Questões de Vestibular de Inglês

    In 1879, Bodie was a bustling gold-mining town and home to 8,500 residents known for gunfi ghting and brawling. Within a decade, the mines had been largely depleted and the population had begun a steady decline that ended in total abandonment. The 150 remaining buildings are much as their residents left them.

How governments should help those on the dole

    “Active labour market programmes” are schemes meant to help people to fi nd work. They grew out of the American public works programmes of the 1930s, where the government spent billions of dollars busying its citizens with building schools, hospitals and bridges. Today programmes also take the form of training, subsidised private work, or help with fi nding a job. But alongside these programmes, some worry that overly generous welfare benefi ts make people lazy. They say that threats to cut people’s benefi ts if they do not join such programmes could also boost employment, by prodding people off the sofa and into work.

Considere a introdução de uma crítica a filmes de animação para responder à questão.

     No one, post-Charlie Hebdo, can doubt a cartoon’s capacity to change the world - R. Crumb’s breezy remonstrance “It’s only lines on paper, folks!” notwithstanding. Animated cartoons are generally more circumspect than static drawings, but some have been agitators as well. [...]