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1181Q113440 | Inglês, Analista de Finanças e Controle, MF, ESAF

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Read the text below entitled `While Rome burns´ in order to answer questions 22 to 25:

While Rome burns
Source: www.economist.co.uk
Sep 25th, 2008 (Adapted)

American plans to buy up assets that are clogging the fi nancial system lack detail but no one doubts that a massive government intervention is coming. In Europe jittery investors have no such reassurance. European governments have yet to respond publicly to calls from Hank Paulson, the treasury secretary, to follow his lead. They look set to keep faith with the approach that they have used to handle the crisis so far ? staving off liquidity worries by allowing banks to use facilities at central banks to swap their assets in exchange for ready cash. That makes many watchers nervous. The crisis in America has dramatically grown from one of liquidity to one of solvency as well. Lehman Brothers had access to the Federal Reserve´s discount window, after all, but still went under. The burning question now is whether banks have enough capital. On some measures, European banks look pretty well capitalized. The average tier–one ratio, which measures capital based on the riskiness of bank assets, stood at 8% in the fi rst half of the year. That looks solid enough, if you assume that banks have a good handle on risk.

In paragraph 1, the author refers to a massive government intervention which

✂️ a) would worsen the scenario.
✂️ b) is presently out of the question.
✂️ c) would provoke constraints.
✂️ d) is certainly on the way.
✂️ e) seems highly questionable.

1185Q933006 | Inglês, Vestibular CEDERJ, CEDERJ, CECIERJ, 2018

Fake news could ruin social media, but there’s still hope

by: Guðrun í Jákupsstovu

Camille Francois, director of research and analysis at Graphika, told the audience of her talk at TNW Conference:

“Disinformation campaigns, or fake news is a concept we’ve known about for years, but few people realize how varied the concept can be and how many forms it comes in. When the first instances of fake news started to surface, they were connected with bots. These flooded conversations with alternative stories in order to create noise and, in turn, silence what was actually being said”.

According to Francois, today’s disinformation campaigns are far more varied than just bots – and much harder to detect. For example, targeted harassment campaigns are carried out against journalists and human-rights activists who are critical of governments or big organizations.

“We see this kind of campaigns happening at large scale in countries like the Philippines, Turkey, Ecuador, and Venezuela. The point of these campaigns is to flood the narrative these people try to create with so much noise that their original message gets silenced, their reputation gets damaged, and their credibility undermined. I call this patriotic trolling.”

There are also examples of disinformation campaigns mobilizing people. This was evident during the US elections in 2016 when many fake events suddenly started popping up on Facebook. One Russian Facebook page “organized” an anti-Islam event, while another “organized” a pro-Islam demonstration. The two fake events gathered activists to the same street in Texas, leading to a stand-off.

Francois explains how amazed she is that, in spite of social media being the main medium for these different disinformation campaigns, actual people also still use it to protest properly.

If we look at countries, like Turkey – where there’s a huge amount of censorship and smear campaigns directed at human right defenders and journalists – citizens around the world and in those places still use social media to denounce corruption, to organize human rights movements and this proves that we still haven’t lost the battle of who owns social media.

This is an ongoing battle, and it lets us recognize the actors who are trying to remove the option for people to use social media for good. But everyday you still have people all over the world turning to social media to support their democratic activities. This gives me hope and a desire to protect people’s ability to use social media for good, for denouncing corruption and protecting human rights. Adapted from:<https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2018/05/25/> . Access 09 Oct. 2018.

Glossary bot: (short for "robot"): um programa automático que roda na Internet; to flood: inundar; trolling: fazer postagem deliberadamente ofensiva para provocar alguém; popping up: surgir, aparecer; stand-off: impasse: smear campaigns: campanhas de difamação.

In the text, Turkey is used as an example of a country where

✂️ a) battles of who owns social media are constantly lost.
✂️ b) social media is used to combat corruption and defend human rights.
✂️ c) smear campaigns are organized by social media movements.
✂️ d) citizens cannot use social media to expose their views.

1187Q692149 | Inglês, Professor Área II Língua Portuguesa, Prefeitura de Sapucaia do Sul RS, FUNDATEC, 2019

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Instruction: Answer questions 31 to 40 based on the following text.

This Chrome extension lets you learn a new language by watching Netflix

01 Learning a new language through immersion doesn’t mean you have to pack your bags and

02 move to Europe for three months. Now, you just need to turn __ Netflix. Language Learning with

03 Netflix is a Chrome extension that lets you watch shows with two subtitles on __ the same time

04 so you can visually pair translations with dialogue and learn some new vocabulary in the process.

05 Its a clever service that makes use of Netflix’s massive catalogue and all of the major languages

06 in which it already offers subtitles, including Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian,

07 Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

08 The extension was created by developers David Wilkinson and Ognjen Apic who experimented

09 with making their own language learning software before collaborating on Language Learning with

10 Netflix. “For some languages (Farsi, for example), there’s only a limited amount of learning

11 materials available”, Wilkinson said in an email. “I think a lot of people would enjoy studying a

12 language with material they are already familiar with”.

13 The tool works best as a supplement for people who already have some basic understanding

14 of the language they’re learning. There’s a vocabulary-highlighting feature that greys out less

15 common words, which is adjustable to match your vocabulary level. Hovering over a word

16 produces a pop-up dictionary, and clicking the word lets you hear it. You can also slow down the

17 dialogue or automatically pause playback at the end of every subtitle, so you can learn line by

18 line. There’s even a catalogue of recommendations for movies and shows that are good to study.

19 The Chrome extension is free to use, but Wilkinson and Apic’s product is expected to have

20 more features, like additional subtitles __ dubbed dialogue, which would only be available for paid

21 users. “Netflix has alternative audio tracks for many well-known series, but the subtitles in other

22 languages don’t match the audio”, Wilkinson said. “We’re considering creating new subtitles for

23 these alternative audio tracks, so you could study German, for example, with Breaking Bad with

24 matching German audio and subtitles”.

25 One of the few downsides is that the tool only works on Google Chrome, so you can’t use it

26 with your Netflix app on tablets or streaming services like Roku or Apple TV. Hopefully, the service

27 can make it’s way beyond browsers soon because it’s obvious that the potential __ language

28 learning through media is huge. Viki, a streaming service for Asian dramas, implemented a “Learn

29 Mode” in 2017 that essentially does the same thing by showing two subtitles at once. The

30 developers say they haven’t contacted Netflix yet, but “the project could likely go faster and

31 further with their support”.

(Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18220289/language-learning-netflix-chrome-extension-two-subtitles – Adapted)

In lines 02, 03, 20 and 27 the correct sequence of particles to fill in the blanks is:

✂️ a) on – on – to – to
✂️ b) on – at – for – to
✂️ c) on – at – for – for
✂️ d) in – at – for – for
✂️ e) in – on – for – to

1188Q21977 | Inglês, Analista Legislativo, AL PE, FCC

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House Approves Higher Debt Limit Without Condition
By JONATHAN WEISMAN and ASHLEY PARKER
Feb. 11, 2014

WASHINGTON - Ending three years of brinkmanship in which the threat of a devastating default on the nation’s debt was used to wring conservative concessions from President Obama, the House on Tuesday voted to raise the government’s borrowing limit until March 2015, without any conditions.
The vote - 221 to 201 - relied almost entirely on Democrats in the Republican-controlled House to carry the measure and represented the first debt ceiling increase since 2009 that was not attached to other legislation. Only 28 Republicans voted yes, and only two Democrats voted no.
Simply by holding the vote, Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio effectively ended a three-year Tea Party-inspired era of budget showdowns that had raised the threat of default and government shutdowns, rattled economic confidence and brought serious scrutiny from other nations questioning Washington’s ability to govern. In the process, though, Mr. Boehner also set off a series of reprisals from fellow Republican congressmen and outside groups that showcased the party’s deep internal divisions.
During the October 2013 government shutdown, The Times’s David Leonhardt explained the debt limit and how a failure to raise it could have affected the economy both at home and abroad.
"He gave the president exactly what he wanted, which is exactly what the Republican Party said we did not want,” said a Republican representative, Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, who last year unsuccessfully tried to rally enough support to derail Mr. Boehner’s re-election as speaker. “It’s going to really demoralize the base.”
The vote was a victory for President Obama, Democrats and those Senate Republicans who have argued that spending money for previously incurred obligations was essential for the financial standing of the federal government. “Tonight’s vote is a positive step in moving away from the political brinkmanship that’s a needless drag on our economy,” Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, said in a statement.
"A clean debt ceiling is a complete capitulation on the speaker’s part and demonstrates that he has lost the ability to lead the House of Representatives, let alone his own party,” said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots. “It is time for him to go.”
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, commended the speaker and promised to pass the bill as soon as possible. “We’re happy to see the House is legislating the way they should have legislated for a long time,” he said.

(Adapted from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/us/politics/ boehner-to-bring-debt-ceiling-to-vote-without-policy- attachments. html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_2014021 2&_r=0)

De acordo com o texto,

✂️ a) apesar de ter feito campanha para reconduzir Boehner à presidência da Câmara, Tim Huelskamp se opôs à proposta de lei de prorrogação do teto de dívida do país até março de 2015.
✂️ b) Jenny Beth Martin acredita que Boehner terá de dirigir o Partido republicano sozinho, uma vez que perdeu o apoio da maioria.
✂️ c) alguns senadores republicanos apoiaram a prorrogação, argumentando que era importante para a saúde financeira do governo pagar dívidas já contraídas.
✂️ d) o senador Harry Reid comentou que o presidente da Câmara pretende aprovar a lei o mais breve possível.
✂️ e) o fato de a proposta de lei ter sido aprovada sem nenhuma concessão orçamentária representa uma retirada estratégica dos democratas que inicialmente haviam negado seu apoio.

1190Q932090 | Inglês, UFRGS Vestibular 1 dia UFRGS, UFRGS, UFRGS, 2018

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The complex linguistic universe of

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones has garnered 38 Emmy

awards for its portrayal of a world of sex,

violence and politics so real that some viewers

could imagine moving there. Part of that detail

has been the creation of the richest linguistic

universe since J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth.

In the field of language-creation for fictional

worlds, there is Tolkien, and there is everybody

else. But David Peterson, the language-smith

of Game of Thrones , comes a close second for

the amount of thought put into its two

languages, Dothraki and Valyrian. The interest

in these tongues is such that a textbook for

learning Dothraki has been published, while

Duolingo, a popular online language-learning

platform, now offers a course in High Valyrian.

Inspired by fictional languages such as those

in the Star Wars films and with a master’s

degree in linguistics, Peterson made Dothraki

and Valyrian as rich and realistic as possible.

Creating words is the easy part; anyone can

string together nonsense syllables. But

Peterson, like Tolkien, took the trouble to give

his words etymologies and cousins, so that

the word for “feud” is related to the words

“blood” and “fight”. To make the languages

pronounceable but clearly foreign, he put

non-English sounds in high-frequency words

(like khaleesi , or queen), put the stress in

typically non-English places, and had words

begin with combinations of sounds that are

impossible in English, like hr .

Armed with a knowledge of common linguistic

sound changes, he gives his languages the

kinds of irregularities and disorder that arise in

the real world: High Valyrian’s obar

(“curve”) becomes Astapori Valyrian’s uvor .

Words’ meanings—as in real life—drift, too,

giving the system more realistic messiness.

Languages also play a prominent role in the

storyline. Dothraki is the guttural language of

a horse-borne warrior nation, but high-born

Daenerys Targaryen does not look down on it;

methodically learning it is key to her rise.

Tyrion Lannister is left to administer the city

of Mereen despite his ropy command of

Valyrian, leading to some comic moments.

And a prophecy of a future hero acquires new

meaning when an interpreter explains that the

word in question is ambiguous in Valyrian—it

could be “prince” or “princess”.

It might seem odd that a highly sexist society

like the one of Game of Thrones would have

languages where sex roles were not clearly

marked, but languages are not always perfect

vehicles for a culture. Random change can

leave them with too many words for one

concept, and not enough for another. In this

way, the flawed nature of language reflects

the foibles of flawed humans and the

imperfect worlds they strive to create.

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Considere as possibilidades de reescrita do segmento Inspired by fictional languages such as those in the Star Wars films, Peterson made Dothraki and Valyrian as rich and realistic as possible.

I - Peterson, inspired by fictional languages such as those in the Star Wars films, made Dothraki and Valyrian as rich and realistic as possible.

II - Being as rich and realistic as possible, Peterson made Dothraki and Valyrian inspired by fictional languages such as those in the Star Wars films.

III- Fictional languages in the Star Wars films inspired Peterson to make Dothraki and Valyrian as rich and realistic as possible.

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✂️ a) Apenas I.
✂️ b) Apenas II.
✂️ c) Apenas III.
✂️ d) Apenas I e II.
✂️ e) I, II e III.

1193Q931414 | Inglês, Vestibular Primeira Fase USP, USP, FUVEST

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A study carried out by Lauren Sherman of the University of California and her colleagues investigated how use of the “like” button in social media affects the brains of teenagers lying in body scanners.

Thirty-two teens who had Instagram accounts were asked to lie down in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. This let Dr. Sherman monitor their brain activity while they were perusing both their own Instagram photos and photos that they were told had been added by other teenagers in the experiment. In reality, Dr. Sherman had collected all the other photos, which included neutral images of food and friends as well as many depicting risky behaviours like drinking, smoking and drug use, from other peoples’ Instagram accounts. The researchers told participants they were viewing photographs that 50 other teenagers had already seen and endorsed with a “like” in the laboratory.

The participants were more likely themselves to “like” photos already depicted as having been “liked” a lot than they were photos depicted with fewer previous “likes”. When she looked at the fMRI results, Dr. Sherman found that activity in the nucleus accumbens, a hub of reward circuitry in the brain, increased with the number of “likes” that a photo had.

The Economist, June 13, 2016. Adaptado.

Segundo o texto, como resultado parcial da pesquisa, observou-se que

✂️ a) fotos com imagens neutras provocaram menor impacto do que as que retratavam comportamento perigoso.
✂️ b) os participantes mostraram tendência a “curtir” uma imagem que já havia recebido número considerável de “curtidas”.
✂️ c) os adolescentes demonstraram certo desconforto, quando solicitados a avaliar fotos produzidas por eles próprios.
✂️ d) as tarefas propostas aos participantes apresentaram limitações, por terem foco exclusivo na rede Instagram.
✂️ e) a metodologia adotada no experimento confirmou conclusões de estudos anteriores sobre redes sociais.

1194Q115346 | Inglês, Analista de Projetos Agronomia, BRDE, AOCP

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Mr. Law´s invention

Less than a year ago the judges on the reality programme Dragon´s Den rejected his invention. Now inventor Rob Law is having the last laugh after a product considered "worthless" on the BBC television programme for young entrepreneurs has proved a huge commercial hit. Mr. Law, 29, from Bath, spent 11 years – and 17,000 pounds of his own money – refining his design for a wheelie suitcase which doubles up as a child´s ride-on toy. The plastic Trunki case is designed to allow youngsters aged three to six to take their own bag on holiday – and sit on it when they are tired. But when Mr. Law appeared on Dragons´ Den last September, he was given a hard time by the famously unfriendly panel of investors. Businessman Theo Paphitis ridiculed the product after managing to pull off one of the straps. His colleague Deborah Meadon, head of a holiday firm, declared bluntly that there was no market for the case. And the notoriously brusque tele-communications tycoon Peter Jones declared: "I meet people like you all the time – you think you have something. I tell you, you don´t". The panel declined Mr. Law´s offer to give up 10 percent of his new company in return for a 100,000 pounds investment – an offer which valued the firm at 1 million. However, it now appears that the experts were wrong. After a succession of positive press reviews, Mr. Law has sold 85,000 of his trunki suitcases. It is marketed in 22 countries via a network of distributors. Retailing at 25 pounds, it has proved a hit at several high street stores. Mr Law said: "When I went on to the programme I was full of confidence that I was going to get the investment I needed. But they were rude and obnoxious and just focused on the strap, which was actually something that was easily fixed. I was terrified that by appearing on the programme I may have ruined my company before it even started. But afterwards we had loads of hits on the website from people who said they thought it was a brilliant idea. Now I am absolutely delighted to have proved the Dragons wrong. It just goes to show you should never give up. Mr. Law also revealed that during filming he managed to sell two of the suitcases to Australian panellist Richard Farleigh, who wanted to invest 100,000 pounds in return for half of the company. But Mr. Law rejected the deal. He declined to say exactly how much the company – which is 100% owned by him - is now worth, but said it was more than a million.

(Adapted from New English File Upper, Oxford, 1996)

Rob felt that the judges

✂️ a) could have fixed the strap on his case.
✂️ b) ruined his company even before it was started.
✂️ c) could have treated him very rudely and impolitely.
✂️ d) didn´t mock him for what he thought could be a great product.
✂️ e) concentrated on a single feature of his suitcase.

1197Q932622 | Inglês, Vestibular UERJ, UERJ, UERJ, 2019

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The effect of climate change on epidemic risk

The potential impacts of climate change have returned to headlines in recent weeks as scientists,

activists and policy makers try to understand the possible implications of a warming planet. While

rising temperatures and sea levels are important to be considered, changing climate patterns can

have vast implications for epidemic risk as well.

5 Changes in global climate patterns have been widely discussed; however, rising temperatures

also have implications for risk reduction and management, including impacts on infectious disease

epidemics. With 2016 the hottest year ever recorded and 2017 following suit, we anticipate a

continued growth in the distribution of disease agents, like mosquitoes and ticks. These can

spread illnesses such as zika, yellow fever and dengue to areas where they previously could not be

10 effectively transmitted.

As predicted by climate scientists, increases in extreme weather events may also lead to increases

in infectious disease outbreaks. Epidemics have previously been seen as a consequence of natural

disasters, which can lead to displaced and crowded populations, the ideal situation for infection

transmission. Severe rainfall or flooding is particularly effective at creating environments suitable

15 for the transmission and propagation of infectious diseases, such as measles or cholera.

Even without rising to the level of a natural catastrophe, significant variation in weather patterns

can result in changes in human and animal interactions, increasing the potential for pathogens to

move from animals into human populations. For example, unusually heavy rains may predispose

regions to ebola outbreaks by creating more favorable environments for bats hosting the virus.

20 Similarly, food scarcity brought about by drought, political instability or animal disease may lead to

more animal hunting, therefore raising the risk for ebola virus epidemic.

It is important to take note of the impact of climate change on epidemic risk, but it is equally

important to prepare for its impact on global health. The global health community has largely come

to realize that public health preparedness is crucial to responding efficiently to infectious disease

25 outbreaks. For this reason, our work is, then, centered around helping governments manage and

quantify infectious disease risk. Besides, regardless of weather patterns, insights into epidemics

and into mechanisms for ensuring adequate support are critical for managing this risk.

Since the public health community agrees that the question is not if another outbreak will happen,

but when, the steps we take in the coming years to prepare for and reduce the increasing frequency

of outbreaks will determine the broader implications these diseases have on our world.

contagionlive.com

The texts “Três teses sobre o avanço da febre amarela” and “The effect of climate change on epidemic risk”

mention possible reasons for disease outbreaks.

The reason which is presented in both texts is

✂️ a)
animal hunting
✂️ b) population growth
✂️ c) governmental neglect
✂️ d) environmental changes

1200Q689967 | Inglês, Sargento da Aeronáutica Aeronavegantes e Não Aeronavegantes, EEAR, Aeronáutica, 2019

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Selecting the Olympic Sports

1 There are 28 sports permitted in the Summer Olympic

Games. The list of Olympic Sports has many of the world’s

best-loved sports on it, such as baseball, judo, soccer, tennis,

and volleyball. This list of sports hadn’t changed in 70 years,

5 and the process for changing these sports is long and difficult.

That is why it was surprising news when the International

Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that it was studying

new sports for the list. At a meeting in Singapore in 2005, the

IOC voted on each of the 28 sports from the 2004 Olympic

10 Games in Athens, Greece. Twenty-six of the 28 sports were

selected for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, which took

place in London, England. The two sports that did not receive

50 percent of the votes were baseball and softball.

Because these two sports were not selected, the IOC

15 started the process of voting for two new sports. The five

sports to select from were roller skating, golf, rugby, squash,

and karate. After the first vote, karate and squash were

submitted to the IOC for the final vote.

To become an Olympic sport, a sport must receive two-

20 thirds of the votes of the IOC. When the final vote took place,

squash received 39 “yes” votes and 63 “no” votes. Karate

received 38 “yes” votes and 63 “no” votes. It meant that

neither squash nor karate would feature in the 2012 Olympic

Games. And sad fans didn’t believe that their sports could be

25 selected for the 2016 Olympic Games.

Adapted from Anderson, Neil J. - Active Skills for Reading -

second Edition

“Sad” (line 24), underlined in the text, is the same as

✂️ a) thrilled.
✂️ b) gloomy.
✂️ c) cheerful.
✂️ d) delighted.

Questões de Concursos Inglês

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1181Q113440 | Inglês, Analista de Finanças e Controle, MF, ESAF

1182Q120157 | Inglês, Interpretação de Textos, Analista de Suporte, FINEP, CESGRANRIO

1183Q120943 | Inglês, Interpretação de Textos, Analista de Sistemas Júnior, TRANSPETRO, CESGRANRIO

1184Q849017 | Inglês, Tradução, Professor de Lingua Inglesa, ADM TEC, 2020

1185Q933006 | Inglês, Vestibular CEDERJ, CEDERJ, CECIERJ, 2018

1186Q196760 | Inglês, Aspectos linguísticos Linguistic aspects, Analista, EBC, CESPE CEBRASPE

1187Q692149 | Inglês, Professor Área II Língua Portuguesa, Prefeitura de Sapucaia do Sul RS, FUNDATEC, 2019

1188Q21977 | Inglês, Analista Legislativo, AL PE, FCC

1189Q113118 | Inglês, Interpretação de Textos, Analista de Gestão Corporativa, EPE, CESGRANRIO

1190Q932090 | Inglês, UFRGS Vestibular 1 dia UFRGS, UFRGS, UFRGS, 2018

1191Q485657 | Inglês, Vocabulário, Engenheiro, INB, CONSULPLAN

1192Q199507 | Inglês, Aluno EsFCEx, EsFCEx, EsFCEx

1193Q931414 | Inglês, Vestibular Primeira Fase USP, USP, FUVEST

1194Q115346 | Inglês, Analista de Projetos Agronomia, BRDE, AOCP

1195Q116437 | Inglês, Significação Contextual de Palavras, Analista de Sistemas, Senado Federal, FGV

1196Q114400 | Inglês, Analista de Pesquisa Energética, EPE, CESGRANRIO

1197Q932622 | Inglês, Vestibular UERJ, UERJ, UERJ, 2019

1198Q689935 | Inglês, Sargento da Aeronáutica Aeronavegantes e Não Aeronavegantes, EEAR, Aeronáutica, 2019

1199Q485659 | Inglês, Gramática, Professor de Língua Inglesa, SEDU ES, FCC

1200Q689967 | Inglês, Sargento da Aeronáutica Aeronavegantes e Não Aeronavegantes, EEAR, Aeronáutica, 2019