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Instruction: answer questions 31 to 40 based on the following text. The highlights throughout the text are cited in the questions.
Carnival
(Available at: http://www.italyheritage.com/traditions/carnival/2023/04/14/ – text especially adapted for this test).
Analyze the bold verbs in the following statements about the excerpt “The word carnival comes from the Latin ‘carnem levare’ (=eliminate meat) and originally indicated the banquet that was held …” (lines 05-06) and mark T, if true, or F, if false.
( ) The past form ‘was’ followed by the past participle ‘held’ indicates a past action.
( ) The past form ‘held’ indicates a repeated action in the past.
( ) The past form ‘was’ is the auxiliary verb of this passive voice structure ‘was held’.
( ) The past participle form ‘held’ is the main verb of this passive voice structure.
The correct order of filling the parentheses, from top to bottom, is:
A pragmática estuda o uso da linguagem em contextos específicos, considerando a intenção do falante e as implicações comunicativas.
No diálogo abaixo, qual é a implicatura gerada pela fala de B?
A: Are you going to the party tonight?
B: I have a lot of work to do.
Magi Richani is the founder of San Francisco-based Nobell Foods, a startup company developing a new kind of cheese made from soybeans. She says plant-based cheese not only accommodates people who can’t consume dairy, but it also could be key to more sustainable food production worldwide. “The reality is that when you raise an animal for food, it’s not just the animals, you are actually growing crops, you are clearing land, and you’re raising the animal for years so it builds biomass,” Richani explained. “It’s an extremely inefficient supply chain.”
Nobell is particularly focused on creating plant-based casein, which is a protein produced when a cow gives birth and is present in the milk for its offspring. It is the ingredient that gives dairy cheese its unique stretchy texture. If Nobell is able to go to market and have the kind of impact it’s hoping to, then plant-based cheese could help us stretch toward a more sustainable future.
Internet: <newsweek.com> (adapted).
Based on the ideas presented in the previous text as well as its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.
The words “stretch” (last sentence of the text) and “stretchy” (second sentence of the last paragraph), although similar, convey different meanings: “stretchy” refers to a concrete sensation, whereas “stretch” is used in a metaphorical abstract way.
READ TEXT III AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOWS IT:
Plastic Dreams
by Sarah Thompson
Plastic dreams, oh plastic dreams, a vision turned nightmare,
Once a symbol of progress, now a burden we must bear.
Our landfills overflow with your synthetic remains,
A haunting testament to our unsustainable chains.
Plastic dreams, oh plastic dreams, a promise unfulfilled,
Your convenience a facade, your consequences concealed.
Let us wake from this slumber, this toxic desire,
To create a world where nature's essence can inspire.
In our hands lies the power, to choose a different fate,
To abandon plastic dreams and embrace a sustainable state.
For only through conscious choices, can we break this vicious spell,
And ensure a future where our planet and poetry can dwell.
From: https://poemverse.org/poems-about-plasticwaste/#2_the_sea_s_lament_by_michael_anderson
Based on the text below, answer the question.
Slash and burn Brazil's rainforest is going up in smoke. Again.
As Brazil'S skyscrapers and silos rose, it seemed the most impressive quality of this 21st-century Latin American powerhouse was its ability to grow without trashing the environment. Just last year, Brasilia was boasting about a steep decline in deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, a feat that President Dilma Rousseff trumpeted as "impressive, the fruit of social change." What would she say now?
After nearly a decade of steady decline, forest cutting has spiked again in the world's largest rainforest. The nonprofit Amazon watchdog organization, Imazon, released a study reporting that deforestation at the hands of farmers and ranchers jumped 90 percent in the 12 months since April of last year. And since burning always follows felling, another 88 million tons of carbon dioxide and other gases hit the atmosphere—a 62 percent increase on the year.
For decades, Brazilians were told that ruin in the Amazon was the price of development. But recent research has imploded that assumption. A paper published by the National Academy of Sciences shows that continued deforestation threatens not just the trees but the progress and riches their removal were thought to guarantee. The paper bolsters an old theory by Brazilian climate scientist Eneas Salati, who argued that the Amazon actually produces half its own rainfall. The takeaway: remove too much of the forests and the Amazon could dry out. And more than the jungle is at stake. Reduced rainfall from forest cutting could dry up the water that powers hydroelectric dams, thus slashing Brazilian power-generating capacity by 40 percent by midcentury. It could also rob the food larder, cutting soybean productivity by 28 percent and beef production by 34 percent.
Brasilia quickly countered the environmental skeptics by saying that these are unofficial figures, noting that the National Space Institute is still crunching the satellite data. The government is still basking in last year's numbers: only 4,600 square kilometers of forests felled, a fraction of the 27,700 square kilometers lost in 2004. But the Rousseff administration would do well to heed the smoke signals. Even Brasilia admits that Brazil's continued rise to glory turns on the country's ability to stay green.
(Adapted from http://thedailybeast.com/newswek/2013/06/05)
Which is the best alternative considering some of the statements are TRUE (T) and others are FALSE (F)?
I - In 2012 fewer trees were cut down than in previous years.
II - Until recently the destruction of the Amazon forest was seen as a necessary evil.
III - The President agrees with the numbers presented by scientist.
IV - The Amazon forest might die because of lack of rain.
V - Farming and livestock sectors might produce more food as a result of deforestation.
The best alternative is
Julgue o item subsequente.
The phenomenology of word order in syntax transcends
surface grammatical rules, delving into intricate
underlying semantic and pragmatic relationships. In this
context, understanding variations in word order requires
not only syntactic knowledge but also a sophisticated
appreciation of communicative intentions and idiomatic
expression.
The mysterious death of Alexander the Great
When Alexander the Great’s body seemingly remained unchanged for six days after his death in 323 BCE, his contemporaries could offer only one explanation. Alexander must have been a god. So… was he?
Alexander the Great first fell ill during a days-long series of parties, during one of which he collapsed, complaining of a searing pain in his back. After 10 days of intense fever, Alexander’s soldiers were brought in to see him one final time. As reported by the historian Arrian, at that point the king “could no longer speak… but he struggled to raise his head and gave each man a greeting with his eyes.”
When Alexander was declared dead on June 13, theories began forming. Had he been poisoned? Sabotaged? Had he been killed by drinking too much wine? Today we have an explanation for Alexander’s death and his period of bodily freshness that relies less on the supernatural and more on science. In 2018 Dr. Katherine Hall, a lecturer in New Zealand, proposed that Alexander the Great had Guillain-Barré syndrome, an acute autoimmune condition that results in muscle paralysis. In other words, Alexander may have been alive when he was declared dead—a mistake that could have been made when physicians mistook the shallow breathing of a coma patient for no breathing at all. If this was the case, Alexander may have been effectively murdered during embalming—a process that would have seen him disemboweled.
While we can’t travel back in time to confirm Hall’s theory, it is the only one that takes into account all the details of Alexander’s death—and his body’s mysterious life.
Encyclopaedia Britannica. Adaptation