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A brief history of Facebook
(Adapted from a text available at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/techonolgy/2007/jul/25/media.
newmedia. Accessed on 02/6/2011, at 9h10min)
Choose the correct alternative according to the text.
“freshmen” (line 13), “staff” (line 14) and
“undergraduate” (line 16) all refer to “students”.
It is correct to affirm about the following vocabulary in the text.
“Chinese” (line 5), “Portuguese” (line 6), and
“Dutch” (line 6) are adjectives which refer to
nationalities.
Updated 0212 GMT (1012 HKT) March 19, 2017
A post on the St. Charles County police Facebook page said officers responded to a medical emergency at the residence around 12:40 p.m. (1:40 p.m. ET) Saturday and found an unresponsive man inside. Resuscitation efforts failed.
“The St. Charles County Police Department sadly confirms the death of Charles Edward Anderson Berry Sr., better known as legendary musician Chuck Berry.”
A musical legend
Berry wrote and recorded “Johnny B. Goode” and “Sweet Little Sixteen” -- songs every garage band and fledgling guitarist had to learn if they wanted to enter the rock ‘n’ roll fellowship.
Berry took all-night hamburger stands, brown-eyed handsome men and V-8 Fords and turned them into the stuff of American poetry. By doing so, he gave rise to followers beyond number, bar-band disciples of the electric guitar, who carried his musical message to the far corners of the Earth.
Some of his most famous followers praised him on social media.
Bruce Springsteen tweeted: “Chuck Berry was rock’s greatest practitioner, guitarist, and the greatest pure rock ‘n’ roll writer who ever lived.”
Chuck Berry was rock’s greatest practitioner, guitarist, and the greatest pure rock ‘n’ roll writer who ever lived.
The Rolling Stones posted on their website: “The Rolling Stones are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Chuck Berry. He was a true pioneer of rock ‘n’ roll and a massive influence on us. Chuck was not only a brilliant guitarist, singer and performer, but most importantly, he was a master craftsman as a songwriter. His songs will live forever. “
But it was perhaps John Lennon -- who died in 1980 -- who put it most succinctly. “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry.’”
The list of Berry’s classics is as well-known as his distinctive, chiming “Chuck Berry riff”: “Maybellene.” “Around and Around.” “Brown-Eyed Handsome Man.” “School Days.” “Memphis.” “Nadine.” “No Particular Place to Go.”
They were deceptively simple tunes, many constructed with simple chord progressions and classic verse-chorus-verse formats, but their hearts could be as big as teenage hopes on a Saturday night.
His music even went into outer space. When the two Voyager spacecrafts were launched in 1977, each was accompanied on its journey to the outer reaches of the solar system by a phonograph record that contained sounds of Earth -- including “Johnny B. Goode.”
The alternative which lists only words used as adjectives in the text is
Towards the end of his eventful life, Jean Monnet, a remarkable figure of the twentieth century, reasoned that, had he been able to start all over again, he would have begun with culture. A founding father of what was later to become the European Union, he expressed that belated belief in the pre-eminent role of culture as a part of greater civilization after he had tried for several decades to build a prosperous Europe in economic terms in the aftermath of a devastating war.
The new pope’s choice of ‘Francis’ hints at the direction of his reign.
The first Jesuit pope. The first from Latin America. (Enrique Marcarian/Reuters)
Traditionally popes have been __( V )__ of reaching too high, of appearing too self-congratulatory. The office of the pope is built, literally and metaphorically, on the legacy of St. Peter, the apostle of Christ, whose remains lie beneath the papal seat in the Vatican. But there has been no Pope Peter II. Thus far, no pope has had the audacity to present himself as standing in continuity with the favored disciple of Jesus. Nor would Pope Francis have been able to select the name of the founder of his own order. A Pope Ignatius—after Jesuit founder Ignatius of Loyola—would have appeared self-serving.
At first blush, Pope Francis’s selection of a previously __( VI )__ papal name—he is no 23rd anything—marks a break with the past and augurs well for those looking for a move away from deeply entrenched institutionalism. The new pope symbolically clears the deck for a new period of Catholic history. For a church desperately in need of an administrative makeover, it creates a nominally blank slate for the pale-garbed pontiff.
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Read books, live longer?
Nicholas Bakalar
August 3, 2016
Reading books is tied to a longer life, according to a new report. Researchers used data on 3,635 people over 50 participating in a larger health study who had answered questions about reading. The scientists divided the sample into three groups: those who read no books, those who read books up to three and a half hours a week, and those who read books more than three and a half hours.
The study, in Social Science & Medicine, found that book readers tended to be female, college-educated and in higher income groups. So, researchers controlled for those factors as well as age, race, self-reported health, depression, employment and marital status.
Compared with those who did not read books, those who read for up to three and a half hours a week were 17 percent less likely to die over 12 years of follow-up, and those who read more than that were 23 percent less likely to die. Book readers lived an average of almost two years longer than those who did not read at all.
They found a similar association among those who read newspapers and periodicals, but it was weaker.
(http://well.blogs.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)
A friend is someone who brings out the best in you;
Good friends are always happy to help when you run into a
problem;
A friend is someone who cheers you up when you’re feeling
bad;
True friends don’t drift apart even after many years of
separation;
A real friend will always stand up for you when others
are putting you down;
Never be afraid to open up and ask a friend for advice. A true
friend will never turn you down;
Make new friends but hang on to the old ones;
Good friends are hard to come by, harder to leave, and
impossible to do without.
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É extremamente comum em inglês combinações de verbos
com partículas adverbiais ou preposicionais. Essas
combinações são geralmente chamadas de verbos frasais
(phrasal verbs), preposicionados ou de duas palavras. No
texto, encontram-se vários exemplos de verbos frasais
negritados. A correlação correta entre o verbo e seu sentido
está contemplada em
A figura do Uncle Sam sempre está relacionada à convocação
de soldados americanos para a guerra. As duas figuras acima
estão fazendo essa convocação, porém de maneiras
diferentes. Considerando que os dois cartazes indicam uma
ordem, a expressão utilizada em um desses cartazes que torna
a ordem mais educada é
Choose the correct alternative.
The word “riches” (line 13) is the plural form of
“rich” (line 12).
Choose the correct alternative.
The adjective “unjust” (line 27) means “not just”
or “unfair”.
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In developing countries there are high levels of what is known as “food loss”, which is unintentional wastage, often due to poor equipment, transportation and infrastructure. In wealthy countries, there are low levels of unintentional losses but high levels of “food waste”, which involves food being thrown away by consumers because they have purchased too much, or by retailers who reject food because of exacting aesthetic standards.
(www.theguardian.com)
“thrill-seekers” (line 29) refers to people who look for activities which make them excited and happy.
A “four-room Hotel” (line 4) means “a hotel with four rooms” and a “five-day stay” (line 12) means “a stay that lasts five days”.
The words “cheaply” (line 9), “wealthy” (line 13) and “luxury” (line 47) are usually used to talk about large amounts of money.
“house up to seven guests” (line 5) means that more than seven guests can stay at the hotel at the same time.
Assinale o que for correto, de acordo com o texto.
O verbo “possess” (linha 4) tem o mesmo
sentido do verbo “to have”.
INSTRUÇÃO: Para responder à questão, considere o texto abaixo.
(Excerpt from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, By Robert M. Pirsig. New York: Harpertorch, 1974)
I - A frase “John demurs.” (l. 04), significa, “John discorda.”, visto que ele tem atitude contrária a do narrador sobre a manutenção de motocicletas.
II - A forma nominal “building” na frase “The building stops” (l. 11) refere-se à conversa que se desenrola na frase “the conversation just naturally builds pleasantly” (l. 10) e que é interrompida.
III - As palavras “surface” (l. 17) e “underneath” (l. 17) têm sentidos opostos, sendo seus significados, respectivamente, “superfície” e “sob a superfície”.
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(www.medicalnewstoday.com. Adaptado.)
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Do fat people stay warmer than thin people?
Pack on some extra pounds for winter
By Daniel Engber
01.02.2014
At the yearly Rottnest Channel Swim in Western Australia, participants often smear their bodies with animal fat for insulation against the 70-degree water. But their own body fat also helps to keep them warm, like an extra layer of clothing beneath the skin. When scientists studied aspects of the event in 2006, they found that swimmers with a greater body mass index (BMI) appear to be at much lower risk of getting hypothermia.
The same effect has been demonstrated in hospitals where patients who’ve suffered cardiac arrest are treated with “therapeutic hypothermia” to stave off brain injury and inflammation. Studies have shown that it takes longer to induce hypothermia in obese patients than in their leaner counterparts. The extra fat seems to insulate the body’s core.
Under certain conditions, though, overweight people might feel colder than people of average weight. That’s because the brain combines two signals — the temperature inside the body and the temperature on the surface of the skin — to determine when it’s time to constrict blood vessels (which limits heat loss through the skin) and trigger shivering (which generates heat). And since subcutaneous fat traps heat, an obese person’s core will tend to remain warm while his or her skin cools down. According to Catherine O’Brien, a research physiologist with the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, it’s possible that the lower skin temperature would give fatter people the sense of being colder overall.
But O’Brien points out that many other factors beyond subcutaneous fat help determine the rate at which we chill. Smaller people, who have more surface area compared to the total volume of their bodies, lose heat more quickly. (It’s often said that women feel colder than men; average body size may play a part.) A more muscular physique may also offer some protection against hypothermia, partly because muscle tissue generates lots of heat. “We have a joke around here that the person who’s best-suited for cold is fit and fat,” says O’Brien.
(www.popsci.com)
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