Questões Militares de Inglês - Vocabulário | Vocabulary
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Ano: 2015
Banca:
Aeronáutica
Órgão:
EEAR
Prova:
Aeronáutica - 2015 - EEAR - Sargento da Aeronáutica - Aeronavegantes e Não Aeronavegantes (Turma 2) |
Q620743
Inglês
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Read the cartoon below and answer question 41.
The verb “clear”, in the cartoon, can be replaced by
Ano: 2014
Banca:
Exército
Órgão:
EsPCEx
Prova:
Exército - 2014 - EsPCEx - Cadete do Exército - 2° Dia |
Q619258
Inglês
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Military Officers Face a New Evaluation
Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is leading important changes following recent scandals involving high-ranking officers. This is part of training and development programs for generals and admirals. They will include new courses to train the security detail, executive staffs and even the spouses of senior officers.
Saying he was disturbed about the misconduct issues, General Dempsey said that evaluations of top officers needed to go beyond the traditional assessment of professional performance by superior officers alone. He said that he had decided the changes were necessary “to assess both competence and character in a richer way”.
“You can have someone of incredible character who can’t lead their way out of a forward operating base because they don’t have the competence to understand the application of military power, and that doesn’t do me any good”, General Dempsey said. “Conversely, you can have someone who is intensely competent in the skills of the profession, but doesn’t live a life of character. And that doesn’t do me any good.”
General Dempsey said that regular professional reviews would be transformed from top-down assessments to the kind of “360-degree performance evaluation”, which includes feedback from subordinates, peers and superiors. For the new training programs, he said that while it may be impossible to prevent infractions, “most officers need to be reminded of the rules and regulations on a routine basis”.
Teams of inspectors will observe and review the procedures of commanders and their staffs. The inspections will not be punitive, but will provide a “periodic opportunity for general officers to understand whether, from an institutional perspective, we think they are inside or outside the white lines”, he said. In addition, new programs will be instituted to ensure that a commander’s staff, and a spouse, are fully aware of military regulations.
“In my 39 years in the military, I have learned that you are not a profession just because you say you are. You have to earn it and re-earn it and re-evaluate it from time to time”, General Dempsey said.
Adapted from www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/us
According to the Macmillan English Dictionary Online, the word issue has the following definitions.
Read them and answer the question below.
1. a problem that needs to be considered.
2. a magazine that is published at a particular time.
3. a set of things that are available to people at a particular time.
4. (formal) the act of officially giving something to someone.
5. (legal) someone’s children.
Which word is a synonym for evaluations in the text?
Ano: 2015
Banca:
Exército
Órgão:
EsPCEx
Prova:
Exército - 2015 - EsPCEx - Cadete do Exército - 2° Dia |
Q616989
Inglês
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We’re so well educated – but we’re useless
Record numbers of students have entered higher education in the past 10 years, but despite
being the most educated generation in history, it seems that we’ve grown increasingly ignorant
when it comes to basic life skills.
Looking back on my first weeks living in student halls, I consider myself lucky to still be alive.
I have survived a couple of serious boiling egg incidents and numerous cases of food-poisoning,
probably from dirty kitchen counters. Although some of my clothes have fallen victim to ironing
experimentation, I think I have now finally acquired all the domestic skills I missed out in my
modern education.
Educationist Sir Ken Robinson says that our current education system dislocates people from
their natural talents and deprives us of what used to be passed from generation to generation – a
working knowledge of basic life skills. Today’s graduates may have earned themselves distinctions
in history, law or economics, but when it comes to simple things like putting up a shelf to hold all
their academic books, or fixing a hole in their on-trend clothes, they have to call for help from a
professional handyman or tailor.
Besides what we need to know for our own jobs, we must have practical skills. We don’t grow
our own crops, build our own houses, or make our own clothes anymore; we simply buy these
things. Unable to create anything ourselves, what we have mastered instead is consumption.
Sociologist Saskia Sassen argues that the modern liberal state has created a middle class
that isn’t able to “make” anymore. I suggest that we start with the immediate reintroduction of
some of the most vital aspects of “domestic science” education. Instead of only maths, language
and history, we should create an interactive learning environment in schools where craftsmanship
and problem-solving are valued as highly as the ability to absorb and regurgitate information. We
need to develop children into people that not only think for themselves, but are also able to act for
themselves.
Adapted from http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/
mortarboard/2013/feb/25/well-educated-but-useless
In the sentence “I think I have now finally acquired all the domestic skills I missed out in my
modern education." (paragraph 2), the words missed out mean
Ano: 2015
Banca:
Exército
Órgão:
EsPCEx
Prova:
Exército - 2015 - EsPCEx - Cadete do Exército - 2° Dia |
Q616984
Inglês
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Frequently Asked Questions – Instagram
What is Instagram?
It's an application for your mobile phone that enables you to edit pictures you have taken with your
mobile phone camera using built-in filters and share them with others. If you have an Instagram account
you can tag pictures, rate and comment on other people's pictures and follow other users.
How much is your app?
$0.00.
Where does the name come from?
When we were kids we loved playing around with cameras. We loved how different types of old
cameras marketed themselves as “instant" - something we take for granted today. We also felt that the
snapshots people were taking were like telegrams in that they got sent over the wire to others - so we
figured why not combine the two?
How did the idea come about?
We love taking photos. We always assumed taking interesting photos required a big bulky camera and
a couple years of art school. But as mobile phone cameras got better and better, we decided to challenge
that assumption. We created Instagram to solve three simple problems:
- Mobile photos always come out looking mediocre. Our awesome looking filters transform your
photos into professional-looking snapshots.
- Sharing on multiple platforms is a pain - we help you take a picture once, then share it (instantly)
on multiple services.
- Most uploading experiences are clumsy and take forever - we've optimized the experience to be
fast and efficient.
How does privacy work?
We have adopted a follower model that means if you're “public" on Instagram, anyone can subscribe
to follow your photos. We do, however, have a special private option. In this mode, a user can make sure
he/she must approve all follow requests before they go through.
Who can see my photos?
All photos are public by default which means they are visible to anyone who has an account. If you
choose to make your account private, then only people who follow you on Instagram will be able to see
your photos.
Adapted from https://instagram.com/about/faq/#
Which words are synonyms for photos in the text?
Ano: 2015
Banca:
Exército
Órgão:
EsPCEx
Prova:
Exército - 2015 - EsPCEx - Cadete do Exército - 2° Dia |
Q616983
Inglês
Texto associado
Frequently Asked Questions – Instagram
What is Instagram?
It's an application for your mobile phone that enables you to edit pictures you have taken with your
mobile phone camera using built-in filters and share them with others. If you have an Instagram account
you can tag pictures, rate and comment on other people's pictures and follow other users.
How much is your app?
$0.00.
Where does the name come from?
When we were kids we loved playing around with cameras. We loved how different types of old
cameras marketed themselves as “instant" - something we take for granted today. We also felt that the
snapshots people were taking were like telegrams in that they got sent over the wire to others - so we
figured why not combine the two?
How did the idea come about?
We love taking photos. We always assumed taking interesting photos required a big bulky camera and
a couple years of art school. But as mobile phone cameras got better and better, we decided to challenge
that assumption. We created Instagram to solve three simple problems:
- Mobile photos always come out looking mediocre. Our awesome looking filters transform your
photos into professional-looking snapshots.
- Sharing on multiple platforms is a pain - we help you take a picture once, then share it (instantly)
on multiple services.
- Most uploading experiences are clumsy and take forever - we've optimized the experience to be
fast and efficient.
How does privacy work?
We have adopted a follower model that means if you're “public" on Instagram, anyone can subscribe
to follow your photos. We do, however, have a special private option. In this mode, a user can make sure
he/she must approve all follow requests before they go through.
Who can see my photos?
All photos are public by default which means they are visible to anyone who has an account. If you
choose to make your account private, then only people who follow you on Instagram will be able to see
your photos.
Adapted from https://instagram.com/about/faq/#
In the sentence “We loved how different types of old cameras marketed themselves as “instant"
- something we take for granted today." (question 3), the expression something we take for granted
means
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