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Ano: 2014
Banca:
VUNESP
Órgão:
Faculdade Cultura Inglesa
Prova:
VUNESP - 2014 - Faculdade Cultura Inglesa - Vestibular - Prova 01 |
Q1274510
Inglês
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How climate change ended world’s first great civilisations
David Keys
Monday, 3 March 2014
Monday, 3 March 2014
The world’s first great civilisations appear to have collapsed
because of an ancient episode of climate change – according to
new research carried out by scientists and archaeologists. Their
investigation demonstrates that the Bronze Age ‘megacities’ of
the Indus Valley region of Pakistan and north-west India declined
during the 21st and 20th centuries BC and never recovered –
because of a dramatic increase in drought conditions. The
research, carried out by the University of Cambridge and India’s
Banaras Hindu University, reveals that a series of droughts
lasting some 200 years hit the Indus Valley zone – and was
probably responsible for the rapid decline of the great Bronze
Age urban civilisation of that region.
It’s now thought likely that the droughts at around that time
were partly responsible for the collapse not only of the Indus
Valley Civilisation, but also of the ancient Akkadian Empire,
Old Kingdom Egypt and possibly Early Bronze Age civilisations
in Greece. “Our evidence suggests that it was the most intense
period of drought – probably due to frequent monsoon failure
– in the 5000 year-long period we have examined,” said
University of Cambridge Palaeoclimate scientist Professor
David Hodell. The scientists studying the collapse of the Indus
Valley Civilisation obtained their new evidence from a dried-up
lake bed near India’s capital New Delhi which is just 40 miles
east of the eastern edge of the Indus Valley Civilisation.
The Indus Valley ‘megacities’ – some with populations of up
to 100,000 – rapidly declined. Populations shrank and the old
urban civilisation, which had lasted 500 years, collapsed.
“Archaeologists get an opportunity to investigate how ancient
populations responded to climatic and environmental change,”
said University of Cambridge archaeologist, Dr. Cameron Petrie.
“For the Indus populations, it looks as though living in large
groups became untenable, and it was much more sustainable to
live in smaller groups. This is of course a huge simplification
of a complex process, but this transformation is the underlying
dynamicˮ.
(www.independent.co.uk. Adaptado.)
In the excerpt from the second paragraph –– It’s now thought
likely that the droughts –, the word likely can be replaced,
without changing the meaning of the sentence, by
Ano: 2014
Banca:
VUNESP
Órgão:
Faculdade Cultura Inglesa
Prova:
VUNESP - 2014 - Faculdade Cultura Inglesa - Vestibular - Prova 01 |
Q1274509
Inglês
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How climate change ended world’s first great civilisations
David Keys
Monday, 3 March 2014
Monday, 3 March 2014
The world’s first great civilisations appear to have collapsed
because of an ancient episode of climate change – according to
new research carried out by scientists and archaeologists. Their
investigation demonstrates that the Bronze Age ‘megacities’ of
the Indus Valley region of Pakistan and north-west India declined
during the 21st and 20th centuries BC and never recovered –
because of a dramatic increase in drought conditions. The
research, carried out by the University of Cambridge and India’s
Banaras Hindu University, reveals that a series of droughts
lasting some 200 years hit the Indus Valley zone – and was
probably responsible for the rapid decline of the great Bronze
Age urban civilisation of that region.
It’s now thought likely that the droughts at around that time
were partly responsible for the collapse not only of the Indus
Valley Civilisation, but also of the ancient Akkadian Empire,
Old Kingdom Egypt and possibly Early Bronze Age civilisations
in Greece. “Our evidence suggests that it was the most intense
period of drought – probably due to frequent monsoon failure
– in the 5000 year-long period we have examined,” said
University of Cambridge Palaeoclimate scientist Professor
David Hodell. The scientists studying the collapse of the Indus
Valley Civilisation obtained their new evidence from a dried-up
lake bed near India’s capital New Delhi which is just 40 miles
east of the eastern edge of the Indus Valley Civilisation.
The Indus Valley ‘megacities’ – some with populations of up
to 100,000 – rapidly declined. Populations shrank and the old
urban civilisation, which had lasted 500 years, collapsed.
“Archaeologists get an opportunity to investigate how ancient
populations responded to climatic and environmental change,”
said University of Cambridge archaeologist, Dr. Cameron Petrie.
“For the Indus populations, it looks as though living in large
groups became untenable, and it was much more sustainable to
live in smaller groups. This is of course a huge simplification
of a complex process, but this transformation is the underlying
dynamicˮ.
(www.independent.co.uk. Adaptado.)
De acordo com o primeiro parágrafo, grandes civilizações da
Antiguidade
Ano: 2018
Banca:
UFVJM-MG
Órgão:
UFVJM-MG
Prova:
UFVJM-MG - 2018 - UFVJM-MG - Vestibular - 2º Etapa |
Q1274471
Inglês
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Texto I
TRUMP-KIM SUMMIT: DONALD TRUMP VOWS TO 'END WAR GAMES' IN 'NEW HISTORY' WITH NORTH KOREA
By Ben Riley-Smith, US editor, in Singapore 13 JUNE 2018 • 8:10AM – The Telegraph
Photo: https://goo.gl/wcMQ1V
Donald Trump unexpectedly suspended ―war games‖ on the Korean peninsula yesterday as he convinced
Kim Jong-un to back ―complete denuclearisation‖ in a written agreement. The US has been carrying out joint
military exercises for years in the region as a signal of its military alliance with Seoul (South Korea), and as a
show of strength against North Korean aggression.
The US president said in a press conference after the Singapore summit: "It is a very great day, it is a very
great moment, in the history of the world." He predicted Kim would start denuclearise "very quickly" and
revealed that the North Korean leader had already agreed to destroy a missile engine testing site.
The climax of Mr Trump‘s meeting with Kim — the first between a sitting North Korean and American leader
— was the signing of a joint agreement. The 400-word statement followed more than four hours of talks, first
between the leaders one-on-one and then with a wider group of advisers.
It read:"President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un conducted a comprehensive, in-depth, and sincere
exchange of opinions on the issues related to the establishment of new United States - North Korea relations
and the building of a lasting and robust peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.
The statement went on to list four specific pledges that both Mr Trump and Kim agreed to stand by: The first
was that both countries would establish ―new relations‖ in the pursuit of ―peace and prosperity" — an attempt
to draw a line under the insults and threats of last year. The second said that America and North Korea
would "join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula‖. The third said
that Kim‘s regime ―commits to work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula" — a key
demand from the Americans. And the fourth promised that the remains of fallen US soldiers who died
fighting in the Korean War would be repatriated to the United States.
Mr Trump said he "absolutely" would invite Kim to the White House and expressed enthusiasm for visiting
North Korea, but said no dates had been set. Mr Trump also praised the leaders of Japan, South Korea and
China as well as Kim himself for the progress made on the issue of denuclearisation.
Source: < https://goo.gl/dEim38> Date of retrieval: June 13th, 2018.
Na frase do texto I, "a signal of its military ALLIANCE with Seoul", a palavra ALLIANCE poderia ser
substituída, sem alterar seu sentido, por:
Q1273612
Inglês
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TEXT
Roraima also differs from other areas of the
Amazon, given the timid way in which corporate
capital has ventured into the region. Despite its
natural riches, there are no large-scale mining or
timber operations, and local industries are
embryonic. Resulting from the mild stage of
capitalist exploration, and relatively recent human
occupation, the number and intensity of conflicts
over regional resources are substantially smaller.
Migration represented a leading role in the
territorial, political and cultural formation of Roraima.
During the 1970s and 1980s the state received a
considerable influx of migrants from the North and
Northeast regions of Brazil, especially from Ceará,
Maranhão, Pará and Amazonas states. Overtime
migration flows were perpetuated due to the
workings of very active migrant social networks,
linking very specific communities at origins and
destinations. Internally, the city of Boa Vista has
played a paramount role attracting immigrants from
other states and then redistributing them to other
municipalities. The importance of Boa Vista can be
grasped from a quick examination of Roraima's
urban network, where it exerts the role of a primate
city in a highly unbalanced system.
The tremendous influx of migrants over the
1970s and 1980s had a direct impact in the creation of new municipalities, promoting regional
development and economic change, which, in turn,
fueled renewed migratory flows. The 1990s and
2000s witnessed an augmentation of such moves
projecting an inversion in terms of importance of
inter and intrastate moves in future years. After all,
interstate long distance moves have historically
dominated Roraima's migration system;
nonetheless, over the last decades intrastate
migration has grown at a much faster pace than
longer moves.
In the near future Roraima is likely to
continue drawing migrants from traditional areas
given the organic nature of migrant social networks
and its tendency to remain active over time. On the
other hand, new migration flows are likely to arise
and intensify as regional development will create
economic opportunities for many, intensifying formal
and informal communication channels. Within this
context, the service sector, especially the public
administration system will allure urban bound
migrants from various Brazilian cities. However, one
cannot deny the fact that Roraima remains an active
agriculture frontier, where the perspective of
acquiring a free plot of land is still viable. Thus,
Roraima will still receive large waves of landless
peasants in the near future, most likely from
traditional source areas. Nevertheless, in order to
become a valid alternative for the Brazilian poor, it
is imperative that current abandonment rates within
colonization projects are diminished, preventing
them from turning into a demographic void, while
the peripheral areas of the encroaching urban
places become increasingly plagued with poverty.
(Fragment from “The Colonization of Roraima State, Brazil: an Analysis
of its Major Migration Flows (1970 to 2010)”, by Alexandre Magno Alves
Diniz and Elisângela Gonçalves Lacerda, Espace populations sociétés
[Online], 2014/2-3 | 2015, Online since 01 December 2014, connection
on 10 January 2017. URL : http://eps.revues.org/5817 ; DOI :
10.4000/eps.5817)
Choose the only CORRECT alternative which
exposes an appropriated synonymous to replace
the word witnessed, on the third paragraph:
Ano: 2018
Banca:
IFN-MG
Órgão:
IFN-MG
Prova:
IFN-MG - 2018 - IFN-MG - Redação, Língua Portuguesa, Literatura Brasileira, Língua Estrangeira - Manhã |
Q1272377
Inglês
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Leia o TEXTO 03 para responder à questão:
No trecho do TEXTO 03 ''That will be hard'', a palavra em destaque é sinônimo de:
Q1272162
Inglês
A expressão “birth control” (l. 16) tem como
expressão sinônima
Q1272161
Inglês
O substantivo “matter”, com o sentido que
apresenta no trecho “on a matter of small
importance” (l. 01-02), tem como sinônimo o
substantivo.
Q1269160
Inglês
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A QUESTÃO REFERE-SE AO TEXTO I
De acordo com o contexto, considere o significado das palavras nas opções abaixo:
I. “junk food” (L. 14) significa “comida sem valor nutritivo” .
II. “pupils” (L. 14) é sinômimo de “students”.
III. “ultimately” (L. 04) significa “ultimamente”.
IV. “committed” (L.14) significa “engajado”.
Estão corretas:
Q1266901
Inglês
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TEXT VI
Music Appreciation
Taken from <http://beingfive.blogspot.com.br/>
In text VI the words HUGE, BIG, SPECIAL and COOL
indicate the characterization of the ideas they refer to.
They could be respectively replaced without changing the
original meaning by
Q1265629
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Read the New York Times article and answer
question.
Eating Disorders a New Front in Insurance Fight
By ANDREW POLLACK
Published: October 13, 2011
People with eating disorders like anorexia have
opened up a new battleground in the insurance wars,
testing the boundaries of laws mandating equivalent
coverage for mental illnesses.
Through claims and court cases, those with severe
cases of anorexia or bulimia are fighting insurers to pay
for stays in residential treatment centers, arguing that the
centers offer around-the-clock monitoring so that patients
do not forgo eating or purge their meals.
But in the last few years, some insurance
companies have re-emphasized that they do not cover
residential treatment for eating disorders or other mental
or emotional conditions. The insurers consider residential
treatments not only costly — sometimes reaching more
than $1,000 a day — but unproven and more akin to
education than to medicine. Even some doctors who treat
eating disorders concede there are few studies proving
that residential care is effective, although they believe it
has value.
(Disponível em: <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/business/ruling-offers-hope-to-eating-disorder-sufferers.html?hp>. Acesso em: 5 out.
2011).
Which is the best option to replace the
adjective „akin to‟ in the article?
Ano: 2018
Banca:
UDESC
Órgão:
UDESC
Prova:
UDESC - 2018 - UDESC - Vestibular - Segundo Semestre (Manhã) |
Q1264807
Inglês
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(www.thesunshinegrove.blogspot.com.br) accessed on March 27th, 2018
Mark the correct alternative which contains synonyms linked to the meaning in the text.
Ano: 2017
Banca:
UDESC
Órgão:
UDESC
Prova:
UDESC - 2017 - UDESC - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre (Manhã) |
Q1264136
Inglês
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I have a confession. I’m addicted to reality TV. I can’t get enough of it.
Very soon the new series of ITV’s Love Island will be starting and I’m literally counting down the days until it’s on my TV screen. It’s a show that sends single people abroad to live in a luxurious villa in the sun. The audience at home then watches their highs and lows, their arguments and how their relationships and friendships form and fall apart.
Love Island is just the tip of a huge reality TV iceberg. Other popular British programmes (which I also love) include I’m a Celebrity ... Get me Out of Here!, Big Brother and Geordie Shore. All these shows have something in common: people seem to either love them or hate them.
Perhaps we love them so much because they actually use real people instead of characters. Series and films with actors are great to watch but they aren’t real and we’re aware of that. With reality TV we can become more invested and more interested because the ‘characters’ are real and (usually) not acting.
Maybe we love reality TV because the people featured more often than not show the extremes of our society. Shows featuring ‘normal’ people or non-celebrities often include people with intense personalities who are bound to clash. Big Brother, which follows the lives of people living in a house together away from the outside world, always includes contestants with a range of personalities. It can be fascinating for us viewers to watch real people who perhaps wouldn’t usually interact with each other as they try to live together.
However, reality TV isn’t popular with everyone. Some people consider it sad to watch it. I’ve often heard people say that if you watch reality TV, it’s a sign that your own life is boring. Why watch someone else’s life when you have your own to live? Why would you want to sit at home and watch someone else arguing about silly things on the TV?
Some people don’t like reality TV because they believe it doesn’t show true reality. The people in these programmes are regularly accused of acting and you often see a phrase flash up somewhere during the opening or closing credits informing that parts are scripted or set up. Viewers can feel cheated that the ‘reality’ they are watching isn’t completely real after all.
Whether you love or hate reality TV, it cannot be denied that this genre has increased in popularity over time, and while I understand it can be set up sometimes, I’m still so excited for Love Island to be back on our screens!
(Accessed on August 14th, 2017) http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/magazine By Megan Blogger
Mark the alternative which best substitutes consecutively the words in bold.
Ano: 2017
Banca:
UDESC
Órgão:
UDESC
Prova:
UDESC - 2017 - UDESC - Vestibular - Primeiro Semestre (Manhã) |
Q1264134
Inglês
The expression “get rid of ” means:
Q1264023
Inglês
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Read Text 2 and answer the question.
The words: “plainly” (line 1), “motley” (line 2) and “jocund” (line 14) are used in the text as:
Q1264020
Inglês
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Read Text 2 and answer the question.
The correct synonyms of the following words: “stout” (line 3), “lusty” (line 3), “sour” (line 7), “lasses”
(line 11) and “yeomen” (line 11) are respectively:
Q1264016
Inglês
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Read the Text 1 and answer the question.
Mark a correct synonym for “forever” (line 14).
Q1263920
Inglês
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Considere o texto para responder a
questão.
HAITI'S INDENTURED CHIlDREN
THE DAYS AFTER HAITI'S EARTHQUAKE brought
joyous reunions for some families. Others faced the grim
reality that they'd been suddenly robbed of parents or offspring. But for Haiti's 225,000 restaveks, or indentured children, the quake brought only an uncertain future.
Slavery-which ended with independence in 1804-is illegal in Haiti. And technically, restaveks are not slaves.
The institution has its roots in the Caribbean tradition of
child lending between families (usually relatives) to pitch
in with extra work, care for the elderly or sick, or to provide
opportunity to a child from a poor family. Generally, rural
parents send their children to live with wealthier families
in the cities. In exchange for domestic labor, the children
are supposed to receive lodging, food, clothing, medicine, and-most importantly-education. In as many as half of
the cases, they do (though classifying treatment in private
homes is notoriously difficult). The unlucky ones, called
restaveks-from the French rester avec, or "to stay with"
-are loaned through normal channels but denied schooling
and subject to abuse and degradation. This phenomenon
has spiked in modern Haiti, as more and more children
end up with equally impoverished families in the slums.
Before the quake, up to 22 percent of Haitian homes contained restaveks, according to a study funded by USAID.
Keeping restaveks is illegal, but child loans are not and,
given the extent of Haiti's governmental dysfunction, it's
hard to tell which cases are which. Now that the quake
has thrown family networks into disarray, the flimsy social
ties supporting restaveks are likely to break down. "For
families struggling in the wake of a catastrophe, restavek
kids are the first to go; says Glenn Smucker, an anthropologist who specializes in development work in Haiti. "Their
parents are not there to watch out for them, so they're far
more vulnerable" to desertion and trafficking.
But even as the numbers of abandoned restaveks swell,
the demand for their services is likely to decrease. A mass
exodus of residents from Port-au-Prince is reversing decades of migratory trends. If the shift sticks, it means there
will be less need for restaveks in the city. But it's also possible that families suffering from the quake's economic aftershocks will feel extra pressure to lend out their children,
even as it becomes more likely they'll end up as restaveks.
Which, combined with a spike in new orphans, means Haiti will likely see a rise in the number of its street children in
the years to come.
(By Katie Paul - Newsweek)
A palavra flimsy, no 3º parágrafo do texto, pode ser
substituída por
Ano: 2017
Banca:
PUC - RJ
Órgão:
PUC - RJ
Prova:
PUC - RJ - 2017 - PUC - RJ - Vestibular - 3° Dia - Inglês |
Q1263563
Inglês
The word in bold can be replaced by the word(s) in
parentheses, without change in meaning, in
Ano: 2017
Banca:
PUC - RJ
Órgão:
PUC - RJ
Prova:
PUC - RJ - 2017 - PUC - RJ - Vestibular - 3° Dia - Inglês |
Q1263562
Inglês
In the fragments “Organisations funding bakeries and
local councils were forced to rely on him to transfer hard
currency into Eastern Ghouta.” (lines 57-59)” and “The
government has financed its huge deficits by printing
money and eating up its foreign reserves.” (lines 85-87),
rely on and eat up mean, respectively,
Ano: 2017
Banca:
PUC - RJ
Órgão:
PUC - RJ
Prova:
PUC - RJ - 2017 - PUC - RJ - Vestibular - 3° Dia - Inglês |
Q1263559
Inglês
Based on the meanings of the words in the article, it can
be said that
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