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Q645160 Inglês

                           NATO ships, helicopters hunt down 7 pirates

      NAIROBI, Kenya - NATO warships and helicopters pursued Somali pirates for seven hours after they attacked a Norwegian tanker, NATO spokesmen said Sunday, and the high-speed chase only ended when warning shots were fired at the pirates' skiff. Seven pirates attempted to attack the Norwegian-flagged MV Front Ardenne late Saturday but fled after crew took evasive maneuvers and alerted warships in the area, said Portuguese Lt. Cmdr. Alexandre Santos Fernandes, aboard a warship in the Gulf of Aden, and Cmdr. Chris Davies, of NATais maritime headquarters in England.

      "How the attack was thwarted is unclear, it appears to have been the actions of the tanker," Davies said. Fernandes said no shots were fired at the tanker.

      Davies said the pirates sailed into the path of the Canadian warship Winnipeg, which was escorting a World Food Program delivery ship through the Gulf of Aden. The American ship USS Halyburton was also in the area and joined the chase. 

      "There was a lengthy pursuit, over seven hours," Davies said. The pirates hurled weapons into the dark seas as the Canadian and U.S. warships closed in. The ships are part of NATais anti-piracy mission.

      "The skiff abandoned the scene and tried to escape to Somali territory," Fernandes said. "It was heading toward Bossaso but we managed to track them. Warning shots have been made after several attempts to stop the vessel."

      Both ships deployed helicopters, and naval officers hailed the pirates over loudspeakers and finally fired warning shots to stop them, Fernandes said, but not before the pirates had dumped most of their weapons overboard. NATO forces boarded the skiff, where they found a rocketpropelled grenade, and interrogated, disarmed and released the pirates.

      The pirates cannot be prosecuted under Canadian law because they did not attack Canadian citizens or interests and the crime was not committed on Canadian territory.

      "When a ship is part of NATO, the detention of a person is a matter for the national authorities," Fernandes said. "It stops being a NATO issue and starts being a national issue." 

      The pirates' release underscores the difficulties navies have in fighting rampant piracy off the coast of lawless Somalia. Most of the time, foreign navies simply disarm and release the pirates they catch due to legal complications and logistical difficulties in transporting pirates and witnesses to court.

      Pirates have attacked more than 80 boats this year alone, four times the number assaulted in 2003, according to the Kuala Lumpur-based International Maritime Bureau. They now hold at least 18 ships - including a Belgian tanker seized Saturday with 10 crew aboard - and over 310 crew hostage, according to an Associated Press count.

                                                                                 (Adapted from: www.ap.org, 04/19/09) 

In the sentence "There was a 1engthy pursuit, over seven hours", there is a word formed by the suffix "y". In which option below the word is formed by the same suffix?
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Q645159 Inglês

                           NATO ships, helicopters hunt down 7 pirates

      NAIROBI, Kenya - NATO warships and helicopters pursued Somali pirates for seven hours after they attacked a Norwegian tanker, NATO spokesmen said Sunday, and the high-speed chase only ended when warning shots were fired at the pirates' skiff. Seven pirates attempted to attack the Norwegian-flagged MV Front Ardenne late Saturday but fled after crew took evasive maneuvers and alerted warships in the area, said Portuguese Lt. Cmdr. Alexandre Santos Fernandes, aboard a warship in the Gulf of Aden, and Cmdr. Chris Davies, of NATais maritime headquarters in England.

      "How the attack was thwarted is unclear, it appears to have been the actions of the tanker," Davies said. Fernandes said no shots were fired at the tanker.

      Davies said the pirates sailed into the path of the Canadian warship Winnipeg, which was escorting a World Food Program delivery ship through the Gulf of Aden. The American ship USS Halyburton was also in the area and joined the chase. 

      "There was a lengthy pursuit, over seven hours," Davies said. The pirates hurled weapons into the dark seas as the Canadian and U.S. warships closed in. The ships are part of NATais anti-piracy mission.

      "The skiff abandoned the scene and tried to escape to Somali territory," Fernandes said. "It was heading toward Bossaso but we managed to track them. Warning shots have been made after several attempts to stop the vessel."

      Both ships deployed helicopters, and naval officers hailed the pirates over loudspeakers and finally fired warning shots to stop them, Fernandes said, but not before the pirates had dumped most of their weapons overboard. NATO forces boarded the skiff, where they found a rocketpropelled grenade, and interrogated, disarmed and released the pirates.

      The pirates cannot be prosecuted under Canadian law because they did not attack Canadian citizens or interests and the crime was not committed on Canadian territory.

      "When a ship is part of NATO, the detention of a person is a matter for the national authorities," Fernandes said. "It stops being a NATO issue and starts being a national issue." 

      The pirates' release underscores the difficulties navies have in fighting rampant piracy off the coast of lawless Somalia. Most of the time, foreign navies simply disarm and release the pirates they catch due to legal complications and logistical difficulties in transporting pirates and witnesses to court.

      Pirates have attacked more than 80 boats this year alone, four times the number assaulted in 2003, according to the Kuala Lumpur-based International Maritime Bureau. They now hold at least 18 ships - including a Belgian tanker seized Saturday with 10 crew aboard - and over 310 crew hostage, according to an Associated Press count.

                                                                                 (Adapted from: www.ap.org, 04/19/09) 

The Canadian Navy is involved in the incident described in the text because:
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Q644688 Inglês

Mark the correct alternative to complete the sentence.

Max _________________ ill for three weeks. He’s still in hospital.

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Q644687 Inglês

Choose the correct alternative.

We weren’t sure ____________________ or just walk in.

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Q644686 Inglês

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I’m going to have the car _______ tomorrow morning.

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Q644685 Inglês

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By this time next year, my brother ______ his new car.

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Q644684 Inglês

Mark the correct option to complete the sentence.

My legs are aching now because I ________ since 2 o’clock.

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Q644683 Inglês

Choose the correct alternative.

This is not installed correctly. They____________ my instructions.

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Q644682 Inglês

Mark the correct option to complete the sentence. ‘Why aren’t you going to London with your parents?’

‘If only I ____________ enough time, I’d certainly go with them’.

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Q644681 Inglês

Choose the correct alternative.

That cargo ship ______________ the harbour.

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Q644680 Inglês

Mark the correct option to complete the sentence.

‘Her new beach house isn’t _______________ finished’.

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Q644679 Inglês

‘Diplomatics, from ______ Greek diploma (folded), is ____ study of legal and administrative documents of all kinds. Most attention has been paid to ______ public documents of monarchs, emperors, and popes, which are usually classified separately from_____ many varieties of private documents that exist.’ (CRYSTAL, David (2010). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge University Press).

The blanks of this excerpt can be adequately filled by:

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Q644678 Inglês

‘Navigation , derived ________ the Latin words “navis” (meaning “ship”) and “agere” (meaning “to drive”) is the process of accurately determining the position and controlling of a craft or vehicle _________ a desired course. This is accomplished ______ finding the navigator’s position compared ________ known locations or patterns (…)’. (MarineLink.com – Maritime Reporter and MarineNews magazines online)

The blanks of this excerpt can be adequately filled by:

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Q644677 Inglês
All the following statements are grammatically correct EXCEPT:
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Q644676 Inglês
There are two options for the sentences below, choose the ONLY one that both options are possible.
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Q644675 Inglês
In which sentence below can you leave out the relative pronoun?
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Q644674 Inglês

Choose the option that completes the text below:

I had a really funny evening yesterday, Mary. I got talking to this boy in the pub, very nice-looking he was, and I could see he _________ me. He said he _________ anybody like me before, and he felt I _________ a very unusual kind of beauty. Oh, yes? I said. Then he asked me if I _________ a lift home, so I said no, I _________ hungry, so we went out for a curry.

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Q644673 Inglês
Which statement CAN NOT be inferred from the text?
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Q644672 Inglês
The prefix un as in ‘unclear’ (line 17) is used correctly in all alternatives EXCEPT:
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Q644671 Inglês
In : ‘(…) around 14 people were in the glasstopped tower when it was hit by the ship’s stern as it ploughed into the dock(...).’ (lines 7-9), the underlined two-word phrase is closest in meaning to:
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3041: E
3042: A
3043: E
3044: C
3045: A
3046: E
3047: D
3048: B
3049: D
3050: A
3051: E
3052: D
3053: E
3054: C
3055: B
3056: B
3057: C
3058: A
3059: E
3060: C