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Interpretação de Texto

Read the text below in order to answer questions 41 to 45:

Message from Dr Denis MacShane

Traditionally, Britain has enjoyed strong links with Latin America. In the 19th century, Britain provided crucial political support for the Bolivarian independence movement and unrivalled economic links followed. British firms led in the construction of railways, tramways, ports, bridges and other major public works with their world class expertise. Our current relationship is led by a renewed emphasis on modern political, cultural and economic links and, of course, our important trade and investments with Latin American countries. Annually, our exports are worth some £2.5 billion and British companies represented in the region read like an A-Z of the FTSE 100.

According to Dr Denis MacShane, links between Britain and Latin America

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Interpretação de Texto•
VUNESP•
SEE SP•
Professor II

Em cada uma das questões de números 46 a 60, reproduziu- -se trecho de uma breve conversa. Assinale a alternativa que apresenta a palavra ou expressão que preenche a lacuna corretamente.

“Have you ever been to Chicago?”

“Yes, it’s the city ____________ I was born.”

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FUNIVERSA•
SEPLAG SEE DF•
Professor de Educação Básica

Choose the incorrect alternative concerning some principles that underlie the Audiolingual as a language teaching method or approach.

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CESPE CEBRASPE•
PRF Policial Rodoviário Federal•
2021

    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.

Internet: <www.cnn.com>  (adapted).

About ideas stated in the text above and the words used in it, judge the following item.

In the last paragraph of the text, “That” refers to the decision by Texas to isolate its energy grid from the rest of the country.

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Inglês•
Interpretação de Texto•
CESPE CEBRASPE•
PRF Policial Rodoviário Federal•
2021

    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.

Internet: <www.cnn.com>  (adapted).

About ideas stated in the text above and the words used in it, judge the following item.

There are places in the world where wind power works well in freezing temperatures.

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FCC•
SEE SP•
Professor

Atenção: As questões de números 21 a 48 referem-se aos conhecimentos sobre formação de professores e ensino de língua inglesa.

No ensino de línguas baseado em tarefas (Task based language teaching) acredita-se que, no ensino comunicativo da língua estrangeira, os fins e os meios se igualam. Isso equivale a afirmar que

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Interpretação de Texto•
NOSSO RUMO•
CREA SP•
Analista de Tecnologia da Informação

The idiom ?to kill two birds with one stone? means:

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Inglês•
Interpretação de Texto•
CESPE CEBRASPE•
Analista de Tecnologia da Informação•
2020

       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 Brazil’s 200 million. While further integrating into the global economy could threaten uncompetitive companies and their workers, competitive businesses would most likely benefit. Brazil’s 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.

“Brazil” is the antecedent of the pronoun “its” in “its absolute number of exporters” (third sentence).

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CETRO•
IMBEL•
Assistente Administrativo

From questions 19 to 25, fill in the blanks with the correct alternative.

To get quality products you need to maintain …………strength qualities.

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FGV•
SME SP•
Professor de Ensino Fundamental II e Médio

In a classroom situation in which the student asks the teacher if British or American pronunciation should be preferred, the most adequate answer the teacher should give, from a postcolonial orientation, is:

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Interpretação de Texto•
FUNCAB•
Prefeitura de armação de Buzios RJ•
Professor II

The commonly used reading strategies of SKIMMING and SCANNING for the teaching of English at school in Brazil correspond to, respectively:

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Inglês•
Interpretação de Texto•
ESAF•
STN•
Analista de Finanças e Controle AFC Prova 1

Read the text below in order to answer questions 21 to 23:

THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 2000

The proposed budget for 2000 is fully consistent with the four-year plan for 2000-03 ("Avança Brasil"), also submitted to Congress at the end of August 1999. This plan identifies the federal expenditure programmes that are to receive priority in the allocation of budgetary resources over the next four years, reflecting the main governmental objectives in the social, infrastructure and other public expenditure areas. It seeks to exploit regional and cross-projects synergies, and to attract partnerships with the other levels of government, the public enterprises, the multilateral development banks, and the private sector, to promote a more regionally balanced and sustainable development of the country. Increased emphasis will be placed on the evaluation of the results of these programmes, and on the accountability of the public managers of the programmes for these results.

According to the text, the four-year plan for 2000-03 and the proposed budget for 2000

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UPE UPENET IAUPE•
Prefeitura de Paulista PE•
Professor

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