The assessment tool that is in line with a critical literacy posture is
A deep freeze this week in the Lone Star state, which relies on electricity to heat many homes, is causing power demand to skyrocket. At the same time, natural gas, coal, wind and nuclear facilities in Texas have been knocked offline by the unthinkably low temperatures.
“The extreme cold is causing the entire system to freeze up,” said Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. “All sources of energy are underperforming in the extreme cold because they’re not designed to handle these unusual conditions.”
The ripple effects are being felt around the nation as Texas’ prolific oil-and-gas industry stumbles.
It’s striking that these power outages are happening in a state with abundant energy resources. Texas produces more electricity than any other US state — generating almost twice as much as Florida, the next-closest, according to federal statistics.
Wind power is also booming in Texas, which produced about 28% of all the US wind-powered electricity in 2019, the EIA said. But the problem is that not only is Texas an energy superpower, it tends to be an above-average temperature state. That means its infrastructure is ill-prepared for the cold spell currently wreaking havoc. And the consequences are being felt by millions.
Critics of renewable energy have pointed out that wind turbines have frozen or needed to be shut down due to the extreme weather.
Even though other places with colder weather (like Iowa and Denmark) rely on wind for even larger shares of power, experts said the turbines in Texas were not winterized for the unexpected freeze.
But this is not just about wind turbines going down. Natural gas and coal-fired power plants need water to stay online. Yet those water facilities froze in the cold temperatures and others lost access to the electricity they require to operate.
It’s too early to definitively say what went wrong in Texas and how to prevent similar outages. More information will need to be released by state authorities. Still, some experts say the criticism of wind power appears overdone already. “In terms of the blame game, the focus on wind is a red herring. It’s more of a political issue than what is causing the power problems on the grid,” said Dan Cohan, associate professor of environmental engineering at Rice University.
The energy crisis in Texas raises also questions about the nature of the state’s deregulated and decentralized electric grid. Unlike other states, Texas has made a conscious decision to isolate its grid from the rest of the country.
That means that when things are running smoothly, Texas can’t export excess power to neighboring states. And in the current crisis, it can’t import power either.
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About ideas stated in the text above and the words used in it, judge the following item.
The text points to the lack of wind as the primary cause for a dip in the production of wind energy during the period described.
It can be deduced from text I that
diplomacy should not always be considered a safe career.
Choose the correct alternative:
A new computer worm masquerading as a software update from Microsoft Corp. is capable of deleting all files on the hard drive of an infected computer but has so far spread very slowly, an antivirus vendor said Monday. (CNN.com, Jan. 2002) According to the passage, the virus:
The approach considers revision fundamental to the process of writing. It is recursive and consists of various changes performed in a written text while it is being written or after it. These are characteristics of:
It can be gathered from text I that
the first flint instrument can be considered to be the beginning of mankind future technological advances.
It can be deduced from text I that
the diplomatic career offers a unique chance for those who want to live in the best countries all over the world.
The passage "The resolution establishes transparency in all processes and the United Nations participation in monitoring the sale of Iraqi oil resources and expenditure of oil proceeds" in text IV can be replaced by
The conclusion settles down transparency in all processes and the UN will take part in monitoring the sale of Iraqi renewable resources and expenditure.Leia o texto abaixo e assinale a alternativa CORRETA relacionada ao texto: The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it will deliver 237 million vaccines from the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca with the University of Oxford to 142 nations by the end of May through the Covax alliance, an international mechanism to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines against Covid -19 around the world. According to a statement published by the WHO, the schedule for the delivery of Covax doses foresees two two-month schedules, the first in February-March and the second in April-May. Redação adaptada > Disponível < https://g1.globo.com/bemestar/vacina/noticia/2021/03/02
The passage "The resolution establishes transparency in all processes and the United Nations participation in monitoring the sale of Iraqi oil resources and expenditure of oil proceeds" in text IV can be replaced by
The resolution sets up transparency in every process and the United Nations participation in keeping track of the sale of Iraqi oil reserves and expenses of oil proceeds.
Despite being the eighth largest economy in the world and the largest in Latin America, Brazil is still relatively closed compared to other large economies. Brazil is an outlier in that its trade penetration is extremely low, with trade at 24.1 percent of GDP in 2017. The number of exporters relative to the population is also very small: its absolute number of exporters is roughly the same as that of Norway, a country with approximately 5 million people compared to Brazils 200 million. While further integrating into the global economy could threaten uncompetitive companies and their workers, competitive businesses would most likely benefit. Brazils insertion would also allow the country to better leverage its competitive advantages, such as in natural resource-based industries.
Idem. Ibidem (adapted).
Judge the following items, based on the text above.
The authors present data that demonstrates that, when the text was written, Brazil participated in international commerce at the same level as other countries with robust economies.
Choose the right alternative to complete the sentence: Her plants_____ better if she____them more carefully.
In the sentence Those targets were due to have been met by 2020. (line 7), the underlined means:
It can be gathered from text I that
human technological progress has always been destined to conquer other peoples.
Read the text below in order to answer questions 16 to 18.
INSURANCE AGENTS
Insurers deliver their insurance products to policyowners primarily through independent or exclusive agents. Historically, almost all insurance agents were independent business people paid on commission. More recently, many insurance companies have adopted a system where the agent is a paid employee of the firm. These agents are referred to as exclusive agents. Economists studying the differences between these two distribution systems have long argued that the independent agency system is a less efficient method of getting the product to the customer as measured by the ratio of expenses incurred to premiums written and other statistics. But recent studies suggest the reason for the higher expenses with independent agents is that they offer higher quality to policyowners through more personalized service, more advice on policy limits as well as more help when a claim is filed with the company. So one thing you could consider is how much guidance and service you want.
According to the text, economists
Speaking and writing are language practices characterized by being:
According to contemporary theories on language learning assessment,
According to the text:
From text I, it can be deduced that
an appropriate title for this passage could be: What the Eastern peoples are doing.