
profound inequality coexists with memories of an
apartheid system that institutionalized racial
separation and oppression. [...]
Richard Pérez-Peña, Mar. 28, 2018
Disponível em: <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/ 03/28/world/europe/south-africa-racist-speech>. Acesso em: 31 mar. 2018.
According to text it is right to affirm that Ms.
Momberg
Q912943
Inglês
Texto associado
Read this text and answer to the question.
Woman Becomes First South African Imprisoned for Racist Speech
LONDON – If Vicki Momberg had only unleashed
a high-volume tirade at the South African police
officers, video of it would have been of mere
passing interest. But her repeated use of a racial
slur unfamiliar to most Americans, but explosive
in South Africa – made her notorious, and led to
demands to make her an example.
On Wednesday, Ms. Momberg, a white woman,
became the first person in South Africa to be sent to
prison for using racist language against someone,
according to prosecutors and legal experts.
Specifically, she hurled the term kaffir, considered
the most offensive racial slur in South Africa so
radioactive socially that it is often referred to as the
k-word.
The 2016 viral video of her outburst at police
officers who responded to her report of thieves
breaking into her car set off a national furor, and
made Ms. Momberg a symbol of the racism that
persists a generation after the collapse of
apartheid.
Partly because of that video, viewed repeatedly on
social media and news sites, the parliament may
take up a bill that would make prosecution for hate
speech more common.
In a Johannesburg courtroom on Wednesday,
Magistrate Pravina Raghoonandan sentenced Ms.
Momberg to three years in prison, with one year
suspended. Local media reported that Ms.
Momberg, once a well-off real estate agent, cried as
the sentence was read. The judge refused to allow
Ms. Momberg to remain free on bail pending an
appeal, and officers led her away from the
courtroom.
Her lawyer, Kevin Lawlor, declined to comment.
The decision was met mostly with celebration on
social media, in a majority-black country where
profound inequality coexists with memories of an
apartheid system that institutionalized racial
separation and oppression. [...]
Richard Pérez-Peña, Mar. 28, 2018
Disponível em: <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/ 03/28/world/europe/south-africa-racist-speech>. Acesso em: 31 mar. 2018.
Choose the option in which the word notorious
presents a different meaning from the one used in the
text.
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