Questões de Vestibular IMT - SP 2020 para 1ª Aplicação - 20/11/2020

The world has a handful of great commercial hubs. Silicon Valley dominates technology. The home of luxury is Paris and the capital of outsourcing is Bangalore, in India. One of the mightiest clusters of all is London, which hosts the globe’s largest international financial center. Within a square mile on the Thames, a multinational firm can sell $5bn of shares in 20 minutes, or a European startup can raise seed finance from Asian pensioners. You can insure container ships or a pop star’s vocal cords. Companies can hedge the risk that a factory anywhere on the planet will face a volatile currency or hurricanes and a rising sea level a decade from now. Adapted from: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/06/27/can-thecity-survive-brexit?cid1 According to the text, what are examples of important global deals that may be closed in London?

John is talking to Garfield about life. What does Garfield mean by his comment?

Qual a principal característica do trabalho de Jane Austen, mencionada no trecho a seguir?
Jane Austen (December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817) is widely known for her most famous novels. Jane Austen's work features biting social commentary, often delivered with great irony. While her writing was not well known during her lifetime, the 1870 publication of A Memoir of the Life of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public. Her work is widelyread and admired by modern audiences, who have become quite familiar with Austen's cultural references, including television shows and movies adapted from her work.

Which alternative shows the best summary of the graph below?

Beetles and flies are becoming part of the agricultural food chain.

Some visionaries hope that insects will play a big role in future human diets. Insects are nutritious, being packed with protein. Unlike hot-blooded mammals and birds, which use a lot of energy to keep themselves warm, they are efficient converters of food into body mass. And in some parts of the world they are, indeed, eaten already. Well, maybe. But it will take some serious marketing to persuade consumers, in the West at least, that fricasseed locusts or termite burgers are the yummy must-haves of 21st-century cuisine. Which sentence below best summarizes the text?

Texafornia dreaming America’s future will be written in the two mega-states In the cable-news version of America, the president sits in the White House issuing commands that transform the nation. Life is not like that. In the real version of America many of the biggest political choices are made not in Washington but by the states—and by two of them in particular. Texas and California are the biggest, most important states in the union, each equally convinced that it is the future. However, their rules and regulations are basically opposite to each other. Adapted from https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/06/20/texaforniadreaming?cid1
What can one infer by reading the text?