Read the text below and answer the questions that
follow.
Telecommuting, which is growing in popularity, allows
employees to avoid long commutes.
“Brring,” the alarm startles you out of a deep sleep. It's
8 a.m. on Monday morning. Time to head to the office.
You roll out of bed, brush your teeth and stumble your
way to the kitchen to grab some coffee.
Moments later, you head to the office, still wearing
your pajamas and fluffy slippers. Luckily for you, you
don't have to go far – you work at home.
Telecommuting, or working at home, has grown in
popularity over the last 20 years.
On an increasing basis, workers are saying “no” to
long commutes and opting to work at home. In fact,
the U.S. Census Bureau reports that the number of
employees working from home grew by 23 percent
from 1990 to 2000
Telecommuting workers revel in making their own
schedule – allowing them to schedule work around
family and personal commitments. With the ready
availability of technology tools, like the Internet and
home computers, companies are more willing to let
employees work from home.
How Telecommuting Works
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According to the text, telecommuting refers to:
IMF's new head economist is imaginative realist
By Edward Hadas
July 21, 2015
What the International Monetary Fund needs most in its economic counsellor is imagination and realism. With Maurice
Obstfeld, who will take over the job from Olivier Blanchard in September, it has both.
Of course, the distinguished Berkeley professor, member of the U.S. president's Council of Economic Advisers and leading
textbook author has the needed technical skills. But conventional academic excellence is not enough to guide the international lender
as it negotiates the intricate politics of the apparently endless Greek crisis. Nor can the old dogma deal with the greatest contemporary
challenge to steady economic development: global financial excess.
Blanchard already moved the IMF well away from its former identification with the Washington Consensus, which was based
on an exaggerated confidence in free markets. His suggestion that the universally targeted inflation rate of 2 percent might be too low
was highly unorthodox. Obstfeld is likely to go further in the same direction.
http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2015/07/21/imfs-new-head-economist-is-imaginative-realist/
De acordo com o texto, em setembro de 2015:
Is France's supermarket waste law heading for Europe?
By Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris
Plans to introduce a French law that bans supermarkets from destroying unsold food and obliges them to give it to charity is
irritating retailers who say they already make a big effort to fight waste.
Under the law, stores of more than 400 sq m would have until July 2016 to sign contracts with charities or food banks, and to
start giving them unsold produce. It follows a media campaign run by a young centre-right politician, Arash Derambarsh, who says
he was outraged by the sight of homeless people last winter scrambling in supermarket bins. A local councillor in the Paris suburb of
Courbevoie, Derambarsh began his campaign by collecting the unsold food and handing it out to the needy. He then launched an
online petition, which helped create momentum for the new law.
While broadly welcoming the idea, charities are also wary about ending up with more food than they can handle. "This had
better not translate into a poisoned chalice," says Olivier Berthe, president of the Restos du Coeur (Restaurants of the Heart) charity.
"We cannot be made to accept donations we do not need. We cannot become rubbish dumps." Jacques Bailet, president of the
French Federation of Food Banks (FFBA), also says there is a risk charities will not be able to cope. "Our food banks are going to
need more staff, more lorries, more refrigerated rooms. But to get all that, we will need money - and money is pretty scarce these
days," he says.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33907737
De acordo com o texto, essa nova lei que passará a vigorar a partir de julho do próximo ano foi proposta por um político
conservador depois de:
INSTRUCTION: Choose the CORRECT alternative to answer questions 21 to 23, according to TEXT 2.
TEXT 2
Food engineering is the application of engineering principles to the storage, processing and distribution of
food materials and _____ bio-products. It requires a sound engineering education, as well as fundamental training
in chemistry and food science.
Food Engineers can make valuable contributions in various capacities of food chain such as design of processing,
handling, packaging and storage equipment and systems; scale-up of prototype food processes, machinery,
and equipment; product/process research and development; regulation and protection of the public health; and
engineering and technical Sales.
Fonte: http://baen.tamu.edu/foodengineering/FEngr/FEngr.html Acesso em: 15/10/2013
The passive voice of the sentence “It requires a sound engineering education,” is
INSTRUCTION: Choose the CORRECT alternative to answer questions 17 to 20, according to TEXT 1.
TEXT 1
The word "computer" was first recorded as being used in 1613 and was originally used to describe a human
who performed calculations or computations. The definition of a computer remained the same until the end
of the 19th century when people began to realize machines never get tired and can perform calculations much
faster and more accurately than any team of human computers ever could.
In 1822, Charles Babbage began developing the Difference Engine, which was considered to be the first
automatic computing engine. It was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making hard copies of the
results. Unfortunately, because of funding he was never able to complete a full-scale functional version of this
machine. In June of 1991, the London Science Museum completed the Difference Engine Nº 2 for the bicentennial
year of Babbage's birth and later completed the printing mechanism in 2000.
Fonte: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm Acesso em: 15/10/2013
The word it in “It was capable of computing several sets of numbers” refers to
INSTRUCTION: Choose the CORRECT alternative to answer questions 21 to 23, according to TEXT 2.
TEXT 2
MAKE A DIFFERENCE BE A FOOD ENGINEER
Food engineering is the application of engineering principles to the storage, processing and distribution of
food materials and _____ bio-products. It requires a sound engineering education, as well as fundamental training
in chemistry and food science.
Food Engineers can make valuable contributions in various capacities of food chain such as design of processing,
handling, packaging and storage equipment and systems; scale-up of prototype food processes, machinery,
and equipment; product/process research and development; regulation and protection of the public health; and
engineering and technical Sales.
Fonte: http://baen.tamu.edu/foodengineering/FEngr/FEngr.html Acesso em: 15/10/2013.
The expression such as in “in various capacities of food chain such as” indicates that some important elements
In the sentence from lines 22-24 – In particular, look beyond any bad behavior to recognize any potential signs of learning difficulties. – the writer clearly calls the attention of
In the sentence fragment from lines 52-53 – … and discuss whether this is happening at home as well – the underlined adverb can be replaced, without changing the sense of the text, by
A vogal tônica da palavra em destaque na frase da linha 91 – Praise and reward other skills. – tem o mesmo som da vogal tônica em
A próxima questão se refere exclusivamente aos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais.
De acordo com os PCN (p. 20), ao se levar em conta o critério de relevância social para a aprendizagem da língua estrangeira no terceiro e quarto ciclos do Ensino Fundamental (5.ª a 8.ª séries), deve-se privilegiar o ensino do/da
Esta questão reproduz o trecho de uma breve conversa. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra ou expressão que preenche a lacuna corretamente, levando em conta o contexto e o uso
da norma culta da língua.
“Will you be going to the party on Friday?”
“I expect _________________ ”
Esta questão reproduz o trecho de uma breve conversa. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra ou expressão que preenche a lacuna corretamente, levando em conta o contexto e o uso
da norma culta da língua.
“When are we leaving, John?”
“We can leave for the station ___________ Susan finishes packing.”
