PART I - For the question, after reading the text below, mark the appropriate alternative to the question:
Choose the FALSE alternative according to the text:
PART II – Answer question according to the instructions. Choose the best alternative in order to complete the sentences. There is only one possibility.
On Valentine’s Day in the USA people give each other poems to strengthen their bond of _______.
How cities can better prevent fires
August 29, 2018
America’s deadliest building fire for more than a decade struck Oakland, California, on December 2nd 2016, killing 36 people attending a dance party in a warehouse that had become a cluttered artist collective. The disaster highlights an open secret: many cities lack resources to inspect for fire risk all the structures that they should. Even though the Oakland building had no fire sprinklers and at least ten people lived there illegally, no inspector had visited in about 30 years. How might cities make better use of the inspectors they do have?
A handful of American cities have begun to seek help from a new type of analytics software. By crunching diverse data collected by government bodies and utilities, the software works out which buildings are most likely to catch fire and should therefore be inspected first. Plenty of factors play a role. Older, wooden buildings, unsurprisingly, pose more risk, as do those close to past fires and leaks of gas or oil. Poverty also pushes up fire risk, especially if lots of children, who may be attracted to mischief, live nearby. More telling are unpaid taxes, foreclosure proceedings and recorded complaints of mould, rats, crumbling plaster, accumulating rubbish, and domestic fights, all of which hint at property neglect. A building’s fire risk also increases the further it is from its owner’s residence.
Predictive software designed at Harvard that Portland, Oregon, will soon begin using will do that. Perhaps more importantly, the city’s fire chief noticed that buildings marked as being the biggest risks are clustered in areas lacking good schools, public transport, health care and food options. Healthier, happier people start fewer fires, he concluded. He now lobbies officials to reduce Portland’s pockets of deteriorated areas.
(The Economist. www.economist.com/the-economist-explains /2018/08/29/how-cities-can-better-prevent-fires. Adaptado)
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Avoiding Aggressive Driving
The amount of aggressive driving is increasing on our roads. Some of the signs of an aggressive driver include a person who changes lanes abruptly to pass a slower driver, a driver who tailgates in an attempt to get another driver to speed up, and a driver who curses at other drivers. They put themselves and others at risk on the roads. A variety of studies have revealed certain traits common in aggressive drivers. If a person is ever pursued by an aggressive driver, he or she should ask someone in the car to call 911 or drive to a nearby police station. […] Finally, people who engage in aggressive driving behaviors take the chance of injuring or killing themselves and other drivers.
ROBERTSON, M. Disponível em: www.lelandwest.com. Acesso em: 14 set. 2013 (adaptado).
A violência no trânsito é um dos grandes problemas da sociedade contemporânea. O número de motoristas agressivos tem crescido cada vez mais nas estradas. Segundo o texto, um dos sinais comuns de agressividade é
O termo will (l. 44) sugere que
The main idea of the text is:
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De acordo com o texto,
Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text I.
Due to the close relationship that exists between diplomacy and communication, diplomats have managed to bring their communicative skills to perfection in order to work autonomously with new digital media.
Decide whether the following statements are right (C) or wrong (E) according to text II.
The passage “The previously cute panda may suddenly strike them as strange” (L. 2 and 3) indicates that people may become aware that panda bears kept outside China can be signs of international political forces.
Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text IV, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).
It may be inferred from the text that Hutchins posits that the complexity of financial markets calls for analysis based on groupthink, as psychological or cognitive science analysis of the individual is clearly insufficient.
Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text V, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).
From the author’s account, it can be inferred that the plot of My Fair Lady is an homage to British social class structure.
No trecho do primeiro parágrafo “Even though the Oakland building had no fire sprinklers", a expressão em destaque equivale, em português, a
According to Text I, WEO-2017 includes a special focus on China because this country has been
