Questões de Reading comprehension (atribuição de fala) no UNICAMP
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UNICAMP20211a faseQuestao 16InglêsReading comprehension (atribuição de fala)Media
Catherine Fletcher, Tue 4 Feb 2020 The decision by a UK University to close history, modern languages and politics degrees in favour of more “career-focused” courses has been widely criticised. The problem lies in reducing university education to what sells to employers. A society – and a world – urgently needs people who have the education to think about big issues, which aren’t only scientific or technological: they’re also about the ways that people have made, and continue to make, decisions. The humanities matter. And it matters that students from all backgrounds have the opportunity to join in these world-changing discussions.
Roger Brown, Mon 10 Feb 2020 Catherine Fletcher is completely correct to warn about the damage that current policies are doing to the humanities. But her warning comes much too late. As I and other scholars have shown, the problem started with a government green paper which declared that the fundamental purpose of higher education was to serve the economy. Until we recover the idea that higher education is as much about the public good as anything else, we will never be able to sustain the humanities as an essential component of a balanced curriculum. Unfortunately, there is very little sign that this has been grasped by any of our current policymakers. (Adaptado de www.theguardian.com/education/2020/feb/10/humanities-are-not-the-right-courses-to-cut. Acessado em 22/05/2019.) Os textos acima concordam quanto à identificação de um problema nos cursos universitários no Reino Unido, mas divergem quanto
A)à função do ensino universitário nos dias de hoje.
B)ao momento em que esse problema se originou.
C)ao objetivo principal do ensino das Humanidades.
D)à solução proposta para o problema.
UNICAMP20211a faseQuestao 18InglêsReading comprehension (atribuição de fala)Facil
O cartaz reproduzido a seguir faz parte de uma campanha da Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde.
(Disponível em https://www.paho.org/en/topics/violence-against-women. Acessado em 24/08/2020.) Qual das medidas abaixo é recomendada no cartaz?
Imagens anexadas
A)Comunicar à polícia os casos de violência contra as mulheres.
B)Contratar advogados que atuem em defesa das mulheres agredidas.
C)Estabelecer programas de prevenção aos casos de agressão contra mulheres.
D)Criar unidades de saúde especializadas em atender mulheres vítimas de agressão.
UNICAMP20211a faseQuestao 20InglêsReading comprehension (atribuição de fala)Media
‘The Complete Stories,’ by Clarice Lispector By Terrence Rafferty July 27, 2015
There’s a whiff of madness in the fiction of Clarice Lispector. The “Complete Stories” of the Brazilian writer, edited by Benjamin Moser and sensitively translated by Katrina Dodson, is a dangerous book to read quickly or casually because it’s so consistently delirious. Sentence by sentence, page by page, Lispector is exhilaratingly, arrestingly strange, but her perceptions come so fast, veer so wildly between the mundane and the metaphysical, that after a while you don’t know where you are, either in the book or in the world. So it’s best to approach her with some caution. For the ordinary reader — that is to say, for most of us — immersion in the teeming mind of Clarice Lispector can be an exhausting, even a deranging, experience, not to be undertaken lightly. (Pack food, water, a first aid kit and plenty of sunblock.)
Her stories are full of strange words, in strange combinations, and her “Complete Stories” is a remarkable book, proof that she was — in the company of Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo and her 19th-century countryman Machado de Assis — one of the true originals of Latin American literature.
THE COMPLETE STORIES By Clarice Lispector Edited by Benjamin Moser Translated by Katrina Dodson 645 pp. New Directions. $28.95.
(Adaptado de https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/books/review/the-complete-stories-by-clarice-lispector.html. Acessado em 21/07/20.) No texto acima, o livro de Clarice Lispector recebe uma crítica
A)positiva, apesar das ressalvas quanto aos cuidados que a leitura da obra exige.
B)negativa, apesar dos elogios à originalidade da autora e à tradução para o inglês.
C)positiva, apesar dos alertas quanto às temáticas perigosas da obra.
D)negativa, apesar da comparação com grandes nomes da literatura latino-americana.
UNICAMP20191a faseQuestao 82InglêsReading comprehension (atribuição de fala)Media
Touching thermal-paper receipts could extend BPA retention in the body
When people handle receipts printed on thermal paper containing the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA), the toxic chemical could linger in the body for a week or more. Jonathan W. Martin of Stockholm University and Jiaying Liu of the University of Alberta asked six male volunteers to handle paper containing isotopically labeled BPA for five minutes. The volunteers then put on nitrile gloves, wore them for two hours, removed them, and washed their hands with soap. Afterward, the researchers measured the labeled BPA and its metabolites in the volunteers’ urine regularly for two days and then once again a week later. The study only traced the isotopically labeled (deuterated) BPA and its metabolites, so any additional BPA exposure from other sources was not monitored.
(Deirdre Lockwood, Touching thermal-paper receipts could extend BPA retention in the body. Chemical & Engineering News, 04/09/2017.)
O texto discorre sobre uma pesquisa cujo objetivo foi
A)determinar como o manuseio de papel térmico pode contaminar uma pessoa com bisfenol A, considerando que a concentração foi monitorada utilizando-se um BPA em que átomos de 1H foram substituídos por 2H.
B)analisar de que forma o uso de luvas nitrílicas lavadas com sabão e contendo BPA deuterado pode contaminar receitas impressas em papel térmico que contém um disruptor endócrino.
C)monitorar, durante uma semana ou mais, a cinética de eliminação de um disruptor endócrino, bisfenol A (BPA), do corpo humano que foi contaminado pelo uso de luvas nitrílicas.
D)verificar como um papel térmico deteriorado por átomos de 2H poderia contaminar as mãos de uma pessoa, mesmo que ela estivesse usando luvas nitrílicas durante duas horas e depois as removesse.
UNICAMP20191a faseQuestao 86InglêsReading comprehension (atribuição de fala)Facil
We raise girls to cater to the fragile egos of men. We teach girls do shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We tell girls ‘You can have ambition, but not too much’. ‘You should aim to be successful, but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man’. (…) We teach girls shame – ‘Close your legs, cover yourself!’. We make them feel as though by being born female, they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot see they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up – and this is the worst thing we do to girls – to be women who turn pretense into an art form. (Adaptado da palestra “We should all be feminists”, 15/07/2009. Disponível em https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc&t=797s. Acessado em 14/05/2018.) O texto anterior reproduz trechos de uma palestra proferida pela escritora nigeriana Chimamanda Adichie em 2009. Segundo a autora, o fato de serem criadas para agradar aos homens faz com que as mulheres
A)valorizem sua sexualidade ao longo de suas vidas.
B)cresçam vendo a dissimulação como algo normal.
C)sejam ameaçadas, caso se tornem bem-sucedidas.
D)tenham suas vozes silenciadas pelos homens.
UNICAMP20191a faseQuestao 90InglêsReading comprehension (atribuição de fala)Facil
Genetic Fortune-Telling
One day, babies will get DNA report cards at birth. These reports will offer predictions about their chances of suffering a heart attack or cancer, of getting hooked on tobacco, and of being smarter than average. Though the new DNA tests offer probabilities, not diagnoses, they could greatly benefit medicine. For example, if women at high risk for breast cancer got more mammograms and those at low risk got fewer, those exams might catch more real cancers and set off fewer false alarms. The trouble is, the predictions are far from perfect. What if someone with a low risk score for cancer puts off being screened, and then develops cancer anyway? Polygenic scores are also controversial because they can predict any trait, not only diseases. For instance, they can now forecast about 10 percent of a person’s performance on IQ tests. But how will parents and educators use that information?
(Adaptado de Derek Brahney, Genetic Fortune-Telling. MIT Technology Review, Março/Abril 2018) De acordo com o texto, um dos riscos do prognóstico genético dos indivíduos desde o nascimento seria o de
A)empresas usarem as informações para não contratar pessoas que teriam predisposição a certas doenças ou vícios.
B)algumas mulheres descuidarem da prevenção de problemas de saúde para os quais pareciam não estar predispostas.
C)governos usarem as informações genéticas para negar a certos cidadãos o acesso a serviços de saúde pública.
D)pais e educadores passarem a desconsiderar dados sobre o coeficiente de inteligência de seus filhos ou alunos.
UNICAMP20171a faseQuestao 34InglêsReading comprehension (atribuição de fala)Dificil
Survey of geopolitics
Geopolitics is a product of its time, and its definitions have evolved accordingly. Rudolphh Kjellén, who coined the term in 1899, described geopolitics as "the theory of the state as a geographical organism or phenomenon in space." For Karl Haushofer, the father of German geopolotik, "Geopolitics is the new national science of the state,(…) a doctrine on the spatial determinism of all political processes, based on the broad foundations of geography, especially of political geography". On the eve of World War II, Derwent Whittlesey, the American political geographer, considered geopolitics "a dogma*... the faith that the state is inherently entitled to its place in the sun". Richard Hartshorne defined it as "geography utilized for particular purposes that lie beyond the pursuit of scientific knowledge". (Adaptado de Saul Bernard Cohen, Geopolitics of the world system. Boston: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003. p.11.)
Conforme o texto,
A)Kjellén e Haushofer possuem visão semelhante quanto à geopolítica, pois concordam que ela faz referência ao Estado.
B)Whittlesey concorda com seus antecessores ao afirmar que a geopolítica havia se transformado em um dogma.
C)Hartshorne concorda com Kjellén ao afirmar que a geopolítica mantém-se dentro dos parâmetros estritos de uma ciência.
D)apesar dos posicionamentos distintos, os autores mencionados estão de acordo quanto aos fundamentos da geopolítica. *Dogma: a belief or set of beliefs held by a group or organization, which others are expected to accept without argument.
UNICAMP20171a faseQuestao 87InglêsReading comprehension (atribuição de fala)Facil
Ranking Universities by ‘Greenness’
Universities these days are working hard to improve their sustainability credentials, with efforts that include wind power, organic food and competitions to save energy. They are also adding courses related to sustainability and energy. But which university is the greenest? Several ranking systems have emerged to offer their take. The Princeton Review recently came out with its second annual green ratings. Fifteen colleges earned the highest possible score — including Harvard, Yale and the University of California, Berkeley. Another group, the Sustainable Endowment Institute’s GreenReportCard.org, rates colleges on several different areas of green compliance, such as recycling, student involvement and green building. Its top grade for overall excellence, an A-, was earned by 15 schools. (Adaptado de http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/ranking-universities-bygreenness/?_r=0. Acessado em 31/08/2016.)
Conforme o texto, universidades norte-americanas estão se empenhando para
A)oferecer mais cursos sobre ecologia.
B)melhorar sua posição em um ranking que define as instituições mais “verdes”.
C)oferecer os melhores cursos sobre preservação ambiental.
D)participar de uma competição que define os campi com maior área verde.
No Presarium Vestibulares, você resolve essas questões com correção na hora, comentário e um painel que cruza a incidência com o seu desempenho — e monta sua lista de prioridade automaticamente.