In several countries around the world, the currency known as the "Dollar" is used as the official medium of exchange. However, not all countries utilize the Dollar. Among the following English speaking countries, identify the one that does not use the Dollar as its official currency:
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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
With regard to the heatwave conditions in South
and Southeast Asia, which measure has been
reported as an action taken by residents to cope
with the extreme temperatures?
William Shakespeare is regarded as one of the greatest playwrights and poets of all time. He wrote
numerous works that are still studied and performed today, including tragedies, comedies, and
historical plays. Below are listed some of these works. Mark the alternative that presents three works
by Shakespeare:
Modern Paradoxes
The paradox of our time is that we spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more comforts, but less time. We more information, but less knowledge, more questions, but fewer answers. We build more computers to hold more information, but we communicate with each other less and less. We have more possessions, but fewer values. We are now long on quantity, but short on quality.
We drink too much, smoke too much, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, read too little, watch TV too much.
We know much about the Moon and Mars, but avoid crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We are masters of outer space but not of inner space. We say “yes” to a bigger car in the showroom, but “no” to a homeless street kid who tries to sell us a bag of cookies.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, tall men and short character, large profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of luxurious houses, but broken homes. These are times of more leisure, but less fun, overweight bodies, but selfish souls.
It is a time when technology brings this message to you, and a time you can choose either to make a difference and pass it on, or to just hit “delete”.
On Stage Vol. 2 - Amadeu Marques
As far as the general idea of the text is concerned,
and not just the details, what is the main
contradiction highlighted in the text regarding
the way we live nowadays?
Choose the option which has the same meaning and idea as the conversation:
Sara: I can't stand horror movies.
Mark: Neither can I.
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“To read these books, in this way, as an exercise in self-knowledge, carries certain risks. Risks that are both personal and political. Risks that every student of Political Philosophy has known. These risks spring from the fact that philosophy teaches us, and unsettles us, by confronting us with what we already know. There is an irony: the difficulty of this course consists in the fact that it teaches what you already know. It works by taking what we know from familiar unquestioned settings, and making it strange. [...] Philosophy estranges us from the familiar, not by supplying new information, but by inviting and provoking a new way of seeing.
But, and here is the risk, once the familiar turns strange, it is never quite the same again. Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. What makes this enterprise difficult, but also riveting, is that Moral and Political Philosophy is a story, and you don't know where the story would lead, but you do know that the story is about You.”
Text taken from: “Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?” Introduction Class ― Michael Sandel
The metaphor "Self-knowledge is like lost
innocence" implies that:
Associate the reading strategies with their respective descriptions.
1 - Skimming;
2 - Scanning;
3 - Critical Reading;
4 - Predictive Reading:
( ) It is a thoughtful and analytical reading strategy. It goes beyond understanding the literal meaning of the text and involves evaluating the author's arguments, questioning assumptions, and considering alternative perspectives.
( ) It involves making educated guesses about the content of a text based on headings, subheadings, and other organizational cues. Readers use their prior knowledge and the structure of the material to anticipate what information might come next.
( ) It is a reading strategy that involves searching for specific information within a text. Instead of reading the entire passage, the reader focuses on keywords, phrases, or numbers to quickly locate the relevant details.
( ) It is a rapid reading technique used to get an overview of the text. Readers quickly glance through the material to identify the main ideas, important points, and the overall structure of the text without reading every word.
The correct association is, respectively:
Modern Paradoxes
The paradox of our time is that we spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more comforts, but less time. We more information, but less knowledge, more questions, but fewer answers. We build more computers to hold more information, but we communicate with each other less and less. We have more possessions, but fewer values. We are now long on quantity, but short on quality.
We drink too much, smoke too much, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, read too little, watch TV too much.
We know much about the Moon and Mars, but avoid crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We are masters of outer space but not of inner space. We say “yes” to a bigger car in the showroom, but “no” to a homeless street kid who tries to sell us a bag of cookies.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, tall men and short character, large profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of luxurious houses, but broken homes. These are times of more leisure, but less fun, overweight bodies, but selfish souls.
It is a time when technology brings this message to you, and a time you can choose either to make a difference and pass it on, or to just hit “delete”.
On Stage Vol. 2 - Amadeu Marques
Based on the context of the text "Modern
Paradoxes," choose the option that best expresses
the meaning of the expression "shallow
relationships."
Modern Paradoxes
The paradox of our time is that we spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more comforts, but less time. We more information, but less knowledge, more questions, but fewer answers. We build more computers to hold more information, but we communicate with each other less and less. We have more possessions, but fewer values. We are now long on quantity, but short on quality.
We drink too much, smoke too much, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, read too little, watch TV too much.
We know much about the Moon and Mars, but avoid crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We are masters of outer space but not of inner space. We say “yes” to a bigger car in the showroom, but “no” to a homeless street kid who tries to sell us a bag of cookies.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, tall men and short character, large profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of luxurious houses, but broken homes. These are times of more leisure, but less fun, overweight bodies, but selfish souls.
It is a time when technology brings this message to you, and a time you can choose either to make a difference and pass it on, or to just hit “delete”.
On Stage Vol. 2 - Amadeu Marques
Considering the last sentence of the text, "It is a
time when technology brings this message to
you, and a time you can choose either to make a
difference and pass it on, or to just hit 'delete'",
choose the option that best conveys the message.
Analyze the following passages:
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
— Heraclitus
What central theme connects the ideas expressed in the passages by T.S. Eliot and Heraclitus?
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
— Heraclitus
What central theme connects the ideas expressed in the passages by T.S. Eliot and Heraclitus?
Read the following excerpt from Edgar Allan
Poe's poem "Alone" and answer the questions
that follow:
"From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone."
What is the speaker expressing about his childhood and emotions in the first four lines of the poem?
"From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone."
What is the speaker expressing about his childhood and emotions in the first four lines of the poem?
“There were people who went to sleep last
night,
poor and rich and white and black,
but they will never wake again.
And those dead folks would give anything at all
for just five minutes of this weather
or ten minutes of plowing.
So you watch yourself about complaining.
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it.
If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”
— Maya Angelou
The passage uses the phrase "those dead folks" to refer to:
poor and rich and white and black,
but they will never wake again.
And those dead folks would give anything at all
for just five minutes of this weather
or ten minutes of plowing.
So you watch yourself about complaining.
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it.
If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”
— Maya Angelou
The passage uses the phrase "those dead folks" to refer to:
“On Saturday night, February 1st, shortly after 9 p.m. ET, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a
speech on Parliament Hill announcing Canada's response to a 25 per cent tariff U.S. President Donald
Trump is imposing tariffs on most Canadian goods.
‘Good evening. Today, the United States informed us they will be imposing 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports to the United States and 10 per cent on Canadian energy, a decision that should they elect to proceed with should take effect on Tuesday, Feb. 4.
(In French) This decision puts in peril a historic economic relationship, a relationship that has been the source of wealth, prosperity and possibility on both sides of the border.’”
CBC News · Posted: Feb 02, 2025 2:58 PM EST
The part spoken in French in the Canadian Prime Minister's speech indicates that:
‘Good evening. Today, the United States informed us they will be imposing 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports to the United States and 10 per cent on Canadian energy, a decision that should they elect to proceed with should take effect on Tuesday, Feb. 4.
(In French) This decision puts in peril a historic economic relationship, a relationship that has been the source of wealth, prosperity and possibility on both sides of the border.’”
CBC News · Posted: Feb 02, 2025 2:58 PM EST
The part spoken in French in the Canadian Prime Minister's speech indicates that:
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“To read these books, in this way, as an exercise in self-knowledge, carries certain risks. Risks that are both personal and political. Risks that every student of Political Philosophy has known. These risks spring from the fact that philosophy teaches us, and unsettles us, by confronting us with what we already know. There is an irony: the difficulty of this course consists in the fact that it teaches what you already know. It works by taking what we know from familiar unquestioned settings, and making it strange. [...] Philosophy estranges us from the familiar, not by supplying new information, but by inviting and provoking a new way of seeing.
But, and here is the risk, once the familiar turns strange, it is never quite the same again. Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. What makes this enterprise difficult, but also riveting, is that Moral and Political Philosophy is a story, and you don't know where the story would lead, but you do know that the story is about You.”
Text taken from: “Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?” Introduction Class ― Michael Sandel
What does the word "unsettles" convey in the
context of the passage?
A master of the macabre and mystery, this 19th-century writer revolutionized Gothic literature with
dark tales and disturbing psychological atmospheres. His narratives explore themes such as death,
madness, and the abyss of the human mind, marked by poetic and intense language. An emblematic
work, like a poem about an obsessive raven, became a symbol of his melancholic genius. His legacy
endures as a cornerstone of modern horror and detective fiction.
Which of the following authors is being described?
Which of the following authors is being described?
Read the following quote from Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms":
“I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
Which of the following statements best captures the essence of the author's reflection on the contrast between night and day?
“I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
Which of the following statements best captures the essence of the author's reflection on the contrast between night and day?
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“To read these books, in this way, as an exercise in self-knowledge, carries certain risks. Risks that are both personal and political. Risks that every student of Political Philosophy has known. These risks spring from the fact that philosophy teaches us, and unsettles us, by confronting us with what we already know. There is an irony: the difficulty of this course consists in the fact that it teaches what you already know. It works by taking what we know from familiar unquestioned settings, and making it strange. [...] Philosophy estranges us from the familiar, not by supplying new information, but by inviting and provoking a new way of seeing.
But, and here is the risk, once the familiar turns strange, it is never quite the same again. Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. What makes this enterprise difficult, but also riveting, is that Moral and Political Philosophy is a story, and you don't know where the story would lead, but you do know that the story is about You.”
Text taken from: “Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?” Introduction Class ― Michael Sandel
The phrase "unquestioned settings" in the text
refers to:
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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 extreme heatwave in South and Southeast
Asia has resulted in severe measures being
implemented across the region. Which capital
city in Southeast Asia faced an unprecedented
heatwave, causing the suspension of in-person
classes at all public schools?
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and
their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always
be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on
and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
According to the passage, what is the implied significance of the river flowing again after being frozen?
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
According to the passage, what is the implied significance of the river flowing again after being frozen?
“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble at its pleasure. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us; and if we dream at such a time, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost a matter of impossibility to separate the two. Nor is this, the most striking phenomenon, incidental to such a state. It is an undoubted fact, that although our senses of touch and sight be for the time dead, yet our sleeping thoughts, and the visionary scenes that pass before us, will be influenced, and materially influenced, by the mere silent presence of some external object: which may not have been near us when we closed our eyes: and of whose vicinity we have had no waking consciousness. ”
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Identify the incorrect statement based on the text: