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961Q1022687 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Educador Especialidade Educação Física e Esporte, USP, FUVEST, 2025

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Rain Is Coming to Burning Los Angeles and Will Bring Its Own Risks

Rain is forecast to begin as soon as Saturday afternoon and to continue as late as Monday evening, says meteorologist Kristan Lund of the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles office. The area desperately needs the precipitation, but experts are warily monitoring the situation because rain poses its own risks in recently burned areas— most notably the potential occurrence of mudslides and similar hazards. “Rain is good because we’ve been so dry,” Lund says. “However, if we get heavier rain rates or we get the thunderstorms, it’s actually a lot more dangerous because you can get debris flows.”
Fires do a couple of different things to the landscape that can increase the risk of burned material, soil and detritus hurtling out of control. When fires burn hot or long enough, they leave an invisible layer of waxy material just under the surface of the ground. This develops from decomposing leaves and other organic material, which contain naturally hydrophobic or water-repellent compounds. Fire can vaporize this litter, and the resulting gas seeps into the upper soil—where it quickly cools and condenses, forming the slippery layer.
When rain falls on ground that has been affected by this phenomenon, it can’t sink beyond the hydrophobic layer— so the water flows away, often hauling debris with it. “All of the trees, branches, everything that’s been burned—unfortunately, if it rains, that stuff just floats,” Lund says. “It’s really concerning.” Even a fire that isn’t severe enough to create a hydrophobic layer can still cause debris flows, says Danielle Touma, a climate scientist at the University of Texas at Austin. Under normal conditions, trees and other plants usually trap some rain above the surface, slowing the water’s downward journey. But on freshly burned land there’s much less greenery to interfere; all the rain immediately hits the ground. [...]
Fortunately, the rain should also help firefighters tame the blazes that remain active. The largest, the Palisades Fire, is currently 77 percent contained. The second largest, the Eaton Fire, is 95 percent contained. The Hughes Fire is third largest and only 56 percent contained. A fire can be fully contained but still burning. The containment percentage refers to the amount of the perimeter that has barriers that firefighters expect will prevent further spread.

Scientific American. January 27th, 2025. Adaptado.
Com base no primeiro parágrafo e na opinião dos especialistas, qual das seguintes inferências pode ser feita?
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962Q1021670 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Professor de Inglês, Prefeitura de Princesa SC, AMEOSC, 2024

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Valdivia Figurines and the appeal of 'the oldest'

(1º§) The logo for the Ecuadorian Ministry of Culture website is about my favourite thing of the afternoon which is saying a lot since I spent much of the day reading about giant Olmec heads. Three Valdivia Figurines in the colours of the Ecuadorian flag? I am sold! Golly, I love Valdivia figurines for all the right and all the wrong reasons.

(2º§) There are two things that can easily be said about Valdivia figurines: they are VERY Ecuadorian and they are VERY looted. The first explains why they appear prominently on the Ministry of Culture website (and on stencilled graffiti around Quito circa 2007). Ancient Ecuador has played second fiddle to Ancient Peru since the early days of archaeology. The Valdivia culture, however, represents something that Peru doesn't have, 'the oldest'. Everyone loves 'the oldest', national pride, etc. etc.

(3º§) Who else loves 'the oldest'? Collectors and Museums. If the Valdivia pottery sequence is the oldest in the new world, collectors want a slice of that pie. Heck, even better than some junky pottery, the Valdivia made interesting figurines: lovely ladies that look good on stark black backgrounds in auction catalogues. They are part of 'the oldest' yet they also look good.

(4º§) Valdivia sites are famously looted and Valdivia figurines are famously faked. A few years back I started doing some initial work into looting in Ecuador (which led to fieldwork in Quito and the cloud forest that didn't really go anywhere as of yet) and I, like anyone else going down that road, came across Bruhns and Hammond's 1983 Journal of Field Archaeology piece 'A Visit to Valdivia'. Knowing nothing at all about Ecuador at the time, I had never heard of Valdivia, a wonder since the only Ecuadorian archaeology books that Cambridge owns are a few by the late Betty Meggars and Emilio Estrada from the 1950s and 1960s which link uber-ancient Ecuador to Jomon Period Japan (yeah...I know). As Bruhns and Hammond relate, Meggars detected faking at Valdivia immediately after the start of her excavations: practical jokers who discovered a market for their copies. As the market for the pieces grew, the presumed fakes get more and more elaborate and fanciful...and Valdivia sites were just looted to pieces.

(5º§) So really with Valdivia we are left with a situation where we don't know what is real. It is directly comparable to the Cycladic Figurine problem: the corpus is mostly looted, it contains tons of forms not found in the limited archaeological excavations that have been conducted, and we intellectual consumers of artefacts don't know what to believe. To me Valdivia figurines are the perfect looting Catch 22: they warrant study so that the interested public can learn about 'the oldest', but they can't be studied because collectors wanted 'the oldest' so sites were looted and buckets of fakes were produced.

(6º§) In 2007 I bought a fake Valdivia figurine in Otavalo which now stands in a Spondylus shell on my counter and watches me cook. The fella selling it to me told me it was real. I knew it wasn't but made to put it back saying something along the lines that law breaking makes me sick. He quickly agreed that it wasn't real and cut his asking price by a ton. Que Sera. Three cheers, Ecuadorian Ministry of Culture, your logo is the best.

https://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2012/09/valdivia-figurines-a

nd-appeal-of-oldest.html

What does the author imply about the market demand for Valdivia figurines over time based on the information provided?

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963Q1024231 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Anos Iniciais e Finais, InoversaSul, Unesc, 2025

David had always been fascinated by the stars. Every night, he would set up his telescope in the backyard to observe the night sky. One evening, as he scanned the sky, he noticed a bright object moving unusually fast. Excited, he ran inside to tell his sister, Lily, who was equally curious. Together, they looked up information online and discovered it was likely the International Space Station passing overhead. David felt thrilled knowing he had spotted something so unique.
Read the text above and, based on the information provided, mark T for the true statements and F for the false ones.

(__)David frequently used his telescope to observe the stars.
(__)Lily showed no interest in what David saw in the sky.
(__)David and Lily confirmed that the object was the International Space Station.
(__)David's observation left him excited.

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964Q1022953 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Língua Inglesa, UFF, COSEAC, 2025

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'Blitz' review: In wartime London, a family's search for sanity
Adam Graham

By Detroit News Film Critic A mother and her son are separated in wartime London in "Blitz," director Steve McQueen's drama about clinging onto hope in the middle of chaos.
British actress Saoirse Ronan is Rita, who has to say goodbye to her son George (newcomer Elliott Heffernan, in his first role), who joins the thousands of children who are sent by train to live in the English countryside as Germany throws bombs on London during World War II.
Their parting is tense. "Don't forget to be a good boy," she tells him, all love. "I hate you," George replies. The boy, who is bi-racial and never knew his father, is scared by the situation and terrified to be on his own.
Midway into his journey, he jumps off the train to make his way back to London on foot. He ends up in a series of mini-adventures that play out like chapters in a Charles Dickens novel.
Director McQueen efficiently identifies beauty even in the darkest of spaces, whether in a subway station where people are taking cover from air raids, or in the neighborhoods destroyed by bombs. For McQueen, the diversity of London is a constant issue in the film as is the prevalence of racism. "Blitz" is a story of struggle and never giving up in the face of imminent doom.


Available at: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/11/21/blitz-review-in-wartime-london-afamilys-search-for-sanity/76474861007/ Access at: 27 Nov. 2024. Adapted.
The review of the film Blitz offers a positive evaluation of the film. The sentence, in the text, which explicitly expresses this evaluation is:
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965Q1022186 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Professor de Língua Inglesa, Prefeitura de Luiz Alves SC, UNIVALI, 2024

In the field of Pragmatics, which examines how context influences the interpretation of language, "implicature" is an important concept. Which of the following bestdescribes "implicature"?
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966Q1022701 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Analista em Ciência e Tecnologia Júnior, AEB, CESPE CEBRASPE, 2025

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Spending time in space and having an unrivalled view of planet Earth is an experience many of us dream of, but the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So fully recovering from spending time in the weightlessness of space can take years.

“It’s a fact that space is by far the most extreme environment that humans have ever encountered and we’ve just not evolved to handle the extreme conditions,” Professor Damian Bailey, who studies human physiology, says. To begin with, the heart and blood vessels have an easier time as they no longer have to pump blood against gravity — and they start to weaken. And the bones become weaker and more brittle. There should be a balance between the cells breaking down old bone and those making new, but that balance is disrupted without the feedback and resistance of working against gravity. “Every month, about 1% of bones and muscles are going to wither away — it’s accelerated ageing,” Professor Bailey says.

Microgravity also distorts the vestibular system, which is how you balance and sense which way is up. In space, there is no up, down or sideways. It can be disorientating when you go up — and again when you return to Earth.


James Gallagher. What nine months in space does to the human body.
Internet: <bbc.com> (adapted).
Considering the second paragraph of text CB1A2, choose the correct option.
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967Q1023469 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Disciplina Língua Inglesa, Prefeitura de Camaçari BA, CESPE CEBRASPE, 2024

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Tapioca is the starch extracted from the cassava root. Cassava is a native vegetable of South America that grows in tropical and subtropical regions. In addition to providing daily nutrition for millions of people around the globe, tapioca has become a popular substitute for wheat flour in gluten-free baking. It is also very easy to digest, so it’s a good choice for people with irritable bowel syndrome and other digestive issues.

The minerals in tapioca can provide important health benefits. For example, calcium is important for keeping your bones strong and preventing the development of osteoporosis. Tapioca also contains iron, an essential mineral we need to help transport oxygen throughout the body. In addition, tapioca contains no saturated fat. Reducing saturated fat has been found to lower the risk of heart disease. Tapioca starch contains no fat or cholesterol, which makes it a healthy choice for those watching their dietary cholesterol and saturated fat intake.

Tapioca is also very low in sodium.


Internet: <webmd.com> (adapted).
In the sentence “Tapioca starch contains no fat or cholesterol, which makes it a healthy choice for those watching their dietary cholesterol and saturated fat intake” (in the second paragraph of text 41A1-I), “it” refers to
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968Q1024495 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Professor de Inglês, Prefeitura de Bandeirante SC, AMEOSC, 2024

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Haussmann Architecture


Haussmann eliminated many of the city's mazelike streets and removed more than 12,000 medieval structures during this dark time when Paris was filthy, overcrowded and infested with disease. He redesigned the city with a network of wide, stately boulevards, built 40,000 new buildings and cleared space for Les Halles marketplace and the Palais Garnier (home of the Paris Opera Ballet). The namesake Boulevard Haussmann runs east to west through the 9th arrondissement, near Palais Garnier. He created other structures and public plazas while modernizing the town's sewers, fountains and viaducts as well.

But it was Paris' cavalcade of enchanting apartments and their uniform facades that ultimately transformed the streetscape, making way for a more cohesive, unified city and fulfilling Napoleon III's vision. Lining the city's graceful avenues, these refined Haussmann-style buildings shaped the magnificent town we know today while accounting for about 60% of Parisian architecture.

What are some characteristics of Haussmann architecture?

Although Haussmann-style structures can vary, they were designed to fit certain standards.

Buildings in this style were required to be between 12 and 20 meters (about 39 to 65 feet) high and consist of no more than six stories. Initially, stairs were the only means of reaching different floors. Elevators were added later.

Carriage entrances that connect to a courtyard were likely. These entrances allowed the nobility to enter with their horse-drawn carriages.

"Pièrre de taille"−−also known as ashlar or freestone−− was the material of choice. This stone has a light gray color and is cut or "dressed."

The ground floor of a Haussmann-style building usually accommodated shops, as did the first level, also referred to as the mezzanine. This level has lower ceilings than the upper floors.

The second floor was intended for the upper class and nobility; it's where wealthy Parisians lived. This level boasts the highest ceilings of all the floors−−usually at least 10.5 feet−−as well as a wrought iron wraparound balcony. This level also has the most ornate interior.

Ceiling heights are lower on the third and fourth levels, and the interior detailing is simpler.

The fifth floor was not meant for nobility but offered running balconies to visually balance the building's exterior.

The sixth floor or attic space was reserved for servants. Nowadays, since the highest floor of a Haussmann-styleapartment building promises sweeping views of the city's rooftops, these apartments are often in high demand.

Haussmannian architecture is marked by dormer windows and mansard roofs, which had to be angled at 45 degrees to allow the maximum amount of sunlight on the streets below.

Interiors of Haussmann buildings were as elegant as the exteriors. They typically featured herringbone and chevron parquet floors, elaborate plaster or wood moldings, large rooms with tall windows, built-in wardrobes and shelves, marble fireplaces, French doors and tomette terra-cotta tiles, on occasion.

Square footage varies in Haussmann-style apartments. Some flats offer one bedroom and bath, while others are sprawling family apartments with three or four bedrooms and several bathrooms.

The architectural heart and soul of Paris, Haussmann buildings can be found throughout much of the city. However, the greatest concentration is in the 8th, 9th, 10th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 20th arrondissements.



https://www.mansionglobal.com/library/haussmann-architecture
What was the primary purpose of the renovations conducted by Haussmann in Paris according to the text?
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969Q1021680 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Professor de Educação Básica I, Prefeitura de Juquitiba SP, Avança SP, 2024

How will future climate change affect the world?

Scientists say limiting temperature rise to 1.5C is crucial to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change - although these increase with every extra increment of warming.

The 1.5C warming limit was partly designed to avoid crossing so-called "tipping points".

These are thresholds beyond which changes could accelerate and become irreversible in different parts of the Earth's climate system, such as the collapse of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

But it's not clear precisely where these thresholds sit. Some may have already been crossed; some may be further away than first thought.

Disponível em: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-24021772

Based on the passage, what is one of the main purposes of limiting temperature rise to 1.5C in the context of climate change?

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970Q1023474 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Professor de Língua Inglesa, Prefeitura de Joinville SC, CESPE CEBRASPE, 2024

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Research into how multilingual people juggle more than one language in their minds is complex and sometimes counterintuitive. It turns out that when a multilingual person wants to speak, the languages they know can be active at the same time, even if only one gets used. These languages can interfere with each other, for example intruding into speech just when you do not expect them. And interference can manifest itself not just in vocabulary slip-ups, but even on the level of grammar or accent. “From research we know that whenever a bilingual or multilingual is speaking, both languages or all the languages that they know are activated,” says Mathieu Declerck, a senior research fellow at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels. “For example, when you want to say ‘dog’ as a French-English bilingual, not just ‘dog’ is activated, but also its translation equivalent, so ‘chien’ is also activated.” As such, the speaker needs to have some sort of language control process. If you think about it, the ability of bilingual and multilingual speakers to separate the languages they have learned is remarkable. How they do this is commonly explained through the concept of inhibition — a suppression of the non-relevant languages. However, when this control system fails, intrusions and lapses can occur. For example, insufficient inhibition of a language can cause it to “pop up” and intrude when you are meant to be speaking in a different one.

Tamar Gollan, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, has been studying language control in bilinguals for years. Her research has often led to counterintuitive findings. She explains that when mixing languages, multilinguals are navigating a sort of balancing act, inhibiting the stronger language to even things out — and sometimes, they go too far in the wrong direction. “When bilinguals are mixing languages, it seems like they inhibit the dominant language so much that they actually are slower to speak in certain contexts. I think the best analogy is: imagine you suddenly become better at writing in your non-dominant hand. We have been calling this reversed dominance.” Reversed dominance effects can be particularly evident when bilinguals switch between languages in a single conversation, says Gollan.

Navigating such interference could perhaps be part of what makes it hard for an adult to learn a new language, especially if they have grown up monolingual. One thing that might help is immersing yourself in the environment of the foreign language. “You are creating a context in which you are strongly holding back this other language, so that gives room for the other (new) language to become stronger,” says Matt Goldrick, a professor of linguistics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. “When you return from that immersion experience, hopefully you can better manage that competition,” he adds. “That competition will never go away, you just get better at managing it.”

Managing competition is certainly something that multilinguals do tend to have a lot of practice in. Many researchers argue that this brings them certain cognitive advantages — although it is worth noting that the jury’s still out on this, with others saying their own research does not show reliable evidence for a bilingual cognitive advantage. In any case, using languages is arguably one of the most complex activities humans learn how to do. And having to manage multiple languages has been linked to cognitive benefits in many studies, depending on task and age. Some studies have shown bilinguals perform better, for example, in activities when participants have to focus on counterintuitive information. Speaking multiple languages has also been linked to delayed onset of dementia symptoms. And of course, multilingualism brings many obvious benefits beyond the brain, not least the social benefit of being able to speak to many people.


Internet:http://www.bbc.com/(adapted).
According to text 9A1, bilingual speakers control the languages they speak by
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971Q1047545 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Cadete do Exército, ESCOLA NAVAL, Marinha

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Navy looking for drone operator flying device around

Washington state base

Published February 27, 2016 Foxnews.com

(I) _________

A civilian employee of Naval Submarine Base Kitsap-Bangor reported seeing the drone, spokeswoman Silvia Klatman told Military.com.

According to the Navy, it is illegal to operate a drone above the base without the permission of the Navy. "It's our intent to support the investigation and prosecution of this reported act, and any others that may occur, in coordination with civilian law enforcement," Klatman said.

Military.com reported that agents interviewed families who lived in houses surrounding the base. (II) _______Officials said the drones were seen operating at night. "It could be a hoax, but worst-case scenario, it could be clandestine, a foreign government, a cell," Al Starcevich, whose family's house is located between the base and Hood Canal in Washington, told the website. "The creepy thing is they' re only doing it at night. (Ill) ______ "

Starcevich told The Seattle Times that agents told him there had been repeated incidents around the base involving an alleged drone.

Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor's airspace was designated as "prohibited" by the FAA in May 2005, at the request of the Navy. (IV) ______ The prohibited area extends to the water across Hood Canal and the Navy-owned portion of Toandos Peninsula.

Doug O'Donnell, chief pilot at Avian Flight Center at Bremerton National Airport, said security forces are supposed to shoot down aircraft that violate the FAA riiles.

The Bangor base houses eight of the Navy's 14 ballistic-missile submarines, according to Military,com. Each can carry up to 24 missiles with multiple nuclear warheads.

The Defense Department has held countless classified exercises to counter possible drone attacks, The Seattle Times reported. Last year, one exercise included a Marine sniper shooting one down from a military helicopter,

(http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/27/navy-looking-for-drone-operator-flying-device-around-washington-state-base.html)

The sentences below have been removed from the text and replaced by (I), (II), (III) and (IV). Number them to indicate the order they must appear to complete the text correctly. Then choose the option that contains that sequence.

( ) They said they haven't seen anything unusual.

( ) No aircraft of any kind is allowed to fly over the area up 2,500 feet.

( ) The U.S. Navy is searching for the operator of a drone that has been seen flying near a Washington state naval base at night since Feb. 8.

( ) What are you going to see at night unless you have an infrared camera?

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972Q1022716 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Inglês, Prefeitura de Brusque SC, FEPESE, 2024

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Google News, Thursday, June 16, 2021


Teaching methods keep changing with the times,................... the blackboard of the old days ........... electronic teaching today. Mr. Kam, physics instructor the Chinese University of Hong Kong, is one of those who has changed ......... the times.


Mr. Kam employs a two-pronged approach. First, he uses multimedia teaching materials during lectures. Second, he arranges internships for undergraduates. These can take the form of learning assistantships at the university or teaching assistantships at secondary schools, and also there’s always the odd science project at the Space Museum.

The initiatives have earned him the Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2020. A CUHK alumnus, he is grateful for the chance to teach at the university after earning his doctoral degree there. His teaching position actually represents the fulfillment of a dream, for the status of professors during his days as a university student was extremely high and he could meet them only during lectures.

After being a teacher for 10 years, Mr. Kam has found no apparent regression in the learning abilities of students, but he believes teachers should not just force knowledge on students - they have to pay careful attention to their needs too.

The multimedia materials that Mr. Kam uses to illustrate his area of interest includes animation and video clips. He encourages students to read popular astronomy magazines and share any note-worthy content they find. Mr. Kam also gets his undergraduates to help prepare students sitting for physics papers in public exams or to help out on research projects undertaken by meteorological officers at the observatory.

He also arranges for his undergraduates to teach students from other faculties during physics liberal studies classes through talks and star-gazing expeditions. Such responsibilities serve two greater purposes.

First, undergraduates become even more motivated to learn when they find out they have to guide other students. Second, physics students are, unlike arts students, not at their best when called upon to express themselves. Acting as assistants allows them to practice their skills and build up their self- confidence.

I asked Mr. Kam what he found most satisfying in teaching.

And the answer is obvious. It is the deep friendship he forms with students. Mr. Kam says many former students still come back to see him occasionally despite being busy parents. He draws considerable satisfaction from seeing his students grow into mature adults.

For Mr. Kam, the best teachers will never find extracurricular activity a burden because the good work that is done today plants the seed for future generations.
Considering the text, what do the words ‘actually’ and ‘lectures’ mean in this extract?
“His teaching position actually represents the fulfillment of a dream, for the status of professors during his days as a university student was extremely high and he could meet them only during lectures.”
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973Q1025022 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Inglês, FURB SC, FURB, 2024

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Technology in Language Education: Benefits and Barriers
A variety of e-learning technologies are available for use in educational programs. In many parts of the world, education ministries and universities have invested much effort into increasing the use of the web in all its forms (for example, e-books, simulations, text messaging, podcasting. wikis, and blogs) to meet the demands of competitive markets and to bring a variety of learning choices to their learners. It has been reported that the advent of new technology has a positive influence on both learners and teachers (Mansor 2001).
Researchers (Friggard 2002; Miner 2004; Timucin 2006) have demonstrated that technology boosts the development of teaching methods as well as students' knowledge. Lam and Lawrence (2002) claim that technology provides learners with regulation of their own learning process and easy access to information the teacher may not be able to provide. The potentially positive side of incorporating technology has encouraged foreign language educators to apply its advantages to enhance pedagogical practices. However, the integration of technology in the classroom cannot be devoid of problems. Several studies have documented the advantages of technology for language learning. While the advantages of technology use are often reported, it would be naive to expect technology use to transform language teaching or learning without first encountering and overcoming some barriers.
Findings from empirical research and the literature showed that technology integration in language teaching is advocated for a variety of reasons. Awareness of the barriers to and advantages of technology in enhancing teaching certainly has implications for teacher education. Further, teachers new to technology-based learning and teaching need to understand their changed roles and responsibilities in the new modality of learning and teaching. At the same time, teachers need to bear in mind that it is pedagogy, not technology that determines learning effectiveness. To make a successful transition from traditional pedagogy to technology-enriched instruction, teachers need to alter their teaching approaches to achieve effective teaching.

Based and adapted from 'RIASATI, Mohammad Javad; ALLAHYAR, Negah; TAN, Kok-Eng. Technology in language education: Benefits and barriers. Journal of education and practice, v. 3, n. 5, p. 25-30, 2012.
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974Q1024511 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Língua Inglesa, Prefeitura de Sete Barras SP, Avança SP, 2024

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Schools closed, warnings issued as Asia swelters in extreme heatwave


South and Southeast Asia braced for more extreme heat on Sunday as authorities across the region issued health warnings and residents fled to parks and air-conditioned malls for relief.

A wave of exceptionally hot weather has blasted the region over the past week, sending the mercury as high as 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) and forcing thousands of schools to tell students to stay home.

The Philippines announced on Sunday the suspension of in-person classes at all public schools for two days after a record-shattering day of heat in the capital Manila.

In Thailand, where at least 30 people have died of heatstroke so far this year, the meteorological department warned of "severe conditions" after temperatures in a northern province exceeded 44.1C (111.4F) on Saturday.

And in Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, India and Bangladesh, forecasters warned that temperatures could exceed 40C in the coming days as people endured searing heat and stifling humidity.

"I dare not go out in the daytime. I am worried we would get heatstroke," said a 39 year-old cashier in Myanmar’s Yangon who gave her name as San Yin.

She said she has been going to a park with her husband and four-year-old son at night to escape the heat of their fourth-floor apartment.

"This is the only spot we can stay to avoid the heat in our neighbourhood," she said.

Global temperatures hit record highs last year, and the United Nations weather and climate agency said Tuesday that Asia was warming at a particularly rapid pace.


France24. (2024, April 28). Schools closed, warnings issued as Asia swelters in extreme heatwave. Retrieved from: https://www.france24.com
The term "heatstroke" is mentioned more than once in the news article. Which of the following is the most accurate definition of heatstroke?
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975Q1079560 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Aspirante da Polícia Militar, PM SP, VUNESP

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What do police officers do?
By Emma Woolley

The primary responsibility of police officers is to protect the public, or if commissioned, the person, group or organization to which they are assigned. Through detecting and preventing crime, police officers strive to maintain law and order in their respective jurisdictions.
Most new police officers work in general duty in patrol divisions, which provides a broad range of experiences and assignments. General duty policing involves patrolling assigned areas to enforce laws, protect public safety, and arrest criminal suspects – either by car, foot, bicycle, or in some cases, horse.
Police officers can also do some or all of the following: Investigate accidents and crime scenes; secure evidence and interview witnesses; testify in court; collect notes and reports; provide emergency assistance to victims of natural disasters, crime, and accidents; engage in crime prevention, safety, and public information programs; participate in media relations; and supervise and manage the work of other police officers.
Working as a police officer can be one of the most diverse career experiences, as specializations ranging in the hundreds are available. With a few years of service (usually four or more), he or she can move into areas such as criminal identification, drug investigations, sexual assault, fraud, major case and/or crime management, surveillance, aircraft security, explosives disposal, police dog services, and many more.
Police officers must be available for shift work at any time of day and any day of the week, including holidays. Shifts tend to be longer than the standard eight-hour office day. Even though many regular police duties are routine in nature, the job can also be dangerous, as well as physically and emotionally stressful.
(http://careerbear.com/police-officer/article/ what-do-police-officers-do. Adaptado)
Na expressão “sexual assault", que ocorre no quarto parágrafo,a palavra “assault" tem, em português, sentido semelhante a
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976Q1024008 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Professor de Inglês, Prefeitura de Além Paraíba MG, Consulplan, 2024

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The enduring joy of Golden Girls: a wildly sassy sitcom that will always cheer you up


A comedic masterclass with the best sitcom theme song of all time, Golden Girls pulled back the curtains on ageing and dealt with big-ticket issues.


A zinger-infused maelstrom of shoulder pads, pastels and perms. Rattan furniture, DayGlo linen and Formica. There’s such a distinctive look, feel and vibe to The Golden Girls, the iconic sitcom that ran from 1985 to 1992, scooping up 68 Emmy nominations and 11 wins in the process. The brainchild of producer Susan Harris, the show spawned several acclaimed spinoffs and became an enduring work of high camp in the process.

The premise? Three older women decide to live together: the stern, witty ex-teacher Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur), the sweet but fantastically dense Rose Nylund (Betty White) and southern hornbag Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan). At first it’s a matter of convenience, but before long, they become fast friends. During the pilot they’re joined by a fourth: Dorothy’s mother Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty), a nitpicky little shrew whose ability to cockblock our heroines saw her gradually become the Scrappy-Doo of the house. (Don’t @ me, Goldies, you know I’m right.)

For a comedy that primarily took place within a Floridian kitchen, The Golden Girls boasted some serious talent. The four leads were all astoundingly adept at their craft.

The golden girls themselves proved that the family you make is sometimes stronger than the one you’re born with. Dorothy, Rose and Blanche feel, at times, aged out of their previous lives. Careers, spouses, the world: all seem to be pushing them away. But the girls are proof that you can – and should – forge new bonds, even if it seems like your old life is done for. That you can make a new family, even if your old one rejects you.

The Golden Girls pulled back the curtains on ageing, showing the ways in which old people can be flawed, passionate, monumentally stupid, brave – even at times, almost heroically horny. And it did so with an almost reckless willingness to be as wildly funny as it possibly could.

The show ended up doing what many sitcoms do: use antagonism as heat to push the plot forward. It takes truly hack writers to defend needless antagonism as the only source of fuel to propel a story (I’m looking at you, post-Sorkin West Wing). The last two seasons of The Golden Girls aren’t terrible, but Sophia morphs from an old lady without boundaries to an ancient sociopathic prankster. But even with this odd acceleration towards a caricatured sitcom event horizon, the show still manages to roll out the hits. The two-part finale, written by Mitch Hurwitz (the creator of Arrested Development) and starring Leslie Nielsen as Dorothy’s love interest, ranks as some of the best in the show’s history.

It also has – and I cannot stress this enough – the best sitcom theme song in the history of sitcom theme songs. In 2023, there are few things that will haul you out of whatever psychic muck you find yourself in than whacking on an episode of The Golden Girls. I promise you, once the credits roll, you’ll find yourself lying on the lanai in your mind, feeling somehow much lighter than you did before.


(The Guardian 2024, The Guardian website. Accessed: 06 February 2024. Available: <https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/aug/02/goldengirls-tv-sitcom-enduring-joy-dorothy-rose-betty-white-blanche>. Adapted.)

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977Q1024523 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Professor de Inglês, Prefeitura de Formigueiro RS, MS CONCURSOS, 2024

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“Dragons are found in the myths of many cultures and appear in many forms. The name comes from the Greek word drakon, meaning “snake”. Generally, dragons are portrayed as large, scarly, winged serpernts or reptiles with sharp claws.

In European myths , dragons are usually carnivorous reptiles with fiery breath. They are generally considered evil and dangerous. European ( or Western) dragons are said to live in caves or swamps or on mountaintops, where they often guard treasures. Two of the most famous dragons in European literature are the dragon that St. George killed and the dragon that killed Beowulf. There are also many stories about medieval knights fighting dragons.

There are several types of European dragons. The guivre has no legs or wings. It is a large serpent with a wedgeshaped head. The lindworm has one pair of legs but no wings. The Amphiptere is basically a flying snake with wings but no legs. The wyvern – a particular bloodthirsty type of dragon – has two legs and two wings and a barbed tail. Heraldic dragons have four legs and two wings. Many noble European families chose this dragon as their symbol.

The Asian (or Eastern) dragon was also a reptile but often displayed characteristics of other animals, such as camels, deer, lions, eagles, and bulls. Asian dragons have serpentine bodies, do not usually breath fire, and generally have no wings. Many have a “lion’s mane” around their neck and a bear aroud their chin. They have twoo antlers coming from their head and two long whiskers coming from their faces. Asian dragons have 117 scales, 81 infused with yang, the principle of good, and 36 infused with yin, the principle of evil. Their favorite food is roasted swallows. Asian dragons symbolize power and unlike European dragons, are generally pictured as good, kind, and intelligent.

There are three families of Asian dragons: three-toed, four-toed, and five-toed. Three-toed dragons are native to Japan. Four-toed dragons are from Indonesia or Korea. Some Chinese dragons also have four toes, but the “Imperial dragons” of China have five. Asian dragons come in five colors: blue, White, black, red, and yellow. Red and black dragons are powerful, but the yellow dragon is the strongest of all. Asian dragons are often pictured with a pearl in their months, under their chins, or in their claws. The dragon is thought to draw its strength from this pearl.

Many cultures outside of Europe and Asia also have legends of dragons. In fact, it is hard to find a culture that does not have a dragon myth. The Piasa (“storm bird”) was a dragon known to the Illini, a Native American group that lived by the Mississippi River. It had the head of a bear, large teeth, the antlers of an elk, the scaly body of a fish, and a bear’s leg ending in eagle’s claws. The tail was fifty feet (15 meters) long and was tipped with a spearhead. It lived in a cave in the cliffs overlooking the river. For many years, the Piasa only hunted buffalos. Then, it captured an Illini warrior and after that, it developed a taste for humans and began attacking villages. The Illini chief Ouatoga used himself as a “bait” to lure the beast from its cave. When the dragon stormed out to attack him, his warriors killed it with a shower of arrows. In Ethiopia, there are stories about a four-winged dragon, the Ethiopian Dream Snake. These creatures ate poisonous plants to make their bite and scratches poisonous. They were big enough to kill elephants. Once four of them wove together a raft and sailed to Arabia,Where they thought the hunting would be better. Then there is the Trukh of Madagascar, the Anka of Arabia, the Vekher (“wind demon”) of Russia, the Demaj of Persia, and the Kululkan of the Aztecs.

The fact that so many cultures have dragons stories in common has led people to wonder if dragons really existed up the time of the Middle Ages, When they were hunted into extinction. Some people have even wondered if dragons were the last surviving dinosaurs. Scientists, however, have dismissed this theory as highly unlikely since there is no fossil evidence to indicate that any dinosaurs lived past the end of the Mesozoic era, 65 million years ago.”


Text extracted from The Complete Guide to TOELF Test iBT Edition from Bruce Rogers, 2001. Page 168.
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Ethical codes evolve in response to changing conditions, values, and ideas. A professional code of ethics must, therefore, be periodically updated, and also rest upon widely shared values.
Although the operating environment of museums grows more complex each year, the root value for museums, the tie that connects all of us together despite our diversity, is the commitment to serving people, both present and future generations.
Historically, museums have owned and used natural objects, living and non-living, and all manner of human artifacts to advance knowledge and nourish the human spirit.
Today, the range of their special interests reflects the scope of human vision. Their missions include collecting and preserving, as well as exhibiting and educating with materials not only owned but also borrowed and fabricated for these ends. Their numbers include both governmental and private museums.
The museum universe in the United States includes both collecting and noncollecting institutions. Although diverse in their missions, they have in common their nonprofit form of organization and a commitment of service to the public. Their collections and/or the objects they borrow or fabricate are the basis for research, exhibits, and programs that invite public participation.
Taken as a whole, museum collections and exhibition materials represent the world's natural and cultural common wealth. As stewards of that wealth, museums are compelled to advance an understanding of all natural forms and of the human experience. It is incumbent on museums to be resources for humankind and in all their activities to foster an informed appreciation of the rich and diverse world we have inherited. It is also incumbent upon them to preserve that inheritance for posterity.


www.aam-us.org/museumresources/ethics/coe.cfm. Acessado em 22/02/2024. Adaptado.
Conforme o texto, constitui elemento comum entre os vários museus nos EUA, apesar de suas missões diversas,
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979Q1022237 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Ensino Fundamental, InoversaSul, CESPE CEBRASPE, 2025

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Girls play outside in nature less than boys do, even at the age of two, according to the first national survey of play among preschool-age children in Britain. While researchers expect to see older children socialised to particular gender roles, they were shocked to see similar patterns of behaviour starting to emerge at such a young age. They fear it could have long-term implications for girls’ health, as girls are less physically active as they get older and are more likely than boys to have difficulties with their mental health.

The study also found that preschool-age children from a minority ethnic background play less outdoors than their white counterparts, and children in urban areas play less outdoors than those in rural areas. “The results highlight inequalities in play even in the youngest age group, which may exacerbate existing inequalities in health,” the report concluded.

The research surveyed more than 1,100 parents and carers of children aged two, three and four. They found that preschool children spent approximately four hours a day at play, of which one hour and 45 minutes was spent playing outdoors, mainly in back gardens at home. Away from home, children played in playgrounds and green spaces, with the most adventurous play usually associated with indoor play centres.

“The popularity of these play centers is growing,” the report said. “This may be driven by indoor play centres providing adventurous play experiences that overcome some of the barriers to outdoor adventurous play such as traffic, weather and safety concerns.”

Sally Weale. Girls play outside less than boys even at two years old, UK survey reveals.
In: The Guardian. Internet:<theguardian.com> (adapted).

According to the preceding text, judge the following item.

The text presents specific numbers that prove the difference between young boys and girls as to playing outside.

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980Q1023526 | Inglês, Interpretação de Texto Reading Comprehension, Inglês, Prefeitura de Guamaré RN, FUNCERN, 2024

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Text 02 - (Types of social practices) Linguistics



The language spoken is one of the characteristics that most differentiate us from other animals on the planet. According to the experts, its appearance was one of the main causes of our development as a species; This is because the use of the language caused our brain to increase in capacity.


Therefore, linguistic social practices are a fundamental part of each culture. They include elements such as the language spoken, expressions and phrases made, or the importance given to certain words.


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Social practices of language


Within all types of social practices that exist some of the most influencing a given society are those that have to do with their linguistic expression.


Due to the way in which language modifies the brain and the individual experience of people, the social practices of language take on great importance when it comes to understanding the customs and ways of seeing the world proper to a given society.


Even several studies have shown that bilingual people change their personality depending on the language they are speaking. So, what are the social practices of language?


These are ways of interacting that include both spoken and written language, in addition to all those activities that surround the communication process through it. Depending on the context in which we find ourselves and what we want to transmit, these practices will be different.


Also adapted from: https://www.lifepersona.com/social-practices-types-and-practices-of-language, accessed on July 17th, 2023.
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