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“Liking to read is a calling, like painting, making music or playing soccer. The person is born predisposed, fascinated by the book object, by stories,” Ziraldo says.
(Taken from TAM Magazine Ano 4 # 39 )
“calling”, underlined in the paragraph, is closest in
meaning to
Split Rock Resort is open to the public. Hours vary and the park is closed Tuesday - Thursday except the week of President’s Day. Purchase online and save $2 per ticket. Split Rock also offers lodging and water park specials. Tel 800-255-7625
(From Recreation News)
GLOSSARY lodging – casa, hospedaria
The “Freshman Fifteen”
A freshman is a first-year college student. “Fifteen” refers to fifteen pounds – the fifteen pounds added to a student’s weight in his or her first year. There are a number of reasons why first-year university students gain weight; but it’s encouraging to know that freshmen don’t have to add these harmful fifteen pounds.
(Taken from Active Skills for Reading)
GLOSSARY pound – libra (unidade monetária e medida de peso equivalente a 454 gramas)
Investigators trying to find out what happened to a Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared en route to Beijing on Saturday morning were examining the causes of plane crashes: mechanical failure, pilot error, bad weather. But the discovery that two of the passengers were carrying stolen passports also raised the possibility of criminal violence.
(Adapted from “Passport Theft adds mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines Jet”)
GLOSSARY
raised – aumentou, ampliou
Chandra is a dentist in Texas. She is from India. “I’m afraid to try new foods because they might contain beef.
I’m a Hindu, and my religion forbids me to eat meat from the cow. That’s why I can’t eat hamburgers or spaghetti with meatballs.”
Religion ________ central to people's lives in Africa. Although the majority of Africans are now Muslim or Christian, traditional religions have endured and still play a big role. Religion runs like a thread through daily life, marked by prayers of gratitude in times of plenty and prayers of supplication in times of need. Religion confirms identity on the individual and the group.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica
GLOSSARY:
Endure – to continue to exist for a long time
Thread – one part connecting with another
Mark the option that shows synonyms for the underlined expressions in “it’s high time to relieve my pain and to set the record straight” (lines 28 and 29).
And Now, Robodoc!
A robot in California performs its first invasive surgery on a human patient.
Medical robots in the U.S. have been used to locate hard-to-find tumors and guide a surgeon’s scalpel, but have never actually performed surgery on people. Now that line has been crossed. At Sutter General Hospital in Sacramento, California, a 90-kg machine called Robodoc has operated on its first human patient: a 64-year-old man with a bad hip.
The robot played a key role in a total hip replacement, one of 500,000 such operations performed each year. The trick in these procedures is to create a snug hole into which the artificial hip snaps. The standard method is to jam a cutting tool into the thighbone with a handheld mallet. Robodoc, using the high-speed drill at the end of its mechanical arm, can ream a cavity that is 20 times as precise.
Robosurgery doesn’t have to stop at the hip. In Europe, where officials are less squeamish about such things, robots have assisted in operations on the brain, the prostate and the inner ear.
(Time International, November 23 1992, p.15)
“We had to cancel the search because of worsening weather conditions. But we will not stop trying. We will continue the rescue as soon as the weather gets better.”
The underlined verbs above can be replaced with the ‘following phrasal verbs, respectively, without having their meanings changed:
Based on the text below, answer the question.
Facebook deserted by millions of users in biggest markets
Facebook has lost millions of users per month in its biggest markets. In the last six months, Facebook has lost nearly 9m monthly visitors in the US and 2m in the UK. Studies suggest that its expansion in the US, UK and other major European countries has peaked. In the last month, the world's largest social network has lost 6m US visitors, a 4% fall, according to analysis firm Socialbakers. In the UK, 1.4m fewer users visited in March, a fali of 4.5%. Users are also turning off in Canada, Spain, France, Germany and Japan, where Facebook is extremely popular.
Alternative social networks have seen surges in popularity with younger people. Instagram, the photo-sharing site, got 30m new users in the 18 months before Facebook bought the business. Path, the mobile phone-based social network founded by former Facebook employee Dave Morin, which only allows its users to have 150 friends, is gaining 1m users a week.
Facebook is still growing fast in South America. Monthly visitors in Brazil were up to 6% in the last month to 70m, according to Socialbakers, whose Information is used by Facebook advertisers. India has seen a 4% rise to 64m - still only a fraction of the country's population, so there is room for more growth.
As Facebook itself has warned, the time spent on its pages from those sitting in front of personal computers is decreasing fast because people now prefer to use their smartphones and tablets. Although smartphone minutes have doubled in a year, to 69 a month, that growth may not compensate for dwindling desktop usage.
Facebook will tell investors about its performance for the quarter. Wall Street expects revenues of about $1.44bn, an increase from $1.06bn a year ago. Shareholders will want to know how fast the number of mobile Facebook users is growing, and whether advertising revenues are increasing at the same rate. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has created a series of new initiatives designed to appeal to smartphone users. One initiative, Facebook Home, is software that can be downloaded onto Android phones to feed news and photos from friends - and advertising - directly to the owner's locked home screen.
(Adapted from http://www.guardian.com.uk)
Leonardo da Vinci
Known as the greatest artist in the history of mankind, Leonardo da Vinci was also a great philosopher and scientist. Leonardo is the most influential figure in the Italian Renaissance and he is considered to be an inventive multi-genius.
Leonardo was born in 1452 in Vinci, Italy, as the child of Piero da Vinci, a notary, and Caterina, a country girl. He stayed with his father's family and they moved to Florence when he was just 12. At the age of 14, Leonardo started out his artist's apprenticeship at the studio of Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488), an Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter.
The art of painting made Leonardo knowledgeable about anatomy and perspective. In addition to painting, Verrocchio's studio also offered technical and mechanical arts and sculpture. Leonardo had developed an interest in architecture so he went on to study engineering.
After a decade of highly original work as an artist, Leonardo wrote to several wealthy men to help finance his projects. The Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza (1452-1508), accepted his offer as Leonardo told him that he could design war weapons like guns and mines, and also structures like collapsible bridges. He lived in Milan with the Duke from 1482 to 1508, reportedly creating very innovational war machines. He also did painting and sculpture, as well as urban planning for large-scale water projects. There, he also wrote about making a telescope to view the moon.
Available at: <http://www.famousscientists.org/leonardo-da-vinc> (Edited).
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“After a decade of highly original work as an artist, Leonardo wrote to several wealthy men to help finance his projects.”
The word “wealthy” could be replaced without change of meaning by
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