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Q1793716
Inglês
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'Post-truth' named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries
In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” to be its international word of the year.
Defined by the dictionary as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”, editors said that use of the term “post-truth” had increased by around 2,000% in 2016 compared to last year. The spike in usage, it said, is “in the context of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States”.
Contenders for the title had included the noun “alt-right”, shortened from the fuller form “alternative right” and defined as “an ideological grouping associated with extreme conservative or reactionary viewpoints, characterised by a rejection of mainstream politics and by the use of online media to disseminate deliberately controversial content”. First used in 2008, its use “surged” this spring and summer, said the dictionary, with 30% of usage in August alone.
But the increase in usage of post-truth saw the term eventually emerge ahead of the pack. “We first saw the frequency really spike this year in June with buzz over the Brexit vote and Donald Trump securing the Republican presidential nomination. Given that usage of the term hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down, I wouldn’t be surprised if post-truth becomes one of the defining words of our time,” predicted Oxford Dictionaries president Casper Grathwohl.
“It’s not surprising that our choice reflects a year dominated by highly-charged political and social discourse. Fuelled by the rise of social media as a news source and a growing distrust of facts offered up by the establishment, post-truth as a concept has been finding its linguistic footing for some time.”
Disponível em:<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/15/post-truth-named-word-of-the-year-by-oxford-dictionaries>. Acesso em: 21 fev. 2017. (Adaptado).
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Q1793715
Inglês
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'Post-truth' named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries
In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” to be its international word of the year.
Defined by the dictionary as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”, editors said that use of the term “post-truth” had increased by around 2,000% in 2016 compared to last year. The spike in usage, it said, is “in the context of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States”.
Contenders for the title had included the noun “alt-right”, shortened from the fuller form “alternative right” and defined as “an ideological grouping associated with extreme conservative or reactionary viewpoints, characterised by a rejection of mainstream politics and by the use of online media to disseminate deliberately controversial content”. First used in 2008, its use “surged” this spring and summer, said the dictionary, with 30% of usage in August alone.
But the increase in usage of post-truth saw the term eventually emerge ahead of the pack. “We first saw the frequency really spike this year in June with buzz over the Brexit vote and Donald Trump securing the Republican presidential nomination. Given that usage of the term hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down, I wouldn’t be surprised if post-truth becomes one of the defining words of our time,” predicted Oxford Dictionaries president Casper Grathwohl.
“It’s not surprising that our choice reflects a year dominated by highly-charged political and social discourse. Fuelled by the rise of social media as a news source and a growing distrust of facts offered up by the establishment, post-truth as a concept has been finding its linguistic footing for some time.”
Disponível em:<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/15/post-truth-named-word-of-the-year-by-oxford-dictionaries>. Acesso em: 21 fev. 2017. (Adaptado).
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Ano: 2019
Banca:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Órgão:
MACKENZIE
Prova:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie - 2019 - MACKENZIE - Vestibular Mackenzie - Grupos I, IV, V e VI |
Q1793332
Inglês
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Woman in India admits poisoning six family members with cyanide
Murders took place over 14-year period and each victim ate a meal prepared by the killer
A woman in the southern Indian state of Kerala has confessed to poisoning
six members of her family over a 14-year period by adding cyanide to
their food.
Police began investigating earlier this year when the brother-in-law of
47-year-old suspect Jolly Thomas became suspicious that she may have
forged his parents’ will.
Authorities discovered that Thomas had been at the scene of all six deaths,
and that each death had occurred after eating a meal she had prepared.
Up to that point the deaths had not been treated as suspicious because
of the timeframe.
Thomas, a popular member of the community in Kozhikode, was allegedly
motivated by wanting control of the family finances and property, police
said.
According to police, the first poisoning was of Thomas’s mother-in-law,
who died in 2002 after eating mutton soup. In 2008, her-father-in-law died,
followed by her husband in 2011, who police said died after eating rice and
curry. An autopsy conducted on his body at the time confirmed poisonous
substances in his stomach, but police treated his death as suicide.
Thomas’s husband’s uncle was then allegedly given coffee laced with
cyanide as punishment for insisting that a postmortem be carried out on
his nephew.
In 2014, police said Thomas killed the two-year-old daughter of her dead
husband’s cousin, Scaria Shaju. The cousin’s wife was then killed in 2016.
A year later Thomas and Shaju married.
Shaju told police he had no idea that Thomas was behind his wife and
daughter’s death, but he has been arrested along with a third person.
On Friday, police exhumed remains from the local cemetery and said that
they confirmed cyanide poisoning in each of the deaths. On Monday, they
said Thomas confessed to all the murders.
SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/07/woman-in-india-admitspoisoning-six-family-members-with-cyanide access on Oct. 7th, 2019.
Consider this excerpt and answer: “Authorities discovered that Thomas had been
at the scene of all six deaths, and that each death had occurred after eating a
meal she had prepared.” This suggests that:
Ano: 2019
Banca:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Órgão:
MACKENZIE
Prova:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie - 2019 - MACKENZIE - Vestibular Mackenzie - Grupos I, IV, V e VI |
Q1793331
Inglês
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Woman in India admits poisoning six family members with cyanide
Murders took place over 14-year period and each victim ate a meal prepared by the killer
A woman in the southern Indian state of Kerala has confessed to poisoning
six members of her family over a 14-year period by adding cyanide to
their food.
Police began investigating earlier this year when the brother-in-law of
47-year-old suspect Jolly Thomas became suspicious that she may have
forged his parents’ will.
Authorities discovered that Thomas had been at the scene of all six deaths,
and that each death had occurred after eating a meal she had prepared.
Up to that point the deaths had not been treated as suspicious because
of the timeframe.
Thomas, a popular member of the community in Kozhikode, was allegedly
motivated by wanting control of the family finances and property, police
said.
According to police, the first poisoning was of Thomas’s mother-in-law,
who died in 2002 after eating mutton soup. In 2008, her-father-in-law died,
followed by her husband in 2011, who police said died after eating rice and
curry. An autopsy conducted on his body at the time confirmed poisonous
substances in his stomach, but police treated his death as suicide.
Thomas’s husband’s uncle was then allegedly given coffee laced with
cyanide as punishment for insisting that a postmortem be carried out on
his nephew.
In 2014, police said Thomas killed the two-year-old daughter of her dead
husband’s cousin, Scaria Shaju. The cousin’s wife was then killed in 2016.
A year later Thomas and Shaju married.
Shaju told police he had no idea that Thomas was behind his wife and
daughter’s death, but he has been arrested along with a third person.
On Friday, police exhumed remains from the local cemetery and said that
they confirmed cyanide poisoning in each of the deaths. On Monday, they
said Thomas confessed to all the murders.
SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/07/woman-in-india-admitspoisoning-six-family-members-with-cyanide access on Oct. 7th, 2019.
Select the WRONG alternative, according to the text:
Ano: 2019
Banca:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Órgão:
MACKENZIE
Prova:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie - 2019 - MACKENZIE - Vestibular Mackenzie - Grupos I, IV, V e VI |
Q1793330
Inglês
SOURCE: http://www.englishact.com.br/2018/04/calvin-and-hobbes-comic-strips.html
access on Oct 7th, 2019.
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