Questões de Vestibular de Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
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Q2030406
Inglês
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Americans May Add Five Times More Plastic to
the Oceans Than Thought
The United States is using more
plastic than ever, and waste exported for
recycling is often mishandled, according
to a new study.
The United States contribution
to coastal plastic pollution worldwide is
significantly larger than previously
thought, possibly by as much as five
times, according to a study published
Friday. The research, published in Science
Advances, is the sequel to a 2015 paper
by the same authors. Two factors
contributed to the sharp increase:
Americans are using more plastic than
ever and the current study included
pollution generated by United States
exports of plastic waste, while the earlier
one did not.
The United States, which does
not have sufficient infrastructure to
handle its recycling demands at home,
exports about half of its recyclable waste.
Of the total exported, about 88 percent
ends up in countries considered to have
inadequate waste management.
“When you consider how much
of our plastic waste isn’t actually
recyclable because it is low-value,
contaminated or difficult to process, it’s
not surprising that a lot of it ends up
polluting the environment,” said the
study’s lead author, Kara Lavender Law,
research professor of oceanography at
Sea Education Association, in a
statement.
The study estimates that in
2016, the United States contributed
between 1.1 and 2.2 million metric tons of
plastic waste to the oceans through a
combination of littering, dumping and
mismanaged exports. At a minimum,
that’s almost double the total estimated
waste in the team’s previous study. At the
high end, it would be a fivefold increase
over the earlier estimate.
Nicholas Mallos, a senior
director at the Ocean Conservancy and an
author of the study, said the upper
estimate would be equal to a pile of
plastic covering the area of the White
House Lawn and reaching as high as the
Empire State Building.
The ranges are wide partly
because “there’s no real standard for
being able to provide good quality data on
collection and disposal of waste in
general,” said Ted Siegler, a resource
economist at DSM Environmental
Solutions, a consulting firm, and an
author of the study. Mr. Siegler said the
researchers had evaluated waste-disposal
practices in countries around the world
and used their “best professional
judgment” to determine the lowest and
highest amounts of plastic waste likely to
escape into the environment. They settled
on a range of 25 percent to 75 percent.
Tony Walker, an associate
professor at the Dalhousie University
School for Resource and Environmental
Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that
analyzing waste data can amount to a
“data minefield” because there are no
data standards across municipalities.
Moreover, once plastic waste is shipped
overseas, he said, data is often not
recorded at all.
Nonetheless, Dr. Walker, who
was not involved in the study, said it
could offer a more accurate accounting of
plastic pollution than the previous study,
which likely underestimated the United
States’ contribution. “They’ve put their
best estimate, as accurate as they can be
with this data,” he said, and used ranges,
which underscores that the figures are
estimates.
Of the plastics that go into the
United States recycling system, about 9
percent of the country’s total plastic
waste, there is no guarantee that they’ll
be remade into new consumer goods. New
plastic is so inexpensive to manufacture
that only certain expensive, high-grade
plastics are profitable to recycle within the
United States, which is why roughly half
of the country’s plastic waste was shipped
abroad in 2016, the most recent year for
which data is available.
Since 2016, however, the
recycling landscape has changed. China
and many countries in Southeast Asia
have stopped accepting plastic waste
imports. And lower oil prices have further
reduced the market for recycled plastic.
“What the new study really underscores is
we have to get a handle on source
reduction at home,” Mr. Mallos said. “That
starts with eliminating unnecessary and
problematic single-use plastics.”
From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/
One of the factors that contributes to the huge
amount of plastic waste is the fact that
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Q2030405
Inglês
Texto associado
Americans May Add Five Times More Plastic to
the Oceans Than Thought
The United States is using more
plastic than ever, and waste exported for
recycling is often mishandled, according
to a new study.
The United States contribution
to coastal plastic pollution worldwide is
significantly larger than previously
thought, possibly by as much as five
times, according to a study published
Friday. The research, published in Science
Advances, is the sequel to a 2015 paper
by the same authors. Two factors
contributed to the sharp increase:
Americans are using more plastic than
ever and the current study included
pollution generated by United States
exports of plastic waste, while the earlier
one did not.
The United States, which does
not have sufficient infrastructure to
handle its recycling demands at home,
exports about half of its recyclable waste.
Of the total exported, about 88 percent
ends up in countries considered to have
inadequate waste management.
“When you consider how much
of our plastic waste isn’t actually
recyclable because it is low-value,
contaminated or difficult to process, it’s
not surprising that a lot of it ends up
polluting the environment,” said the
study’s lead author, Kara Lavender Law,
research professor of oceanography at
Sea Education Association, in a
statement.
The study estimates that in
2016, the United States contributed
between 1.1 and 2.2 million metric tons of
plastic waste to the oceans through a
combination of littering, dumping and
mismanaged exports. At a minimum,
that’s almost double the total estimated
waste in the team’s previous study. At the
high end, it would be a fivefold increase
over the earlier estimate.
Nicholas Mallos, a senior
director at the Ocean Conservancy and an
author of the study, said the upper
estimate would be equal to a pile of
plastic covering the area of the White
House Lawn and reaching as high as the
Empire State Building.
The ranges are wide partly
because “there’s no real standard for
being able to provide good quality data on
collection and disposal of waste in
general,” said Ted Siegler, a resource
economist at DSM Environmental
Solutions, a consulting firm, and an
author of the study. Mr. Siegler said the
researchers had evaluated waste-disposal
practices in countries around the world
and used their “best professional
judgment” to determine the lowest and
highest amounts of plastic waste likely to
escape into the environment. They settled
on a range of 25 percent to 75 percent.
Tony Walker, an associate
professor at the Dalhousie University
School for Resource and Environmental
Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that
analyzing waste data can amount to a
“data minefield” because there are no
data standards across municipalities.
Moreover, once plastic waste is shipped
overseas, he said, data is often not
recorded at all.
Nonetheless, Dr. Walker, who
was not involved in the study, said it
could offer a more accurate accounting of
plastic pollution than the previous study,
which likely underestimated the United
States’ contribution. “They’ve put their
best estimate, as accurate as they can be
with this data,” he said, and used ranges,
which underscores that the figures are
estimates.
Of the plastics that go into the
United States recycling system, about 9
percent of the country’s total plastic
waste, there is no guarantee that they’ll
be remade into new consumer goods. New
plastic is so inexpensive to manufacture
that only certain expensive, high-grade
plastics are profitable to recycle within the
United States, which is why roughly half
of the country’s plastic waste was shipped
abroad in 2016, the most recent year for
which data is available.
Since 2016, however, the
recycling landscape has changed. China
and many countries in Southeast Asia
have stopped accepting plastic waste
imports. And lower oil prices have further
reduced the market for recycled plastic.
“What the new study really underscores is
we have to get a handle on source
reduction at home,” Mr. Mallos said. “That
starts with eliminating unnecessary and
problematic single-use plastics.”
From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/
According to the text, the United States
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Q2030404
Inglês
Texto associado
Americans May Add Five Times More Plastic to
the Oceans Than Thought
The United States is using more
plastic than ever, and waste exported for
recycling is often mishandled, according
to a new study.
The United States contribution
to coastal plastic pollution worldwide is
significantly larger than previously
thought, possibly by as much as five
times, according to a study published
Friday. The research, published in Science
Advances, is the sequel to a 2015 paper
by the same authors. Two factors
contributed to the sharp increase:
Americans are using more plastic than
ever and the current study included
pollution generated by United States
exports of plastic waste, while the earlier
one did not.
The United States, which does
not have sufficient infrastructure to
handle its recycling demands at home,
exports about half of its recyclable waste.
Of the total exported, about 88 percent
ends up in countries considered to have
inadequate waste management.
“When you consider how much
of our plastic waste isn’t actually
recyclable because it is low-value,
contaminated or difficult to process, it’s
not surprising that a lot of it ends up
polluting the environment,” said the
study’s lead author, Kara Lavender Law,
research professor of oceanography at
Sea Education Association, in a
statement.
The study estimates that in
2016, the United States contributed
between 1.1 and 2.2 million metric tons of
plastic waste to the oceans through a
combination of littering, dumping and
mismanaged exports. At a minimum,
that’s almost double the total estimated
waste in the team’s previous study. At the
high end, it would be a fivefold increase
over the earlier estimate.
Nicholas Mallos, a senior
director at the Ocean Conservancy and an
author of the study, said the upper
estimate would be equal to a pile of
plastic covering the area of the White
House Lawn and reaching as high as the
Empire State Building.
The ranges are wide partly
because “there’s no real standard for
being able to provide good quality data on
collection and disposal of waste in
general,” said Ted Siegler, a resource
economist at DSM Environmental
Solutions, a consulting firm, and an
author of the study. Mr. Siegler said the
researchers had evaluated waste-disposal
practices in countries around the world
and used their “best professional
judgment” to determine the lowest and
highest amounts of plastic waste likely to
escape into the environment. They settled
on a range of 25 percent to 75 percent.
Tony Walker, an associate
professor at the Dalhousie University
School for Resource and Environmental
Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that
analyzing waste data can amount to a
“data minefield” because there are no
data standards across municipalities.
Moreover, once plastic waste is shipped
overseas, he said, data is often not
recorded at all.
Nonetheless, Dr. Walker, who
was not involved in the study, said it
could offer a more accurate accounting of
plastic pollution than the previous study,
which likely underestimated the United
States’ contribution. “They’ve put their
best estimate, as accurate as they can be
with this data,” he said, and used ranges,
which underscores that the figures are
estimates.
Of the plastics that go into the
United States recycling system, about 9
percent of the country’s total plastic
waste, there is no guarantee that they’ll
be remade into new consumer goods. New
plastic is so inexpensive to manufacture
that only certain expensive, high-grade
plastics are profitable to recycle within the
United States, which is why roughly half
of the country’s plastic waste was shipped
abroad in 2016, the most recent year for
which data is available.
Since 2016, however, the
recycling landscape has changed. China
and many countries in Southeast Asia
have stopped accepting plastic waste
imports. And lower oil prices have further
reduced the market for recycled plastic.
“What the new study really underscores is
we have to get a handle on source
reduction at home,” Mr. Mallos said. “That
starts with eliminating unnecessary and
problematic single-use plastics.”
From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/
As to the use of plastic by Americans, the text
mentions that it
Q1994397
Inglês
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Essential reading on, and beyond, Indigenous Peoples Day
In the text, the pronoun we is used to refer exclusively to the following group:
Q1994396
Inglês
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Essential reading on, and beyond, Indigenous Peoples Day
and while there’s truth in those narratives, it’s also critical, (l. 32)
The linker and while in the fragment above expresses contrast.
A similar meaning is conveyed in:
Q1994395
Inglês
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Essential reading on, and beyond, Indigenous Peoples Day
to acknowledge what is working in our communities and in our movements. (l. 31)
The underlined word may be substituted, without significant change in meaning, by the one below:
Q1994393
Inglês
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Essential reading on, and beyond, Indigenous Peoples Day
what is most sacred to us. (l. 22-23)
Regarding the indigenous peoples, the fragment above refers to the following elements:
Q1994392
Inglês
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Essential reading on, and beyond, Indigenous Peoples Day
In relation to the process of colonization described in the second paragraph, the text implies the
following idea:
Q1994391
Inglês
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Essential reading on, and beyond, Indigenous Peoples Day
In this text, the authors advocate the following cause:
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Q1983754
Inglês
What are you saying,
Correctly, did I hear?
Are you speaking English?
Your words are unclear.
They swim in my mind,
I can hear your words;
Comprehension is different,
Though, from only being heard.
If I understood you
If that all made sense,
Then maybe I'd seem
Just a little less dense.
But, just as it is,
I cannot reply;
'Cause the thoughts in your head,
Don't make sense in mine.
Disponível em: https://allpoetry.com. Acesso em: 31 out. 2019.
O eu lírico, ao reportar-se a um falante cuja língua materna não é o inglês,
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Q1983752
Inglês
Kids Might Learn to Love their Veggies
A 2 000 survey found that the 9 to 14-year-olds who ate dinner with their families most frequently ate more fruit and vegetables and less soda and fried foods. Their diets also had higher amounts of many key nutrients, like calcium, iron, and fiber. Family dinners allow for both "discussions of nutrition [and] provision of healthful foods", says Matthew W. Gillman, MD, the survey’s lead researcher and the director of the Obesity Prevention Program at the Harvard Medical School.
Disponível em: www.health.com. Acesso em: 17 ago. 2014 (adaptado).
Com foco na alimentação das crianças, o texto faz uma relação entre hábitos alimentares saudáveis e
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Q1961988
Inglês
Texto associado
INSTRUÇÃO: Responder à questão com base nos textos 1 e 2.
TEXT 2
THE BOOK COVER
Analyze the meaning of the structures below, from
texts 1 and 2, and select the alternative that presents
an INCORRECT explanation.
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Q1961987
Inglês
Texto associado
INSTRUÇÃO: Responder à questão com base nos textos 1 e 2.
TEXT 2
THE BOOK COVER
Analyze the sentences below, considering the content
of both texts.
I. The cover of the book’s first printing is not the one shown in text 2.
II. The information at the bottom of the cover is a quote of a character from the book.
III. Crazy rich people are on a higher level of wealth than filthy rich people.
The correct statement(s) is/are
I. The cover of the book’s first printing is not the one shown in text 2.
II. The information at the bottom of the cover is a quote of a character from the book.
III. Crazy rich people are on a higher level of wealth than filthy rich people.
The correct statement(s) is/are
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Q1961986
Inglês
Texto associado
INSTRUÇÃO: Responder à questão com base no texto 1.
Adapted from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/11/
crazy-rich-asians-movie-kevin-kwan-jon-m-chu-constance-wu
Analyze the grammatical function of the word “does”
in the sentence below.
“So for those who don’t feel seen, I hope there is a story you find soon that does represent you.” (lines 50 to 52)
The alternative in which “does” has a DIFFERENT function from the example above is
“So for those who don’t feel seen, I hope there is a story you find soon that does represent you.” (lines 50 to 52)
The alternative in which “does” has a DIFFERENT function from the example above is
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Q1961985
Inglês
Texto associado
INSTRUÇÃO: Responder à questão com base no texto 1.
Adapted from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/11/
crazy-rich-asians-movie-kevin-kwan-jon-m-chu-constance-wu
The alternative below that does NOT present the
same structure as in “Hollywood may have stopped
enforcing…” (lines 34 and 35) is
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Q1961984
Inglês
Texto associado
INSTRUÇÃO: Responder à questão com base no texto 1.
Adapted from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/11/
crazy-rich-asians-movie-kevin-kwan-jon-m-chu-constance-wu
In the segment: “… film has already become a beacon
for representation by also exploring…” (lines 23 and
24), the word “by” has the same meaning as in
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Q1961983
Inglês
Texto associado
INSTRUÇÃO: Responder à questão com base no texto 1.
Adapted from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/11/
crazy-rich-asians-movie-kevin-kwan-jon-m-chu-constance-wu
Which question below is answered in text 1?
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Q1961982
Inglês
Texto associado
INSTRUÇÃO: Responder à questão com base no texto 1.
Adapted from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/11/
crazy-rich-asians-movie-kevin-kwan-jon-m-chu-constance-wu
The alternative that could best replace the clause
underlined in paragraph 2 is:
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Q1961981
Inglês
Texto associado
INSTRUÇÃO: Responder à questão com base no texto 1.
Adapted from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/11/
crazy-rich-asians-movie-kevin-kwan-jon-m-chu-constance-wu
Consider the statements below and mark T(true) or
F(false) according to text 1.
( ) Rachel Chu has been cast for his movie for being Jon M Chu’s relative.
( ) The wealth shown in the film ended up being overshadowed by the ethnic issue.
( ) Before the Hays Code, Asian actors succeeded in struggling for being recognized in the US.
The correct top-down sequence to fill in the brackets above is
( ) Rachel Chu has been cast for his movie for being Jon M Chu’s relative.
( ) The wealth shown in the film ended up being overshadowed by the ethnic issue.
( ) Before the Hays Code, Asian actors succeeded in struggling for being recognized in the US.
The correct top-down sequence to fill in the brackets above is
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Q1961980
Inglês
Texto associado
INSTRUÇÃO: Responder à questão com base no texto 1.
Adapted from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/11/
crazy-rich-asians-movie-kevin-kwan-jon-m-chu-constance-wu
The main goal of text 1 is to
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