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Q1264907
Inglês
Leia o texto a seguir.
(Funny Being.com (online) 2017. 80 Most Funny Life Memes. Disponível em:<http://www.funnybeing.com/80-most-funny-life-memes/> . Acesso em: 8 ago. 2017.)
Com relação ao meme, considere as afirmativas a seguir.
I. O efeito de humor do meme reside no uso inapropriado de expressões informais em ocasiões formais.
II. A expressão “My bad” é inadequada para o contexto, pois expressa superficialidade de sentimentos.
III. A utilização de “My bad” no contexto do funeral é uma admissão de culpa, daí o efeito cômico.
IV. O efeito cômico do meme é ressaltado pelo uso da palavra “unless” cuja função é especificar o contexto.
Assinale a alternativa correta.
Q1264572
Inglês
<http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/subject/The-Climate+Change-Comics-and-Cartoons.php>. Acesso em: 17 set 2017.
A charge apresentada relaciona-se corretamente com a seguinte alternativa:
Q1262172
Inglês
According to the cartoon below it is CORRECT to affirm.
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Q1262171
Inglês
According to the cartoon below, judge the following statements
as true (T) or false (F).
Source: http://eoienglishclub.wikispaces.com/ENGLISH+B1/unit3
I. The girl’s sentence can be transcript as “See you. I'll text you later”. II. Young people do not make difference between spoken and written speech. III. The old man can’t realize young people play with the sound of the words. IV. Young people text so much, they adequate their speech according to the facilities of keyboards. V. Language changes from one generation to another.
Choose the CORRECT alternative.
Source: http://eoienglishclub.wikispaces.com/ENGLISH+B1/unit3
I. The girl’s sentence can be transcript as “See you. I'll text you later”. II. Young people do not make difference between spoken and written speech. III. The old man can’t realize young people play with the sound of the words. IV. Young people text so much, they adequate their speech according to the facilities of keyboards. V. Language changes from one generation to another.
Choose the CORRECT alternative.
Q1169894
Inglês
Harlem
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (1990). Disponível em http://www.poetryfoundation.org/.
As tentativas de resposta do poeta à pergunta “What happens to a dream deferred?” evocam imagens de
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (1990). Disponível em http://www.poetryfoundation.org/.
As tentativas de resposta do poeta à pergunta “What happens to a dream deferred?” evocam imagens de
Q1169893
Inglês
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TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO
Scientists have long touted DNA’s potential as an ideal
storage medium; it’s dense, easy to replicate, and stable over
millennia. But in order to replace existing silicon‐chip or
magnetic‐tape storage technologies, DNA will have to get a lot
cheaper to predictably read, write, and package.
That’s where scientists like Hyunjun Park come in. He and
the other cofounders of Catalog, an MIT DNA‐storage spinoff
emerging out of stealth on Tuesday, are building a machine
that will write a terabyte of data a day, using 500 trillion
molecules of DNA.
If successful, DNA storage could be the answer to a
uniquely 21st‐century problem: information overload. Five
years ago humans had produced 4.4 zettabytes of data; that's
set to explode to 160 zettabytes (each year!) by 2025. Current
infrastructure can handle only a fraction of the coming data
deluge, which is expected to consume all the world's
microchip‐grade silicon by 2040.
“Today’s technology is already close to the physical limits
of scaling,” says Victor Zhirnov, chief scientist of the
Semiconductor Research Corporation. “DNA has an
information‐storage density several orders of magnitude
higher than any other known storage technology.”
How dense exactly? Imagine formatting every movie ever
made into DNA; it would be smaller than the size of a sugar
cube. And it would last for 10,000 years.
Wired, June, 2018. Disponível em https://www.wired.com/. Adaptado.
Conforme o texto, cientistas preveem que, em pouco mais de
20 anos,
Q1169892
Inglês
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TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO
Scientists have long touted DNA’s potential as an ideal
storage medium; it’s dense, easy to replicate, and stable over
millennia. But in order to replace existing silicon‐chip or
magnetic‐tape storage technologies, DNA will have to get a lot
cheaper to predictably read, write, and package.
That’s where scientists like Hyunjun Park come in. He and
the other cofounders of Catalog, an MIT DNA‐storage spinoff
emerging out of stealth on Tuesday, are building a machine
that will write a terabyte of data a day, using 500 trillion
molecules of DNA.
If successful, DNA storage could be the answer to a
uniquely 21st‐century problem: information overload. Five
years ago humans had produced 4.4 zettabytes of data; that's
set to explode to 160 zettabytes (each year!) by 2025. Current
infrastructure can handle only a fraction of the coming data
deluge, which is expected to consume all the world's
microchip‐grade silicon by 2040.
“Today’s technology is already close to the physical limits
of scaling,” says Victor Zhirnov, chief scientist of the
Semiconductor Research Corporation. “DNA has an
information‐storage density several orders of magnitude
higher than any other known storage technology.”
How dense exactly? Imagine formatting every movie ever
made into DNA; it would be smaller than the size of a sugar
cube. And it would last for 10,000 years.
Wired, June, 2018. Disponível em https://www.wired.com/. Adaptado.
Afirma‐se no texto que, no futuro, a tecnologia de gravação
em moléculas de DNA
Q1169891
Inglês
Disponível em https://www.facebook.com/groups/englishmemes/.
O efeito de comicidade que se obtém do meme decorre, sobretudo, da
Q1169890
Inglês
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TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO
Assigning female genders to digital assistants such as
Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa is helping entrench harmful
gender biases, according to a UN agency.
Research released by Unesco claims that the often
submissive and flirty responses offered by the systemsto many
queries – including outright abusive ones – reinforce ideas of
women as subservient.
“Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it
sends a signal that women are obliging, docile and eager‐to‐
please helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a
blunt voice command like ‘hey’ or ‘OK’”, the report said.
“The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the
commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to
queries regardless of their tone or hostility. In many
communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biases
that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.”
The Unesco publication was entitled “I’d Blush if I Could”;
a reference to the response Apple’s Siri assistant offers to the
phrase: “You’re a slut.” Amazon’s Alexa will respond: “Well,
thanks for the feedback.”
The paper said such firms were “staffed by overwhelmingly
male engineering teams” and have built AI (Artificial
Intelligence) systems that “cause their feminised digital
assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch‐me‐if‐you‐can
flirtation”.
Saniye Gülser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality,
said: “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how,
when and whether AI technologies are gendered and,
crucially, who is gendering them.”
The Guardian, May, 2019. Adaptado.
De acordo com o texto, na opinião de Saniye Gülser Corat,
tecnologias que envolvem Inteligência Artificial, entre outros
aspectos,
Q1169889
Inglês
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TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO
Assigning female genders to digital assistants such as
Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa is helping entrench harmful
gender biases, according to a UN agency.
Research released by Unesco claims that the often
submissive and flirty responses offered by the systemsto many
queries – including outright abusive ones – reinforce ideas of
women as subservient.
“Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it
sends a signal that women are obliging, docile and eager‐to‐
please helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a
blunt voice command like ‘hey’ or ‘OK’”, the report said.
“The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the
commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to
queries regardless of their tone or hostility. In many
communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biases
that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.”
The Unesco publication was entitled “I’d Blush if I Could”;
a reference to the response Apple’s Siri assistant offers to the
phrase: “You’re a slut.” Amazon’s Alexa will respond: “Well,
thanks for the feedback.”
The paper said such firms were “staffed by overwhelmingly
male engineering teams” and have built AI (Artificial
Intelligence) systems that “cause their feminised digital
assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch‐me‐if‐you‐can
flirtation”.
Saniye Gülser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality,
said: “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how,
when and whether AI technologies are gendered and,
crucially, who is gendering them.”
The Guardian, May, 2019. Adaptado.
Segundo o texto, o título do relatório publicado pela
Unesco ‐ “I´d Blush if I Could” ‐, no que diz respeito aos
assistentes digitais, indica
Q1169888
Inglês
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TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO
Assigning female genders to digital assistants such as
Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa is helping entrench harmful
gender biases, according to a UN agency.
Research released by Unesco claims that the often
submissive and flirty responses offered by the systemsto many
queries – including outright abusive ones – reinforce ideas of
women as subservient.
“Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it
sends a signal that women are obliging, docile and eager‐to‐
please helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a
blunt voice command like ‘hey’ or ‘OK’”, the report said.
“The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the
commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to
queries regardless of their tone or hostility. In many
communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biases
that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.”
The Unesco publication was entitled “I’d Blush if I Could”;
a reference to the response Apple’s Siri assistant offers to the
phrase: “You’re a slut.” Amazon’s Alexa will respond: “Well,
thanks for the feedback.”
The paper said such firms were “staffed by overwhelmingly
male engineering teams” and have built AI (Artificial
Intelligence) systems that “cause their feminised digital
assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch‐me‐if‐you‐can
flirtation”.
Saniye Gülser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality,
said: “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how,
when and whether AI technologies are gendered and,
crucially, who is gendering them.”
The Guardian, May, 2019. Adaptado.
Conforme o texto, em relação às mulheres, um efeito
decorrente do fato de assistentes digitais reforçarem
estereótipos de gênero é
Q1069825
Inglês
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GERMANY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
By Simon Winder
Adapted from Chapter 3 of the book Germania.
In the last paragraph, the article most likely mentions Bamberg
Cathedral in order to
Q1069824
Inglês
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GERMANY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
By Simon Winder
Adapted from Chapter 3 of the book Germania.
According to the information in the article, the Black Death
Q1069823
Inglês
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GERMANY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
By Simon Winder
Adapted from Chapter 3 of the book Germania.
According to the information in the article, all of the following most
likely contributed to the Great Famine of the fourteenth century excep
Q1069822
Inglês
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GERMANY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
By Simon Winder
Adapted from Chapter 3 of the book Germania.
The information in the article most supports which of the following?
Q1069821
Inglês
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GERMANY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
By Simon Winder
Adapted from Chapter 3 of the book Germania.
With respect to the memorials that can still be found in many local
churches in Germany, the information in the article most supports
which of the following?
Q1069820
Inglês
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GERMANY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
By Simon Winder
Adapted from Chapter 3 of the book Germania.
According to the information in the article,
Q1069819
Inglês
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GERMANY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
By Simon Winder
Adapted from Chapter 3 of the book Germania.
The term “’high’ Middle Ages,” as cited in the first sentence, most likely
indicates which of the following?
Q1069816
Inglês
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THE PERILS OF POLYGAMY
Adapted from The Economist, December 23, 2017.
According to the information in the article, the brideprice is
Q1069815
Inglês
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THE PERILS OF POLYGAMY
Adapted from The Economist, December 23, 2017.
With respect to countries in which polygamy is practiced, the
information in the article supports all of the following except
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